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Plot Summary:
In May 1943, two American soldiers, Joe and Frank, of Italian descent are searching the North African desert for a German general called Von Kassler, when they are captured by Von Kassler aide Inge Schultze who lets them escape with fake war plans, only Joe and Frank steal the real war plans which pave way for the Allied victory. Months later, the duo once again come up against Von Kassler when they are captured at Anzio and try to outwit the Nazis a second time.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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Lady Liberty (1971)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns the difficulties and reactions of Maddalena (Sophia Loren), an Italian visitor to New York City. She has come to the country carrying a huge mortadella sausage which she intends as a gift for her fiancé. But Customs do not allow processed meat to enter the U.S., so she is held at JFK airport.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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Crebinsky (2011)
Plot Summary:
Torrential rains cause the swollen river, whose waters inundate a village. The current drags the cow Crebinsky and his brothers, who miraculously reappear alive in a place on the coast. Installed there at the foot of a lighthouse, which brings survive by sea. Isolated military conflicts, the brothers created their own world: a particular universe made of realism and fantasy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
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Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale (1975)
Plot Summary:
An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so stupid he is demoted and becomes a corporal.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
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Department Store (1986)
Plot Summary:
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
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Italian Gigolò (2022)
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Filippo is the hottest male escort around. Incredibly sexy, he makes up in looks for what he lacks in wits. When an accident causes him to undergo transformative plastic surgery, he wakes up to find himself in a new body, with a new face and a new kind of beauty. As demand plummets, Filippo gets more and more desperate, till he finally resorts to asking for help.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
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Give Me Five (1980)
Plot Summary:
Two episodes: A roman coachman fulfills the dream of his life and meets the Pope. A priest crazy about dancing wins the first prize in a contest.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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The Amazing Doctor G (1965)
Plot Summary:
Nefarious villain Goldginger(Fernando Rey) is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco(Franco Franchi) and Ciccio(Ciccio Ingrassia) in his scheme to spark an international war by zombifying all government employees in this Italian spoof of the James Bond movies.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spoof, psychotronic, parody, eurospy
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Anche se volesse lavorare, che faccio? (1972)
Plot Summary:
Italian comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
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Sorbole... che romagnola! (1977)
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Due to a mistake by the travel agency she works for, a young woman finds herself deeply in debt and stranded in a tourist resort full of incredibly stuck-up travelers. As these tourists all insist they are all incredibly thin attractive people despite evidence to the contrary, she decides to open up a boutique in which she strives to transform them into beautiful people.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Farfallon (1974)
Plot Summary:
No overview.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody
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My Brother Has Come (1985)
Plot Summary:
Ovidio Ceciotti is a teacher, he is plump and he is not a man of character. He is treated badly by his school-master, by his students, by Lidia, his girl and even by his dog. One day his twin arrives. He calls himself Ralph Benson and has a completely different character. He is impudent, genial, he is popular with women, he is not plump, he spent six months in a jail. Even the dog likes him more than Ovidio. Ralph plays in a bar with the beautiful Esmeralda. They will have to live together. How long will it last?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Nineties (1992)
Plot Summary:
Scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 440
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy
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Anni 90 - Part II (1993)
Plot Summary:
Second scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy
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If I Had a Gun (1971)
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Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Io non scappo... fuggo (1970)
Plot Summary:
In the confusion of combat, two Italian get separated from their squadron and become hopelessly lost. As they wander the countryside attempting to find their lost comrades, they have to adopt all manner of outrageous disguises to avoid death at the hands of whomever holds the reigns of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Two Colonels (1963)
Plot Summary:
During the WWII Italians and English take and retake a village between the Albanian and Greek borders. It happens so often that not only do they use the same hotel as their headquarters, but also they find the time to become friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat, surprise ending
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The Fascist (1961)
Plot Summary:
1944. Primo Arcovazzi a fanatic member of Brigate Nere (fascist organization) is in charge to bring an opponent to the regime, Prof. George Wilson, from Abruzzo to Roma. He accepted the mandate because of his wish to be upgraded to "Federale". They travel by a sidecar trough the disastrous Italy, near to the final collapse, under bombings and in agony. Nevertheless the bad situation, they manage to build up a kind of friendship. Primo, even if the signals of final destruction are near, doesn't lose his trust in the regime. The end is near.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: road movie, historical drama, italian comedy
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Operation Snafu (1970)
Plot Summary:
In WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Odd Squad (1982)
Plot Summary:
Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of attacks. Both the army decides to definitively destroy it before the opponent does. But to the chaotic mad American platoon is opposed an Italian military band exchanged for a terrible special commando. Probably the bridge will survive another 2000 years!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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The Annuity (1972)
Plot Summary:
Doctor Galipeau has a brother, Emile, whose wife has just given birth to a baby boy and who dreams of owning a house. He has just examined Louis Martinet, an old man who, according to him, is in the last stages. That is why he advises Emile to purchase Martinet's house for an annuity. Unfortunately for the Galipeaus, not only does Martinet recover but, month after month, year after year, the "dying man" proves hale and hearty as well! Whereas the greedy Galipeaus fall from the frying pan into the fire.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: anthology, cult classic, cult film
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Dad's Army (1971)
Plot Summary:
Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Where Are You Going on Holiday? (1978)
Plot Summary:
Three episodes, three funny couples and many great italians actors.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy
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Il prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli, primario della clinica Villa Celeste convenzionata con le mutue (1969)
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Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
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Surprise Trip (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min
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Fun Is Beautiful (1980)
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Three stories, three characters all played by Verdone. The first is an awkward young man, who meets a Spanish tourist in Rome. The second has planned a trip towards East with a suitcase full of stockings and biro pens. The last one is a hippy whose father tries to convince him to get back home.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Precarious Bank Teller (1980)
Plot Summary:
The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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100 Years of Adolf Hitler (1989)
Plot Summary:
The last hours in the lives of Hitler and his associates.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Which Way to the Front? (1970)
Plot Summary:
Brendan Byers III (Jerry Lewis), one of the richest men in America, has been pronounced 4-F and can't serve his country in it's war against Hitler. Byers does not takes "No" for an answer and recruits other 4-F's to fight against Hitler.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slapstick, exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick comedy, cult film
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The Soldier and the Elephant (1978)
Plot Summary:
Soldier Armenak is given an extraordinary task: to transport an elephant from Germany to the Yerevan Zoo.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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The Roses of the Desert (2006)
Plot Summary:
A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The "glorious" Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, realistic, semi serious