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Divorce Italian Style (Divorzio all'italiana)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1961; Director: Pietro Germi; Writer: Alfredo Giannetti, Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi, Alfredo Giannetti, Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi, Agenore Incrocci; Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli, Leopoldo Trieste, Odoardo Spadaro, Margherita Girelli, Angela Cardile, Lando Buzzanca, Pietro Tordi, Ugo Torrente, Antonio Acqua, Bianca Castagnetta, Giovanni Fassiolo, Ignazio Roberto Daidone, Francesco Nicastro)
A Sicilian baron, who has been married for twelve years, falls madly in love with his teenage niece. When he finds out that she also loves him, he starts to think of the safest way to get rid of his wife.
Everybody Go Home! (Tutti A Casa)
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 1960; Director: Luigi Comencini; Writer: Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Luigi Comencini, Marcello Fondato; Stars: Alberto Sordi, Serge Reggiani, Carla Gravina, Martin Balsam, Didi Perego, Nino Castelnuovo, Alex Nicol, Claudio Gora, Jole Mauro, Mario Feliciani, Mino Doro, Carlo D'Angelo, Ugo D'Alessio, Edda Ferronao, Achille Compagnoni)
At the end of the Second World War, when Italy surrenders to the allies, the army is disbanded and, amid the chaos, the soldiers try to return home.
Fiasco In Milan (Audace Colpo Dei Soliti Ignoti)
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 1959; Director: Nanni Loy; Writer: Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Nanni Loy; Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale, Vicky Ludovici, Riccardo Garrone, Tiberio Murgia, Carlo Pisacane, Gianni Bonagura, Gina Amendola, Clara Bindi, Elena Fabrizi, Mario Feliciani, Mauro Lemma, Gastone Moschin, Elvira Tonelli)
A Milanese man convinces Pepe and his gang to steal the van that carries money from a betting pool. When they reach Milan, they are alone as their local accomplice has been arrested.
For Love And Gold (Brancaleone's Army)
(Country: Italy, France, Spain; Year: 1966; Director: Mario Monicelli; Writer: Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli; Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli, Gian Maria Volontè, Maria Grazia Buccella, Carlo Pisacane, Ugo Fangareggi, Gianluigi Crescenzi, Alfio Caltabiano, Pippo Starnazza, Luigi Sangiorgi, Fulvia Franco, Tito García, Joaquín Díaz, Luis Induni)
A group of bandits hatch a plot to steal an historic scroll.
The Great War (La Grande Guerra)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1959; Director: Mario Monicelli; Writer: Mario Monicelli, Furio Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni, Agenore Incrocci; Stars: Alberto Sordi, Virttorio Gassman, Silvana Mangano, Bernard Blier, Romolo Valli)
Two conscripts are desperate to avoid finding themselves in the firing line.
Hawks And Sparrows (Uccellacci E Uccellini)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1966; Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini; Writer: Pier Paolo Pasolini, Pier Paolo Pasolini; Stars: Totò, Ninetto Davoli, Femi Benussi, Rossana Di Rocco, Renato Capogna, Pietro Davoli, Rosina Moroni, Lena Lin Solaro, Gabriele Baldini, Ricardo Redi, Umberto Bevilacqua)
A road trip taking a serious look at Italy’s socio-economic plight. Out to own as part of Pier Paolo Pasolini Volume 2 box set.
Il Sorpasso
(Country: Italy; Year: 1962; Director: Dino Risi; Writer: Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari; Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak, Claudio Gora, Luciana Angiolillo, Linda Sini, Franca Polesello, Bruna Simionato, Lilly Darelli, Mila Stanic, Nando Angelini, Edda Ferronao, John Francis Lane, Luigi Zerbinati, Annette Stroyberg)
A friendly reveller invites a shy student to spend a national holiday outside Rome. During the trip, he is increasingly attracted to his friend’s crazy life.
I Vitelloni
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 1953; Director: Federico Fellini; Writer: Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli, Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano; Stars: Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Leopoldo Trieste, Riccardo Fellini, Leonora Ruffo, Jean Brochard, Claude Farell, Carlo Romano, Enrico Viarisio, Paola Borboni, Lída Baarová, Arlette Sauvage, Vira Silenti, Maja Niles)
After a man is forced to marry a woman he continues to be a womaniser but when his wife can no longer forgive him, he has to consider his life.
The Magnificent Cuckold
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 1964; Director: Antonio Pietrangeli; Writer: Fernand Crommelynck, Diego Fabbri, Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola, Stefano Strucchi; Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Bernard Blier, Michèle Girardon, Paul Guers, Philippe Nicaud, Gian Maria Volontè, Susy Andersen, José Luis de Vilallonga, Ester Carloni, Edda Ferronao, Elvira Tonelli, Antonio Gerini, Liliana Salvioni, Anna María Aveta)
A man who has doubts about his wife’s fidelity becomes obsessed.
March On Rome (La Marcia Su Roma)
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 1962; Director: Dino Risi; Writer: Sandro Continenza, Ghigo De Chiara, Ghigo De Chiara, Agenore Incrocci, Ruggero Maccari, Furio Scarpelli, Ettore Scola; Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Roger Hanin, Mario Brega, Angela Luce, Gérard Landry, Alberto Vecchietti, Claudio Perone, Antonio Cannas, Giampiero Albertini, Howard Rubiens, Nino Di Napoli, Nando Angelini, Daniele Vargas, Edda Ferronao)
After the First World War, two hungry and unemployed veterans join the Fascist movement so they can eat, but they drop out when they have to kill.
Marriage Italian Style (Matrimonio Al' Italiana)
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 1964; Director: Vittorio De Sica; Writer: Eduardo De Filippo, Renato Castellani, Tonino Guerra, Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi; Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Tecla Scarano, Marilù Tolo, Gianni Ridolfi, Generoso Cortini, Vito Moricone, Rita Piccione, Lino Mattera, Alfio Vita, Alberto Castaldi, Anna Santoro, Enza Maggi, Mara Marilli)
A beautiful young woman works in a brothel as she cannot find another way to make a living. There she meets a wealthy bourgeois who takes her away from the profession and takes her to live in his house.
Pigeon (I Soliti Ignoti, Persons Unknown)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1958; Director: Mario Monicelli; Writer: Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Suso Cecchi d'Amico, Mario Monicelli; Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroiani, Renato Salvatori, Totò, Claudia Cardinale)
A gang of thieves, advised by another retired thief, decides to rob a pawn shop in Rome.
Poor Girl, Pretty Girl (Belle Ma Povere)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1957; Director: Dino Risi; Writer: Pasquale Festa Campanile, Pasquale Festa Campanile, Massimo Franciosa, Massimo Franciosa, Dino Risi, Dino Risi; Stars: Marisa Allasio, Maurizio Arena, Renato Salvatori, Lorella De Luca, Alessandra Panaro, Riccardo Garrone, Marisa Castellani, Carlo Giuffrè, Memmo Carotenuto, Nino Vingelli, Gildo Bocci, Lina Ferri, Sergio Cardinaletti, Maurizio Monticelli, Roy Ciccolini)
Romolo and Salvatore decide to settle down and stop being the neighbourhood womanisers, find a decent job and commit to their relationships with their girlfriends. However, things are not so simple.
Poor Millionnaires (Poveri Milionari)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1959; Director: Dino Risi; Writer: Dino Risi, Massimo Franciosa, Pasquale Festa Campanile; Stars: Maurizio Arena, Renato Salvatori, Lorella De Luca, Alessandra Panaro, Memmo Carotenuto)
Salvatore has an accident, loses his memory and becomes the director of the department store where his brother-in-law works.
Roaring Years
(Country: Italy; Year: 1962; Director: Luigi Zampa; Writer: Sergio Amidei, Vincenzo Talarico, Luigi Zampa, Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari, Luigi Zampa; Stars: Nino Manfredi, Gino Cervi, Michèle Mercier, Gastone Moschin, Angela Luce, Rosalia Maggio, Linda Sini, Carla Calò, Mara Maiello, Antonietta Esposito, Gino Brillante, Giuseppe Ianigro, Gaetano Morino, Enzo Petito, Ruggero Pignotti)
The incognito visit of a fascist bigwig in a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
Seduced And Abandoned
(Country: Italy, France; Year: 1964; Director: Pietro Germi; Writer: Pietro Germi, Luciano Vincenzoni, Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Pietro Germi, Luciano Vincenzoni; Stars: Stefania Sandrelli, Saro Urzì, Aldo Puglisi, Lando Buzzanca, Lola Braccini, Leopoldo Trieste, Umberto Spadaro, Paola Biggio, Rocco D'Assunta, Oreste Palella, Lina Lagalla, Gustavo D'Arpe, Rosetta Urzì, Roberta Narbonne, Vincenzo Licata)
In a small Sicilian town, a young woman his tricked and seduced by her sister’s boyfriend. When her father finds out, he forces them to get married.
The Traffic Policeman (Il Vigile)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1960; Director: Luigi Zampa; Writer: Rodolfo Sonego, Rodolfo Sonego, Luigi Zampa, Ugo Guerra; Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Marisa Merlini, Mara Berni, Nando Bruno, Riccardo Garrone, Lia Zoppelli, Franco Di Trocchio, Carlo Pisacane, Piera Arico, Vincenzo Talarico, Nerio Bernardi, Rossana Canghiari, Mario Passante, Gianni Solaro)
Otello, who has been unemployed for seven years, wants to be a policeman. Thanks to his stubbornness, he manages to get the mayor to give him the position in the election period. He tries to do his best, but things usually go quite wrong.
Where Is Freedom? (Dov'è la libertà...?)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1954; Director: Roberto Rossellini; Writer: Vitaliano Brancati, Ennio Flaiano, Antonio Pietrangeli, Roberto Rossellini, Vincenzo Talarico; Stars: Totò, Vera Molnar, Nyta Dover, Franca Faldini, Giacomo Rondinella, Leopoldo Trieste, Fernando Milani, Vincenzo Talarico, Eugenio Orlandi, Augusta Mancini, Maria Bon Roseto, Giacomo Gabrielli, Andrea Compagnoni, Thea Zubin, Ines Florentini)
After serving a 22-year sentence for killing a man in a fit of jealousy, a barber tries to reintegrate into society, but it will not be easy.
The Widower (El Vedovo)
(Country: Italy; Year: 1959; Director: Dino Risi; Writer: Fabio Carpi, Fabio Carpi, Sandro Continenza, Dino Risi, Dino Risi, Rodolfo Sonego, Rodolfo Sonego, Dino Verde; Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Livio Lorenzon, Nando Bruno, Ruggero Marchi, Gastone Bettanini, Mario Passante, Enzo Petito, Nanda Primavera, Rosita Pisano, Alberto Rabagliati, Mario Cianfanelli, Carlo Di Maggio, Ignazio Dolce, Consalvo Flirt)
A poor man with little business talent, who is married to a millionaire who ruthlessly bullies him, dreams of becoming a widower.
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