Lino Banfi
Birthday: Born in 1936-07-09 in Andria, Puglia, Italy
Deathday: Alive
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Domenica In
Character: Self
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Il caso Sanremo
Character: Defense Attorney Pasquale Passalacqua
An ironic and comic trial, in five episodes, of the history of the Sanremo Festival, demystifying the most solemn musical event on Italian television. The "judge" Renzo Arbore presides, together with "Prosecutor" Michele Mirabella and "Defense attorney" Lino Banfi....
Domenica In
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Il vigile urbano
Character: Urbano Tommasi
Il vigile urbano is an Italian television series. The series is set in Rome and revolves around the adventures of the watchful Urbano Tommasi. The main actor is Lino Banfi....
Il Commissario Zagaria
Character: commissario Pasquale Zagaria
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Un medico in famiglia
Character: Nonno Libero Martini
Dr. Lele Martini and his family — his children Maria, Ciccio and Anna, and his father Libero — seek to adjust to a new life in the outskirts of Rome....
I grandi Papi
Character: Self
This intimate documentary series examines the lives and the most significant moments of the papacies of John XXIII, John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Francis I....
Un medico in famiglia
Character: Nonno Libero (voce)
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Viaggio a sorpresa
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Wedding Fever in Campobello
Character: Antonio Marcipane
When Jan decides to marry his girl-friend Sara, he is not aware of his opponent: her father, who is an Italian....
4 Crazy Draftees at the Army
Character: Sgt. Merode
Our four incompetent types thrown into the field whether they liked it or not....They preferred to run the other way, but can never get there act together! How will they win the war' How can they get out of this mess'...
The Black Sheep
Character: Journalist (uncredited)
Mario and Filippo are two twin brothers, the honorable one want to bring morality back into Italian political life, as president of the Commission for the investigation of corruption. The other brother is a cynical trickster....
Fracchia The Human Beast
Character: Commissario Auricchio
The world's greatest criminal and the world greatest loser share the same face... now they'll share the same life!...
Focaccia Blues
Character: Barese
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How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
Character: Self
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Vieni avanti cretino
Character: Pasquale Baudaffi
Pasquale Baudaffi, on amnesty, comes out of prison and starts looking for a job with the help of his cousin Gaetano. But first he goes to what was once a brothel, but, unbeknownst to our hapless hero, has been taken over and rented as a dental office. Pasquale finds himself at the center of endless misunderstandings. He tries to be a gamekeeper but that's not okay, he tries to be a waiter in a bar: he immediately gets his orders wrong and he is fired. His performance as a garage keeper was negat...
Don't Play with Tigers
Character: Mario Zamboni
A stories of three really unlucky characters are discovered during the trial....
Department Store
Character: Nicola Patecola da Cerignola, il mendicante
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store....
Firefighters
Character: Nicola Ruoppolo
In the barracks of the "Settecamini" fire brigade in Rome, the shabby Squadra 17 tackles missions with resounding failures, waiting in vain for a chance for redemption....
Firefighters 2: Heroic Mission
Character: Nicola Ruoppolo
Following a twinning between the national fire brigade and the special forces of the Canadian firefighters, Captain Carter arrives in Rome....
School of Thieves
Character: Amalio Siraghi
Frenetic in its pacing and with miniscule character development, this trite slapstick farce stars three Italian comics - Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, and Massimo Boldi as the idiot-nephews of a wealthy invalid (Enrico Maria Salerno). The uncle's plan is to teach the trio how to successfully steal for a living but the plan does not have a chance against their exaggerated ineptitude....
The Exorciccio
Character: Pasquale Abbate
A satire on the American film "The Exorcist," but with an Italian twist....
At the Sports Bar
Character: Lino
Lino lives in Turin with the family of his sister. He doesn't have a good job and never enough money. But in a day his life changes: he wins 1 billion dollars in a lottery and... everyone becomes a friend, the girl who he liked becomes his girlfriend and his sister begins to love him. He leaves Turin with his friend Parola and, in a casino, he loses all money! But luck returns......
Sugar, Honey and Pepper
Character: Milanese Valerio
Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. In the third episode, Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman....
L'allenatore nel pallone
Character: Oronzo Canà
Oronzo Canà is called to coach Longobarda, the football team of a small town of Northern Italy, newly promoted to the First Division. His only task is not to be relegated, but Longobarda's owner plots against him, finding the team's current ranking far too expensive, and his top Brazilian striker is affected by a deep saudade....
Saturday, Sunday and Friday
Character: Nicola La Brocca (episodio "Sabato")
SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the thea...
Spaghetti at Midnight
Character: Savino La Grasta
Savino La Gastra discovers his wife Celeste has a liaison with an architect: Andrea. Even if also Savino has a story with Elvira, a judge's wife, he decides anyway to ask to a mobster to kill his wife. In the mean time Celeste is organizing a surprise party for Savino's birthday, and that day things start to get complicated. First Savino kills accidentally the mafia killer in charge to kill Celeste; second his lover Elvira arrives to the party with the judge... not to mention the police and the ...
L'allenatore nel pallone 2
Character: Oronzo Canà
The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty yea...
The Nurse in the Military Madhouse
Character: Prof. Amedeo La Russa
A story about a singer/showgirl who poses as a nurse to recover some stolen paintings, which for some reason are hidden in a military insane asylum....
The High School Student in the Repeating Class
Character: Zenobio Cantalupo
Angela is torn between two lovers - one, who tries to romance her in a straightforward manner, and the other who pretends to be severely injured in a car accident....
A Policewoman on the Porno Squad
Character: Commissioner Scappavia
The adventures of Gianna, a sexy policewoman who wants to help a child in search of his mother....
The Wife on Vacation... The Lover in Town
Character: Peppino
Andrea Damiani sends his wife Valeria off on a skiing holiday so he can spend time with his demanding mistress, Giulia. Little does he suspect that Valeria is having a rendezvous with a Count she recently met. However, Valeria does not know that 'Count' Giovanni is really just a manager's assistant, namely, Andrea's....
The Yellow Panther
Character: commissario Pasquale Bellachioma
Pasquale Bellachioma, the unfortunate Police Commissioner, creates a "master stroke" that can finally put it to light before their superiors, but the results is continuous failure....
Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
Character: Altomare Secca (episodio "Il pelo della disgrazia")
The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs....
A summer at the sea
Character: Nicola
Set against the sun-soaked shores of Italy in the summertime, seven different tales unfold about life, love, loss, family, and friendship....
Italian Sex
Character: presidente della commissione d'esame
A sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it reveals that she has just posed as a prostitute for several months to do sociological research for her thesis. She relates various stories of her experiences to her salivating thesis committee and a large audience of curious on-lookers....
Cream Horn
Character: Domenico Petruzzelli
Mariana and Domenico are on the run from her jealous boyfriend who just happens to be an over-jealous professional football player....
Stuff for the Rich
Character: Aldo Petruzzelli (2° episodio)
3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an insurance man. In the third, a man has to deal with his wife's suicidal attempts....
Il commissario Lo Gatto
Character: commissario Natale Lo Gatto
Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question the Pope! For this reason Lo Gatto is sent to a Sicilian remote island Favignana. There is very little for the commissioner to do on the quiet island, so Lo Gatto decides to investigate the vanishing of a tourist which quickly becomes a very complicated affair....
Buona giornata
Character: Leonardo Lo Bianco
A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st century's italian society, among corrupt politicians, unfaithful husbands, hardcore soccer fans and dishonest businessmen....
Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest
Character: Cosimino
Italy's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and San Antonio. Did Franco crash his bike through Ciccio's new stained glass window on purpose or was he just in town for their mutual confession? Their main beef with each other concerns their opposing football teams and this feud takes up a great deal of the picture....
The Nephews of Zorro
Character: Cercatore d'oro
Two fellows from Sicily go to America thinking that they will find gold . For their bad luck in California they meet the brave Zorro who is protecting the helpless people. They have to help him which is followed by a lot of adventures and funny moments....
Il brigadiere Pasquale Zagaria ama la mamma e la polizia
Character: Brigadiere Pasquale Zagaria
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BelliFreschi
Character: Tommaso nicknamed Tom
Tom and Jerry two Italian two bit actors go to America because they hope to take part in a film starring Sylvester Stallone. However when they go to his villa in Beverly Hills, Stallone gets murdered and the two are suspected of the murder. Hunted by the CIA and the FBI they flee across the USA disguised as women and end up working in a restaurant as showgirls. Here Tom meets a Mafia boss who falls in love with him and goes to Mexico with him to escape the police hunt. Some years later the two f...
How Long Is the Adventure
Character: Piero Bigazzi
In order to get some money Gianni Zappi tries to organize an insurance fraud by drowning his yacht....
Dio li fa poi li accoppia
Character: Dario Ricciotti
At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to abort and drag her to court....
La moglie in bianco... l'amante al pepe
Character: Giuseppe 'Peppino' Patanè / Calogero Patanè
In order to get his hands on his father's inheritance and pay all his debts, Don Peppino must see his son Gianluca married and produce an heir within a year. Problem is everybody suspects the boy of playing for the other team....
The Repeating Student Winked at Dean
Character: Rodolfo Calabrone
Rich girl Angela returns to school and falls for the local hunk. But when he refuses her advances, she pretends to be in love with the principal instead....
Indovina chi viene a merenda?
Character: Uomo Civetta (uncredited)
Sicily 1943 to avoid war, Franco and Ciccio are hiding in the mountains. Two American paratroopers steal their clothes leaving him in exchange uniforms, so our "heroes" are captured by the Germans and deported to Germany. Evade, take refuge on a farm and will be involved in mishaps chain. After the war, they thought dead, are safe and sound, up there in Germany....
Tutti a squola
Character: Pasquale
The upright prof. Filippo Bottini Said Pippo is an "old-fashioned" teacher in a Roman school. He would like a Heart book-style school but clashes with the harsh reality of modern teaching and in particular with the turmoil of the seventies: strikes, occupations, armed students, feminist colleagues. Overwhelmed by events, he will find himself more and more in the maelstrom of the post-1968 protest until he becomes a drug courier. He will be arrested and incarcerated, but thanks to the release on ...
School Teacher on the Sea with Her Class
Character: Ercole Cubetti
It's summer. Lisa goes every day in a holiday hotel to give French lessons to Mario, the owner's son. the beauty and personality of Lisa quickly raise the attraction of tourists, but also jealousy of mothers who see their husbands and son prowling around the lovely young woman ......
School Teacher in College
Character: Peppino
Edwige Fenech stars in this Italian sex-comedy as the new teacher in all-boys Catholic school. All of the boys desire for the chance to "learn" more about their new teacher, but only 1 student gets the opportunity....
School Teacher in the House
Character: Amedeo
Luisa De Dominicus is a Milanese piano teacher who moves to Lucca to be with the man she loves: Ferdinando 'Bonci' Marinotti, a city councilman campaigning for mayor on a platform of moral values. She is of the belief that Fernando is single, living with his ailing mother. This, of course, is far from the case. The boys living in her apartment building mistakenly believe Luisa is a call-girl who uses piano teaching as a cover for her true profession, and word soon spreads among the building's d...
The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed
Character: Armando Battistoni
An unemployed teacher asks for help from her lover, an MP, and finds out that he is married....
Song That's Playing In My Head (Zum Zum Zum)
Character: Hotel receptionist
The sons of a music-loving insurance broker take extreme measures to find happiness for themselves and others, with some help from the power of music....
Two of a Kind
Character: Nicola Calore / Capitano Tombale
Italian comedy in two episodes starring a house painter who emigrated to Switzerland who pretends to be a millionaire and an employee on holiday in Kenya, the victim of catastrophic misadventures....
How to Seduce Your Teacher
Character: Pasquale La Ricchiuta
There's a new girl in school, Angela, the Headmaster's neice. Every male will try to seduce her, even her uncle. Meanwhile she will drive the philosophy's teacher mad and her best friend Irma will have a good time with the classmates. Will they get the grades?...
Io non spezzo... rompo
Character: Agente Zagaria
During a drug trafficking investigation, two officers from the Rome Squad, accidentally break into a beautiful villa, inhabited by an Italian-American....
Family Flaw
Character: Nicola Gammarota
A runaway coffin, a conservative wedding, an eccentric older man, two transsexuals, the police and an adorable puppy, collide on a humorous and heartwarming journey through the picturesque South of Italy. The "unexpected" death of 103 year-old Rosa creates an awkward family reunion the evening before what was to be a lush and opulent wedding. Rosa's grand-daughter, Chiara Gammarota, is set to marry the son of a wealthy general, much to the excitement of her conservative father, Nicolo. Francesco...
Kakkientruppen
Character: Soldato Otto
Some crazy soldiers of the Wermacht, during the second world war, fight a "particular" war against the English enlisting among their troops even Sandokan....
School Teacher Dances... with Her Class
Character: Prof. Mezzoponte
Girls' dance instructor Claudia Gambetti takes over the boy's gym class after gym teacher Martorelli breaks both his legs owing to one of his student's pranks. Soon both teachers and students are interested in learning more of Claudia's athletic dance moves. Director Fiorontori has made some debts betting on horses and wants Claudia to win a disco competition to balance the school budget, too. When the boys team are invited to face off against their superior Russian counterparts, Claudia calls i...
The Schoolmate
Character: Teo D'Olivo
Lilli Carati plays a high school student being pursued by a very persistent young man in this Italian sex-comedy...
The Doctor Is Staying with the Colonel
Character: Colonnello Anacleto Punzone
Colonel Anacleto Punch, military doctor, falls in love with the beautiful and sensual South African Dr. Eve Russell, specializing in transplants. Thinking that his manhood is not adequate for the beautiful colleague, decides to do a transplant with the unsuspecting nurse prawn, that with women has always been successful. But the end result will not be as anticipated....
La liceale, il diavolo e l'acquasanta
Character: Maria Pasquale Papone detto 'Lino'
An anthology film in which a guardian angel falls in love with a beautiful dancer a policeman must keep an eye on an arrested transvestite, and a dental technician sells his soul to the devil but is not satisfied with the results....
Amici più di prima
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Raccontami una storia
Character: Salvatore
Laura and Mark hope to adopt a Ukrainian child. When they finally have the opportunity to travel the country, her father, Salvatore, help them all he can. By knowing the small Maruska, is created between them a very special relationship....
I 2 pompieri
Character:
The firefighter student Francesco Perricone and his cousin the brigadier Barrese fall in love both of the beautiful brunette Caramella and the barracks of Rome are transferred to the village of Sicily where the girl lives....
Keep It To Yourself!
Character: Il Direttore del carcere
Three episodes of casual erotic character: a porn scriptwriter and his secretary, a man locked up among homosexuals, and a shy man who decides to hire a prostitute over the phone....
Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move
Character: Nicola Maldacea
Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, actress/singer who caused a scandal with her raunchy dancing....
Il destino ha 4 zampe
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Amore formula 2
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Nights of Boccaccio
Character: Ignazio
Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron, and it is part of a series of derivative comedies based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron....
002 Operation Moon
Character: Policeman who catches Franco and Ciccio
KGB authorities abduct two criminals (Franco and Ciccio) who look exactly like missing spacemen and pretend they are the returning cosmonauts. They launch them in a rocket, so that they can land in public view, leading the populace to believe it was the original space craft that has returned. The two criminals look so much like the astronauts, they even fool the wives of the astronauts. Later however, the original spacecraft returns to Earth undamaged, and the plan goes all to pieces. In the end...
Zum Zum Zum 2
Character: Pasquale
While happily engaged to Rosalia, Tony has the misfortune of falling for a vibrant pilot named Valeria — and that’s just the beginning of his problems....
Il trafficone
Character: Luigi Scardocchia
Neapolitan Vincenzo LoRusso lives of expedients in Rome, as he tries to sell at an intersection a faux suede jacket, accidentally meets Laura, a beautiful woman who invites him to her house....
Totò e il Principe De Curtis. L'uomo oltre la maschera
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L'isola degli smemorati
Character: Lucanór il Mago
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Quelli belli... siamo noi
Character:
Amateur songwriter falls in love with a Sicilian girl, but her father has already promised her to another....
Vola sciusciù
Character:
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It's a Woman's War
Character: Angelo Maria Pisanò
A girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her boy-friend, whom she believes to be a womanizer....
A suon di lupara
Character:
Claudio Lacroics, a French-born prosecutor, is in Sicily to fight the Mafia. Every day he clashes with the beliefs of a community where the only rules are prejudice and silence. In addition, Claudio has married Lucienne and welcomes his sister Roberta into his home; she returns only to ask for money with her lover Richard....
Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Character: Pizzicagnolo
During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ......
Il mio amico Babbo Natale 2
Character: Ezechiele Babbo Natale
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Il clan dei due Borsalini
Character: Ferdi
Italian comedy...
Il mio amico Babbo Natale
Character: Ezechiele Babbo Natale
Santa Claus has 24 hours to transform an evil and egoistic rich businessman into a better and honest person....
The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire
Character: Il castrato effeminato
After having challenged the German Ottone to single combat for the hand of Leonza, the bishop's niece, the valiant knight Anselmo da Montebello, leaves for Rome where he must deliver a precious relic to the Pope and obtain a sum of twenty-thousand crowns in order to participate in the third crusade in the Holy Land. He is accompanied by Gian Puccio, his sluggish squire, drawn by the money and by the charm of ... Leonzia....
Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo
Character: Torricelli
The sons of a billionaire hijack an airplane because their father is against their love affair with two poor girls....
Franco e Ciccio superstars
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Riuscirà l'avvocato Franco Benenato a sconfiggere il suo acerrimo nemico il pretore Ciccio De Ingras?
Character: cancelliere
A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition depends on the lawyer's ploys to get his clients acquitted....
The Little War
Character: Farmer from Bari
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....
Night Nurse
Character: Nicola Pischella
A dentist invites a elderly patient to stay at his home to recover, unaware that he is a jewel thief. He plans to steal a valuable diamond but then runs into a beautiful nurse who, aside from constantly stripping nude, has plans of her own....
Gli infermieri della mutua
Character: Borrower
A comedy about the Italian National Health System based on a doctor who owns a private clinic and manages it more like a con man than a follower of the Hippocratic oath....
Stangata in famiglia
Character: Nicola Zagaria
Sexy Comedy Italian 70's Style - Must See Performance By Femi Benussi as well as Cristea Avram....
The Landlords
Character: Lilino
Giorgia and her sister inherit a villa and decide to turn it into a pension. When the sister orders the advertising, the brochure, together with the name, Pension Paradise, leads people to believe it is a whore house....
Le frise ignoranti
Character: Cavalier Lanotte
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We Are Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema....
Where Am I Going?
Character: Senatore Binetto
Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever......
Loaded Guns
Character: Commissario Calogero
An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs....
Steno
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Il padre delle spose
Character: Riccardo Catalano
Riccardo, a southern man of solid principles and good feelings, decides to go and visit his daughter Aurora, who has been living in Barcelona for some time. There, however, a surprise awaits him: Aurora has married a woman. Indignant, Riccardo hastily returns to Italy, determined never to see her again. But perhaps destiny has decided otherwise....
Nuda proprietà vendesi
Character: Domenico
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Un posto tranquillo
Character: Frate Raniero
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Lovers and Other Relatives
Character: Conte Zagaria
Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same time he's caring for a large number of sexually unsatisfied women who are coming for the weekend without their husbands....
Donkey Flies
Character:
Maurizio, tiny, reckless and full of energy, grew up in the poorest outskirts of Reggio Calabria, he argues with spiteful hens, speaks to wise donkeys and fights for his dream: to play the snare drum in the neighbourhood band....
The Soldier with Great Maneuvers
Character: Don Pagnotta
Doctor Eva Marini takes up a position at an army base to investigate the sexual behavior of the Italian male soldier and soon finds out she's taken on more than she bargained for....
Sweet Kisses and Languid Caresses
Character:
A bourgeois family man falls in love with an uninhibited hippie girl who just wants to have fun and enjoy a libertine lifestyle. She makes him suffer and gives herself to everybody but him. He is so madly in love with her that he even gets in trouble with the police....
Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...
Character: Mammoletta
Libero Sbardelloni, newly married, cannot find work in Rome, so he moves to Naples, where Baron Gaetano Gargiulo, his wife Marcella's uncle, lives. The baron, however, is a penniless nobleman who lives by swindling and petty theft, constantly going in and out of prison....
The Two Parachutists
Character: Tequinho
Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from. Afterwards they become big shots in the States but their dream comes to an end : they are sent to fight in Vietnam...
Orazi e Curiazi 3 - 2
Character: Apollo
Predictable parody of the legendary chapter of history of ancient Rome. The Orazi champions of the Central-South indolent clash with the Curiazi of Alba Longobarda, a hard-working northern city....
Adultery Italian Style
Character: Marco
A betrayed wife decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson in this riotous farce. Marta (Catherine Spaak) discovers that husband Franco (Nino Manfredi) has been stepping out with her own best friend (Maria Grazia Buccella), and gets revenge by inventing an imaginary lover. Franco takes the bait, leading to improbable but hilarious complications....
Why
Character: Direttore del carcere di Sagunto
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?...
Diary of a Telephone Operator
Character: Regista dei Fotoromanzi
Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband....
Sedotti e bidonati
Character: Il parente di Franco e Ciccio alla stazione
Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins separate and then marry them. After the operation the girls are thought to be dead but then they reappear to con more money out of the two gullible men. Will they manage to do so?...
Paths of War
Character: Mormone
Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's republican troops. They end up in the Far West with the army fighting the Indians and with their ineptitude they contribute to the army's defeat....
...Scusi, ma lei le paga le tasse?
Character: Signor Lamberti
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I 2 deputati
Character: Amico di Franco
Francesco and Franco are brothers in law but, since their respective wives can't stand each other, are always arguing. When Francesco decides to run for Parliament, Franco is kidnapped by his opposing party and forced to run as well. The clashes between the two in-laws will continue in Parliament....
Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
Character: Cliente della locanda
Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza....
La voce di Fantozzi
Character: Sé stesso
The docufilm tells the story of Paolo Villaggio's genius through the most iconic Italian character, accountant Ugo Fantozzi. The work was featured in the Classics section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival....
Medicine Italian Style
Character: rappresentante di medicinali
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....
Cause of Divorce
Character: Foreman
A couple is short of money and got marital problems. Sylverte knows Enrica and intent to marry her but before he needs divorce from his wife....
Lisa with the Blue Eyes
Character: Pasquale - the presenter
A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard industrialist, whom he fell in love with. But Lisa's father, unfortunately, already has in mind for her a marriage with a very rich suitor ......
On the Day of the Lord
Character: Discepolo di Raffaello
Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent?...
Midnight of Love
Character: Doganiere #1
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The Funny Face of the Godfather
Character: Rocky Ganova
The Godfather Don Vito Monreale knows, by chance, the Italian-American singer Nick Bouillon. Since the two are alike, Don Vito decided to exploit this similarity in his favour....
The Amazing Doctor G
Character: An agent (uncredited)
Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his scheme to spark an international war by zombifying all government employees in this Italian spoof of the James Bond movies....
War Italian Style
Character: Cigar Smoking German Soldier (uncredited)
It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler. Von Kassler's aide captures them, and arranges for them to escape with fake war plans. But, things don't go exactly as planned for either side....
The Terror with Cross-Eyes
Character: Vice Commissioner Magli
To gain fame quickly - three actors - Mino, Giacinto and Mirella, stage a fake murder (Mirella is the "victim"), then plan to find the "body" at the most opportune moment. Unfortunately, a real murder takes place in Mirella's apartment when a young woman named Margaret is killed. Having left abundant clues to the fake murder, Mino and Giacinto realise the only way to save themselves from jail is to find Margaret's killer. Despite the intrusions of a stupid police inspector, the two men discov...
Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
Character: Self
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Vecchie canaglie
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Spaghetti alla Martino
Character: Self
The film documentary by Daniele Ceccarini and Francesco Tassara tells the prolific career of the Italian director Sergio Martino....
Howlers of the Dock
Character: Leopoldo Cannavone
Follows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire jiving from some of Rome's citizens, and bitter complants from others which inspire a group of corrupt officials determined to a bring the group down....
Quelli belli... siamo noi
Character: Domenico Fronzetti
Amateur songwriter falls in love with a Sicilian girl, but her father has already promised her to another....
A Prince Called Toto
Character: Self
Totò, the mythical comedian of Italian stage and screen, was the illegitimate child of a noble man in one of Naples's poorest neighborhoods. As a child, he enlisted in the army simply to eat three square meals a day. Later, his dizzying success in show business brought him riches he had never dreamed of, plus stories of love and jealousy, the most important being with 16 year old Diana who eventually became his wife, only to leave him and inspire the Italian classic torch song Malafemmina, meani...
Uno, nessuno, cento Nino
Character: Self
A documentary about beloved Italian actor Nino Manfredi....