Movies: Nino Manfredi

Despite of (or perhaps because of ) its sparse production values and unpretentiousness, the Italian Gli Innamorati was feted at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. The bulk of the story takes place in a single Roman neighborhood. In the manner of the 1925...

A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter....

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 c...

Paolo and Maria are two elementary teachers, who love each other, but can not have a child....

A young communist discovers the power of faith....

Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes....

A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice....

Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen....

Joaquin comes back to Granada in the eighties trying to find out about something happened when he was a child and the Spanish Civil War was going on. He helped an unknown man who survived after being executed. He finds the man, Galapago, who is now q...

A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it....

Otello, an amateur thief, tries a burglary on New Year Eve but he finds the maid Adalgisa in the supposedly empty house. Adalgisa likes Otello who, all things considered, is a good guy, unlike Amerigo the night watchman who tries to profit from the s...

Two young lovers, Tao and Valeria, decide to go and enjoy a beautiful holiday in privacy, away from the daily routine and their parents. After a journey full of adventures, aboard a sidecar, they find themselves in a campsite populated by Germans....

A documentary about beloved Italian actor Nino Manfredi....

A tale on the Italian upper class of the '60s and their ways to kill time....

Cecilia is a commoner who runs an inn, where the specialty is the "spaghetti alla carbonara". Moreover, the woman is tied to the movement of young patriots, named "Carbonari", who want a united Italy, and are struggling against the power of the pope....

Rome, 1870. On the eve of the breach of Porta Pia a kidnapping shakes the Jewish Ghetto: a child disappears....

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A doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an acquaintance's wife....