Mario Monicelli — Playwright (33)
Hotel Room (1981) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Camera d'albergo
other title: Chambre d'hôtel / Cuarto de hotel
A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people living their life. They get in touch with old and money-tight producer Mengaroni to edit their movie, but while they contact the accidental actors for gathering authorization, he starts to manipulate their work.
Dirty Linen (1999) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Panni sporchi
other title: Trapos sucios / 家醜
The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth.
Looking for Paradise (1995) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Facciamo paradiso
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Margherita Buy / Lello Arena
other title: Facciamo paradiso / Buscando el paraíso
The life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated in England, rebel and single mother, then feminist and married woman and again doctor in the developing countries and mystical nun who dies peacefully in 2011.
Her Favourite Husband (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Quel bandito sono io
director: Mario Soldati actor: Jean Kent / Robert Beatty
other title: Quel bandito sono io
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.
Lure of the Sila (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Il lupo della Sila
other title: Der Wolf der Silaberge / El lobo de la Sila
Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide Pietro with the alibi that will clear him. But Rocco, Orsola's brother, dreading a family scandal, constrains Orsola to silence. Condemned despite his innocence, Pietro escapes from prison, but the police track him down and kill him, and his mother, before the eyes of Rosaria. Years pass, and one day Rocco stumbles upon a half-frozen young woman lying in the snow. He takes her home and confides her to the care of Orsola. Later, yielding to the pleas of Orsola, Rocco and Rocco's son, Salvatore, the girl stays on in the house, and Salvatore falls in love with the beautiful stranger, who is careful to keep the family members from learning she is Rosaria, the grown up sister of Pietro seeking revenge for the deaths of her brother and mother.
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno (1984) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno
other title: Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno / 贝托尔多,贝托尔迪诺和卡斯卡森诺
During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdness and acumen save him from any unfortunate situation...
Dear Goddamned Friends (1994) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cari fottutissimi amici
other title: Caros F... Amigos / 親愛的朋友
In 1944 Tuscany, a group of boxers struggling through World War II stages rigged matches to earn money and travel, accompanied by a missing black American soldier and a girl resisting marriage, as they navigate the challenges of their war-torn world.
Totó in color (1952) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Totò a colori
director: 斯蒂诺 actor: Totò / Isa Barzizza
other title: Totò a colori / 托托的色彩美学观
In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
Neapolitan Turk (1953) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Un turco napoletano
director: Mario Mattoli actor: Totò / Isa Barzizza
other title: Un turco napoletano / Un turco napolitano
Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.
Come Home and Meet My Wife (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB Douban Eggplant.place
Romanzo popolare
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Ornella Muti
other title: Romanzo popolare / Romances et Confidences
50 year old Giulio and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina, fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and Vincenzina upon a return from a trip. His jealousy and anger get the best of him and he kicks his wife out of the house. Years pass and Giulio decides to rekindle the lover affair with Vincenzina.
We Want the Colonels (1973) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Vogliamo i colonnelli
other title: 우리는 대령을 원한다 / Nous voulons les colonels
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!