Mario Monicelli Movies

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...

Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting...

A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his...

A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.

Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario...

Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia...

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...

This story took place during World War II. A group of Italians living in London are raising funds to rebuild a Catholic cathedral that was bombed by...

An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading...

Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous...

Created by his son Leonardo, this portrait of Adolfo Celi reconstructs his personal and artistic journey between Italy and Brazil. Through...

A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.

Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's...

A man approaches in a car from the garage of a house, gets out of the car, and stops in front of the house. As if he were a fool, he tries to open...

A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.

The everyday life of accountant Levante, his family and the other people of a small town in the Tuscan countryside is taken by storm by the...

She is Neli Chervenusheva and film lovers know only her voice. For almost half a century, Neli has been translating the great Italian cinema from...

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.