Mario Monicelli Movies

Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.

The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of...

The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is...

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive 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...

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...

In Pietro Mascagni's tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancée, only to find that she's married someone else...

Documentary about Italian cinema.

Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.

Opera Prima is a tribute and a journey through the evolution that cinema has had in Italy. Tayu Vlietstra, a pupil of Bertolucci, carries out an...

Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it...

Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find...

In impoverished post-war Rome, a gang of young thieves is lead by Stefano, the son of an illustrious professor. The police suspects that the...

Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he...

An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and...