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Luigi Comencini (8 June 1916, Salò – 6 April 2007) was an Italian film director. Together with Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, he was considered among the masters of the commedia all'italiana genre. His daughters Cristina and Francesca are both film directors.
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28 August 1972
An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
19 December 1991
In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby.
06 May 1947
The film follows the struggles of an idealistic Catholic politician.
16 December 1977
Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium.
09 March 1988
The film tells the story of a love affair between a poor poet and an equally poor seamstress in 19th century Paris.
16 December 1949
Beautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law.
21 April 1962
Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the unlikely name of Dante Lombardozzi, in this entertaining comedy-murder mystery by director Luigi Comencini.
12 January 1979
A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours.
13 November 1952
Heidi, a young orphan girl living with her aunt in Frankfurt, is forced to move to the Swiss Alps to live with her ornery grandfather.
21 October 2021
A portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the opportunities that surround them, the dream of what they want to become, the fear of failing, the trials they hope to overcome.
29 October 1964
Five comedic episodes, all starring Alberto Sordi and Silvana Mangano.
26 October 1988
Christina and Francesca Comencini go on a pilgrimage to Agen, France to find the places where there Dad Luigi Comencini spent his childhood.
23 December 1975
Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murder of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society.
08 November 2002
Plagued by financial problems, ne'er-do-well Guido ends up in jail after faking an armed robbery at his workplace.
03 March 1982
An average Joe becomes the poster boy for a book about Jesus due to his Christ-like appearance, but his meek and good-hearted nature ends up clashing with the publisher's earthly-minded motives.
21 December 1972
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.
28 September 1949
In the Po Valley during the 19th century, a rich girl engaged to a well-to-do farmer ends up penniless and is forced to work for her fiancé’s relatives.
27 January 1965
This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi.
23 November 1989
In this romantic story, a couple (Michel Serrault and Virna Lisi) who have been married for over forty years are forced to separate, one to each of their two children's families, when they can no longer pay the rent on their longtime apartment.
18 November 1969
When an old lady dies two hours before her life insurance expires, the insurance lawyer suspects something dubious.
08 October 1964
Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.
30 October 1969
Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy.
24 October 1974
In early 20th-century Sicily, Eugenia Di Maqueda and Raimondo Corrao discover on their wedding night that they are brother and sister and therefore unable to consummate their marriage.
27 October 1960
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
13 July 1959
Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his buttoned-down, boring job.
25 September 1952
In Genoa, amongst the underclass living on the fringes of the law, Machedi organises the trafficking of women, to be exploited and sent off to who knows where.
06 June 1974
Two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love.
04 October 1955
Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman.
22 December 1953
When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
18 September 1965
Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.
28 October 1976
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
06 December 1954
The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
26 October 1988
In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue.
05 April 1950
Among old films sent to pulp, the fortunate discovery of nitrates in country farmhouses and the rediscovered treasures of silent cinema, the work of safeguarding and conservation of the Italian Film Library in Milan.
24 January 1964
At the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is finding it difficult to adjust to the dull banalities of life in peacetime.
24 November 1976
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.
22 March 1965
Maria is a young beauty who is busy juggling three boyfriends (a count, a dentist and a student) at the same time.
20 December 1961
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 murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover.
21 January 1967
The story of a widower and his two sons, focusing on their complex and sometimes difficult relationships.
05 September 2010
By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates an illustration of the economic boom in Italy during the 1960s.
29 August 1957
Back home after his wife's death, a migrant labourer faces a dilemma between a high-paying job overseas and one last chance at reconnecting with his son, who sees him only as a stranger because of all his years abroad.
11 September 1987
Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who understands his ambitions.
05 September 1980
The film begins when Eugenio, a 14 year old child, is conduced from his grandparents home outside Rome, to Giancarlo (his father) in the city, by Giancarlo's friend (called "Moustache").
18 December 1957
In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.
12 October 1951
Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.
12 March 1955
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
26 November 1958
Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny instead is married to a ugly woman.
10 September 1948
On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples.
02 December 1959
This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers.
05 February 1968
A war hero turned unemployed is hired by a British man whose life he saved during the war, for a secret mission: to kill a neo-nazi.
08 March 1951
Middle class Sandra, engaged to be married and living in Turin, searches for her missing sister that is estranged from her family.
29 October 1953
A former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction uses them to set up recreational performances at schools.
01 January 1950
Documentary filmed in the judicial asylum of Aversa which testifies to the systems of care still based on violence and segregation.
01 September 1946
A social document of children, against the background of post WWII Milan.
