Most Popular Mario Monicelli Trailers
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01 November 1948
Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.
17 June 2014
Documentary about Italian cinema.
17 April 1989
A thief caught red-handed tells the landlord a very strange fact that happened to him looking through the keyhole of another apartment where he was stealing.
01 October 1976
Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause.
09 October 1969
Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.
20 December 1947
Leo Bianchetti has just finished his military service but then is again called to arms; after 10 years on various fronts, he finds himself again in Italy to guard a bridge destroyes by the Germans that he doesn't want to leave.
21 February 1952
A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death.
21 September 1946
An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
01 January 2004
Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.
15 October 1952
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 afterwards.
20 September 2003
Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce.
21 April 1966
Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting infidelity, and a wealthy woman's drunken escapades with her butler.
01 October 1950
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 saved by local co-operation.
14 February 1937
A favorite student of an old dance teacher gets casted in an important pantomime. When the teacher dies on the stage, she finds support from a journalist's affection to overcome the difficult moment.
05 January 1979
An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.
04 October 2002
Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.
19 February 2006
Created by his son Leonardo, this portrait of Adolfo Celi reconstructs his personal and artistic journey between Italy and Brazil.
30 April 2004
Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the ita
15 February 1946
A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace of mind.
15 September 1954
A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers.
24 October 1975
Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
13 April 1968
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
07 September 1951
A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.
23 February 1962
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
29 October 1974
50 year old Giulio and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina, fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed.
11 May 1950
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double.
26 July 1958
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich.
18 February 1953
The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother.
03 October 1956
Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner.
02 September 1994
This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego of legendary actor Alessandro Haber.
30 August 1985
Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity".
04 February 1964
Five episodes: a mature model makes his lover jealous; lovers quarrel; a clumsy Don Juan in business; a dancer and a captain; a beauty falls in love with a Spanish cyclist.
28 October 1959
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI.
02 March 1973
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy.
22 December 1995
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.
23 September 1955
Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war.
07 April 1966
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy.
16 September 1953
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.
15 December 1977
A collection of dark-humoured vignettes, including tales of a cardinal with a liberal congregation, a motorist and a hitchhiker, mentally challenged tramps, parents contemplating their daughter's participation in a pornographic film, and a conniving husband.
10 January 1952
A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also.
23 December 1970
Three episodes. Episode 1 - The Refrigerator (Monicelli). A married couple of two poor emigrant workers spend almost all their money to buy a refrigerator (a must in the '70s).
20 September 1968
A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
21 October 1960
On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.
06 February 1986
A multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, takes over the family farm.
01 December 2006
A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940.
24 December 1970
After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.
22 December 1982
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode.
21 October 1955
Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to Paris where she becomes the star of the "Folies-Plastiques".
21 September 1945
The life of Saint Benedict, the founder of Western Monasticism.
25 October 1963
In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.
22 December 1971
An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a humorous and frustrating ordeal.
10 April 1951
A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.
17 April 1951
A historical farce about Napoleon.