List of the best Dino Risi movies: Scent of a Woman(1975), Love and Larceny(1960), The Sign of Venus(1955), Scandal in Sorrento(1955), Love in the City(1953), The Tiger and the Pussycat(1967), Venice, the Moon and You(1959), Bambole!(1965), Sunday Lovers(1981) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
Italy
1975
102 Minutes
Director
Vittorio Gassman Alessandro Momo Agostina Belli Moira Orfei Franco Ricci
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An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. The captain, Fausto, who wants no pity, brooks no disagreement, and charges into every ... See full summary »
Comedy
Italy|France
1960
94 Minutes
Director
Vittorio Gassman Anna Maria Ferrero Dorian Gray Peppino De Filippo Mario Carotenuto Alberto Bonucci Fosco Giachetti Luigi Pavese Linda Sini Aldo Bufi Landi
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Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
Comedy, Drama
Italy
1955
101 Minutes
Director
Sophia Loren Franca Valeri Vittorio De Sica Raf Vallone Virgilio Riento Tina Pica Lina Gennari Eloisa Cianni
Agnese has many men who woo her and lives with her cousin Cesira Franca Valeri, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
Comedy
Italy|France
1955
106 Minutes
Director
Vittorio De Sica Sophia Loren Lea Padovani Antonio Cifariello Tina Pica Mario Carotenuto Joka Berretty Antonio La Raina
Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Documentary
Italy
1953
90 Minutes
Director
Ugo Tognazzi Carlo Lizzani Federico Fellini Francesco Maselli Maresa Gallo Silvio Lillo
Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
Comedy
Italy
1967
105 Minutes
Director
Vittorio Gassman Ann-Margret Eleanor Parker Fiorenzo Fiorentini Antonella Steni Caterina Boratto Eleonora Brown Nino Segurini
Comedy-drama about a middle-aged Italian businessman Vittorio Gassman who is married to Eleanor Parker and is innocently introduced one day to a schoolgirl with pigtails named Carolina. ... See full summary »
Comedy
Italy|France
1959
107 Minutes
Director
Alberto Sordi Marisa Allasio Ingeborg Schöner Niki Dantine Riccardo Garrone Luciano Marcelli Anna Campori Ernesto Boni Dina De Santis Lilly Mantovani Nino Manfredi
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The "casanova" gondolier Bepi struggles to accept his future monogamous life, being Venice a hub of attracting tourists.
Drama
1965
111 Minutes
Director
Four sketches of Italian life: "The Telephone Call," "Treatise on Eugenics," "The Soup," "Monsignor Cupid."
Comedy
1981
127 Minutes
Director
Lino Ventura Bryan Forbes Roger Moore Gene Wilder Lynn Redgrave Ugo Tognazzi Kathleen Quinlan Catherine Salviat Priscilla Barnes
Four segments by four directors show four men chasing women in France, England, Italy and the United States.