List of the best Ettore Scola movies: A Special Day(1977), The Voyage of Captain Fracassa(1990), Splendor(1988), A Drama of Jealousy(1970), We All Loved Each Other So Much(1974), Ugly, Dirty and Bad(1976) ... ...
Drama
Italy|Canada
1977
106 Minutes
Director
Sophia Loren Marcello Mastroianni John Vernon Françoise Berd Tiziano De Persio Maurizio Di Paolantonio Antonio Garibaldi Alessandra Mussolini Nicole Magny Vittorio Guerrieri
housewife homosexual radio personality husband fascist stranger charming emotional passionate profound rome apartment street fascism political debate political repression homosexuality domestic life friendship forbidden love
Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
Adventure, Comedy
Italy|France
1990
132 Minutes
Director
Vincent Perez Emmanuelle Béart Massimo Troisi Ornella Muti Tosca D'Aquino Giuseppe Cederna
In the Eighteenth Century, the "Traveling Company of Scenic Arts" composed of Tyrant, Lady Leonarde, Serafina, Isabella, Leandre, Zerbina, Matamore and Pulcinella gets lost while traveling ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
Italy|France
1988
110 Minutes
Director
Marcello Mastroianni Massimo Troisi Marina Vlady Paolo Panelli Pamela Villoresi Giacomo Piperno Mauro Bosco
Jordan, forced to close his movie theater due to financial problems, recalls the events, the characters and the films that marked his life.
Comedy, Drama
1970
107 Minutes
Director
Giancarlo Giannini Marcello Mastroianni Monica Vitti Hércules Cortés Juan Diego Giuseppe Maffioli Marisa Merlini Brizio Montinaro Paola Natale Fernando Sanchez Pollack Bruno Scipioni
bricklayer flower girl chef hilarious hedonistic madcap rome rally restaurant communism love triangle heartbreak suicide love rivalry 1970s
A flower girl (Monica Vitti) must choose between a bricklayer (Marcello Mastroianni) and a pizza baker (Giancarlo Giannini), friends who quarrel over her.
Comedy
1974
124 Minutes
Director
Nino Manfredi Vittorio Gassman Stefania Sandrelli Stefano Satta Flores Giovanna Ralli Aldo Fabrizi Marcella Michelangeli Livia Cerini
idealists lawman writer nurse inspiring profound patriotic tense italy trattoria rome world war ii italy friendship maturing growing up 1970s
Ettore Scola's exploration of political and social change in postwar Italy, spanning 30 years of World War II buddies.
Comedy
1976
115 Minutes
Director
Nino Manfredi Maria Bosco Giselda Castrini Alfredo D'Ippolito Marina Fasoli Luciano Pagliuca
A one-eyed Italian patriarch fights to preserve his family's dignity despite their meager existence in a Roman slum.