List of the best Lina Wertmuller movies: Seven Beauties(1976), The Seduction of Mimi(1972), Ciao, Professore!(1993), A Night Full of Rain(1978), Ferdinand and Carolina(1999), A Joke of Destiny(1984), The Belle Starr Story(1967), Blood Feud(1979), All Screwed Up(1976), Mannaggia alla miseria(2009) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
Italy
1976
115 Minutes
Director
Giancarlo Giannini Fernando Rey Shirley Stoler Elena Fiore Piero Di Iorio Enzo Vitale Roberto Herlitzka Lucio Amelio
thug sister psychiatrist nazi commandant wife soldier witty dark disheartening family home pow camp naples, italy germany asylum survival world war ii seduction collaboration family honor fall
The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
Comedy, Drama
Italy
1972
89 Minutes
Director
Giancarlo Giannini Mariangela Melato Agostina Belli Turi Ferro Elena Fiore Livia Giampalmo Luigi Diberti Tuccio Musumeci Gianfranco Barra
dockworker gangster amusing offbeat cool italy turin, italy communism crime political corruption revenge revenge discovery pursuit 1970s
MimÃ, forced to leave his family in Sicily, finds a job in a factory in Turin, where he gets involved in an extramarital affair.
Comedy
Italy
1993
99 Minutes
Director
Paolo Villaggio Isa Danieli Gigio Morra Sergio Solli Ester Carloni Paolo Bonacelli Marco Troncone Pierfrancesco Borruto Adriano Pantaleo Ciro Esposito Luigi Lastorina
A teacher must deal with the underworld of Naples and the family problems of his students.
Drama
Italy|Canada
1978
104 Minutes
Director
Giancarlo Giannini Candice Bergen Michael Tucker Allison Tucker Jill Eikenberry Anne Byrne
A communist journalist and an American liberal photographer try to cohabit with their different perspective of love and life.
Comedy
Italy|France
1999
102 Minutes
Director
Sergio Assisi Gabriella Pession Silvana De Santis Maria Scaccia Isa Danieli Nicole Grimaudo Lola Pagnani
On his death bed in the 1820s, King Ferdinando I of Naples tries to escape the ghosts of his bloody kingship by remembering his younger days, when he was allowed to go hunting and have fun,... See full summary »
Comedy
Italy
1984
105 Minutes
Director
Ugo Tognazzi Piera Degli Esposti Gastone Moschin Roberto Herlitzka Renzo Montagnani Enzo Jannacci Valeria Golino
politician terrorist wife lover feminist offbeat quirky amusing rome villa family home basement politics accident infidelity family scandal media circus escape love
The internal minister's very sophisticated ultra-technological and plated car stops for a mechanical accident in front of a villa. The owner of the villa is De Andreis that immediately ... See full summary »
Western
Italy
1967
76 Minutes
Director
Elsa Martinelli Robert Wood George Eastman Francesca Righini Bruno Piergentili Bruno Corazzari Vladimir Medar Remo De Angelis Eugene Walter
outlaw femme fatale robber gambler wild spirited suspenseful sultry wild west saloon desert outlaws love-hate relationship robbery gambling revenge pursuit rivalry temptation adventure
Abused and dominated by men in her youth, Belle Starr now out-rides, out-smokes, out-shoots, and out-gambles them as she makes her way around the Old West, usually wearing male garb. One ... See full summary »
Drama
1979
99 Minutes
Director
Sophia Loren Marcello Mastroianni Giancarlo Giannini Turi Ferro Mario Scarpetta Lucio Amelio
mafioso attorney widow lover passionate dark sad sicily countryside small town mafia assassination death love triangle romantic dilemma fascism forbidden love rivalry wretched excess 1940s
A lawyer (Marcello Mastroianni) and a thief (Giancarlo Giannini) love a Neapolitan widow (Sophia Loren) and fight Fascists in 1920s Sicily.
Comedy
1976
105 Minutes
Director
Luigi Diberti Nino Bignamini Lina Polito
migrant worker friend blue-collar worker boss cheeky disturbing milan household restaurant slaughterhouse employment poverty friendship city vs. country theft underdog 1970s
Two rural Sicilians (Luigi Diberti, Nino Bignamini) move to Milan, where things do not go as planned.
Comedy
2009
100 Minutes
Director
Gabriella Pession Sergio Assisi Piera Degli Esposti Roberto Herlitzka Lina Polito Ida Di Benedetto Ennio Coltorti Ciro Espositio Peppe Servillo Tommaso Ramenghi Angela Pagano