List of the best Pietro Germi movies: Divorce, Italian Style(1962), Seduced and Abandoned(1964), The Birds, the Bees and the Italians(1966), Alfredo, Alfredo(1972), Four Ways Out(1954), La Viaccia(1962) ... ...
Comedy
Italy
1962
104 Minutes
Director
Marcello Mastroianni Daniela Rocca Stefania Sandrelli Leopoldo Trieste Odoardo Spadaro Margherita Girelli
baron wife cousin painter hilarious playful italy village beach adultery forbidden love deception marriage divorce quest 1960s
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
Comedy
Italy|France
1964
118 Minutes
Director
Stefania Sandrelli Saro Urzì Lando Buzzanca Aldo Puglisi Leopoldo Trieste Rocco D'Assunta Lola Braccini Paola Biggio Umberto Spadaro Oreste Palella Lina La Galla
fiancé teen girl father daughter mother hilarious cheeky sicily island small town love triangle honor family dysfunction reputation love temptation growing up 1960s
A desperate Sicilian man, whose 15-year-old daughter was seduced and impregnated by his older daughter's fiancé, tries to find a way to save the family's honor.
Comedy
Italy|France
1966
115 Minutes
Director
Virna Lisi Gastone Moschin Nora Ricci Alberto Lionello Olga Villi Franco Fabrizi Beba Loncar Gigi Ballista
doctor underage girl wife mistress father cashier amusing sultry cheeky playful italy small town doctor's office bedroom bank café sex infidelity small-town life secrets
Three stories, all set in Treviso. Various couple experience adultery at a party, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress and all the men in the end are prosecuted for having intercourse with an underage girl.
Comedy
Italy|France
1972
98 Minutes
Director
Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
Crime, Drama
1954
77 Minutes
Director
Gina Lollobrigida Renato Baldini Cosetta Greco Paul Muller Fausto Tozzi Tamara Lees
When a group of men hold up a Roman finance office, each of them plans a unique and individual escape.
Drama
Italy|France
1962
106 Minutes
Stefano
Jean-Paul Belmondo Claudia Cardinale Pietro Germi Paul Frankeur Gabriella Pallotta Romolo Valli
young man prostitute beautiful woman uncle brooding sultry italy countryside city brothel city vs. country obsessive love romance wealth theft discovery fall temptation 1960s
The original Italian is La Viaccia (the name of the family farm which motivates the plot). The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando ... See full summary »