Mario Monicelli Movies

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...

A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.

Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he...

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.

An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and...

Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.

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...

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...

In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years...

Eleven Italian filmmakers show in eleven segments the terrible conditions of the Palestinian people living in Jerusalem.

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.

Tribute to the director Mario Monicelloi who, interviewed by Johnny Palomba, recalls his life and his works.

A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman...

The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on.

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...