Mario Monicelli Movies

Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the...

The life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated in England, rebel and single mother, then feminist and...

Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts...

This story took place during World War II. A group of Italians living in London are raising funds to rebuild a Catholic cathedral that was bombed by...

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 peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.

Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition...

Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario...

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing...

After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.

While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank,...

A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the...

Tragicomedy telling of the trials and tribulations of a troupe of variety show artists.

The life of Saint Benedict, the founder of Western Monasticism.

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

During the annual Christmas gathering at the family home, the parents surprise their children by announcing their decision to move in with one of...

The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).

Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find...