Mario Monicelli Movies

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

A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds...

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

Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

A historical farce about Napoleon.

The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother.

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

The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is...

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...