Mario Monicelli Movies

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

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

italian documentary

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

This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego...

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...

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...

A madman is so obsessed by the protruding eye of the old man with whom he lives that he plots to murder him.

Marietto is a very lively and creative orphaned child, housed in a boarding school of nuns. One day, while browsing a newspaper, he sees a photo of a...

Felice Manetti is a poor tramp in Turin who, due to his ingenuity, often finds himself in trouble.

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 woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's...

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...

A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.

A drifter navigates the fringes of Parisian society. The protagonist, a solitary man seeking direction, becomes entangled with a group of...

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...