Alberto Sordi

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.

Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Vittorio Gassman, Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.

Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Alberto Sordi, Paolo Stoppa, Caroline Berg

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

Dir. Federico Fellini · With Franco Interlenghi, Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.

Dir. Dino Risi · With Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi

A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his goal.

Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Vincenzo Crocitti

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

Dir. Luigi Comencini · With Alberto Sordi, Eduardo De Filippo, Serge Reggiani

Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.

Dir. Dino Risi · With Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Leonora Ruffo

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.

Dir. Luigi Zampa · With Alberto Sordi, Marisa Merlini, Vittorio De Sica

An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.

Dir. Luigi Comencini · With Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Joseph Cotten

In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as "The White Sheik". While Wanda impetuously sneaks away to locate the object of her affections, disconsolate Ivan tries his hardest to keep up appearances with the couple's relatives.

Dir. Federico Fellini · With Alberto Sordi, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste

Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.

Dir. Steno · With Alberto Sordi, Maria Pia Casilio, Ilse Peterson

Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.

Dir. Luigi Zampa · With Alberto Sordi, Ida Galli, Bice Valori

A comedy film composed of 14 episodes. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963. 1. The Finch of Val Padouan (Ettore Scola) - 2. Tantum ergo (Dino Risi) - 3. Hitchhiking (Mario Monicelli) - 4. Kidnapping of a Beloved Person (Ettore Scola) - 5. First Aid (Mario Monicelli) - 6. Big Boy to His Little Mother (Dino Risi) - 7. Model Citizen (Ettore Scola) - 8. Pornodiva (Dino Risi) - 9. Like a Queen (Ettore Scola) - 10. Inn! (Ettore Scola) - 11. Without Words (Dino Risi) - 12. The Funeral Oration (Ettore Scola)

Dir. Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Ettore Scola · With Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi

In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.

Dir. Franco Rossi, Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Dino Risi · With Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Sordi

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?

Dir. Ken Annakin · With Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox

A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa, in search of his brother-in-law who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of topless, shapely wives. They are going to return to civilisation, but will their friend come with them?

Dir. Ettore Scola · With Alberto Sordi, Bernard Blier, Nino Manfredi

Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.

Dir. Dino Risi · With Sophia Loren, Franca Valeri, Vittorio De Sica

Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.

Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Stella Hall, John Steiner

Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way respect the other: Armando is an old play-boy and often he "buys" his women with his money; Cristiano is a shy guy who lives in a community with other guys like him. The movie proceeds showing us, ironically, the differences, the different ways to think, to act, to treat the women between father and son.

Dir. Alberto Sordi · With Alberto Sordi, Carlo Verdone, Edy Angelillo

This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed artist honeymooning with his second wife, a gay man traveling with his son and his lover (and hiding each from the other), a snobbish couple from Milan who have been forced to share a suite with a pair of crass Romans, etc.

Dir. Enrico Oldoini · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Nino Frassica