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Alessandro Bencivenni has 25 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s.
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples
Dir. Lina Wertmüller · With Paolo Villaggio, Isa Danieli, Paolo Bonacelli
Superfantozzi (1986) is an Italian film from 1986. It is the fifth film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio. In this film, Fantozzi is portrayed in a surreal historical journey, from Genesis to 1980s.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Liù Bosisio, Gigi Reder
After thirty years in the big corporation, Ugo Fantozzi retires. Suddenly, he needs things to do in everyday life and he tries a number of activities: helping Pina shopping; babysitting grand-daughter Uga; a trip to Venice; learning golf. He then fakes documents to get a new job, but in the end he becomes a hypochondriac and doesn't even take a long-awaited chance with Miss Silvani.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotić, Gigi Reder
Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the national lottery (almost Eur 2.5 Mln) and try to remain unanimous hiding the winner ticker into his typewriter. Ironically his director order to him to write an article on the mysterious winner. When he is back home he discovers all his furniture has been confiscate and will go on a public auction. He will try desperately to buy back the worthless typewriter while all his previous problems still follows him, especially the mobster...
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Antonio Allocca, Camillo Milli
Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotić, Gigi Reder
A loving young couple discover they're expecting a child, but the man isn't too keen on introducing her girlfriend to his family. Is it because he has a vampire father, a witch mother, a ghostly grandma, and a zombie uncle?
Dir. Volfango De Biasi · With Emanuela Rei, Cristiano Caccamo, Massimo Ghini
A wealthy millionaire decided to commit suicide but meets a homeless with whom he experiences a lot of funny adventures until finally makes order in his life.
Dir. Christian De Sica · With Renato Pozzetto, Christian De Sica, Francesca Reggiani
Two silent movie actors escape from their film. Forced to find a way to survive in the real world, they will only cause troubles to the people they will meet along the way.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Renato Pozzetto, Enzo Cannavale
One by one, with a sweet but inexorable rate, Ugo's colleagues, go to a better life. When Ugo is attending at one of the innumerable funerals, he and the priest remain involved in an accident. The doctor says that Ugo as only one week left to live
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotić, Gigi Reder
Dir. Volfango De Biasi · With Lillo Petrolo, Claudio Gregori, Ambra Angiolini
An Italian style remake of "Due Date".
Dir. Giambattista Avellino · With Alessandro Gassmann, Enrico Brignano, Paolo Sassanelli
Ugo Fantozzi has been ejected from Heaven and is sent back to Earth for a short period of time until the staff in Heaven can get Fantozzi a place there. Fantozzi goes through a variety of unfortunate experiences, such as rescuing his retro punk granddaughter Uga, and having to pay a vast telephone bill due to frequent chat line conversations. He ends up getting arrested instead of his ex-boss, who was originally charged with corruption. Just as he is about to enjoy the World Cup Final with Italy, he is called back into Heaven. Can he find peace once again?
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotić, Gigi Reder
Paolo Villaggio and Renato Pozzetto are the protagonists of various misadventures, first as nurses of a crazy ambulance, then as night guards of a shopping center and later as a pilot and stewardess of an air taxi. Next, they enlist in the foreign legion and then work as a Santa Claus in a Department Store.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Renato Pozzetto, Roberto Della Casa
Third chapter of the Comic saga, with Paolo Villaggio and Renato Pozzetto. Four different gags. From two electricians who combine all kinds of things during a theatrical performance, to competing for the attention of a beautiful girl during a campsite, to hired bodyguards of a judge threatened by the mafia, and finally as the adoptive parents of a newborn found outside the door of the house.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Renato Pozzetto, Ramona Bădescu
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Two brothers go to London to try to score a sensational blow and kidnap the precious dogs of the Queen of England.
Dir. Volfango De Biasi · With Lillo Petrolo, Claudio Gregori, Paolo Ruffini
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Lillo Petrolo, Claudio Gregori
Alex and Dino are two enstablished plastic surgeons used to change their patients' physical aspect with a few cuts of scalpel. Leo and Cosimo are two clumsy cops on the trails of a powerful and dangerous boss of which no one knows the face. All these five characters will stumble upon each other's life, in a comedy full of misunderstandings, twists and laughs, where, in the end, everyone will try to save his own "face".
Dir. Volfango De Biasi · With Lillo Petrolo, Claudio Gregori, Paolo Ruffini
A bizarre group consisting of a refined chef with unusual recipes, an assistant cook with taste disturbances and an improvised pastry chef takes part in a competition between chefs to win the contract for the G7.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Massimo Boldi, Dario Bandiera, Rocío Muñoz Morales
Ugo Fantozzi was resurrected from the company where he worked because of a crisis, how it will end?Tenth and final chapter of the film series of Fantozzi character.
Dir. Domenico Saverni · With Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotić, Anna Mazzamauro
Fabio is in love with his colleague Linda, but she has never even seen him until he's mistaken for her boyfriend. Paolo and Mario leave for a luxurious vacation in Rio de Janeiro for Christmas, without knowing that their sons have booked a trip for the same low-cost destination and, for a problem of homonymy between fathers and sons, the two holidays are exchanged.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Michelle Hunziker, Fabio De Luigi
Lillo (Christian De Sica) married Milena, one of the richest women in Europe. The marriage contract provides that Lillo undertakes to never cheat on her, under penalty of divorce and not even a penny of alimony. But one day he meets Barbara (Sabrina Ferilli) and it's immediately irresistible passion... Filippo Vessato (Fabio De Luigi) is a young surgeon who, to make a career, is forced to suffer the harassment of his head, Professor Benci (Claudio Bisio). Filippo is about to go to New York to get married and Benci does not miss an opportunity to further harass him by asking him to bring a gift to his son, a "model" student at Riverside College.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Claudio Bisio, Sabrina Ferilli
Paolo Cioffa, as Christmas approaches, is ready to leave on a cruise with his mistress Magda Venni, freed by his wife Francesca Zanchi and his son Federico, who is about to go skiing.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Michelle Hunziker, Fabio De Luigi
Carlo descends on his former lover's unsuspecting family and the scheming Rocco tries to break up his old rival Marcello's wedding.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Michelle Hunziker, Sabrina Ferilli
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Luca Bizzarri, Paolo Kessisoglu, Fatima Trotta
Carlo, on vacation in South Africa with his second wife Susanna meets her younger brother Giorgio.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Ghini, Giorgio Panariello
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