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Biagio Izzo has 21 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2020s.
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Hoping to secure a better future for their thirteen-year-old sister Chiara, Massimo and Fabrizio, two penniless brothers with no prospects, invent an unusual business. Armed with masks and microcameras, they publicly demolish the identities of various neighborhood crooks, thus transforming themselves into two unlikely paid heroes.
Dir. Vincenzo Alfieri · With Lino Guanciale, Vincenzo Alfieri, Antonella Attili
A man falls in love with a dude after a corneal transplantation.
Dir. Vincenzo Salemme · With Vincenzo Salemme, Maurizio Casagrande, Biagio Izzo
Four Italian men are suddenly involved in awkward situations, while they are spending the Christmas holiday, stuck in Amsterdam.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Massimo Boldi, Christian De Sica, Enzo Salvi
A group of middle-aged time-share investors get ripped off and their desire for revenge is well-timed for them to be recruited by a bank clerk who feels the same about his employers.
Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Carlo Buccirosso, Valeria Marini, Ricky Tognazzi
During a séance with some friends, divorced carny Gualtiero successfully conjures the spirit of Marilyn Monroe, who'll help him win his family back.
Dir. Leonardo Pieraccioni · With Leonardo Pieraccioni, Suzie Kennedy, Biagio Izzo
A womanizing lawyer follows his wife and son to a trip to Egypt in a last-ditch effort to make up for his infidelities. Also travelling to Egypt is a bumbling police chief who's desperate to keep his rebellious daughter from becoming a showgirl. The two meet during a Nile cruise. Calamity ensues.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Enzo Salvi
Fabio Leone and Paolo Pecora are two police officers from Rome, who, together with the careless Neapolitan Ciro Marmotta, are fired from the barracks due their scuppering of a plan to capture a secret agent.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Biagio Izzo
A Milanese businessman is beside himself when his son tells him he's going to marry the daughter of a pizza maker from Naples.
Dir. Paolo Costella · With Massimo Boldi, Biagio Izzo, Paolo Conticini

as portiere del condominio/uomo nella sauna/gay del Settecento/cliente nel ristorante/prigioniero italiano/mafioso
In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000.
Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Enzo Salvi, Carlo Buccirosso, Max Cavallari
Getting ready for the wedding that will unite two very different families- the humble Italian taxi driver Cristoforo Colombo and his wife Rosy, and the rich Italian-Americans Alessandro and Patricia Di Giacomo.
Dir. Claudio Risi · With Massimo Boldi, Anna Maria Barbera, Enzo Salvi
Several groups of Italians experience amusing adventures and tests of character on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Some of the characters are there simply for rest and relaxation, while others act with different motivations. Multiple plot lines unfold simultaneously as different characters' stories are presented.
Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Enrico Brignano, Carlo Buccirosso, Biagio Izzo
Milanese policeman Peppino and Neapolitan florist Ambrogio celebrate Christmas in the same ski resort town along with their families. After they discover that both their sons are dating, but have never met their girlfriends in person, the parents embark on a private war against those dating apps that seem to have reached almost everything and everyone.
Dir. Federico Marsicano · With Massimo Boldi, Biagio Izzo, Anna Tatangelo
Set against the sun-soaked shores of Italy in the summertime, seven different tales unfold about life, love, loss, family, and friendship.
Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Lino Banfi, Gigi Proietti, Enrico Brignano
A businessman in Italy, who doesn't pay any taxes, and a financier always on the hunt for tax evaders come into contact because their sons share an apartment in Paris.
Dir. Claudio Risi · With Massimo Boldi, Anna Maria Barbera, Biagio Izzo
Barbara and Matteo are two Italians who live in Miami, managing a small restaurant overlooking the sea. Barbara is pregnant and the happy event brings their respective parents together in Miami: Massimo, Matteo's father, who has recently become a widower and has a hotel in Cortina, and Angela, Barbara's mother, who instead has a chain of restaurants and is separated from her husband. At first, the incompatibility between the two is sky-high. Then, while events, misunderstandings and plots of various kinds revolve around them, the ice slowly begins to break and affinities emerge when the two find themselves busy restoring peace between their children, who have entered into a crisis due to the birth of the little girl.
Dir. Enrico Oldoini · With Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Enzo Salvi
Destinies intertwined for two antithetical people who meet during a trip to India, where lots of misunderstandings and funny situations will take place.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Massimo Boldi, Christian De Sica, Enzo Salvi
The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty years before, tasking him with bringing the club back to its old winning ways. Oronzo puts his trust in the intervention of a Russian billionaire who has bought the club for promotion. But it is a deception.
Dir. Sergio Martino · With Lino Banfi, Biagio Izzo, Giuliana Calandra
When the Italian Premier and his companion find a dead body in his hotel suite, while on a trip to Hungary, they find themselves embroiled in a series of comedic situations as they try to avoid a scandal.
Dir. Marco Risi · With Massimo Ghini, Ricky Memphis, Martina Stella
Five friends forge their resumes and enroll to Oxford in orders to help one of them end up with the girl he's in love with.
Dir. Paolo Ruffini · With Paolo Ruffini, Frank Matano, Guglielmo Scilla
An Italian parody of the biggest U.S. blockbusters such as "Gladiator, " "Harry Potter", "Fast and Furious" and "The Da Vinci Code".
Dir. Ezio Greggio · With Ezio Greggio, Antonello Fassari, Anna Falchi
The film follows the story of two couples in crisis who are about to break up but who, due to the Lockdown, imposed to stop the spread of the coronavirus, will instead be forced into a forced coexistence. The protagonists, through smartkworking, household chores and sports activities, will find themselves living under the same roof, giving life to a comedy full of laughter but also of reflections.
Dir. Enrico Vanzina · With Ezio Greggio, Ricky Memphis, Paola Minaccioni
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