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Dino Risi has 12 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Il Sorpasso.
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Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.
Dir. Dino Risi · With Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Catherine Spaak

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

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.
Dir. Dino Risi · With Vittorio Gassman, Alessandro Momo, Agostina Belli
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Gennaro, in Napoli.
Dir. Dino Risi · With Nino Manfredi, Senta Berger, Mario Adorf

The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Dir. Dino Risi · With Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Lando Buzzanca
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 obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?
Dir. Dino Risi · With Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Ely Galleani
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
Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Dir. Dino Risi · With Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Tina Pica
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
Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question the Pope! For this reason Lo Gatto is sent to a Sicilian remote island Favignana. There is very little for the commissioner to do on the quiet island, so Lo Gatto decides to investigate the vanishing of a tourist which quickly becomes a very complicated affair.
Dir. Dino Risi · With Lino Banfi, Maurizio Ferrini, Maurizio Micheli