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Furio Scarpelli has 22 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 2000s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
Dir. Michael Radford · With Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
Dir. Ettore Scola · With Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli
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
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli
Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.
Dir. Camillo Mastrocinque · With Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Giulia Rubini
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father.
Dir. Pietro Germi · With Stefania Sandrelli, Saro Urzì, Aldo Puglisi
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
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Dir. Dino Risi · With Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Lando Buzzanca
From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.
Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Edoardo Gabbriellini, Claudia Pandolfi, Nicoletta Braschi
Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often goes to communist rallies, and enjoys the filthy beaches of Ostia. Will the hostile environment pave a way to jealousy?
Dir. Ettore Scola · With Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini
After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Vittorio Gassman, Adolfo Celi, Sandro Dori
In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli
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
"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
Dir. Ettore Scola · With Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Stefania Sandrelli
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
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.
Dir. Ettore Scola · With Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Jean-Louis Trintignant
The usual gang of robbers are hired by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will hinder the success of the operation.
Dir. Nanni Loy · With Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale
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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
Elba island, 1814. Martino is a young teacher, idealist and strongly anti Napoleon, in love with the beautiful and noble Baroness Emily. The young man finds himself serving as librarian to the Great Emperor in exile, whom he deeply hates, yet soon begins recording Napoleon's memoirs, getting to know and learning to value the man behind the myth. Among seductions and affairs, expectations and fears, he will craft a precise portrait that nevertheless will not manage to hide a final, inevitable, disappointment.
Dir. Paolo Virzì · With Daniel Auteuil, Elio Germano, Monica Bellucci
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