Gigi Proietti

Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.

Dir. Steno · With Gigi Proietti, Enrico Montesano, Catherine Spaak

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

Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn’t want him to meet their little daughter who was born right before he was arrested. Alone and desperate, Ettore roams the streets of Rome and meets a strange old man, Nicola. He decides to take advantage of him and rob him. But after breaking into his house, Ettore realizes Nicola doesn’t have anything worth stealing and furthermore, the old man tells him a rather stranger thing: he affirms to be Santa Claus…

Dir. Edoardo Falcone · With Marco Giallini, Gigi Proietti, Barbara Ronchi

Old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways.

Dir. Matteo Garrone · With Federico Ielapi, Roberto Benigni, Marine Vacth

Mandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races. What will they invent for cheating money?

Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Gigi Proietti, Nancy Brilli, Rodolfo Laganà

It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan.

Dir. Bertrand Tavernier · With Sophie Marceau, Philippe Noiret, Claude Rich

A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a noblewoman. A precarious young masseuse and an electrician madly in love. Very different lives that end up intertwining. But also extremely complicated and troubled lives ... Even if, after all, life is a wonderful thing ...

Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Gigi Proietti, Vincenzo Salemme, Nancy Brilli

A very extended family gathers for the Christmas holidays, after the death of the breadwinner Leonardo Sereni, famous singer. The eldest son Julius, with his wife Marina, has a panettone factory.

Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bisio, Raoul Bova

After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly.

Dir. Alessandro Gassmann · With Gigi Proietti, Alessandro Gassmann, Rocco Papaleo

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

Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches based on astrology.

Dir. Neri Parenti · With Massimo Boldi, Gigi Proietti, Ricky Memphis

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

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