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Leonardo Benvenuti has 36 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1990s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Once Upon a Time in America.
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern
Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
Dir. Luciano Salce · With Paolo Villaggio, Anna Mazzamauro, Gigi Reder
In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Alberto Sordi, Paolo Stoppa, Caroline Berg
The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.
Dir. Luciano Salce · With Paolo Villaggio, Anna Mazzamauro, Gigi Reder
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Ugo Tognazzi, Adolfo Celi, Gastone Moschin
During the bombing of Naples in World War II, a cynical businessman helps a naive prostitute, who spends the next two decades desperate to have him reciprocate her feelings.
Dir. Vittorio De Sica · With Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi
Three very different Italians travel to their hometowns on election day: Pasquale, a Southern immigrant living in Munich, finds a country far removed from the one he left behind; Roman civil servant Furio's relentless nitpicking threatens to push his wife Magda over the edge; young Mimmo's journey is repeatedly interrupted by concerns about his grandmother's health.
Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Irina Sanpiter, Elena Fabrizi
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
Three characters' misadventures in semi-deserted, summertime Rome: a dim-witted mama's boy falls for a tourist; a would-be womanizer struggles to find company for his sex tourism trip to Kraków; a hippie is drawn into his father's schemes to bring him back into polite society.
Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Verónica Miriel, Mario Brega
A group of former high school classmates meets for a reunion 15 years after graduation, only to discover that any innocence or friendship is long lost.
Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Alessandro Benvenuti, Angelo Bernabucci
Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.
Dir. Luigi Comencini · With Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Graziella Granata
The story of a widower and his two sons, focusing on their complex and sometimes difficult relationships.
Dir. Luigi Comencini · With Anthony Quayle, Stefano Colagrande, Simone Giannozzi
The vicissitudes of three couples of newlyweds from the celebration of weddings to their respective honeymoons.
Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Claudia Gerini, Veronica Pivetti
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
The third film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio.
Dir. Neri Parenti, Paolo Villaggio · With Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotić, Gigi Reder
Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects?
Dir. Valerio Zurlini · With Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo
The world's greatest criminal and the world greatest loser share the same face... now they'll share the same life!
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, Anna Mazzamauro
After a hard day at work and a condominium-board meeting, accountant Ugo Fantozzi goes on a trip with his family. Unfortunately, he will face a nasty surprise upon his return.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotić, Plinio Fernando
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
Dir. Nanni Loy · With Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Adolfo Celi
Vanni, Gregorio and Livia are brothers. The first is a well-known pianist, the second has abandoned his career as an aspiring violinist to become a deejay. When Vanni discovers that his father has disappeared into thin air, together with Gregorio they decide to call his sister Livia. The three relatives travel the length and breadth of Tuscany to find their missing parent.
Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Sergio Rubini, Francesca Neri
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
Two deadbeat friends barely pass the entrance exam for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, but love for the same woman gets in the way.
Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Enrico Montesano, Carlo Verdone, Massimo Boldi
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
Two not very clever young doctors open a fitness center and promise to let people lose seven kilos in seven days. When the enterprise fails they open a gourmet restaurant.
Dir. Luca Verdone · With Renato Pozzetto, Carlo Verdone, Silvia Annichiarico
In Pietrasanta all are excited for the annual party of summer end. Here we find four characters: Merigo, a naive guy passionate of bike; Pierre, son of the mayor; Simone, a pestiferous kid; Mario, lifeguard of "Bagnomaria".
Dir. Giorgio Panariello · With Giorgio Panariello, Ugo Pagliai, Manuela Arcuri
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
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