Lino Banfi

Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever...

Dir. Gennaro Nunziante · With Checco Zalone, Eleonora Giovanardi, Sonia Bergamasco

Pasquale Baudaffi, on amnesty, comes out of prison and starts looking for a job with the help of his cousin Gaetano. But first he goes to what was once a brothel, but, unbeknownst to our hapless hero, has been taken over and rented as a dental office. Pasquale finds himself at the center of endless misunderstandings. He tries to be a gamekeeper but that's not okay, he tries to be a waiter in a bar: he immediately gets his orders wrong and he is fired. His performance as a garage keeper was negative. The very latest experience is in an electronics company but its insertion into the futuristic mechanism triggers the craziest complications. The encounter with a lost dog allows him to get to know his mistress and thus discover the woman of his life.

Dir. Luciano Salce · With Lino Banfi, Franco Bracardi, Gigi Reder

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

Oronzo Canà is called to coach Longobarda, the football team of a small town of Northern Italy, newly promoted to the First Division. His only task is not to be relegated, but Longobarda's owner plots against him, finding the team's current ranking far too expensive, and his top Brazilian striker is affected by a deep saudade.

Dir. Sergio Martino · With Lino Banfi, Camillo Milli, Andrea Roncato

Lino lives in Turin with the family of his sister. He doesn't have a good job and never enough money. But in a day his life changes: he wins 1 billion dollars in a lottery and... everyone becomes a friend, the girl who he liked becomes his girlfriend and his sister begins to love him. He leaves Turin with his friend Parola and, in a casino, he loses all money! But luck returns...

Dir. Francesco Massaro · With Lino Banfi, Jerry Calà, Mara Venier

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

The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs. The title translates as "Eye, Evil Eye, Parsley and Fennel".

Dir. Sergio Martino · With Johnny Dorelli, Lino Banfi, Janet Ågren

A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.

Dir. Castellano, Pipolo · With Enrico Montesano, Paolo Villaggio, Nino Manfredi

Italian comedy in two episodes starring a house painter who emigrated to Switzerland who pretends to be a millionaire and an employee on holiday in Kenya, the victim of catastrophic misadventures.

Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, Milly Carlucci

In the barracks of the "Settecamini" fire brigade in Rome, the shabby Squadra 17 tackles missions with resounding failures, waiting in vain for a chance for redemption.

Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, Massimo Boldi

Frenetic in its pacing and with miniscule character development, this trite slapstick farce stars three Italian comics - Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, and Massimo Boldi as the idiot-nephews of a wealthy invalid (Enrico Maria Salerno). The uncle's plan is to teach the trio how to successfully steal for a living but the plan does not have a chance against their exaggerated ineptitude.

Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, Massimo Boldi

Following a twinning between the national fire brigade and the special forces of the Canadian firefighters, Captain Carter arrives in Rome.

Dir. Giorgio Capitani · With Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, Massimo Boldi

A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st century's italian society, among corrupt politicians, unfaithful husbands, hardcore soccer fans and dishonest businessmen.

Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Diego Abatantuono, Lino Banfi, Vincenzo Salemme

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

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