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Marco Martani has 29 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by The Mafia Kills Only in Summer.
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While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous organization.
Dir. Pif · With Pif, Cristiana Capotondi, Rosario Lisma

It's 1943 and World War II is raging in Europe. In New York, Arturo and Flora the daughter of a restaurant owner are in love, but she is promised in marriage to the son of a Mafia boss. There is a way around this, but to be able to marry Flora, Arturo needs to get permission from her father, who lives in a village in Sicily. Arturo doesn't have any money, so the only way he can get to Sicily is to enlist in the U.S. Army, which is preparing for a landing on the island.
Dir. Pif · With Pif, Miriam Leone, Andrea Di Stefano
The son of an atheist, authoritarian father, believed to be liberal, wants to become a priest.
Dir. Edoardo Falcone · With Marco Giallini, Alessandro Gassmann, Laura Morante

Rome, 1989. On his last day of high school, Luca gets in trouble when he takes it all out on hated literature teacher Martinelli, only to discover he's going to be heading the examination board for his finals. During a summer of fruitless study, he falls in love with a girl he met once at a party, unaware that she's Martinelli's daughter. The latter, strangely enough, has just offered Luca to prepare with him...
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Giorgio Faletti, Cristiana Capotondi, Nicolas Vaporidis
Andrea is having a bad luck with girls. Maybe because he's only man in his big family which include mother, three sisters, grandma, nurse and a dog which is of course female also.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Francesco Mandelli, Loretta Goggi, Chiara Francini
The Tuccis, a close-knit family of country bumpkins, become millionaires overnight. When word gets out, nagging neighbors and acquaintances force them to leave for the big city to start anew—and openly flaunt their newfound wealth. Soon they'll realize they ain't got the faintest idea how today's upper classes actually live.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Christian De Sica, Enrico Brignano, Lucia Ocone
Nicola, a policeman in Puglia, is a reformed ladies' man with his heart set on marrying the daughter of the Indian ambassador.
Dir. Luca Lucini · With Luca Argentero, Dario Bandiera, Isabella Ragonese
Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
Dir. Edoardo Falcone · With Fabio De Luigi, Elio Germano, Massimo De Lorenzo
An Italian style remake of "Due Date".
Dir. Giambattista Avellino · With Alessandro Gassmann, Enrico Brignano, Paolo Sassanelli
From married couples to platonic roommates to testy rivals with romantic chemistry, the never-ending battle of the sexes gets personal.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Paola Cortellesi, Fabio De Luigi, Sarah Felberbaum
After their rags-to-riches-to-rags-to-riches story, the Tuccis exploit a 19th-century legal loophole to turn their hometown into a tax haven.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Christian De Sica, Enrico Brignano, Lucia Ocone
Six people struggling with their relationship, or lack thereof, cross paths with their respective exes — and discover they might still harbor feelings for each other.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Claudio Bisio, Nancy Brilli, Cristiana Capotondi
Intertwined stories of 50somethings that won't give up on their glory days.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Sabrina Ferilli, Stefano Fresi
Four Italian men are suddenly involved in awkward situations, while they are spending the Christmas holiday, stuck in Amsterdam.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Massimo Boldi, Christian De Sica, Enzo Salvi
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
Four different stories about italian football team’s supporter.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Diego Abatantuono
Cesare Proietti is the esteemed manager of the Relais Colombo, a luxury hotel in Milan. When a group of new Chinese business partners want to revolutionize everything, the hotel owner's daughter, Luciana, decides to fire Cesare. When Cesare discovers Luciana is looking for a caregiver who can look after her father, he decides to dress up as a charming woman to apply for the role.
Dir. Christian De Sica · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Regina Orioli
When a producer refuses to cut Massimo and his band a record unless they hire an "ethnic" singer to spice up the act, he tries to seduce Jing, a Chinese girl with a beautiful voice disinterested in both him and rock, to get her on board. She pretends to cave in in order to escape an arranged marriage, but in the weeks preceding the concert the two begin to grow closer, complicating the secretly fake nature of their relationship.
Dir. Paolo Genovese, Luca Miniero · With Nicolas Vaporidis, Valentina Izumi, Massimiliano Bruno
Anna and Piero fighting routine of a long marriage, when Piero loses his memory, Anna reconstructs his way. For its part, the concierge Rocco and his friend Michele play in a group that emulates the Beatles and face opposition from their partners. Finally, Marcello and Paola are a divorced couple who, from time to time, pretend they are still together to avoid problems. They are victims of a relentless war of sexes.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Claudio Bisio, Nancy Brilli, Salvatore Ficarra
In 2006, as World Cup fever sweeps Italy, high school senior Luca falls hard for dolphin trainer Azzurra and stumbles on a family secret -- right before his exams.
Dir. Fausto Brizzi · With Giorgio Panariello, Nicolas Vaporidis, Carolina Crescentini
A womanizing lawyer follows his wife and son to a trip to Egypt in a last-ditch effort to make up for his infidelities. Also travelling to Egypt is a bumbling police chief who's desperate to keep his rebellious daughter from becoming a showgirl. The two meet during a Nile cruise. Calamity ensues.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Enzo Salvi
Fabio Leone and Paolo Pecora are two police officers from Rome, who, together with the careless Neapolitan Ciro Marmotta, are fired from the barracks due their scuppering of a plan to capture a secret agent.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Biagio Izzo
In Christmastime Miami, heartbroken divorcée Giorgio invites himself to stay at his best friend Mario's — unaware that the latter is having an affair with his ex-wife — and ends up pursued by Mario's barely-of-age daughter; nosy and out-of-touch Ranuccio crashes his son's sex-themed holidays before ending up in a series of mishaps with Giorgio.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Massimo Boldi, Christian De Sica, Massimo Ghini
Fabio is in love with his colleague Linda, but she has never even seen him until he's mistaken for her boyfriend. Paolo and Mario leave for a luxurious vacation in Rio de Janeiro for Christmas, without knowing that their sons have booked a trip for the same low-cost destination and, for a problem of homonymy between fathers and sons, the two holidays are exchanged.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Michelle Hunziker, Fabio De Luigi
Lillo (Christian De Sica) married Milena, one of the richest women in Europe. The marriage contract provides that Lillo undertakes to never cheat on her, under penalty of divorce and not even a penny of alimony. But one day he meets Barbara (Sabrina Ferilli) and it's immediately irresistible passion... Filippo Vessato (Fabio De Luigi) is a young surgeon who, to make a career, is forced to suffer the harassment of his head, Professor Benci (Claudio Bisio). Filippo is about to go to New York to get married and Benci does not miss an opportunity to further harass him by asking him to bring a gift to his son, a "model" student at Riverside College.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Claudio Bisio, Sabrina Ferilli
A middle-aged man’s relationship with a young model is questioned by his daughter, who’s dating an older man herself.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Danny DeVito
Destinies intertwined for two antithetical people who meet during a trip to India, where lots of misunderstandings and funny situations will take place.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Massimo Boldi, Christian De Sica, Enzo Salvi
While on holiday in the Caribbean, a bankrupt family pins their hopes on a rich man, two strangers fall in lust, and a technophile gets shipwrecked.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Ghini, Angela Finocchiaro
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
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