Mario Monicelli

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

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

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

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

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

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

A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his goal.

Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Vincenzo Crocitti

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.

Dir. Steno, Mario Monicelli · With Totò, Aldo Fabrizi, Ave Ninchi

During the annual Christmas gathering at the family home, the parents surprise their children by announcing their decision to move in with one of them and pass on the house.

Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Marina Confalone, Tommaso Bianco, Renato Cecchetto

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

Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.

Dir. Mario Mattoli · With Totò, Isa Barzizza, Carlo Campanini

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

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

A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.

Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Carlo Giuffrè

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.

Dir. Mario Monicelli, Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti · With Marisa Solinas, Anita Ekberg, Romy Schneider