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Neri Parenti has 40 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s.
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
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
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
Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house with at least five bathrooms within three days or his boss will fire him. Incredibly, he and his pal Filini manage to find the perfect house, a castle in Transylvania owned by some count Vlad... things get even worse when they meet the Count and his sister, who has a crush on Fracchia and decides to marry him!
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Edmund Purdom, Gigi Reder
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
Aldo and Vittorio are two men suffering from disabilities. One is blind, the other is forced to a wheelchair. Vittorio one day by chance meets Aldo in the hospice and invites him to take a pleasure trip to Sanremo in Liguria. In fact Vittorio, though blind, is a cheat who’s in trouble.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Renato Pozzetto, Ezio Greggio, Marina Suma
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
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
One by one, with a sweet but inexorable rate, Ugo's colleagues, go to a better life. When Ugo is attending at one of the innumerable funerals, he and the priest remain involved in an accident. The doctor says that Ugo as only one week left to live
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotić, Gigi Reder
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
Ugo Fantozzi has been ejected from Heaven and is sent back to Earth for a short period of time until the staff in Heaven can get Fantozzi a place there. Fantozzi goes through a variety of unfortunate experiences, such as rescuing his retro punk granddaughter Uga, and having to pay a vast telephone bill due to frequent chat line conversations. He ends up getting arrested instead of his ex-boss, who was originally charged with corruption. Just as he is about to enjoy the World Cup Final with Italy, he is called back into Heaven. Can he find peace once again?
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotić, Gigi Reder
Paolo Villaggio and Renato Pozzetto are the protagonists of various misadventures, first as nurses of a crazy ambulance, then as night guards of a shopping center and later as a pilot and stewardess of an air taxi. Next, they enlist in the foreign legion and then work as a Santa Claus in a Department Store.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Renato Pozzetto, Roberto Della Casa
Three episodes held together by a common element: a car rented by three different characters.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Jerry Calà, Massimo Boldi
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
Four different stories about italian football team’s supporter.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Diego Abatantuono
Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wants to meet him at all costs. The second one wants to win back his wife who has left him because of his gambling problem.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Massimo Boldi, Christian De Sica, Luke Perry
Third chapter of the Comic saga, with Paolo Villaggio and Renato Pozzetto. Four different gags. From two electricians who combine all kinds of things during a theatrical performance, to competing for the attention of a beautiful girl during a campsite, to hired bodyguards of a judge threatened by the mafia, and finally as the adoptive parents of a newborn found outside the door of the house.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Renato Pozzetto, Ramona Bădescu
In this second episode Dalmazio and Egisto come, respectively, from the prison and the insane asylum. They risk a second arrest for their awkwardness so they return from their "uncle" who is willing to help them.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Paolo Villaggio, Massimo Boldi, Enrico Maria Salerno
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Lillo Petrolo, Claudio Gregori
A montley group of free-lance photographers are desperate to grab a good shot of a celebrity.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Diego Abatantuono
A bizarre group consisting of a refined chef with unusual recipes, an assistant cook with taste disturbances and an improvised pastry chef takes part in a competition between chefs to win the contract for the G7.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Massimo Boldi, Dario Bandiera, Rocío Muñoz Morales
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
Roberto Covelli, a Roman lawyer, goes on a Christmas holiday to his chalet in Cortina with his wife Elena and their daughters.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Christian De Sica, Sabrina Ferilli, Ricky Memphis
