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Nino Frassica has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1990s through the 2010s.
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To save his crumbling and rapidly-depopulating rural town, its mayor fakes a gruesome murder to attract media attention. His plan initially succeeds, but soon the situation will spiral out of control.
Dir. Maccio Capatonda · With Maccio Capatonda, Herbert Ballerina, Sabrina Ferilli
Valentino and Salvo, unemployed and in search of fortune and recommendation, leave Palermo for Valentino’s home town, Monteforte, where they will try to survive the Italian crisis by opening some sort of hospice.
Dir. Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone · With Salvatore Ficarra, Valentino Picone, Tiziana Lodato
Frustrated with their lack of upward mobility, some young Italians move to Cuba to start a wi-fi café and attempt to build a new life.
Dir. Giovanni Veronesi · With Filippo Scicchitano, Giovanni Anzaldo, Sara Serraiocco
Luca, a diction teacher, saves the life of a student which is the offspring of the famous "Serranò" criminal family. Out of nowhere, members of the Serranò family burst into Luca's life to repay him without accepting a "no" as an answer.
Dir. Alessio Maria Federici · With Pietro Sermonti, Lucia Ocone, Sarah Felberbaum

A committed environmentalist whose hyperfixation with everything that's wrong with the world is taking a toll on his marriage tries a pill that reduces human brain capacity from the usual 20% to a mere 2%. Which puts him on a par with your typical man on the street.
Dir. Maccio Capatonda · With Maccio Capatonda, Herbert Ballerina, Enrico Venti

Giulia is 30, single and working a high-end fashion job that allows her to travel and lead a dream life in Milan and Paris. However, a chance meeting with charming, down-to-earth farmer Renzo will makes her realize she's missing the most important thing in life—true love.
Dir. Paolo Genovese · With Raoul Bova, Liz Solari, Nino Frassica
Scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV...
Dir. Enrico Oldoini · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Nino Frassica

as 'U Barone
Two brothers go to London to try to score a sensational blow and kidnap the precious dogs of the Queen of England.
Dir. Volfango De Biasi · With Lillo Petrolo, Claudio Gregori, Paolo Ruffini
This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed artist honeymooning with his second wife, a gay man traveling with his son and his lover (and hiding each from the other), a snobbish couple from Milan who have been forced to share a suite with a pair of crass Romans, etc.
Dir. Enrico Oldoini · With Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi, Nino Frassica

as Turi
The Milanese Donato returns from Spain, animated by the serious intention to go back to being the "ras della fossa". Second chapter of the famous 80s cult.
Dir. Carlo Vanzina · With Diego Abatantuono, Carlo Buccirosso, Ugo Conti
Barbara and Matteo are two Italians who live in Miami, managing a small restaurant overlooking the sea. Barbara is pregnant and the happy event brings their respective parents together in Miami: Massimo, Matteo's father, who has recently become a widower and has a hotel in Cortina, and Angela, Barbara's mother, who instead has a chain of restaurants and is separated from her husband. At first, the incompatibility between the two is sky-high. Then, while events, misunderstandings and plots of various kinds revolve around them, the ice slowly begins to break and affinities emerge when the two find themselves busy restoring peace between their children, who have entered into a crisis due to the birth of the little girl.
Dir. Enrico Oldoini · With Massimo Boldi, Simona Ventura, Enzo Salvi
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