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Paolo Bonacelli has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by Nothing Left to Do But Cry.
The Annuity
1972
Comedy
Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.
Dir. Roberto Benigni, Massimo Troisi · With Massimo Troisi, Roberto Benigni, Amanda Sandrelli
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Dir. Jim Jarmusch · With Winona Ryder, Gena Rowlands, Giancarlo Esposito
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
Dir. Roberto Benigni · With Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Paolo Bonacelli
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
Dir. Alan Parker · With Brad Davis, Irene Miracle, Bo Hopkins
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples
Dir. Lina Wertmüller · With Paolo Villaggio, Isa Danieli, Paolo Bonacelli
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
Dir. Francesco Rosi · With Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi
After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane, a stranger asks him to look after his briefcase until after they have landed. Alexandre agrees, but the stranger is shot dead soon after and Alexandre himself becomes the target of enemy agents who are keen to recover the briefcase...
Dir. Georges Lautner · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Mirella D'Angelo, Michel Galabru
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Dir. Dario Argento · With Asia Argento, Thomas Kretschmann, Marco Leonardi
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Uberto Paolo Quintavalle
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
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
Dir. Anton Corbijn · With George Clooney, Violante Placido, Thekla Reuten
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
Dir. Tinto Brass · With Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren
Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.
Dir. Sergio Corbucci · With Jerry Calà, Paolo Villaggio, Serena Grandi
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