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Paolo Villaggio has 27 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2000s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Fantozzi: White Collar Blues.
1982
Comedy
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
Dir. Luciano Salce · With Paolo Villaggio, Anna Mazzamauro, Gigi Reder
The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.
Dir. Luciano Salce · With Paolo Villaggio, Anna Mazzamauro, Gigi Reder
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
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
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
as Giandomenico Fracchia / La Belva Umana · Writer
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
Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a mental asylum, and former prefect Gonnella wander through the countryside and discover a dystopia made of television commercials, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan rituals.
Dir. Federico Fellini · With Roberto Benigni, Paolo Villaggio, Angelo Orlando
as Rag. Ugo Fantozzi · Writer
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
as Giandomenico Fracchia · Writer
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
as Rag. Ugo Fantozzi · Writer
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
as Gelsomino il professore
In Milan, Matteo is an underemployed physicist, giving the occasional lecture at a university while working at a PR firm where he knows he'll be fired. Without his really trying, two women are attracted to him, a blond and a brunette. The blond is Angelica; they meet smoking on the office rooftop. To his surprise, she has clout in the company and soon has him flying off (with her) to make presentations. The brunette is Beatrice, a new flatmate, hoping for a teaching job in the national service. Angelica dangles a posting with her in Barcelona; Beatrice is simply Beatrice. Will Matteo figure out what he wants - and decide before opportunity passes him by?
Dir. Massimo Venier · With Alessandro Tiberi, Valentina Lodovini, Carolina Crescentini
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
Dir. Castellano, Pipolo · With Enrico Montesano, Paolo Villaggio, Nino Manfredi
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
as Ringhio / Il Geometra · Writer
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
as Rag. Ugo Fantozzi · Writer
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
as Rag. Ugo Fantozzi · Writer
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
as Paolo Casalotti
Following a twinning between the national fire brigade and the special forces of the Canadian firefighters, Captain Carter arrives in Rome.
Dir. Giorgio Capitani · With Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, Massimo Boldi
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
as Rag. Ugo Fantozzi
Ugo Fantozzi was resurrected from the company where he worked because of a crisis, how it will end?Tenth and final chapter of the film series of Fantozzi character.
Dir. Domenico Saverni · With Paolo Villaggio, Milena Vukotić, Anna Mazzamauro
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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