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Pipolo has 16 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1990s.
Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.
Dir. Camillo Mastrocinque · With Totò, Nino Taranto, Lia Zoppelli

A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl...
Dir. Castellano, Pipolo · With Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Edith Peters

In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. As more people learn about it, they head to Leningrad to find the lion where it is rumoured to be buried.
Dir. Eldar Ryazanov · With Andrey Mironov, Ninetto Davoli, Antonia Santilli
A man is forced to completely change his habits when he decides to move from the country to the city.
Dir. Castellano, Pipolo · With Renato Pozzetto, Massimo Boldi, Donna Osterbuhr

Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble intentions get derailed when Barnaba, a zany bus driver enters their lives and falls madly in love with the gorgeous Cristina. He is nuts enough to succeed in this romantic chase after royalty, as love seems to fuel his determination to rid Cristina of her elitism and to make her see his own irrepressible attractions.
Dir. Castellano, Pipolo · With Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Adolfo Celi
Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, who've lost hundreds of customers, and the burglarers. When he temporarily looses his memory and voice in an accident, of all people, a family of thieves finds and cares for him - believing he's a pocket-picker. Things get complicated when he falls in love with his host Tilli.
Dir. Castellano, Pipolo · With Adriano Celentano, Eleonora Giorgi, Pippo Santonastaso
Traveling from New York to Italia, pretty Mary rushes into moody macho lawyer Tito. The girl immediately falls for the guy with the gruffy manners and in an very impertinent way, she leans on him as she gets in trouble: Not only that she gets tied up in her suite by some Gangsters, but also, her new husband is found dead.
Dir. Pipolo, Castellano · With Adriano Celentano, Debra Feuer, Jean Sorel
Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the "final" game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?
Dir. Castellano, Pipolo · With Adriano Celentano, Edwige Fenech, Renato Salvatori
Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing pranks on them to expose their weaknesses.
Dir. Pipolo, Castellano · With Elio Germano, Luca Virgulti, Paolo Vivio
Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.
Dir. Pipolo, Castellano · With Adriano Celentano, Enrico Montesano, Diego Abatantuono
The misadventures of Attila and his band of barbarians as they take up arms against the Roman Empire in their native Milano
Dir. Pipolo, Castellano · With Diego Abatantuono, Angelo Infanti, Mauro Di Francesco
A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times.
Dir. Castellano, Pipolo · With Renato Pozzetto, Eleonora Giorgi, Helmut Berger
Forty-something Mattia has every woman in town lusting after him. But every time a woman wants to get hitched, he drags out his 'daughter' (actually the girl next door) to pass judgment on this woman.
Dir. Pipolo, Castellano · With Adriano Celentano, Federica Moro, Gianni Bonagura
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
Dir. Pipolo, Castellano · With Renato Pozzetto, Carin McDonald, Armando Bandini
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
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