Riccardo Billi has 2 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 1980s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Marquis of Grillo.
In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Alberto Sordi, Paolo Stoppa, Caroline Berg
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.
Dir. Luigi Comencini · With Andrea Balestri, Nino Manfredi, Gina Lollobrigida
