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Rodolfo Sonego has 11 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1990s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by A Difficult Life.
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Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
Dir. Dino Risi · With Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi
Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.
Dir. Dino Risi · With Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Leonora Ruffo
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
Dir. Luigi Zampa · With Alberto Sordi, Marisa Merlini, Vittorio De Sica

An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
Dir. Luigi Comencini · With Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Joseph Cotten
A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Carlo Giuffrè
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
Dir. Franco Rossi, Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Dino Risi · With Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Sordi
Two missionaries come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process.
Dir. Franco Rossi · With Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.
Dir. Carlo Verdone · With Carlo Verdone, Stella Hall, John Steiner
Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way respect the other: Armando is an old play-boy and often he "buys" his women with his money; Cristiano is a shy guy who lives in a community with other guys like him. The movie proceeds showing us, ironically, the differences, the different ways to think, to act, to treat the women between father and son.
Dir. Alberto Sordi · With Alberto Sordi, Carlo Verdone, Edy Angelillo
Aldo and Vittorio are two men suffering from disabilities. One is blind, the other is forced to a wheelchair. Vittorio one day by chance meets Aldo in the hospice and invites him to take a pleasure trip to Sanremo in Liguria. In fact Vittorio, though blind, is a cheat who’s in trouble.
Dir. Neri Parenti · With Renato Pozzetto, Ezio Greggio, Marina Suma
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
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