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Ugo Tognazzi has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1980s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by My Friends.
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Richard Pryor: Live in Concert
1979
Comedy

The Second Tragic Fantozzi
1976
Comedy

The Twelve Chairs
1970
Comedy · Drama

The Front Page
1974
Comedy

Slap Shot
1977
Comedy · Drama

Hothead
1979
Comedy · Drama

A Pain in the Ass
1973
Comedy · Drama

Santa Claus Is a Stinker
1982
Comedy

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Ugo Tognazzi, Adolfo Celi, Gastone Moschin

as The Father (segment "L'Educazione sentimentale") / Policeman (segment "Il Mostro") / Stefano (segment "Come un Padre") / Battacchi (segment "Il povero Soldato") / L'Onorevole (segment "La Giornata dell'Onorevole") / Dark Latin Lover (segment "Latin Lovers-Amanti latini") / Pilade Fioravanti (segment "Testimone volontario") / The Traffic Warden (segment "L'Agguato") / The Car Buyer (segment "Vernissage") / Spectator at the Cinema (segment "Scenda l'Oblio") / The Husband (segment "L'Oppio dei Popoli") / Guarnacci (segment "La nobile Arte")
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Dir. Dino Risi · With Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Lando Buzzanca

An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?
Dir. Dino Risi · With Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Ely Galleani

A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
Dir. Antonio Pietrangeli · With Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Jean-Claude Brialy

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A comedy film composed of 14 episodes. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963. 1. The Finch of Val Padouan (Ettore Scola) - 2. Tantum ergo (Dino Risi) - 3. Hitchhiking (Mario Monicelli) - 4. Kidnapping of a Beloved Person (Ettore Scola) - 5. First Aid (Mario Monicelli) - 6. Big Boy to His Little Mother (Dino Risi) - 7. Model Citizen (Ettore Scola) - 8. Pornodiva (Dino Risi) - 9. Like a Queen (Ettore Scola) - 10. Inn! (Ettore Scola) - 11. Without Words (Dino Risi) - 12. The Funeral Oration (Ettore Scola)
Dir. Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Ettore Scola · With Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi
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 gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.
Dir. Édouard Molinaro · With Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.
Dir. Ettore Scola · With Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
Dir. Marco Ferreri · With Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Piccoli
Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.
Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini · With Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
Dir. Nanni Loy · With Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Adolfo Celi

In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm. Now on the run from ruthless agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm, with Albin posing as Renato's wife. Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these relentless spies or does he have to sustain this charade - as a woman - forever?
Dir. Édouard Molinaro · With Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Marcel Bozzuffi
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