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1. Reflets de Cannes (1952– )
Documentary
The first show of the French television about movies; the only one dedicated to the Cannes Film Festival. Features interviews and backstage footage devoted to the event, the gala evenings, the competing films, and everyday life in Cannes.
Stars: François Chalais, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Achard, Michèle Morgan
Votes: 135
2. Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri
Votes: 175,205 | Gross: $0.33M
3. De película (1982–1990)
60 min
Stars: Isabel Mestres, José Ruiz, Emilio Linder, María Salerno
Votes: 136
4. Obraz uz obraz (1972–1974)
35 min | Comedy, Music, Talk-Show
A collage talk show composed of sketches, musical numbers and celebrity guests hosted by famous Serbian actors Milena Dravic and Dragan Nikolic.
Stars: Milena Dravic, Dragan Nikolic, Dragomir Stanojevic, Zdravko Colic
Votes: 92
5. The Great War (1959)
Approved | 137 min | Comedy, Drama, War
The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier, Folco Lulli
Votes: 4,607
6. A Difficult Life (1961)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, War
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.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi, Lina Volonghi
Votes: 2,186
7. Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977)
122 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A meek middle-aged man finally takes justice into his own hands.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Shelley Winters, Vincenzo Crocitti, Renzo Carboni
Votes: 3,053
8. The Bullocks (1953)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Drama
A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi, Leopoldo Trieste
Votes: 19,913 | Gross: $0.10M
9. A fondo (1976–1981)
60 min | Talk-Show
Spanish television series featuring interviews with leading figures in the arts and sciences.
Stars: Joaquín Soler Serrano, Jorge Luis Borges, Dominique Lapierre, Christiaan Barnard
Votes: 31
10. Il marchese del Grillo (1981)
135 min | Comedy, History
A mischievous nobleman and his poor doppelganger get into serious troubles when a practical joke endangers the Pope.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Paolo Stoppa, Caroline Berg, Riccardo Billi
Votes: 3,869
11. Everybody Go Home! (1960)
122 min | Comedy, Drama, War
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is disbanded and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Serge Reggiani, Carla Gravina, Martin Balsam
Votes: 1,453
12. The Cinema Machine (1978– )
45 min | Documentary
A critique of cineastes and cinephiles, including a once famous actress reduced to poverty and a man who fails miserably at running a film society with no money.
Stars: Marco Bellocchio, Silvano Agosti, Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli
Votes: 14
13. The Scopone Game (1972)
Not Rated | 113 min | Comedy, Drama
Every year, a Countess invites a poor Italian family to play in a card game.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Silvana Mangano, Joseph Cotten, Bette Davis
Votes: 2,597
14. Mafioso (1962)
Not Rated | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades'-old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Norma Bengell, Gabriella Conti, Ugo Attanasio
Votes: 2,966 | Gross: $0.40M
15. Why? (1971)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Drama
The surveyor Giuseppe Di Noi experiments the troubles of the Italian Justice System of the '70s while back in Italy for a vacation.
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Elga Andersen, Lino Banfi, Andrea Aureli
Votes: 1,012
16. How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio (2004)
100 min | Documentary
The movie on the career of Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia, from the debut until the death of both. It's composed of selected passages from movies and varieties, and interviews to ... See full summary »
Directors: Daniele Ciprì, Franco Maresco | Stars: Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia, Giulio Andreotti, Lino Banfi
Votes: 209
18. Roma (1972)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Britta Barnes, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence, Pia De Doses
Votes: 13,807 | Gross: $0.73M
19. Nell'anno del Signore (1969)
125 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Magni | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Hossein
Votes: 831
20. What's the Bet? (1993–2008)
120 min | Game-Show
Celebrities bet whether or not the contestants will defeat their challenge.
Stars: Ramón García, Ana Obregón, Antonia Dell'Atte, Eduardo Leiva
Votes: 98
21. The White Sheik (1952)
Not Rated | 83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
During a day of their honeymoon, newlyweds are separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo, Leopoldo Trieste
Votes: 6,919
22. The Widower (1959)
91 min | Comedy
A mediocre businessman who's married to a much more successful businesswoman relies heavily on her financial support for his bad business ideas, and to pay off his mounting debt, but both of them have had enough of each other.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Livio Lorenzon, Nando Bruno
Votes: 1,478
23. ...and the Wild Wild Women (1959)
95 min | Drama
A harsh study about the grim realities of life in a female prison environment. The story concerns a young girl sent to prison who experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she ... See full summary »
Director: Renato Castellani | Stars: Anna Magnani, Giulietta Masina, Cristina Gaioni, Anita Durante
Votes: 577
24. Il vigile (1960)
104 min | Comedy
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Marisa Merlini, Mara Berni
Votes: 1,568
25. I complessi (1965)
107 min | Comedy
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer Gabriella, lover of Alvaro, with the complexity of shyness. In the second part, Prof. Beozi, in order to avoid a scandal, ends up in a raid of... See full summary »
Directors: Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Dino Risi, Franco Rossi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Ilaria Occhini, Riccardo Garrone, Umberto D'Orsi
Votes: 924
26. Story of a Love Affair (1950)
Not Rated | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Paola is a young, beautiful woman married to a wealthy entrepreneur. She meets her former lover Guido after seven years, but their relationship is marked by tragic events.
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni | Stars: Massimo Girotti, Lucia Bosè, Gino Rossi, Marika Rowsky
Votes: 3,420
27. The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (1972)
106 min | Comedy, Drama, Mystery
A salesman chasing by car a beautiful female biker in order to flirt finds a castle where he is accused in a game trial for murder.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Michel Simon, Charles Vanel, Claude Dauphin
Votes: 864
28. The Boom (1963)
88 min | Comedy
During the economic boom of Italy a man tries desperately to maintain a high standard of living for his family.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Gianna Maria Canale, Elena Nicolai, Ettore Geri
Votes: 1,338 | Gross: $0.06M
29. Il medico della mutua (1968)
98 min | Comedy
The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Bice Valori, Sara Franchetti, Nanda Primavera
Votes: 1,696
30. Il maestro di Vigevano (1963)
105 min | Comedy, Drama
Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear ... See full summary »
Director: Elio Petri | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Claire Bloom, Vito De Taranto, Ya Doucheskaya
Votes: 539
31. Angelina (1947)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Anna Magnani, Nando Bruno, Ave Ninchi, Ernesto Almirante
Votes: 551
32. Il conte Max (1957)
103 min | Comedy
Alberto, a newspaper man, tries a one-time shot of living the good life with the help of his penniless mentor.
Director: Giorgio Bianchi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Anne Vernon, Susana Canales
Votes: 699
33. Alberto il grande (2013)
98 min | Documentary
Directors: Carlo Verdone, Luca Verdone | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Carlo Verdone, Gigi Proietti
Votes: 22
34. Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes (1965)
G | 138 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Hoping to push Britain to the forefront of aviation, a London publisher organizes an international air race across the English Channel, but must contend with two entrants vying for his daughter, as well as national rivalries and cheating.
Director: Ken Annakin | Stars: Stuart Whitman, Sarah Miles, James Fox, Alberto Sordi
Votes: 9,233 | Gross: $31.11M
35. Viva Italia! (1977)
R | 90 min | Comedy
Several episodes depicting Italian's life in short humoristic stories.
Directors: Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi
Votes: 2,111
36. Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968)
130 min | Adventure, Comedy
A pompous, adventure-seeking businessman journeys through Africa with a clumsy employee to find his own disappeared brother-in-law.
Director: Ettore Scola | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Bernard Blier, Alfredo Marchetti, Franca Bettoia
Votes: 1,050
37. Le miserie del signor Travet (1945)
98 min | Comedy
The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.
Director: Mario Soldati | Stars: Carlo Campanini, Vera Carmi, Paola Veneroni, Pierluigi Veraldo
Votes: 125
38. Bello onesto emigrato Australia sposerebbe compaesana illibata (1971)
113 min | Comedy
Amedeo is a poor Italian immigrant living in Australia for twenty years. Seeking to marry an Italian wife, he corresponds with Carmela, a pretty girl from Rome. They do not reveal their ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Riccardo Garrone, Corrado Olmi
Votes: 1,240
39. Traffic Jam (1979)
128 min | Drama
A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Annie Girardot, Fernando Rey, Patrick Dewaere
Votes: 1,189
40. Sunday in August (1950)
88 min | Comedy, Drama
A variety of different people, both adults, children, families, young lovers and youth gangs, spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia outside Rome.
Director: Luciano Emmer | Stars: Anna Baldini, Vera Carmi, Emilio Cigoli, Andrea Compagnoni
Votes: 627
41. ...And Suddenly It's Murder! (1960)
106 min | Comedy, Crime
A randomly formed group of Italians gets deeply involved in a crime in Montacarlo.
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Dorian Gray
Votes: 400
42. An American in Rome (1954)
94 min | Comedy
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome. He is fond for everything coming from the United States. He tries to speak American-English, to wear clothes he thinks Americans wear, to ... See full summary »
Director: Steno | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Maria Pia Casilio, Ilse Peterson, Anita Durante
Votes: 1,927
43. Sotto il sole di Roma (1948)
95 min | Comedy, Drama
A story of teenager from Rome during World War II.
Director: Renato Castellani | Stars: Oscar Blando, Liliana Mancini, Francesco Golisano, Ennio Fabeni
Votes: 340
44. Flesh Will Surrender (1947)
96 min | Drama
Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk, but his life was turned upside-down when he met Giulio. a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the overconfident... See full summary »
Director: Alberto Lattuada | Stars: Aldo Fabrizi, Roldano Lupi, Yvonne Sanson, Ave Ninchi
Votes: 266
45. Where Is Freedom? (1954)
TV-PG | 93 min | Comedy, Drama
A barber compelled by jealousy to commit murder spends 20 years in jail. But when he's released he cannot adapt to a changed world and the hypocrisy of his relatives, so he decides to return to prison.
Director: Roberto Rossellini | Stars: Totò, Vera Molnar, Nyta Dover, Franca Faldini
Votes: 637
46. Il medico e lo stregone (1957)
102 min | Comedy
Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer".
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Marcello Mastroianni, Marisa Merlini, Lorella De Luca
Votes: 370
47. Sport, sport, sport (1970)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary, Comedy, Sport
Half documentary half fiction film about sport and its importance in people with the eye of 'Come and See' director Elem Klimov.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Zinoviy Gerdt, Georgiy Svetlani, Yelena Novozhilova, Vladimir Andreyev
Votes: 140
48. E il Casanova di Fellini? (1975 TV Movie)
72 min | Documentary
Behind-the-scenes, or, before-the-production, documentary of Fellini's Casanova which includes interviews with stars, experts, biographers about what Casanova means to Italian culture, to men's perceptions of their role in society.
Directors: Gianfranco Angelucci, Liliane Betti | Stars: Olimpia Carlisi, Piero Chiara, Alain Cuny, Federico Fellini
Votes: 41
49. Made in Italy (1965)
100 min | Comedy
A group of Italians--tourists and immigrants--take a flight to Sweden. Two bourgeois couples choose a typical Italian restaurant by its name, 'La Trattoria', and are disgusted by the ... See full summary »
Director: Nanni Loy | Stars: Renzo Marignano, Claudio Gora, Marina Berti, Lionello Pio Di Savoia
Votes: 318
50. Un eroe dei nostri tempi (1955)
85 min | Comedy
Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She ... See full summary »
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Giovanna Ralli, Tina Pica
Votes: 631