JTB Carlo Vanzina - 63 Classic Movies (Comedy/Romance/Thriller/Mystery)
Carlo Vanzina was born 13 March 1951 nd sadly passed away 8 July 2018. He was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter.
Vanzina was born in Rome, the son of Maria Teresa Nati and film director Stefano Vanzina and brother of Enrico Vanzina. In 2001, he directed the romantic comedy film South Kensington starring Rupert Everett and Elle Macpherson. Two of his films, Eccezzziunale... veramente (1982) and Vacanze di Natale (1983), were shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
Taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Vanzina
Vanzina was born in Rome, the son of Maria Teresa Nati and film director Stefano Vanzina and brother of Enrico Vanzina. In 2001, he directed the romantic comedy film South Kensington starring Rupert Everett and Elle Macpherson. Two of his films, Eccezzziunale... veramente (1982) and Vacanze di Natale (1983), were shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival.
Taken from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Vanzina
List activity
155 views
• 0 this weekCreate a new list
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks.
63 titles
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsRenato PozzettoVincent GardeniaStefania CasiniOn the eve of his wedding trip (destination Sanremo) Alfredo Riva learns that he had won a contest of "Playmen" whose prize is a five-day vacation in Jamaica together, day and night, with the beautiful playmate Christine.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsAlan SorrentiJenniferAnne Marie CarellDaniel, a young singer, tries to break into the world of music, but falls into a depressive crisis from which it only comes out thanks to a girl, Elisa, who has fallen in love with him.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsJerry CalàUmberto SmailaFranco OppiniFour young comedians from Verona ('I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli') go to Rome trying to achieve big success on cinema or TV.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsJerry CalàFranco OppiniNini SalernoA group of friends decide to go on vacation and they use an agency, the Via Col Vento tours, to organize it. The latter promises them a holiday of dreams and absolute fun.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsJerry CalàDiego AbatantuonoSimona MarianiMechanic Romeo and grocery deliverer Felice lead two rival gangs and the local discotheque is not big enough for the both of them. When Romeo falls for Felice's sister, conveniently called Giulietta, the entire town becomes too small for the two rivals. Romeo is adamant to keep on seeing Giulietta while keeping clear of Felice, while Felice is forcing other suitors onto his sister that are more to his liking.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsDiego AbatantuonoMassimo BoldiTeo TeocoliThe misadventures of three soccer fans, all played by Abatantuono.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsLaura AntonelliDiego AbatantuonoRoberto Della CasaThe rich Anna Tassotti Maloni is un'evasore tax, following a police raid, she is forced to repair outside Italy. On the way to the airport, it collides with police car, driven by Achille Cotton who, unaware of who he faced, to apologize for causing the accident offers to accompany her to the airport. Party plane, the arrival of a superior Cotton realizes he made a big mistake. Achilles manages to find Anna in Spain, held by the police for lack of documents, and begins its long journey of recovery thousand adventures. Arrived in Ibiza with his superior to return the fugitive in Italy, he is persuaded by Anne to go to lunch at the restaurant of a close friend, who tries to help by putting a laxative in the food of the two policemen (but getting only the shelter of top of cotton). Achilles is therefore to manage the situation alone and, to avoid the strike of air traffic controllers, confiscates private jet Anna to return to Italy. The bad weather, however, precipitate the aircraft in Corsica, where the two share a yacht with her former stolen. Arrived in Italy, Anna Cotton fails to deliver to the authorities, but is still sent to Sardinia for the troubles that have combined. Anna comes out of jail is to find Achilles, which has fallen in love. The two begin to plan their future together, already thinking about the name to give to a future son Achilles proposes Wool, Cotton Wool.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsJerry CalàVirna LisiChristian De SicaSummer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsCarole BouquetPhil CocciolettiDuilio Del PreteAssassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a politician's assassination.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsJerry CalàChristian De SicaKarina HuffChristmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has little money, falls in love with American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and playboy, encounters Ivana, who is now married to wealthy Donatone but had a fling with Billo in the past, and he wants another chance at lighting the flame.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsDiego AbatantuonoLino TroisiLara LambertiIn Milan, a father lost his daughter and hires Domingo, the neighborhood Ras, to find her.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsClaudio AmendolaTahnee WelchVirna LisiIn an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one another. Cristiana confesses only later that she is a genuine princess. For Marco it is not a problem, but for Cristiana's parents it is a very big problem. The two must separate. When one evening Cristiana calls Marco and lets him know about her forthcoming wedding, Marco with the car races toward Paris and has an accident...
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsJerry CalàChristian De SicaClaudio AmendolaA group of students from the San Crispino School for Boys take a holiday in the United States, traveling from New York, through Utah, all the way to Los Angeles. Young Father Don Buro (Christian De Sica) has great difficulty controlling the youngsters, especially with troublemaking ex-student Peo (Jerry Calà) along for the trip, and he gets distracted by the attractive single mother of one of the boys (Edwige Fenech).
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsTom SchanleyRenée SimonsenNicola PerringA park ranger from Wyoming, whose twin sister is a fashion model in Milan, Italy, strongly senses that his sister is in mortal danger. Once he arrives in Milan, he discovers that his sister has disappeared.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsJerry CalàChristian De SicaMassimo BoldiA dentist, a car salesman, a lawyer, and a public-relations man, all Young Urban Professionals (Yuppies) who idolize FIAT Chairman Gianni Agnelli, decide to indulge in spending their holidays in Cortina D'Ampezzo, a famous ski-resort in Italy.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsCarol AltRenée SimonsenFabrizio BentivoglioVia Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diverge.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsCarol AltElliott GouldJean RochefortMarina is a woman who never says no...to men, money and fame! Determined to climb the social ladder, she works her way up from a marriage of a millionaire prince. At last, she's living the life of wealth and glamour she's always dreamed of. Then Love comes along and ruins everything! A starving artist steals her heart and seduces her away to his bohemian world. Will Marina manage to stay happy living a lifestyle out of the fast lane?
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsMassimo BoldiChristian De SicaEzio GreggioThe misadventures of different Italian rascals who came to the famous Montecarlo Gran Casinò to get lucky
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsMatthew ModineJennifer BealsCorinne CléryA young man joins a feisty runaway as he flees from the noblewoman who won him in a wager.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsAlessandra CasellaCinzia LeoneBruna FeirriGraziella, owner of a boutique and wife of a well-known professional, feels marginalized by the color of her brown hair. In fact, everywhere the blondes, above all, the "fake blondes".
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsGian Maria VolontèMassimo DapportoSergio CastellittoChronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Muslim terrorist receives the order to kill a stockbroker, which triggers a series of blackmail and deception. A brave journalist intends to shed light on all these murky matters, but the politician has no scruples and also knows how to move with extraordinary skill.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsBilly ZaneLauren HuttonCarol AltBilly Zane leads a pack of money-grabbing relatives who try to take over his ailing uncle's industrial empire.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsEnrico MontesanoRenato PozzettoAnna BennyThe inmate Proietti, nicknamed "Er Soffia", getting out of prison. There is the Roman brigadier Vasco Sacchetti, an agent of the narcotics and his old friend who, to celebrate his freedom, invites him to eat fish at Fiumicino.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsMassimo BoldiNino FrassicaMaurizio FerriniFour Italian friends have a 15 year graduation reunion and decide to realize their old dream: a trip to California. Finally free of wives and girlfriends, they arrived in the US and rent a large car to take the road in search of adventure.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsBarbara SnellenburgRaoul BovaDavid WarnerA princess from a Nordic European country(Snellenburgh) is obligated to marry the boy her family chose. She escapes and discovers love in the arms of a beautiful swimming teacher(Bova).
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsClaudio AmendolaMonica BellucciRicky MemphisRoman TV technicians Fabio and Enzo have been unable to find decent jobs. They decide to crack a safe at a jewelry in Milan. To get the layout of the store, they enlist a beautiful but unsophisticated young woman, Deborah.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsChristian De SicaMassimo BoldiLeslie NielsenA comedy based on the Ancient Rome with Christian De Sica, Massimo Boldi and Leslie Nielsen.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsPaolo VillaggioPaola QuattriniIan PriceIf Sergio Colombo, a middle age man, doesn't want to lose his job, has to attend a full immersion English course in UK. So Sergio leave his wife and son and reaches a school full of terrible kids. Obviously he is the only adult and the worse student. Learning English hasn't been never so hard.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsEzio GreggioLeo GullottaAntonello FassariA group of italian tourists on holiday in the Caribbean are stranded on a desert island when their small airplane is forced to an emergency landing. How will they manage to survive?
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsRaz DeganJennifer DriverPaul FreemanMaria comes to Italy from Poland to reunite with her sister Eva, who left seven years earlier and claims to have made a lot of money working as an interpreter. Maria will later discover that Eva is a high-priced call girl when her sister is murdered after a "business meeting" at a hotel. To find out who the killer is, Maria decides to start answering her sister's cellular phone and taking appointments with her former clients...
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsChristian De SicaMassimo BoldiDean JonesWhile visiting Universal Studios in Hollywood along with their respective families, two Italian tourists get on a real time machine and got lost in time. Professor Mortimer effort to rescue them result in trips through various ages of ancient Italy.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsMassimo BoldiChristian De SicaMarco MesseriThe back-in-time misadventures of Walter and Ascanio are not finished. The defective time-travel machine will bring them from prehistory all the way to outer space, in a funny, light-hearted trip across the time.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsPaolo VillaggioFrancesco De RosaFrancesca Romana ColuzziBusiness man Sergio Colombo is on his way to Canada to close a million dollar business deal but ends up in the wrong airplane which takes him to Bangkok and Tokyo where he get involved in a series of awkward situations.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsMassimo BoldiChristian De SicaMegan GaleSuperenalotto winner Pasquale Esposito with his family, two penniless students from Emilia and the Colombo and Covelli families, who accidentally rent the same chalet, will spend the Christmas holidays in Cortina d'Ampezzo.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsIrene FerriCarlotta MitiSabrina ParaviciniFrancesca, Paola, Laura, and Alicia are four friends who all fall in love with the same man, a musician named Gigi. Alicia is a woman who fears compromising in her relationships, Laura is an overprotected dreamer, Paola is a lawyer who seeks true love, and Francesca is a dancer on a TV show.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsElena RussoCiro EspositoSergio SolliEight episodes vaguely inspired to real events. The "fil rouge" is the relationship between the Italians and sex in the first years of 2000s. From prostitution to virtual sex all the categories are represented in a funny way that anyway tries to investigate this kind of reality.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsRupert EverettElle MacphersonJudith GodrècheThe movie's about some Italian men living in London and having their lives sweetened by having wealthy parents and meeting many attractive women and one whale of a woman.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsGigi ProiettiNancy BrilliAndrea AscoleseSequel of Steno's masterpiece "Febbre da Cavallo". Mandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races. What will they invent for cheating money?
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsMassimo GhiniBarbara De RossiRocco PapaleoFranca Malorni, a well-off widow in Rome, falls and breaks a thigh-bone during a traditional Sunday lunch with her closest relatives. During her stay in hospital we get to know better her three daughters, their husbands and daily life in Rome's upper middle class.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsEnzo SalviCarlo BuccirossoMax CavallariIn many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society (especially Rome) in early 2000.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsMassimo BoldiVincenzo SalemmeDaryl HannahTwo quarreling teachers vie for the same woman. In the same time the two will have to accompany a class on a trip in Spain.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsDiego AbatantuonoEmilio SolfrizziSabrina ImpacciatoreIn a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a terrible energy crisis
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsLino BanfiEnrico BrignanoNancy BrilliThe story is divided into seven parts focused on holiday, sun and sea.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsEnrico BrignanoCarlo BuccirossoBiagio IzzoAs fun-seeking tourists converge on the beautiful Caribbean island of Antigua, several interconnected stories merge into one.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsStefano AntonucciGiovanni ArganteFabio BonginiIn Rome, a policeman is charged with listening to the lives of others.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsRaoul BovaBarbora BobulovaMartina StellaA businessman who has turned his back on love meets four women who may be able to change his mind.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsEnrico BrignanoTeresa ManninoLiz SolariAgreements and disagreements, crimes and misdeeds, love stories of couples at risk whose life will crisscross for incredible twists of fate for a moment, or forever, in this romantic comedy of errors where nothing truely is as it seems. An ironic portrait of history, or perhaps of emotional geography of nowadays. Because in the course of our lives each of us is destined to become an "ex".
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsDiego AbatantuonoLino BanfiChristian De SicaA common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st century's italian society, among corrupt politicians, unfaithful husbands, hardcore soccer fans and dishonest businessmen.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsVincenzo SalemmeAmbra AngioliniRicky MemphisA family by surprise! Five people who never met are convened by a notary for the reading of a will, and learn they are all brothers and sisters, children of the same father! They'll share a large inheritance if they can deliver the ashes to their father's favorite lake in Arizona! Accepting the challenge, these newfound family members ("mai stati uniti") set out on a journey full of hijinx and comic adventures in the Stati Uniti d'America. What a quintet! Antonio, the gambling addicted waiter; Angela, the panicky divorcee; Nino, an unemployed mechanic; Carmen, a shopaholic; and Michele, who grew up at a zoo.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsVincenzo SalemmeMaurizio MattioliNancy BrilliItaly in the 1980s - the sun, the sea, and the summer vacation are ideal for nostalgic memories, passionate love affairs and funny confusions.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsRicky MemphisAdriano GianniniEmilio SolfrizziDaniel uses his wedding to a wealthy heiress as the excuse for a school reunion with hilarious results.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsRaoul BovaRicky MemphisMassimiliano TortoraMarco has a perfect life, a beautiful wife and a great job. But one day his wife Giulia confesses that she has met another man and wants to leave him. Suddenly, he is forced to reevaluate everything.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsVincenzo SalemmeMassimo GhiniStefania RoccaA couple of honest workers takes revenge on the corrupt politician that ruined them.