Mario Monicelli Movies

This story took place during World War II. A group of Italians living in London are raising funds to rebuild a Catholic cathedral that was bombed by...

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.

A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.

A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.

Raoul has best chances to become next boxing champion in light-heavy weight. For a bet he tries to beat through a door with his bare fist. He wins...

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline,...

A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his...

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows...

During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.

After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.

The everyday life of accountant Levante, his family and the other people of a small town in the Tuscan countryside is taken by storm by the...

Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.

Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's...

Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a...

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing...

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.

Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained...

Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition...

A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate...

The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).