Mario Monicelli Movies

Documentary about Italian cinema.

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he...

The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is...

In Pietro Mascagni's tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancée, only to find that she's married someone else...

Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts...

A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds...

Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.

In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years...

The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on.

A historical farce about Napoleon.

The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother.

A favorite student of an old dance teacher gets casted in an important pantomime. When the teacher dies on the stage, she finds support from a...

A crime novel writer is experiencing writer's block while writing his latest book. Then a woman is murdered in his home, and this crime gives him...

Eleven Italian filmmakers show in eleven segments the terrible conditions of the Palestinian people living in Jerusalem.

A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace...