Luciano Bonanni
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1927-05-21
Locus Natus:
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Ginger and Fred
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety...
release : 1986.01.13popularis : 6.076
The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina
Sabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German...
release : 1958.11.21popularis : 1.792
White Collar Blues
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
release : 1975.03.27popularis : 15.507
The Taming of the Shrew
Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while...
release : 1967.03.08popularis : 17.705
It Can Be Done Amigo
An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the...
release : 1972.03.31popularis : 7.291
Vengeance
A man tracks down the five outlaws who murdered his brother, all the while being shadowed by a mysterious Pinkerton detective.
release : 1968.04.19popularis : 3.323
Execution Squad
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have...
release : 1972.02.25popularis : 4.701
I due vigili
Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot.
release : 1967.12.13popularis : 6.387
The Fascist
1944. Primo Arcovazzi is a fanatical and dim-witted Fascist Party militiaman who accepts to escort an opponent of the regime to Rome in the hope of...
release : 1961.08.05popularis : 4.211
Soldati e capelloni
An Italian music promoter has engaged an English rock band who wear their hair short, and since it is the 1960s, people don't like them. The band and...
release : 1967.03.23popularis : 2.677
The Policeman on Horseback
A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it.
release : 1961.07.29popularis : 1.455
The Employee
Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy...
release : 1960.01.20popularis : 2.307
Il nemico di mia moglie
Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and make him impossible to keep a job for a long time:...
release : 1959.03.28popularis : 3.042
Il tassinaro
Pietro Marchetti, a mature Roman taxi driver, has countless and interesting meetings while he is on duty with his car "Zara 87".
release : 1983.12.21popularis : 6.53
The Last Italian Tango
A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in the attic. The husband abandons her and goes and lives...
release : 1973.01.01popularis : 4.194
Horse Fever
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets...
release : 1976.10.29popularis : 6.418
Fun Is Beautiful
Three stories set in summer Rome, three characters all played by Verdone: an awkward young man meets a Spanish tourist; another one plans a trip...
release : 1980.01.19popularis : 8.863
We All Loved Each Other So Much
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
release : 1974.12.21popularis : 9.55
Be Sick… It's Free
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
release : 1968.10.24popularis : 7.5
Nights of Cabiria
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find...
release : 1957.10.03popularis : 17.737
Ladies' Doctor
Dr. Lo Bianco, debt load, flees abroad and the headquarters avviatissimo study gynecological colleague Giovannaldi. These are adept at gaining the...
release : 1977.09.13popularis : 14.527
Lobster for Breakfast
Marco is married to Carla, a rich businesswoman. She's off to Geneva for two days; he has a tryst with Monique, a Swedish air hostess. Carla's flight...
release : 1979.03.01popularis : 2.133
To Love Ophelia
Although he is in his thirties, Orlando still feels like a child. He is terrified of the outside world and is stuck in an obsessive relationship with...
release : 1974.04.25popularis : 1.563
1870
Rome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Some of the exhausted prisoners are asking for the mercy of Pope. Others, like...
release : 1972.01.07popularis : 2.182
La sai l'ultima sui matti?
Jokes, rough jokes and spicy adventures set in a psychiatric clinic, naturally managed by an experienced doctor.
release : 1982.01.22popularis : 2.152
They Called Him Bulldozer
The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local...
release : 1978.09.15popularis : 12.784
Department Store
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
release : 1986.06.06popularis : 8.145
I Know That You Know That I Know
The investigations of a private eye shake up the almost broken marriage of a middle aged couple.
release : 1982.08.29popularis : 3.135
White Fang to the Rescue
Set at the end of the 19th century in Canada's gold rush Klondike area, wolf-dog White Fang teams up with a prospector when his master is killed....
release : 1975.02.09popularis : 4.178
Sedotti e bidonati
Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins separate and then marry them. After the operation the...
release : 1964.10.14popularis : 2.073
Troppo forte
Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries...
release : 1986.01.30popularis : 6.005
Love Italian Style
Anthology comedy structured in 10 episodes (The Exam, Blue Bloods, Too Easy, Love Italian Style, Sunday Story, Wedding Present, Gold Fischer, The...
release : 1966.02.02popularis : 4.115
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Fresh out prison, Tiberio reconnects with his old partners in crime, Michele Ferribote and Peppe the Panther, only to realise that a lot has...
release : 1985.12.25popularis : 3.308
The New Monsters
15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi,...
release : 1977.12.15popularis : 8.102
Thrilling
An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
release : 1965.10.21popularis : 3.731
Il lupo e l'agnello
Leon de Paris is a modest dog-barber in Paris. In search of more satisfaction. Thanks to the economic helps of Fanny (his terrible mother in law), he...
release : 1980.03.08popularis : 1.981
Geppo il folle
Italian rockstar Geppo has to learn English in order to perform with Barbra Streisand in the US, but falls in love with his beautiful female tutor,...
release : 1978.12.01popularis : 2.877
The Art of Getting Along
In this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous guy, nephew of the mayor of Catania, and...
release : 1954.12.29popularis : 5.585
Coup D'Etat
Italy, 1972. Political elections are taking place and Christian Democrat victory is expected; but the electronic computer of the Ministry of the...
release : 1969.03.15popularis : 3.831
Cops and Robbers
Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee,...
release : 1951.11.29popularis : 5.962
The Bang-Bang Kid
Guy Madison has a high old time as a would be feudal baron in the Wild West. No one is willing to stand up to Madison and his henchmen, no one that...
release : 1967.11.14popularis : 1.279
The Union
A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained...
release : 1972.08.29popularis : 3.158
The Two Parachutists
Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are...
release : 1965.12.24popularis : 2.505
Il mondo dei miracoli
An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.
release : 1959.06.25popularis : 1.471
Paolo il freddo
A baron, nicknamed Paolo il caldo (Paul the Hot One) because of his womanizing, asks his son, on his deathbed, to leave women alone and only think...
release : 1974.04.11popularis : 2.388
Il Figlioccio del padrino
A mafioso falls in love with his boss's daughter. Since the girl has already been widowed four times her father takes good care that this does not...
release : 1973.02.01popularis : 1.564
I'll Die for Vengeance
A Mexican gang headed by vicious Pedro terrorizes the land between New Mexico and Arizona. Jeff a youth whose father has been killed by Pedro seeks...
release : 1968.03.10popularis : 1.263