Top Cast
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Marcello Mastroianni
Mario / Michele Profili / Mario Gasparri
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Catherine Spaak
Giovanna
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Virna Lisi
Dorotea
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Luciano Salce
Arturo Rossi
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Pamela Tiffin
Pepita
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Marco Ferreri
(segment "L'uomo dei 5 palloni") (uncredited)
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Ugo Tognazzi
Man With Car (segment "L'uomo dei 5 palloni") (uncredited)
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Raimondo Vianello
Commissario (segment "La moglie bionda")
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Sarah Ross
(segment "L'uomo dei 5 palloni")
Overview
Italian comedy film in three segments
Rating
Recommendations
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
An anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair; a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them; and local men all seduce a promiscuous young woman, but when her father eventually reveals that she is underage, they all face prosecution for statutory rape.
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs. The title translates as "Eye, Evil Eye, Parsley and Fennel".
Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
Three characters' misadventures in semi-deserted, summertime Rome: a dim-witted mama's boy falls for a tourist; a would-be womanizer struggles to find company for his sex tourism trip to Kraków; a hippie is drawn into his father's schemes to bring him back into polite society.
Fun Is Beautiful
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Be Sick… It's Free
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
Fantozzi: White Collar Blues
The third film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio.
Fantozzi Against the Wind
A satire on the American film "The Exorcist," but with an Italian twist.
The Exorciccio
Gianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy with a kickback from him. She is a beautiful woman (she generously sheds clothes during the film) and has to overcome her male colleagues prejudices, but she gains their respect through a series of brilliant operations.
Confessions of a Lady Cop
Pasquale Baudaffi, on amnesty, comes out of prison and starts looking for a job with the help of his cousin Gaetano. But first he goes to what was once a brothel, but, unbeknownst to our hapless hero, has been taken over and rented as a dental office. Pasquale finds himself at the center of endless misunderstandings. He tries to be a gamekeeper but that's not okay, he tries to be a waiter in a bar: he immediately gets his orders wrong and he is fired. His performance as a garage keeper was negative. The very latest experience is in an electronics company but its insertion into the futuristic mechanism triggers the craziest complications. The encounter with a lost dog allows him to get to know his mistress and thus discover the woman of his life.