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We are in 1946.
Marco Maffei, a young man who spends time cruising aimlessly on Lake Maggiore with his second-hand boat, is approached by the extravagant Temistocle Mario Orimbelli who invites him in his villa where he presents him his wife Cleofe and his sister in law Matilde, alleged widow because her husband is missing in action in Abyssinia.Read More »
The film consists of four sex comedies – each are approximately thirty minutes in length – from four different countries.
1 – An Englishman’s Home.
A coarse, sex-obsessed chauffeur named Harry (Roger Moore) takes advantage when the real lord of the manor is away on a weekend business trip by presenting himself as his lordship. He picks up Donna (Priscilla Barnes), a beautiful air hostess from America, and takes her to the castle for a passionate weekend, but the ruse is jeopardised when one of the real lord’s lady friends unexpectedly comes to visit.Read More »
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A recently-widowed father of five finds himself overwhelmed when he’s left to play father and mother to a group of kids in whose lives he hadn’t taken a whole lot of interest in a long time, if ever.Read More »
March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini’s black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts.Read More »
This tense story is set during World War II Italy. A mother and her daughter flee what once was the safety of Rome to seek refuge in the mountains. Their journey turns out to be one they could never have imagined.Read More »
Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question the Pope!!! For this reason Lo Gatto is sent to a Sicilian remote island: Favignana.Read More »
With the desire to be rich gnawing at him, an arriviste pursues a golden real-estate opportunity at the expense of friends and family. Now, he has to renounce his dignity. What’s the good of chasing success when you are left all alone?Read More »
A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.Read More »
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The awkward and often hilarious reunion between a divorced father and his precocious eight-year-old son is beautifully observed in Risi’s tender comedy.
Walter Chiari, a good-for-nothing who dreams of building an empire selling Encyclopedia Brittanicas, embellishes his life to impress his son (effortlessly played by child actor Roberto Cicciolini), only to discover that the boy, whom he hasn’t seen in years, harbors his own share of restless loneliness.Read More »