Armando Bandini

Cellini: A Violent Life (1990)

The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of ...

Cinque Storie Inquietanti: Scacco Matto (1987)

Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. ...

Tottering in the Dark (1987)

An elderly trio tries to adjust to each other when they all move into an apartment in Rome. When Giovanni (Ricardo Cucciolla) inherits the unit, he invites the Russian immigrant Maria (Marina Vlady) and his shy friend from college Teo (Luigi Pistilli) to l ...

È arrivato mio fratello (1985)

Fontamara (1980)

Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going ...

Ridendo e scherzando (1978)

Four comic episodes based on betrayal. The main characters are a famous professionist that receives a girl as his anniversary present, a wife tired of her boring marriage, a look-alike of a dangerous wanted person and a very jealous husband. Fantastic Ital ...

Ride bene... chi ride ultimo (1977)

Misadventures of a sacristan with three eager tourists, a commendatore with a sheikh, a worker who is passionate about hunting with a wife too good and an appearance mistaken for a priest with a patrician family. ...

Per amore di Cesarina (1976)

Davide Camporesi is the owner of the "Tornerai" pension in Cesenatico which he manages together with his wife Elvira and daughter Carletta, and which mainly welcomes German tourists. One day, during a trip to the countryside to buy wine, Davide meets Vindi ...

Pure as a Lily (1976)

Anthony M. Wilson is an English gentleman. He has a string of restaurants in London plus a beautiful house decorated with all the trendy art he can get. ...

The Sex Machine (1975)

The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of award-winning scientists succeeds in harnessing energy from the world's oldest source of reciprocating mo ...

The Lady Has Been Raped (1973)

Good bourgeois damage unintentionally life of a drug-party, during which the mistress of the house is raped without recognizing the aggressor. Both she and her husband come into crisis and try to figure out who it was. The truth comes to the surface slowly ...

Giovannona Long-Thigh (1973)

When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they discover the judge has a predilection for married women, the owner employs a prostitute to pose as his wife ...

The Eroticist (1972)

Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy ...

Togli le gambe dal parabrezza (1969)

"Remove your legs from the windshield" - Alberto, an engineer over forty years old, on his return from an inspection, a nineteen-year-old Parisian student called Sylvie is looking for a ride. Even though the girl reminds him of her daughter Francesca's age ...

Ace High (1968)

After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge ag ...

Maigret at the Pigalle (1966)

Maigret is about to leave for the holidays but a colleague asks him for help in investigating the mysterious murder of a stripper and a noblewoman, both of which took place in Pigalle. ...

The Mandrake (1965)

A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli. ...

Il successo (1963)

Giulio has a faithful wife and a true friend, but he is convinced that only with money can one be happy. So he devotes himself to dangerous real estate speculation in Sardinia, even though he does not have the capital to deal with it. To find the necessary ...

His Women (1961)

Stefano Garbelli is employed by a pharmaceutical company. One evening Daniela, a young independent prostitute, approaches Stefano pretending to be a nurse. They get together, but Daniela has a sinister plan. ...

Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry. ...

Bellezze sulla spiaggia (1961)

A doctor running a health clinic by the sea is convinced that women are the cause of the disturbed behaviour of his (male) patients. We get to follow the adventures of the patients during a day on the beach. ...

Love and Larceny (1960)

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant. ...

Tipi da spiaggia (1959)

Four penniless friends wich Belong to a small commedy theatre go to taormina a famous Italian beach resort willing to marry Barbara a famous multimillionaire cosmetic firm owner and forget their troubles. After a series of adventures the four youths go bac ...