Carlo Pisacane

Brother Sun, Sister Moon (1972)

In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spe ...

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte (1971)

Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which hap ...

Riuscirà il nostro eroe a ritrovare il più grande diamante del mondo? (1971)

Jimmy Logan, a detective, tries to retrieve a diamond from the British crown stolen by the traitorous chief of the English Secret Service. After carrying out dangerous investigations at Montecarlo, Beirut and Hamburg, he discovers that the headquarters of ...

On the Day of the Lord (1970)

Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. F ...

The Archangel (1969)

Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Gloria Bianchi to defend her from the alleged murder of her lover. ...

Man Only Cries for Love (1968)

Tony and some friends put together a rock band to do some concerts and earn some money. Unfortunately the military service is incumbent, but fortunately the boys will find themselves in the same barracks. ...

Caprice Italian Style (1968)

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events. ...

Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows (1968)

A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo and Oreste are married to the same woman; when she delivers twins, they fight for paternity. In the second episode, Celestina needs a heir to receive her dead hu ...

What Are the Clouds? (1968)

Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello. ...

Sunstroke (1968)

One Sunday in summer a mixed crowd pours on to a beach near Rome. A few tourists who had hoped to spend a relaxing day, find themselves involved in a series of unpleasant experiences instead. ...

More Than a Miracle (1967)

A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, when she meets the ill- tempered Spanish Prince Rodrigo Ferrante y Davalos. The King of Spain has ordered Rodrigo to choose a wife among seven Italian Princess ...

Death Rides a Horse (1967)

Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, wh ...

The Taming of the Shrew (1967)

Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the ...

The Saint Lies in Wait (1966)

Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American secret services, to ensure a comfortable future for his daughter, Sophie. But the plans are fake and Chartier decides to get help from his good friend Simon Tem ...

After the Fox (1966)

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold. ...

Our Husbands (1966)

Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships. ...

For a Few Dollars Less (1966)

A bank clerk and his cousin, a "general", join forces to track down a Mexican outlaw. ...

For Love and Gold (1966)

A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly w ...

7 Golden Monks (1966)

Count Raimondo and his girlfriend Veronique return to Italy from Switzerland carrying with them a load of contraband cigarettes but, using the pretense of a kidnapping to cheat their supplier, they hide out in the convent run by his uncle Friar Hugh. In th ...

Le sedicenni (1965)

Made in Italy (1965)

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants. ...

Veneri in collegio (1965)

Two competing teams of paparazzi try to enter a college to get a picture of an Arab Prince's fiancée. ...

Questo pazzo, pazzo mondo della canzone (1964)

Thirty Italian singers from the sixties sing their hits. ...

Andy... Andy Silly Andy (1964)

Thanks to his actions during a farm fire, the young and naive Dreas is appointed to the local fire department, which awakens various ambitions in him. He constructs primitive watchtowers everywhere and achieves some successes, partly due to the activities ...

Los dinamiteros (1964)

Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collect their pension, an opportunity they take advantage of to talk about life. When they learn that the old do ...

I ragazzi dell'Hully Gully (1964)

Songs, Bullies and Chicks (1964)

In order to promote a plumcake an adman associates with a mad scientist who has found a way to interfere with TV broadcasts. ...

Il treno del sabato (1964)

Le tardone (1964)

A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women. ...

A Very Handy Man (1964)

In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner. ...

Gli onorevoli (1963)

Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy. ...

Maskenball bei Scotland Yard (1963)

Agostino announces an incredible invention: a device that allows one to jump into any TV show. He's promptly declared insane and ends up in an institution. Giorgio, however, who is convinced by Agostino's abilities, rescues him, and the two begin to use th ...

Le motorizzate (1963)

Five episodes about women drivers during the economic boom. ...

The Shortest Day (1963)

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle. ...

Tiger of the Seven Seas (1962)

Tigre is the skipper of the Santa Maria, a pirate-ship, but he feels tired and decides to leave the command of the ship. Unfortunately he has only a daughter, Consuelo. So he will leave the command and the ship to the winner of a challenge among his men. U ...

Colossus of the Arena (1962)

A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor. ...

Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino (1962)

Antonio goes to West Berlin and meets Giuseppe. But Antonio looks like Canarinis, a wanted war criminal, So the daughter of the criminal pays Antonio to impersonate him. ...

Getting Away with It the Italian Way (1962)

Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed. ...

Samson Against the Sheik (1962)

In the late 1500s, forces of the Duke of Malaga topple the Sacred Obelisk in the North African city of Melida before they're defeated by the local Sheik. The Shiek's men then sail to Spain and kidnap the Duke's daughter, Isabella. ...

Accroche-toi, y'a du vent! (1962)

A self-taught amateur detective who learned his trade from a book finds himself caught between two gangs in Milan, trying to recover a wooden leg full of drugs. He is accompanied by an unlikely trio: a deaf secretary, an undertaker and a monkey. ...

Nerone '71 (1962)

A family from the province goes to CinecittÃ, hoping that their daughter will be assigned a part in the blockbuster Nero 71 . ...

Il mio amico Benito (1962)

A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life. ...

Seduction Of The South (1961)

Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory. ...

Black City (1961)

A charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police inspector. ...

I soliti rapinatori a Milano (1961)

I Kiss... You Kiss (1961)

Adolfo Cocchi has a building firm but his plan to build a set of buildings is been stopped by an old former Garibaldian, Don Leopoldo, who refuses to sell his property. A group of young people go to his house to play and sing. Marcella, Cocchi's daughter, ...

Fra' Manisco cerca guai... (1960)

Father Pacifico is a genuine friar with a brisk manner, for this reason he is nicknamed Father Manisco. The religious finds himself grappling with a thorny case, as Don Liborio, a Neapolitan lord, dominates all local events, including the love choices of h ...

Mariti in pericolo (1960)

Two men, business partners, fall in love with the same girl. Their wives react accordingly, but one seems to take it more calmly. This makes her husband suspicious, and he begins to believe that she is also having an affair, with his business partner. An i ...

The Traffic Policeman (1960)

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy. ...

The Passionate Thief (1960)

On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade. ...

La contessa azzurra (1960)

Loreley looks back to the happy times when she became a silent movie star with the huge success of "La Contessa Azzurra", directed by Don Salvatore and produced by Don Peppino, the owner of a Café Chantant. ...

Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today (1960)

A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage. ...

I piaceri del sabato notte (1960)

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution. ...

Valley of the Doomed (1960)

1860, the great Duchess of Parma, Maria Luisa, wants to provide her little state with train tracks, in spite of the opposition she gets from certain noble people. ...

I piaceri dello scapolo (1960)

Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings. ...

Fiasco in Milan (1959)

The usual gang of robbers are hired by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will hinder the success of the operation. ...

El Lazarillo de Tormes (1959)

An adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth century novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), it tells the story of Lazarillo, a poor boy who has to live by his wits after being sold to a series of cruel masters. ...

Nights of the Teddy Boys (1959)

An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona. ...

La cento chilometri (1959)

During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations ...

The Sheriff (1959)

A gang of outlaws terrorizes Rio Ciuccio. When they kill the sheriff his wife, an old neapolitan lady, takes his place. ...

Spavaldi e innamorati (1959)

This is an Italian movie starring Terence Hill ...

Il raccomandato di ferro (1959)

An Italian clerk has been helped to his position by a fake kickback letter from a politician who, meanwhile has become a state secretary. His colleagues thus send him to Rome to settle an important matter with the powerful character. The poor fellow goes h ...

Men and Noblemen (1959)

Nicola Peccoli has always nurtured his niece Giovanna, an orphan since the age of two and now of age, but he does not look favorably on her beloved Mario because he is just a simple employee and a lower class of society. ...

Prepotenti più di prima (1959)

Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan. ...

Piece of the Sky (1958)

As he does every year, Severino, a young hawker who goes around the festivals of the various villages in the Po Delta, returns to Migliarino to sell his knick-knacks and tell far-fetched stories about the future and progress. Besides the beautiful Marina, ...

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to th ...

The Man Who Wagged His Tail (1957)

The owner of a building tyrannizes his immigrant tenants. Transformed into a dog by an old woman's curse, he experiences all the hardships of his situation; when a child's affection turns him back into a man, his soul is radically changed. ...

We will get married in Capri (1956)

Sing with us (1955)

The old friends Nicola and Pasquale meet in the city after many years. The two, now married and with their children, try to marry their four children, but it soon becomes more difficult than expected. ...

A Husband for Anna (1953)

Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the ...

Campane a martello (1949)

Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her ...

Paisan (1946)

Six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley as American military personnel interact with a variety of Italian locals over eighteen months in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces retreat. ...