Ignazio Leone

Tutti possono arricchire tranne i poveri (1976)

Friends More Than Before (1976)

Trouble in Istamboel (1974)

Italian singer and actor Don Backy and b-movie icon George Eastman unite together for a comedy full of action, witty and - punches. ...

Playing the Field (1974)

A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way, especially the ...

Manone il ladrone (1974)

Theft in the Evening, a Big Coup Hopefully (1973)

A comedy about two friends attempting a heist. ...

The Great Kidnapping (1973)

In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a northern industrial town devastated by a recent wave of violence and kidnappings.. ...

The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire (1972)

After having challenged the German Ottone to single combat for the hand of Leonza, the bishop's niece, the valiant knight Anselmo da Montebello, leaves for Rome where he must deliver a precious relic to the Pope and obtain a sum of twenty-thousand crowns i ...

La calandria (1972)

The luxurious Livio bets with the lord of the city to seduce a young bride in a month, at the cost of his genitals. ...

Jus primae noctis (1972)

Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone. ...

The Migratory Bird (1972)

Andrea Pomeraro, a history teacher, has an affair with a student who then blackmails him. Attempting to retrieve the incriminating photos, he accidentally becomes the head of the student revolt and ends up in jail. ...

Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino (1972)

Nights of Boccaccio (1972)

Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron, and it is part of a series of derivative comedies based on the success ...

1001 Nights of Pleasure (1972)

Sultan Almamud suddenly becomes powerless, unable to enjoy his beautiful Zumurud. The councillors then call people who can excite them by telling stories. At the end of their tales, he will finally be able to enjoy her. ...

Let's Arm Ourselves and Go! (1971)

Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French citizenship, the First World War breaks out between Germany and France and all citizens are forced to enlist. ...

Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras? (1971)

A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition depends on the lawyer's ploys to get his clients acquitted. ...

Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?... (1971)

Libero Sbardelloni, newly married, cannot find work in Rome, so he moves to Naples, where Baron Gaetano Gargiulo, his wife Marcella's uncle, lives. The baron, however, is a penniless nobleman who lives by swindling and petty theft, constantly going in and ...

Ma che musica maestro (1971)

The love story between two youths born in rival villages is hindered by the other inhabitants. ...

The Clan of the Two Borsalini (1971)

Italian comedy ...

Io non spezzo... rompo (1971)

During a drug trafficking investigation, two officers from the Rome Squad, accidentally break into a beautiful villa, inhabited by an Italian-American. ...

Mr. Superinvisible (1970)

A superhero becomes invisible after he swallows an Indian potion. ...

Who Gave You the License? (1970)

Franco and Ciccio are the directors of a driving school. They suffer the theft of the only car they have, and their new car is prone to going completely out of his control. ...

Tears of Love (1970)

An English singer thinks his Italian wife has cheated on him and goes back to England. He is then involved in drug trafficking and ends up in jail. Luckily enough after a while the real culprit is revealed and he can go back to Italy and his wife. ...

The Little War (1970)

In the confusion of combat, two Italian get separated from their squadron and become hopelessly lost. As they wander the countryside attempting to find their lost comrades, they have to adopt all manner of outrageous disguises to avoid death at the hands o ...

Satiricosissimo (1970)

Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him. ...

Zenabel (1969)

Zenabel, a young woman from a humble background, discovers that she is actually the daughter of a Spanish nobleman who was killed by a ruthless don, Alonso, who took the title. So Zenable assembles a group of misfit friends to reclaim her title. ...

Franco and Ciccio... Robber and Cop (1969)

A cop has a cousin who is a thief, and one day while he is chasing him he ends up in a room with a murdered man. The two are photographed at the murder scene and believed to be the assassins. The police however believe in their innocence and send the odd c ...

Zingara (1969)

Franco, singer in search of success, falls in love with Marisa. But she walks away from him to stay close to her sick cousin. ...

I 2 deputati (1969)

Francesco and Franco are brothers in law but, since their respective wives can't stand each other, are always arguing. When Francesco decides to run for Parliament, Franco is kidnapped by his opposing party and forced to run as well. The clashes between th ...

Baby Doll (1968)

A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest. ...

Two Firefighters (1968)

The firefighter student Francesco Perricone and his cousin the brigadier Barrese fall in love both of the beautiful brunette Caramella and the barracks of Rome are transferred to the village of Sicily where the girl lives. ...

Shoot, Gringo... Shoot! (1968)

Chad Stark is offered his life and a nice ammount of dollars if he is to bring back the runaway son of mexican land-owner Gutierrez . This son, Fidel, teams up with an outlaw band lead by a former military man going by the name The Major. When Stark finds ...

I due Crociati (1968)

Two inept crusaders almost sabotage the christians' plan to conquer Jerusalem. ...

A Stranger in Paso Bravo (1968)

After spending many years in prison, Gary returns to Paso Bravo, where thugs burned his ranch killing his wife and daughter. Gary seeks revenge, and also finds a people who live terrorized by a group of gunmen led by Acombar. This situation causes Gary ski ...

Ugly at Night (1968)

Franco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The doctor prescribes a very special treatment for the patient: an intense love life. The man's wife, aware that she is part of the problem, decides to get a facial an ...

All the Gold in the World (1968)

The son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt her parents — until an unlikely hero steps in. ...

Il sole è di tutti (1968)

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 ...

Una ragazza tutta d'oro (1967)

A girl with a beautiful voice lives in a little village and dreams of becoming a successful singer. She is discovered by the music maestro Signoretti who tries to have her take part in the music festival of Sanremo, Italy's most famous singing competition. ...

Cuore matto... matto da legare (1967)

Tony is in love with Carla, a young student of architecture, but his parents want him to marry Erminia, a rich but ugly girl. ...

Sailors on Deck (1967)

Antonio is trying to become a successful singer when he suddenly has to leave for military service in the navy. With Little Tony, S. Rozin. ...

Electra One (1967)

A jewel thief crosses paths with a woman carrying a briefcase that the Americans, the Russians and the Chinese all want desperately, so he goes on the run with her figuring that what's inside the case has to be way more valuable than anything he could stea ...

Don Juan in Sicily (1967)

Giovanni Percolla lives in Catania surrounded by the attentive cares of his three sisters. He permanently acts like a Don Giovanni to hide his real poor "knowledge" of women. With his friend he moves also to Rome but women still continues to remain part of ...

Riderà! - Cuore matto (1967)

Antonio Moruzzo is the son of a butcher with a passion for music and beautiful girls. The father wants him to study but he would rather run around the countryside and sing his songs. ...

Non mi dire mai goodbye (1967)

Almost Perfect Crime (1966)

Ischia operazione amore (1966)

Gennaro runs a small boarding house in Ischia, the beautiful island in the gulf of Naples. Each member of his family is involved: his wife cooks, his daughter has a small boutique and his married son courts the old and rich patrons under his wife's enraged ...

Seven Golden Men Strike Again (1966)

Armed with gadgets and an atomic sub, a crook (Philippe Leroy) and his gang target a Latin dictator and Soviet gold. ...

Special Code: Assignment Lost Formula (1966)

The Two Parachutists (1965)

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 rescued by American parachutists from. ...

Why Go On Killing? (1965)

A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is alone in his efforts to avenge his father's death. ...

002 Operation Moon (1965)

KGB authorities abduct two criminals (Franco and Ciccio) who look exactly like missing spacemen and pretend they are the returning cosmonauts. They launch them in a rocket, so that they can land in public view, leading the populace to believe it was the or ...

Mission Bloody Mary (1965)

An American secret agent is tasked with recovering a nuclear bomb stolen by spies. ...

Sword of the Empire (1964)

Rome, under Commodus: intrigue, fight for power, gladiators, senators, Christians, Barbarians, slaves, Pretorians, battles, wrestles, swords and muscles in by-the-numbers Italian epic. ...

The Maniacs (1964)

An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society. ...

Il treno del sabato (1964)

Arms of the Avenger (1963)

Using Leonardo Da Vinci's innovative designs for weapons of war, flying engines and other machinery, three brothers join forces to fight a wicked and powerful Duke in early-Renaissance Italy. ...

Toto and Cleopatra (1963)

Mark Antony has a brother-lookalike, Totonno, a sinister slave trader. Totonno secretly replaces Mark Antony in the most delicate moments. ...

Zorro and the Three Musketeers (1963)

In the first half of the 1600's, France is at war with Spain. The cousin of the king of Spain, Isabella, is held captive in the French castle, and the Count of Seville is sent to France as a diplomat. While there, he is escorted by the Three Musketeers, wh ...

Beach Casanova (1962)

Mr. Edmond is a middle-aged playboy, living by his wits on the Riviera. Among the women with whom Edmond dallies are three gorgeous ladies. ...

Eighteen in the Sun (1962)

An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak) and Nicola Molino (Gianni Garko) are not related to one another. In fact, they don't even kn ...

Caesar Against the Pirates (1962)

Julius Caesar flees Rome because of a conspiration against him and takes refuge by the king of Bitinia. He finds a woman there and while he escorts her to Rhodes their ship is attacked. Caught by the pirates he asks for help to get back to Rome. ...

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. ...

Gold of Rome (1961)

Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death. ...

Totòtruffa '62 (1961)

Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in lov ...

Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961)

A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery. ...

Slave of Rome (1961)

During Julius Caesar's invasion of Gallia: The Gauls have broken their treaty with the Romans. Marcus Valerius and his friend are sent to punish them. Antea's father wants to have peace with Rome, having once been there and acknowledging their superior cul ...

Le pillole di Ercole (1960)

A doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an acquaintance's wife. ...

Colossus and the Amazon Queen (1960)

Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women. ...

Howlers of the Dock (1960)

Follows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire jiving from some of Rome's citizens, and bitter complants from others which inspire a group of corrupt officials determined to a bring ...

The Employee (1960)

Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy world. ...

I baccanali di Tiberio (1960)

Cassio, a tourist guide, and Primo, his bus driver, are taking a bus load of tourists to visit villa Jovis, at Capri island. Then they have an accident, and they knock their heads hard, losing conscience. They come awake in the times of the Roman Empire in ...

The Widower (1959)

Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-non ...

The Black Archer (1959)

A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father. ...

Il mondo dei miracoli (1959)

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter. ...

The Maids (1959)

Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to jail. Some other maids organize a search party for the real thief who seems to be a moustached youth who contin ...

The Overtaxed (1959)

Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes. ...

Everyone's in Love (1959)

Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra. ...

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 ...

L'amore nasce a Roma (1958)

Lello, a painter, and Mario, a singer, move to Rome looking for fortune and success. ...

Carousel of songs (1958)

Perfide.... ma belle (1958)

Michele, a young mechanic, is in love with Angela Antonia, beautiful but capricious: the girl's father, once he learns of the relationship, has him fired from the place where he works and is forced to move to Naples. He asks for hospitality from his aunt C ...

Totò in the Moon (1958)

Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further. ...

Love on the Riviera (1958)

It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who ...

The Girl of San Pietro Square (1958)

Armando Conforti, his family and his friends have a business: they sell souvenirs near St. Peter's, in Rome, they change dollars, in short they get along. ...

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, ...

Il cielo brucia (1958)

Napoli sole mio (1958)

Lorella must marry Dr. Matteini, but when she goes to Naples to meet him, she meets Michele, who sings in restaurants. The fateful spark is ignited, and although Michele is poor, Lorella decides to marry him against his mother's wishes. ...

He Thief, She Thief (1958)

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over. ...

Pirate of the Half Moon (1957)

Gianna Maria Canale as the Duchess who is offered a banquet and requests for a hard-boiled egg. The stingy Spanish lord, who used his last gunpowder to fire a salute to the noble lady and thus has no more when a bunch of pirates, led by Nadir, launches an ...

Rascel-Fifì (1957)

Renato and Gedeon have just opened a nightclub in a disreputable area of New York, triggering the hostility of Gionata, a gang leader and owner of the nightclub across the street. Helped by the hoods of his gang, Gionata uses a couple of tricks to try and ...

Susanna tutta panna (1957)

A young Milanese pastry chef, Susanna, is working in the pastry shop of her family. She has to defend herself from both a jealous boyfriend, and competition from other pastry chefs who want to know the recipe of the famous cream cake that bears her name. ...

Moglie e buoi... (1956)

Courtyard (1955)

A teenager escapes from a reformatory and is accused of theft. ...

A Woman Alone (1955)

Three women share the same apartment and the same goal, to find a wealthy husband and settle down. ...

Una sera di maggio (1955)

A man embezzles some money in order to pay his debts and the daughter of his boss, who is in love with his son, asks a rich former suitor of hers for help. When the rich man is found murdered the girl is accused of the crime. Will she be able to clear her ...

An American in Rome (1954)

Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American. ...

Desiderio 'e sole (1954)

The Unfaithfuls (1953)

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others. ...

La passeggiata (1953)

A meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way of living but she is very hard to convince. When she finally realizes he really loves her it is too late. ...