Nanni Loy

Rome, November 12, 1994 (1995)

Francesco Maselli pitched this documentary to the CGIL, CISL, and UIL trade unions as part of the 1.5 million-strong protest march on November 12, 1994 against Silvio Berlusconi's projects on social security and the reform of the pension system. A large nu ...

A che punto è la notte (1994)

In Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A second assassination, that of a Carabinieri Marshal, complicates the investigation - but before he died, the Marshal managed to wrote down the word "Topos". Com ...

Package, Double Package and Counterpackage (1993)

Life in Naples is tough, so Neapolitans invent ways to get by. Whatever works, conning mostly, tricking the IRS, the university, the landlord, cruise ship passengers, even conning victims three times with the same ruse. ...

Scugnizzi (1989)

Everything revolves around a musical theater production staged by a modest Sicilian director who has to direct young inmates at the juvenile detention center in Nisida. However, the rehearsals, the performance at the San Carlo Theater in Naples, and the re ...

My Friends Act III (1985)

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in ...

Where's Picone? (1984)

During a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council. ...

Heads I Win, Tails You Lose (1982)

Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi. ...

Café Express (1980)

An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train. ...

Strange Occasion (1976)

Three sexy and comic episodes. ...

Keep It To Yourself! (1976)

Three episodes of casual erotic character: a porn scriptwriter and his secretary, a man locked up among homosexuals, and a shy man who decides to hire a prostitute over the phone. ...

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. ...

I'll Fix America and Be Right Back (1974)

An helpless Italian accountant is dispatched to the U.S. to find a black player for his company's basketball team, mistakenly recruiting a Black Power radical. The odd couple becomes friends, but America's racism keeps rearing its ugly head. ...

Why (1971)

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Swiden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why? ...

Operation Snafu (1970)

World War II soldiers enter Sicily to seize German arms supply only to discover there is not a gun in sight. ...

The Head of the Family (1967)

A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened w ...

Made in Italy (1965)

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

The Four Days of Naples (1962)

September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in control — and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, civilians rise up en masse against the inv ...

A Day for Lionhearts (1961)

September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic ...

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. ...

The Thieves (1959)

An Italian-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds hidden in jam jars--which fall into the wrong hands when they get to the harbour of Naples. These hands belong to people who demand their fa ...

Il marito (1958)

Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister who live with the married couple. Alberto is also experiencing financial problems and hopes for the help of a rich widow who is however interested ...

Parola di ladro (1957)

Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in the jewelry store of Gabriele Bertinori, and with this position he plans to rob the place. ...

Girls of Today (1955)

Peppino Bardellotti, a widower, lives in Milan with his four daughters and ex sister-in-law Matilde, who urges girls to settle down by marrying a wealthy man. ...

House of Ricordi (1954)

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws th ...

Modern Virgin (1954)

The young Claudia wants to escape from the gray life of the province and aims rich men but each time with unhappy results. Only the brother will eventually succeed in shaking her from this purpose. ...

Maddalena (1954)

The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant. ...

Easy Years (1953)

A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption. ...

We, the Women (1953)

Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars. ...

Cavalcade of Song (1953)

Viva il cinema (1953)

Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen. ...

The City Stands Trial (1952)

Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances ...

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi (1952)

The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination. ...

Appointment for Murder (1952)

A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also. ...

Half a Century of Song (1952)

Through a series of scenes inspired by famous songs, various episodes of Italian life in the last fifty years are recalled. ...

The True Life of Antonio H. (1994)

This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego of legendary actor Alessandro Haber. This surreal faux-biography begins with Hutter's birth in Bologna, Ita ...

Disobedience (1981)

Luca Manzi is a fourteen year old boy when the Northern Italy Republic of Salò is governed by the Fascists. He becomes a partisan but when the war ends he is disappointed because things have not changed as he had hoped they wood, and he decides to let him ...

Three Tigers Against Three Tigers (1977)

Don Cimbolano - a priest in a small town. Oscar - a offender escaped from prison. Philip - attorney loser. They don't lose heart and find ways out of the most incredible situations. ...

Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi (1972)

A member of the party opposed to the one in which he is mistakenly listed as a candidate, a citizen with a somewhat murky private life becomes a senator. ...

Troubleshooters (1971)

The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him ...

Fantasia Among the Squares (1971)

Sagamore Noonan lives in seclusion on a farm in Alabama, where he distills moonshine during Prohibition. He receives a visit from his brother Doc Noonan and his son Billy. A young stripper and her gangster boyfriend come to disturb their peace. ...

Open Letter to the Evening News (1970)

Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper declaring their intention to volunteer to fight American troops in Vietnam as a political statement against the w ...

Complexes (1965)

In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to b ...

Beautiful Families (1964)

The film's theme is four episodes that offer the public a glimpse into the lives of rich and poor families in Italy in the 1960s. ...