Roberto Della Casa

To Rome with Love (2012)

Four tales unfold in the Eternal City: While vacationing in Rome, architect John encounters a young man whose romantic woes remind him of a painful incident from his own youth; retired opera director Jerry discovers a mortician with an amazing voice, and h ...

A summer at the sea (2008)

Set against the sun-soaked shores of Italy in the summertime, seven different tales unfold about life, love, loss, family, and friendship. ...

Il ritorno del Monnezza (2005)

Rocky Giraldi, son of police officer Nico, followed in his father's footsteps and is now an agent in the police force's operational departments. He is currently working on a seemingly straightforward case: the murder of a burglar. In reality, behind the cr ...

In This World of Thieves (2004)

A group of middle-aged time-share investors get ripped off and their desire for revenge is well-timed for them to be recruited by a bank clerk who feels the same about his employers. ...

Dirty Linen (1999)

The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth. ...

Banzai (1997)

Sergio Colombo is an insurance agent. He had just gone through a divorce so he is a little bit scattered. Wanting to unwind he plans to go to vacation with a magnificent girlfriend but suddenly he is ordered off to Canada in order to sign an important cont ...

Roseanna's Grave (1997)

Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello ...

Classe mista 3ª A (1996)

Three teenagers are preparing for their final exams, but their main interest is certainly not their studies. Stefano dumps his girlfriend for the beautiful Caterina, but her boyfriend Gianluca forces him to disguise himself as a Jim Morrison fan to win ove ...

Snowball (1995)

Snowball, a dolphin, gets into trouble when it swallows a bottle with the records of pension payments owed to Billy Bolla, an aged cruise ship entertainer. If the performer cannot quickly catch Snowball and induce him to produce the papers, he will have no ...

Who Killed Pasolini? (1995)

November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, citing Pasolini's notorious sexual habits as proof. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his v ...

Giovanni Falcone (1993)

The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles. ...

Sognando la California (1992)

The Comics 2 (1991)

Paolo Villaggio and Renato Pozzetto are the protagonists of various misadventures, first as nurses of a crazy ambulance, then as night guards of a shopping center and later as a pilot and stewardess of an air taxi. Next, they enlist in the foreign legion a ...

The Raffle (1991)

Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix. ...

Piedipiatti (1991)

The inmate Proietti, nicknamed "Er Soffia", getting out of prison. There is the Roman brigadier Vasco Sacchetti, an agent of the narcotics and his old friend who, to celebrate his freedom, invites him to eat fish at Fiumicino. ...

Dark Illness (1990)

After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses. ...

Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986)

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 is ...

Il Bi e il Ba (1986)

Despite being penniless, Antonino Scannapieco possesses a convincing eloquence. Having obtained money from friends to travel to Rome to consult a luminary about his dandruff problem, he sets off for the capital, where various misadventures await him. ...

Christmas Holidays (1983)

Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man ...

Il tassinaro (1983)

Pietro Marchetti, a mature Roman taxi driver, has countless and interesting meetings while he is on duty with his car "Zara 87". ...

Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio (1983)

The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs. The title translates as "Eye, Evil Eye, Parsley and Fennel". ...

Petomaniac (1983)

The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts. ...

Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone (1983)

Marino Stroppaghetti is a breadwinner in a layoff fund who, in order to make some money, arranges himself by doing small tailoring jobs at home. Desperate for having received the eviction, he turns to the City of Rome, where he discovers that there are as ...

Two of a Kind (1983)

Italian comedy in two episodes starring a house painter who emigrated to Switzerland who pretends to be a millionaire and an employee on holiday in Kenya, the victim of catastrophic misadventures. ...

The Fan, the Referee and the Footballer (1983)

Two soccer stories: Alvaro Presutti is a referee who seems to be the last to know about his wife having an affair with a German soccer star. Amedeo Amedei has to please both his father, a die hard Roma supporter and his future father in law, who supports L ...

Gian Burrasca (1982)

Giannino Stoppani, called Gian Burrasca, is a boy who loves bad taste jokes. A series of actions will lead him to be detested by everyone except his mother. ...

Viuuulentemente mia (1982)

Clumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In order not to undergo a punitive transfer to Barbagia, he goes back on the woman's trail to take her to prison. ...

Sesso e volentieri (1982)

Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme. ...

Vieni avanti cretino (1982)

Pasquale Baudaffi, on amnesty, comes out of prison and starts looking for a job with the help of his cousin Gaetano. But first he goes to what was once a brothel, but, unbeknownst to our hapless hero, has been taken over and rented as a dental office. Pasq ...

Attenti a quei P2 (1982)

Attenti a quei P2 (Beware of those P2s) is a satirical parody of the judicial affair concerning the P2 Masonic lodge. ...

Looking for Jesus (1982)

An average Joe becomes the poster boy for a book about Jesus due to his Christ-like appearance, but his meek and good-hearted nature ends up clashing with the publisher's earthly-minded motives. ...

Grunt! (1982)

A tribe of cave men worships an egg that has gained magical powers after being struck by lightning. A rival tribe manages to steal the egg. ...

Hot Spirits (1981)

Giovanni is a rich Italian aristocrat. He inherit a castle occupied by the ghost of an ancestor. Part of the inheritance is of a young beautiful blonde tourist, far relative of Giovanni. The two have to pay a ticket to the ghost to be free to own the castl ...

Fracchia The Human Beast (1981)

The world's greatest criminal and the world greatest loser share the same face... now they'll share the same life! ...

Hotel Room (1981)

A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people living their life. They get in touch with old and money-tight producer Mengaroni to edit their movie, but ...

Teste di quoio (1981)

A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage. ...

Prickly Pears (1980)

Lorenzo is the mayor of a small town. One evening, returning home, surprised the well-known playboy Ghigo Buccilli who tries to seduce his beautiful wife. Enraged, he threatens the two with a gun, and Buccilli is the victim of a heart attack: the man survi ...

La locandiera (1980)

The innkeeper Mirandolina is a beautiful girl, and for her beauty the Count of Albafiorita and the Marquis of Forlimpopoli fall in love. ...

I Hate Blondes (1980)

There are two problems with Emilio and his career as a pulp writer. Emilio is a bumbling fellow who has absolutely nothing in common with the heroes he writes about. Second, Emilio can't seem to publish anything under his own name. ...

Café Express (1980)

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

L'importante è non farsi notare (1979)

Three American secret agents, disguised as women, (the flag sisters) are sent to Rome with the task of discovering a well-known biologist, a Russian transfuga ... ...

Lobster for Breakfast (1979)

Marco is married to Carla, a rich businesswoman. She's off to Geneva for two days; he has a tryst with Monique, a Swedish air hostess. Carla's flight is canceled, so she heads home about to catch Mario en flagrant. Mario's salvation is Enrico, an old schoo ...

Traffic Jam (1979)

A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactio ...

Tanto va la gatta al lardo... (1978)

Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband, two Bolognese spouses quarrel and do not realize that the civil war has broken out, a Neapolitan fan scanda ...

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 ...

Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe (1976)

Son of a poor Sicilian sharecropper committing suicide (he owed half a million lire to Baron Lamia), 35-year-old Carmelo Macaluso returns to the Sicilian town, after 15 years of hard work in Germany, with a Mercedes, 100 million in his briefcase and the am ...

Tre donne - La sciantosa (1971)

La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of Italian history through three movies, all of them with Anna Magnani. The other two are "1943: un incontro" an ...