Mario Monicelli Movies

A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.

A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.

A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace...

Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario...

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.

The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on.

Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained...

A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.

During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery,...

Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.

Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.

The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of...

Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it...

A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.

A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.

The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).

A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate...

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing...