Best movies of Mario Monicelli

Actors : Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Duilio Del Prete,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

Necchi (a bar owner), Perozzi (a journalist), Melandri (an architect) and Mascetti (a broken nobleman) live in Florence. They have been friends since their youngest years and spend every ...

Actors : Folco Lulli, Catherine Spaak, Gian Maria Volontè, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.

Actors : Andrea Bevilacqua, Tommaso Bianco, Caroline Berg, Alberto Sordi,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

The marquess of Grillo is a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes. The film tells the story of his life.

Actors : Renzo Montagnani, Gastone Moschin, Ugo Tognazzi, Adolfo Celi,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and ...

Actors : Marcello Mastroianni, Gabriella Giorgelli, Folco Lulli, Renato Salvatori,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory.

Actors : Vincenzo Crocitti, Romolo Valli, Shelley Winters, Alberto Sordi,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A meek middle-aged man takes justice in his own hands.

Actors : Stefania Sandrelli, Beba Loncar, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Gassman,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.

Actors : Alessandro Haber, Tommaso Bianco, Marina Confalone, Renato Cecchetto,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

Like every year, everyone is going back to the ancestral family's home for the Christmas holidays. But this time, the old folks have a surprise, a good surprise for them. They have decided ...

Actors : Virna Lisi, Marcello Mastroianni, Marisa Mell, Michèle Mercier,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.

Actors : Monica Vitti, Anthony Booth, Stanley Baker, Corin Redgrave,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A Sicilian woman, "dishonored" by her lover, goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him.

Actors : Alessandro Haber, Giorgio Pasotti, Fulvio Falzarano, Michele Placido,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by ...

Actors : Totò, Anna Magnani, Ben Gazzara, Fred Clark,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

On New Year's Eve, an insecure, struggling actress (Anna Magnani) has nothing to do. When a colleague invites her to a New Year's party, she jumps at the opportunity. Accidentally she runs ...

Actors : Claude Dauphin, Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe Maffioli, Duilio Del Prete,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a ...

Actors : Michele Placido, Ornella Muti, Ugo Tognazzi, Pippo Starnazza,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

50 year old Giulio (Tognazzi) and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina (Muti) fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and ...

Actors : Giancarlo Giannini, Claudine Auger, Goldie Hawn, Aurore Clément,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.

Actors : Liv Ullmann, Philippe Noiret, Catherine Deneuve, Giuliana de Sio,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

A critique of the role of the male in modern Italian society and has demonstrated the possibility of a form of 'female bonding' between women who live, by choice, in a world without men

Actors : Vittorio Rap, Massimo Ceccherini, Marco Graziani, Paolo Villaggio,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

Tuscany, August 1944: the Allies have just entered Florence, Italy is devasted by the war, and the people are hungry. "Dieci", who claims to have been a boxer and a manager, gathers a group...

Actors : Beeson Carroll, Gigi Proietti, Sophia Loren, William Devane,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

Maddalena and Michele fall in love in Italy in the 1960s, while working at a meat factory in Emilia stormed by the workers' protest, but their love can't be, because he is married and Italy...

Actors : Ugo Tognazzi, Lello Arena, Alberto Sordi, Maurizio Nichetti,
Directors : Mario Monicelli,

The story of a farmer that succeeded to contest the king Alboino in front of all his Royal court, in the Verona (Italy) of the 12th century, using just his cunning. He will risk several ...