Italian Economic Boom movies
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1. Adulterio all'italiana (1966)
93 min | Comedy
To get her husband more interested in her, the wife invents a lover. The husband will collect every hint trying to figure out who is the lover.
Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile | Stars: Catherine Spaak, Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Caprioli, Maria Grazia Buccella
Votes: 219
2. High Infidelity (1964)
120 min | Comedy
Four episodes satirising modern marriages and the lack of affection which leads to infidelity.
Directors: Mario Monicelli, Elio Petri, Franco Rossi, Luciano Salce | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Fulvia Franco, John Phillip Law, Eleanor Beacour
Votes: 130
3. The Archangel (1969)
103 min | Comedy, Crime
Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Gloria Bianchi to defend her from the alleged murder of her lover.
Director: Giorgio Capitani | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Pamela Tiffin, Irina Demick, Adolfo Celi
Votes: 63
4. L'attico (1963)
103 min | Comedy
Director: Gianni Puccini | Stars: Daniela Rocca, Tomas Milian, Philippe Leroy, Lilla Brignone
Votes: 21
5. La bambolona (1968)
107 min | Comedy
A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women sets his sights on a young student for his next amorous conquest.
Director: Franco Giraldi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Isabella Rei, Lilla Brignone, Corrado Sonni
Votes: 130
6. The Boom (1963)
88 min | Comedy
During the economic boom of Italy a man tries desperately to maintain a high standard of living for his family.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Gianna Maria Canale, Elena Nicolai, Ettore Geri
Votes: 1,338 | Gross: $0.06M
7. A cavallo della tigre (1961)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
An inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Valeria Moriconi, Gian Maria Volontè
Votes: 541
8. La Dolce Vita (1960)
Not Rated | 174 min | Comedy, Drama
A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
Director: Federico Fellini | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 78,188 | Gross: $19.52M
9. The Queens (1966)
110 min | Comedy
Four unrelated short comedies by four different directors. "Queen Sabina" chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" centers on a self-serving ... See full summary »
Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Antonio Pietrangeli, Luciano Salce | Stars: Monica Vitti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Gastone Moschin
Votes: 385
10. I complessi (1965)
107 min | Comedy
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer Gabriella, lover of Alvaro, with the complexity of shyness. In the second part, Prof. Beozi, in order to avoid a scandal, ends up in a raid of... See full summary »
Directors: Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Dino Risi, Franco Rossi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Ilaria Occhini, Riccardo Garrone, Umberto D'Orsi
Votes: 920
11. Love, the Italian Way (1960)
95 min | Comedy, Romance
A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other.
Director: Giorgio Bianchi | Stars: Belinda Lee, Walter Chiari, Ugo Tognazzi, Sylva Koscina
Votes: 60
12. Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966)
95 min | Comedy
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta. But ... See full summary »
Director: Alessandro Blasetti | Stars: Gina Lollobrigida, Silvana Mangano, Walter Chiari, Vittorio De Sica
Votes: 312
13. I Knew Her Well (1965)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama
Adriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Stefania Sandrelli, Mario Adorf, Jean-Claude Brialy, Joachim Fuchsberger
Votes: 3,142 | Gross: $0.01M
14. An Italian in America (1967)
96 min | Comedy
Giuseppe, an Italian gas station attendant, is invited to the United States to reconcile with his father, who he believed had been dead for years.
Director: Alberto Sordi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Bettina Brenna, Alice Condon
Votes: 207
15. The Magnificent Cuckold (1964)
117 min | Comedy, Drama
Andrea Artusi begins to have doubts about the loyalty of his beautiful wife . When doubt becomes an obsession , his behavior becomes completely crazy , stalking her relentlessly.
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Bernard Blier, Michèle Girardon
Votes: 765
16. I nostri mariti (1966)
105 min | Comedy, Romance
Three episodes about Italian husbands and those relationships in marriage.
Directors: Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Dino Risi, Luigi Zampa | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Alessandro Cutolo, Elena Nicolai
Votes: 177
17. Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare (1968)
98 min | Comedy
Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the old-timer.
Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile | Stars: Catherine Spaak, Hywel Bennett, Hugh Griffith, Romolo Valli
Votes: 35
18. The Libertine (1968)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
After discovering her late husband's swinger's pad, a widow uses the apartment to explore her own sexuality, while searching for a man who can reciprocate her passions.
Director: Pasquale Festa Campanile | Stars: Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Gigi Proietti, Luigi Pistilli
Votes: 846
19. Love and Larceny (1960)
103 min | Comedy
Gerardo, an aspiring theater actor, is roped into performing a scam but gets double crossed by his partner and goes to prison. After prison, he turns into a successful con artist using his ability to mimic different Italian dialects.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Dorian Gray, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mario Carotenuto
Votes: 844
20. Il medico della mutua (1968)
98 min | Comedy
The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Bice Valori, Sara Franchetti, Nanda Primavera
Votes: 1,695
21. The Monsters (1963)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Lando Buzzanca, Marino Masé
Votes: 2,779
22. Weekend, Italian Style (1965)
90 min | Comedy
Manager Marletti goes to the sea to meet his wife Giuliana to spend the weekend with her and many friends. After three days Marletti comes back driving his car to Rome. So he can sleep, alone and happy, with silence around him.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Enrico Maria Salerno, Sandra Milo, Daniela Bianchi, Trini Alonso
Votes: 428
23. The Hours of Love (1963)
110 min | Comedy, Romance
Gianni and Marietta get along wonderfully as lovers, but not as a couple. Despite being married, they agree to become lovers again.
Director: Luciano Salce | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Emmanuelle Riva, Barbara Steele, Umberto D'Orsi
Votes: 117
24. La parmigiana (1963)
111 min | Comedy, Drama
Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino and makes up her mind to join him. But he has found a new lover.
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Catherine Spaak, Didi Perego, Lando Buzzanca
Votes: 343
25. The Prophet (1968)
PG | 100 min | Comedy
Pietro Breccia is a man who has long decided to abandon civilization becoming a hermit, leaving behind the strain of modern life and the futility of consumer society and living for years in... See full summary »
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ann-Margret, Vittorio Gassman, Oreste Lionello, Liana Orfei
Votes: 356
26. Una questione d'onore (1966)
110 min | Comedy, Drama
Efisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with colleagues in strength with the game "head against head".
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Bernard Blier, Franco Fabrizi
Votes: 156
27. The Girl with a Pistol (1968)
M | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A Sicilian woman "dishonored" by her lover goes to England with a pistol intending to murder him.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Corin Redgrave, Anthony Booth
Votes: 1,727
28. Catch As Catch Can (1967)
95 min | Comedy
Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him.
Director: Franco Indovina | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Martha Hyer, Gila Golan, Karin Skarreso
Votes: 122
29. Scusi, lei è favorevole o contrario? (1966)
129 min | Comedy
Successful 50-year-old entrepreneur Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a frenetic life divided among numerous lovers.
Director: Alberto Sordi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Anita Ekberg, Bibi Andersson, Tina Aumont
Votes: 238
30. Sissignore (1968)
105 min | Comedy
A businessman is nicknamed "L'avvocato" and his driver, Oscar, is a yes-man. When L'avvocato has a crash while driving his car, Oscar is put in jail in his place. When Oscar gets out, he ... See full summary »
Director: Ugo Tognazzi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Maria Grazia Buccella, Gastone Moschin, Franco Fabrizi
Votes: 113
31. Slalom (1965)
108 min | Comedy, Crime
Lucio (Vittorio Gassman) sees his holiday on the Italian Alps interrupted when he is suddenly and unwillingly involved in an International plot involving fake dollar bills.
Director: Luciano Salce | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Adolfo Celi, Daniela Bianchi, Beba Loncar
Votes: 154
32. The Easy Life (1962)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student with him for a two-day road trip from Rome to Tuscany.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudio Gora
Votes: 12,409
33. The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A middle-aged businessman finds himself in thirst for romance adventure, and it seems that a proper partner is not far away.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ann-Margret, Eleanor Parker, Fiorenzo Fiorentini
Votes: 481
34. 3 notti d'amore (1964)
119 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for ... See full summary »
Directors: Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini, Franco Rossi | Stars: Catherine Spaak, John Phillip Law, Aldo Puglisi, Renato Salvatori
Votes: 80
35. Il vigile (1960)
104 min | Comedy
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio De Sica, Marisa Merlini, Mara Berni
Votes: 1,567
36. The Visit (1963)
86 min | Comedy, Romance
Twenty-four hours in the life of Pina and Adolfo. The story of a 36-year-old woman and the flashbacks that show the pair's lives and fills in some details of their other relationships.
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Sandra Milo, François Périer, Mario Adorf, Gastone Moschin
Votes: 634
37. It's a Hard Life (1964)
104 min | Comedy
Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in the small town of Guastalla. As an intellectual and bibliophile, he works as head of cultural initiatives at a mining plant.
Director: Carlo Lizzani | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Giovanna Ralli, Rossana Martini, Giampiero Albertini
Votes: 421
38. A Difficult Life (1961)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi, Lina Volonghi
Votes: 2,185
39. La voglia matta (1962)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A middle-aged and slightly conservative businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one named Francesca. He is pursuaded to join their party and even pay for most of it, as ... See full summary »
Director: Luciano Salce | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Catherine Spaak, Béatrice Altariba, Gianni Garko
Votes: 544
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