NINO MANFREDI'S BEST FILMS
Films rated 7 or above: 26 (26 points)
Films rated 8 or above: 2 (4 points)
Films rated 9 or above: -
Awards nominations: 5 (5 points)
Awards won: 5 (5 points)
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Total: 40 points
Films rated 8 or above: 2 (4 points)
Films rated 9 or above: -
Awards nominations: 5 (5 points)
Awards won: 5 (5 points)
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Total: 40 points
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- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsNino ManfrediVittorio GassmanStefania SandrelliThree partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
- DirectorLuis García BerlangaStarsNino ManfrediEmma PenellaJosé IsbertAn undertaker marries an old executioner's daughter and must continue his father-in-law's profession after his retirement, although he doesn't like it.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsFrancesco AnniballiMaria BoscoGiselda CastriniFour generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.
- DirectorCamillo MastrocinqueStarsTotòPeppino De FilippoDorian GrayTwo clumsy provincial uncles visit a metropolis to stop the relationship between their nephew and a woman of ill repute.
- DirectorAntonio PietrangeliStarsStefania SandrelliMario AdorfJean-Claude BrialyAdriana, a naive Italian country girl, moves to Rome to become a movie star and experiences the dark side of the business.
- DirectorFranco BrusatiStarsNino ManfrediAnna KarinaPaolo TurcoItalian immigrant Nino steadfastly tries to become a member of Swiss Society no matter how awful his situation becomes.
- DirectorLuigi MagniStarsNino ManfrediDanilo MatteiCarmen ScarpittaIn 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular power. That night, three rebels blow up the Zouaves' barracks. Colombo learns that a brief liaison with a countess 20 years' before produced a son, one of the rebels arrested for the bombing. He uses his influence to gain the youth's release, hides him, and then engages in doomed battles of wit with the court and with the Black Pope to free the other two. Can this priest be a father, blunt power, and live out his faith?
- DirectorLuigi MagniStarsNino ManfrediEnrico Maria SalernoClaudia CardinaleRome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions. So Cornacchia decides to report Spada to two "Carbonari" (kind of Freemasons) to kill Spada. The two, Montanari (Hossein) and Targhini (Verley) fail to kill him and decide to escape from Rome. But they are arrested and sentenced to death. Cornacchia will spend his last chance to save them.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsNino ManfrediGino CerviMichèle MercierThe incognito visit of a fascist hierarch in a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
- DirectorDamiano DamianiStarsNino ManfrediGabriele LaviaGuido LeontiniIn Mussolini's Rome a murderer is targeting young girls. The movie explores how the fascist mind works, how it plays its values off the sentiment of the masses and explores the role of the press in creating a unified narrative.
- DirectorLuigi Filippo D'AmicoDino RisiFranco RossiStarsNino ManfrediIlaria OcchiniRiccardo GarroneIn 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 the police in a local for homosexuals. In the third part, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him since nobody has the courage of uncovering the true reason for him being unwanted.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsNino ManfrediAdolfo CeliVittorio MezzogiornoAn Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on a night train to Naples.
- DirectorAntonio PietrangeliStarsNino ManfrediCatherine SpaakDidi PeregoDora, 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.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsNino ManfrediPaolo StoppaMarisa LauritoSasá Iovine, a small-time Neopolitan operator, finds himself in the thick of a multi-murder mystery when Don Michele, a building contractor hires Iovine to find his daughter who has disappeared with incriminating documents.
- DirectorJos StellingStarsRené GroothofVeerle DobbelaereRené van 't HofLate 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War. Flanders, 1568: Italian minstrel Campanelli tells he followed a Dutchman, the robber of a golden chalice, but failed to prevent him being taken -after banging a country-girl- by the men of a rigid farmer Netelneck, who has him tied-up inside a huge shit-container. After Campanelli frees him, the gold stays inside, and the Dutchman is killed, but the minstrel turns to offer the paying audience a happier version. Seven years later, he scares the Dutchman's posthumous son into bringing him food and convinces the kid he can fly, like his dad, who is on a grand ship, but fails to drag the gold out and is blinded and chased by Netelneck. Fourteen years later, the minstrel returns and tricks Netelneck into diving after the gold himself so he can drawn the bastard, then sets the 'little Dutchman' on the road to find his father, who proves a mere thief living in a beached shipwreck. Both join a brigand band, but it ends up arrested by the Spaniards and imprisoned under the authority of Netelneck's son, who has him thrown in an oubliette forced to scoop water, but Lotte, his only lover ever, notices something she gave him and believes her son, now she's Netelneck junior's wife, is the little Dutchman's...
- DirectorNino ManfrediStarsNino ManfrediDelia BoccardoPaola BorboniLittle Benedetto came out of an accident uninjured on his First Communion day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and make him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin, and grace.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniStarsNino ManfrediMario AdorfValeria MoriconiAn inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.
- DirectorGiuliano MontaldoStarsNino ManfrediMarlène JobertArnoldo FoàThe squalid life of meek bookkeeper Vittorio is interrupted when he becomes friends with police officer Sauro. Vittorio is introduced to gun shooting, at which he proves to be gifted. This fact shakes up his dull existence, which he might wish he'd never left once he gets into trouble with gangsters.
- DirectorAlberto SimoneStarsTchéky KaryoNino ManfrediIsabelle PascoLorenzo, a milanese astrophysicist, has recently inherited a country house in Sicily and has it restored by Salvatore, an introverted carpenter. Salvatore starts his job with the help of his handicapped son. Since work seems to be very slow Lorenzo goes and checks on them and finds out that Salvatore has turned the house into a therapeutic community for troubled people. At first he's very angry but then his good heart prevails.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsNino ManfrediSenta BergerMario AdorfAn American gangster in Italy enlists a local gang to help him steal the treasure of Naples' patron saint.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsVittorio GassmanRenato SalvatoriClaudia CardinaleThe usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsAlberto SordiBernard BlierAlfredo MarchettiA pompous, adventure-seeking businessman journeys through Africa with a clumsy employee to find his own disappeared brother-in-law.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsNino ManfrediUgo TognazziPamela TiffinMarino decided to go to Rome to win back his girlfriend. After many hardships their paths eventually crossed but to his shock, he discovered that she is now married to a deaf and mute man.
- DirectorMario CameriniStarsAlberto SordiVittorio GassmanNino ManfrediA randomly formed group of Italians gets deeply involved in a crime in Montacarlo.
- DirectorMiguel HermosoStarsAlfredo LandaNino ManfrediKiti MánverJoaquin comes back to Granada in the eighties trying to find out about something happened when he was a child and the Spanish Civil War was going on. He helped an unknown man who survived after being executed. He finds the man, Galapago, who is now quite old, poor and with almost no memory. Joaquin takes care of him and finds hints that point to Galapago as Federico García Lorca.
- DirectorPhilomène EspositoStarsVirginie LedoyenNino ManfrediMargarita LozanoMima and her Italian family live in France. When her grandfather is killed, she discovers that they have a long-running family feud with the mafia.