Movies: Dino Risi

Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant ...

How Funny Can Sex Be? is an nine-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy....

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s...

A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli....

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples....

In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in orde...

The story of one man dealing with an unexpected series of events, discovering his youth once again in the relationship with a much younger woman and finally coming to grips with his age, and the fact that he hasn't been there for his family like he s...

An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of ...

Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her....

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....

A 1977 Italian comedy film composed of 14 episodes, directed by Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963....

The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes....

Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic....

King's Dagobert I intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his royal caravan then barely makes it to Rome to personally give thanks to the Pope. After he arrives at the Vatican, he becomes involved in the battle between t...

Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife....

Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna....

Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a ...

Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze....

Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover....

When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life. But once love is found, it is a matter of spreading it and here the difficulties begin: first the father who opposes it; then, ...