Best Italian Episodic Movies
List of the best Episodic movies produced in Italy
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- DirectorBruno BozzettoStarsMaurizio NichettiMaurizio MicheliMarialuisa GiovanniniAn enthusiastic filmmaker thinks he's come up with a totally original idea: animation set to classical music! When he is informed that some American named "Prisney" (or something) has already done it, he decides to do his own version, using an orchestra comprising mostly old ladies and an animator he's kept locked in a dungeon. Several different classical pieces are animated, while the animator plots his escape.
- DirectorMauro BologniniMario MonicelliPier Paolo PasoliniStarsTotòUgo D'AlessioRegina SeiffertThe film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
- DirectorNanni MorettiStarsNanni MorettiRenato CarpentieriAntonio NeiwillerDirector Nanni Moretti takes a mordant look at Italian life through three disparate journeys, presented as the chapters of an open diary.
- 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.
- DirectorLuigi ZampaStarsVittorio GassmanNino ManfrediAlberto SordiEpisodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
- DirectorLuigi ComenciniNanni LoyLuigi MagniStarsNino ManfrediStefania SandrelliAlberto SordiThree sexy and comedic episodes.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsPaolo VillaggioMariangela MelatoAdriano CelentanoFour episodes: A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error; a woman seeks a partner for a dance contest; a worker seduces his boss's wife; a guard is too proactive, which causes much trouble.
- DirectorCarlo VanzinaStarsLino BanfiEnrico BrignanoNancy BrilliThe story is divided into seven parts focused on holiday, sun and sea.
- DirectorNeri ParentiStarsChristian De SicaJerry CalàMassimo BoldiThree episodes held together by a common element: a car rented by three different characters.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniAldo GiuffrèStories about three very different women and the men they attract.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsSergio CastellittoRiccardo ScamarcioRemo GironeFortunato is a trucker who specializes in the transport of luxury vehicles, especially Ferraris, in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries. Tired of a life away from home and in the process of retiring, he accompanies his successor, the young Marcello, for his last trip in Dubai.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsRenato PozzettoNino ManfrediMara Venier
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsNino ManfrediRenato PozzettoJanet AgrenTwo episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso' (the one with the red beret). Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance. In fact she always remember her mother having sex with a man wearing a red beret. She discovers that man is Sandro, makes love with him and soon recovers from her obsession.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsRenzo MarignanoClaudio GoraMarina BertiA group of Italians--tourists and immigrants--take a flight to Sweden. Two bourgeois couples choose a typical Italian restaurant by its name, 'La Trattoria', and are disgusted by the untidiness and poor service. An elegant lady in her splendid Ferrari is accosted by an Italian and imagines a flirtation, but he's all eyes--for the car. An Italian wife finds her husband in bed with another woman, but he's so smooth with his explanation that she blames herself for not spending enough time with him lately.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsRobert De NiroMonica BellucciRiccardo ScamarcioIn Italy three men fall in love with three women. First a young engaged lawyer has a fling, then the middle-aged married man has a fling, then a retired man (Robert DeNiro) falls in love with his friend's daughter (Monica Bellucci).
- DirectorAndy TennantGiovanni VeronesiStarsCarlo VerdoneMonica BellucciRiccardo ScamarcioFour episodes. Nicola, paralyzed after a car crash, falls in love for his physiotherapist Lucia. Franco and Manuela, a young couple unfit to have child, fly to Barcelona for a specialized treatment for fertility. Filippo and Fosco, two gays, decide to marry. Ernesto, waiter in an important restaurant has a liaison with Cecilia the new young Spanish help in cuisine.
- DirectorGiovanni VeronesiStarsCarlo VerdoneLuciana LittizzettoSilvio MuccinoFour intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsUgo TognazziVittorio GassmanLando BuzzancaThe myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
- DirectorMario MonicelliDino RisiEttore ScolaStarsVittorio GassmanOrnella MutiAlberto SordiSeveral episodes depicting Italian's life in short humoristic stories.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsVittorio GassmanSylva KoscinaAntonella LualdiVittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.
- DirectorSergio MartinoStarsJohnny DorelliLino BanfiJanet AgrenThe film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaStarsTotòLianella CarellPasquale CennamoA portrait of the people, the defects, and the peculiarities of Naples in six different vignettes.
- DirectorNeri ParentiStarsChristian De SicaPasquale PetroloClaudio GregoriLove at first sight.
- DirectorNeri ParentiStarsPaolo VillaggioLino BanfiMilly CarlucciNicola Calore faces the visit of his niece Rosina who believes that he has become wealthy. Episode 2: The misadventures of two surveyors during their stay in a holiday village in Kenya.
- DirectorAldo FabriziGiorgio PastinaMario SoldatiStarsTuri PandolfiniNatale CirinoAntonio Nicotra1) A jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch. 2) A young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan. 3) Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for - casting spells. 4) The discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
- DirectorLeonardo BenvenutiLuigi ComenciniPiero De BernardiStarsSenta BergerAdolfo CeliVittorio GassmanAn episodic satire of the social and politic status of Italy in the 1970s through the programming of a television channel.
- DirectorSergio NascaStarsDuilio Del PreteJanet AgrenTuri FerroThree women are together in a clinic to abort; those who do it reluctantly, those with determination.
- DirectorAlessandro BlasettiPaul PaviotStarsVittorio De SicaDany RobinFrançois PérierA five-part compilation film. In "The Baby," a poverty-ridden couple with children decides that their newborn is too much and decide to leave him in a church, but the mother can't go through with it and decides to leave him in an expensive car; the father cannot go through with that and they take him back home. "The Hand of Providence": An old woman has been brooding for many years while the parish priest has been urging her to unburden herself by telling him all. She tells him that her life seems pointless and that she is thinking of suicide. Trying to dissuade her, the priest trips and falls over the edge of a cliff and saves himself by grasping a hanging bush. This convinces the woman that God holds life precious and she shouldn't give up hers. "On Location": An elderly actor and actress get parts in a film being shot on location and discover that they are old friends. They both confess to being lonely, and while rehearsing their scenes they decide that a future together would be most desirable. They drive off and leave the director needing two actors. "The Amorous Bus Driver": A Neapolitan bus driver does not let company regulations interfere with romance. "The Camera": A woman is after a camera offered as a prize on a chance-board. A man is after her. He borrows the camera to shoot some posed shots with her, but can't make the timer work.
- DirectorDino RisiStarsNino ManfrediSylva KoscinaVéronique VendellSeven episodes light-heartedly revolving around sexuality and eros with seven funny characters all played by great Nino Manfredi.
- DirectorGianni FrancioliniVittorio De SicaStarsEduardo De FilippoVittorio De SicaAnna Maria FerreroVilla Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneRenato ScarpaVerónica MirielCarlo Verdone plays a multitude of characters, including a bully, a priest, a hippie, and an anxiogenous man.