Luigi Comencini Movies

This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers....

Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager who has had it with his...

Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murder of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the...

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.

In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been...

Two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional...

By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates an illustration of the economic boom in Italy...

Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who...

A former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an...

Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.

In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.

Christina and Francesca Comencini go on a pilgrimage to Agen, France to find the places where there Dad Luigi Comencini spent his childhood.

A portrait of Italy observed through the eyes of teenagers who talk about the places they live in and imagine themselves, torn between the...

An average Joe becomes the poster boy for a book about Jesus due to his Christ-like appearance, but his meek and good-hearted nature ends up clashing...

Documentary filmed in the judicial asylum of Aversa which testifies to the systems of care still based on violence and segregation.

Among old films sent to pulp, the fortunate discovery of nitrates in country farmhouses and the rediscovered treasures of silent cinema, the work of...

A social document of children, against the background of post WWII Milan.

Luigi Comencini interviews children from different Italian regions and different social conditions, but mainly the poorest, visiting them in the...

Luigi Comencini interviews children from different Italian regions and different social conditions, but mainly the poorest, visiting them in the...