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Toto and Carolina is a film of genre Comedy directed by Mario Monicelli with Totò
Toto and Carolina (1955)
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Add to a movie listTotò and Carolina (Italian: Totò e Carolina) is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and starring Totò. The film was banned when it was first released, as it made fun of a policeman.
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During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent Antonio Caccavallo, a widower with dependent child and parent, stops along with other women of life even Carolina. In fact, the girl is just ran away from home because she was pregnant. The poor Caccavallo so by the Commissioner is obliged to give back to the country of origin, and give it to a relative. But the task of arranging Carolina will prove to be more complicated than expected, partly because of the reluctance of the girl who does not want to set foot where she had fled. Nevertheless Carolina somehow manages to confide in and bond with the policeman, which includes professional obligations, and despite a few troubles do not go (try to escape, and even suicide) does not grudge. In the end, lying to his superiors about the success of the mission, it will load Caccavallo welcoming her to his house, where for a long time lacked a female presence.Actors
Totò
(Antonio Caccavallo)
Anna Maria Ferrero
(Carolina De Vico)
Arnoldo Foà
(Commissario)
Maurizio Arena
(Mario)
Tina Pica
(Signora all'ospedale (uncredited))
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, 1h25Directed by Mario Monicelli
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Genres Comedy
Actors Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Giovanna Ralli, Tina Pica, Mario Carotenuto, Leopoldo Trieste
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Directed by Mario Monicelli, Steno
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Genres Comedy
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Rating65%
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The Passionate Thief (1960)
, 1h46Directed by Mario Monicelli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Nouvel an
Actors Totò, Anna Magnani, Ben Gazzara, Fred Clark, Edy Vessel, Carlo Pisacane
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, 1h35Directed by Mauro Bolognini, Mario Monicelli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Franco Rossi, Steno
Genres Comedy
Actors Totò, Walter Chiari, Ugo D'Alessio, Ninetto Davoli, Laura Betti, Renzo Marignano
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Iago: "What do you feel inside? Focus. What do you feel? "
Toto and the Women (1952)
, 1h43Directed by Lucio Fulci, Mario Monicelli, Steno
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Genres Comedy
Actors Totò, Ave Ninchi, Clelia Matania, Alda Mangini, Lea Padovani, Mario Castellani
Rating65%
The Roman businessman Philip (Totò) can not standthat his possessive and domineering wife (Ave Ninchi) wants to require its own lifestyle. In fact, for years now after the wedding, Philip was now totally feel deprived of their freedom of her husband. The only freedom that remains is to hole up in the attic read novels polizieschie and venerate the leader of the Italian sergeants. The balance family collapses when the young daughter of Philip became engaged to a young doctor (Peppino De Filippo) to prove to everyone that his talent decides to use the poor Philip as a guinea pig! When enough is enough: Philip decides to spend his evenings in the greater worldliness possible along with his young girlfriend. However Philip soon discovers that the girl is too young for him and, feeling ridiculous, decides to break off the relationship. But it is too late: his wife discovered him and wants to drag it to court .
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, 1h16Directed by Mario Monicelli, Steno
Genres Comedy
Actors Totò, Alda Mangini, Lia Amanda, Pietro De Vico, Giacomo Furia, Folco Lulli
Rating65%
In Italy after the war the problem for every citizen is to find a comfortable place to live. Beniamino Lomacchio (Totò) is one of the many people without a home and, together with his family he's been living in classrooms. He can not live there much longer, though, because school re-opens in September. Beniamino is poor and does not know what to do; he just hopes he'll find a comfortable apartment with a landlord who doesn't ask for too much rent.
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
, 1h42Directed by Mario Monicelli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy, Crime
Themes Heist films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Vittorio Gassman, Totò, Claudia Cardinale, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Rosanna Rory
Rating79%
A Roman small-time crook, Cosimo, is arrested for the attempted theft of a car. After he is convicted and put in prison, he starts haranguing his girlfriend and former accomplices by telling them that he has a plan for a heist but that he needs their help to be freed. In order to assure his release, they find an acquaintance named Peppe (Vittorio Gassman) with a clean criminal record to take the blame for the theft in the hope that the police will release Cosimo. They instead have both of them jailed. While Peppe is in jail, Cosimo tells him the plans for the heist of a safe in a pawnshop. Peppe then reveals that he got off merely with probation, leaving him free to pursue the heist without Cosimo, much to his chagrin.
Cops and Robbers (1951)
, 1h49Directed by Mario Monicelli, Steno
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Totò, Aldo Fabrizi, Ernesto Almirante, Ave Ninchi, Pietro Carloni, Pina Piovani
Rating76%
The film is set in Rome during the Marshall Plan. Ferdinando Esposito (Totò) is a small villain who tries to support his family with his tricks. With his accomplice Amilcare (Aldo Giuffrè) pretends to have found an ancient coin in the Roman Forum and an American tourist cheats: Mr. Locuzzo that, unfortunately for him, is the chairman of a committee of the American charity. During the distribution of some gift-packs, also Esposito, these recognize and denounce the spot.
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, 1h47Directed by Mario Monicelli, Renzo Marignano
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Marisa Mell, Michèle Mercier, Guido Alberti
Rating63%
NATO Officer Andrea Rossi-Colombotti (Mastroianni) is a ladies man with an unusual libido: he can only seduce women in situations where his life is in danger. The film begins with him breaking into a Corsican girlfriends house; the girl, armed and voluptuous, believes Andrea a criminal and nearly shoots him before being seduced, but she later ends their relationship in the light of such an incident. Later, while spending an afternoon with an Asian air stewardess, he tries to achieve arousal by making up a situation about a dying relative, but the stewardess learns the sham and the liaison ends disastrously.