Mario Monicelli films, ranked by your taste
Director and actor · 6 films on Boxlist
Known for Big Deal on Madonna Street, My Friends and For Love and Gold.
See which ones match your tasteStarring Mario Monicelli
Under the Tuscan Sun
2003 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDBAfter a rough divorce, Frances, a 35 year old book editor from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim she buys Bramasole, a run down villa in the Tuscan countryside and begins to piece her life...
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The Cyclone
1996 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDBLevante lives in a small city near Florence and his life is plain and a bit boring, until the day the twister arrives: a bus with six Spanish flamenco dancers that will twist Levante and his family life.
Directed by Mario Monicelli
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDBBest friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a...
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My Friends
1975 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDBFour middle-aged friends in Florence organize together idle pranks (called zingarate, "gypsy shenanigans") in a continuous attempt to prolong childhood during their adult life.
For Love and Gold
1966 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDBA group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia (south of Italy). They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly...
The Great War
1959 · Film
8.2/10 · TMDBItaly, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
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