82% (1) We All Loved Each Other So Much 124 min, [Comedy, Drama] [Ettore Scola] [23 May 1977]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 82%, External Reviews
Awards: 10 wins & 2 nominations.
Actors: Nino Manfredi, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Vittorio Gassman
Writer: Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Ettore Scola
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: Italian Country: Italy
Plot: Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable disillusionments of life.
Rotten Tomatoes: Stefania Sandrelli, a bit player in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, stars in the deliberately Felliniesque comedy We All Loved Each Other So Much. Sandrelli plays the longtime object of three friends' affections. The film traces the interrelationships of those friends-Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi and Satta Flores-over a period of thirty years, beginning with their involvement in the wartime Resistance. In addition to freely quoting from La Dolce Vita, director Ettore Scola also calculatedly evokes memories of Fellini's I Vitteloni. As a bonus, the film offers affectionate homages to several other neorealist filmmakers, including Rossellini and de Sica. We All Loved Each Other So Much was originally released as C'erevamo tanto amati.
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81% (1) The Executioner 90 min, Not Rated, [Drama, Comedy] [Luis García Berlanga] [13 Mar 1964]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 81%, External Reviews
Awards: 4 wins & 2 nominations.
Actors: Emma Penella, José Isbert, José Luis López Vázquez, Nino Manfredi
Writer: Luis García Berlanga (story), Rafael Azcona (story), Luis García Berlanga (screenplay), Rafael Azcona (screenplay), Ennio Flaiano (screenplay collaboration)
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: Spanish Country: Spain, Italy
Plot: The history starts with the main character (an old executioner in the Spain of early 60's) approaching retirement age. As his profession is not exactly what you could call "popular", he (a very gentle and nice man, caring, and proud of traditions) begins to worry about who might take his place when he retires. He has a daughter, but, unfortunately, she seems doomed to perpetual "spinsterhood": as soon as any prospective groom learns about her dad and her dad's "trade", he runs away from her, scared. A sad life... However, a new character enters: the local undertaker, a handsome and young man who has exactly the same problem... No girl wants him given his profession. So, you have the woman whom almost nobody would marry and the man whom almost nobody would marry. Obviously, they are meant for each other. But here the old executioner has something to say: He does not object to her daughter marrying the young undertaker; he seems a decent man, and all that... But there is a condition: Only if the groom agrees to take the executioner's job when he will retire, will he agree to her daughter's marriage. And, anyway, as the old executioner says to the worried young man.... "Don't worry, they sentence people, but, in the last moment, they're going to pardon them!".
Rotten Tomatoes: In this black comedy, a mortician's assistant wants to marry an executioner's daughter. Her father wants to change professions but cannot, as he will lose his new government-sponsored apartment. The young man is persuaded to take over the job, but he swears he will quit before he must kill someone.
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78% (1) Ugly, Dirty and Bad 115 min, [Comedy, Drama] [Ettore Scola] [23 Sep 1976]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 78%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win & 2 nominations.
Actors: Francesco Anniballi, Giselda Castrini, Maria Bosco, Maria Luisa Santella, Nino Manfredi
Writer: Ruggero Maccari (story), Ettore Scola (story), Ruggero Maccari (screenplay), Ettore Scola (screenplay)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: Italian Country: Italy
Plot: Four generations of a family live crowded together in a cardboard shantytown shack in the squalor of inner-city Rome. They plan to murder each other with poisoned dinners, arson, etc. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.
Rotten Tomatoes: Down & Dirty was originally titled Brutti, sporchi e cativi in Italy. That translates literally to "dirty, nasty and bad", in reference to the lower-class characters and surroundings in this Ettore Scola film. Scola zeroes in on a particularly offensive Roman family. The stingy patriarch, Nino Manfredi, is personally wealthy but morally bankrupt, and his repulsive view of life trickles down to every member of his clan. Not content with corrupting his own flesh and blood, Manfredi spreads his philosophy throughout his village, where he functions as slumlord. By the time Manfredi's wife and sons begin plotting his murder, the audience is ready for a long, cold shower, with plenty of soap. A bleak film heavily laden with humor, Down & Dirty won Ettore Scola a Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival.
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76% (1) Bread and Chocolate 100 min, [Comedy, Drama] [Franco Brusati] [18 Jan 1974]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 76%, External Reviews
Awards: 10 wins & 3 nominations.
Actors: Anna Karina, Nino Manfredi, Paolo Turco, Tano Cimarosa, Ugo D'Alessio
Writer: Franco Brusati (story), Franco Brusati (dialogue), Jaja Fiastri (dialogue), Nino Manfredi (dialogue)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: Italian, German, English, French, Greek, Spanish Country: Italy
Plot: Italian immigrant tries to become a member of Swiss society but fails as a waiter and even as a chicken plucker. He then becomes involved with shady wealthy character and tries to hide his Italian identity. He refuses to give up no matter how awful his situation.
Rotten Tomatoes: A hard-working Sicilian heads for Switzerland in search of a better life in this gentle, sweet-sour Italian comedy. Despite the poor fellow's best efforts to fit in with his neighbors, he never quite seems to make it.
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75% (1) In the Name of the Pope King 105 min, [Drama, History, Romance] [Luigi Magni] [16 May 1986]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 75%, External Reviews
Awards: 8 wins.
Actors: Carmen Scarpitta, Danilo Mattei, Giovannella Grifeo, Nino Manfredi
Writer: Luigi Magni
External Links: Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: Italian Country: Italy
Plot: In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the ...
Rotten Tomatoes: In this film, Italian actor/director Nino Manfredi plays a magistrate in a small region under the realm of Papal rule. Manfredi faces the legal battle of his life when his own son is accused of being a terrorist. Justice, mercy, and love become oil-and-water elements in this wrenching drama.
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72% (1) Roaring Years 106 min, [Comedy] [Luigi Zampa] [21 Apr 1962]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 74%, External Reviews
Awards: 1 win.
Actors: Gastone Moschin, Gino Cervi, Michèle Mercier, Nino Manfredi
Writer: Sergio Amidei (story), Vincenzo Talarico (story), Luigi Zampa (story), Ettore Scola (screenplay), Ruggero Maccari (screenplay), Luigi Zampa (screenplay)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: Italian Country: Italy
Plot: In the thirties, during the Fascist Dictatorship, an insurance broker, Omero Battifiori, reaches a small country town from Rome seeking for new customers. The main authorities, expecting an incognito inspection from the Fascist Party of the capital, suspect him to be the inspector and a very important member of the Party. The misunderstanding leads to a number of equivocals until Omero reveals his identity.
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72% (1) Between Miracles 122 min, [Comedy] [Nino Manfredi] [24 Mar 1971]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 72%, External Reviews
Awards: 6 wins & 5 nominations.
Actors: Delia Boccardo, Lionel Stander, Nino Manfredi, Paola Borboni
Writer: Leonardo Benvenuti (dialogue), Piero De Bernardi (dialogue), Luigi Magni (dialogue), Nino Manfredi (screenplay), Nino Manfredi (story)
External Links: Wikipedia Rotten Tomatoes IMDb Language: Italian Country: Italy
Plot: Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.
Rotten Tomatoes: This film is a semi-autobiographical work from Italian actor/writer/director Nino Manfredi. The central character, played by Manfredi, is a young man whose obsessive lifelong devotion to Saint Eusebie has caused him to forego romance and a social life. After a sexual liaison, Manfredi realizes what he's been missing in life.
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