Luigi Comencini Movies

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...

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...

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...

In the Po Valley during the 19th century, a rich girl engaged to a well-to-do farmer ends up penniless and is forced to work for her...

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

Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny instead is married to a ugly woman. Ornella is Bruno's...

The film follows the struggles of an idealistic Catholic politician.

The film tells the story of a love affair between a poor poet and an equally poor seamstress in 19th century Paris.

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...

Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine...

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

A man has problems connecting with his son after coming home from work in Africa, after his wife's death.

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

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

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

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