Luigi Comencini Movies

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...

Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the unlikely name of Dante...

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...

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

A war hero turned unemployed is hired by a British man whose life he saved during the war, for a secret mission: to kill a neo-nazi.

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

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...

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

On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While trying to retrieve his baggage he...

In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The...

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

The film follows the struggles of an idealistic Catholic politician.

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

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.

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