Luigi Comencini — Director (20)
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Behind Closed Shutters (1951)
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Luigi Comencini actor: Massimo Girotti / Eleonora Rossi Drago …
other title: Geschlossene Gardinen / 窗後不為人知的秘密 …
Middle class Sandra, engaged to be married and living in Turin, searches for her missing sister that is estranged from her family. For this, she enters the morally degraded back allies of the port city of Genoa and is exposed to the world of sex trafficking.
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Guaglio (1948)
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Luigi Comencini actor: Adolfo Celi / Tina Pica …
other title: Proibito rubare / Hey Boy …
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 realizes how miserable the city of Naples is. Then he decides that his mission is there in Naples, He creates his 'The Boys' Town' a shelter for poor kids, aka the 'scugnizzi' (street urchins), with a view to putting them back on the right track. Some of the kids, though, do not play by the rules just using that 'home' as a convenient place for hiding the product of their thefts...
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Bebo's Girl (1964)
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路易吉·科门奇尼 actor: 克劳迪娅·卡汀娜 / George Chakiris …
other title: 부베의 연인 / ブーベの恋人 …
At the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is finding it difficult to adjust to the dull banalities of life in peacetime. When Mara’s father, a passionate Communist, declares that his daughter will marry the returning hero, her reactions range from joy to bitter resentment.
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The Surprises of Love (1959)
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路易吉·科门奇尼 actor: Dorian Gray / Sylva Koscina
other title: Le sorprese dell'amore / Les surprises de l'amour …
This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers. The script includes witty dialogue and humorous situations; most of all on display is the ridiculousness of the human compulsion to pair up.
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Marcellino (1991)
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路易吉·科门奇尼 actor: 迪德·伯努瓦 / 赛尔乔·比尼·布斯特里克 …
other title: 마르셀리노의 기적 / Marcelino pan y vino …
In the 15th century, in a poor Italian village, the monks of a modest convent take up an abandoned baby. Unfortunately, for all their efforts, they prove unable to trace his parents. So they set up providing tender loving care to the little boy. Marcellino lives a happy life among the men of God but, as he grows up, he misses his mother more and more.
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Don Camillo in Moscow (1965)
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路易吉·科门奇尼 actor: 费南代尔 / 吉诺·塞尔维 …
other title: 唐·卡米罗在莫斯科 / Il compagno Don Camillo …
Don Camillo is outraged when his long-standing rival Peppone announces that their small Italian town is to be twinned with a town in Communist Russia. When various attempts to overturn this decision fail, Don Camillo manages to persuade his superiors to allow him to accompany Peppone on his ceremonial visit to the Russian town. There, the Catholic priest is surprised that the country is not so religiously atheistic as he had imagined…
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Traffic Jam (1979)
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Luigi Comencini actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Gérard Depardieu
other title: 塞车奇事 / L'ingorgo - Una storia impossibile …
A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a major universe: the congestion.
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The Cat (1977)
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路易吉·科门奇尼 actor: 乌戈·托尼亚齐 / 玛丽安杰拉·梅拉托 …
other title: 灵猫 / II gatto
Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer...
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Till Marriage Do Us Part (1974)
Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso! Douban
Luigi Comencini actor: Laura Antonelli / Alberto Lionello …
other title: 上帝，我怎么掉了下来！ / Mio Dio come sono caduta in basso!
修女们抚养的孤儿侯爵尤金妮娅·迪·马奎达(Eugenia Di Maqueda)娶了雷蒙多·考罗(Raimondo Corrao)，但在他们新婚之夜，她发现他是她的兄弟。这则消息来自于他们的父亲从巴黎写来的一封信，他是一位住在法国总部的妇女，并对他们躲藏起来。为了避免这桩丑闻，这对夫妇决定以兄妹的身份生活。他以后会离开去参加在利比亚的战争，她会在家庭司机的臂弯里找到慰藉和性满足。
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The Sunday Woman (1975)
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路易吉·科门奇尼 actor: 马塞洛·马斯楚安尼 / 杰奎琳·比塞特 …
other title: 星期天的女人 / La donna della domenica …
Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, a homosexual platonic friend of Anna Carla. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murdering happens...