Totò Movies

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer....

Pasquale takes all of his 12 children and runs away from Monza, looking for a house of a wealthy and generous awning. Having met on the way...

Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.

Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent...

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore...

A hilarious anthology of scenes from some of the most famous films starring the great Totò, the prince of Italian comedy.

Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.

A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.

Nini and Mimi are strolling musicians-bassist. For days they are playing on the streets of Rome. One day Nini announced that he has one million and...

On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by...

A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself...

The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.

Antonio goes to Rome to represent his fellow peasants, to request a highway that will be built in their region. But the guy is mastered by 'la dolce...