JTB Ettore Scola - 33 Classic Movies (Comedy/Drama/Mystery/Thriller)
Ettore Scola was born 10 May 1931 and sadly passed away 19 January 2016. He was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He received a Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film in 1978 for his film A Special Day (1977) and over the course of his film career was nominated for five Academy Awards.
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- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsVittorio GassmanSylva KoscinaAntonella LualdiVittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsVittorio GassmanJoan CollinsJacques BergeracDon Giuliano Niccolini Borges (Vittorio Gassman), Roman Prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane (Dame Joan Collins), an English girl he has met who accompanies him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He plans some hanky-panky on their various stops along the route, but Jane has other plans, as she is only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection. The car clears customs--as do the stolen million dollars she is smuggling. Sandro (Jacques Bergerac), her former boyfriend, is following them and plans to hijack the loot, leaving Jane empty-handed.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniGian Luigi PolidoroEttore ScolaStarsNino ManfrediAlexandra StewartMagda KonopkaAn anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsVittorio GassmanClaudine AugerMickey RooneyA leading devil comes to earth to prevent the marriage of a papal aristocrat and a daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsAlberto SordiBernard BlierAlfredo MarchettiA pompous, adventure-seeking businessman journeys through Africa with a clumsy employee to find his own disappeared brother-in-law.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsUgo TognazziSilvia DionisioTano CimarosaA police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a dyke and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsMarcello MastroianniMonica VittiGiancarlo GianniniA three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsMarcello MastroianniLauren HuttonTom ReedRocco Papaleo, an optimistic and kind man from a mining town in Alaska, gets away from his company during a trip to Chicago and is increasingly disillusioned in the face of the city's hostility.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsAlberto SordiMichel SimonCharles VanelA salesman chasing by car a beautiful female biker in order to flirt finds a castle where he is accused in a game trial for murder.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsPaolo TurcoVittorio FranzinettiVittoria FranzinettiFrom Trevico in the province of Avellino, a young man arrives in Turin to work at Fiat. Once hired, he will face harsh experiences as an immigrant and a worker.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsNino ManfrediVittorio GassmanStefania SandrelliThree partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsFrancesco AnniballiMaria BoscoGiselda CastriniFour generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.
- DirectorLeonardo BenvenutiLuigi ComenciniPiero De BernardiStarsSenta BergerAdolfo CeliVittorio GassmanAn episodic satire of the social and politic status of Italy in the 1970s through the programming of a television channel.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsSophia LorenMarcello MastroianniJohn VernonTwo neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
- DirectorMario MonicelliDino RisiEttore ScolaStarsVittorio GassmanOrnella MutiAlberto SordiSeveral episodes depicting Italian's life in short humoristic stories.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsVittorio GassmanUgo TognazziJean-Louis TrintignantDuring a dinner in a Roman terrace, the lives and experiences of multiple characters intertwine.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsValeria D'ObiciBernard GiraudeauJean-Louis TrintignantIn the 1860s, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier, is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant). Among the inhabitants of the house there is a strange young woman: Fosca (d'Obici) who is both unattractive and mad. However, she has a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsJean-Louis BarraultMarcello MastroianniHanna SchygullaDuring the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsÉtienne GuichardRégis BouquetFrancesco De RosaDance moves, music and fashion mark the passage of time inside a Paris dance hall, throughout fifty years of history.
- DirectorUgo AdilardiSilvano AgostiGianni AmicoStarsEnrico BerlinguerGiorgio AlmiranteMichelangelo AntonioniThe film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral which took place in Rome is a set of mainly public images, the re-presentation of the political figure. The video briefly traces the political life of Enrico Berlinguer, the interventions. We see the images of 1976, at the CPSU congress in Moscow, and of 1984, in Padua, from the stage in Piazza della Frutta, during the closing rally of the European elections, visibly suffering.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsJack LemmonMarcello MastroianniDaria NicolodiA businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades, only to discover that old friends have involved him in a massive hoax.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsVittorio GassmanFanny ArdantStefania SandrelliWith the background of the XX century Italian history, Carlo, a retired teacher, traces the vicissitudes of his family.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsMarcello MastroianniMassimo TroisiMarina VladyJordan, forced to close his movie theater due to financial problems, recalls the events, the characters and the films that marked his life.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsMarcello MastroianniMassimo TroisiAnne ParillaudThe visit of a lawer to his military son is an opportunity to recall the past, discuss the future and find a meeting point between two diametrically opposite personalities.
- DirectorEttore ScolaStarsVincent PerezEmmanuelle BéartMassimo TroisiEn route to Paris, a group gets lost during a storm and seeks refuge in a castle owned by a ruined nobleman, who wants to join the group's trek to Paris.