The best Antonio Petrocelli’s comedy movies
We present our ranking of the best Antonio Petrocelli’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Antonio Petrocelli.
Caro Diario
7.2/10
Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted Rome, in the second he visits a reclusive friend on an island, and in the last he has to grapple with an unknown illness.
Let Yourself Go
6/10
Depressed Jewish shrink Elia one day meets Claudia, a young and eccentric personal trainer.
Welcome Back Mr. President
5.8/10
Peppino, a provincial librarian who became the accidental President of Italy, is now a father and has returned to a peaceful, happy life as a woodsman. That is, until his wife Janis decides to return to politics. Peppino is forced to abandon his home in the mountains and return to Rome to win back his love and help her defeat a speculative plot intended to damage Italy. Together, they must fight against social media attacks of the opposition and get the country back on its feet.
The Caiman
6.7/10
A skewering of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.
La scuola
7/10
In a grammar school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day of school before the summer holidays. Professor Vivaldi, Italian literature teacher, before the end bitterly remembers what happened in that year and he wonders what will happen to those young students that he cared for as children from their first day of school. But they've paid him off in a somewhat offensive way, given that, as the professor has noted, today's youth are in most cases changed, drifters and without a sense of civic duty.
An Almost Perfect Country
6/10
Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to disappear. Its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic do not give up and, believing that the opening of a factory may be the solution to all their troubles, they want to make sure that the project is successful ...
It's Happening Tomorrow
6.3/10
Edo and Lupo are two countrymen running away after having robbed their boss. They are chased by 3 mercernaries. They will meet real gangsters, then some excentric nobles. At this time, they are separated for an experiment. Edo is given education, while Lupo is left alone unattended. The goal is to determine whether education can make a man more clever.
Caruso Pascoski di padre polacco
6.9/10
Psicoanalista psicolabile, Caruso si dispera e si dà all'alcol quando la moglie Giulia, da lungo tempo amata, lo lascia e frequenta un suo paziente dalla latente omosessualità. Per riconquistarla accetta a sue spese di guarire il presunto rivale. La coppia si ricompone. Nasce un figlio. Futuro incerto. Staccato dalla protettiva regia di M. Ponzi, F. Nuti impernia i suoi film sulla precarietà della coppia e sul mistero della donna, pianeta da esplorare. Punta sulla gag visiva, mescola i toni con la furia di un nevrotico narcisismo attoriale. Ma ha il fiato corto. Scritto da Nuti con G. Veronesi e D. Greco.
Weddings and Other Disasters
5.4/10
Romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic mismatching and shenanigans...
Sud
6.4/10
During an hot Sunday afternoon in a small town of South Italy, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, unemployed, desperate and armed.
Il signor Quindicipalle
5.1/10
Francesco is a Tuscan who is very good at playing American pool, so much so that he is nicknamed "Mr. Quindicipalle", for the time he performed the unlikely feat of pocketing fifteen (quindici) balls (palle) in one shot, using the wooden handle of a broom as his cue stick. Francesco is also an experienced womanizer, like his recently deceased father. Indeed, Francesco meets the woman of his dreams at his father's funeral – a prostitute who calls herself Sissi. The two fall in love, and so Francesco thinks she might be a lucky charm for him, in his training for a big pool tournament. But Sissi frequently infuriates Francesco, compromising his skill and his training for the tournament.
Working Slowly (Radio Alice)
6.7/10
Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.
Italian Nights
6.8/10
Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park. The lawyer soon discovers that in that area, once target of methane extraction, the soil is now at risk to sink, due to hydrogeological disturbance: in the meanwhile, he also digs out a mystery tied to a death dating back twenty years before.
The Pool Hustlers
6.7/10
Francesco, nicknamed 'Toscano', is a very good pool player but he never wins when he plays for money. He meets Chiara, a saxophone player, on a late night bus by swapping his case containing the cue with her one, containing the sax. The two fall in love, but in the meantime Francesco loses a big amount of money playing versus 'Scuro', the long-time Italian champion. His only chance to pay the debt is to win the Italian Championships.
The Barber of Rio
6/10
Matteo is a Roman barber. In Roma his activity is driving him almost to ruin, he is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister Angelina's invitation to Brazil.
Willy Signori e vengo da lontano
6.6/10
Willy is involved in a fatal car accident. Willy takes on the responsibility of supporting the dead man's pregnant girlfriend and the child, after it's birth.
Il tenente dei carabinieri
5.5/10
Strana la vita
6.3/10
A psychologist acquires wife and lover of a friend of him. But he has two more relationships yet. What will he do with four women following him?
Donne con le gonne
6/10
Outlaw!
6.5/10
The movie is based on the autobiography of Horst Fantazzini. Son of an anarchist, he was known in Northern Italy as “the gentleman bandit” because he robbed banks without violence, with only a toy gun. After many convictions and jailbreaks, in the summer of 1973 he's being held in Fossano, Piedmont when he tries to escape again. This time things get messy and he has to use a real gun and take two prison guards as hostages.
