Best Italian Ensemble Movies of the Sixties
by brandotammaro | created - 3 months ago | updated - 3 months ago | PublicList of the best ensemble movies produced in Italy from 1960 to 1969
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1. A noi piace freddo...! (1960)
110 min | Comedy, War
A farcical account of the happenings in Rome in 1943 when the Allied Army and the partisans fight the Nazis.
Director: Steno | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Yvonne Furneaux, Raimondo Vianello, Francis Blanche
Votes: 97
2. ...And Suddenly It's Murder! (1960)
106 min | Comedy, Crime
A randomly formed group of Italians gets deeply involved in a crime in Montacarlo.
Director: Mario Camerini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi, Dorian Gray
Votes: 400
3. Genitori in blue-jeans (1960)
100 min | Comedy
Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.
Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Ugo Tognazzi, Scilla Gabel, Franco Fabrizi
Votes: 73
4. Everybody Go Home! (1960)
122 min | Comedy, Drama, War
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is disbanded and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Serge Reggiani, Carla Gravina, Martin Balsam
Votes: 1,453
5. A cavallo della tigre (1961)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
An inept thief wants to escape prison and return to his family, but two of his prison mates also want out.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Valeria Moriconi, Gian Maria Volontè
Votes: 542
6. Ghosts of Rome (1961)
101 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Several ghosts in an ancient palazzo in Rome join together to save their home from destruction. Mastrianni plays several parts and is hilarious. The other actors are great too.
Director: Antonio Pietrangeli | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Belinda Lee, Sandra Milo, Eduardo De Filippo
Votes: 669
7. The Last Judgment (1961)
Not Rated | 100 min | Comedy
In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people's reactions (or lack there of) to the announcement.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Elli Davis, Fernandel, Georges Rivière
Votes: 769
8. Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (1961)
101 min | Comedy
A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.
Director: Mario Mattoli | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Virna Lisi, Totò, Lauretta Masiero
Votes: 315
9. The Four Monks (1963)
100 min | Comedy
Four petty criminals pretend to be friars escaped from communist Hungary and go and live in a Sicilian convent.
Director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia | Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Aldo Fabrizi, Nino Taranto, Erminio Macario
Votes: 55
10. Colpo gobbo all'italiana (1962)
100 min | Comedy
Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around ... See full summary »
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Mario Carotenuto, Andrea Checchi, Hélène Chanel, Gina Rovere
Votes: 113
11. Gli eroi del doppio gioco (1962)
92 min | Comedy, War
Benito, son of a fascist mayor, returned from the countryside of Russia, rebels against the family and joins a group of partisans.
Director: Camillo Mastrocinque | Stars: Mario Carotenuto, Wandisa Guida, Carlo D'Angelo, Aroldo Tieri
Votes: 38
12. Le massaggiatrici (1962)
95 min | Comedy
Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of ... See full summary »
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Sylva Koscina, Cristina Gaioni, Valeria Fabrizi, Marisa Merlini
Votes: 125
13. Gli onorevoli (1963)
102 min | Comedy
The film is composed of several small stories that have to do with the votes of politicians in Italy in the sixties.
Director: Sergio Corbucci | Stars: Totò, Franca Valeri, Peppino De Filippo, Gino Cervi
Votes: 459
14. The Reunion (1963)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two members of a former group of friends find themselves after many years by chance through the streets of Milan; after a moment, memories of the past resurface.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Walter Chiari, Francisco Rabal, Letícia Román, Dominique Boschero
Votes: 162
15. 7 uomini d'oro (1965)
G | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
An international gang of thieves, led by Albert the Professor and his seductive assistant Giorgia, use meticulous planning to steal seven tons of gold from the Swiss National Bank in Geneva.
Director: Marco Vicario | Stars: Rossana Podestà, Philippe Leroy, Gastone Moschin, Gabriele Tinti
Votes: 476
16. 7 monaci d'oro (1966)
100 min | Comedy
Director: Marino Girolami | Stars: Raimondo Vianello, Magda Konopka, Marc Lawrence, Silvio Bagolini
Votes: 25
17. Seven Times Seven (1969)
92 min | Comedy, Crime
A gang of prison inmates escapes and robs the Royal Mint.
Director: Michele Lupo | Stars: Gastone Moschin, Lionel Stander, Raimondo Vianello, Gordon Mitchell
Votes: 288
18. L'armata Brancaleone (1966)
120 min | Adventure, Comedy, History
A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.
Director: Mario Monicelli | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli, Gian Maria Volontè
Votes: 5,278
19. After the Fox (1966)
Approved | 103 min | Comedy, Crime
An Italian criminal mastermind, impersonating a film director, plans to grab the loot on a beach where a bogus movie is being filmed.
Director: Vittorio De Sica | Stars: Peter Sellers, Victor Mature, Britt Ekland, Martin Balsam
Votes: 4,771
20. The Treasure of San Gennaro (1966)
104 min | Comedy, Crime
An American gangster in Italy enlists a local gang to help him steal the treasure of Naples' patron saint.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Senta Berger, Mario Adorf, Harry Guardino
Votes: 1,770
21. The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966)
115 min | Comedy
Three stories, all set in Treviso. Various couple experience adultery at a party, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress and all the men in the end are prosecuted for having intercourse with an underage girl.
Director: Pietro Germi | Stars: Virna Lisi, Gastone Moschin, Alberto Lionello, Olga Villi
Votes: 1,744
22. Grand Slam (1967)
Not Rated | 121 min | Crime, Drama
To pull off a daring diamond heist in Rio during Carnival, a retired schoolteacher hires four professionals who must contend with a revolutionary alarm system and a taciturn secretary.
Director: Giuliano Montaldo | Stars: Janet Leigh, Robert Hoffmann, Klaus Kinski, Riccardo Cucciolla
Votes: 1,385
23. Italian Secret Service (1968)
108 min | Comedy, Crime
Manfredi is a war hero turned unemployed. He is hired by a British man whose life he saved during the war, for a secret mission : to kill a neo-nazi.
Director: Luigi Comencini | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Françoise Prévost, Clive Revill, Jean Sobieski
Votes: 166
24. Nell'anno del Signore (1969)
125 min | Comedy, Drama, History
Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal ... See full summary »
Director: Luigi Magni | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Hossein
Votes: 832
25. Boot Hill (1969)
GP | 87 min | Comedy, Western
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers.
Director: Giuseppe Colizzi | Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Woody Strode, Eduardo Ciannelli
Votes: 3,799 | Gross: $0.32M
26. Ace High (1968)
PG-13 | 122 min | Comedy, Western
A recently-escaped bandit forms an unlikely alliance with two bounty hunters and an acrobat to get revenge against the people who framed him.
Director: Giuseppe Colizzi | Stars: Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Eli Wallach, Brock Peters
Votes: 4,810
27. The Ruthless Four (1968)
M/PG | 96 min | Western
Four men embark on a mission to unearth a fortune in gold from a mine.
Director: Giorgio Capitani | Stars: Van Heflin, Gilbert Roland, Klaus Kinski, George Hilton
Votes: 827
28. The 5-Man Army (1969)
M/PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Western
At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.
Directors: Don Taylor, Italo Zingarelli | Stars: Bud Spencer, Peter Graves, James Daly, Nino Castelnuovo
Votes: 1,773
29. The Vatican Affair (1968)
M/PG | 94 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
A blind professor masterminds the theft of treasure from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.
Director: Emilio Miraglia | Stars: Walter Pidgeon, Ira von Fürstenberg, Klaus Kinski, Marino Masé
Votes: 66
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