Known For
Complete Filmography

Titanus 1904
2024
as Self

Mostruosamente Villaggio
2024
as Sé stesso

Pretendo l'inferno
2024
as Self

Volevo un figlio maschio
2023
Director, Writer

Improvised Christmas
2022
Writer

Holiday on Mars
2020
Story, Screenplay, Director
We are in 2030, and on vacation we go to Mars! Having made his wife and son Giulio lose his tracks for years, Fabio (Christian De Sica) is about to m...

Natale da chef
2017
Story, Screenplay, Director
A bizarre group consisting of a refined chef with unusual recipes, an assistant cook with taste disturbances and an improvised pastry chef takes part ...

La voce di Fantozzi
2017
as Sé stesso
The docufilm tells the story of Paolo Villaggio's genius through the most iconic Italian character, accountant Ugo Fantozzi. The work was featured in ...

Vacanze ai Caraibi - Il film di Natale
2015
Director, Screenplay, Story
While on holiday in the Caribbean, a bankrupt family pins their hopes on a rich man, two strangers fall in lust, and a technophile gets shipwrecked.

Ma tu di che segno 6?
2014
Director, Screenplay, Story
Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches based on astrology.

C'era una volta il prossimamente
2014
as Self
A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"

Colpi di fortuna
2013
Director, Screenplay, Story

Lightning Strike
2012
Director, Screenplay

Vacanze di Natale a Cortina
2011
Director, Screenplay, Story
Roberto Covelli, a Roman lawyer, goes on a Christmas holiday to his chalet in Cortina with his wife Elena and their daughters.

My Friends: Act IV – How It All Began
2011
Director, Story, Screenplay
Jacopo, Duccio, Cecco, Manfredo and Filippo are five friends who live in Florence of the fifteenth century, during a plague epidemic.

Natale in Sudafrica
2010
Director, Story, Screenplay
Carlo, on vacation in South Africa with his second wife Susanna meets her younger brother Giorgio.

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010
as Self

Natale a Beverly Hills
2009
Director, Story, Screenplay
Carlo descends on his former lover's unsuspecting family and the scheming Rocco tries to break up his old rival Marcello's wedding.

Natale a Rio
2008
Director, Story, Screenplay
Fabio is in love with his colleague Linda, but she has never even seen him until he's mistaken for her boyfriend. Paolo and Mario leave for a luxuriou...

Natale in crociera
2007
Director, Story, Screenplay
Paolo Cioffa, as Christmas approaches, is ready to leave on a cruise with his mistress Magda Venni, freed by his wife Francesca Zanchi and his son Fed...

Natale a New York
2006
Director, Story, Screenplay
Lillo (Christian De Sica) married Milena, one of the richest women in Europe. The marriage contract provides that Lillo undertakes to never cheat on h...

Christmas in Miami
2005
Director, Screenplay, Story
In Christmastime Miami, heartbroken divorcée Giorgio invites himself to stay at his best friend Mario's — unaware that the latter is having an affair ...

Christmas in Love
2004
Story, Director, Screenplay
A middle-aged man’s relationship with a young model is questioned by his daughter, who’s dating an older man herself.

Natale in India
2003
as Produttore (uncredited)
Destinies intertwined for two antithetical people who meet during a trip to India, where lots of misunderstandings and funny situations will take plac...

Natale in India
2003
Story, Director, Screenplay
Destinies intertwined for two antithetical people who meet during a trip to India, where lots of misunderstandings and funny situations will take plac...

Natale sul Nilo
2002
Director, Screenplay, Story
A womanizing lawyer follows his wife and son to a trip to Egypt in a last-ditch effort to make up for his infidelities. Also travelling to Egypt is a ...

Merry Christmas
2001
as Fotografo matrimonio (uncredited)
Four Italian men are suddenly involved in awkward situations, while they are spending the Christmas holiday, stuck in Amsterdam.

Merry Christmas
2001
Director, Story, Screenplay
Four Italian men are suddenly involved in awkward situations, while they are spending the Christmas holiday, stuck in Amsterdam.

Body Guards
2000
as Custode dello zoo
Fabio Leone and Paolo Pecora are two police officers from Rome, who, together with the careless Neapolitan Ciro Marmotta, are fired from the barracks ...

Body Guards
2000
Director, Writer
Fabio Leone and Paolo Pecora are two police officers from Rome, who, together with the careless Neapolitan Ciro Marmotta, are fired from the barracks ...

Tifosi
1999
Director, Story, Screenplay
Four different stories about italian football team’s supporter.

Paparazzi
1998
Director, Screenplay, Story
A montley group of free-lance photographers are desperate to grab a good shot of a celebrity.

Cucciolo
1998
Director, Screenplay, Writer
Massimo is forty-two years old, but has been attending eighth grade for thirty-two years, in short he is a teenager in all respects. In reality, Massi...

Fantozzi The Return
1996
as Detenuto che mangia
Ugo Fantozzi has been ejected from Heaven and is sent back to Earth for a short period of time until the staff in Heaven can get Fantozzi a place ther...

Fantozzi The Return
1996
Director, Story, Screenplay
Ugo Fantozzi has been ejected from Heaven and is sent back to Earth for a short period of time until the staff in Heaven can get Fantozzi a place ther...

Christmas Vacation '95
1995
Director, Screenplay
Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wa...

The New Comics
1994
Director, Story, Screenplay
A few funny little novels about different aspects of life.

Fantozzi in Heaven
1993
as Responsabile rampa scii (uncredit)
One by one, with a sweet but inexorable rate, Ugo's colleagues, go to a better life. When Ugo is attending at one of the innumerable funerals, he and ...

Fantozzi in Heaven
1993
Director, Story, Screenplay
One by one, with a sweet but inexorable rate, Ugo's colleagues, go to a better life. When Ugo is attending at one of the innumerable funerals, he and ...

Infelici e contenti
1992
Director, Screenplay
Aldo and Vittorio are two men suffering from disabilities. One is blind, the other is forced to a wheelchair. Vittorio one day by chance meets Aldo in...

The Comics 2
1991
Director, Story, Screenplay
A poster worker must remove the poster of the original movie, when the figures of Renato and Paolo suddenly moves and leaves the poster driving an amb...

Fantozzi to the Rescue
1990
Director, Story, Screenplay
Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.

The Comics
1990
Director, Story, Screenplay
Two silent movie actors escape from their film. Forced to find a way to survive in the real world, they will only cause troubles to the people they wi...

Fratelli d'Italia
1989
Director
Three episodes held together by a common element: a car rented by three different characters.

I Won the New Year's Lottery
1989
Director, Story, Screenplay
Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the ...

Fantozzi Retires
1988
Director, Story, Screenplay
After thirty years in the big corporation, Ugo Fantozzi retires. Suddenly, he needs things to do in everyday life and he tries a number of activities:...

My House My House...
1988
Director
Bartoloni from Milan exchanges apartments with his colleague from Rome and moves toa new place. And everything could be good, if not unexpected troubl...

School of Thieves 2
1987
Director, Screenplay
In this second episode Dalmazio and Egisto come, respectively, from the prison and the insane asylum. They risk a second arrest for their awkwardness ...

Super Fantozzi
1986
Director, Story, Screenplay
Superfantozzi (1986) is an Italian film from 1986. It is the fifth film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Vi...

School of Thieves
1986
Director, Screenplay
Frenetic in its pacing and with miniscule character development, this trite slapstick farce stars three Italian comics - Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi, ...

Who's Afraid of Dracula?
1985
Director, Screenplay, Story
Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house with at least five bathrooms within three days or his boss will fire him. Incredibly, he and his pal Fil...

Firefighters
1985
Director, Writer
In the barracks of the "Settecamini" fire brigade in Rome, the shabby Squadra 17 tackles missions with resounding failures, waiting in vain for a chan...

Fantozzi Still Suffers
1983
Director, Story, Screenplay
After a hard day at work and a condominium-board meeting, accountant Ugo Fantozzi goes on a trip with his family. Unfortunately, he will face a nasty ...

Two of a Kind
1983
Director, Story, Screenplay
Italian comedy in two episodes starring a house painter who emigrated to Switzerland who pretends to be a millionaire and an employee on holiday in Ke...

Forbidden Dreams
1982
Director, Screenplay
Paolo Coniglio is a naive and clumsy employee in a comics publishing house, bullied by his manager and his terrible future mother-in-law. To escape hi...

Fracchia The Human Beast
1981
Director, Screenplay
The world's greatest criminal and the world greatest loser share the same face... now they'll share the same life!

Fantozzi Against the Wind
1980
Director, Screenplay
The third film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio.

The Return of Casanova
1980
Assistant Director

John Travolto: The Face with Two Left Feet
1979
Director, Writer
Also known as THE LONELY DESTINY OF JOHN TRAVOLTO, it's the first and only Travoltasploitation movie. It's about a hotel cook named Gianni who can't d...

Gegè Bellavita
1979
First Assistant Director
Pregnant with their 10th child, Agata discovers that her lazy husband Gennaro betrays her cheerfully.

Hello Nì!
1979
Assistant Director
Pop singer Renato Zero is threatened by an anonimous letter while on tour and goes on a phycoanalitic quest to find the wannabe killer.

My Loves
1978
First Assistant Director
Annalisa is married to Marco, a journalist too busy with her career, who neglects her even though she loves him deeply. He therefore decides to find a...

Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra
1978
First Assistant Director
Three short stories full of absurd Italian humor. Episode 1: Oddjobs man Elia is hired to be a waiter and soon finds himself caught up in a plot to kn...

Flatfoot in Africa
1978
First Assistant Director
Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the South African p...

Sweetheart
1977
First Assistant Director
Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence discovers that his wife Adelina no longer wishes to live with him.

Dimmi che fai tutto per me
1976
First Assistant Director
Francesco Salmarani, a well-known doctor from Treviso, suddenly finds himself with an overdraft bank account as his wife's father has come from Americ...

Soldier of Fortune
1976
First Assistant Director
Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they can earn some money. When they come ac...

The Sex Machine
1975
First Assistant Director
The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of awa...

Street Law
1974
Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, ...

Malicious
1973
Production Secretary
A widower and two of his sons become infatuated by their beautiful housekeeper, and all three set out to seduce her using their own unique methods.

Jus primae noctis
1972
Production Secretary
Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone.