Carlo Vanzina

Carlo Vanzina

1951-03-13 Rome, Italy 103 Credits

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Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa

Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa

2019

as Self

Acting
Caccia al tesoro

Caccia al tesoro

2017

Writer, Director

5.1
Writing Directing
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts

2017

as Self - Filmmaker

6.5
Acting

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth o...

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life

2017

as Self

5.2
Acting

An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey through the great moment...

Non si ruba a casa dei ladri

Non si ruba a casa dei ladri

2016

Director, Screenplay, Executive Producer

5.7
Directing Writing Producing

Antonio, an honest citizen, seeks his revenge against Simone, a dishonest politician. Antonio initially wanted to report him but then, knowing Italy, ...

Miami Beach

Miami Beach

2016

Director, Screenplay

5.5
Directing Writing

Miami is one of the most sought by young Italians. It is there, in fact, is going to study at university Luca, a Roman, the son of John and Valentina,...

Torno indietro e cambio vita

Torno indietro e cambio vita

2015

Story, Director, Screenplay

5.5
Writing Directing

Marco is married to a gorgeous woman, has a child and a great job. Everything seems perfect, at least until his wife of 25 years announces that she ha...

Ma tu di che segno 6?

Ma tu di che segno 6?

2014

Screenplay, Story

4.7
Writing

Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches based on astrology.

Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori

Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori

2014

as Self

Acting
C'era una volta il prossimamente

C'era una volta il prossimamente

2014

as Self

Acting

A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"

A Fairy Tale Wedding

A Fairy Tale Wedding

2014

Director, Screenplay, Story

5.6
Directing Writing

After twenty years, five high school classmates meet again at Daniele's wedding, the only one who has built a career for himself. During a long weeken...

Taste Of You

Taste Of You

2014

Screenplay, Director, Idea

5.8
Writing Directing

It depicts the lives of several groups of characters interacting at the beach of Forte dei Marmi during the mid-1980s.

Alberto il grande

Alberto il grande

2013

as Self

7.5
Acting

Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary from the actor’s death happened on 24th February 20...

Us in the U.S.

Us in the U.S.

2013

Director, Story, Screenplay

5.7
Directing Writing

Five people who never met are convened by a notary for the reading of a will, and learn they are all brothers and sisters, children of the same father...

Buona giornata

Buona giornata

2012

Director, Writer

4.9
Directing Writing

A common day in the actual Italy, narrated by the different stories of seven different people, it's the starting point for an overview to the 21st cen...

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

2012

as Self

5.5
Acting

The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).

Vacanze di Natale a Cortina

Vacanze di Natale a Cortina

2011

Screenplay, Story

4.9
Writing

Roberto Covelli, a Roman lawyer, goes on a Christmas holiday to his chalet in Cortina with his wife Elena and their daughters.

Ex 2: Still Friends

Ex 2: Still Friends

2011

Director, Story, Screenplay

5.5
Directing Writing

Marco encounters his ex-girlfriend Consueloand starts seeing her without telling that he has just married. Antonio is an MP and during his European tr...

The Last Fashion Show

The Last Fashion Show

2011

Director, Writer

4.8
Directing Writing

The triumph of the designer Federico Marinoni in the world of Milanese fashion was marred by the tragic death of the maison's main model and the desig...

Meet My Friend

Meet My Friend

2010

Director, Screenplay

4.5
Directing Writing

Marco Ferretti is an Italian manager who is young and beautiful, but he cannot stand the presence of women after a difficult affair. When Marco goes t...

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

2010

as Self

6.5
Acting
Life Is a Wonderful Thing

Life Is a Wonderful Thing

2010

Writer, Director, Idea

5.5
Writing Directing

A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a noblewoman. A precarious young masseuse and an...

A Summer In The Caribbean

A Summer In The Caribbean

2009

Director, Writer, Idea

4.7
Directing Writing

Several groups of Italians experience amusing adventures and tests of character on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Some of the characters are there s...

VIP

VIP

2008

Director, Writer

4.7
Directing Writing
A summer at the sea

A summer at the sea

2008

Writer, Director, Idea

4.6
Writing Directing

Set against the sun-soaked shores of Italy in the summertime, seven different tales unfold about life, love, loss, family, and friendship.

Ci sta un francese, un inglese e un napoletano

Ci sta un francese, un inglese e un napoletano

2008

Story

6.0
Writing
Matrimonio alle Bahamas

Matrimonio alle Bahamas

2007

Writer

4.8
Writing

Getting ready for the wedding that will unite two very different families- the humble Italian taxi driver Cristoforo Colombo and his wife Rosy, and th...

2061 - Un anno eccezionale

2061 - Un anno eccezionale

2007

Director, Screenplay, Story

4.1
Directing Writing

In a post-apocalyptic future, the Italian peninsula is going through a dark moment due to a terrible energy crisis.

Piper

Piper

2007

Director

3.8
Directing

Rome, 1965. The entire city awaits the inauguration of the Piper. While the journalist Roberto Benetti falls in love with Sabrina May, the kept woman ...

Olé

Olé

2006

Director, Writer

4.1
Directing Writing

Two quarreling teachers vie for the same woman. In the same time the two will have to accompany a class on a trip in Spain.

Eccezzziunale... veramente - Capitolo secondo... me

Eccezzziunale... veramente - Capitolo secondo... me

2006

Director, Writer

4.7
Directing Writing

The Milanese Donato returns from Spain, animated by the serious intention to go back to being the "ras della fossa". Second chapter of the famous 80s ...

Il ritorno del Monnezza

Il ritorno del Monnezza

2005

Director, Screenplay, Story

4.2
Directing Writing
In This World of Thieves

In This World of Thieves

2004

Director, Writer

5.4
Directing Writing

A group of middle-aged time-share investors get ripped off and their desire for revenge is well-timed for them to be recruited by a bank clerk who fee...

The Jokes

The Jokes

2004

Screenplay, Director, Story

4.5
Writing Directing

In many small episodes, various characters represent the typical vices and comedy of Italian society in early 2000.

Natale in India

Natale in India

2003

as Self

4.9
Acting

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

Il pranzo della domenica

Il pranzo della domenica

2003

Story, Screenplay, Director

6.3
Writing Directing

The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour...

Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting

Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting

2002

Director, Story, Screenplay

5.7
Directing Writing

Mandrake and his new friends still continue to bet (and lose a lot of money) on horse races. What will they invent for cheating money?

Un maresciallo in gondola

Un maresciallo in gondola

2002

Director, Writer

4.4
Directing Writing
South Kensington

South Kensington

2001

Director, Screenplay

5.1
Directing Writing

A London aristocrat (Rupert Everett) rents out rooms in his posh estate to a pair of Italians who are wooing two wealthy British gals (Elle Macpherson...

And now sex

And now sex

2001

Screenplay, Director

2.8
Writing Directing

Eight episodes vaguely inspired to real events. The "fil rouge" is the relationship between the Italians and sex in the first years of 2000s. From pro...

Quello che le ragazze non dicono

Quello che le ragazze non dicono

2000

Director, Writer

5.5
Directing Writing

Francesca, Paola, Laura, and Alicia are four friends who all fall in love with the same man, a musician named Gigi. Alicia is a woman who fears compro...

Christmas Vacation 2000

Christmas Vacation 2000

1999

Director, Screenplay, Story

5.3
Directing Writing

Superenalotto winner Pasquale Esposito with his family, two penniless students from Emilia and the Colombo and Covelli families, who accidentally rent...

Tifosi

Tifosi

1999

Story

5.6
Writing

Four different stories about italian football team’s supporter.

Il cielo in una stanza

Il cielo in una stanza

1999

Director, Story, Screenplay

5.9
Directing Writing

Clashing with his father Paolo after coming home late, 17-year-old Marco accuses him of being old and stifling. They time travel to the 1960s, where P...

Simpatici & antipatici

Simpatici & antipatici

1998

Story, Screenplay

5.4
Writing

In the Tiber sports club, Alberto, a ruthless property developer, the cynical surgeon who makes thirty million dollars after a prostate operation, the...

A Walk in Time: The Adventure Continues

A Walk in Time: The Adventure Continues

1997

Director, Writer

5.0
Directing Writing

The back-in-time misadventures of Walter and Ascanio are not finished. The defective time-travel machine will bring them from prehistory all the way t...

Banzai

Banzai

1997

Director, Writer

4.7
Directing Writing

Sergio Colombo is an insurance agent. He had just gone through a divorce so he is a little bit scattered. Wanting to unwind he plans to go to vacation...

Fratelli coltelli

Fratelli coltelli

1997

Screenplay, Producer, Story

5.5
Writing Producing

Guelfo is a Florentine noble who has never worked and has no money. On the death of his mother, he believes he can inherit a large fortune, but from t...

A Walk in Time

A Walk in Time

1996

Director, Story, Screenplay

5.2
Directing Writing

While visiting Universal Studios in Hollywood along with their respective families, two Italian tourists get on a real time machine and got lost in ti...

Squillo

Squillo

1996

Story, Screenplay, Director

2.7
Writing Directing

Maria, a provincial Polish girl, travels to Milan to pay her older sister Eva a surprise visit. The sisters haven't seen each other in seven years an...

Savages

Savages

1995

Screenplay, Director, Executive Producer

5.6
Writing Directing Producing

A group of Italian tourists on a Caribbean holiday finds itself stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash.

Christmas Vacation '95

Christmas Vacation '95

1995

Story

5.4
Writing

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...

I Don't Speak English

I Don't Speak English

1995

Director, Screenplay, Story

5.5
Directing Writing Producing

If Sergio Colombo, a middle age man, doesn't want to lose his job, has to attend a full immersion English course in UK. So Sergio leave his wife and s...

S.P.Q.R.: 2,000 and a Half Years Ago

S.P.Q.R.: 2,000 and a Half Years Ago

1994

Director, Screenplay

4.8
Directing Writing

In 71 BC in Rome, utter disorder reigns in the form of political corruption and bribery involving the senator Cynic (Leslie Nielsen). The situation is...

The Heroes

The Heroes

1994

Story, Screenplay, Director

5.3
Writing Directing

Roman TV technicians Fabio and Enzo have been unable to find decent jobs. They decide to crack a safe at a jewelry in Milan. To get the layout of the ...

Pretty Princess

Pretty Princess

1993

Screenplay, Director

5.5
Writing Directing

A princess from a Nordic European country is obligated to marry the boy her family chose. She escapes and discovers love in the arms of a beautiful sw...

Sognando la California

Sognando la California

1992

Director, Writer

5.3
Directing Writing
Piedipiatti

Piedipiatti

1991

Director, Screenplay, Story

6.3
Directing Writing

The inmate Proietti, nicknamed "Er Soffia", getting out of prison. There is the Roman brigadier Vasco Sacchetti, an agent of the narcotics and his old...

Millions

Millions

1991

Writer, Director

3.5
Writing Directing

A pack of money-grabbing relatives try to take over his ailing uncle's industrial empire.

Tre colonne in cronaca

Tre colonne in cronaca

1990

Director, Writer

5.9
Directing Writing

Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a ...

Life with the Kids

Life with the Kids

1990

Producer

4.4
Producing

The story of one man dealing with an unexpected series of events, discovering his youth once again in the relationship with a much younger woman and f...

Fratelli d'Italia

Fratelli d'Italia

1989

Story, Screenplay

5.6
Writing

Three episodes held together by a common element: a car rented by three different characters.

Mano rubata

Mano rubata

1989

Producer

2.0
Producing

A young writer meets an enigmatic girl who becomes his obsession. Over the course of a strip poker game at a wealthy household, an extreme game of sed...

Le finte bionde

Le finte bionde

1989

Director, Writer

5.4
Directing Writing
La moglie ingenua e il marito malato

La moglie ingenua e il marito malato

1989

Producer

Producing

A thief caught red-handed tells the landlord a very strange fact that happened to him looking through the keyhole of another apartment where he was st...

To Save Nine

To Save Nine

1989

Producer

6.0
Producing

Originally titled simply Decimo Clandestino, this Lina Wertmuller "miniature" began life as an Italian TV drama. Piera Degli Esposti plays the widowed...

The Gamble

The Gamble

1988

Director, Writer

1.7
Directing Writing

When Francesco returns home with the assumption that his father's wealth will be there to keep him content, he discovers that his father has lost ever...

Il vizio di vivere

Il vizio di vivere

1988

Executive Producer

5.3
Producing
Montecarlo Gran Casinò

Montecarlo Gran Casinò

1987

Director, Writer

5.5
Directing Writing

The misadventures of different Italian rascals who came to the famous Montecarlo Gran Casinò to get lucky.

My First 40 Years

My First 40 Years

1987

Director, Writer

3.1
Directing Writing

Marina is a woman who never says no...to men, money and fame! Determined to climb the social ladder, she works her way up from a marriage of a million...

Via Montenapoleone

Via Montenapoleone

1987

Director, Writer

3.6
Directing Writing

Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diver...

Cronaca nera

1987

Writer, Producer

Writing Producing
Italian Fast Food

Italian Fast Food

1986

Screenplay, Producer

4.3
Writing Producing

The Film centers around an American-style fast food restaurant in Milan, the employees who work there and the clients that frequent the place.

Yuppies

Yuppies

1986

Director, Screenplay, Story

5.5
Directing Writing

Willy, Giacomo, Lorenzo and Sandro are 4 young yuppies rampant in the "Milano da bere" of the 80s, who live in the myth of Lawyer Gianni Agnelli and S...

Nothing Underneath

Nothing Underneath

1985

Screenplay, Director

5.6
Writing Directing

Bob Crane has long maintained a psychic connection to his twin sister, Jessica, who works as a fashion model in Milan. When Bob senses that his sister...

Vacanze in America

Vacanze in America

1984

Story, Screenplay, Director

5.7
Writing Directing

A group of students from the San Crispino school for boys take a holiday in the United States, traveling from New York to Los Angeles. Young Father Do...

Amarsi un po'...

Amarsi un po'...

1984

Director, Writer

6.3
Directing Writing

In an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one another. Cristiana confesses only later that she is a ge...

A Boy and a Girl

A Boy and a Girl

1984

Story

4.1
Writing

Anna and Calogero are in love and living together in a low-scale apartment while going to the University of Milan. When Anna discovers she is pregnant...

Il Ras del quartiere

Il Ras del quartiere

1983

Director, Story, Screenplay

5.2
Directing Writing
Christmas Holidays

Christmas Holidays

1983

Story, Screenplay, Director

6.2
Writing Directing

Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girl...

Taste of the Sea 2: One Year Later

Taste of the Sea 2: One Year Later

1983

Story

5.9
Writing

More summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.

Dagger Eyes

Dagger Eyes

1983

Director, Writer

5.2
Directing Writing

Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a poli...

Taste of the Sea

Taste of the Sea

1983

Director, Screenplay, Story

6.4
Directing Writing

A comedy about the adventures of several families during their sea vacations.

Viuuulentemente mia

Viuuulentemente mia

1982

Director, Screenplay

5.6
Directing Writing

Clumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In order not to undergo a punitive transfer to Barbagia, he...

Eccezzziunale... veramente

Eccezzziunale... veramente

1982

Director, Story, Screenplay

6.2
Directing Writing

Diego Abatantuono in the shoes of three huge fans: the Juventus truck driver Tirzan, the head of the ultra Milanese Donato and the Franco inter.

I Fichissimi

I Fichissimi

1981

Director, Story, Screenplay

5.7
Directing Writing

Romeo and Felice lead two rival bands who constantly make fun of each other. One day, Romeo meets and falls in love with Giulietta, without knowing th...

Una vacanza bestiale

Una vacanza bestiale

1980

Director, Screenplay, Story

4.8
Directing Writing

A group of friends decide to go on vacation and they use an agency, the Via Col Vento tours, to organize it. The latter promises them a holiday of dre...

Arrivano i gatti

Arrivano i gatti

1980

Screenplay, Story, Director

4.3
Writing Directing

Four young comedians from Verona ('I Gatti di Vicolo Miracoli') go to Rome trying to achieve big success on cinema or TV.

Figlio delle stelle

Figlio delle stelle

1979

Director

1.0
Directing

Daniel, a young singer, tries to break into the world of music, but falls into a depressive crisis from which it only comes out thanks to a girl, Elis...

Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi

Per vivere meglio, divertitevi con noi

1978

Screenplay, Story

3.2
Writing

For having suffered the violence of seven Himalayan Sherpas, the Countess Valentina Contarini has fallen ill of "fallophobia" and consults a healer, a...

Luna di miele in tre

Luna di miele in tre

1976

Director, Screenplay, Story

4.9
Directing Writing

Close to the honeymoon, hotel waiter wins a stay in Jamaica with a pin-up. Direction directed by Carlo Vanzina, with the star of "Deep Throat".

Colpita da improvviso benessere

Colpita da improvviso benessere

1976

Screenplay

3.5
Writing

Elisabetta is a fishmonger with petty-bourgeois aspirations who cohabits with Luiso Malerba, an anarchist.

My Friends

My Friends

1975

First Assistant Director

8.1
Directing

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

While There's War There's Hope

While There's War There's Hope

1974

First Assistant Director

7.0
Directing

Alberto Sordi directs and interprets a corrosive comedy, another "story of an Italian" that makes you smile and reflect. An arms dealer is exposed and...

Come Home and Meet My Wife

Come Home and Meet My Wife

1974

First Assistant Director

7.3
Directing

50 year old Giulio and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina, fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks...

Stardust

Stardust

1973

First Assistant Director

6.6
Directing

The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Br...

We Want the Colonels

We Want the Colonels

1973

First Assistant Director

6.6
Directing

Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts m...

Lady Liberty

Lady Liberty

1971

First Assistant Director

5.5
Directing

An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a hu...

Brancaleone at the Crusades

Brancaleone at the Crusades

1970

Second Assistant Director

7.2
Directing

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Cru...

Transplant

Transplant

1970

Script Supervisor

5.5

To satisfy his wife, an elderly man has to have a penis transplant and is willing to pay a lot to do so. Three men are selected, who, for different re...

Oh, Grandmother's Dead

Oh, Grandmother's Dead

1969

Second Assistant Director

5.4
Directing

Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.

Toto and the Women

Toto and the Women

1952

as il piccolo Filippo Jr

6.8
Acting

Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.

Once Upon A Time...

N/A

Writer

Writing

A look at The Hermitage museum.