Mario Monicelli – MRQE

The Organizer

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is sent by (presumably) the Socialists to help them organize their strike and give form to their struggle

Le Rose del deserto

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the battalion is involved to help the local population. The war anyway goes on with no regards to human feelings. The “glorious” Fascist campaign is going to became a fast retreat.

Facciamo paradiso

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated in England, rebel and single mother, then feminist and married woman and again doctor in the developing countries and mystical nun who dies peacefully in 2011.

Cari fottutissimi amici

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 1944 in Tuscany, a group of boxers facing the disasters of the Second World War, during the intrusive presence of the Germans and the Americans, organizes rigged matches to make some money and travel from town to town, hoping to participate in local fairs. A young black American soldier, believed missing, and a girl who refused to marry accompany the ramshackle group.

Il male oscuro

Mon, 01 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

After his father’s death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.

Speriamo che sia femmina

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Let’s Hope It’s a Girl is a multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, takes over the family farm. Realizing that she can’t rely on the patriarchal society structure for assistance, Ullmann runs the farm herself with the help of her female servants and relatives. When the Count (Philipe Noiret) comes back into her life, he and his male buddies find themselves outclassed by the expertise of the ladies.

Le Due vite di Mattia Pascal

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Based on ‘Il fu Mattia Pascal’, one of Pirandello’s many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles “truth” and “identity”. Mattia Pascal is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancée, scorned by his associates, and cheated out of his inheritance by contemptuous relatives. The dispirited Pascal heads to Monte Carlo, accruing a fortune and also assuming the identity of a less fortunate gambler who killed himself. The “new” Pascal is treated with a dignity and respect that overwhelms him–and nearly kills him.

Amici miei atto II

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.

Il marchese del Grillo

Mon, 25 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.

Un borghese piccolo piccolo

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Giovanni Vivaldi is an average middle-aged man with a secure job as a government accountant. He wishes nothing more than to set up his only son Mario, his biggest pride in the world, with the same secure government job before he eventually retires. For this, Giovanni will stop at nothing…