Personal Information

Known ForDirecting

GenderMale

Born / DiedMay 16, 1915 (Died at 95)

Zodiac Sign♉Taurus

Place of BirthRome, Italy

Career Span1935 – 2010

Known Credits144 Titles

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DirectingPopularity Score 1.1

Mario Monicelli

Also known as:Марио Моничелли

Total Works

144

141 movies • 3 shows

Avg Rating

6.7 / 10

across rated releases

Box Office

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worldwide gross

Global Reach

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Biography

Mario Monicelli (May 16, 1915 – November 29, 2010) was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana (Comedy Italian style). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mario Monicelli,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Signature Roles & Milestones

Top-rated highlights from Mario Monicelli's career

6.9

Under the Tuscan Sun

2003•movie

as Old Man with Flowers

8.1

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958•movie

Role: Director

6.9

The Cyclone

1996•movie

as Gino (voice)

8.1

My Friends

1975•movie

Role: Director

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Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 144 titles featuring Mario Monicelli

6.9

Under the Tuscan Sun

2003•movie

as Old Man with Flowers

8.1

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958•movie

Role: Director

6.9

The Cyclone

1996•movie

as Gino (voice)

8.1

My Friends

1975•movie

Role: Director

7.8

The Marquis of Grillo

1981•movie

Role: Director

7.7

For Love and Gold

1966•movie

Role: Director

7.4

Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations

1992•movie

Role: Director

8.1

The Great War

1959•movie

Role: Director

7.6

My Friends Act II

1982•movie

Role: Director

7.9

An Average Little Man

1977•movie

Role: Director

6.1

Welcome to Collinwood

2002•movie

Role: Original Film Writer

7.0

The New Monsters

1977•movie

Role: Director

7.5

Cops and Robbers

1951•movie

Role: Director

7.2

Brancaleone at the Crusades

1970•movie

Role: Director

6.9

Boccaccio '70

1962•movie

Role: Screenplay

6.9

The Girl with a Pistol

1968•movie

Role: Director

7.5

The Organizer

1963•movie

Role: Director

7.3

Neapolitan Turk

1953•movie

Role: Adaptation

6.7

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

1976•movie

Role: Director

7.3

Totó in color

1952•movie

Role: Screenplay

6.8

Totò Looking for a House

1949•movie

Role: Director

6.9

Let's Hope It's a Girl

1986•movie

Role: Director

7.0

Toto and the Kings of Rome

1952•movie

Role: Director

6.8

Dear Goddamned Friends

1994•movie

Role: Director

5.4

I'm Photogenic

1980•movie

as Mario Monicelli (uncredited)

6.4

Casanova '70

1965•movie

Role: Director

6.9

The Passionate Thief

1960•movie

Role: Story

7.3

Come Home and Meet My Wife

1974•movie

Role: Director

6.8

Toto and the Women

1952•movie

Role: Director

6.1

Caprice Italian Style

1968•movie

Role: Director

6.9

A Hero of Our Times

1955•movie

Role: Director

6.9

Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno

1984•movie

Role: Director

6.7

We Want the Colonels

1973•movie

Role: Director

7.2

In the Name of the Law

1949•movie

Role: Screenplay

5.5

I picari

1987•movie

Role: Director

7.1

Doctor and the Healer

1957•movie

Role: Director

5.9

Beautiful But Dangerous

1955•movie

Role: Screenplay

6.8

Fathers and Sons

1957•movie

Role: Story

5.5

Lady Liberty

1971•movie

Role: Screenplay

7.4

On the Tiger's Back

1961•movie

Role: Screenplay

6.0

The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal

1985•movie

Role: Director

6.5

The Testimony

1946•movie

Role: First Assistant Director

6.5

Toto and Carolina

1955•movie

Role: Director

5.2

Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later

1985•movie

Role: Executive Producer

6.0

Our Husbands

1966•movie

Role: Story

5.3

Donatella

1956•movie

Role: Screenplay

4.3

Lovers and Liars

1979•movie

Role: Director

5.4

The Queens

1966•movie

Role: Director

6.9

A Dog’s Life

1950•movie

Role: Director

6.2

The Roses of the Desert

2006•movie

Role: Director

6.9

The Couples

1970•movie

Role: Director

5.4

Dear Michele

1976•movie

Role: Director

5.3

High Infidelity

1964•movie

Role: Director

6.2

Lost Youth

1948•movie

Role: Screenplay

4.7

The Mysterious Rider

1948•movie

Role: Story

6.9

Aquila Nera

1946•movie

Role: Screenplay

6.3

Vittorio D.

2009•movie

as Self

5.7

On the Tiger's Back

2002•movie

Role: Original Film Writer

5.7

The Unfaithfuls

1953•movie

Role: Director

6.2

Lure of the Sila

1949•movie

Role: Story

6.2

Funniest Show on Earth

1953•movie

Role: Story

5.3

I'm in the Revue

1950•movie

Role: Writer

7.2

Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret

2019•movie

as Self - Réalisateur (archive footage)

5.6

12 Directors for 12 Cities

1989•movie

Role: Director

6.0

Les Misérables

1948•movie

Role: Screenplay

5.3

Dark Illness

1990•movie

Role: Director

5.8

Looking for Paradise

1995•movie

Role: Director

4.4

Hurricane Rosie

1980•movie

Role: Director

6.0

Her Favourite Husband

1950•movie

Role: Screenplay

5.8

Hotel Room

1981•movie

Role: Director

6.2

Rossini! Rossini!

1991•movie

Role: Director

6.2

Dirty Linen

1999•movie

Role: Director

5.7

Oh, Grandmother's Dead

1969•movie

Role: Screenplay

6.2

The Opium Den

1947•movie

Role: Screenplay

5.9

Summer Frenzy

1964•movie

Role: Screenplay

6.8

Giuseppe Verdi

1953•movie

Role: Screenplay

5.4

Ballerine

1937•movie

Role: Second Assistant Director

6.7

Double Cross

1951•movie

Role: Story

7.4

The Lucky Five

1952•movie

Role: Screenplay

7.2

Outlaw Girl

1950•movie

Role: Story

5.4

Fame and the Devil

1949•movie

Role: Screenplay

4.5

Fatal Desire

1954•movie

Role: Writer

8.0

Angel in a Taxi

1958•movie

Role: Screenplay

6.0

Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris

1948•movie

Role: Screenplay

5.5

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

2012•movie

as Self (archive footage)

7.3

Portrait Of My Father

2010•movie

as Self

6.2

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

2010•movie

as Self

5.0

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

2010•movie

as Self

8.3

The True Life of Antonio H.

1994•movie

as Self

7.3

The Iron Swordsman

1949•movie

Role: Writer

7.0

Forbidden

1955•movie

Role: Director

7.0

Vendetta... sarda

1952•movie

Role: Story

6.0

O.K. Nero

1951•movie

Role: Story

7.7

The Captain's Daughter

1947•movie

Role: Screenplay

7.2

L'inafferrabile 12

1950•movie

Role: Screenplay

5.3

Soho Conspiracy

1950•movie

Role: Original Story

8.3

Mad About Opera

1948•movie

Role: Story

3.0

SoloMetro

2007•movie

as Anziano in metropolitana

6.5

A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota

1994•movie

as Self

5.2

Marcello, una vita dolce

2006•movie

as Self

7.0

What Do You Know About Me

2009•movie

as Self

6.5

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

2004•movie

as Self

6.0

2 eps

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975•series

as Self

6.5

How I Lost the War

1947•movie

Role: Screenplay

7.0

Come scopersi l'America

1949•movie

Role: Writer

6.5

The Knight is Here

1950•movie

Role: Director

5.5

Perdonami!

1953•movie

Role: Screenplay

7.5

Appointment for Murder

1952•movie

Role: Story

6.5

Guai ai vinti

1954•movie

Role: Screenplay

8.0

È l'amor che mi rovina

1951•movie

Role: Screenplay

10.0

Noi c'eravamo

2011•movie

as Self

8.0

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit

2017•movie

as Self (archive footage)

7.0

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

2006•movie

as Self

5.0

1 eps

Ciné regards

1978•series

as Self

9.0

I ragazzi della via Paal

1935•movie

Role: Director

10.0

L'eroe della strada

1948•movie

Role: Story

8.0

La donna è mobile

1942•movie

Role: Screenplay

7.0

Esercizi di stile

1996•movie

Role: Director

7.0

Damn the Taxes!!

1951•movie

Role: Writer

8.0

Lo sciopero dei milioni

1947•movie

Role: Writer

8.0

Tizio, Caio, Sempronio

1951•movie

Role: Story

9.0

Thrill

1941•movie

Role: Screenplay

7.0

Fear No Evil

1945•movie

Role: Story

8.0

Violenza sul lago

1954•movie

Role: Screenplay

8.0

Dogs and Cats

1952•movie

Role: Screenplay

7.0

Furia

1947•movie

Role: Assistant Director

8.0

Napoleone

1951•movie

Role: Story

10.0

La moglie ingenua e il marito malato

1989•movie

Role: Director

8.0

Letters from Palestine

2003•movie

Role: Director

5.0

The New Brancaleone's Army

2010•movie

Role: Director

Opera Prima

2021•movie

as Self

Next to the Colosseum there’s Monti

2008•movie

as Himself

Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth

2014•movie

as Self

Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant

2015•movie

as Self

Voi siete qui

2011•movie

as Self

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

2009•movie

I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto

2004•movie

as Self

Maestro di che!

2011•movie

as Self

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

1997•movie

as Self

Ciao Marcello - Mastroianni l'antidivo

2024•movie

as Self (archive footage)

Bandiera Viola

2010•movie

as Self

THE INTERPRETER OF BLACK AND WHITE FILMS

2007•movie

as Mario Monicelli

1 eps

Babau

1976•series

The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops

2002•movie

Role: Director