Pino Caruso Movies
- 2009
This crime comedy from the nutty Italian duo Valentino Picone and Salvatore Ficarra features the two writer-director-stars, respectively, as Paolo and Gaetano, cousins estranged from one another. The boys haven't spoken for almost twenty years, thanks to the enmity that their fathers feel toward one another. But an accident suddenly brings the cousins back together and thrusts them deep into the heart of the mafia. Godfather Don Gino (Pino Caruso witnesses the extent to which Gaetano and Paolo need to stay close, and aggressively intervenes to try to reconcile them with one another. Anna Safroncik and Mary Cipolla lend supporting roles. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Anna Safroncik, Claudio Gioe, (more)
- 1989
Fortunato Assante (Leo Gullotta) is a merely adequate professional actor who is down on his luck, and has a hefty loan to repay. Why else would he agree to take a job coaching kids at a reformatory to put on a musical? However, once he gets into the job and discovers the keen intelligence and performing skill of the kids, he begins to take an interest in them. He soon learns about the precarious existence many of them have lived out on the streets, and the desperate acts they have committed simply to survive. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Leo Gullotta, Aldo Giuffré, (more)
- 1976
In this Italian mystery, a detective journeys into the rarified world of the idle rich to look into a puzzling murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marcello Mastroianni, Jacqueline Bisset, (more)
- 1975
A boisterous, cheerful and lusty man, Lajoie (Jean Carmet) meets his friends every year at a family campsite. During the whole vacation, Lajoie has been eyeing his teenage son's nubile girlfriend. During an occasion which puts them alone together, he attempts to rape her. When she fights back, he attempts to subdue her with a punch, and accidentally kills her. Frightened, he dumps her body near an Arab neighborhood, and then incites a lynch mob after spreading rumors that the girl was murdered by Arabs. For a while, it looks like this all-too common man will get away with his crime. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jean Carmet, Pierre Tornade, (more)
- 1973
A widower falls in love with the new housekeeper (Laura Antonelli) he has hired for his three sons, but later realizes he's not the only man in the household wishing to have an affair with her. The film, originally released in Italy as Malizia, appears in dubbed English. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide
- 1970
Manrino (Pino Caruso) is the virile male with a wife, a mistress and a mini-skirted girlfriend. The Professor (Carlo Hintermann) breaks the new to the disbelieving Manrino that he is changing into a woman. In three days time, the man indeed becomes a woman, leading to comedy situations and many plays on words. He is confused by a transvestite go-go dancer in a night club and begins to experience things for the first time as a woman. He hopes some pills prescribed by the doctor will change him back to the male gender so he may continue his macho fantasies. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Pino Caruso, Juliette Mayniel, (more)
