Mario Monicelli
Italian film director and screenwriter (1915–2010)
2.46body-of-work score · ranked #438 of 2631 directors · 3 films in our library
A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.
- Born
- May 16, 1915 · Rome
- Died
- November 29, 2010 · Rome
- Nationality
- Kingdom of Italy, Italy
- Work
- film director, screenwriter, actor, director
Films in our library, ranked
Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.
- 11.001 citation
- 2The OrganizerI compagni
1963 · France / Italy · drama
Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 1965 #2 · Criterion Collection spine #610
0.792 citations - 3Big Deal on Madonna StreetI soliti ignoti
1958 · Italy · crime, drama, comedy
Scorsese's 39 essential foreign films · NYT Best 1,000 Movies · Criterion Collection spine #113
0.674 citations
Complete filmography
All 64 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.
- 1935The Paul Street Boys
- 1937Summer Rain
- 1950A Dog's Life
- 1950A Night of Fame
- 1950È arrivato il cavaliere!
- 1950Toto Looks for a House
- 1951Cops and Robbers
- 1951Toto and the King of Rome
- 1952Toto and the Women
- 1953Le infedeli
- 1955A Hero of Our Times
- 1955Forbidden
- 1955Toto and Carolina
- 1956Donatella
- 1957Doctor and the Healer
- 1957Fathers and Sons
- 1958Big Deal on Madonna Street
- 1959The Great War
- 1960The Passionate Thief
- 1962Boccaccio '70
- 1962Renzo and Luciana
- 1963The Organizer
- 1964High Infidelity
- 1965Casanova 70
- 1966For Love and Gold
- 1966Sex Quartet
- 1967Caprice Italian Style
- 1968The Girl with the Pistol
- 1969Oh, Grandmother's Dead
- 1970Brancaleone at the Crusades
- 1970Man and Wife
- 1971Lady Liberty
- 1973We Want the Colonels
- 1974Romanzo popolare
- 1975My Friends
- 1976Caro Michele
- 1976Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
- 1977An Average Little Man
- 1977I nuovi mostri
- 1979Lovers and Liars
- 1980Hurricane Rosy
- 1981Camera d'albergo
- 1981Il Marchese del Grillo
- 1982All My Friends Part 2
- 1984Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno
- 1985The Two Lives of Mattia Pascal
- 1986Let's Hope It's a Girl
- 1987The Rogues
- 198912 registi per 12 città
- 1990Dark Illness
- 1991Rossini! Rossini!
- 1992Parenti serpenti
- 1994Dear Goddamned Friends
- 1995Facciamo paradiso
- 1996Exercices de style
- 1999A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota
- 1999Dirty Linen
- 2001Another World Is Possible
- 2002Letters from Palestine
- 2003Firenze, il nostro domani
- 2006The Roses of the Desert
- 2008Next to the Colosseum there’s Monti
- 2010La nuova armata Brancaleone
- —La moglie ingenua e il marito malato