The cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors. Since its beginning, Italian cinema has influenced film movements worldwide. Italy is one of the birthplaces of art cinema and the stylistic aspect of film has been the most important factor in the history of Italian film. As of 2018, Italian films have won 14 Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film as well as 12 Palmes d'Or, one Academy Award for Best Picture and many Golden Lions and Golden Bears.
The Viareggio Prize is an Italian literary prize, first awarded in 1930. Named after the Tuscan city of Viareggio, it was conceived by three friends, Alberto Colantuoni, Carlo Salsa and Leonida Rèpaci, to rival the Milanese Bagutta Prize.
In Italian cinema, Giallo is a genre of mystery fiction and thrillers and often contains slasher, crime fiction, psychological thriller, psychological horror, sexploitation, and, less frequently, supernatural horror elements.
Carmela Carolina Fernanda "Carmen" Russo is an Italian showgirl, television personality, actress, dancer, model, dance teacher and occasional singer.
Enrico Viarisio was an Italian theatre and cinema actor.
Francesco Rosi was an Italian film director. His film The Mattei Affair won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to have political messages. While the topics for his later films became less politically oriented and more angled toward literature, he continued to direct until 1997, his last film being the adaptation of Primo Levi's book, The Truce.
Renzo Montagnani was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Orchidea De Santis is an Italian television and film actress.
Andrea Checchi was a prolific Italian film actor.
Marisa Merlini was an Italian character actress active in Italy's post-World War II cinema. Merlini appeared in over fifty films during her career, which spanned from World War II to 2005. In Luigi Comencini's 1953 film Pane, amore e fantasia, she portrayed Annarella, a village midwife, who marries the local police marshal, played by Vittorio De Sica.
La moglie vergine, internationally released as At Last, at Last, Valentina... The Virgin Wife and You've Got to Have Heart, is a 1975 Italian commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Marino Girolami.
Mia moglie torna a scuola is a 1981 commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Giuliano Carnimeo and starring Renzo Montagnani with Carmen Russo, an early 1980s star of the genre.
Il corpo della ragassa is a 1979 commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile. It is based on the 1969 novel with the same name by Gianni Brera.
Il sindacalista is a 1972 Italian comedy film directed by Luciano Salce.
La moglie in vacanza... l'amante in città is a 1980 commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Sergio Martino.
Una cavalla tutta nuda is a 1972 commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Franco Rossetti.
Scusi lei è normale? is a 1979 commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring Renzo Montagnani, Ray Lovelock and Anna Maria Rizzoli.
Le dolci zie is a 1975 commedia sexy all'italiana written and directed by Mario Imperoli and starring Pascale Petit, Femi Benussi, and Marisa Merlini.
