By Vlad Zakh · February 6, 2026
Comedy feel goodthought provoking
Nino Manfredi brought warm, working-class authenticity to Italian film and became one of the country’s best-loved comic actors without losing sight of social conscience. Bread and Chocolate endures an immigrant worker’s humiliations in Switzerland, We All Loved Each Other So Much follows postwar friends, Cafe Express evades the authorities with an illegal coffee seller on a night train, and In the Name of the Pope King confronts a priest with papal corruption. The Conspirators and A Girl in Australia round out the list.
01 An unlicensed coffee vendor dodges the authorities aboard an overnight train through southern Italy.
Directed by Nanni Loy · 1h 33m
Stream: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads · Rent or buy: Amazon Video
Stream: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads · Rent or buy: Amazon Video
02 Nino Manfredi appears as revolutionary conspirators in papal-ruled Rome plot an uprising against corrupt rulers.
Directed by Luigi Magni · 2h 04m
03 A conflicted priest investigating a bombing plot confronts the corruption of the papal court.
Directed by Luigi Magni · 1h 45m
04 An Italian immigrant worker in Switzerland endures repeated humiliation while chasing a better life.
Directed by Franco Brusati · 1h 55m
05 Nino Manfredi features in this Italian drama about three friends who fought together in the resistance and drift apart over the decades.
Directed by Ettore Scola · 2h 05m
Stream: Criterion Channel
Stream: Criterion Channel
06 An Italian immigrant's mail-order bride arrangement leads to unexpected complications in the Australian outback.
Directed by Luigi Zampa · 1h 47m
Rent or buy: Amazon Video
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