 Barbarella 1968  PG, 98 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi / Adventure / Fantasy
Director: Roger Vadim
Cast: Jane Fonda, John Phillip Law, Anita Pallenberg, Milo O'Shea, David Hemmings, Marcel Marceau, Ugo Tognazzi, Claude Dauphin, Veronique Vendell, Serge Marquand, Catherine Chevallier, Marie Therese Chevallier, Joan Greenwood, Antonio Sabata
This story is based on a French comic strip and is set in the 41st century. Barbarella (Jane Fonda) travels into space to find a scientist, Durand Durand (Milo O'Shea), who has developed the ultimate weapon that could destroy the world. While on her mission, Barbarella encounters revolutionary Dildano (David Hemmings), is attacked by killer dolls, meets Professor Ping (Marcel Marceau), and falls in love with blind angel Pygara (John Phillip Law).
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La Cage Aux Folles 1978  R, 91 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Edouard Molinaro
Cast: Ugo Tognazzi, Michel Galabru, Michel Serrault, Claire Maurier, Remi Laurent, Benny Luke, Carmen Scarpitta, Luisa Maneri, Venantino Venantini, Carlo Reali, Guido Cermiglia, Angelo Pellegrino
A gay couple Renato Baldi and Albin Mougeotte (Ugo Tognazzi and Michel Serrault) pretend to be married heterosexuals for the pending marriage of Renato's son Laurent (Remi Laurent). In addition to two sequels, the story was made into a Broadway musical.
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La Cage Aux Folles 3 1985 PG-13, 87 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Georges Lautner
Cast: Michel Serrault, Michel Galabru, Ugo Tognazzi, Stephane Audran, Benny Luke, Antonella Interlenghi, Saverio Vallone, Gianluca Favilla, Umberto Raho, Roberto Posse, Flora Carabella, Pier Francesco Aiello
This film is proof that when the first sequel is (usually) not as good as the original, the third entry has little chance of being a hit. The plot continues the saga of drag queen Alben (Michel Serrault) who discovers an inheritance is his–only if he marries and fathers a son.
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La Cage Aux Folles II 1980  R, 101 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Edouard Molinaro
Cast: Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Paola Borboni, Marcel Bozzuffi, Michel Galabru, Benny Luke, Stephane Audran, Giovanni Vettorazzo, Glauco Onorato, Roberto Bisacco, Gianrico Tondinelli, Giorgio Cerioni
This sequel just does not match up to the original movie, but it is still a pretty good comedy in which a homosexual couple, Albin Mougeotte and Renato Baldi (Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi) unwittingly becomes embroiled in espionage after obtaining stolen microfilm..
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La Grande Bouffe 1973 NC-17, 130 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy / Drama
aka: The Grande Bouffe
Director: Marco Ferreri
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret, Ugo Tognazzi, Andrea Ferreol, Solange Blondeau, Florence Giorgetti, Michele Alexandre, Monique Chaumette, Henri Piccoli, Louis Navarre, Bernard Menez
Four successful men–a pilot (Marcello Mastroianni), a chef (Ugo Tognazzi), a TV host (Michel Piccoli), and a judge (Philippe Noiret)–enter into a suicide pact. Using the weapon of self-indulgence, the men gather in a walled Parisian villa where they eat themselves to death while enjoying side dishes of sex along with the food.
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The Master and Margaret 1972  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Aleksandar Petrovic
Cast: Mimsy Farmer, Ugo Tognazzi, Pavle Vujisic, Alain Cuny, Velimir "Bata" Zivojinovic, Ljuba Tadic, Tasko Nacic, Janez Vrhovec, Fabijan Sovagovic, Danilo Stojkovic
This whimsical satire takes place in Moscow during the 1920s. Playright Nikolaj (Ugo Tognazzi) attends the dress rehearsal for his play in which most cast members object to performing. His girlfriend, Margaret (Mimsy Farmer), and Professor Voland (Alain Cuny) both want the play to go on. When Nikolaj discovers that the Professor is, in reality, the Devil, his attempt to warn others results in him being placed in an asylum. Now the Devil is free to add his own special effects to the play, and audience chaos follows.
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Porcile 1969 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Pigpen
Pigsty
Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast: Pierre Clementi, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Alberto Lionello, Ugo Tognazzi, Anne Wiazemsky, Margarita Lozano, Marco Ferreri, Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli
Two obscure narratives are told in this film. One involves the son of a post-World War II German industrialist who gets fed up with human relationships and protests by becoming involved with pigs. The other, set several centuries ago, follows a young cannibal as he searches for food in his volcanic surroundings.
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Sunday Lovers 1980  R, 127 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Various Directors
Cast: Roger Moore, Lino Ventura, Ugo Tognazzi, Gene Wilder, Lynn Redgrave, Kathleen Quinlan, Priscilla Barnes, Denholm Elliott, Rossana Podesta, Robert Webber
Four short stories set in four separate countries relate the sexual exploits of four middle-aged men in this tasteless film, which is made worse by poor acting. Directors: Bryan Forbes, Edouard Molinaro, Dino Risi, and Gene Wilder. Wilder's story is probably the worst one.
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| 1. Barbarella (1968)
2. A Joke of Destiny Lying in Wait Around the Corner... (1983)
3. La Cage Aux Folles (1978)
4. La Cage Aux Folles 3 (1985)
5. La Cage Aux Folles II (1980)
6. La Grande Bouffe (1973)
aka: The Grande Bouffe
7. The Master and Margaret (1972)
8. Porcile (1969)
aka: Pigpen
aka: Pigsty
9. Sunday Lovers (1980)
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