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Nanni Loy

Nanni Loy

Directing

Biography

Nanni Loy (born Giovanni Loi; 23 October 1925 – 21 August 1995) was an Italian film, theatre and TV director. Specifically, Nanni Loy was Sardinian, and one of several notable Sardinian film makers, including Franco Solinas. Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia: his father was Guglielmo Loy-Donà, a lawyer issue from a distinguished Sardinian-Venetian family, and his mother was the noblewoman Donna Anna Sanjust of the Marquesses of Neoneli. Rosetta Loy, an Italian novelist, is his sister-in-law.

Known For

My Friends Act III
6.4

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.

My Friends Act III

1985
Disobedience
4.0

Luca Manzi is a fourteen year old boy when the Northern Italy Republic of Salò is governed by the Fascists. He becomes a partisan but when the war ends he is disappointed because things have not changed as he had hoped they wood, and he decides to let himself die. He is saved by Edith who tries to introduce him to sex. Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia.

Disobedience

1981
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
6.7

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

1976
House of Ricordi
6.3

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

House of Ricordi

1954
Made in Italy
6.1

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

Made in Italy

1965
Strange Occasion
5.5

Three sexy and comic episodes.

Strange Occasion

1976
Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
7.5

The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.

Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi

1952
A che punto è la notte
8.0

In Turin, a priest is killed by the explosion of a candle and Commissioner Santamaria has to unravel the problem.

A che punto è la notte

1994
Three Tigers Against Three Tigers
5.1

Don Cimbolano - a priest in a small town. Oscar - a offender escaped from prison. Philip - attorney loser. They don't lose heart and find ways out of the most incredible situations.

Three Tigers Against Three Tigers

1977
Easy Years
6.8

A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.

Easy Years

1953
The Head of the Family
6.6

A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.

The Head of the Family

1967
Fiasco in Milan
6.9

The usual gang of robbers are hired by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will hinder the success of the operation.

Fiasco in Milan

1959
Scugnizzi
6.0

Everything revolves around a musical theater production staged by a modest Sicilian director who has to direct young inmates at the juvenile detention center in Nisida. However, the rehearsals, the performance at the San Carlo Theater in Naples, and the real and touching events of the city alternate without any consistency.

Scugnizzi

1989
Troubleshooters
6.4

The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! —Guy Bellinger

Troubleshooters

1971
Café Express
7.1

An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.

Café Express

1980
Beautiful Families
6.7

The film's theme is four episodes that offer the public a glimpse into the lives of rich and poor families in Italy in the 1960s.

Beautiful Families

1964
The Four Days of Naples
7.5

September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in control — and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, civilians rise up en masse against the invaders — and overwhelming odds.

The Four Days of Naples

1962
Operation Snafu
6.7

World War II soldiers enter Sicily to seize German arms supply only to discover there is not a gun in sight.

Operation Snafu

1970
Complexes
7.0

In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.

Complexes

1965
Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
5.9

Life in Naples is tough, so Neapolitans invent ways to get by. Whatever works, conning mostly, tricking the IRS, the university, the landlord, cruise ship passengers, even conning victims three times with the same ruse.

Package, Double Package and Counterpackage

1993