A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
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The people behind it
Salvatore Ficarra
Salvatore "Salvo"
Valentino Picone
Valentino "Vale"
Vincenzo Amato
Pierpaolo Natoli
Tony Sperandeo
Gaetano Patanè
Leo Gullotta
Don Raffaele
Sergio Friscia
vigile Gianni
Antonio Catania
vigile urbano
Gaetano Bruno
carabiniere Gaetano
Eleonora De Luca
Betty Natoli
Ersilia Lombardo
Francesca Natoli
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After winning $6.2 million in the 1976 New York State Lottery, he is arrested for throwing rocks at a church. He then tells his story at the police station.
In what might be his most personal and introspective hour yet, Bill offers hilarious takes on everything from male sadness to dating advice.
A successful erotic film producer from Rome regularly receives letters from female fans seeking his advice on how to spice up their sex lives. Thanks to his years of experience in both the film business and the sex industry, he has all sorts of tips at the ready and, in an emergency, is happy to make a house call himself to demonstrate his qualities in person.
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!
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While doing the inventory for a lingerie outlet in a high rise office building, five attractive women are terrorized by a series of bizarre killings. They suspect that the strange janitor, who witnessed another series of killings six months previously, is at the bottom of the whole thing. Little do they know the real horror that they face in the end.
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