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* AmusingInjuries: Amalio, Egisto and Dalmazio suffer lots of mishaps and injuries, but they always end up no worse for wear a couple scenes after at most.
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* AmusingInjuries: Amalio, Egisto and Dalmazio suffer lots of comical mishaps and injuries, but they always end up no worse for wear a couple scenes after at most.
* TheDitz: While none of the three cousins is particularly smart, Dalmazio takes the cake.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The three cousins may not be very smart, and they have lines they will not cross, but they often show themselves to be rather competent when pulling off heists.
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* LargeHam: Egisto. Being played by Massimo Boldi, it's only to be expected.
* ManipulativeBastard: Aliprando is shockingly good at stringing his nephews along.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: In-universe. Aliprando's bodyguard in the first movie is called Franco Nero, after the famous actor and filmmaker.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The three cousins may not be very smart, and they have lines they will not cross, but they often show themselves to be rather competent when pulling off heists. [[spoiler:At the end of the first movie, they manage to steal the World Cup without Aliprando making any plan for them]].
* ManipulativeBastard: Aliprando is shockingly good at stringing his nephews along.
* NamedAfterSomeoneFamous: In-universe. Aliprando's bodyguard in the first movie is called Franco Nero, after the famous actor and filmmaker.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The three cousins may not be very smart, and they have lines they will not cross, but they often show themselves to be rather competent when pulling off heists. [[spoiler:At the end of the first movie, they manage to steal the World Cup without Aliprando making any plan for them]].
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* EvilCripple: Aliprando, a master thief who was forced to give up his criminal lifestyle after losing the use of his legs in an accident. [[spoiler:Subverted when it turns out that he was just faking his disability]].
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* ObfuscatingDisability: [[spoiler:Aliprando pulls this off in both movies in order to manipulate his nephews. In the first, he pretends to be paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. In the second, he pretends to have gone blind.]]
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''Scuola di Ladri'' (transl. ''School for Thieves''), in a 1986 Italian movie by Neri Parenti. It had a sequel, ''Scuola di Ladri - Part 2'', produced in the following year.
The protagonists of this movie are three cousins unaware of each other: Dalmazio (Paolo Villaggio) is a security guard at a bank, Amalio (Lino Banfi) is a dog sitter, and Egisto (Massimo Boldi) is a street vendor and car window washer. All three of them, however, are both incompetent and unlucky, and they struggle to make an honest living.
The opportunity of a lifetime presents itself to them when they are suddenly contacted by the wealthy Aliprando Siraghi, an elderly thief who has ended up in a wheelchair and reveals that he is a distant uncle of theirs. Aliprando proposes to co-opt them into his thieving activities, convincing them it is their only chance to emerge from mediocrity and poverty. At the end of a long training period, filled with comical mishaps, the three cousins begin their larcenous activities, with Aliprando as their shady patron and backer.
!!The films contain examples of:
* AmusingInjuries: Amalio, Egisto and Dalmazio suffer lots of mishaps and injuries, but they always end up no worse for wear a couple scenes after at most.
* AngryGuardDog: In the sequel, Aliprando has a guide dog named Satan who also doubles as an over-aggressive guard dog. It seems to hate Dalmazio the most and wastes no opportunity to scare or bite him.
* BlackComedy: Even when people get killed or [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext planes get shot down]], it's all played for dark laughs.
* EvilMentor: Aliprando.
* FemmeFatale: Marisa in the first movie, Susanna in the second.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The three cousins may not be very smart, and they have lines they will not cross, but they often show themselves to be rather competent when pulling off heists.
* VillainProtagonist: As bumbling and silly as they are, Egisto, Dalmazio and Amalio are still thieves.
The protagonists of this movie are three cousins unaware of each other: Dalmazio (Paolo Villaggio) is a security guard at a bank, Amalio (Lino Banfi) is a dog sitter, and Egisto (Massimo Boldi) is a street vendor and car window washer. All three of them, however, are both incompetent and unlucky, and they struggle to make an honest living.
The opportunity of a lifetime presents itself to them when they are suddenly contacted by the wealthy Aliprando Siraghi, an elderly thief who has ended up in a wheelchair and reveals that he is a distant uncle of theirs. Aliprando proposes to co-opt them into his thieving activities, convincing them it is their only chance to emerge from mediocrity and poverty. At the end of a long training period, filled with comical mishaps, the three cousins begin their larcenous activities, with Aliprando as their shady patron and backer.
!!The films contain examples of:
* AmusingInjuries: Amalio, Egisto and Dalmazio suffer lots of mishaps and injuries, but they always end up no worse for wear a couple scenes after at most.
* AngryGuardDog: In the sequel, Aliprando has a guide dog named Satan who also doubles as an over-aggressive guard dog. It seems to hate Dalmazio the most and wastes no opportunity to scare or bite him.
* BlackComedy: Even when people get killed or [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext planes get shot down]], it's all played for dark laughs.
* EvilMentor: Aliprando.
* FemmeFatale: Marisa in the first movie, Susanna in the second.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The three cousins may not be very smart, and they have lines they will not cross, but they often show themselves to be rather competent when pulling off heists.
* VillainProtagonist: As bumbling and silly as they are, Egisto, Dalmazio and Amalio are still thieves.
