Mario Monicelli

Mario Monicelli

1915-05-16 Rome, Italy 143 Credits

Biography

Mario Monicelli (May 16, 1915 – November 29, 2010) was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana (Comedy Italian style). Description above from the Wikipedia article Mario Monicelli,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Ciao Marcello - Mastroianni l'antidivo

Ciao Marcello - Mastroianni l'antidivo

2024

as Self (archive footage)

Acting
Opera Prima

Opera Prima

2021

as Self

Acting

Opera Prima is a tribute and a journey through the evolution that cinema has had in Italy. Tayu Vlietstra, a pupil of Bertolucci, carries out an inve...

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit

2017

as Self (archive footage)

8.0
Acting
Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant

Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant

2015

as Self

Acting
Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth

Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth

2014

as Self

Acting

Documentary about Italian cinema.

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

Monicelli: La versione di Mario

2012

as Self (archive footage)

5.5
Acting

The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).

Noi c'eravamo

2011

as Self

10.0
Acting
Voi siete qui

Voi siete qui

2011

as Self

Acting
Maestro di che!

Maestro di che!

2011

as Self

Acting

Tribute to the director Mario Monicelloi who, interviewed by Johnny Palomba, recalls his life and his works.

Qui finisce l'Italia

2010

Acting
Portrait Of My Father

Portrait Of My Father

2010

as Self

7.3
Acting

A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo

2010

as Self

6.5
Acting
Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore

2010

as Self

6.2
Acting
The New Brancaleone's Army

The New Brancaleone's Army

2010

Director, Writer

Directing Writing
What Do You Know About Me

What Do You Know About Me

2009

as Self

7.0
Acting

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, t...

Vittorio D.

Vittorio D.

2009

as Self

6.3
Acting

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

2009

Acting
Next to the Colosseum there’s Monti

Next to the Colosseum there’s Monti

2008

as Himself

Acting

There's an area of Rome, near the Colosseum, called Monti. Given famous Italian director Mario Monicelli, though born in Tuscany, has lived there for ...

Next to the Colosseum there’s Monti

Next to the Colosseum there’s Monti

2008

Director

Directing

There's an area of Rome, near the Colosseum, called Monti. Given famous Italian director Mario Monicelli, though born in Tuscany, has lived there for ...

SoloMetro

SoloMetro

2007

as Anziano in metropolitana

1.0
Acting
The Roses of the Desert

The Roses of the Desert

2006

Director, Story, Screenplay

5.9
Directing Writing

A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, s...

Marcello, una vita dolce

Marcello, una vita dolce

2006

as Self

5.2
Acting

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his ne...

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

2006

as Self

7.0
Acting

italian documentary

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

2004

as Self

6.0
Acting

Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the italian director Mario Bava

I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto

I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto

2004

as Self

Acting

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.

Under the Tuscan Sun

Under the Tuscan Sun

2003

as Old Man with Flowers

6.9
Acting

After a rough divorce, Frances, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco takes a tour of Tuscany at the urgings of her friends. On a whim...

Letters from Palestine

Letters from Palestine

2003

Director

Directing

Eleven Italian filmmakers show in eleven segments the terrible conditions of the Palestinian people living in Jerusalem.

A cavallo della tigre

A cavallo della tigre

2002

Original Film Writer

5.4
Writing

Plagued by financial problems, ne'er-do-well Guido ends up in jail after faking an armed robbery at his workplace. A year later, just a few days befor...

Welcome to Collinwood

Welcome to Collinwood

2002

Original Film Writer

6.1
Writing

Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.

The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops

2002

Director

Directing
Dirty Linen

Dirty Linen

1999

Director, Story, Screenplay

5.2
Directing Writing

The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market bring...

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth

1997

as Self

Acting
The Cyclone

The Cyclone

1996

as Gino (voice)

7.0
Acting

The everyday life of accountant Levante, his family and the other people of a small town in the Tuscan countryside is taken by storm by the serendipit...

Esercizi di stile

Esercizi di stile

1996

Director, Screenplay

Directing Writing

The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on.

Looking for Paradise

Looking for Paradise

1995

Director, Screenplay

6.0
Directing Writing

The life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated in England, rebel and single mother, then feminist and ...

La vera vita di Antonio H.

La vera vita di Antonio H.

1994

as Self

7.5
Acting

This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego o...

A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota

A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota

1994

as Self

6.0
Acting

The artistic evolution of the great composer, whose work left an indelible mark in the history of Italian cinema. In this documentary Nino Rota's extr...

A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota

A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota

1994

Writer, Director

6.0
Writing Directing

The artistic evolution of the great composer, whose work left an indelible mark in the history of Italian cinema. In this documentary Nino Rota's extr...

Dear Goddamned Friends

Dear Goddamned Friends

1994

Director, Screenplay

6.8
Directing Writing

In 1944 Tuscany, a group of boxers struggling through World War II stages rigged matches to earn money and travel, accompanied by a missing black Amer...

Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations

Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations

1992

Director, Screenplay

7.4
Directing Writing

During the annual Christmas gathering at the family home, the parents surprise their children by announcing their decision to move in with one of them...

Rossini! Rossini!

Rossini! Rossini!

1991

Director, Screenplay, Story

6.0
Directing Writing

An funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed ...

Dark Illness

Dark Illness

1990

Director

5.4
Directing

After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.

12 Directors for 12 Cities

12 Directors for 12 Cities

1989

Director

5.0
Directing

Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities.

La moglie ingenua e il marito malato

La moglie ingenua e il marito malato

1989

Director

Directing

A thief caught red-handed tells the landlord a very strange fact that happened to him looking through the keyhole of another apartment where he was st...

I picari

I picari

1987

Director, Screenplay, Story

5.5
Directing Writing

The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.

Let's Hope It's a Girl

Let's Hope It's a Girl

1986

Director, Screenplay

6.9
Directing Writing

Let's Hope It's a Girl is a multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, tak...

Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later

Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later

1985

Executive Producer

5.3
Producing

Fresh out prison, Tiberio reconnects with his old partners in crime, Michele Ferribote and Peppe the Panther, only to realise that a lot has changed--...

The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal

The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal

1985

Director, Screenplay, Story

5.9
Directing Writing

Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pa...

Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno

Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno

1984

Director, Screenplay, Story

6.9
Directing Writing

During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and,...

My Friends Act II

My Friends Act II

1982

Director, Story, Screenplay

7.6
Directing Writing

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up ...

The Marquis of Grillo

The Marquis of Grillo

1981

Director, Screenplay, Story

7.8
Directing Writing

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow...

Hotel Room

Hotel Room

1981

Screenplay, Director, Story

5.6
Writing Directing

A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people...

I'm Photogenic

I'm Photogenic

1980

as Mario Monicelli (uncredited)

5.4
Acting

Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to furth...

Hurricane Rosie

Hurricane Rosie

1980

Director, Story, Screenplay

4.2
Directing Writing

Raoul has best chances to become next boxing champion in light-heavy weight. For a bet he tries to beat through a door with his bare fist. He wins the...

Rue du Pied de Grue

1979

as Touchatout

Acting

A drifter navigates the fringes of Parisian society. The protagonist, a solitary man seeking direction, becomes entangled with a group of outsiders—mi...

Lovers and Liars

Lovers and Liars

1979

Director, Screenplay

4.1
Directing Writing

An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.

The New Monsters

The New Monsters

1977

Director

6.9
Directing

A 1977 Italian comedy film composed of 14 episodes, directed by Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963.

An Average Little Man

An Average Little Man

1977

Director, Screenplay

8.0
Directing Writing

A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his go...

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

1976

Director, Story

6.7
Directing Writing

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

Dear Michele

Dear Michele

1976

Director

5.3
Directing

Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revol...

My Friends

My Friends

1975

Director

8.1
Directing

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

Come Home and Meet My Wife

Come Home and Meet My Wife

1974

Screenplay, Director, Story

7.3
Writing Directing

50 year old Giulio and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina, fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks...

We Want the Colonels

We Want the Colonels

1973

Director, Screenplay, Story

6.6
Directing Writing

Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts m...

Lady Liberty

Lady Liberty

1971

Screenplay, Director, Dialogue

5.5
Writing Directing

An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a hu...

Brancaleone at the Crusades

Brancaleone at the Crusades

1970

Director, Story, Screenplay

7.2
Directing Writing

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Cru...

The Couples

The Couples

1970

Director

6.5
Directing

Three episodes. Episode 1 - The Refrigerator (Monicelli). A married couple of two poor emigrant workers spend almost all their money to buy a refriger...

Oh, Grandmother's Dead

Oh, Grandmother's Dead

1969

Screenplay, Director

5.4
Writing Directing

Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.

The Girl with a Pistol

The Girl with a Pistol

1968

Director

6.9
Directing

A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.

Caprice Italian Style

Caprice Italian Style

1968

Director

6.2
Directing

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.

Our Husbands

Our Husbands

1966

Screenplay, Story

5.8
Writing

Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.

The Queens

The Queens

1966

Director

5.4
Directing

Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting in...

For Love and Gold

For Love and Gold

1966

Screenplay, Director, Story

7.7
Writing Directing

A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a ...

Casanova '70

Casanova '70

1965

Screenplay, Director, Story

6.3
Writing Directing

The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.

Summer Frenzy

Summer Frenzy

1964

Screenplay

5.4
Writing
High Infidelity

High Infidelity

1964

Director

5.3
Directing

Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.

The Organizer

The Organizer

1963

Director, Screenplay, Story

7.5
Directing Writing

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory...

Boccaccio '70

Boccaccio '70

1962

Director, Screenplay

6.9
Directing Writing

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; mi...

On the Tiger's Back

On the Tiger's Back

1961

Screenplay, Story

7.2
Writing

Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous mu...

The Passionate Thief

The Passionate Thief

1960

Story, Screenplay, Director

6.9
Writing Directing

On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.

The Great War

The Great War

1959

Director, Screenplay, Story

8.1
Directing Writing

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to ...

Angel in a Taxi

Angel in a Taxi

1958

Screenplay

8.5
Writing

Marietto is a very lively and creative orphaned child, housed in a boarding school of nuns. One day, while browsing a newspaper, he sees a photo of a ...

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958

Director, Screenplay

8.1
Directing Writing

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make...

Doctor and the Healer

Doctor and the Healer

1957

Director, Co-Writer

7.1
Directing Writing

Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition wit...

Fathers and Sons

Fathers and Sons

1957

Story, Screenplay, Director

6.7
Writing Directing

The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all ...

Donatella

Donatella

1956

Screenplay, Director

5.4
Writing Directing

Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handba...

Beautiful But Dangerous

Beautiful But Dangerous

1955

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his ...

Forbidden

Forbidden

1955

Director, Screenplay

6.5
Directing Writing

Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war.

A Hero of Our Times

A Hero of Our Times

1955

Director, Screenplay

6.8
Directing Writing

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband wa...

Toto and Carolina

Toto and Carolina

1955

Director, Screenplay

6.5
Directing Writing

During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.

Guai ai vinti

Guai ai vinti

1954

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman d...

Violenza sul lago

Violenza sul lago

1954

Screenplay

Writing
Fatal Desire

Fatal Desire

1954

Writer

4.0
Writing

In Pietro Mascagni's tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancée, only to find that she's married someone else in his ...

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

1953

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of hi...

Funniest Show on Earth

Funniest Show on Earth

1953

Screenplay, Story

6.2
Writing

A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealous...

Neapolitan Turk

Neapolitan Turk

1953

Screenplay, Adaptation

7.3
Writing

Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the famil...

Perdonami!

Perdonami!

1953

Screenplay

3.0
Writing

The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother.

The Unfaithfuls

The Unfaithfuls

1953

Director, Screenplay

5.9
Directing Writing

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows t...

Toto and the Women

Toto and the Women

1952

Director, Screenplay

6.8
Directing Writing

Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.

Toto and the Kings of Rome

Toto and the Kings of Rome

1952

Director, Screenplay

7.0
Directing Writing

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.

The Lucky Five

The Lucky Five

1952

Screenplay

7.2
Writing

Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it aft...

Dogs and Cats

Dogs and Cats

1952

Screenplay

Writing

In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before...

Totó in color

Totó in color

1952

Screenplay

7.3
Writing

In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea ...

Vendetta... sarda

Vendetta... sarda

1952

Story, Screenplay

5.5
Writing

A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds ou...

Appointment for Murder

Appointment for Murder

1952

Story, Screenplay

6.0
Writing

A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's es...

Tizio, Caio, Sempronio

Tizio, Caio, Sempronio

1951

Story, Screenplay

Writing

A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.

Cops and Robbers

Cops and Robbers

1951

Director, Screenplay

7.5
Directing Writing

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni...

O.K. Nero

O.K. Nero

1951

Story, Screenplay

5.5
Writing

Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.

Damn the Taxes!!

Damn the Taxes!!

1951

Writer, Screenplay

Writing

Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for...

È l'amor che mi rovina

È l'amor che mi rovina

1951

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.

Napoleone

Napoleone

1951

Screenplay, Story

Writing

A historical farce about Napoleon.

Double Cross

Double Cross

1951

Screenplay, Story

6.6
Writing

A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.

The Knight is Here

The Knight is Here

1950

Director, Screenplay

5.0
Directing Writing

A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.

Outlaw Girl

Outlaw Girl

1950

Story

6.5
Writing

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he sta...

Soho Conspiracy

Soho Conspiracy

1950

Original Story

3.5
Writing

The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is sa...

A Dog’s Life

A Dog’s Life

1950

Director, Story, Screenplay

6.8
Directing Writing

Tragicomedy telling of the trials and tribulations of a troupe of variety show artists.

L'inafferrabile 12

L'inafferrabile 12

1950

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he ...

Her Favourite Husband

Her Favourite Husband

1950

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, p...

I'm in the Revue

I'm in the Revue

1950

Writer

4.8
Writing

Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained d...

Lure of the Sila

Lure of the Sila

1949

Screenplay, Story

6.3
Writing

Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother ...

Totò Looking for a House

Totò Looking for a House

1949

Director, Story, Screenplay

6.8
Directing Writing

Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an...

Fame and the Devil

Fame and the Devil

1949

Screenplay, Director

4.5
Writing Directing

Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.

The Iron Swordsman

The Iron Swordsman

1949

Writer

6.5
Writing
In the Name of the Law

In the Name of the Law

1949

Screenplay

7.1
Writing

A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.

Come scopersi l'America

Come scopersi l'America

1949

Writer

5.0
Writing
The Mysterious Rider

The Mysterious Rider

1948

Screenplay, Story

4.6
Writing

Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.

L'eroe della strada

L'eroe della strada

1948

Story, Screenplay

Writing

Felice Manetti is a poor tramp in Turin who, due to his ingenuity, often finds himself in trouble.

Mad About Opera

Mad About Opera

1948

Story

7.5
Writing
Lost Youth

Lost Youth

1948

Screenplay

6.4
Writing

In impoverished post-war Rome, a gang of young thieves is lead by Stefano, the son of an illustrious professor. The police suspects that the criminals...

Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris

Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris

1948

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attemp...

Les Misérables

Les Misérables

1948

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...

How I Lost the War

How I Lost the War

1947

Screenplay

Writing

Leo Bianchetti has just finished his military service but then is again called to arms; after 10 years on various fronts, he finds himself again in It...

The Captain's Daughter

The Captain's Daughter

1947

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.

Fumeria d’oppio

Fumeria d’oppio

1947

Screenplay

5.8
Writing

A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate pro...

Furia

Furia

1947

Assistant Director

Directing

Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The youn...

Lo sciopero dei milioni

Lo sciopero dei milioni

1947

Writer

Writing
Aquila Nera

Aquila Nera

1946

Screenplay

6.5
Writing

An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and in...

The Testimony

The Testimony

1946

First Assistant Director

6.4
Directing

A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace of...

Fear No Evil

Fear No Evil

1945

Story, Screenplay

Writing

The life of Saint Benedict, the founder of Western Monasticism.

La donna è mobile

La donna è mobile

1942

Screenplay

Writing
Thrill

Thrill

1941

First Assistant Director, Screenplay, Dialogue

Directing Writing

A crime novel writer is experiencing writer's block while writing his latest book. Then a woman is murdered in his home, and this crime gives him insp...

Ballerine

Ballerine

1937

Second Assistant Director

5.0
Directing

A favorite student of an old dance teacher gets casted in an important pantomime. When the teacher dies on the stage, she finds support from a journal...

I ragazzi della via Paal

I ragazzi della via Paal

1935

Director

Directing

The Tell-Tale Heart

1934

First Assistant Director, Adaptation, Screenplay

6.0
Directing Writing

A madman is so obsessed by the protruding eye of the old man with whom he lives that he plots to murder him.