Known For
Complete Filmography

Fate un bel sorriso
2000
Writer
Antonio is a seventy-year-old gentleman, a former strict and impeccable judge. Having refused to accept his daughter's hospitality, he found himself i...

Giovani e belli
1996
Writer
Luca, a young man from a rich family, travels to Rome. Here he encounters Gino, who makes a living with petty theft.

Miracolo italiano
1994
Story, Screenplay
7 segments about life in 1990s Italy: two MPs from the opposite sides of the political spectrum spend the night together; during their honeymoon, a wo...

All Ladies Do It
1992
Screenplay
After five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her failing relationship through betrayal.

Paprika
1991
Screenplay, Story
Mimma starts working in Madame Colette’s brothel to help her boyfriend financially. There she is rechristened “Paprika,” and falls in love with her fi...

I'll Be Going Now
1991
Screenplay, Story
After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a me...

Teresa
1987
Writer
Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.

Stuff for the Rich
1987
Screenplay
3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an ...

Rimini Rimini
1987
Screenplay, Story
Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.

I Am an ESP
1985
Story, Screenplay
Roberto Razzi, skeptical and convinced atheist, is the conductor of the Futuro program, in which he unmasks the most common tricks and deceptions that...

He's Worse than Me
1985
Screenplay, Story
Two reckless friends Leonardo (Adriano Celentano) and Luciano (Renato Potstsetto) are just doing whatever they want and getting into endless alteratio...

This and That
1983
Writer
Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period....

State buoni se potete
1983
Screenplay, Story
Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel.

God Makes and Then Pairs Them Up
1982
Story, Screenplay
At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to...

Sesso e volentieri
1982
Screenplay
Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.

The Marquis of Grillo
1981
Story
In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow...

Nobody's Perfect
1981
Story
Guerrino, a prematurely widowed businessman, falls in love with Chantal, a former paratrooper in the German army who changed sex a few years earlier.

Sweet Pea
1981
Screenplay, Story
Cristiano, aged thirteen, seems to be a teen-ager with clear ideas about his future. One evening he meets May, a stranger, who is probably drunk and, ...

Ghost of Love
1981
Screenplay
Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.

Habibi, amor mío
1981
Writer
Young Stefano falls in love with a Spanish girl, Habibi. The two become engaged, but after a happy period, Stefano will discover the girl's betrayals....

City of Women
1980
Screenplay, Story
The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered f...

Dear Father
1979
Screenplay, Story
In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to perfection by Ri...

Traffic Jam
1979
Screenplay
A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in...

The New Monsters
1977
Screenplay, Story
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.

Lost Soul
1977
Screenplay
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.

Fellini's Casanova
1976
Screenplay
Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he...

Languidi baci... perfide carezze
1976
Writer
Italian romance starring Giovanna Ralli, Gigi Proietti and Cristiano Censi

Plot of Fear
1976
Writer
Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo ...

The Career of a Chambermaid
1976
Screenplay, Story
This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolvi...

Duck in Orange Sauce
1975
Screenplay
When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly accepts. But when he sets up a last weekend together...

Leonor
1975
Writer
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his secon...

E il Casanova di Fellini?
1975
as Self
During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.

Deep Red
1975
Screenplay
An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discov...

Stardust
1973
Screenplay
The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Br...

Dirty Weekend
1973
Writer
A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as...

Roma
1972
Screenplay, Story
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.

The Clowns
1970
Screenplay
Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby ...

The Priest's Wife
1970
Screenplay
After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman attempts suicide but survives and falls for the priest who took her call, leading to complic...

Viva Cangaceiro
1969
Screenplay
Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a y...

Satyricon
1969
Screenplay, Story
After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a...

I See Naked
1969
Story
Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
1969
as Self
Fellini discusses his views of making motion pictures and his unorthodox procedures. He seeks inspiration in various out of the way places. During thi...

Fellini: A Director’s Notebook
1969
Screenplay
Fellini discusses his views of making motion pictures and his unorthodox procedures. He seeks inspiration in various out of the way places. During thi...

A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof
1968
Screenplay
The bandit Pratt, looking for Tim, who is responsible for the death of his two sons, attacks a caravan killing all the passengers. Harry, the vagabond...

Spirits of the Dead
1968
Adaptation, Screenplay
Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man ha...

Caprice Italian Style
1968
Writer
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.

Toby Dammit
1968
Writer
During a trip to Rome, a debauched Shakespearian actor is tormented by the Italian film industry, fans, the press and the Devil, who appears as a litt...

The Witches
1967
Story, Screenplay
Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from w...
Cinecittà: sui set dei film western italiani (1967) - Spaghetti Western
1967
Video containing a fragment of the journalistic reportage "Roma 4 - Passeggiate per la città" (1967) by Bernardino Zapponi and Stefano De Stefani, whe...
Cinecittà: sui set dei film western italiani (1967) - Spaghetti Western
1967
Author
Video containing a fragment of the journalistic reportage "Roma 4 - Passeggiate per la città" (1967) by Bernardino Zapponi and Stefano De Stefani, whe...

È l'amor che mi rovina
1951
Screenplay
A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.