Adriana Innocenti

The Dinner (1998)

An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; ...

Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990)

The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians. ...

Graduation Party (1985)

The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman. ...

Petomaniac (1983)

The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts. ...

Acapulco, Last Beach... on the Left (1983)

Verdi (1982)

This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the life of this classic Italian composer known for operas including La Traviata, Rigoletto, and Aida and his Requiem. ...

The Venus of Ille (1981)

A wealthy landowner uncovers a bronze statue of Venus on his property. He asks an antique expert to examine the statue and confirm its wealth. Upon arrival, the expert is striken with love by the landowner's daughter-in-law who bears an uncanny resemblance ...

Cinema!!! (1979)

Lobster for Breakfast (1979)

Marco is married to Carla, a rich businesswoman. She's off to Geneva for two days; he has a tryst with Monique, a Swedish air hostess. Carla's flight is canceled, so she heads home about to catch Mario en flagrant. Mario's salvation is Enrico, an old schoo ...

One Can Say It Without Getting Angry (1978)

Pauline intends to end her days and meticulously prepares her suicide, but she meets Peppo, an Italian immigrant, who will change her mind. ...

The Cat (1977)

Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot ...

Gastone (1977)

Dear Michele (1976)

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 revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift ...

Non si scrive sui muri a Milano (1975)

Luciana, a country girl who has moved to Milan, is married to Mario, an intellectual type who avoids her since an accident forced him to live with his torso permanently in a cast. Lonely and depressed because also of her recent dismissal, she asks for help ...

Eye of the Cat (1975)

Biting, sadistic satire punctuates this dark comedy about a feckless musician named Marcello Ferrari (Nino Manfredi) whose wife Giulia (Mariangela Melato) and kids are stolen away by the domineering, fascist madman Cesare (Eli Wallach). ...

Il segretario particolare (1968)

L'assassino si chiama Pompeo (1962)