Arnoldo Foà

Noi c'eravamo (2011)

Ce N'è Per Tutti (2009)

Gianluca, unable to bear the world's ills, decides to climb the Colosseum and isolate himself from everything and everyone. Friends and relatives awkwardly try to reach him and get him down. It will be an opportunity for everyone to stop and reflect; his g ...

The Red Shadows (2009)

An intellectual encounters a youth group that seeks social change. ...

La rabbia (2008)

A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to leave a ...

7 and 8 (2007)

6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident. ...

What Is Love? (2006)

A young man, Andrea, from the bourgeoisie of Lugano, with power in high finance, falls in love with a beautiful pianist, Antonia. Antonia leaves his fabulous career for the love she feels for him. Soon the beautiful women leads him in a growing state of je ...

Antonio, guerriero di Dio (2006)

The life of Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) from his arrival on Sicily's shores via shipwreck in 1221 to his death. He's a Portuguese monk who, once in Italy, seeks out St. Francis. Anthony's gift as a great preacher is discovered by happenstance. He spends m ...

100 anni della nostra storia (2006)

A Donatello award nominated documentary looking at the last centenary of the CGIL - the largest trade union in Italy. ...

La febbre (2005)

Ti spiace se bacio mamma? (2003)

Sandro, a lawyer, has three sisters and a father, Renato, a man of about seventy-five, who despite his age still loves women very much. The arrival of Lena, Sandro's foreign housekeeper, upsets the normal family balance and provokes different reactions amo ...

People of Rome (2003)

Rome 2003, the camera follows citizens of Rome. Night, in a flat, a woman prepares her husband's lunch. The man takes a bus, but the camera follow another bus ... a woman cleans the mayor's office... A man interviews passengers on a bus about immigration.. ...

Ti voglio bene Eugenio (2002)

Between Calmness and Passion (2001)

An appassionato art student and a dispassionate college girl make a vow, saying they would meet each other again in the Florence Cathedral after 10 years. ...

Tutti gli uomini del deficiente (1999)

Nearing death, videogame genius Leone Stella holds a contest to find an heir: several people named like him will compete in a live-streamed reenactment of his most famous exploits, and the winner will inherit his billion-dollar fortune. ...

Asini (1999)

Excellent Cadavers (1999)

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppo ...

Fine Secolo (1999)

Luca Magni investigates the atrocious murder of a girl, Benedetta. The young victim was the only daughter of Bruno Corti, driver of the Rinaldi family, owner of a large industrial group. ...

Liebe und weitere Katastrophen (1999)

Since the death of her husband, ex-teacher Franziska has had to look after her son David and his disabled brother Bobby on her own. Their new neighbors, Professor Maximilian and his wife Mechthild, bring a breath of fresh air into their lives. ...

A Monster Named Lila (1999)

Among the mountains, a woman tries to discover her inner shadow zones, also thanks to the arrival of a stranger who interrupts her erotic fantasies. ...

Leo e Beo (1998)

A man named Leo has the ability to speak to his dog, Beo. He falls in love with a single mother named Sabrina. ...

Ardena (1997)

Summer 1969 is very special for Andrea a 13 year-old boy who is about to leave, with his family, for a little village on the hills surrounding a great lake in Northern Italy. There he finds, like every year, his uncles, aunts, cousins, a fascinating mother ...

Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles (1993)

The film recalls Orson Welles' Italian period. "Rosabella" is the translation, proposed by the first Italian adaptation, of "Rosebud," the object at the center of the story of Charles Foster Kane, the main character of Citizen Kane (1941), Welles' debut fi ...

The King's Whore (1990)

Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes. ...

Blood Ties (1986)

An innocent American engineer is blackmailed by gangsters into a plot to assassinate his cousin, who is a judge in Sicily fighting the Mafia. ...

Attention (1985)

On the plane back to Rome, a well-known journalist indulges in an unbridled and somewhat melodramatic erotic fantasy involving his estranged wife and his stepdaughter. ...

One Hundred Days in Palermo (1984)

In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the sa ...

A Dangerous Toy (1979)

A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he seeks revenge. ...

A Matter of Time (1976)

During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibra ...

The Tempter (1974)

A young writer is invited to stay in a religious hostel run by a sinister, manipulative nun who plays deadly psychological games with the inhabitants. ...

The Household (1974)

A butler for wealthy clients has a problem--he can't seem to stop getting sexually involved with the wives and daughters of his bosses. ...

Napoleone a Sant'Elena (1973)

A reconstruction of Napoleon Bonaparte's years after Waterloo, from his exile to St. Helena until his death under mysterious circumstances: between hopes of escape and illness, the former emperor dictates his memoirs. Directed by Vittorio Cottafavi, the fi ...

First Tango in Rome: Romance and Alchemy (1973)

A man and his assistant invent a powerful aphrodisiac they don't hesitate testing out on the beautiful female populace of their village. ...

Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi (1972)

A member of the party opposed to the one in which he is mistakenly listed as a candidate, a citizen with a somewhat murky private life becomes a senator. ...

Cause of Divorce (1972)

A couple is short of money and got marital problems. Sylverte knows Enrica and intent to marry her but before he needs divorce from his wife. ...

I racconti di Padre Brown (1970)

Borsalino (1970)

In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing matches, they soon find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into ...

The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)

Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpectedly released and sent to the Vatican, where, upon the sudden death of the Pope, leader of the Catholic Church, he must face a challenging destiny that will ...

The Sailor from Gibraltar (1967)

Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. ...

Judith (1966)

A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband. ...

Il giorno della pace (1965)

A documentary film: two generations reflect on World War II, twenty years after peace was declared in Europe. ...

Son of Cleopatra (1964)

In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that he's actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. When Petronius' daughter, Livia, newly-arrived fro ...

100 Horsemen (1964)

Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain. ...

War Gods of Babylon (1962)

Noble, wise King Sardanapolo and his more soft and naive younger brother Prince Sammash get into a bitter feud over the affections of sweet and alluring innocent peasant girl Mirra. Meanwhile, the treacherous and ruthlessly ambitious General Arbace plots a ...

The Reluctant Saint (1962)

Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him t ...

Damon and Pythias (1962)

Damon is a thief who begins to question his beliefs after he meets Pythias, a liberal Athenian who believes all men are brothers. ...

The Trial (1962)

Arrested for an unnamed crime, Josef K. is trapped in a surreal bureaucratic maze where justice is unknowable and guilt is assumed. ...

Operazione Vega (1962)

In a dystopian future, two superpowers have shared the Earth, and both try to conquer the Solar System. The penal colony of Venus becomes the missile base of one of the two superpowers, but the deportees oppose the project. ...

Barabbas (1961)

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the glad ...

The Tartars (1961)

The Tartars and the Vikings maintain a fragile peace in the harsh landscape of the Russian Steppe. When the leader of the Vikings, Oleg, declines to accompany the Tartars on a campaign against the Slavs, there is an explosion of violence. After Oleg kills ...

Captain Blood (1960)

Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Michel Zévaco. ...

The Angel Wore Red (1960)

A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer. ...

The Loves of Salammbo (1960)

During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to fight against the Roman empire, but when the city's ruler is unable to fulfill the promised payment made to the mercenaries, they attack the African settlement, ...

Take Me As I Am (1960)

The director of the Rome office of an American news agency is seduced by his boss' daughter, who subsequently ends up dead at the foot of a cliff. Film adaptation of James Hadley Chase's 1956 noir thriller novel You Find Him, I'll Fix Him. ...

Desert Desperadoes (1959)

A caravan guarded by Roman soldiers comes across a woman bound to a stake and left to die. A wealthy merchant who hired the caravan is against taking The Woman along, but the commander of the soldiers, Verrus, overrules him. Verrus tries to get friendly wi ...

The Nights of Lucretia Borgia (1959)

Federico, a virtuous nobleman from an impoverished family, is brought into service by autocrat Cesare Borgia. His promiscuous sister Lucrezia seems to have an amorous interest in Federico and wants him as her lover though Federico is in love with Diana, th ...

Pia de' Tolomei (1958)

Pia de' Tolomei, despite being in love with Ghino Perticari, was forced to marry a nobleman from Siena who, when he discovers her love for the other man, has her locked up in a tower. ...

Revenge (1958)

After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released. ...

The Silent Enemy (1958)

The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb. ...

Magia Lucana (1958)

Short documentary about pagan rites in the countryside. ...

Desert Warrior (1957)

Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages people to form an army and fight again to Ibrahim. The town gets excited and running quickly, while crossing the desert, they encounter the enemy caravans and ra ...

I am Catherine (1957)

The story of the life of St. ...

Manon: Finestra 2 (1956)

At the end of the war, he was hired by Edison and in 1951 he made a film on all the important hydroeletrical plants built in that period. In the following years, Olmi directed around 40 documentaries, including La diga del ghiacciaio, Pattuglia di Passo S ...

Defend My Love (1956)

As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated. ...

Destinazione Piovarolo (1955)

Antonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising. Later he marries a jewish woman. He has career ambitions but can not reach them. ...

Non c'è amore più grande (1955)

While her new husband is away looking for work, the wife loses the child she was expecting and uses another woman's baby as a substitute so she won't have to upset her spouse when he returns. ...

Chéri-Bibi (1955)

Chéri-Bibi is an ex-convict who undergoes plastic surgery in order to resemble his rival for the hand of Cecily. Once he emerges from the bandages, Cheri-Bibi is plunged into a series of melodramatic misadventures. ...

The Girls of San Frediano (1955)

Andrea, a young and charming florentine mechanic in the 1950s, romances five beautiful women simultaneously, enjoying life without really committing to anyone, but in the end who wants to grasp all lose all. ...

Toto and Carolina (1955)

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

Sing me good morning sadness (1955)

A 1955 film directed by Giorgio Pastina. ...

Il vetturale del Moncenisio (1954)

During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness. ...

Il cardinale Lambertini (1954)

Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna. ...

La figlia del forzato (1954)

After many years, a widowed Countess meets a former lover who lives with his daughter and her tutor. ...

Angela (1954)

Dennis O'Keefe plays a GI who falls in love with Mara Lane in postwar Rome. Lane kills her boss, forcing her to flee the law. O'Keefe goes along for the ride so that he won't be knocked off by Lane's husband. Just when it looks as though O'Keefe is willing ...

Rosso e nero (1954)

La Strada (1954)

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together ...

Jailbirds (1954)

Three jailbirds— a surgeon, a robber, and a wrongly convicted man— must adjust to their lives once released from prison. ...

Love in a Hot Climate (1954)

Matador Ricardo wants to end his career. His manager and his mistress manage to dissuade him and get him to sign two contracts. ...

The Stranger's Hand (1954)

Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major Court (Trevor Howard), whom he hasn't seen in three years. Roger lives with his Aunt Rose since his mother abandoned him. ...

Ivan, il figlio del diavolo bianco (1953)

Lucrèce Borgia (1953)

In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister's husband murdered. But without her brother's knowledge, Lucrèce has taken a s ...

Viva la rivista! (1953)

Infame accusa (1953)

Viva il cinema (1953)

Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen. ...

Immortal Melodies (1952)

The Lucky Five (1952)

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 afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others ...

Processo contro ignoti (1952)

Times Gone By (1952)

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories. ...

Red Love (1952)

Stranger on the Prowl (1952)

A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects the kid from a life of crime. Tipped off by a woman anxious to collect the reward for him (who is ...

La storia del fornaretto di Venezia (1952)

Verginità (1951)

Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franc ...

Double Cross (1951)

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

Beauties on bicycles (1951)

Two chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift, but the driver gets too fresh with them and they decide to continue the journey with any means of transport, i ...

Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)

A doctor rescues a young woman who is about to throw herself into the river and takes her to the hospital. The woman learns of three very sad stories revolving around suicide. ...

Outlaw Girl (1950)

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 start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts do ...

Toto the Sheik (1950)

Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion. ...

Il leone di Amalfi (1950)

I cadetti di Guascogna (1950)

Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in the staging of a show in the military barracks. ...

Il vedovo allegro (1950)

An artist of variety, known in art with the name of Bebè, is a charlatan in Cannes, in a company with Zallos, a shady type. ...

The Villa of Monsters (1950)

Short Documentary about a garden with strange sculptures near Rome. ...

Adam and Eve (1949)

Eva Bianchi, who works as a manicure in a beauty salon in Milan, falls in love with the owner Adamo Rossi. But Adam, who at first always gives her roses, now no longer seems interested in her. ...

Yvonne of the Night (1949)

Carlo Rutelli falls in love with the beautiful variety singer Yvonne la Nuit, but his father opposes the wedding. World War I breaks out and Carlo is killed while Yvonne has a son, but on orders from Carlo's father, she is told he is dead. Her career desce ...

Marechiaro (1949)

L'eroe della strada (1948)

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

The Opium Den (1947)

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 protests of his sister arouse the compassion of Za la Mort, who promises to help the girl. ...

A Day in the Life (1946)

Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge. ...

The Testimony (1946)

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 mind. ...

Ettore Fieramosca (1938)

ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current ...