Fabio Carpi

Aspirante vedovo (2013)

A ne'er-do-well who's married to a millionnaire realizes his financial trouble might be solved if his wife was dead - and sets out a plot to achieve just that. A remake of Dino Risi's "il vedovo". ...

The Moon and the Stars (2007)

1939: Rome stands on the brink of World War II. In the midst of this political and social tension famed producer Davide Rieta is making a major film. The two lead actors, the German woman Kristina Baumgarten and the English man James Clavel ace each others ...

Le intermittenze del cuore (2003)

My Father (2003)

A man who grew up an orphan finally gets to meet his father: The psychopath Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz surgeon who performed genetic experiments on concentration camp refugees during WWII. ...

Nobel (2001)

This is the story of writer Alberto's long journey to Stockholm, where the Nobel Prize awaits him, in a blazing Maserati. He is accompanied by Alessandro, a young journalist whose job is to interview him along the way. Personal and generational dynamics ar ...

Homer: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man (1997)

Though he is near death, blind Rene, an elderly Italian-French intellectual, continues to make his annual conference abroad accompanied by his self-centered loyal, beautiful assistant Sibilla who may or may not be his lover. Rene's domineering mother stron ...

Rome, November 12, 1994 (1995)

Francesco Maselli pitched this documentary to the CGIL, CISL, and UIL trade unions as part of the 1.5 million-strong protest march on November 12, 1994 against Silvio Berlusconi's projects on social security and the reform of the pension system. A large nu ...

Next Time the Fire (1993)

The study of semantics has convinced Amedio that things only have relative validity, and that everything is changeable. So it seems, because while on an Italian holiday with his family, he conceives the idea that his aging wife should assume the role of hi ...

Necessary Love (1991)

In the 19th century Europe, an aging scheming couple decides to manipulate and seduce a couple of young newlyweds in love, just for the fun of it. ...

Barbablù, Barbablù (1989)

An old patriarch at the gates of death, who has been married five times, reunites his family and indulges in a sadistic game with them. ...

Baciami Strega (1985)

A beautiful witch is sent to Earth by the devil to capture the souls of a group of ambitious men. ...

The Basileus Quartet (1983)

The lives of the surviving members of the Basileus Quartet, a chamber group that has been playing successfully around the world for more than 30 years, are turned upside down after the death of the leader, Oscar Guarneri. The three aging musicians decide t ...

Day of the Cobra (1980)

An American narcotics agent is murdered in Italy. The head of the department decides to hire Larry Stanziani, 'The Cobra'. ...

Il prigioniero (1978)

Italian TV movie. Based upon a novel by Anton Chekhov. ...

The City of World (1975)

The Peaceful Age (1975)

Simon (O.E. Hasse) fought in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), but now he is an old man, readying himself for death. His daily life is filled with memories, reveries, feelings, and small but meaningful encounters; these are the stuff the film is made up of. ...

Liberty (1972)

The revolt of the people of a Sicilian village further to the Expedition of the Thousand which, in 1860, enables Garibaldi to liberate Sicily. ...

Body of Love (1972)

An estranged father and son on holiday bond over the beautiful foreign girl they find unconscious on the beach. ...

Invasion (1970)

A professor and his wife suffer humiliation at the hands of an invading college dissidents protest. ...

I See Naked (1969)

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

Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl (1968)

Anna is a girl who has been under psychiatric therapy for a long time and she needs lots and lots of love. ...

The Wild Eye (1967)

A film documentarian stops at nothing to record unusual and supposedly true-to-life situations. ...

The Witches (1967)

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 women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his so ...

Your Turn to Die (1967)

When Gordon Smash tries to get away with the loot from a successful diamond heist, his fellow conspirators shoot him in the back. Smash manages to get a clue to newspaper reporter Robert Foster, who sets of to retrieve the diamonds. Despite becoming a targ ...

Almost a Man (1966)

A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Michele re ...

We'll Go to the City (1966)

"Andremo in città" (We'll Go to the City) is a 1966 Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. It is based on the novel of the same name by Edith Bruck, Risi's wife. Bruck, a Hungarian concentration camp-survivor, settled in Italy after the Second World Wa ...

La strada più lunga (1965)

Michele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he returns home in 1943, but is now tired and refuses to join the Republic of Salò. His comrades still want him with them, but this Social Republic, imposed by the ...

Venus in the Sun (1964)

Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some precious designs in it; in the second a worker keen on helping his boss gets him into trouble instead and in the third one a shy boy who tries to impress women p ...

Till the End of the World (1963)

This brave, lonely man who arrives in Corsica, in a poor village, has no idea that he will have to take in this 9-year-old child whose mother has just died and of whom he is undoubtedly the father. His only hope is to find a place for the child, a place wh ...

A porte chiuse (1961)

The movie is about the celebrated trial of Olga Duvovich, very beautiful woman accused of killing her husband, a wealthy financier. ...

The Widower (1959)

Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-non ...

It Happened in Rome (1957)

Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome. ...

Floradas na Serra (1954)

Man and woman fall in love while in treatment for TB, in the beautiful town of Campos do Jordão. ...

É Proibido Beijar (1954)

Eduardo wants to become a police reporter. To do so, he unravels a mysterious crime, but fails to get the editor of his newspaper to promote it. He is engaged to Suzy, who works at a nightclub. In charge of interviewing a famous actress, June, gets involve ...

Road to Crime (1954)

In São Paulo, young Sergio works at a bank where his wealthy uncle is the president. By leveraging his uncle's name to borrow money, Sergio leads a wasteful life, frequenting nightclubs and dating Margo, a sophisticated revue starlet. When his uncle refus ...

The Landowner's Daughter (1953)

In 19th century Brazil, young people in the State of São Paulo fight against black slavery and the farmers who support it. Against this backdrop, Sinhá Moça falls in love with a young lawyer, and they get involved in a great love story. ...

Uma Pulga na Balança (1953)

Swindler in jail devises a scheme to blackmail the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about their dead relatives' lives. ...

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds (2006)

Created by his son Leonardo, this portrait of Adolfo Celi reconstructs his personal and artistic journey between Italy and Brazil. Through interviews, film clips, testimonials, photos, and extraordinary footage from the Celi family's personal archive, we w ...

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 ...