Filippo De Gara

Joan Lui (1985)

In a world ravaged by violence, and other serious social problems, Joan - a character that alludes to Christ (which represents the return to Earth) arrives to Italy by train and preaching for the salvation of mankind, condemning the hypocrisy and hedonism. ...

Who's Afraid of Dracula? (1985)

Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house with at least five bathrooms within three days or his boss will fire him. Incredibly, he and his pal Filini manage to find the perfect house, a castle in Transylvania owned by some count Vlad... things get even ...

Ladies & Gentlemen (1984)

Catello Coppola is a journalist dreaming a scoop to revive his career. Unexpected help comes following the death of a friend, who appears to him in a dream, promising to give him advance notice of the next day's news. ...

A Tender Sunset (1984)

Franz Bollenstein is a thug. One day, jealous of his stepdaughter Nicoletta's rich inheritance, he instructs his trusted man, Antonio Olivieri, to track down the girl who in the meantime has run away from home and to lock her up in a Swiss clinic. But Anto ...

Petomaniac (1983)

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

And the Ship Sails On (1983)

In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and c ...

Lion of the Desert (1981)

Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tact ...

Good News (1979)

A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in ...

Nella misura in cui... (1979)

A left-wing intellectual of middle age, with a past in the Italian Social Republic , after the end of the second marriage with a black woman, falls in love with a very young, girlfriend of his son, and with her he flees to the Caribbean. Once the vacation ...

Swept Away by Family Affection (1978)

This is an Italian sex comedy that, like the earlier sex comedy "Il Gatto Mammone", combines the comic stylings of Lando Buzzanca ("The Eroticist", "Il Domestico") with gorgeous, oft-nude body of Gloria Guida (Miss Teen Italy of 1974). Actually, Guida gets ...

Elective Affinities (1978)

A three-episode adaptation of Goethe's novel. ...

Escape from Women's Prison (1978)

Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of young female tennis players. They drive the bus to the house of the judge who originally sent them to prison, where--since this is after all a women-in-prison ...

Una donna di seconda mano (1977)

The young Luca grew up with his uncle Augusto, owner of a shoe store. The latter, determined to "start" the clumsy nephew sexually, takes him to a brothel in Florence and throws him into the arms of the stupendous prostitute Nerina, of whom Luca falls hope ...

Rome, Armed to the Teeth (1976)

A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer. ...

How Wonderful to Die Assassinated (1975)

How Sweet it is to Die Murdered (Quanto è bello lu murire acciso) is an Italian historical film written and directed by Ennio Lorenzini and released in 1975. The original title of the film is that of a popular song reworked by Roberto De Simone, who is co ...

La vita in gioco (1975)

A filmmaker of committed films, together with his lover, plans to commit suicide within a few days. ...

La svergognata (1974)

In this movie a writer comes to stay at an island resort and gets involved with a teenage lolita who is there with her parents and rather malicious best friend. She teases the older man mercilessly--going to a hotel and dancing with him naked and then sud ...

Amore mio non farmi male (1974)

Anna and Marcello, two wealthy high school students. they would like to consume their Platonic love so far, going against the directives of their parents ... who get in the way to prevent their sexual initiation. ...

Morel's Invention (1974)

A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden room. Soon he sees some people walking, dressed with old-fashioned clothes. He is afraid because people don't see him, like a ghost. ...

The Last Snows of Spring (1973)

A 10-year-old boy starts to die of neglect when his widowed father spends too much time forsaking his parental duties in favour of playboy activities and a jet-set life-style. ...

The Lady Has Been Raped (1973)

Good bourgeois damage unintentionally life of a drug-party, during which the mistress of the house is raped without recognizing the aggressor. Both she and her husband come into crisis and try to figure out who it was. The truth comes to the surface slowly ...

La colonna infame (1973)

Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni. ...

Dirty Weekend (1973)

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 police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the ...

Decameron II (1972)

During a banquet, the diners begin to tell various stories to be happy. ...

Head Down, Feet Up (1972)

A serial killer who specialises in killing teachers is on the loose and Andrea becomes accidentally involved when he decides to lend a hand to one of the victims and catches a glimpse of the nocturnal predator. ...

Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)

A police captain arranges the release of a criminally insane prisoner, who soon winds up dead. When the District Attorney takes on the case, he uncovers corruption in the department and vows to take down the man who's responsible. ...

The Superwitness (1971)

A pimp is suspected of murdering his lover. He is convicted based on the testimony of a single witness. The woman begins doubting her memory of the event and then, her feelings towards the convict... ...

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects. ...

Medicine Italian Style (1969)

Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years. ...

La resa dei conti: dal Gran Consiglio al processo di Verona (1969)

Be Sick… It's Free (1968)

Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it. ...