Gina Rovere

Lord of the Ants (2022)

Based on true events of the late 60s in Italy, poet, playwright and myrmecologist Aldo Braibanti is prosecuted and sentenced to prison for the love he shares with his barely-of-age pupil and friend, Ettore. Amidst a chorus of voices of accusers, supporters ...

Lightning Strike (2012)

Ex 2: Still Friends (2011)

Marco encounters his ex-girlfriend Consueloand starts seeing her without telling that he has just married. Antonio is an MP and during his European trip he has a love affair with elegant Olga who has a big secret to hide. Recently-jilted Fabio is mistaken ...

Giorni dispari (2000)

Bagnomaria (1999)

In Pietrasanta all are excited for the annual party of summer end. Here we find four characters: Merigo, a naive guy passionate of bike; Pierre, son of the mayor; Simone, a pestiferous kid; Mario, lifeguard of "Bagnomaria". ...

Gallo cedrone (1998)

The life and times of Armando Feroci, a fortyish year old, who's been everything, a divorced husband, a careless father, an unreliable brother. The story is told in flashback by his friends while Armando has been mysteriously kidnapped in an Arab country b ...

Life Is Beautiful (1997)

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up h ...

Finalmente soli (1997)

Giovani e belli (1996)

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

Mille bolle blu (1993)

The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is awaiting for a total eclipse of the sun, that really happened during summer of '61, and it was was fully ...

There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs (1990)

A Milanese manager inherits a castle in Tuscany and moves there with his girlfriend and her little son, transforming it into a dog nursery. ...

Abatjour 2 (1990)

An old farmer, who seeks the beautiful Camilla, is murdered. The young policeman, who is assigned to the mysterious death, also falls on her. ...

Mortacci (1989)

Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arr ...

Francesca (1987)

A group of aging friends, foes, and former colleagues gather to celebrate and deride the life of 80-year-old actress Francesca on her birthday. ...

Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later (1985)

Fresh out prison, Tiberio reconnects with his old partners in crime, Michele Ferribote and Peppe the Panther, only to realise that a lot has changed--including crime--after twenty years. Can he cope with this new reality? ...

Behind Convent Walls (1978)

On the surface the women at the convent are your average nuns. However, what they get up to in their spare time is far from what you'd expect from nuns. ...

San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women (1976)

Heart of a Dog (1976)

Professor Preobrazhensky puts courageous experiences, trying to turn a dog in equal to in all of the person. As a result somebody turns out Doggies. Unfortunately, experience proves that it is better for dog to remain a dog. ...

Farfallon (1974)

A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take his long awaited revenge again. Does he eventually succeed in kill ...

Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate (1973)

Michele, married to Rosaria, is a distinguished Neapolitan who "by profession" contacts only wealthy women, making her believe she wants to marry her to get money to disappear with. With this method he feeds his family. ...

The Last Italian Tango (1973)

A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in the attic. The husband abandons her and goes and lives with a young girl who drags him into a sadomasochistic relationship. ...

Per amore o per forza (1971)

Catch-22 (1970)

A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flying missions. But there's a catch. ...

Sunstroke (1968)

One Sunday in summer a mixed crowd pours on to a beach near Rome. A few tourists who had hoped to spend a relaxing day, find themselves involved in a series of unpleasant experiences instead. ...

Sugar Colt (1967)

In order to avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Rocco has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. ...

God Forgives... I Don't! (1967)

In this violent spaghetti western a murderous robber hijacks a payroll train, murders everyone aboard and then stashes his loot. A gunslinger learns about it and decides he wants the money for himself and so hatches an elaborate plot to get at it. He lures ...

James Tont Operation U.N.O. (1965)

The diabolical Goldsinger, enraged at being excluded from the UN, hatches a plot to blow up the assembly while all the heads of the state participate. Luckily, inept agent James Tont discovers the plot and sets out to stop Goldsinger. ...

Il morbidone (1965)

Study of a man whose basic sense of inferiority leads him from worse to worse. ...

How We Got Into Trouble with the Army (1965)

A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of another soldier who sings in a night club but due to series of misunderstandings the sergeant believes he is his own son, born from a former love story. ...

Squillo (1965)

A naive girl moves to Rome and falls for a mature man. ...

Assassination in Rome (1965)

In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate search for him. ...

All the Other Girls Do! (1964)

The innocent love of two young students is hindered by their families. The two meet in a squalid apartment where they will perhaps decide their future. At the exit, however, are arrested for a kiss exchanged on the road. ...

The Masked Man Against the Pirates (1964)

Pirates capture a Spanish ship. After having landed on an island, they try to sell the surviving crew, especially the women. One of them is protected by a pirate who gained her as a prize for having saved the captain's life in the battle that ensued. Sudde ...

A Dirty Business (1964)

A gang of four boys and a woman kidnap a lawyer. ...

Son of the Circus (1963)

A child flees his abusive father and takes refuge with a clown. ...

Divorzio alla siciliana (1963)

Adventure at the Motel (1963)

A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary. ...

I motorizzati (1962)

A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy. ...

Getting Away with It the Italian Way (1962)

Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed. ...

Always on Sunday (1962)

A roving Roman's weekend becomes a nightmare of traffic mix-ups, marital mix-ups and hilarious make-ups. ...

L'assassino si chiama Pompeo (1962)

The Vengeance of Ursus (1961)

The evil King Zagro has designs on the beautiful Princess Sira. He wants to marry her so he can take over her kingdom and add it to his own. When Sira is kidnapped, Ursus leaves his farm to rescue her and to eventually lead a revolt against King Zagro. ...

Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry. ...

Rocco e le sorelle (1961)

A Sicilian leaves for Milan, in search of fortune, with the four sisters he supervises fiercely. ...

The Passionate Thief (1960)

On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade. ...

Adua and Her Friends (1960)

When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past. ...

I piaceri dello scapolo (1960)

Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings. ...

La cambiale (1959)

The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred thousand lire from the famous financier Bruscatelli, who ends up in prison immediately afterwards. ...

Hell in the City (1959)

A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life. ...

Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to th ...

March's Child (1958)

Francesca and Sandro meet, falls for each other and get married. But the differences between them are too many and the separation is around the corner. ...

Hercules (1958)

In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delec ...

Female Three Times (1957)

The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in Rome. Upon arriving at the 'Eternal City', the Russian athletes find ways to evade the strict surveillance and meet some Italian guys. After many persecuti ...

Roland the Mighty (1956)

In this sword-and-sandal saga set on the steppes of Asia, Roland, leader of the Paladin troops, who must proves his mettle against the dreaded Saracen invaders, and withstand their evil plots ...

We will get married in Capri (1956)

La moglie è uguale per tutti (1955)

Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to ...

Are We Men or Corporals? (1955)

These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, suffering the harassment of Colonel Hammler, a Nazi cruel and despotic. ...

It Happened in the Park (1953)

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there. ...