Giorgio Capitani

Dove la trovi una come me? (2011)

Enrico Mattei (2009)

Giorgio Capitani reconstructs in the Rai TV film the parable of the famous entrepreneur, in a product that in technical terms does not escape the logic of television, but still manages to offer an interesting picture of a key figure of postwar Italy. ...

Puccini (2009)

Giacomo Puccini, the son of a Tuscan organist, achieves world-wide recognition as a composer of operas and dies from throat cancer in the middle of an artistic crisis, at the age of just sixty-six. ...

Il generale Dalla Chiesa (2007)

Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God (2006)

Callas & Onassis (2005)

Maria Callas, one of the most talented opera singers of her time, seemed to have it all. Coming from humble origins, she always felt slighted by her mother's preference for her sister. She grew up in an unhappy environment, until her career in the operatic ...

Edda (2005)

Saint Rita (2004)

Cascia, 14th century, Rita Liotti falls in love, gets married and has two children. Her dream of love is soon hindered by a masculine and violent society, that Rita faces with peace and forgiveness. When she loses her husband and her children, she understa ...

Mai storie d'amore in cucina (2004)

Pope John XXIII (2002)

This is a two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcasted in April 2002 on Rai Uno. It is the life story of Pope John XXIII, nicknamed "the good Pope". ...

Papa Giovanni Joannes XXIII (2002)

The inspirational story of the jolly cardinal Angelo Roncalli, who looks back at his memories as a poor country priest and is eventually elected pope of the Roman Catholic Church. ...

Il ritorno del piccolo Lord (2000)

As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the children's home run by his ma, Dr. Gioia. This year however, Christian's heart isn't in his summer fling but hi ...

Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen (1994)

Musician Riccardo promised his son they would celebrate Christmas together in Turin. But a concert in Munich gets in the way. While Riccardo ventures to Turin, his son makes his way to the Bavarian capital. ...

Seul face au crime (1991)

E se poi se ne vanno? (1989)

Rimini, Rimini: A Year Later (1988)

Four episodes set on the beaches of Rimini: a womanizer pretends to be homosexual in order to gain the favors of a beautiful woman who ignores him. A mature beachgoer suffers from indigestion. A businessman unknowingly finances his wife's infidelities. Two ...

Arrivederci e grazie (1988)

Tired of married life and of his profession, Carlo decides to leave the company he owns in the hands of his wife and leaves home to move to a rented house in the heart of old Rome. The man's son, Paolo, is a playwright looking for a coveted success and he ...

E Non Se Ne Vogliono Andare! (1988)

Firefighters 2: Heroic Mission (1987)

Following a twinning between the national fire brigade and the special forces of the Canadian firefighters, Captain Carter arrives in Rome. ...

The Yellow Panther (1982)

Pasquale Bellachioma, the unfortunate Police Commissioner, creates a "master stroke" that can finally put it to light before their superiors, but the results is continuous failure. ...

Hot Spirits (1981)

Giovanni is a rich Italian aristocrat. He inherit a castle occupied by the ghost of an ancestor. Part of the inheritance is of a young beautiful blonde tourist, far relative of Giovanni. The two have to pay a ticket to the ghost to be free to own the castl ...

Teste di quoio (1981)

A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage. ...

I Hate Blondes (1980)

There are two problems with Emilio and his career as a pulp writer. Emilio is a bumbling fellow who has absolutely nothing in common with the heroes he writes about. Second, Emilio can't seem to publish anything under his own name. ...

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 ...

Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra (1978)

Three short stories full of absurd Italian humor. Episode 1: Oddjobs man Elia is hired to be a waiter and soon finds himself caught up in a plot to knock off his mistress (in more ways than one). Episode 2: Della is convinced that aliens are on their way t ...

Pane, burro e marmellata (1977)

Bruno De Santis, successful TV presenter, was left by his wife Sofia. One day he decides to call her to convince her to come back but her device is broken. By a strange twist of fate, it happens in the house of three women, Vera, Simona and Betty, who, tir ...

Burnt By A Scalding Passion (1976)

Virginia and Casimiro are both married with children to passionate spouses, while they are shy and devoted to poetry, crying watching "Anna Karenina" on TV. They commute every day from a little town in Lombardy to Milan and during the journeys they meet an ...

Gun Moll (1975)

A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia. ...

The Magnificent Dare Devil (1973)

A race-car driver must elude the police and two rival criminal organizations as he tries to locate a suitcase full of heroin and absolve himself of murder. ...

7 Hours of Violence (1973)

A former hitman is blackmailed into doing one more job. But the hit doesn't go as planned and he winds up with the police and a gang of Chinese hitmen hunting him down. A beautiful young woman helps to hide him until he can figure out a way to elude his pu ...

My Darling Slave (1973)

Demetrio Cultrera, is a young rich car dealership Sicilian bachelor who becomes engaged to the beautiful and rich Rosalba Giordano. After their wedding, Rosalba's attitude changes when she decides to try turning Demetrio into the modern husband she'd like ...

Slap Happy (1969)

A child runs away from a orphanage and meets a man, who takes him with him: the adult also dedicates himself to courting tourists to get food. However, his love for a girl leads the boy to boycott this bond, getting his protector into trouble and ending up ...

The Archangel (1969)

Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Gloria Bianchi to defend her from the alleged murder of her lover. ...

The Ruthless Four (1968)

After years of hard work, old Sam Cooper has finally found a gold mine. Since he cannot take everything he has found with him, he blows up the entrance. To help him exploit his discovery, he calls on his godson Manolo Sanchez. But Manolo is accompanied by ...

Night Is Made for Stealing (1967)

A new type of safe, touted as impregnable, alarms insurance companies. To deny the factory's assumptions, three burglars are hired with the task of violating one. A wealthy jeweler's new safe is targeted. ...

Che notte, ragazzi! (1966)

Lawyer Tony Green has to pay a two-million-dollar check as compensation to the widow of a wealthy businessman who died as a result of an explosion on the plane immediately after take-off. Tony has to reach the widow who is currently abroad. ...

Samson and His Mighty Challenge (1964)

Four muscular heroes fight the evil ruler of an oppressed people. ...

Amazons of Rome (1961)

Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over hostages, including Clelia, the sexy leader of a clan of woman warriors. But before long, intrigue and betra ...

Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete (1960)

King Minos sacrifices the 'required' virgins to the Minotaur. As his wife lies dying, she confesses that her daughter has a twin she has secreted to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur. The daughter raised by Minos tries to have her twin killed, ...

The Cossacks (1960)

Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this drama and adventure film focuses on the strife between the Circassian Muslims, led by Shamil and Czar Alexander. ...

Il piccolo vetraio (1955)

A poor fisherman entrusts his children Piero and Nino for money to the Frenchman Neroni who recruits young men to work in his glass factory. ...

La trovatella di Milano (1955)

Love story set in Milan during the Five Days of 1848. ...

Piscatore 'e Pusilleco (1954)

A wealthy and jealous merchant tries to lure a young girl away from her boyfriend by offering to pay to stage small singing concerts for her. ...

Storm (1954)

André is a loving and attentive husband, but when he agrees to plead his enamored brother's case with student Françoise Massard, he in turn becomes infatuated with the beautiful woman, who is perpetually in search of true love through a series of hazardo ...

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. ...

Per salvarti ho peccato (1953)

Little Luigi, the son of Guido and Elena, has a strange illness. To save him, they must inject his blood into a healthy person with his same blood type in order to create antibodies the fight off the infection. ...

Saluti e baci (1953)

Carlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if he does not find any new ones. ...

Milady and the Musketeers (1952)

An official, betrayed by his lady servant, joins musketeers such as Athos, while she turns into a countess and a spy that will eventually be executed. ...

A Woman Has Killed (1952)

In 1951, two years after the "scandal" of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small production company, Novissima Film. With little means, a number of technical and financial problems and working Sundays wit ...

Love I Haven't... But... But (1951)

Gina tries to commit suicide by jumping into the river but is saved by Teodoro, an innocent young man. Antonio, Teodoro's brother, tries in every way to seduce her. ...

Last Meeting (1951)

The wife of a mechanic and tester of Alfa Romeo cars becomes the lover of a pilot. The two decide to flee together in Argentina. ...

The Flame that Never Dies (1949)

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself. ...

William Tell (1948)

Unknown Men of San Marino (1948)

A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War. ...

Goodbye Ringo (2018)

Teste di quoio (1981)

A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage. ...

Divisione Folgore (1954)

In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front. ...

The Flame that Never Dies (1949)

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself. ...