Giovanna Gagliardo

Good morning Tel Aviv (2022)

Tel Aviv is the city that never sleeps, the start-up nation par excellence, the most secular and cosmopolitan of all the cities in the Middle East. Its dynamism manages to combine the memory of the past with the unstoppable ambition to offer itself every d ...

Il mare della nostra storia (2018)

Le romane - Storie di donne e di quartieri (2016)

Venti anni (2012)

Vittime - Gli “anni di piombo” (2009)

L'abito di domani - Storia della moda nel tempo (2009)

L'abito di domani (2009)

Bellissime 2 (2006)

The second part of Giovanna Gagliardo's documentary recounts forty years of Italian history, and more, through film footage and photos from the 1960s to the present day. ...

Bellissime (2004)

Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the first half of the 20th century. ...

Suffocating Heat (1991)

On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie ...

The Myth of Cinecittà (1991)

Documentary telling the history of Cinecittà, and how it contributed to Italian cinema development. ...

Street of Mirrors (1983)

Francesca, a magistrate, seems happily married to a successful and wealthy engineer. They prepare to spend a holiday together when Francesca is instructed to shed light on the mysterious death of a girl, Rosa Franceschi, who threw herself from the terrace ...

The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in Hungary (1981)

A historical drama set in the 1400s, a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death. ...

The Dream of Another (1981)

A young student is visited by a mysterious and wealthy philosopher with an offer to make the student his heir . ...

Mother and Daughter (1978)

In a wealthy Italian home, the daughter of the family is trying to cut her mother's apron strings. Not only is she having difficulty with this, for her mother is extremely protective, but she cannot even cut vegetables skillfully. Despite that, she wants t ...

Private Vices, Public Virtues (1976)

The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate. His wife departs at the arrival of his friends, and ...

Rome Wants Another Caesar (1974)

In this costume epic, the last days of Julius Caesar are chronicled. ...

The Technique and the Rite (1972)

The narrative concerns the barbaric exploits of Attila The Hun and yet none of the characters ever leave the remote seaside stretch of land on which the film is set or do much of anything – with the ensuing moralizing interrupted only by the occasional ( ...

A Season in Hell (1971)

The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at thirty-seven; and his passionate relationship with Paul Verlaine, full of wanderings, storms and falling out. ...

The Pacifist (1970)

A journalist preparing a story on extremist youth falls in love with a young radical who fears being killed by his companions when he is unable to commit a political assassination. ...

L'amica (1969)

The beautiful but neglected wife of a brilliant architect from Milan, betrayed by her husband and mocked by her friend who manages the amorous adventures that she dreams of having, decides to take vengeance of the two, seducing her friend's husband and her ...

Bellissime (2004)

Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women during the first half of the 20th century. ...

The Assassin (1961)

Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is all about-- that he is the main suspect in the killing of his wealthy ex-lover. Is he guilty, or is he jus ...