Lorenzo Baraldi

Trilussa - Storia d'amore e di poesia (2013)

Biographical movie on the life of Trilussa, aka Carlo Alberto Camillo Mariano Salustri. Italian poet, writer and journalist known for this works in Romanesco dialect. ...

The Roses of the Desert (2006)

A sanitary battalion of Italian Army is sent to Sorman oasis in Lybia during the Africa campaign in 1940. Soon an Italian missionary, living nearby, succeed to transform the occupation by Italian Army in a kind of humanitarian mission. In fact all the batt ...

Luisa Sanfelice (2004)

An 18th-century true story about a rebel and his lover's attempt to overthrow the Italian monarchy. ...

Beyond Borders (2004)

La guerra è finita (2002)

Volesse il cielo! (2002)

A police inspector has to help an eccentric stranger who seems to have lost his memory. ...

Honolulu Baby (2001)

Alberto Columbo is an engineer, sent on a useless mission in Melancias, an isolated village in Brazil, leaving behind Margherita, his unsatisfied, career-oriented wife. ...

Rosa and Cornelia (2000)

A Venetian countess, pregnant with illegitimate child, befriends her also pregnant servant girl and they almost become more than friends, but her family, infuriated over her scandalous pregnancy, has a plan for her and the baby. ...

Amore a prima vista (1999)

A man falls in love with a dude after a corneal transplantation. ...

La prima volta (1999)

Anthology film following six stories of strangers briefly meeting on the Rome Metro. ...

Kisses and Hugs (1999)

A bankrupt restaurateur on the brink of suicide is suddenly treated with deference and kindness by a bizarre group of strangers — who welcome him in their home, no less! Truth is they have mistaken him for the tax man they're waiting for, desperate to sa ...

Snowball (1995)

Snowball, a dolphin, gets into trouble when it swallows a bottle with the records of pension payments owed to Billy Bolla, an aged cruise ship entertainer. If the performer cannot quickly catch Snowball and induce him to produce the papers, he will have no ...

The Postman (1994)

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice. ...

Condemned to Be Wed (1993)

A neurotic lawyer is split between the desire to stay faithful to his fiancée and the one to cheat on her. Things take a turn for the literal when one night he splits into two different versions of himself, a soon-to-be-married one and a confirmed bachelo ...

Condition Critical (1992)

Medical-center doctors discover the shocking source of a deadly virus spreading through Los Angeles. ...

Piedipiatti (1991)

The inmate Proietti, nicknamed "Er Soffia", getting out of prison. There is the Roman brigadier Vasco Sacchetti, an agent of the narcotics and his old friend who, to celebrate his freedom, invites him to eat fish at Fiumicino. ...

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 ...

Tomato (1990)

Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the Naples region and works in extreme conditions to be able to pay his brother's studies. But to Kwaku's dism ...

Stray Days (1988)

Italian comedy produced by Cannon featuring songs by Enrico Ruggeri. ...

Il lupo di mare (1987)

A waiter on a cruise ship tries to seduce the models that are aboard. ...

Blue Tango (1987)

Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing photographer and a porter who works in a slaughterhouse. ...

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. ...

The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal (1985)

Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pascal is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancée, scorned by his associates, and chea ...

Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno (1984)

During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdn ...

My Friends Act II (1982)

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, ...

I Know That You Know That I Know (1982)

The investigations of a private eye shake up the almost broken marriage of a middle aged couple. ...

The Marquis of Grillo (1981)

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself. ...

Hotel Room (1981)

A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people living their life. They get in touch with old and money-tight producer Mengaroni to edit their movie, but ...

Catherine and I (1980)

Enrico Melotti, a middle-aged businessman, has a difficult relationship with his wife, maid and secretary/lover. During a business trip to America, his friend Arturo shows him the key to solving all of his problems: Caterina, a female-looking robotic maid ...

Sunday Lovers (1980)

A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). ...

Hurricane Rosie (1980)

Raoul has best chances to become next boxing champion in light-heavy weight. For a bet he tries to beat through a door with his bare fist. He wins the bet, but his hand is broken, his career ruined. He starts working on a fair; there he meets Hurricane Ros ...

Lovers and Liars (1979)

An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover. ...

Where Are You Going on Holiday? (1978)

In three vignettes, two exes, a tour guide and a married couple struggle to overcome a series of misadventures during their vacations. ...

An Average Little Man (1977)

A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his goal. ...

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. ...

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 ...

Duck in Orange Sauce (1975)

When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly accepts. But when he sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover, the trip turns out to be part of an elaborate plan to win his wi ...

My Friends (1975)

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them. ...

Scent of a Woman (1974)

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples. ...

Come Home and Meet My Wife (1974)

50 year old Giulio and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina, fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and Vincenzina upon a return from a trip. His jealousy and anger get the best of him and ...

How Funny Can Sex Be? (1973)

A nine-episode anthology film about love, sex, and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy. ...

Tony Arzenta (1973)

A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue. ...

We Want the Colonels (1973)

Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Some ...

The Red Queen Kills Seven Times (1972)

After the death of their grandfather, two sisters inherit their family castle, which is said to be haunted by the Red Queen, whom legend says claims seven lives every hundred years. When a mysterious woman in a red cloak starts targeting their circle of f ...

Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo (1972)

The sons of a billionaire hijack an airplane because their father is against their love affair with two poor girls. ...

I due assi del guantone (1971)

Two waiters who work in a restaurant, whose owner is a big boxing fan, pretend one of them is a boxer and the other his manager. The supposed boxer wins his first matches thanks to set ups organized by the other but when he beats a champion from another pa ...

The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave (1971)

A rich, mentally-unstable man with a penchant for playing deadly S&M games with women who resemble his dead wife, sparks off a chain of bizarre events after getting remarried. ...

The Priest's Wife (1970)

After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman attempts suicide but survives and falls for the priest who took her call, leading to complications with his vow of celibacy. ...

Operation Snafu (1970)

World War II soldiers enter Sicily to seize German arms supply only to discover there is not a gun in sight. ...

Police Chief Pepe (1969)

A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitute ...

Tepepa (1969)

The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro. ...

One Dollar Too Many (1968)

Suave gambler Clay Watson, cocky sharpshooter Moses Lang, and wily thespian Edwin Kean are a trio of criminals in the Old West. The motley threesome are forced to form an uneasy alliance in order to find $400,000 dollars in stolen money. ...

Johnny Hamlet (1968)

On his way back from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton is visited in his sleep by the ghost of his father who lets him know that he has been murdered and who asks him to avenge him. Back in the family ranch, Johnny finds that not only has his father been kill ...

Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema (2014)

The relations between Parma and cinema were so strong for almost the whole of the twentieth century that this city became an early laboratory of ideas and theories on cinema and a set chosen by some of the greatest Italian authors and beyond. Furthermore, ...

Monicelli: La versione di Mario (2012)

The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010). ...