Mario Monicelli

Next to the Colosseum there’s Monti (2008)

There's an area of Rome, near the Colosseum, called Monti. Given famous Italian director Mario Monicelli, though born in Tuscany, has lived there for years and wanted to show the world age has yet to cripple him (he was 93 when he made this), he filmed hou ...

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 ...

Letters from Palestine (2003)

Eleven Italian filmmakers show in eleven segments the terrible conditions of the Palestinian people living in Jerusalem. ...

On the Tiger's Back (2002)

Plagued by financial problems, ne'er-do-well Guido ends up in jail after faking an armed robbery at his workplace. A year later, just a few days before his release, he's forced by two dangerous inmates to take part in their jailbreak. On the run, Guido set ...

Welcome to Collinwood (2002)

Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck. ...

The Spring of 2002 - Italy Protests, Italy Stops (2002)

Dirty Linen (1999)

The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth. ...

Esercizi di stile (1996)

The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on. ...

Looking for Paradise (1995)

The life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated in England, rebel and single mother, then feminist and married woman and again doctor in the developing countries and mystical nun who dies peacefully in 2011. ...

A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota (1994)

The artistic evolution of the great composer, whose work left an indelible mark in the history of Italian cinema. In this documentary Nino Rota's extraordinary musical production relives in the words of his friends and colleagues. His collaboration with Vi ...

Dear Goddamned Friends (1994)

In 1944 Tuscany, a group of boxers struggling through World War II stages rigged matches to earn money and travel, accompanied by a missing black American soldier and a girl resisting marriage, as they navigate the challenges of their war-torn world. ...

Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations (1992)

During the annual Christmas gathering at the family home, the parents surprise their children by announcing their decision to move in with one of them and pass on the house. ...

Rossini! Rossini! (1991)

A funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed in a wonderful way by famed actor and later director Sergio Castellitto. ...

Dark Illness (1990)

After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses. ...

12 Directors for 12 Cities (1989)

Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities. ...

La moglie ingenua e il marito malato (1989)

A thief caught red-handed tells the landlord a very strange fact that happened to him looking through the keyhole of another apartment where he was stealing. ...

I picari (1987)

The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century. ...

Let's Hope It's a Girl (1986)

A multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who, after her divorce, takes over the family farm. Realizing that she can't rely on the patriarchal society structure for assistance, Ullmann runs the farm he ...

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? ...

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, ...

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 ...

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. ...

The New Monsters (1977)

A comedy film composed of 14 episodes. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963. 1. The Finch of Val Padouan (Ettore Scola) - 2. Tantum ergo (Dino Risi) - 3. Hitchhiking (Mario Monicelli) - 4. Kidnapping of a Beloved Person (Ettore Scola) - 5. First Aid ( ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lady Liberty (1971)

An Italian woman faces challenges at JFK Airport when Customs confiscates the mortadella sausage she brought as a gift for her fiancé, leading to a humorous and frustrating ordeal. ...

Brancaleone at the Crusades (1970)

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades. ...

The Couples (1970)

Three episodes. Episode 1 - The Refrigerator (Monicelli). A married couple of two poor emigrant workers spend almost all their money to buy a refrigerator (a must in the '70s). The purchase is too expensive for their family balance sheet. To earn some mone ...

Oh, Grandmother's Dead (1969)

Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off. ...

The Girl with a Pistol (1968)

A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him. ...

Caprice Italian Style (1968)

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events. ...

Our Husbands (1966)

Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships. ...

The Queens (1966)

Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting infidelity, and a wealthy woman's drunken escapades with her butler. ...

For Love and Gold (1966)

A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly w ...

Casanova '70 (1965)

The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations. ...

Summer Frenzy (1964)

Five episodes: a mature model makes his lover jealous; lovers quarrel; a clumsy Don Juan in business; a dancer and a captain; a beauty falls in love with a Spanish cyclist. The characters in the episodes intertwine, but the stories are not always treated w ...

High Infidelity (1964)

Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love. ...

The Organizer (1963)

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy. ...

Boccaccio '70 (1962)

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public aff ...

On the Tiger's Back (1961)

Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's ...

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. ...

The Great War (1959)

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army. ...

Angel in a Taxi (1958)

Marietto is a very lively and creative orphaned child, housed in a boarding school of nuns. One day, while browsing a newspaper, he sees a photo of a beautiful opera house dancer, Camilla, and is convinced that she is her mother. ...

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 ...

Doctor and the Healer (1957)

Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer". ...

Fathers and Sons (1957)

The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it. ...

Donatella (1956)

Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handbag containing valuables and documents, and decides to return it to her owner, a wealthy American lady, who ...

Beautiful But Dangerous (1955)

Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to Paris where she becomes the star of the "Folies-Plastiques". ...

Forbidden (1955)

Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war. ...

A Hero of Our Times (1955)

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awa ...

Toto and Carolina (1955)

During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina. ...

Guai ai vinti (1954)

A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman discover they are pregnant. After a suicide attempt, one has an abortion the other keeps her child - and bo ...

Violenza sul lago (1954)

Fatal Desire (1954)

In Pietro Mascagni's tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancée, only to find that she's married someone else in his absence, leading to jealousy, betrayal, and murder. ...

Giuseppe Verdi (1953)

The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas. ...

Funniest Show on Earth (1953)

A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealousy of three women and even by a policeman. ...

Neapolitan Turk (1953)

Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime. ...

Perdonami! (1953)

The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother. ...

The Unfaithfuls (1953)

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others. ...

Toto and the Women (1952)

Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house. ...

Toto and the Kings of Rome (1952)

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination. ...

The Lucky Five (1952)

Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others ...

Dogs and Cats (1952)

In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business ...

Totó in color (1952)

In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios. ...

Vendetta... sarda (1952)

A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds out he has to avenge his death instead. ...

Appointment for Murder (1952)

A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also. ...

Tizio, Caio, Sempronio (1951)

A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire. ...

Cops and Robbers (1951)

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito. ...

O.K. Nero (1951)

Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero. ...

Damn the Taxes!! (1951)

Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help. ...

È l'amor che mi rovina (1951)

A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid. ...

Napoleone (1951)

A historical farce about Napoleon. ...

Double Cross (1951)

A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate. ...

Outlaw Girl (1950)

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts do ...

The Knight is Here (1950)

A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation. ...

Soho Conspiracy (1950)

The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is saved by local co-operation. ...

A Dog’s Life (1950)

Tragicomedy telling of the trials and tribulations of a troupe of variety show artists. ...

L'inafferrabile 12 (1950)

Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery. ...

Her Favourite Husband (1950)

While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy. ...

I'm in the Revue (1950)

Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music hall star to bring her the gown she is to wear on stage. The two m ...

Lure of the Sila (1949)

Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide Pietro with the alibi that will clear hi ...

Totò Looking for a House (1949)

Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment. ...

Fame and the Devil (1949)

Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman. ...

The Iron Swordsman (1949)

In the Name of the Law (1949)

A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia. ...

Come scopersi l'America (1949)

The Mysterious Rider (1948)

Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery. ...

L'eroe della strada (1948)

Felice Manetti is a poor tramp in Turin who, due to his ingenuity, often finds himself in trouble. ...

Mad About Opera (1948)

This story took place during World War II. A group of Italians living in London are raising funds to rebuild a Catholic cathedral that was bombed by the Nazis. To this end, they organized a concert, the proceeds of which would go toward the construction. T ...

Lost Youth (1948)

In impoverished post-war Rome, a gang of young thieves is lead by Stefano, the son of an illustrious professor. The police suspects that the criminals are actually university students; inspector Mariani, a young World War II veteran, enrolls and tries to f ...

Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris (1948)

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris. ...

Les Misérables (1948)

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France. ...

How I Lost the War (1947)

Leo Bianchetti has just finished his military service but then is again called to arms; after 10 years on various fronts, he finds himself again in Italy to guard a bridge destroyes by the Germans that he doesn't want to leave. ...

The Captain's Daughter (1947)

A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story. ...

The Opium Den (1947)

A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate protests of his sister arouse the compassion of Za la Mort, who promises to help the girl. ...

Furia (1947)

Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The young daughter of the household is later added to this mixture of passions. ...

Lo sciopero dei milioni (1947)

Aquila Nera (1946)

An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher. ...

The Testimony (1946)

A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace of mind. ...

Fear No Evil (1945)

The life of Saint Benedict, the founder of Western Monasticism. ...

La donna è mobile (1942)

Thrill (1941)

A crime novel writer is experiencing writer's block while writing his latest book. Then a woman is murdered in his home, and this crime gives him inspiration to finish his novel. Without noticing, he even founds the real culprit. ...

Ballerine (1937)

A favorite student of an old dance teacher gets casted in an important pantomime. When the teacher dies on the stage, she finds support from a journalist's affection to overcome the difficult moment. ...

I ragazzi della via Paal (1935)

The Tell-Tale Heart (1934)

A madman is so obsessed by the protruding eye of the old man with whom he lives that he plots to murder him. ...

Ciao Marcello - Mastroianni l'antidivo (2024)

Opera Prima (2021)

Opera Prima is a tribute and a journey through the evolution that cinema has had in Italy. Tayu Vlietstra, a pupil of Bertolucci, carries out an investigation on the first work of six of the most authoritative and beloved Italian directors. The result is ...

Claudia Cardinale, la créature du secret (2019)

How a young and wild tomboy Tunisian girl became a great actress by accident. Claudia Cardinale : the fanciful destiny of a paradoxical movie star, who appeared in Federico Fellini's, Luchino Visconti's, Blake Edwards' and Sergio Leone's films. ...

Monica Vitti, une étoile dans la nuit (2017)

Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant (2015)

Cinema Italiano: Moments of Truth (2014)

Documentary about Italian cinema. ...

Monicelli: La versione di Mario (2012)

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

Noi c'eravamo (2011)

Voi siete qui (2011)

Maestro di che! (2011)

Tribute to the director Mario Monicelloi who, interviewed by Johnny Palomba, recalls his life and his works. ...

Qui finisce l'Italia (2010)

Portrait Of My Father (2010)

A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father. ...

L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo (2010)

Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore (2010)

What Do You Know About Me (2009)

Until the 1970s, Italian cinema dominated the international scene, even competing with Hollywood. Then, in just a few years, came its rapid decline, the flight of our greatest producers, a crisis among the best writer-directors, the collapse of production. ...

Vittorio D. (2009)

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family. ...

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso (2009)

Next to the Colosseum there’s Monti (2008)

There's an area of Rome, near the Colosseum, called Monti. Given famous Italian director Mario Monicelli, though born in Tuscany, has lived there for years and wanted to show the world age has yet to cripple him (he was 93 when he made this), he filmed hou ...

SoloMetro (2007)

Marcello, una vita dolce (2006)

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini's "La Dolce Vita" (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri look into the melancholic charm of o ...

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds (2006)

Created by his son Leonardo, this portrait of Adolfo Celi reconstructs his personal and artistic journey between Italy and Brazil. Through interviews, film clips, testimonials, photos, and extraordinary footage from the Celi family's personal archive, we w ...

Mario Bava: Operazione paura (2004)

Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the italian director Mario Bava ...

I nostri trent'anni - Generazioni a confronto (2004)

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them. ...

Under the Tuscan Sun (2003)

Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After impulsively buying a run-down villa in the Italian countryside, she begins to piece her life back together in unexp ...

The Man with the Cigar in His Mouth (1997)

Documentary about Italian film director Pietro Germi ...

The Cyclone (1996)

The everyday life of accountant Levante, his family and the other people of a small town in the Tuscan countryside is taken by storm by the serendipitous arrival of five gorgeous Spanish flamenco dancers. ...

The True Life of Antonio H. (1994)

This film depicts a series of landmark events in the life of hapless thespian Antonio Hutter (Alessandro Haber), the unfortunate fictional alter-ego of legendary actor Alessandro Haber. This surreal faux-biography begins with Hutter's birth in Bologna, Ita ...

A Magic Friend: The Maestro Nino Rota (1994)

The artistic evolution of the great composer, whose work left an indelible mark in the history of Italian cinema. In this documentary Nino Rota's extraordinary musical production relives in the words of his friends and colleagues. His collaboration with Vi ...

I'm Photogenic (1980)

Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to further their own careers. ...

Rue du Pied de Grue (1979)

A drifter navigates the fringes of Parisian society. The protagonist, a solitary man seeking direction, becomes entangled with a group of outsiders—misfits, lovers, and wanderers—who live on the city's margins. As he moves through this world, he connec ...

The Cinema Machine (1979)

Directed by a group of avant-garde filmmakers, the film is an investigation of the less edifying aspects of film industry. ...