Massimo Girotti

Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita (2021)

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position. ...

Facing Windows (2003)

Overburdened and stuck in a greying marriage, Giovanna takes to caring for a Jewish Holocaust survivor her husband brings home. As she begins to reflect on her life, she turns to the man who lives across from her. ...

Luchino Visconti (2002)

A chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his theatricality, role in the neorealist movement, use of melodrama, and relation to decadence. It touches on the impact of a fabulously wealthy childhood, his writing ...

Der Kardinal - Der Preis der Liebe (2000)

Horst Tappert plays a high-ranking dignitary in the Vatican who will soon be made a cardinal. But shortly before this goal, a young woman confronts him in the confessional and accuses him of hypocrisy. She reveals that she is his daughter, whose existence ...

The Monster (1994)

A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation ...

From Night to Dawn (1992)

Aldo Viezzi, a brilliant surgeon secretly addicted to cocaine, retreats to Prague for research but sinks deeper into dependency. With sociologist Teresa's help he uncovers a drug-trafficking manager, endures a forced, drug-free operation to save a kidnappe ...

The French Revolution (1989)

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. Part one spans the event until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all authority and was ...

The French Revolution: Years of Hope (1989)

First part that includes the beginnings of the French Revolution. The film begins by recounting the events that led to the convocation of the States General in 1789 and ends with the assault on the Tuileries Palace, which occurred on August 10, 1792. ...

Affairs (1989)

What is the shady affair in which the woman is involved, and what is her role? Is or isn't the man a marquis? Who is the young man played by Fabrizio Bentivoglio, and why does he own that car? Does Basque nationalism have to do anything with the story? Eve ...

The Berlin Affair (1985)

What begins as an innocent art class becomes a steamy triangle of erotic passions and forbidden love. A beautiful Japanese girl becomes the object of obsession in a devious relationship between the wife of a German diplomat and her husband. ...

Art of Love (1983)

Young student Claudine has a dream in which the Roman student Cornelius, fascinated by the beautiful wife of the commander, attends lectures on the art of love of great Ovid. Ancient tragedy repeats itself in a few centuries ... ...

Passion of Love (1981)

In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant). Am ...

Un reietto delle isole (1980)

TV-adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Outcast of the Islands". ...

L'Ultimo Aereo per Venezia (1977)

Rome, 1977. Luciano Baccarini, married to the rich Irene Oro, is murdered at home while preparing a romantic dinner on the terrace for his lover. The investigations immediately focus on the man's private life. ...

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti (1977)

A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre. ...

And Agnes Chose To Die (1976)

After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside. ...

Mr. Klein (1976)

Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with w ...

The Innocent (1976)

Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again. ...

Mark Shoots First (1975)

Mark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx". ...

The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975)

Police detective Paolo Germi and the mysterious Marisa meet each other at a dance hall. Germi is unsuspecting of the secret Marisa is carrying with her: adverse conditions forced her into prostitution. As Germi finds the young girl brutally murdered, he de ...

Cagliostro (1975)

After attending esoterical studies with a wise man, Cagliostro, a mysterious Italian count, received the gift of supernatural powers. He started to travel all over Europe to heal the poor. But he is also a member of a pre-revolutionary lodge the aim of whi ...

The Kiss (1974)

Countess Elena marries the charming Guido Rambaldi, only for him to be seduced by dancer Nara during their Venice honeymoon. ...

Stateline Motel (1973)

After robbing a jewelry shop in Canada, two Americans arrange a meeting near the US borders in order to split the loot. One of them has an accident with his car on his way there and gets stuck in an isolated motel until his car is fixed. The owner of the m ...

The Voracious Ones (1973)

On the Côte d'Azur, a rich man wins a large sum of money playing at the casino. As he leaves the establishment, he is assaulted and knocked unconscious, his loot stolen. A few days later, the young croupier who had given him his winnings is involved in a ...

Last Tango in Paris (1972)

A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman. ...

My Body With Anger (1972)

"Il mio corpo con rabbia" by Roberto Natale has been credited an uncertain and indefinite status between an art and an exploitation movie. Silvia is a daddy's girl who has wanted to have a drug experience only once, but this was enough for her parents to b ...

Baron Blood (1972)

A young man, Peter, returns to Austria in search of his heritage. There he visits the castle of an ancestor, a sadistic Baron who was cursed to a violent death by a witch whom the Baron had burned at the stake. Peter reads aloud the incantation that causes ...

Medea (1969)

Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman. ...

The Red Tent (1969)

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia. ...

La coppia (1969)

The Sisters (1969)

Faced with a broken marriage, a woman decides to try to rekindle an incestuous relationship with her younger sister, who is married to a wealthy older man. ...

Listen, Let's Make Love (1968)

When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful at finding rich women to prey on, but finds himself caught up in a bidding war. ...

Theorem (1968)

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came. ...

The Witches (1967)

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his so ...

The Mysterious Mr. Van Eyck (1966)

A treasure sinks into the sea with the body of Charles Van Eyck, killed during a fight on a yacht by one of the sailors. ...

Idoli controluce (1965)

Having been assigned by his publisher to write a biography of Omar Sivori, the great footballer, Ugo Sanfelice heads for Torino. Given he is not very knowledgeable about soccer, Ugo tries -several times but in vain - to obtain an appointment from Sivori. F ...

Marco the Magnificent (1965)

Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder. ...

Gold for the Caesars (1963)

A gladiator gets caught up in a slave revolt and the invasion of England. ...

Mafia alla sbarra (1963)

The story of a poor family and their relationship with the local mafia. ...

The Shortest Day (1963)

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle. ...

Imperial Venus (1962)

The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the Conventionnel Fréron, then separated from him by her brother for political reasons, Pauline joined Napoleon in the Italian army, where she fell in love wit ...

Romulus and Remus (1961)

Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome. ...

The Giants of Thessaly (1960)

In order to placate the angry gods, who have allowed Thessaly to be overrun with barbarian invaders and beset with natural disasters, King Jason takes his Argonauts on a search for the fabled Golden Fleece. Meanwhile, back at home, his scheming regent is p ...

Letters of a Novice (1960)

The nun tells the priest about her past and then a long flashback begins... ...

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. ...

Cavalcata selvaggia (1960)

Nights of the Teddy Boys (1959)

An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona. ...

La cento chilometri (1959)

During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations ...

Wolves in the Abyss (1959)

At some point, somewhere in the relentless events of the Second World War: A submarine returns from a long, successful patrol. Shortly before their native coast, however, they are bombarded by enemy aircraft. The submarine sinks and for the men begins a fi ...

The Head of a Tyrant (1959)

A beautiful girl plans to seduce, then murder, the brutal conqueror who has taken over her city. ...

Asphalt (1959)

Françoise Arnould plays here a married woman who decides one day to get away from her husband and return to her childhood place, where she meets all her former friends, and lovers. ...

Herod the Great (1959)

Angry at his wife and defeated in battle, the king of Judea is taken prisoner. After being spared by the Romans, King Herod comes to believe he's been a victim of court plotting. ...

The Year Long Road (1958)

Italian director Giuseppe DeSantis was the creative force behind this Yugoslavian "slice of life" drama. The title translates as The Year-Long Road and, accordingly, the plot concerns a voluntary joint effort to construct a highway. Naturally, this animosi ...

Goddess Of Love (1957)

The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love. ...

La trovatella di Pompei (1957)

Maria, is a girl raised by the loving care of a poor couple but without knowing anything about her real parents. She is in love with Giorgio, a boy from a good family, who however has also aroused the interest of the intriguing Edvige who frequents bad com ...

La bestia humana (1957)

From Emile Zola's novel "La Bete Humaine", tells the story of a jealous husband, a provocative woman and a man with an uncontrollable desire to kill. ...

It Happened in Rome (1957)

Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome. ...

Saranno uomini (1957)

After leaving the reformatory where they spent their childhood, three boys begin their journey in life. The protagonist ends up becoming a criminal, but is finally redeemed by another of his former classmates, who has become a priest. ...

Four of the Thundering Jet (1955)

In post-war Italy, some pilots of the Air Force, despite the difficulties in which they are forced to operate, manage to form an acrobatic squadron. From the dedication of these men will be born the "Frecce Tricolori", the Italian Air Force's acrobatic squ ...

Marguerite of the Night (1955)

It tells the story of an older pedant who buys adolescence from Satan. ...

Disperato addio (1955)

An Italian medical drama based on a novel by Andrea Majocchi. ...

Senso (1954)

A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant. ...

La tua donna (1954)

During WWII, Sandro Ademari (Massimo Girotti), head of a group of Italian partisans, to escape from a Nazi catch, hides himself by a farm. Here he knows Luisa (Lea Padovani) and soon the two married and have a baby. After the war, Sandro, now a solicitor, ...

The Love of a Woman (1953)

Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an Italian engineer. ...

Vortice (1953)

Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas because he lost a lot of money due to some wrong investments. ...

At the Edge of the City (1953)

Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend. ...

A Husband for Anna (1953)

Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the ...

Sul ponte dei sospiri (1953)

Coming of age, a girl is told the truth about her dead father: he is alive, but imprisoned for several crimes he did not commit... With the help of an old noble lady and a young count (who doubles as a daring sea captain), she will fight for the truth, and ...

Sins of Rome (1953)

74 B.C. Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Brought back to Roma in a gladiators' school, he escapes and stirs up all the slaves in a revolt against the Roman Empire. ...

Il segreto delle tre punte (1952)

Lieutenant Giorgio (1952)

A lieutenant spends a night of love with a mysterious woman. ...

Fugitive in Trieste (1952)

An Italian Air Force officer is pursued and captured by the Allied police and is charged with the bombing of a hospital ship. Through the efforts of his sweetheart, a witness is found who proves the bombing was not intentional but the result of being hit b ...

Leathernose (1952)

After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behind a leather mask. Dispirited for a while, he decides to become a Casanova-like seductor. When he meets true love, cynical Roger does not believe in it and l ...

Rome 11:00 (1952)

The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic accident. ...

Behind Closed Shutters (1951)

Middle class Sandra, engaged to be married and living in Turin, searches for her missing sister that is estranged from her family. For this, she enters the morally degraded back allies of the port city of Genoa and is exposed to the world of sex traffickin ...

Land der Sehnsucht (1950)

Since the envisaged tour guide for a tourist crowd on the way to Italy is allegedly suddenly prevented, the secretary of the travel agency must unexpectedly step in and accompany the group on the bus. ...

Story of a Love Affair (1950)

A wealthy, possessive husband's investigation reignites his young wife's past love, leading them to plot against him. As obstacles fall away, their passion faces a new test. ...

Duel Without Honor (1950)

Bianca, a rich heiress, being an orphan, lives in her palace with her guardian uncle and cousin Olga. ...

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. ...

Fabiola (1949)

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of t ...

Altura (1949)

Difficult Years (1948)

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the wa ...

Woman Trouble (1948)

Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person decides to steal a car from a garage guarded by a friend. ...

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 ...

Christmas at Camp 119 (1947)

Second World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners Still waiting to return home , preparing to celebrate , away from families , another sad Christmas. To dare a little rein to Their longing , they tell Episodes ...

Tragic Hunt (1947)

Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office. ...

Fatalità (1947)

The wife of a shipping supervisor is smitten by a tall handsome sailor who works for him. ...

Desire (1946)

Paola, a Milan call girl, returns home to her village in the Abruzzi mountains in an attempt to go straight. Rejected by her father, blackmailed by a former lover, and lusted after by her brother-in-law, she turns to her beloved sister for support. Denied ...

A Day in the Life (1946)

Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge. ...

Preludio d'amore (1946)

After returning from the war Davide, a fisherman from Liguria, discovers that his girl Anna has been courted and compromised by a sailor named Rocco. Rocco's other girl, Tea, takes revenge by denouncing him to the police. In remorse she commits suicide by ...

The Gates of Heaven (1945)

Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto. ...

La carne e l'anima (1945)

This melodrama was directed by an émigré Russian from a story by Corrado Alvaro and Emanuele Caracciolo. The latter was murdered by the Nazis in the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, before the film's post-war release. Featuring Miranda and Girotti prior to neo- ...

I dieci comandamenti (1945)

Ten episodes, one for each of the Ten Commandments. Lost film. ...

Apparizione (1943)

One of the most famous movie stars of the moment has a problem with his car. The actor is obliged to stop in a provincial hotel, where he finds himself surrounded by his admirers. ...

Obsession (1943)

Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna as they plan to get rid of her older husband. ...

Harlem (1943)

This propaganda film was partly inspired by the story of the first Italian heavyweight champion Primo Carnera who, after winning the title with Al Capone's help in 1933, was beaten the following year by the Jewish Max Bear and then again by the 'Brown Bomb ...

A Pilot Returns (1942)

A young Italian pilot is interned in a British prison camp after his plane is shot down during the war against Greece. He falls in love with a doctor's daughter and manages to escape during a bombardment. He reaches home, wounded, just as news arrives of t ...

La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza (1941)

Le due tigri (1941)

Darma, Tremal Naik's daughter is kidnapped by the thugs and secluded in a temple in the jungle. The religious sect want her to become the priestess of the goddess Kali. Sandokan will set her free, and Surama the legitimate heiress to the throne of Lahore. ...

I pirati della Malesia (1941)

The Iron Crown (1941)

In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince Arminio to beasts in the woods, but lions don't kill him and breed him as one of them. ...

Dora Nelson (1939)

A humble girl looks so much like a capricious movie star that she gets to replace her both on the set and in her private life. ...