Nelo Risi

Anita B. (2014)

After World War II, Anita, a young survivor of Auschwitz, becomes involved in an intense and passionate affair that almost shatters her until she gains the strength to start a new life. ...

Per odio, per amore (1991)

Love of a Woman (1988)

Gabriella, a young twenty-five year old from Milan , is married to the lawyer Bernasconi, a middle-aged man, without scruples, who in the past had been the lover of Gabriella's mother. Gabriella falls in love with Franco, an airplane test pilot. Her husban ...

La traversata (1976)

The City of World (1975)

La colonna infame (1973)

Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni. ...

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. ...

Documents on Giuseppe Pinelli (1970)

The film examines the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell from the fourth floor of the police headquarters in Milan December 15, 1969, after being stopped following the Piazza Fontana bombing. ...

Dead of Summer (1970)

A woman left alone in Morocco by her architect husband begins to lose her mind. ...

Flashback (1969)

Heinz is a German soldier stationed as a sniper overlooking his own army from a tree. When he falls asleep, his troops are gone and he is left alone to defend the incoming enemy invasion. Flashbacks recall his wartime experiences and his transition from a ...

Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl (1968)

Anna is a girl who has been under psychiatric therapy for a long time and she needs lots and lots of love. ...

We'll Go to the City (1966)

"Andremo in città" (We'll Go to the City) is a 1966 Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. It is based on the novel of the same name by Edith Bruck, Risi's wife. Bruck, a Hungarian concentration camp-survivor, settled in Italy after the Second World Wa ...

La strada più lunga (1965)

Michele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he returns home in 1943, but is now tired and refuses to join the Republic of Salò. His comrades still want him with them, but this Social Republic, imposed by the ...

Till the End of the World (1963)

This brave, lonely man who arrives in Corsica, in a poor village, has no idea that he will have to take in this 9-year-old child whose mother has just died and of whom he is undoubtedly the father. His only hope is to find a place for the child, a place wh ...

Latin Lovers (1961)

An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women. ...

La Firenze di Pratolini (1958)

It Happened in Rome (1957)

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

Il Delitto Matteotti (1956)

Cinéma et Réalité (1967)

In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism. ...