Piero Vida

Man on Fire (1987)

Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como. ...

Stage Fright (1987)

While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum. ...

The Moro Affair (1986)

On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual acco ...

The Professor (1986)

Young Franco is imprisoned for murder and rises to become the feared and powerful 'Professor', taking control of Naples' underworld from behind bars. ...

Nostalgia (1983)

Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Dome ...

Massimamente folle (1983)

The film presents a series of unrelated "pictures": a police commissioner who, faced with four friars stripped by two women, must decide whether they are real or false friars (but he can't); a professor who, suffering from acute dysentery, is dismissed for ...

The Knight, Death and The Devil (1983)

A family of the three fall into a dark and disturbing nightmare after meeting the mysterious Orlok and the seductive punk girl Patty. Adapted from the 1926 novella Dream Story by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler. ...

Fatty Girl Goes to New York (1982)

An overweight high school student is relentlessly bullied due to weight. Out of the blue, she wins a trip to New York, where she sheds 80+ pounds and then returns home to take revenge on her tormentors. ...

Lost in the City of Sarzana (1980)

The film is set in the period of fascism and is represented through the story of the general inspector Vincenzo Trani. ...

The Return of Casanova (1980)

Tough to Kill (1979)

A group of mercenaries escort a man with a million dollar bounty on his head across the African terrain. Double crosses, back stabbing, and gunfire follows. ...

1900 (1976)

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides. ...

Giovannino (1976)

Giovannino grows up and seeks his way, exemplary in his total and definitive absence of character. He lets himself be guided a little by everyone, without ever making a decision of his own free will. He first seduces the family servant, then runs away to R ...

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot (1975)

Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing. ...

Leonor (1975)

Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a c ...

Deep Red (1975)

An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia an ...

Year One (1974)

Rossellini's biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism. ...

The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun (1974)

A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg ...

The Night Porter (1974)

A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them. ...

Patroclooo!... e il soldato Camillone, grande grosso e frescone (1973)

The thief Bruno Camillone would like to escape abroad, but he needs a false passport and identity, which are obtained by a friend. Unfortunately, under his real name, Salvatore Bruschetta, he receives the postcard for military service, which he will have t ...

Theft in the Evening, a Big Coup Hopefully (1973)

A comedy about two friends attempting a heist. ...

Charity and the Strange Smell of Money (1973)

Charity is in charge of delivering the railroad payroll, but some locals and a Mexican gang have their own plans for the money. ...

Buona parte di Paolina (1973)

Paulina, sister of Napoleon I, is married to Camillo Borghese, presented as a helpless coward. She is eager to offer herself to all the young people that propose to her, and performs naked in front of the Roman people flocking to the walls of Villa Borghes ...

Fiorina the Cow (1972)

Plenty of fun erotic stories in the spirit of the "Decameron", united by one constant hero - unlucky cow Fiorina. ...

Blessed Are the Rich (1972)

Two brothers-in-law, a smuggler and the other traffic policeman, get hold of a large sum of money, destined for illegal exportation to Switzerland, after the courier is killed in a fire fight with the border police. The owners of the money, which occupy an ...

The Union (1972)

A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company. ...

Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino (1972)

Who Saw Her Die? (1972)

Between a four-year gap in the murder of a young girl, the daughter of a well-known sculptor is discovered dead, and her parents conduct an investigation, only to discover they are in over their heads as the body-count keeps rising. ...

Head Down, Feet Up (1972)

A serial killer who specialises in killing teachers is on the loose and Andrea becomes accidentally involved when he decides to lend a hand to one of the victims and catches a glimpse of the nocturnal predator. ...

Short Night of Glass Dolls (1971)

An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared. ...

In the Name of the Father (1971)

In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil am ...

Capricci (1969)

After a fight in their apartment, the story of a writer and a painter are divided. The writer is dedicated with his partner Manon to provoke continuous accidents in a field in which car carcasses abound. The painter is recruited to kill, through a poisoned ...

What Did Stalin Do to Women? (1969)

Two young intellectuals of the PCI, former partisans, enter into a deep ideological crisis after the fall of Stalin. One will volunteer for Vietnam. the other will find in Ho Chi Minh a new myth to be inspired. ...

Sierra Maestra (1969)

An Italian journalist is arrested in Venezuela by the military, accused of being a revolutionary. The journalist, interviewed by the press, says he has no connection with the guerrilla organizations and is thrown into jail and subjected to psychological an ...

Galileo (1968)

A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe. ...

Dead for a Dollar (1968)

When the lead robber in their gang steals the money from his two companions, a cat and mouse/back and forth game plays out as the men try to get the money for themselves. But another player, the heir of the sneaky gang leader, is also on the hunt... ...

Execution (1968)

Clips, a bounty killer, is after one John Coler, who has fooled him, keeping all of a loot he should have shared with him. He finally catches his prey only to discover that the man is a Coler all right but not the expected one. ...

Il sole è di tutti (1968)

John the Bastard (1967)

Johnny Donald, a cynical seducer of women, discovers he is actually the son of Don Diego Tenorio, a wealthy Mexican landowner. Accompanied by his trusty servant Morenillo, he travels south in search of vengeance and riches, but manages to deflower and make ...

Catch As Catch Can (1967)

Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him! ...

Hate for Hate (1967)

After being captured during a bank robbery, a cowboy is sent to a prison located in a swamp, where he contracts malaria. He soon escapes and, with the help of a Mexican, sets out to track down his partner, who escaped from the bank robbery with all the mon ...

Payment in Blood (1967)

Chamaco finds himself on the wrong end of a firing squad after tracking an ex-Confederate to interrogate him about General Beauregard's missing gold. He's saved by a stranger who calls himself Stuart Byrnes. Stuart claims to know the location of Beauregard ...

Snow Job (1965)

Lucio sees his holiday on the Italian Alps interrupted when he is suddenly and unwillingly involved in an International plot involving fake dollar bills. ...

La donnaccia (1965)

Who Works Is Lost (1963)

Bonifacio is 27 years old and he is roaming about Venice. He is trying to decide whether to accept a job or not. In so doing, he recalls all his past life: his love story with Gabriella, his old friend Claudio, who had always regarded working as a worthwhi ...

Challenge the Devil (1963)

A group of young people happen upon an old man in a castle who turns out to be the devil. ...

Cronache del '22 (1961)

Five different episodes unfold against the backdrop of Italian historical and political events in 1922. In the first, in the aftermath of the March on Rome, two scoundrels speculate on the event. In the second, a punitive expedition enters the home of a so ...