Renato Montalbano

Se non avessi l'amore (1991)

The film covers the last year of Pier Giorgio Frassati life, son of the family that owned the newspaper La Stampa, who lived between 1901 and 1925 and was beatified in 1990. ...

According to Pontius Pilate (1988)

The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate. ...

Prickly Pears (1980)

Lorenzo is the mayor of a small town. One evening, returning home, surprised the well-known playboy Ghigo Buccilli who tries to seduce his beautiful wife. Enraged, he threatens the two with a gun, and Buccilli is the victim of a heart attack: the man survi ...

Towards Zero (1980)

Verso l'ora zero is an Italian television film from 1980. It is based on the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero. ...

Con gli occhi dell'occidente (1979)

Traffico d'Armi nel Golfo (1977)

The young British archaeologist Tim Frazer is visited by an old friend: Henry Denston. At an agreed appointment, however, the man does not show up, giving rise to a mysterious investigation. ...

Blood and Bullets (1976)

A deadly manhunt takes three people through the sordid streets of the Philadelphia underworld, in search of killers and the truth, where every clue brings new questions. ...

The Messiah (1975)

Rossellini takes numerous liberties with the original source material, rearranging and omitting events at will, presenting everything in a highly undramatic fashion. The film begins in the time of the Old Testament, allowing Rossellini to present the story ...

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. ...

Cartesius (1974)

Rossellini's interpretation of Descartes' life. ...

The Assassination of Matteotti (1973)

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime. ...

Satiricosissimo (1970)

Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him. ...

Zorro, the Navarra Marquis (1969)

Zorro fights Napoleon's army to help the King of Spain. ...

The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)

A newlywed couple visits the husband's hometown of Geneva, where they are subjected to threats stemming from the death of his former fiancée. ...

Assault on the State Treasure (1967)

Twenty million dollars are going to be transferred from an Arab central bank to a British oil company. Four among the biggest criminal of the world are in charge to rob it. An undefined intelligence agency tries to stop them. An infiltrator is not sure for ...

Cuore matto... matto da legare (1967)

Tony is in love with Carla, a young student of architecture, but his parents want him to marry Erminia, a rich but ugly girl. ...

$10,000 for a Massacre (1967)

After being hired to free a landowner's kidnapped daughter, a bounty hunter double-crosses his employer and joins the kidnapper's gang. ...

Make Love, Not War (1966)

Twenty years after the end of the war, a German submarine has not yet surrendered and continues to wander the seas. Its travelers include a half-witted officer, a meager and dazed crew, and Ombrina, a girl rescued from a shipwreck when she was only one yea ...

A Million Dollars for 7 Murders (1966)

Michael King is hired by a rich banker to track down his son, a famous nuclear physicist, who disappeared with a secret formula. ...

Ring Around the World (1966)

Investigator Fred Lester uncovers a killer using an air pistol firing chemical bullets in the swinging '60s spy thriller RING AROUND THE WORLD, a globe-hopping escapade featuring a plane-and-parachute stunt later repeated in the James Bond film Moonraker. ...

Lo scandalo (1966)

A married couple and their friends are entangled in a series of love affairs. ...

Star Pilot (1966)

Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair of Oriental spies are taken hostage by the beings so they can use them to repair their spaceship's broken e ...

Almost a Man (1966)

A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Michele re ...

War Between the Planets (1966)

Scientists try to prevent a collision between Earth and a planet that is heading for it. ...

The Hawks and the Sparrows (1966)

A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy. ...

Lightning Bolt (1966)

A U.S. agent goes undercover as a rich playboy to stop a madman from destroying a NASA moon project. ...

James Tont Operation T.W.O. (1966)

A dangerous criminal group wants to destroy St. Peter's Basilica and the secret agent James Tont is the only one who can help it. ...

The Mandrake (1965)

A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli. ...

The Dolls (1965)

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comenci ...

The Magnificent Gladiator (1964)

Attalus, a war prisoner by Rome, proves his valor in the arena, becomes a gladiator trainer, conquers the women's hearts and the men's envy, and saves Rome from a political plot to a usurper to occupy the throne. ...

One Million Dollars (1964)

Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl he has met that is accompanying him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He has some plans for hanky-panky on their various ...

I due toreri (1964)

In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. In reality however this is not simple salad vegetables but marijuana; the two bungling fools and friends do not realize it at first. ...

Revolt of the Praetorians (1964)

Rome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious champion arises to fight against the Emperor -- a masked man known as the Red Wolf. In fact, the Red Wolf is Valerius Rufus, one of the Emperor's trusted ce ...

What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? (1964)

A pair of brothers, Baby Toto and Pietro, sons of different mothers, live stealing suitcases at the Termini Station in Rome. After a theft, they discover that the stolen suitcase they got from an apparent sweet old lady actually contains a corpse. ...

The Monster of the Opera (1964)

A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation ...

Corruption (1963)

Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with ...

The Secret Seven (1963)

Greece is under the power of Rabirius, from which rise a few patriots led by Axel. He is taken prisoner and condemned to die of hunger and thirst. But his brother Leslio, who fears no one, makes him free. The next step Leslio takes, is to dissolve a group ...

Slave Girls of Sheba (1963)

Saracen pirates aboard the "Black Eagle" attack Christians strongholds along the coast of Spain. When they stop off in Sheba to re-supply, they also buy female slaves and end up fighting over them. ...

The Conjugal Bed (1963)

A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding. ...

La bella di Lodi (1963)

Story of Roberta, a beautiful young woman from a wealthy industrialist family and her relationship with Franco, a rough car mechanic and stranger whom she meets on the beach of Forte dei Marmi. ...

A Man for Burning (1962)

Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a ...

Mamma Roma (1962)

After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned ...

The Golden Arrow (1962)

Genies help an Arabian bandit (Tab Hunter) locate a magic arrow he needs to claim heirship to the sultan's kingdom. ...

Hong Kong Hot Harbor (1962)

German journalist Peter Holberg arrives in Hong Kong and, by accident, he is carrying a microfilm that was destined to local gang lord, Marek. Peter is helped by another German journalist, Joan Kent, and falls in love with a night-club dancer, Colette. Col ...

The Corsican Brothers (1961)

The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link. ...

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 ...

Conqueror of the Orient (1961)

Centuries ago in the Orient, the fiscal exactions on the people lead to a revolt against the usurper of the throne, and the empowerment of a new leader. ...

Psycosissimo (1961)

Two bumbling actors get wrapped up in a scheme to murder a rich man's wife. ...

Viva l'Italia! (1961)

The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he suppo ...

Love in Rome (1960)

A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another. ...

The Black Archer (1959)

A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father. ...

Il padrone delle ferriere (1959)

Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu. ...

Knight Without a Country (1959)

Fantasmi e ladri (1959)

Tina, an old lady and detective stories buff, moves to town in the house of a god-daughter of hers whose husband is a private dick. She thinks she will be able to help him with his inquests. He does not agree with her and tries to discourage her by any pos ...

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. ...

La nipote Sabella (1958)

Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles". ...

The Warrior and the Slave Girl (1958)

Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius. ...

Aphrodite, Goddess of Love (1958)

The construction of great temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, followed by new and high taxes and the arrival of a plague, create discontent in the population, and threatens the love between a sculptor and a slave. ...

The Third (1958)

A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed sentimental life. ...

Quando gli angeli piangono (1958)

After the end of World War II, a man comes back to his former fiancée and finds out that she is married to an older man. ...

È arrivata la parigina (1958)

An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life. ...

Via col para... vento (1958)

The Mysteries of Paris (1957)

Paris 1838, Prince Rodolphe vows on the deathbed of his friend Matilde to find Germain, the woman's son kidnapped by his father at birth. Disguised as a tramp, he wanders the city's slums encountering various characters who either help or hinder him. ...

The Black Devil (1957)

The Spaniards under Charles V aim to occupy all of Italy with the help of traitorous allies like Don Lorenzo. Lorenzo conspires to marry off his supposed niece Isabella to Charles V's nephew, Prince Rodriguez, to confirm Spain's dominance. The Black Devil, ...

The Guilty (1957)

Valerio Rossello is a judge, with a rigid and uncompromising mentality. He is married to Lucia, a woman who instead follows the model of a loving and protective mother. From their union only one child was born: Maurizio. Both parents raise him completely d ...

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge (1956)

Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa. ...

Occhi senza luce (1956)

A blind girl and a disabled singer fall in love. ...