Ugo Gregoretti

Io, il tubo e le pizze (2024)

Gregoretti's last film, in which the great filmmaker, documentary maker and journalist retraces his activity with irony and light-heartedness. Through episodes of his personal and professional life, and images of his films and television programs, a humoro ...

Papà Ugo - I Gregoretti si raccontano (2016)

An unusual portrait of Ugo Gregoretti, actor, film, television and theater director, and father of 5 children. His children and his wife tell us about him, going through the years spent together, talking about his irony and tenderness, his indulgence and h ...

Il segreto di Otello (2015)

Good For Nothing (2014)

Easygoing Gianni looks forward to retirement - until he is informed that a change in the law obliges him to work three more years. ...

Noi c'eravamo (2011)

La rabbia 1, la rabbia 2, la rabbia 3... l'Arabia (2008)

The story of La Rabbia by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Guareschi, a movie lost in the archives of a laboratory in Rome, and recently re-discovered. ...

Il favoloso mondo di G. - Il cinema di Ugo Gregoretti (2007)

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 ...

Cesare Zavattini (2003)

Documentary about Italian film screenwriter Cesare Zavattini ...

It's Happening Tomorrow (1988)

1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way. ...

Fatto su misura (1985)

Pirata! Cult Movie (1984)

In a hypothetical future not too far away people are completely dazed and spend their days passively watching TV. The state is controlled by a dictator, the Supreme Dreamer, who governs through the brutal force of the police, whose agents have a very elega ...

Rich and Poor (1983)

Pozzetto is a rich man obsessed by the idea of becoming poor. So, his psychiatric suggests him to leave home and live just like a poor man for some days. He will then become familiar with this way of living, and fear less the idea of becoming poor. So he d ...

The Terrace (1980)

Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future. ...

A Common Sense of Modesty (1976)

The film is divided into four episodes that blends sex and comedy. ...

We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)

Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond. ...

The End of the Game (1970)

One of the first tv-movie of Gianni Amelio: a journalistic investigation about boys of Calabria. ...

Help Me, My Love (1969)

Giovanni and Raffaella are happily married from ten years, but their relationship goes into crisis when Raffaella falls in love with Valerio Mantovani, a handsome forty-year-old man she knew during the concerts of chamber music she weekly attends with her ...

Io, il tubo e le pizze (2024)

Gregoretti's last film, in which the great filmmaker, documentary maker and journalist retraces his activity with irony and light-heartedness. Through episodes of his personal and professional life, and images of his films and television programs, a humoro ...

Scossa (2012)

100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria. ...

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

Maggio musicale (1990)

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer (1984)

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party. ...

Contratto (1970)

Factory workers struggles over contracts in post-68 Italy documented through original footage. ...

Apollon: una fabbrica occupata (1969)

The film documents the trade union battle of the workers of the Apollon printing house in Rome, occupied for a few months after the management decided to fire all the personnel and sell the land on which the factory was standing. In the form of a docu-fict ...

Incontri 1969 - Roberto Rossellini: i segreti di un mito (1969)

An hour with Roberto Rossellini. Interviewed by Gregoretti, the director of Paisà and Europa 51 retraces his life, his work, his relationship with the young critics of the Cahiers du Cinéma who would become the authors of the French New Wave, but also ta ...

Rita the American Girl (1965)

Professor Serafino Benvenuti is a master of classical music who has the passion of the orchestra director. However, the young audience of the 60 does not appreciate classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven, and so Serafino is likely to have compromised ...

Beautiful Families (1964)

The film's theme is four episodes that offer the public a glimpse into the lives of rich and poor families in Italy in the 1960s. ...

The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers (1964)

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris ...

The Road Map (1964)

Centers on a band of hookers who listen to their pimp and seek out old men in retirement villages. They convince the old fellows to marry them so they will not be forced to leave the city. Unfortunately for the pimp, the delighted geezers will not allow th ...

Malamondo (1964)

This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hot-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a graveyard. ...

Omicron (1963)

An alien takes over the body of a factory worker in order to learn about Earth so his race can take it over. ...

Ro.Go.Pa.G. (1963)

Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life. ...

Il pollo ruspante (1963)

Gregoretti's Il pollo ruspante ("Free Range Chicken") shows an Italian middle-class family with two children traveling via an autostrada (highway) to the site of a real-estate project where they could be interested in buying a detached house. ...

The New Angels (1962)

Falling somewhere in-between a documentary and a droll drama (more like an enactment of reality, with a wink), this film by TV director Ugo Gregoretti looks in on a variety of social and ethnic situations throughout Italy. Sexual morés are contrasted, fro ...