Movies & TV Shows/Series by Documento Films at a glance

62 movies found (page 1/3):

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis(1970)

| 1h 35min | Drama, War

3.5/5 (with 106 votes)

In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a diverse circle of friends for tennis and parties at their villa with its lovely grounds, and try to keep the rest of the world at bay. But tensions between them all grow as anti-Semitism rises in Fascist Italy, and even the Finzi-Continis will have to confront the Holocaust.

Directed by Vittorio De Sica - With Lino Capolicchio, Dominique Sanda, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Alessandro D'Alatri, ...

The Girl with a Pistol(1968)

1h 43min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama

3.4/5 (with 52 votes)

A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.

Directed by Mario Monicelli - With Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, Carlo Giuffré, Corin Redgrave, Tiberio Murgia, Tony Booth, ...

Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?(1968)

2h 10min | Comedy, Adventure, Fantasy

3.5/5 (with 34 votes)

A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa, in search of his brother-in-law who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of topless, shapely wives. They are going to return to civilisation, but will their friend come with them?

Directed by Ettore Scola - With Alberto Sordi, Bernard Blier, Giuliana Lojodice, Franca Bettoia, Erika Blanc, Nino Manfredi, ...

A Girl in Australia(1971)

1h 47min | Comedy

3.4/5 (with 40 votes)

The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.

Directed by Luigi Zampa - With Alberto Sordi, Claudia Cardinale, Corrado Olmi, Riccardo Garrone, Tano Cimarosa, Angelo Infanti, ...

Complexes(1965)

1h 40min | Comedy, Drama

3.5/5 (with 38 votes)

In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.

Directed by Dino Risi, Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Franco Rossi - With Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Alberto Sordi, Nanda Primavera, Umberto D'Orsi, Ilaria Occhini, ...

Help Me, My Love(1969)

2h | Romance / Love, Comedy

3.7/5 (with 22 votes)

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 mother.

Directed by Alberto Sordi - With Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti, Silvano Tranquilli, Laura Adani, Ugo Gregoretti, Mariolina Cannuli, ...

Seven Days… Seven Nights(1960)

1h 31min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 15 votes)

Anne Desbarèdes is a young woman who is married to a wealthy businessman and lives a monotonous existence in the small commune town of Blaye. After indirectly witnessing a murder in a café, she returns to the scene of the crime the next day and meets Chauvin, who informs her in more detail about the events that took place. Mentally unbalanced, Anne begins to believe that Chauvin intends to kill her.

Directed by Peter Brook - With Jeanne Moreau, Colette Régis, Didier Haudepin, Jean Deschamps, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Pascale de Boysson, ...

Captain Fracasse(1961)

1h 48min | Adventure

2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

A ruined Baron Philippe de baron, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors led by Herod. Attracted by the one who plays the role of the ingenue: Isabella, and by the dynamism and enthusiasm of his companions, he takes the place of the deceased poet of the troupe. And during performances, Philippe became the captain Sunder. For his part, Isabelle loves Philip, but does not consider marriage, nobility him missing, she refuses to harm the career of Baron. And one day, the Duke of Vallombrosa, seduced by Isabella, finds himself challenged to a duel by Philippe for touching the girl. Defeated, he launched his men against Sunder, then removes Isabelle. The actors throw themselves then to storm the castle where she is being held. This time Vallombrosa was seriously injured, and the duke's own father, rushed to the scene, Isabelle discovers the girl he had once been an actress. Nothing stands now the union of Sunder and Isabella, under the tender gaze of the actors Herod and Scapin.

Directed by Pierre Gaspard-Huit - With Jean Marais, Louis de Funès, Alain Saury, Anna Maria Ferrero, Bernard Dhéran, Bernard Lajarrige, ...

Le Rouge et le Noir(1954)

1h 53min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post-Napoleonic era, his intensely romantic liaisons propel him forward at a pace he cannot control.

Directed by Claude Autant-Lara - With Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi, Anna Maria Sandri, Mirko Ellis, Albert Michel, ...

Why(1971)

1h 39min | Drama, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 36 votes)

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?

Directed by Nanni Loy - With Alberto Sordi, Lino Banfi, Elga Andersen, Andrea Aureli, Nazzareno Natale, Michele Gammino, ...

Avenger of the Seven Seas(1962)

1h 30min | Adventure, Crime, Drama

3.5/5 (with 3 votes)

It's 1790 and British Naval Commander Redway is driven by greed for money and will stop at nothing to get it. His second in command, David Robinson, questions his allegiance when Redway kills his father and takes his brother prisoner. In order to save his brother and avenge his father's death David must join forces with a band of pirates, led by Captain Bernard, hunt down and kill Redway.

Directed by Domenico Paolella - With Richard Harrison, Michèle Mercier, Roldano Lupi, Marisa Belli, Paul Müller, Carlo Hintermann, ...

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Too Bad She's Bad(1954)

1h 35min | Romance / Love, Comedy

3.6/5 (with 26 votes)

When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.

Directed by Alessandro Blasetti - With Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren, Vittorio De Sica, Umberto Melnati, Margherita Bagni, Mario Scaccia, ...

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Somewhere Beyond Love(1974)

1h 48min | Drama

3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

Two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love...

Directed by Luigi Comencini - With Giuliano Gemma, Stefania Sandrelli, Brizio Montinaro, Renato Scarpa, Emilio Bonucci, Rina Franchetti, ...

A Day in Court(1954)

1h 28min | Comedy, Drama

3.2/5 (with 17 votes)

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.

Directed by Stefano Vanzina - With Peppino De Filippo, Silvana Pampanini, Alberto Sordi, Giulio Calì, Walter Chiari, Sophia Loren, ...

The Fight for Rome(1968)

1h 43min | Adventure, Drama

2.2/5 (with 2 votes)

A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed each other and create a new Roman Empire from their combined kingdoms; however, he does not factor into his plans the vagaries of love and the personal integrity of the people in both kingdoms.

Directed by Robert Siodmak, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Andrew Marton - With Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Florin Piersic, Emanoil Petruț, Honor Blackman, ...

A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof(1968)

1h 40min | Western

2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

The bandit Pratt, looking for Tim, who is responsible for the death of his two sons, attacks a caravan killing all the passengers. Harry, the vagabond, after having robbed the dead, casually meets Tim and they become friends. Running away together from Pratt, they reach Harry's farm, but their hiding place is soon discovered.

Directed by Giulio Petroni - With Giuliano Gemma, Mario Adorf, Magda Konopka, Federico Boido, Anthony Dawson, Franco Balducci, ...

Excellent(1955)

1h 35min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

The master Impallato takes care of the boys in a suburban after-school. Here he discovers a pupil with an extraordinary baritone voice.

Directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico - With Alberto Sordi, Giancarlo Zarfati, Patrizia Della Rovere, Irene Cefaro, Irène Tunc, Mario Riva, ...

Wanted(1967)

1h 44min | Drama, Western, Romance / Love, Action

3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

A local sheriff is unjustly accused of murder in a small town and forced to flee. He gets rid of his enemies one by one and tries to prove his innocence.

Directed by Giorgio Ferroni - With Giuliano Gemma, Serge Marquand, Nello Pazzafini, Daniele Vargas, Benito Stefanelli, Carlo Hintermann, ...

Blood and Roses(1960)

1h 19min | Horror, Romance / Love

3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

The spirit of a vengeful female vampire is released from her grave and possesses a wealthy young woman of nobility, who preys on other women in her village.

Directed by Roger Vadim - With Mel Ferrer, Elsa Martinelli, Serge Marquand, Alberto Bonucci, Marc Allégret, René-Jean Chauffard, ...

A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die(1968)

| 1h 58min | Drama, Action, Western, Crime

3.1/5 (with 5 votes)

A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by the new governor of the New Mexico Territory, but a vindictive sheriff sets out to stop him from reaching the Territory.

Directed by Franco Giraldi - With Arthur Kennedy, Robert Ryan, Enzo Fiermonte, Renato Romano, Giampiero Albertini, Mario Brega, ...

The Warrior Empress(1960)

1h 45min | History, Adventure

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The poetess Sappho led an uprising against the corrupt government of the island of Lesbos.

Directed by Pietro Francisci - With Kerwin Mathews, Tina Louise, Enrico Maria Salerno, Riccardo Garrone, Elke Sommer, Elena Zareschi, ...

Metello(1970)

1h 47min | Drama

2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

Metello struggles to escape from the poverty that led to the premature death of his parents, and that is the lot of the working class in northern Italy during the second half of the 19th century. Metello fights his way out from his condition through hard work, a determined will to resist oppression inherited from his father, but also by taking advantage of his good looks when dealing with women. Metello progressively assumes an important role in the organization of an emerging workers movement, and attempts to conciliate his risky political activities with his private life.

Directed by Mauro Bolognini - With Massimo Ranieri, Tina Aumont, Lucia Bosé, Ottavia Piccolo, Renzo Montagnani, Frank Wolff, ...

Before the Deluge(1954)

2h 18min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 3 votes)

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Directed by André Cayatte - With Antoine Balpêtré, Paul Bisciglia, Bernard Blier, Marina Vlady, Roger Coggio, Albert Rémy, ...

Laura nuda(1961)

1h 34min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Laura, a young woman from the Verona bourgeoisie, seeks to emancipate herself, but is desperately confronted with what she considers to be the hypocrisy of men and the conformism of a society that only considers women if they marry and procreate.

Directed by Nicolò Ferrari - With Riccardo Garrone, Giancarlo Sbragia, Antonio Centa, Giorgia Moll, Tomas Milian, Milly, ...

High Infidelity(1964)

1h 35min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.

Directed by Mario Monicelli, Elio Petri, Franco Rossi, Luciano Salce - With Nino Manfredi, Fulvia Franco, John Phillip Law, Luigi Zerbinati, Charles Aznavour, Claire Bloom, ...

La banda Casaroli(1962)

1h 40min | Crime

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Based on the misdeeds of the criminal group headed by Paolo Casaroli, who was dedicated to robbing banks.

Directed by Florestano Vancini - With Renato Salvatori, Jean-Claude Brialy, Tomas Milian, Gabriele Tinti, Leonardo Severini, Marcella Rovena, ...

Blood Brothers(1974)

2h 10min | Crime, Drama

3.5/5 (with 6 votes)

In this period piece set in Italy, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, when he seeks the reason that people are reluctant to help him in his goals, he discovers that some of his blood relations are high-ranking members of the Mafia. He tries to break away from his family obligations, but falls into a life of crime and violence.

Directed by Pasquale Squitieri - With Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Fabio Testi, Lina Polito, Raymond Pellegrin, Rita Forzano, ...

Anyone Can Play(1967)

| 1h 28min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love

0.6/5 (with 1 vote)

In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.

Directed by Luigi Zampa - With Ursula Andress, Virna Lisi, Claudine Auger, Marisa Mell, Brett Halsey, Jean-Pierre Cassel, ...

The Girl from Parma(1963)

1h 51min | Drama

3.7/5 (with 6 votes)

Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino.

Directed by Antonio Pietrangeli - With Catherine Spaak, Nino Manfredi, Salvo Randone, Didi Perego, Lando Buzzanca, Rosalia Maggio, ...

Women of Devil's Island(1962)

| 1h 26min | Action, Adventure, Drama

2.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Italian costume drama about convicted women in France being sent to the penal colony on Devil's Island where they must wade through alligator-infested waters and find gold. Life on the island is tough for these buxom, beautifully-swept coiffed maidens - virtually none who look like they had even the slightest knowledge of crimes worthy of such a punishment. Here, if the girls want to get a day of rest they must work the night with the guards and/or warden of the island, but some changes come when Guy Madison arrives as the new warden out to change the horrible lives led by these playmate-wannabes.

Directed by Domenico Paolella - With Guy Madison, Michèle Mercier, Paul Müller, Tullio Altamura, Carlo Hintermann, Marisa Belli, ...

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