Ninetto Davoli
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ninetto Davoli (born 11 October 1948 as Giovanni Davoli) is an Italian actor who became known through his roles in several of Pier Paolo Pasolini's films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ninetto Davoli, licensed under... Read full bio →
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Ritorno al crimine
After coming out unscathed from the meeting with the "Banda della Magliana", four friends, improvised criminals, are on the trail of a woman on the run, who stole all their money.
Pasolini
We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo.
Uno su due
Uno su due è un film del 2006 con Fabio Volo, diretto da Eugenio Cappuccio. Presentato nella sezione Première della Festa del Cinema di Roma 2006, è uscito nelle sale italiane il 2 marzo 2007. Il film è tratto dal soggetto di Michele Pellegrini "Ci vediamo lassù", vincitore del Premio Solinas 2001.
Momo
Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families.
La liceale seduce i professori
There's a new girl in school, Angela, the Headmaster's neice. Every male will try to seduce her, even her uncle. Meanwhile she will drive the philosophy's teacher mad and her best friend Irma will have a good time with the classmates. Will they get the grades?
Buone notizie
A disaffected media executive who spends his days watching violent programming on the six television screens in his office and his evenings is neglecting his frustrated wife at home.
Casotto
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
A zsarnok szíve, avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon
A historical drama set in the 1400s, a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.
L'Agnese va a morire
After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.
Il vizio ha le calze nere
A woman dressed in black is murdering young women. The police question lawyer Anselmi for whom one of the girls worked as a secretary, and it turns out that all the victims were friends of lawyer's wife Leonora.
Il fiore delle mille e una notte
In this film inspired by the ancient erotic and mysterious tales of the Middle East,the main story concerns an innocent young man who falls in love with a slave who selected him as her master. After his foolish error causes their separation,he travels in search of her.
Appasionata
Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.
Storia di fifa e di coltello - Er seguito d'er più
A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength.
I racconti di Canterbury
Pasolini's artistic and always vividly cinematic retelling of eight of Chaucer's famous tales.
Anche se volessi lavorare, che faccio?
In Lazio, four young people named Riccetto, Girasole, Lallo and Tombarolo try to make a living by stealing what they find in the tombs of the rich buried. Being inexperienced, they often find themselves in trouble or pursued by the police.
Il Decameron
An adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".
Ostia
Two brothers live by petty thievery and try to recover from their upbringing. Bandiera and Rabbino were children when they pushed their drunken father out of a window for killing their pet sheep.
Porcile
Pigsty (Italian: Porcile) is a 1969 Italian film, written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini and starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, Marco Ferreri, Ugo Tognazzi, Pierre Clémenti, Alberto Lionello, Franco Citti, and Anne Wiazemsky. Its cinematographer is Tonino Delli Colli.
Teorema
A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger (Terence Stamp) arrives, makes love to every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.
Partner.
The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.
Capriccio all'italiana
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
Requiescant
A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a preacher. Years later, the boy is now a soft-spoken, devout young man with perfect shooting skills (despite being a pacifist).
Le streghe
Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor.
Edipo re
In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Oedipus, and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son.
Uccellacci e uccellini
A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.
Il vangelo secondo Matteo
Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. His parables often take on the powers that be, so he and his teachings come to the attention of the Pharisees, the chief priests, and elders.