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Franco Arcalli
Writer 1929 - 1978

Franco Arcalli

Rome, Italy

Franco Arcalli is best known for being an Italian film editor and screenwriter.

Filmography

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Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in America

Sergio Leone 1984 2h 19m 8.6

This Mafia film is the greatest and last work from Italian director Sergio Leone. Taking place in 1920 to 1960 America the film follows a group Jewish gangsters from childhood into their glory years of the prohibition and as they reunite in their later years.

La luna

La luna

Bernardo Bertolucci 1979 2h 22m 5.0

La Luna (credited Luna) is a 1979 Italian film directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Jill Clayburgh. The film concerns the troubled life of a teenage boy and his relationship with his parents.

Al di là del bene e del male

Al di là del bene e del male

Liliana Cavani 1977 2h 7m

The life and ideas of the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. A love triangle unfolds as Nietzsche and his best friend decides to live with a Jewish woman. According to Nietzsche's philosophy, that is beyond all morality. Depicting Nietzsche's opium addiction and madness meritorious.

Novecento

Novecento

Bernardo Bertolucci 1976 5h 17m 8.4

Set in Bertolucci's ancestral region of Emilia, the film chronicles the lives of two men during the political turmoils that took place in Italy in the first half on the 20th century.

Ultimo tango a Parigi

Ultimo tango a Parigi

Bernardo Bertolucci 1972 2h 9m 7.8

A young Parisian woman begins a sordid affair with a middle-aged American businessman whom lays out ground rules that their clandestine relationship will be based only on sex.

La morte ha fatto l'uovo

La morte ha fatto l'uovo

Giulio Questi 1968 1h 29m 5.8

A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.

Se sei vivo spara

Se sei vivo spara

Giulio Questi 1967 1h 57m 6.3

Mexican outlaw Django is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. Django is not completely dead though, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.

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