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Marco Ferreri
Writer 1928 - 1997

Marco Ferreri

Milan, Lombardy, Italy

Marco Ferreri (11 May 1928 – 9 May 1997) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. He was born in Milan and died in Paris of a myocardial infarction. Upon his death, Gilles Jacob, artistic director of the Cannes International Film Festival, said: The Italian cinema... Read full bio →

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Nitrato d'argento

Nitrato d'argento

Marco Ferreri 1996 1h 27m

This documentary celebrates the 100th anniversary of the cinema birth. It is an historic running through the technical and artistic evolution of the 7th art. We move from mute to sound, from B&W to color, trough all the genders (musical, Lyric, politic...).

La casa del sorriso

La casa del sorriso

Marco Ferreri 1991 1h 50m

A septuagenarian couple are attracted to each other in a retirement home but find the institution and their fellow patients frown on their relationship.

La carne

La carne

Marco Ferreri 1991 1h 30m 7.0

A piano player meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism. After some time he becomes sick of it and she relieves his paralysis. Eventually she gets bored and decides to leave, but he can't take it because he loves her…

I Love You

I Love You

Marco Ferreri 1986 1h 41m 7.0

A heartwarming South African romantic comedy starring Kurt Darren, Ilse de Vis, Christina Storm and Andre Frauenstein.

Il futuro è donna

Il futuro è donna

Marco Ferreri 1984 1h 39m

In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three is strange, at the very least.

Storia di Piera

Storia di Piera

Marco Ferreri 1983 1h 45m 5.0

This sometimes confusing erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti though it focuses more on her mother Eugenia (Hanna Schygulla).

Storie di ordinaria follia

Storie di ordinaria follia

Marco Ferreri 1981 1h 41m 7.5

Poet/lecturer Charles Serking awakens from his alcoholic haze long enough to take a bus back to L.A. and plunge into an orgy of drink and sexual depravity.

Chiedo asilo

Chiedo asilo

Marco Ferreri 1979 1h 50m

A new teacher introduces radical ideas at a nursery school. Leading to varied reactions from the students and the parents.

Ciao maschio

Ciao maschio

Marco Ferreri 1978 1h 53m 7.0

A man walking on the beach near New York City finds the corpse of King Kong. He also finds Kong's orphaned son, and takes it to a friend who lives in the city, and they decide to raise it.

La dernière femme

La dernière femme

Marco Ferreri 1976 1h 48m 7.0

Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance.

Touche pas à la femme blanche

Touche pas à la femme blanche

Marco Ferreri 1974 1h 48m 7.0

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.

La grande bouffe

La grande bouffe

Marco Ferreri 1973 2h 10m 8.1

A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.

Liza

Liza

Marco Ferreri 1972 1h 40m 7.0

En croisiere sur un yacht avec des amis, Liza eprouve l'envie de tout quitter et nage jusqu'a l'ile la plus proche. Elle fait la connaissance du proprietaire des lieux, Giorgio, qui vit seul dans une boule de pierre. Ils passent la nuit ensemble. Giorgio la ramene a terre mais Liza revient, tue le chien et prend sa place.

L'udienza

L'udienza

Marco Ferreri 1971 1h 48m 9.0

Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.

Il seme dell'uomo

Il seme dell'uomo

Marco Ferreri 1969 1h 53m 7.0

A young couple argue about having a child in the days after a global plague wipes out most of Earth's population.

Dillinger è morto

Dillinger è morto

Marco Ferreri 1969 1h 35m 9.6

Back home, Glauco, an industrial designer, finds his wife in bed with a serious headache. She has left him dinner but it is cold and Glauco decides to prepare himself a gourmet meal...

L'uomo dei cinque palloni

L'uomo dei cinque palloni

Marco Ferreri 1967 1h 25m

Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting.

L'harem

L'harem

Marco Ferreri 1967 1h 40m 9.0

A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.

Marcia nuziale

Marcia nuziale

Marco Ferreri 1966 1h 23m

Satirical film in four episodes about family and marriage.

Oggi, domani, dopodomani

Oggi, domani, dopodomani

Eduardo De Filippo, Luciano Salce 1965 1h 35m 7.0

Italian comedy film in three segments

La donna scimmia

La donna scimmia

Marco Ferreri 1964 1h 32m 8.0

Antonio Focaccia è un imbroglione che vive di raggiri e che scopre, per caso, all'interno di un convento di monache, una giovane donna il cui corpo è fittamente coperto di peli.

L'ape regina

L'ape regina

Marco Ferreri 1963 1h 32m 8.0

A 40 years old man, Alfonso, finally succeeds to marry a virgin, educate, beautiful and very catholic woman. But soon she, Regina, starts stressing him because she wants to be pregnant. When the stress is at its peak Regina at last gets pregnant. Once the goal is reached the man is put aside and dies.

Mafioso

Mafioso

Alberto Lattuada 1962 1h 45m

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native Sicily, a decades' old oath forces him to fulfill a nightmarish obligation.

El cochecito

El cochecito

Marco Ferreri 1960 1h 26m 6.0

El Cochecito is a 1960 Spanish black comedy film directed by Marco Ferreri. The film is based on Rafael Azcona's novel who co-wrote the script with Ferreri. The film was a huge flop when it was released in Spain, but nowadays is a cult classic. The film had troubles with Spanish censorship, that forced to change and cut the original ending.

El pisito

El pisito

Marco Ferreri, Isidoro M. Ferry 1959 1h 27m

Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or "pisito", in Spanish dialect). Unfortunately their low salaries prevent them from acquiring one. Soon, Rodolfo's co-workers urge him to marry the old and frail Doña Martina, who is the main tenant in the apartment he boards in.

L'amore in città

L'amore in città

Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada 1953 1h 55m 6.8

Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.

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