Ennio De Concini — Playwright (52)
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Weekend, Italian Style (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
L'Ombrellone
director: Dino Risi actor: Enrico Maria Salerno / Sandra Milo …
other title: L'Ombrellone / Play-Boy Party …
Manager Marletti goes to the sea to meet his wife Giuliana to spend the weekend with her and many friends. After three days Marletti comes back driving his car to Rome. So he can sleep, alone and happy, with silence around him.
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The Dolphins (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
I delfini
director: Francesco Maselli actor: Claudia Cardinale / Gérard Blain …
other title: I delfini / Gefährliche Nächte …
An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city.
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The Railroad Man (1956) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Il ferroviere
director: Pietro Germi actor: Pietro Germi / Luisa Della Noce …
other title: Il ferroviere / O Ferroviário …
Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes. A check up by a doctor reveals that he's at the brink of becoming an alcoholic. Due to this evaluation he is degraded and must accept a salary cut.
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Vendetta: Secrets of a Mafia Bride (1991) [TV] TMDB IMDb
Vendetta: Secrets of a Mafia Bride
director: Stuart Margolin actor: Eric Roberts / Carol Alt …
other title: Eine Frau von Ehre
A girl's father is accidentally murdered during a botched mob hit. The don feels guilty and decides to take care of the girl. She grows up and falls in love with one of his goons. What she doesn't know yet is that he shot her dad.
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The She-Wolf (1953) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
La lupa
director: Alberto Lattuada actor: Kerima / Ettore Manni …
other title: La lupa / La Louve de Calabre …
A woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young soldier. Mother sacrifices herself for Maricchia's marriage, but ultimately falls to her own passion, leading to family disruption.
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Duel of Champions (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Orazi e Curiazi
director: Terence Young / Ferdinando Baldi actor: Alan Ladd / Franca Bettoia …
other title: Orazi e Curiazi / Die verlorene Legion …
A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is agreed on how to settle the war. Three valiant brothers are chosen from each side to fight one last fierce and bloody duel...
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The Giants of Thessaly (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
I giganti della Tessaglia
director: Riccardo Freda actor: Roland Carey / Ziva Rodann …
other title: I giganti della Tessaglia - Gli Argonauti / Das Schwert des roten Giganten …
In order to placate the angry gods, who have allowed Thessaly to be overrun with barbarian invaders and beset with natural disasters, King Jason takes his Argonauts on a search for the fabled Golden Fleece. Meanwhile, back at home, his scheming regent is plotting to get his hands on the kingdom--and the queen.
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The Dark Sun (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Il sole buio
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Michael Paré / Jo Champa …
other title: Il sole buio
After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to participate in various crimes commited by the mafia.
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Long Live Robin Hood (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
L'arciere di fuoco
director: Giorgio Ferroni actor: Giuliano Gemma / Mark Damon …
other title: L'arciere di fuoco / O Archeiro de Fogo …
John Lackland seizes the English throne, believing the rightful ruler, his brother Richard the Lionheart, to be dead. When he learns that Richard is being held captive by the German emperor and can be ransomed for a large sum of money, he refuses to pay and orders the messengers, including Sir Henry of Nottingham, to be killed. Sir Henry escapes to Sherwood Forest, which belongs to his estates. There he joins forces with a group of Anglo-Saxons and fights under the name Robin Hood against the regime of the king's traitors...
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Messalina (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Messalina Venere imperatrice
director: Vittorio Cottafavi actor: Belinda Lee / Spiros Focás …
other title: Messalina Venere imperatrice / Messaline …
Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.
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Battle of the Worlds (1961) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Il pianeta degli uomini spenti
director: Antonio Margheriti actor: Claude Rains / Bill Carter …
other title: Il pianeta degli uomini spenti / La Planète des hommes perdus …
A stray planet on a collision course with Earth instead takes orbit around our blue marble. What seems like a dead planet suddenly launches a fleet of flying saucers which attack our space fleets.
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Madame (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Madame Sans-Gêne
director: Christian-Jaque actor: Sophia Loren / Robert Hossein …
other title: Ungezähmte Catherine / Madame Sans-Gêne …
Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.
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The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal (1985) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Le due vite di Mattia Pascal
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Senta Berger …
other title: Le due vite di Mattia Pascal / Die zwei Leben des Mattia Pascal …
Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pascal is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancée, scorned by his associates, and cheated out of his inheritance by contemptuous relatives. The dispirited Pascal heads to Monte Carlo, accruing a fortune and also assuming the identity of a less fortunate gambler who killed himself. The "new" Pascal is treated with a dignity and respect that overwhelms him--and nearly kills him.