Francesco Rosi — Director (5)
The Swindlers (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
I magliari
director: Francesco Rosi actor: Alberto Sordi / Belinda Lee
other title: I magliari / Auf St. Pauli ist der Teufel los
Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Cronaca di una morte annunciata
director: Francesco Rosi actor: Rupert Everett / Ornella Muti
other title: Cronaca di una morte annunciata / Crônica de Uma Morte Anunciada
This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.
The Palermo Connection (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Dimenticare Palermo
director: Francesco Rosi actor: Jim Belushi / Mimi Rogers
other title: Dimenticare Palermo / Palermo vergessen
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.
More Than a Miracle (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
C'era una volta
director: Francesco Rosi actor: Sophia Loren / Omar Sharif
other title: C'era una volta... / Schöne Isabella
A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, when she meets the ill- tempered Spanish Prince Rodrigo Ferrante y Davalos. The King of Spain has ordered Rodrigo to choose a wife among seven Italian Princesses, but he is smitten by the lowly peasant.