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Ugo Pirro (April 20, 1920 – January 18, 2008) was an Italian screenwriter and novelist. His screenplays include films Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion and The Garden of the Fizi-Continis, which both won Academy Awards as Best Foreign Film.
Total trailers found: 56
03 October 1973
A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business unscrupulously.
30 November 1960
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.
23 February 1974
In Naples at the end of the 19th century, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, when he seeks the reason that people are reluctant to help him in his goals, he discovers that some of his blood relations are high-ranking members of the Mafia.
10 November 1951
During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of weapons.
01 January 1960
A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.
26 January 1996
June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .
01 January 1970
After a wave of arrests in 1969, Italian anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli allegedly falls out of a police building window while being interrogated.
17 July 1965
In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.
15 March 1960
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
11 August 1976
In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her brothers-in-law to prevent their father's remarriage, securing her inheritance.
12 April 1996
Set during the second world war, the sentimental education of a sensual adolescent girl, growing out of her childhood in a small, impoverished village in Southern Italy.
16 October 1970
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
01 January 1973
Based on Mikhail Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic peasant and the tyrannical landowner who killed his mother and father.
24 February 1967
A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.
04 February 1972
Roma.During a clash between demonstrating laborers (whose fight the students have joined) a policeman and a student are both killed.
13 March 1975
The Milanese nudist professor Paolo Barca moved to the province of Catania; there he will succeed in changing something both in the school and in his character.
28 September 1979
Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man.
21 February 1976
Elisabetta is a fishmonger with petty-bourgeois aspirations who cohabits with Luiso Malerba, an anarchist.
10 March 1970
The story of a young man of the working class, who has grown up practically an orphan due to his father’s repeated jailings for anarchistic activism.
17 February 1968
Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier.
25 November 1966
The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.
03 July 1973
The headquarters of the Marshal Tito's Liberation Army are surrounded by Axis forces. The Partisans have no choice but to fight their way out of the encirclement and face the enemy on the plains of Sutjeska.
30 September 1962
World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American soldier is imprisoned by the enemy.
04 December 1970
In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa.
06 June 1974
Two factory workers living in Northern Italy form a romantic connection. The woman, torn between the freedoms of the North and her traditional Sicilian values, slowly allows herself to love.
31 August 1967
A film documentarian stops at nothing to record unusual and supposedly true-to-life situations.
17 September 1971
After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.
11 December 1959
Cerasella escapes just before her marriage with Alfredo and meets Bruno, the son of a wealthy industrialist.
29 January 1969
Sicily, 1865. Two peasants, Gramigna and his father are tricked by Baron Nardò and robbed of their field, which then the baron lets to Assunta, her daughter Gemma and her fiancé Ramarro.
18 September 1953
A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently.
07 October 1969
In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia.
12 January 2004
Indagine su un cittadino di nome Volonté is a documentary exploring the life and career of Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté.
28 October 1976
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
02 March 1963
This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her husband by fanatics of her father.
17 November 1994
The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic.
06 April 1966
A petty hoodlum pulls jewellery store heists in broad daylight. The cop on his tail knows he has accomplices and focuses on the gangster's girl friend is his attempt to catch him.
05 July 1979
Despite the ongoing WW2, most of the people were just minding their own business. But everything changes when police arrests the group of youths under suspicion of being resistance sympathizers.
01 April 1993
A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.
23 September 1977
Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries.
11 September 1987
Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who understands his ambitions.
08 February 1957
Two young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful Teresa is the center of attention.
03 September 2005
A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.
01 January 1990
In Villa San Giovanni, a young couple, in the midst of a marital crisis, live in total mutual contempt.
14 March 1968
Christina Fisher arrives in Sardinia to spend a holiday with her university friend, Francesco. As they are touring the island, they are trapped by mountain terrorists.
26 May 1976
A quartet of young neo-Fascists terrorise the Milanise locals while the Police mostly look the other way.
23 October 1970
The film examines the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell from the fourth floor of the police headquarters in Milan December 15, 1969, after being stopped following the Piazza Fontana bombing.
05 October 1974
A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases.
21 March 1957
Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried thath
10 March 1962
A roving Roman's weekend becomes a nightmare of traffic mix-ups, marital mix-ups and hilarious make-ups.
23 June 1958
Salvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he never met.
08 June 1961
Biography of the comic poet Carlo Goldoni (1707-1793).
08 November 1978
Mystery thriller, based on a novel by G. J. Arnaud.
