Piero Vivarelli

Writing

Piero Vivarelli

Born — Died

1927-02-26 — 2010-09-07

Place of birth

Siena, Italy

Known for

Writing

Credits

44 titles

Piero Vivarelli (1927–2010) was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his work in various genres, including musicarelli (musical comedies), westerns, and erotic films. He directed Satanik (1968), based on the Italian comic series, and The Black Decameron (1972), exploring African folklore. Vivarelli's films often featured contemporary music and bold themes, reflecting the cultural shifts of his time.

Known for

Summer Temptations poster
5.4

Young widow Vanessa lives with stepdaughters Kikki and Vivi on island villa. She invites former lover Roberto, now professor, to tutor girls. Tensions arise between Vanessa, stepdaughters, and Roberto in isolated luxury setting.

Summer Temptations

1988

Rita the American Girl poster
5.6

Professor Serafino Benvenuti is a master of classical music who has the passion of the orchestra director. However, the young audience of the 60 does not appreciate classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven, and so Serafino is likely to have compromised his image as a director. One day Serafino receives the news that his adopted daughter Rita is about to return to Italy from America, where she is studying. Serafino is very happy, because at least he can teach her the real music. However, Rita is deeply grown and changed: she follows the musical patterns of her time: the rock music and blues. Serafino gets very angry, especially when he discovers that his daughter falls in love with a young man, a member of a band called "The Rockets.

Rita the American Girl

1965

Robbery Roman Style poster
7.2

After scoring big in a high-profile bank robbery, a gang of Milanese criminals has to hide in a monastery.

Robbery Roman Style

1964

Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil poster
5.4

A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.

Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil

1986

Satanik poster
4.1

A youth potion transforms an old crone into a ravishing beauty. Unfortunately, her new-found gorgeousness forces the heroine to form a pact with the Devil.

Satanik

1968

State buoni se potete poster
6.9

Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel.

State buoni se potete

1983

Film credits

Behind the camera

Summer Temptations poster
5.4

Young widow Vanessa lives with stepdaughters Kikki and Vivi on island villa. She invites former lover Roberto, now professor, to tutor girls. Tensions arise between Vanessa, stepdaughters, and Roberto in isolated luxury setting.

Summer Temptations

1988

Summer Temptations poster
5.4

Young widow Vanessa lives with stepdaughters Kikki and Vivi on island villa. She invites former lover Roberto, now professor, to tutor girls. Tensions arise between Vanessa, stepdaughters, and Roberto in isolated luxury setting.

Summer Temptations

1988

Rita the American Girl poster
5.6

Professor Serafino Benvenuti is a master of classical music who has the passion of the orchestra director. However, the young audience of the 60 does not appreciate classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven, and so Serafino is likely to have compromised his image as a director. One day Serafino receives the news that his adopted daughter Rita is about to return to Italy from America, where she is studying. Serafino is very happy, because at least he can teach her the real music. However, Rita is deeply grown and changed: she follows the musical patterns of her time: the rock music and blues. Serafino gets very angry, especially when he discovers that his daughter falls in love with a young man, a member of a band called "The Rockets.

Rita the American Girl

1965

Robbery Roman Style poster
7.2

After scoring big in a high-profile bank robbery, a gang of Milanese criminals has to hide in a monastery.

Robbery Roman Style

1964

Robbery Roman Style poster
7.2

After scoring big in a high-profile bank robbery, a gang of Milanese criminals has to hide in a monastery.

Robbery Roman Style

1964

Satanik poster
4.1

A youth potion transforms an old crone into a ravishing beauty. Unfortunately, her new-found gorgeousness forces the heroine to form a pact with the Devil.

Satanik

1968

Satanik poster
4.1

A youth potion transforms an old crone into a ravishing beauty. Unfortunately, her new-found gorgeousness forces the heroine to form a pact with the Devil.

Satanik

1968

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer poster
6.5

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer

1984

I Kiss... You Kiss poster
4.8

Adolfo Cocchi has a building firm but his plan to build a set of buildings is been stopped by an old former Garibaldian, Don Leopoldo, who refuses to sell his property. A group of young people go to his house to play and sing. Marcella, Cocchi's daughter, who has a beautiful voice, goes to visit Leopoldo and falls in love with Paolo. They have an idea: open a night-club called "Io bacio... tu baci"...

I Kiss... You Kiss

1961

I Kiss... You Kiss poster
4.8

Adolfo Cocchi has a building firm but his plan to build a set of buildings is been stopped by an old former Garibaldian, Don Leopoldo, who refuses to sell his property. A group of young people go to his house to play and sing. Marcella, Cocchi's daughter, who has a beautiful voice, goes to visit Leopoldo and falls in love with Paolo. They have an idea: open a night-club called "Io bacio... tu baci"...

I Kiss... You Kiss

1961

The Jukebox Kids poster
5.8

When a promising record company president is arrested, his daughter takes over his company to promote her own rock and roll music by promoting various young singers.

The Jukebox Kids

1959

Howlers of the Dock poster
5.1

Follows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire jiving from some of Rome's citizens, and bitter complants from others which inspire a group of corrupt officials determined to a bring the group down.

Howlers of the Dock

1960

Viva la rivista! poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Viva la rivista!

1953

Viva il cinema poster
6.5

Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen.

Viva il cinema

1953

The Wanderers poster
10.0

Story of a family of wandering puppet makers and the destiny which rules their fate.

The Wanderers

1956

The Snake God poster
4.4

A beautiful Italian woman is told by her black friend about the Carribean love god Jambaya who appears in the form of the snake. By the end of the movie, Cassini has decided to give herself to Jambaya while Cunningham departs with her white friend's ex-lover, establishing a neat symmetry between their respective fantasies of exoticism.

The Snake God

1970

The Snake God poster
4.4

A beautiful Italian woman is told by her black friend about the Carribean love god Jambaya who appears in the form of the snake. By the end of the movie, Cassini has decided to give herself to Jambaya while Cunningham departs with her white friend's ex-lover, establishing a neat symmetry between their respective fantasies of exoticism.

The Snake God

1970

Un momento muy largo poster
8.0

The romance between a nuclear physicist and a translator for the United Nations.

Un momento muy largo

1964

Un momento muy largo poster
8.0

The romance between a nuclear physicist and a translator for the United Nations.

Un momento muy largo

1964

Cavalier in Devil's Castle poster
9.0

A mysterious horseman, called the Dark Knight, sets himself up as a masked vigilante and decides to free the duchet of Valgrado from the grip of a terrible tyrant.

Cavalier in Devil's Castle

1959

Sanremo - La grande sfida poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sanremo - La grande sfida

1960

Sanremo - La grande sfida poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sanremo - La grande sfida

1960

Codice d'amore orientale poster
4.0

The master, telling a lot of love or erotic oriental tales, teaches the secrets of the most natural, complete and satisfactory copulation.

Codice d'amore orientale

1974

Codice d'amore orientale poster
4.0

The master, telling a lot of love or erotic oriental tales, teaches the secrets of the most natural, complete and satisfactory copulation.

Codice d'amore orientale

1974

Supreme Confession poster
8.0

The wife of a conductor with a stormy past agrees to meet a blackmailer in a small hotel.

Supreme Confession

1956

The Black Decameron poster
4.0

Five unrelated tales: (1) "The Ravishing Queen" / "La Reina Bella", in which the queen choses a king by devious endurance tests of the pretendants; (2) "The Punished Lovers", in which a fake blind husband is 'cured' after having the culprits banished from the tribe; (3) "The Old Prostitute" who manages to take revenge from all the village dignitaries who wrongfully condemned her brother; (4) "The Endless Search" that does not end until a hunter finds his perfect end-game; (5) "The Crazy Woman" whose illness was not exactly of the mind, but of an (almost) insatiable lust.

The Black Decameron

1972

The Black Decameron poster
4.0

Five unrelated tales: (1) "The Ravishing Queen" / "La Reina Bella", in which the queen choses a king by devious endurance tests of the pretendants; (2) "The Punished Lovers", in which a fake blind husband is 'cured' after having the culprits banished from the tribe; (3) "The Old Prostitute" who manages to take revenge from all the village dignitaries who wrongfully condemned her brother; (4) "The Endless Search" that does not end until a hunter finds his perfect end-game; (5) "The Crazy Woman" whose illness was not exactly of the mind, but of an (almost) insatiable lust.

The Black Decameron

1972

Nella misura in cui... poster
10.0

A left-wing intellectual of middle age, with a past in the Italian Social Republic , after the end of the second marriage with a black woman, falls in love with a very young, girlfriend of his son, and with her he flees to the Caribbean. Once the vacation is over, love also ends. In some ways the film is an autobiography of the director.

Nella misura in cui...

1979

Nella misura in cui... poster
10.0

A left-wing intellectual of middle age, with a past in the Italian Social Republic , after the end of the second marriage with a black woman, falls in love with a very young, girlfriend of his son, and with her he flees to the Caribbean. Once the vacation is over, love also ends. In some ways the film is an autobiography of the director.

Nella misura in cui...

1979

Caravan of songs poster
8.0

In a luxury hotel in Miramare, a competition is organized between pop music singers. Famous celebrities and famous singers are invited.

Caravan of songs

1955

Sabatoventiquattromarzo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sabatoventiquattromarzo

1984

Avenger X poster
5.6

A retired ex-criminal, the notorious Mister X, must clear his name when an up-and-comer commits a heinous copycat crime.

Avenger X

1967

La rumbera poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La rumbera

1998

La rumbera poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

La rumbera

1998

Gioventù disperata poster
7.0

A doctor whose wife has been accidentally killed by a young man who lives in an impoverished zone of Madrid, goes there with the intention of taking revenge, but after meeting the man's little sister, he goes through a change of heart and decides to stay and help the people that live there, supported by the benevolent local priest.

Gioventù disperata

1957

East Zone, West Zone poster
8.0

Defeated Germany has just been divided into two zones ( Soviet and Allied ) when Hans, a young inhabitant of Berlin, decides to cross the demarcation line to join his family.

East Zone, West Zone

1962

East Zone, West Zone poster
8.0

Defeated Germany has just been divided into two zones ( Soviet and Allied ) when Hans, a young inhabitant of Berlin, decides to cross the demarcation line to join his family.

East Zone, West Zone

1962