Piero Vivarelli

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Piero Vivarelli

Born 1927-02-26 · Siena, Italy

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.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Summer Temptations poster
5.6

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
5.6

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

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

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

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

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

Robbery Roman Style poster
7.3

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
7.3

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

Robbery Roman Style

1964

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Wanderers poster
10.0

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

The Wanderers

1956

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

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