Writing

Cesare Frugoni

Known for

Writing

Credits

33 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Nest of Vipers poster
5.0

A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend Renato, and then with his young colleague, Elena.

Nest of Vipers

1978

The Long Night poster
5.0

Two Milanese girls meet in a toilet where a distracted bourgeois forgets a valuable ring. They take it and go in search of someone to sell it to, helped by a southern taxi driver.

The Long Night

1975

Bambola poster
4.5

Her name is Mina, but she is called Bambola (doll). Upon the death of her mother, she and her homosexual brother, Flavio, open a pizzeria. A man named Ugo loans Bambola the money, but is then killed in a fight with another one of her boyfriends, Settimio. While visiting Settimio in jail, she meets a sadistic man named Furio, and they begin a relationship.

Bambola

1996

Slave of the Cannibal God poster
5.2

A woman and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.

Slave of the Cannibal God

1978

An Ideal Adventure poster
5.0

Patricia, a journalist, is fed up with all the stupid chores and being ridiculed by her colleagues. To show her talent, she challenges her director Eugenio to test her. She will write a good article, but if she fails she will sleep with him.

An Ideal Adventure

1982

Cut and Run poster
5.3

A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.

Cut and Run

1985

Island of the Fishmen poster
5.7

After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really doing, and why the prisoners keep disappearing mysteriously.

Island of the Fishmen

1979

Professione vacanze poster
6.3

Enrico Borghini is an entertainer who finds himself becoming the director of a tourist village in crisis. Helped by the village staff, who are initially hostile to him, he manages to revive the fortunes of the structure.

Professione vacanze

1987

The Family Vice poster
5.3

When Giacomo D'Amato is released from jail he is immediately employed by Magda, in a plot to secure her the heritage of the count. But there are other players in this game too, and Giacomo has his own agenda.

The Family Vice

1975

The Family Vice poster
5.3

When Giacomo D'Amato is released from jail he is immediately employed by Magda, in a plot to secure her the heritage of the count. But there are other players in this game too, and Giacomo has his own agenda.

The Family Vice

1975

Warriors of the Year 2072 poster
5.1

In the future, two television networks compete for ratings by producing violent game shows. One network produces a modern day version of the Roman gladiators, only on motorcycles instead of chariots, and uses convicted murderers as the participants, The network decides it needs a champion for this sport, so they frame a constant winner from another game for murder, and place him on the show.

Warriors of the Year 2072

1984

Viuuulentemente mia poster
5.7

Clumsy public security officer helps an adventurer (Laura Antonelli) to escape from Italy. In order not to undergo a punitive transfer to Barbagia, he goes back on the woman's trail to take her to prison.

Viuuulentemente mia

1982

The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn poster
4.8

Distressed that her wayward husband, Gianni (Alberto Lionello), forsakes her favors and seduces a series of other women, drop-dead gorgeous Gioia (Edwige Fenech) turns to handsome lothario Patrizio (Ray Lovelock) to help her get revenge. Will her enthusiastic affair help Gianni see the error of his ways? Luciano Martino directs this saucy comedy that also stars Aldo Maccione, Alvaro Vitali and Olga Bisera.

The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn

1977

Ritual of Love poster
6.0

This movie is based on the true story that made headlines all over the world: the story of a relationship gone sour between a Japanese man very much in love with a French model. Some time later, it was discovered that the woman was turned into "sushi." At that time the man had already eaten a few body parts. To the arresting officers in Paris, he justified his acts as a proof of profound passion. In the late 80's many books and films find inspiration by the sinister love story.

Ritual of Love

1990

The Great Alligator poster
4.5

Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them.

The Great Alligator

1979

The Spider Labyrinth poster
6.4

A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.

The Spider Labyrinth

1988

The Biggest Battle poster
4.7

A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.

The Biggest Battle

1978

Rabid Dogs poster
7.5

Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway.

Rabid Dogs

1995

I Don't Understand You Anymore poster
6.5

On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is Paolo, Luisa's husband. Alberto offers to help Paolo, but when the two men arrive at his home, Paolo still in his bathrobe, Luisa hugs Alberto and calls him Paolo. The two men try everything they think of to help Luisa regain her memory until the last (but not too unexpected) surprise.

I Don't Understand You Anymore

1980

Days of Inspector Ambrosio poster
6.5

A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house.

Days of Inspector Ambrosio

1988

The Miser poster
6.3

Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.

The Miser

1990

Summer Games poster
4.0

In Porto Rotondo, stories circulate about love and jealousy within a group of young people.

Summer Games

1984

Il ragazzo del Pony Express poster
5.6

A youth who has recently graduated can't find a job. One day he unintentionally snatches a bag from a girl and buys a motorbike with the "proceeds" of the theft. Then he begins to work as a mail express courier. At first the girl denounces him then falls in love with him.

Il ragazzo del Pony Express

1986

Piper poster
4.0

Rome, 1965. The entire city awaits the inauguration of the Piper. While the journalist Roberto Benetti falls in love with Sabrina May, the kept woman of a politician, thus giving up a scoop, the young Mario, leader of the band "I demoni", meets Milena, who has fled from Venice to sing. A fortuitous event will offer the two young people the opportunity to perform in the legendary club.

Piper

2007

Piper poster
4.0

Rome, 1965. The entire city awaits the inauguration of the Piper. While the journalist Roberto Benetti falls in love with Sabrina May, the kept woman of a politician, thus giving up a scoop, the young Mario, leader of the band "I demoni", meets Milena, who has fled from Venice to sing. A fortuitous event will offer the two young people the opportunity to perform in the legendary club.

Piper

2007

Fratelli coltelli poster
5.5

Guelfo is a Florentine noble who has never worked and has no money. On the death of his mother, he believes he can inherit a large fortune, but from the notary he learns that he has an illegitimate brother with whom he will have to share half of his inheritance. His brother is called Felice, he works as a waiter in Bari and goes to Florence with a student friend who is indebted to the usurers. A rivalry without quarter begins between the two brothers.

Fratelli coltelli

1997

Hypochondriac poster
6.1

During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only waiting to see him dead to inherit.

Hypochondriac

1979

Taste of the Sea 2: One Year Later poster
6.0

More summer stories from the beaches of Tuscany.

Taste of the Sea 2: One Year Later

1983

Go to Great poster
6.0

Giorgio, Walter and Dario's dream is to own a boat. Meanwhile, they overcome boredom by inventing an endless series of jokes. Between the three and the rich boys in the area led by Fernando there is a strong rivalry that will become more acute with the arrival of the beautiful Karin, a young German with an ambiguous past.

Go to Great

1983

Sposerò Simon Le Bon poster
4.3

The story of a teenager whose biggest dream is to marry Simon Le Bon, singer of pop band Duran Duran.

Sposerò Simon Le Bon

1986

Chi dice donna, dice donna poster
6.3

Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb and a priestess who gives herself as wife to an emigrant.

Chi dice donna, dice donna

1976

The House of Orchids poster
3.4

Three stories set in a specialist clinic designed to liberate it's patients from society's moralistic taboos.

The House of Orchids

1983

Household Accounts poster
10.0

Period mystery about a young cook who's accused of killing her wealthy husband.

Household Accounts

2003