Acting
Renzo Arbore
Born
1937-06-24 (89)
Place of birth
Foggia, Puglia, Italy
Known for
Acting
Credits
55 titles
Known for
6.3Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
Father Matteo
2000
7.9Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.
Ciao Darwin
1998
9.1Alberto Angela takes us on a new journey, this time to discover Italy's "Wonders," those that make us a true "peninsula of treasures." Four episodes, twelve stops on an itinerary of art and natural beauty in UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Wonders - The Peninsula of Treasures
2018
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Indietro tutta!
1987
6.0Macho Callaghan is a lieutenant in the Federal Guards and his job is to capture Butch Cassidy, Ironhead, and their band of outlaws. Getting in touch with Ironhead, Macho finds a way of being hired by the outlaws. But when the two leaders quarrel and decide to separate, Macho manages to convince Ironhead to attack Butch Cassidy.
Adios Compañeros
1971
NRNo synopsis available yet.
TV Story Superstar
2020
Film credits
2020s · 11 titles
7.1No synopsis available yet.
Lino D’Italia - Storia di un itALIENO
2026
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Gabriella
2024
7.4Documentary about the film and theater career of the roman actor, Gigi Proietti, who passed away on 2 November 2020
Luigi Proietti detto Gigi
2022
8.3An account of the life and artistic career of Raffaella Carrà (1943-2021), Italian pop star and television personality, told through the voices of those who knew her best.
Raffa
2023
7.2Documentary follows the life and work of Italian singer and composer Paolo Conte.
Paolo Conte, Come Away with Me
2020
6.8An untold tale of the legendary artistic career and the talents of a performer and author capable of narrating the human comedy of 20th-century Italians like no other.
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
2020
7.2The life and artistic journey of Neapolitan actor Massimo Troisi.
Il mio amico Massimo
2022
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Mostruosamente Villaggio
2024
No synopsis available yet.
Lili Marlene - La guerra degli italiani
2020
7.3No synopsis available yet.
Buon compleanno Massimo
2023
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Piper Generation
2022
2010s · 14 titles
7.5The singer-songwriter Lucio Dalla seen through the eyes of the person closest to him in the last twenty years: Marco Alemanno. The tale of how they met and how he grew on a human, professional, and artistic level standing by Dalla’s side. And much more: daily and deeper aspects of his life, his love for Southern Italy, his passion for cinema, his relationship with music, his bulimic curiosity of launching himself into new artistic adventures, his mercurial energy and his boundless sense of humor.
Senza Lucio
2015
7.5Tracing the journey of a free thinker, engineer, writer, scriptwriter, actor and director through his life and work, Così Parlo De Crescenzo harnesses the energy of a man determined to transform the lives and culture of those around him. Born in Naples, Luciano De Crescenzo graduated in engineering and worked as a programmer for IBM until 1976, when he escaped the routine of his 'corporate prison' and published his first book.
Thus Spoke De Crescenzo
2017
6.5No synopsis available yet.
Vinilici - Perché il vinile ama la musica
2018
NRVinylholic - because vinyl loves the music inquires into the renewed interest around music on vinyl in Italy. Vinyls don't appear to be just a thing for collectors anymore, but they are bought by a new array of enthusiasts of various age.
Vinylholic: Because Vinyl Loves Music
2018
7.7The docufilm tells the story of Paolo Villaggio's genius through the most iconic Italian character, accountant Ugo Fantozzi. The work was featured in the Classics section of the 74th Venice International Film Festival.
La voce di Fantozzi
2017
8.2This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian screen icon who began his illustrious career as a serious dramatic stage actor before going on to subvert that image in classic works of commedia all’italiana by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Dino Risi (Il Sorpasso), and Ettore Scola (We All Loved Each Other So Much). Through a wealth of interviews, film clips, and archival footage, Sono Gassman! reveals how Gassman’s comedic screen persona cannily reflected and critiqued mid-20th-century Italian society, while shedding light on the complex inner life of the man himself.
Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
2018
5.0No synopsis available yet.
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
2010
5.0No synopsis available yet.
30 anni di SuperQuark - un viaggio sorprendente
2011
NRA passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"
C'era una volta il prossimamente
2014
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Pino Daniele - Il tempo resterà
2017
6.0No synopsis available yet.
Playback - Il caso Malien
2016
4.0Mokumentary. Year 2020, Nicolino Amore becomes the new mayor of Naples and begins a war on garbage and organized crime. In this way, Naples will soon be the cleanest and safest city on earth.
L'era legale
2011
NRA documentary about Squallor, Italy's first and most successful "ghost band" project, created by four big bosses of 70's-80's Italian music business.
Gli Squallor
2012
NRBURLESQUE EXTRAVAGANZA is a travel diary, a road movie into Burlesque world made by Grace Hall, during her tournée between Europe and USA .The movie shows an undraped backstage and the real "behind the scene" of creating an act.This project also focuses on the stereotypes about women and on the modern world vision of women and sexuality. Burlesque is a real therapy who increases confidence and helps you to love yourself.
Burlesque Extravaganza
2017
2000s · 3 titles
7.0Created by his son Leonardo, this portrait of Adolfo Celi reconstructs his personal and artistic journey between Italy and Brazil. Through interviews, film clips, testimonials, photos, and extraordinary footage from the Celi family's personal archive, we will revisit the places that shaped his life.
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006
6.0Documentary exploring the formidable life and career of Italian film star Sophia Loren. With interviews with the actress herself, as well as thoughts from colleagues and admirers, including Woody Allen.
Sophia: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
2007
4.6No synopsis available yet.
Focaccia Blues
2009
1980s · 6 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Quasi quasi mi sposo
1982
6.8The fake report about Troisi's death, with the direction of Troisi himself with Lello Arena and Anna Pavignano. A long of list people greet the comediam, from Gianni Boncompagni to Maria Giovanna Elmi. There is also Benigni, hidden behind a window, and Arena, his guardian angel.
Morto Troisi, viva Troisi!
1982
6.6The Pope is disturbed by the fact that today's youth are not as spiritually inclined as they should be, and so he decides to set up a Vatican television station and entice them back into the religion of their ancestors. In order to particularly grab the wandering flock, a priest invites the comedians from "The Other Sunday," an actual comedy program on Italian television, to perform on this new channel.
In the Pope's Eye
1980
6.6Based on a supposed screenplay by Fellini that fell out of a window, Arbore tells the southern story of a shaggy-haired Neapolitan girl, a toilet attendant, who arrives in the foggy north to become a singer, and whom he becomes her boorish manager.
FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?'
1983
5.0Some of the cult protagonists of the television program "L'altra domenica" (The Other Sunday) delight in gags and skits in the name of fun. The film includes all the jokes, monologues, and gags that were cut from the previous film for runtime reasons.
Il resto del Pap'occhio
1980
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Odore di pioggia
1989
1970s · 2 titles
6.0Macho Callaghan is a lieutenant in the Federal Guards and his job is to capture Butch Cassidy, Ironhead, and their band of outlaws. Getting in touch with Ironhead, Macho finds a way of being hired by the outlaws. But when the two leaders quarrel and decide to separate, Macho manages to convince Ironhead to attack Butch Cassidy.
Adios Compañeros
1971
5.6There's a frontier feud on the border of Mexico, where outlaw Hagen's brothers have been killed by Nevada Kid's family.
Coffin Full of Dollars
1971
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
6.3Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
Father Matteo
2000
7.9Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.
Ciao Darwin
1998
9.1Alberto Angela takes us on a new journey, this time to discover Italy's "Wonders," those that make us a true "peninsula of treasures." Four episodes, twelve stops on an itinerary of art and natural beauty in UNESCO World Heritage sites.
Wonders - The Peninsula of Treasures
2018
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Indietro tutta!
1987
NRNo synopsis available yet.
TV Story Superstar
2020
9.5No synopsis available yet.
Quelli della notte
1985
NRAn ironic and comic trial, in five episodes, of the history of the Sanremo Festival, demystifying the most solemn musical event on Italian television. The "judge" Renzo Arbore presides, together with "Prosecutor" Michele Mirabella and "Defense attorney" Lino Banfi.
The Sanremo Case
1990
No synopsis available yet.
Lampadino e Caramella nel MagiRegno degli Zampa
2020
No synopsis available yet.
Stiamo lavorando per noi
2007
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Telepatria international ovvero niente paura siamo italiani
1981
7.4Gigi Proietti's return to television with a show all his own that will see him perform his best bits, confront himself with unpublished repertoires linked to contemporaneity, duet with many friends and colleagues from the world of entertainment, television, cinema and music who in turn will perform their "warhorses"
Best Bits
2017
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Quelli della notte - Il meglio di
1985
Behind the camera
6.6The Pope is disturbed by the fact that today's youth are not as spiritually inclined as they should be, and so he decides to set up a Vatican television station and entice them back into the religion of their ancestors. In order to particularly grab the wandering flock, a priest invites the comedians from "The Other Sunday," an actual comedy program on Italian television, to perform on this new channel.
In the Pope's Eye
1980
6.6The Pope is disturbed by the fact that today's youth are not as spiritually inclined as they should be, and so he decides to set up a Vatican television station and entice them back into the religion of their ancestors. In order to particularly grab the wandering flock, a priest invites the comedians from "The Other Sunday," an actual comedy program on Italian television, to perform on this new channel.
In the Pope's Eye
1980
6.6Based on a supposed screenplay by Fellini that fell out of a window, Arbore tells the southern story of a shaggy-haired Neapolitan girl, a toilet attendant, who arrives in the foggy north to become a singer, and whom he becomes her boorish manager.
FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?'
1983
6.6Based on a supposed screenplay by Fellini that fell out of a window, Arbore tells the southern story of a shaggy-haired Neapolitan girl, a toilet attendant, who arrives in the foggy north to become a singer, and whom he becomes her boorish manager.
FF.SS. cioè '...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?'
1983
5.0Some of the cult protagonists of the television program "L'altra domenica" (The Other Sunday) delight in gags and skits in the name of fun. The film includes all the jokes, monologues, and gags that were cut from the previous film for runtime reasons.
Il resto del Pap'occhio
1980
5.0Some of the cult protagonists of the television program "L'altra domenica" (The Other Sunday) delight in gags and skits in the name of fun. The film includes all the jokes, monologues, and gags that were cut from the previous film for runtime reasons.
Il resto del Pap'occhio
1980