
Acting
Lino Troisi
Born 1932-05-04 · Maddaloni, Italy
Acting credits
4.8A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel.
Honey
1981
6.1A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.
Tony Arzenta
1973
7.5The son of a Sardinian shepherd, Sebastiano Catte is a gentle and studious young man. At his mother’s urging, who dreams of seeing him become a doctor or a lawyer, he left his village to attend boarding school. In 1950, he suddenly returns home following the murder of his father.
Disamistade
1988
7.1Young Franco is imprisoned for murder and rises to become the feared and powerful 'Professor', taking control of Naples' underworld from behind bars.
The Professor
1986
5.3In Milan, a father lost his daughter and hires Domingo, the neighborhood Ras, to find her.
The Boss of the District
1983
6.9In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade.
One Hundred Days in Palermo
1984
7.0De Filippo 's tragedy of a politician presiding over criminal activities in Naples has been transferred to East Chicago.
The Mayor
1997
An off-beat story where a pair of adulterers stir up some action including murder and mayhem.
Storia senza parole
1981
7.6Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people.
I'm Starting from Three
1981
6.6Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's socialist politics and the activities of his father, a well known liberal social reformer, than the actual crime itself.
The Murri Affair
1974
NRThe Robert E. Sherwood play 'The Petrified Forest' directed by Franco Enriquez broadcast by Italian state television channel RAI on 19 June, 1959.
La foresta pietrificata
1959
5.4Luca Altieri is a gambler. He likes cards and he is a master in playing poker. He is a cardsharper too. He begins working for "The President", who has many gambling houses and everything seems to go well until Luca falls for Maria Luisa. Unfortunately for them, she is the girl of Corrado, the son of "The President"...
Gambling City
1975
7.8The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members.
Day by Day, Desperately
1961
6.5In this costume epic, the last days of Julius Caesar are chronicled.
Rome Wants Another Caesar
1974
5.0An adaptation of the Aeschylus play.
The Persians
1975
7.0No synopsis available yet.
La sconfitta di Trotsky
1967
3.3A small town has its placid waters rocked when a 120-piece orchestra is slated to visit on a regular basis to offer special concerts to the community and its environs. The honor of conducting the orchestra seems like it will fall to Francesco (Michele Placido), the community's most well-established music teacher, and to insure his success, his ambitious wife starts sleeping with one of the organizers of the future concerts. Meanwhile, a disgruntled member of the organizing committee decides to muddy the waters by suggesting that another conductor (Andrea, a friend of Francesco's) be hired. Andrea is also a native son who went to the big city to find conducting work but ended up doing television jobs instead. When he receives the call about the prestigious job opportunity, he enthusiastically goes to the town but his wife refuses to join him.
Chopin
1982
4.4On a hot summer night, Raffaele, the elderly manager of a Neapolitan counter-lot, is brutally strangled in his own accommodation.
Ternosecco
1987
NRThe last days of humanity by Karl Kraus, a mammoth drama - almost 800 pages in the Adelphi edition - staged by Luca Ronconi in the Lingotto in Turin, broadcast by Rai
The Last Days of Humanity
1991
3.7Amos, a watchmaker, loses his wife due to post-surgery complications. Destroyed by grief, he joins old friends Karl and Maner, former revolutionaries, to kidnap Prime Minister Ullmann, once their companion, to extort money from the state.
Bandits
1995