Giuseppe Ferrara

Directing

Giuseppe Ferrara

Born — Died

1932-07-15 — 2016-06-25

Place of birth

Castelfiorentino, Tuscany, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

41 titles

Giuseppe Ferrara (15 July 1932 – 25 June 2016) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Description above from the Wikipedia article Giuseppe Ferrara, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

One Hundred Days in Palermo poster
6.9

In 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

C.I.A. Secret Story poster
6.3

Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points out some of the more brutal aspects of the intelligence community from around the world. Wars are started, all facets of everyday life are controlled, innocent people are tortured needlessly and subjected to extreme violence.

C.I.A. Secret Story

1975

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair poster
6.3

A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair

2002

The Moro Affair poster
6.6

On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual account of what happened in between.

The Moro Affair

1986

Son tornate a fiorire le rose poster
5.8

The birth of a nephew upsets the life of Paolo and Carlo who, unable to grow old, try to prove that they are lively.

Son tornate a fiorire le rose

1975

Giovanni Falcone poster
7.2

The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles.

Giovanni Falcone

1993

Film credits

Behind the camera

One Hundred Days in Palermo poster
6.9

In 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

One Hundred Days in Palermo poster
6.9

In 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

C.I.A. Secret Story poster
6.3

Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points out some of the more brutal aspects of the intelligence community from around the world. Wars are started, all facets of everyday life are controlled, innocent people are tortured needlessly and subjected to extreme violence.

C.I.A. Secret Story

1975

C.I.A. Secret Story poster
6.3

Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points out some of the more brutal aspects of the intelligence community from around the world. Wars are started, all facets of everyday life are controlled, innocent people are tortured needlessly and subjected to extreme violence.

C.I.A. Secret Story

1975

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair poster
6.3

A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair

2002

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair poster
6.3

A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.

The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair

2002

The Moro Affair poster
6.6

On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual account of what happened in between.

The Moro Affair

1986

The Moro Affair poster
6.6

On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual account of what happened in between.

The Moro Affair

1986

Giovanni Falcone poster
7.2

The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles.

Giovanni Falcone

1993

Giovanni Falcone poster
7.2

The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles.

Giovanni Falcone

1993

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NR

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Il mercato dei posti letto

1962

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NR

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Il mercato dei posti letto

1962

No artwork available
NR

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Il mercato dei posti letto

1962

Guido, Who Challenged the Red Brigades poster
7.5

Genoa, Italy, 24th of January 1979. Red Brigades' member Roberto Dura is waiting with two other comrades for trade unionist leader and factory worker Guido Rossa to leave his home to go to work. Three months earlier, Rossa had denounced a work colleague, Francesco Berardi, because he was distributing Red Brigade flyers inside the factory. Berardi was arrested and, after a fast tracked trial, was convicted to four and a half years. ....

Guido, Who Challenged the Red Brigades

2007

Guido, Who Challenged the Red Brigades poster
7.5

Genoa, Italy, 24th of January 1979. Red Brigades' member Roberto Dura is waiting with two other comrades for trade unionist leader and factory worker Guido Rossa to leave his home to go to work. Three months earlier, Rossa had denounced a work colleague, Francesco Berardi, because he was distributing Red Brigade flyers inside the factory. Berardi was arrested and, after a fast tracked trial, was convicted to four and a half years. ....

Guido, Who Challenged the Red Brigades

2007

Guido, Who Challenged the Red Brigades poster
7.5

Genoa, Italy, 24th of January 1979. Red Brigades' member Roberto Dura is waiting with two other comrades for trade unionist leader and factory worker Guido Rossa to leave his home to go to work. Three months earlier, Rossa had denounced a work colleague, Francesco Berardi, because he was distributing Red Brigade flyers inside the factory. Berardi was arrested and, after a fast tracked trial, was convicted to four and a half years. ....

Guido, Who Challenged the Red Brigades

2007

I misteri di Roma poster
7.0

A day in Rome viewed by sixteen different directors under the supervision of the great screenwriter Cesare Zavattini.

I misteri di Roma

1963

All Human Rights for All poster
NR

Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration.

All Human Rights for All

2008

Segreto di Stato poster
7.5

A bomb blows up in Milan and five people die. After only three hours Ravida, the chief of the Secret Service, knows the name of the killer and that of his chief.

Segreto di Stato

1995

Il sasso in bocca poster
7.0

The "stone in the mouth" is the scar that the mafia makes on betrayal's corpse. The modern mafia has the historical and sociological roots into the birth of the american capitalism at the time of Roosevelt. The American "Cosa Nostra" applies the similar methods as the sicilian mafia: same apparatus, same "omertà", same power and same terror. Giuseppe Ferrara, journalist and writer, uses fragments footage, film clips, and current news to make this film.

Il sasso in bocca

1970

Il sasso in bocca poster
7.0

The "stone in the mouth" is the scar that the mafia makes on betrayal's corpse. The modern mafia has the historical and sociological roots into the birth of the american capitalism at the time of Roosevelt. The American "Cosa Nostra" applies the similar methods as the sicilian mafia: same apparatus, same "omertà", same power and same terror. Giuseppe Ferrara, journalist and writer, uses fragments footage, film clips, and current news to make this film.

Il sasso in bocca

1970

Narcos poster
7.7

Three drug traffickers become worried when the realize they may have outlived their usefulness to their boss.

Narcos

1992

Narcos poster
7.7

Three drug traffickers become worried when the realize they may have outlived their usefulness to their boss.

Narcos

1992

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Vita di borgata

1962

No artwork available
NR

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Vita di borgata

1962

No artwork available
NR

The Peace Newsreel is the prototype of those independent and collective film initiatives on topics of social and political interest that Cesare Zavattini later promoted further through the “Free Newsreels.” Here, the general theme is peace, and it is introduced by Mario Soldati.

Il Cinegiornale della pace

1963

No artwork available
NR

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I maciari

—

I ragazzi della periferia sud poster
8.0

The existence of which is condemned almost all young people born and brought up to the edges of large cities, in a corrupt because of despair and misery that leads to drugs, murder, and prostitution.

I ragazzi della periferia sud

1984

Roma nuda poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Roma nuda

2011

No artwork available
NR

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Il covo

1961

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NR

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Il covo

1961

No artwork available
NR

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Il covo

1961

No artwork available
NR

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Bambini dell'acquedotto

1960

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NR

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Bambini dell'acquedotto

1960

No artwork available
NR

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La salute in fabbrica

1972

No artwork available
NR

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I ragazzi del Vesuvio

2010

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NR

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I ragazzi del Vesuvio

2010

No artwork available
NR

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Terzo mondo sotto casa

1970

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NR

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Panagulis Zei

1981

No artwork available
NR

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Cronache dell'eternità

1967