Ninetto Davoli

Acting

Ninetto Davoli

Born 1948-10-11 · San Pietro a Maida, Italy

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Ninetto Davoli (born 11 October 1948 as Giovanni Davoli) is an Italian actor who became known through his roles in several of Pier Paolo Pasolini's films. Description above from the Wikipedia article  Ninetto Davoli, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Theorem poster
7.0

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

Theorem

1968

Appassionata poster
5.6

Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.

Appassionata

1974

How to Seduce Your Teacher poster
5.2

There's a new girl in school, Angela, the Headmaster's neice. Every male will try to seduce her, even her uncle. Meanwhile she will drive the philosophy's teacher mad and her best friend Irma will have a good time with the classmates. Will they get the grades?

How to Seduce Your Teacher

1979

The Canterbury Tales poster
6.1

Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.

The Canterbury Tales

1972

The Decameron poster
6.8

A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; and two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death.

The Decameron

1971

Oedipus Rex poster
6.8

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Oedipus, and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Oedipus that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road…

Oedipus Rex

1967

Arabian Nights poster
6.5

The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Mysterious and liberating, this is an exquisitely dreamlike and adult interpretation of the original folk tales.

Arabian Nights

1974

The Witches poster
6.0

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.

The Witches

1967

Momo poster
7.0

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.

Momo

1986

Beach House poster
6.3

Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.

Beach House

1977

The Gospel According to St. Matthew poster
7.4

Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. His parables often take on the powers that be, so he and his teachings come to the attention of the Pharisees, the chief priests, and elders. They conspire to have him arrested, beaten, tried, and crucified, just as he prophesied to his followers.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

1965

One Out of Two poster
5.1

No synopsis available yet.

One Out of Two

2007

Pigsty poster
7.0

Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.

Pigsty

1969

The Isle of Medea poster
4.8

On the 40th anniversary of the death of Maria Callas (September 16, 1977), with footage never seen before from Pier Paolo Pasolini's film MEDEA, this film celebrates the genius and sensibility of two icons of the XX century.

The Isle of Medea

2016

Salò: Yesterday and Today poster
5.0

A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Ninetto Davoli.

Salò: Yesterday and Today

2002

And Agnes Chose to Die poster
6.6

After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.

And Agnes Chose to Die

1976

Pasolini poster
5.7

We are with Pasolini during the last hours of his life, as he talks with his beloved family and friends, writes, gives a brutally honest interview, shares a meal with Ninetto Davoli, and cruises for the roughest rough trade in his gun-metal gray Alfa Romeo. Over the course of the action, Pasolini’s life and his art are constantly refracted and intermingled to the point where they become one.

Pasolini

2014

Frankenstein: Italian Style poster
3.6

Dr. Victor Frankenstein creates a monster to show his scientific theories, but soon leaves him. So the scientist tries to rebuild his life getting married with Janet, and retires to his castle with Igor. However the monster comes back to haunt Frankenstein, and so Victor finds out that the monster has ferocious sexual orientation to Janet. Frankenstein then calls the servant Igor to readjust the monster, but also Igor takes advantage of Janet...

Frankenstein: Italian Style

1975

Love in 4 Easy Lessons poster
3.7

Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.

Love in 4 Easy Lessons

1976

Main pleine poster
NR

The film follows an ex-con who is recently released from prison. He attempts to reintegrate into civilian life and return to his old neighborhood, but is met with indifference and suspicion. His fresh start is quickly derailed when a jealous rival frames him in a robbery, compounding his string of bad luck.

Main pleine

1989

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia poster
7.3

In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. As more people learn about it, they head to Leningrad to find the lion where it is rumoured to be buried.

Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia

1974

Crazy, Crazy Love poster
4.0

Ninetto De Terenzi is a Roman who lives for the day, helping a lawyer in his intrigues and acting as a stunt double for a cheating engineer; he disapproves of the relationship his widowed mother has with a married man and is engaged to a good worker, whom she tries to betray.

Crazy, Crazy Love

1977

The Hawks and the Sparrows poster
7.2

A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.

The Hawks and the Sparrows

1966

Caprice Italian Style poster
6.1

The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.

Caprice Italian Style

1968