
Directing
Giulio Questi
Born — Died
1924-03-18 — 2014-12-03
Place of birth
Bergamo, Italy
Known for
Directing
Credits
52 titles
Director and screenwriter.
Known for
8.0Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
La Dolce Vita
1960
5.7A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.
Death Laid an Egg
1968
5.9A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. The Stranger is not completely dead though, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.
Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!
1967
6.8While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.
The Possessed
1965
7.2An anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair; a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them; and local men all seduce a promiscuous young woman, but when her father eventually reveals that she is underage, they all face prosecution for statutory rape.
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
1966
NRA documentary about director Valerio Zurlini. The "lost images" of the title are the movies Zurlini was never able to shoot: between 1962, the year he won the Golden Lion with Family Diary, and 1982, the year of his death, he directed only four features. The documentary features interviews with close collaborators (celebrated screenwriters Enrico Medioli and Nicola Badalucco) and some of his actors (Jacques Perrin and Claudia Cardinale).
The Years of Lost Images
2012
Film credits
2000s · 9 titles
"Western all'italiana" is a documentary produced and broadcast by the satellite broadcaster Studio Universal in 2004, on the occasion of the broadcasting of a selection of Italian western films, the so-called "spaghetti westerns". In the course of the video, the birth, evolution and conclusion of the Italian western trend is told.
Western all'italiana
2004
A conversation with Italian director Giulio Questi about his digital short films.
Il cinema digitale secondo Giulio Questi
2007
An old, avid reader of poetry gets stalked by a masked killer in his own home.
Doctor Schizo e Mister Phrenic
2002
The protagonist is immersed in reading Alice in Wonderland when suddenly a girl "from the eyes of dreams and illusion" appears at the window asking for help.
Vacanze con Alice
2005
A short film by Giulio Questi.
Repressione in Città
2005
A man alone in the middle of a long blackout. Civilization stops.
Mysterium Noctis
2004
Giulio Questi gets a visit from the ghosts of the Fascists he killed as a partisan during Italy’s ‘43-’45 civil war. Meanwhile, a spaceship ready to take them away to an eternal black hole awaits all of them.
Visitors
2006
An old man receives a letter from Mr. Nada de Nada y Nada and later a visit that will face him with an startling situation.
Lettera da Salamanca
2002
A short film by Giulio Questi.
Tatatatango
2003
1960s · 2 titles
8.0Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
La Dolce Vita
1960
7.2An anthology presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso: A husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair; a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them; and local men all seduce a promiscuous young woman, but when her father eventually reveals that she is underage, they all face prosecution for statutory rape.
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
1966
Behind the camera
5.7A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.
Death Laid an Egg
1968
5.7A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.
Death Laid an Egg
1968
5.9A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. The Stranger is not completely dead though, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.
Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!
1967
5.9A Mexican outlaw known as "The Stranger" is part of a band of thieves that steal a cargo of gold from a stagecoach. However, the Americans in the band betray him, and shoot all the Mexicans. The Stranger is not completely dead though, and crawls his way out of his shallow grave, continuing his pursuit of the gold, and exacting a bloody vengeance.
Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!
1967
6.8While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.
The Possessed
1965
7.0Three episodes of varying pitch and quality. In the first a maid plans the elimination of her lover's wife with him, but she doesn't enjoy the fruits of victory. In the second (The patrol) a soldier of the Foreign Legion neglects his duties for running after a prostitute. The third segment has as its protagonist a general of the belle époque that goes on a date.
Amori pericolosi
1964
7.0Three episodes of varying pitch and quality. In the first a maid plans the elimination of her lover's wife with him, but she doesn't enjoy the fruits of victory. In the second (The patrol) a soldier of the Foreign Legion neglects his duties for running after a prostitute. The third segment has as its protagonist a general of the belle époque that goes on a date.
Amori pericolosi
1964
NRA Count marries a woman with illness that makes her suffer attacks of vampirism. The Count took flight in the wildest horror, and ran, without any idea where he was going or what he was doing, impelled by the deadliest terror, all about the walks in the park, till he found himself at the door of his own Castle as the day was breaking, bathed in cold perspiration. Involuntarily, without the capability of taking hold of a thought, he dashed up the steps, and went bursting through the passages and into his own bedroom.
Vampirismus
1982
NRA Count marries a woman with illness that makes her suffer attacks of vampirism. The Count took flight in the wildest horror, and ran, without any idea where he was going or what he was doing, impelled by the deadliest terror, all about the walks in the park, till he found himself at the door of his own Castle as the day was breaking, bathed in cold perspiration. Involuntarily, without the capability of taking hold of a thought, he dashed up the steps, and went bursting through the passages and into his own bedroom.
Vampirismus
1982
No synopsis available yet.
Avamposto
1959
5.0No synopsis available yet.
Il passo
1964
3.7Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.
Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
1960
7.0An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.
Latin Lovers
1961
7.0An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.
Latin Lovers
1961
5.8A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a strong sorcerer. But he fails perhaps to understand the real strength he possesses inside and unbinds uncontrolled forces that lead people that surround him to go mad.
Arcana
1972
5.8A Sicilian widow earns her living as a clairvoyant, in Milan, but she hasn't got any power at all. Her son instead holds supernatural powers and with the help of his mother he becomes a strong sorcerer. But he fails perhaps to understand the real strength he possesses inside and unbinds uncontrolled forces that lead people that surround him to go mad.
Arcana
1972
8.0Deeply depressed Francesca is being treated by a psychiatrist to overcome her relationship with a man who also had a past relationship with Francesca's mother. After her mother dies in a strange accident, Francesca also disappears under mysterious circumstances.
Don’t Open the Door for the Man in Black
1990
8.0Deeply depressed Francesca is being treated by a psychiatrist to overcome her relationship with a man who also had a past relationship with Francesca's mother. After her mother dies in a strange accident, Francesca also disappears under mysterious circumstances.
Don’t Open the Door for the Man in Black
1990
10.0A collection of varieties numbers from various night clubs.
Nudi per vivere
1963
No synopsis available yet.
Il segno del comando
1992
No synopsis available yet.
Il segno del comando
1992
2.0A young student, haunted by the memory of a mysterious figure called Coppelius who killed his father, starts to slowly lose his mind when he encounters an emotionless woman that is actually an automata, as well as a weird salesman who actually could be the man responsible for his father's death.
The Sandman
1981
2.0A young student, haunted by the memory of a mysterious figure called Coppelius who killed his father, starts to slowly lose his mind when he encounters an emotionless woman that is actually an automata, as well as a weird salesman who actually could be the man responsible for his father's death.
The Sandman
1981
An old, avid reader of poetry gets stalked by a masked killer in his own home.
Doctor Schizo e Mister Phrenic
2002
An old, avid reader of poetry gets stalked by a masked killer in his own home.
Doctor Schizo e Mister Phrenic
2002
An old, avid reader of poetry gets stalked by a masked killer in his own home.
Doctor Schizo e Mister Phrenic
2002
A tribute not so much to the river that runs through the Eternal City, but to that part of Rome that very often remains invisible to the eyes of tourists-the suburbs, with their streets and rituals.
Argini
1954
A tribute not so much to the river that runs through the Eternal City, but to that part of Rome that very often remains invisible to the eyes of tourists-the suburbs, with their streets and rituals.
Argini
1954
The protagonist is immersed in reading Alice in Wonderland when suddenly a girl "from the eyes of dreams and illusion" appears at the window asking for help.
Vacanze con Alice
2005
The protagonist is immersed in reading Alice in Wonderland when suddenly a girl "from the eyes of dreams and illusion" appears at the window asking for help.
Vacanze con Alice
2005
The protagonist is immersed in reading Alice in Wonderland when suddenly a girl "from the eyes of dreams and illusion" appears at the window asking for help.
Vacanze con Alice
2005
A short film by Giulio Questi.
Repressione in Città
2005
A short film by Giulio Questi.
Repressione in Città
2005
A short film by Giulio Questi.
Repressione in Città
2005
Documentary short about barrel organ players in Italy.
Serenata da un soldo
1952
NRIt describes the young servants life from their arrival in Rome from the countryside and their free time and love affairs.
Donne di servizio
1953
A man alone in the middle of a long blackout. Civilization stops.
Mysterium Noctis
2004
A man alone in the middle of a long blackout. Civilization stops.
Mysterium Noctis
2004
A man alone in the middle of a long blackout. Civilization stops.
Mysterium Noctis
2004
Giulio Questi gets a visit from the ghosts of the Fascists he killed as a partisan during Italy’s ‘43-’45 civil war. Meanwhile, a spaceship ready to take them away to an eternal black hole awaits all of them.
Visitors
2006
