
Acting
Renato Montalbano
Born
1931-05-17 (95)
Place of birth
Catania, Sicily, Italy
Known for
Acting
Credits
65 titles
Known for
7.8Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
Jesus of Nazareth
1977
5.4After being hired to free a landowner's kidnapped daughter, a bounty hunter double-crosses his employer and joins the kidnapper's gang.
$10,000 for a Massacre
1967
9.0Descartes left the Jesuit college where he had spent his childhood. He doubted the knowledge that had been instilled in him, with the exception of mathematics and geometry. He enlisted in the army of the Prince of Nassau in Breda. Upon his return, he wanted to escape the worldly atmosphere and devote himself to his studies. During an intense night, he found the foundations of a new science.
Cartesius
1974
5.5A newlywed couple visits the husband's hometown of Geneva, where they are subjected to threats stemming from the death of his former fiancée.
The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968
4.8Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair of Oriental spies are taken hostage by the beings so they can use them to repair their spaceship's broken engine. With that done, they take off towards their home planet, taking the earthlings with them. However, the humans attempt to mutiny against their captors, inadvertently sending their tiny spaceship hurtling into the infinite beyond...
Star Pilot
1966
9.0No synopsis available yet.
L'isola del tesoro
1959
Film credits
1980s · 2 titles
5.3Lorenzo is the mayor of a small town. One evening, returning home, surprised the well-known playboy Ghigo Buccilli who tries to seduce his beautiful wife. Enraged, he threatens the two with a gun, and Buccilli is the victim of a heart attack: the man survives but, forced to total rest, remains at the mayor's house. The result is an endless series of gags and misunderstandings, due to the stratagems devised by Lorenzo to avoid that the situation becomes the subject of gossip by fellow citizens ...
Prickly Pears
1980
6.7The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate.
According to Pontius Pilate
1988
1970s · 5 titles
6.7How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
The Assassination of Matteotti
1973
6.6Rossellini takes numerous liberties with the original source material, rearranging and omitting events at will, presenting everything in a highly undramatic fashion. The film begins in the time of the Old Testament, allowing Rossellini to present the story of Jesus in its ancient, historic context.
The Messiah
1975
4.3A deadly manhunt takes three people through the sordid streets of the Philadelphia underworld, in search of killers and the truth, where every clue brings new questions.
Blood and Bullets
1976
5.3Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.
Year One
1974
5.6Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.
Satiricosissimo
1970
1960s · 37 titles
5.4After being hired to free a landowner's kidnapped daughter, a bounty hunter double-crosses his employer and joins the kidnapper's gang.
$10,000 for a Massacre
1967
5.5A newlywed couple visits the husband's hometown of Geneva, where they are subjected to threats stemming from the death of his former fiancée.
The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968
4.8Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair of Oriental spies are taken hostage by the beings so they can use them to repair their spaceship's broken engine. With that done, they take off towards their home planet, taking the earthlings with them. However, the humans attempt to mutiny against their captors, inadvertently sending their tiny spaceship hurtling into the infinite beyond...
Star Pilot
1966
5.3This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.
The Dolls
1965
7.9After years spent working as a prostitute in her Italian village, middle-aged Mamma Roma has saved enough money to buy herself a fruit stand so that she can have a respectable middle-class life and reestablish contact with the 16-year-old son she abandoned when he was an infant. But her former pimp threatens to expose her sordid past, and her troubled son seems destined to fall into a life of crime and violence.
Mamma Roma
1962
6.5A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Michele returns to his boyhood home, where he learns the reasons for his present mental state.
Almost a Man
1966
10.0Saracen pirates aboard the "Black Eagle" attack Christians strongholds along the coast of Spain. When they stop off in Sheba to re-supply, they also buy female slaves and end up fighting over them.
Slave Girls of Sheba
1963
5.6A U.S. agent goes undercover as a rich playboy to stop a madman from destroying a NASA moon project.
Lightning Bolt
1966
6.4Rome chafes under the rule of the Emperor Domitian and his Egyptian mistress, Artamne. A mysterious champion arises to fight against the Emperor -- a masked man known as the Red Wolf. In fact, the Red Wolf is Valerius Rufus, one of the Emperor's trusted centurions who's aided by none other than the Emperor's court jester, the diminutive Elpidion. Rebels in league with Valerius kidnap Artamne, planning to exchange her for two of their imprisoned colleagues, but Artamne escapes and soon both Valerius, (now exposed as the Red Wolf), and his fiancee, Lucilla, are sentenced to be immersed in a cauldron of molten lead. Valerius's friends, however, rise up to rescue him and to liberate Rome.
Revolt of the Praetorians
1964
7.2A 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
4.4A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the woman who he once loved.
The Monster of the Opera
1964
8.0A married couple and their friends are entangled in a series of love affairs.
Lo scandalo
1966
8.0Centuries ago in the Orient, the fiscal exactions on the people lead to a revolt against the usurper of the throne, and the empowerment of a new leader.
Conqueror of the Orient
1961
5.5A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.
Love in Rome
1960
6.5A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.
The Conjugal Bed
1963
6.5The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he supports Victor Emmanuel II of Italy who achieves a lasting unification under the aegis the House of Savoy. Roberto Rossellini has said he was prouder of this film than of any other film he ever made.
Viva l'Italia!
1961
5.2Scientists try to prevent a collision between Earth and a planet that is heading for it.
War Between the Planets
1966
5.2Genies help an Arabian bandit (Tab Hunter) locate a magic arrow he needs to claim heirship to the sultan's kingdom.
The Golden Arrow
1962
7.5Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...
Corruption
1963
6.0Tony is in love with Carla, a young student of architecture, but his parents want him to marry Erminia, a rich but ugly girl.
Cuore matto... matto da legare
1967
5.8A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.
The Mandrake
1965
6.2The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.
The Corsican Brothers
1961
6.7A pair of brothers, Baby Toto and Pietro, sons of different mothers, live stealing suitcases at the Termini Station in Rome. After a theft, they discover that the stolen suitcase they got from an apparent sweet old lady actually contains a corpse.
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
1964
7.0Twenty years after the end of the war, a German submarine has not yet surrendered and continues to wander the seas. Its travelers include a half-witted officer, a meager and dazed crew, and Ombrina, a girl rescued from a shipwreck when she was only one year old and adopted by the men of the strange vessel.
Make Love, Not War
1966
8.0German journalist Peter Holberg arrives in Hong Kong and, by accident, he is carrying a microfilm that was destined to local gang lord, Marek. Peter is helped by another German journalist, Joan Kent, and falls in love with a night-club dancer, Colette. Colette is actually working for Marek, but betrays the gang for love - at the ultimate cost to her. The HK Police will intervene just in time to prevent Peter from further losses.
Hong Kong Hot Harbor
1962
4.8A dangerous criminal group wants to destroy St. Peter's Basilica and the secret agent James Tont is the only one who can help it.
James Tont Operation T.W.O.
1966
7.8Twenty million dollars are going to be transferred from an Arab central bank to a British oil company. Four among the biggest criminal of the world are in charge to rob it. An undefined intelligence agency tries to stop them. An infiltrator is not sure for who is working. A complicate twist is waiting beyond the corner and will include a love affair too.
Assault on the State Treasure
1967
9.0Greece is under the power of Rabirius, from which rise a few patriots led by Axel. He is taken prisoner and condemned to die of hunger and thirst. But his brother Leslio, who fears no one, makes him free. The next step Leslio takes, is to dissolve a group of mercenaries, without listening to his brother, who begs her to join the fight for freedom.
The Secret Seven
1963
4.5Michael King is hired by a rich banker to track down his son, a famous nuclear physicist, who disappeared with a secret formula.
A Million Dollars for 7 Murders
1966
6.0Story of Roberta, a beautiful young woman from a wealthy industrialist family and her relationship with Franco, a rough car mechanic and stranger whom she meets on the beach of Forte dei Marmi.
La bella di Lodi
1963
5.8Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a troublemaker.
A Man for Burning
1962
6.1In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. In reality however this is not simple salad vegetables but marijuana; the two bungling fools and friends do not realize it at first.
I due toreri
1964
8.0Zorro fights Napoleon's army to help the King of Spain.
Zorro, the Navarra Marquis
1969
6.1Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl accompanying him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He has plans for hanky-panky along the way, but Jane has her own motives as she's only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection.
One Million Dollars
1964
6.2Investigator Fred Lester uncovers a killer using an air pistol firing chemical bullets in the swinging '60s spy thriller RING AROUND THE WORLD, a globe-hopping escapade featuring a plane-and-parachute stunt later repeated in the James Bond film Moonraker.
Ring Around the World
1966
7.2Five different episodes unfold against the backdrop of Italian historical and political events in 1922. In the first, in the aftermath of the March on Rome, two scoundrels speculate on the event. In the second, a punitive expedition enters the home of a socialist deputy. In the third, the fascists rob a countess. In the fourth, a disgraced marshal incriminates a fascist Camorra member. In the fifth, there is the story of an encounter at the seaside.
Cronache del '22
1961
6.7Two bumbling actors get wrapped up in a scheme to murder a rich man's wife.
Psycosissimo
1961
1950s · 15 titles
7.3Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu.
Il padrone delle ferriere
1959
6.3Angry at his wife and defeated in battle, the king of Judea is taken prisoner. After being spared by the Romans, King Herod comes to believe he's been a victim of court plotting.
Herod the Great
1959
7.6Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
1956
7.4The construction of great temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, followed by new and high taxes and the arrival of a plague, create discontent in the population, and threatens the love between a sculptor and a slave.
Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
1958
6.7Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Asclepius. Princess Amira, with ambitions of being Queen and jealous of Asclepius' popularity, plans his death in the arena by substituting a lion for his human opponent
The Warrior and the Slave Girl
1958
8.0Paris 1838, Prince Rodolphe vows on the deathbed of his friend Matilde to find Germain, the woman's son kidnapped by his father at birth. Disguised as a tramp, he wanders the city's slums encountering various characters who either help or hinder him.
The Mysteries of Paris
1957
6.7Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles".
La nipote Sabella
1958
10.0An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.
È arrivata la parigina
1958
7.1Valerio Rossello is a judge, with a rigid and uncompromising mentality. He is married to Lucia, a woman who instead follows the model of a loving and protective mother. From their union only one child was born: Maurizio. Both parents raise him completely differently, highlighting their character differences. Until the day when Maurizio, now a teenager, together with a friend commits an attack for futile reasons against a gas station attendant. Having learned of the incident, Valerio and Lucia also in this case intend to face the situation in a diametrically opposite way. The conflicts within the family thus strongly resurface, in which, amidst rebounds of responsibility, the errors of both parents emerge in the upbringing of their child.
The Guilty
1957
8.0After the end of World War II, a man comes back to his former fiancée and finds out that she is married to an older man.
Quando gli angeli piangono
1958
7.0A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed sentimental life.
The Third
1958
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Via col para... vento
1958
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Knight Without a Country
1959
6.7Tina, an old lady and detective stories buff, moves to town in the house of a god-daughter of hers whose husband is a private dick. She thinks she will be able to help him with his inquests. He does not agree with her and tries to discourage her by any possible means.
Fantasmi e ladri
1959
7.0A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father.
The Black Archer
1959
Series credits
7.8Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.
Jesus of Nazareth
1977
9.0Descartes left the Jesuit college where he had spent his childhood. He doubted the knowledge that had been instilled in him, with the exception of mathematics and geometry. He enlisted in the army of the Prince of Nassau in Breda. Upon his return, he wanted to escape the worldly atmosphere and devote himself to his studies. During an intense night, he found the foundations of a new science.
Cartesius
1974
9.0No synopsis available yet.
L'isola del tesoro
1959
The miniseries is adapted from the novel of the same name by Joseph Conrad, in which the great writer sought—along with his earlier work "The Secret Agent"—to explore the chains of guilt associated with European despotism.
Con gli occhi dell'occidente
1979
NRA RAI television miniseries that reconstructs the Allied Conferences held during the World War II, from Placentia Bay (1941) to Potsdam (1945).
War at the Peace Table
1975

