Riccardo Cucciolla

Acting

Riccardo Cucciolla

Born — Died

1924-09-05 — 1999-09-17

Place of birth

Bari, Puglia, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

70 titles

Riccardo Cucciolla (5 September 1924 – 17 September 1999) was an Italian actor and voice actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1953 and 1999. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for the film Sacco & Vanzetti. Born in Bari, in southern Italy, Cucciolla gained a degree in law, then made his stage debut in an amateur production in his home city. From 1946, he started working in radio as a voice actor and as the narrator of documentaries; at the same time, he started working in cinema, as a dubber and a voice actor. Cucciolla made his film debut in 1953, in Anton Giulio Majano's Good Folk's Sunday. After some minor roles, he had his first important role in Italiani br…

Known for

Marco Polo poster
6.8

The life of the 13th-century Venetian explorer who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.

Marco Polo

1982

I Vitelloni poster
7.7

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.

I Vitelloni

1953

Un Flic poster
6.6

A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.

Un Flic

1972

Sacco & Vanzetti poster
7.6

Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.

Sacco & Vanzetti

1971

The Castle of Olive Trees poster
6.8

The Castle of Olive Trees is the ancestral home of the "Laborie de Sauveterre". Located at "Châteauneuf-du-Pape", it holds many mysteries and legends. Like every summer "Estelle Laborie" goes there to take some time off. But this summer she take an important decision: run from Paris and stay here at the castle definitively. Little does she knows that her arrival will awake a lot of drama and secrets, beginning with this enigmatic "Pierre Séverin" who wants to demolish the castle to the ground, to make an amusement parc "Cigaleland". She will learn unfortunately that this "Pierre Séverin" is also knowned as "Marceau" the little boy of the steward of the castle when her father was the master of the domain. That steward also died in terrible circumstance. However Estelle decides to face this vengeance and save the castle with the aid of archaeologist "Raphaël Fauconnier"...

The Castle of Olive Trees

1993

Grand Slam poster
7.1

Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a mechanical genius, and a playboy.

Grand Slam

1967

Film credits

1990s · 6 titles

Rabid Dogs poster
7.5

Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway.

Rabid Dogs

1995

Our God's Brother poster
5.6

In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.

Our God's Brother

1997

No artwork available
8.0

Corruption on the boxing circuit at the turn of the century provides the basis of this French drama. The story centers on a talented young fighter, a logger that Abel Ginoux and his Italian partner Zipolino, a crooked doctor, discover during a fight in a woodland town. The logger, Passe Partout, is in a fight with Ginoux's best fighter and ends up accidentally killing the pugilist. Ever the opportunist, Ginoux lures Partout into the ring to replace the late fighter. Partout proves to be the classic provincial innocent with high, rugged ideals and little knowledge about the modern world. Ginoux takes him to town for the first time and the logger is delighted to discover amenities such as electricity and silent films. He soon falls in love with the beauteous Camille who works in her late father's cafe with her mother. Her father made many of the films, most of which are boxing matches, because he believed that the presence of a camera rendered a fight unfixable.

Lucky Punch

1996

No artwork available
7.0

Bosch witnesses a theft: German publishing house lawyer Petra Jansen's handbag is stolen from a street café. Together, the two set off in pursuit of the thief.

Blinde Augen klagen an

1996

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Morte di una ragazza perbene

1999

Pizza Colonia poster
6.5

Italian Francesco ( Mario Adorf ) runs a restaurant in Cologne , partnership is the brewer Zach ( Willy Millowitsch ) . Francesco has problems : a " Godfather" makes Zach an offer he can not refuse , the wedding between Francesco's daughter and Zach son bursts , and his wife threatened behind his affair to come up with kiosk owner Hilde , which lasts at least 18 or older to ...

Pizza Colonia

1991

1980s · 8 titles

Lost in the City of Sarzana poster
8.5

The film is set in the period of fascism and is represented through the story of the general inspector Vincenzo Trani.

Lost in the City of Sarzana

1980

The Assisi Underground poster
4.8

This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.

The Assisi Underground

1985

32nd of December poster
7.1

Three episodes about the relativity of time.

32nd of December

1988

Vanille fraise poster
5.2

Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.

Vanille fraise

1989

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story poster
5.5

This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom, her marriage to Carlo Ponti following a romantic fling with Cary Grant, and the birth of her first child, and is tied together with actual clips from some of her movies.

Sophia Loren: Her Own Story

1980

No artwork available
10.0

An elderly trio tries to adjust to each other when they all move into an apartment in Rome. When Giovanni (Ricardo Cucciolla) inherits the unit, he invites the Russian immigrant Maria (Marina Vlady) and his shy friend from college Teo (Luigi Pistilli) to live with him. Maria tries to get Teo to marry her friend so she can receive Italian citizenship. The three do their best to live in harmony in this bittersweet drama.

Tottering in the Dark

1987

The Kid From Ebalus poster
7.0

During the Years of Lead in Italy, a student approaches extra-parliamentary terrorist groups, but comes to realize that he has to get away from those circles as he's hunted by both his former comrades and the police.

The Kid From Ebalus

1984

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il coraggio di parlare

1987

1970s · 25 titles

Un Flic poster
6.6

A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.

Un Flic

1972

Sacco & Vanzetti poster
7.6

Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.

Sacco & Vanzetti

1971

Borsalino and Co. poster
6.4

Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."

Borsalino and Co.

1974

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 Case Is Closed, Forget It poster
6.4

Arrested on suspicion of a hit and run, a succesful architect is put in prison awaiting trial or release. Whilst there he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.

The Case Is Closed, Forget It

1971

The Assassination of Matteotti poster
6.7

How 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

The Last Concert poster
7.0

Love story of a young woman Stella who is dying of leukemia. A man is mistaken for a family member at the hospital and is informed by a doctor the diagnosis of Stella. Stella cheerfully follows the man. He is reluctant at first but after some shaky moments the two develop a relationship. The two fall in love in the short period of time left to experience.

The Last Concert

1976

Rain over Santiago poster
6.5

A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearances of many people.

Rain over Santiago

1975

We Are All in Temporary Liberty poster
7.0

A judge opens an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an MP.

We Are All in Temporary Liberty

1971

High School Girl poster
4.5

A shy schoolboy's life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer.

High School Girl

1974

One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future poster
8.0

The young lawyer Vincenzo, Lucetta's new husband, daughter of a building speculator, discovers, on the night of the wedding, that he can not fulfill his duty as husband.

One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future

1972

Meet Him and Die poster
5.7

Ray Lovelock stars as Massimo, a young undercover cop with a taste for violence and a thirst for revenge! Massimo gets himself arrested and quickly infiltrates the ranks of the underworld figure serving a sentence. Eventually a breakout is planned and Massimo is to be included. Just about as soon as they hit the street an attempt is made on the boss' (Martin Balsam) life. Massimo acts quickly in helping to save him and that's the in he has been waiting for

Meet Him and Die

1976

The Sensual Man poster
6.1

The Catanese baron Paolo Castorini leaves the closed Sicilian environment and moves to Rome where he enters into erotic relationships with women of all classes. He, however, feels dissatisfied with a life of only the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. But is it too late for him?

The Sensual Man

1973

The Sicilian Checkmate poster
5.2

Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.

The Sicilian Checkmate

1972

Tomboy - I misteri del sesso poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tomboy - I misteri del sesso

1977

No, the Case Is Happily Resolved poster
5.7

When the eyewitness to a brutal murder decides not to testify, the actual murderer chooses to finger him as the murderer and claim eyewitness status for himself.

No, the Case Is Happily Resolved

1973

Stream Line poster
7.0

Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is entrusted by a priest, Don Luigi.

Stream Line

1976

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria

1973

Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison poster
6.9

Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life.

Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison

1977

24 Hours... Not a Minute More poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

24 Hours... Not a Minute More

1973

Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi poster
7.2

A member of the party opposed to the one in which he is mistakenly listed as a candidate, a citizen with a somewhat murky private life becomes a senator.

Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi

1972

Africa Uncensored poster
4.7

Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.

Africa Uncensored

1971

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il fratello

1975

Farewell the Last Man poster
5.0

A Castiglioni Brothers mondo film about the practices and rites of several native African tribes.

Farewell the Last Man

1978

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio

1975

1960s · 16 titles

Grand Slam poster
7.1

Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a mechanical genius, and a playboy.

Grand Slam

1967

Six Days a Week poster
7.2

Maria, a young belle, expertly juggles three suitors at once by posing as her airline-hostess roommate, Silvana. Using fake flight schedules and carefully crafted lies, she keeps each man convinced he has her to himself. But when unexpected news about the real Silvana surfaces, Maria's carefully balanced double life spirals into a whirlwind of increasingly outrageous schemes to keep the truth from coming out.

Six Days a Week

1965

Attack and Retreat poster
6.7

Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.

Attack and Retreat

1964

Massacre in the Black Forest poster
6.5

In the first half of the first century A.D., the Teutonic tribes, led by Arminius The Terrible, rebel against the cruel and conquering Roman Empire. In raging torments and blood curdling battles, the barbarian tribes and Roman Legions fight a war of attrition, so brutal and terrible that Arminius becomes a legend throughout the empire. Only Augustus, Emperor of Rome is evil and treacherous enough to enslave the Teuton barbarian and halt his murderous uprisings.

Massacre in the Black Forest

1967

Son of Hercules vs. Medusa poster
5.6

To avenge his father's death and free the people of Seriphos from the evil King Galinor of Argus, the noble Perseus must defeat a dragon -- and the monster Medusa, whose steely gaze has cast the kingdom's best soldiers into stone.

Son of Hercules vs. Medusa

1963

One on Top of the Other poster
6.4

A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.

One on Top of the Other

1969

The Path of Oil poster
8.5

La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made following Bertolucci’s breakthrough second feature Before the Revolution, and the director has said that it’s a documentary made by a man who is desperate to direct another feature. The film was presented in three parts: "The Origins", "At Sea" and "In the Heart of Europe".

The Path of Oil

1967

Bandits in Rome poster
7.0

After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.

Bandits in Rome

1968

The Seven Cervi Brothers poster
6.9

The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World War 2.

The Seven Cervi Brothers

1968

Francis of Assisi poster
6.2

A 1966 biopic of Francis of Assisi presents him as a troubled rebel and champion of radical brotherhood, reflecting the spirit of 1968 student protests. Praised and condemned, the film sparked controversy for its bold, dissenting portrayal of faith.

Francis of Assisi

1966

Women of the Resistance poster
7.0

Documentary composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy in World War II.

Women of the Resistance

1965

La trincea poster
NR

On the Carso front in 1915, Italians and Austrians fight each other without mercy in a suffocating battle. In the trenches, soldiers discuss their lives while the war rages on.

La trincea

1961

Malamondo poster
4.2

This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hot-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a graveyard.

Malamondo

1964

Badoglio: generale e uomo di stato poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Badoglio: generale e uomo di stato

1963

No artwork available
NR

With a screenplay by Liliana Cavani, this film is based on a true story, events that happened in Alabama in 1965. A daughter of Italian immigrants, Liuzzo participated in the march led by Martin Luther King. As she returned home, she was accosted and murdered by four members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Intolerance: il caso Liuzzo

1969

The Sexual Revolution poster
4.9

Fourteen people of different ages - seven men and seven women - gather in a comfortable hotel by the sea to carry out an experiment inspired by the theories of an Austrian psychoanalyst. The creator - Professor Emilio Missiroli - wants to show that only a thousand breaking taboos' that stifle the sexual life can liberate man from his existential malaise. Every night, so, for a whole week, men and women of the group will couple through a draw, without giving any importance to their feelings, thus demonstrating that these can and should do without. Based on Wilhelm Reich's The Sexual Revolution.

The Sexual Revolution

1968

1950s · 4 titles

Series credits

Marco Polo poster
6.8

The life of the 13th-century Venetian explorer who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.

Marco Polo

1982

The Castle of Olive Trees poster
6.8

The Castle of Olive Trees is the ancestral home of the "Laborie de Sauveterre". Located at "Châteauneuf-du-Pape", it holds many mysteries and legends. Like every summer "Estelle Laborie" goes there to take some time off. But this summer she take an important decision: run from Paris and stay here at the castle definitively. Little does she knows that her arrival will awake a lot of drama and secrets, beginning with this enigmatic "Pierre Séverin" who wants to demolish the castle to the ground, to make an amusement parc "Cigaleland". She will learn unfortunately that this "Pierre Séverin" is also knowned as "Marceau" the little boy of the steward of the castle when her father was the master of the domain. That steward also died in terrible circumstance. However Estelle decides to face this vengeance and save the castle with the aid of archaeologist "Raphaël Fauconnier"...

The Castle of Olive Trees

1993

The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin poster
8.2

The Dossiers of Inspector Lavardin is a French television series in four 90-minute episodes, created by Dominique Roulet and Claude Chabrol and broadcast between September 15, 1988 and February 1, 1990 on TF1. It follows the two films Chicken in Vinegar and Inspector Lavardin directed by Claude Chabrol and already featuring Jean Poiret in the role of Lavardin. This short series depicts the investigations of Inspector Lavardin, a tongue-in-cheek policeman known for his bad manners.

The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin

1988

L'isola del tesoro poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'isola del tesoro

1959

La dottoressa Giò poster
3.0

La dottoressa Giò is an Italian television series.

La dottoressa Giò

1997

No artwork available
NR

1976: In the Brianza countryside, an industrial accident releases a toxic cloud. The population is evacuated, animals are culled, and fruits and vegetables are declared unfit for consumption. Against this backdrop, two children, Marco and Sara, and their families move there.

Una lepre con la faccia di bambina

1989

Il segreto di Luca poster
NR

After many years in prison, Luca Sabatini returns to his home village in Abruzzo in 1946. At the same time, party official Andrea Cipriani, who had to leave Italy during the war but is now welcomed back as a hero, also arrives. Andrea is the son of Luca's best friend. Luca's conviction was the first traumatic experience of his life. He is therefore determined to solve the mystery of why Luca did not defend himself at all during his trial, despite his innocence.

Il segreto di Luca

1969

Vita di Michelangelo poster
7.0

A mini series about the great artist's life.

Vita di Michelangelo

1964

Vita di Dante poster
9.0

Part of a trilogy of “Famous Lives” conceived by Angelo Guglielmi, Vittorio Cottafavi's television series is a rigorous reconstruction of the biography of the great poet, alternating between fiction and documentary sequences.

Vita di Dante

1965

Family Business poster
7.0

The story of two sisters, two very different women: one is a determined and concrete businessman, the other a sweet and sensitive artist. Divided over everything, they will fall in love with the same man.

Family Business

1986