Giorgio Capitani

Directing

Giorgio Capitani

Born 1927-12-29 · Paris, France

Giorgio Capitani (29 December 1927 – 25 March 2017) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 40 films between 1954 and 2012. He also wrote for 12 films. He was born in Paris, France.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Gun Moll poster
5.2

A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.

Gun Moll

1975

Edda poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Edda

2005

Burnt By A Scalding Passion poster
3.4

Virginia and Casimiro are both married with children to passionate spouses, while they are shy and devoted to poetry, crying watching "Anna Karenina" on TV. They commute every day from a little town in Lombardy to Milan and during the journeys they meet and fall in love. They suffer from being unable to realize their love without hurting their marriages but they don't know their respective spouses share a hot relationship...

Burnt By A Scalding Passion

1976

Saint Rita poster
9.0

Cascia, 14th century, Rita Liotti falls in love, gets married and has two children. Her dream of love is soon hindered by a masculine and violent society, that Rita faces with peace and forgiveness. When she loses her husband and her children, she understands she has a mission: pursuing her path of peace, that will lead her to take the vows, and then to become Saint. Rita is a Saint of these days, who lived in a very violent age and was so brave to break free from the vengeance chain, through a deep, sincere and christian forgiveness. She is a particular Saint, talking to everybody’s hearts, as she was everything. She was a daugher, a wife, a mother and a nun, she experienced every sort of life, and in all her different lives she was a living model of christian life.

Saint Rita

2004

The Ruthless Four poster
5.9

After years of hard work, old Sam Cooper has finally found a gold mine. Since he cannot take everything he has found with him, he blows up the entrance. To help him exploit his discovery, he calls on his godson Manolo Sanchez. But Manolo is accompanied by "the blond," a strange man who seems to dominate him. Sam has no choice but to accept his company. He persuades his old friend Mason to travel with them as well. Greed and paranoia will eventually completely destroy the small band.

The Ruthless Four

1968

Lobster for Breakfast poster
5.6

Marco is married to Carla, a rich businesswoman. She's off to Geneva for two days; he has a tryst with Monique, a Swedish air hostess. Carla's flight is canceled, so she heads home about to catch Mario en flagrant. Mario's salvation is Enrico, an old school mate and hapless salesman who shows up to beg Mario to buy toilets so he won't lose his job. Mario signs an order in exchange for Enrico's posing as Monique's husband. Carla invites them to stay overnight and join a business dinner party catered by Enrico's wife, Matilde. Enrico spends the evening trying to avoid her, Mario spends it chasing the willing Monique, and Carla wants to close a deal. Can this farce end happily?

Lobster for Breakfast

1979

Il generale Dalla Chiesa poster
6.1

No synopsis available yet.

Il generale Dalla Chiesa

2007

Rimini, Rimini: A Year Later poster
3.7

Four episodes set on the beaches of Rimini: a womanizer pretends to be homosexual in order to gain the favors of a beautiful woman who ignores him. A mature beachgoer suffers from indigestion. A businessman unknowingly finances his wife's infidelities. Two wives from the south are forced to exchange partners.

Rimini, Rimini: A Year Later

1988

The Archangel poster
7.0

Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Gloria Bianchi to defend her from the alleged murder of her lover.

The Archangel

1969

The Archangel poster
7.0

Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Gloria Bianchi to defend her from the alleged murder of her lover.

The Archangel

1969

Arrivederci e grazie poster
5.5

Tired of married life and of his profession, Carlo decides to leave the company he owns in the hands of his wife and leaves home to move to a rented house in the heart of old Rome. The man's son, Paolo, is a playwright looking for a coveted success and he too is looking for a new apartment: due to a mistake by the agency, they both end up sharing the same room. However, the two have an irreconcilable character and soon their differences come to light, with the situation taking a further unexpected turn with the arrival of the second son Giacomo and his wife Francesca, who is expecting a child.

Arrivederci e grazie

1988

Slap Happy poster
6.3

A child runs away from a orphanage and meets a man, who takes him with him: the adult also dedicates himself to courting tourists to get food. However, his love for a girl leads the boy to boycott this bond, getting his protector into trouble and ending up in prison.

Slap Happy

1969

Pope John XXIII poster
6.9

This is a two-part Italian television mini-series directed by Giorgio Capitani and broadcasted in April 2002 on Rai Uno. It is the life story of Pope John XXIII, nicknamed "the good Pope".

Pope John XXIII

2002

7 Hours of Violence poster
10.0

A former hitman is blackmailed into doing one more job. But the hit doesn't go as planned and he winds up with the police and a gang of Chinese hitmen hunting him down. A beautiful young woman helps to hide him until he can figure out a way to elude his pursuers.

7 Hours of Violence

1973

Milady and the Musketeers poster
6.8

An official, betrayed by his lady servant, joins musketeers such as Athos, while she turns into a countess and a spy that will eventually be executed.

Milady and the Musketeers

1952

Mai storie d'amore in cucina poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mai storie d'amore in cucina

2004

Teste di quoio poster
5.7

A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage.

Teste di quoio

1981

Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra poster
5.0

Three short stories full of absurd Italian humor. Episode 1: Oddjobs man Elia is hired to be a waiter and soon finds himself caught up in a plot to knock off his mistress (in more ways than one). Episode 2: Della is convinced that aliens are on their way to consume the world and before long ends up a guinea pig on a spaceship from the planet Phobos. Episode 3: Roberto becomes a Bersaglieri in the Italian army and nearly causes a war between Italy and Switzerland over a packet of cigarettes.

Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra

1978

Hot Spirits poster
4.2

Giovanni is a rich Italian aristocrat. He inherit a castle occupied by the ghost of an ancestor. Part of the inheritance is of a young beautiful blonde tourist, far relative of Giovanni. The two have to pay a ticket to the ghost to be free to own the castle. Guess what?

Hot Spirits

1981

Samson and His Mighty Challenge poster
4.3

Four muscular heroes fight the evil ruler of an oppressed people.

Samson and His Mighty Challenge

1964

Firefighters 2: Heroic Mission poster
5.5

Following a twinning between the national fire brigade and the special forces of the Canadian firefighters, Captain Carter arrives in Rome.

Firefighters 2: Heroic Mission

1987

Che notte, ragazzi! poster
7.0

Lawyer Tony Green has to pay a two-million-dollar check as compensation to the widow of a wealthy businessman who died as a result of an explosion on the plane immediately after take-off. Tony has to reach the widow who is currently abroad.

Che notte, ragazzi!

1966

Callas & Onassis poster
7.2

Maria Callas, one of the most talented opera singers of her time, seemed to have it all. Coming from humble origins, she always felt slighted by her mother's preference for her sister. She grew up in an unhappy environment, until her career in the operatic world took off. Aristotles Onassis also came from a poor Greek family. His ambition took him places where others dare not go and became a shipping magnate whose great wealth bought his entry into an international society he didn't ever dreamed of entering. These two powerful personalities were so much alike that their own passion served to destroy them.

Callas & Onassis

2005

Night Is Made for Stealing poster
7.0

A new type of safe, touted as impregnable, alarms insurance companies. To deny the factory's assumptions, three burglars are hired with the task of violating one. A wealthy jeweler's new safe is targeted.

Night Is Made for Stealing

1967