
Acting
Nino Castelnuovo
Born 1936-10-28 · Lecco, Lombardy, Italy
Francesco "Nino" Castelnuovo (28 October 1936 - 6 September 2021) was an Italian actor of film, stage, and television. Castelnuovo appeared as Guy Foucher in the French-language musical film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and as D'Agostino in the romantic-drama The English Patient (1996). His other films include the drama Rocco and His Brothers (1960), the sexploitation Camille 2000 (1969), the black-comedy L'emmerdeur (A Pain in the ..., 1973), the giallo film Il prato macchiato di rosso (1973), and the spaghetti-westerns Massacre Time (1966) and The Five Man Army (1969).
Acting credits
6.4Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.
That Malicious Age
1975
7.1In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
The English Patient
1996
7.4This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964
8.0When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
Rocco and His Brothers
1960
6.2Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
Psychout for Murder
1969
6.6At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.
The 5-Man Army
1969
4.6The sexually naive Daniela returns home from boarding school only to realize that her family is involved in an excess of bed-hopping and sexual perversion.
La collegiale
1975
7.2Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.
The Demon
1964
5.5After a fashion model dies during a botched abortion, the doctor stages her death to exonerate himself but is murdered by a mysterious assailant who soon begins hunting down her agency colleagues.
Strip Nude for Your Killer
1975
4.6A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
1967
7.7Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
The Beaches of Agnès
2008
6.0A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.
The Reward
1965
6.4In 1866, prospector Tom Corbett returns to his hometown of Laramie, Texas, now under the brutal control of gangster Jason Scott and his violent son, Junior. With his brother Jeff, a struggling drunk cared for by their maid Mercedes, Tom seeks to overthrow the Scotts' tyrannical rule and restore peace to the town.
Massacre Time
1966
6.9Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
The World of Jacques Demy
1995
7.0Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.
A Pain in the Ass
1973
6.4A writer decides to use the strange inhabitants of a small island as a basis for characters in his new book.
The Creatures
1966
6.4Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
The Shortest Day
1963
6.1A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Made in Italy
1965
7.2A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation.
The Facts of Murder
1959
7.6When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Everybody Go Home!
1960
5.0A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
The Angel Wore Red
1960
5.3Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.
Love and Anger
1969
6.8Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
The Divorce
1970
7.3"Andremo in città" (We'll Go to the City) is a 1966 Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. It is based on the novel of the same name by Edith Bruck, Risi's wife. Bruck, a Hungarian concentration camp-survivor, settled in Italy after the Second World War and wrote about her experiences in autobiographical and fictional formats.[1] The film stars Geraldine Chaplin and Nino Castelnuovo.
We'll Go to the City
1966