Writing

Riccardo Ghione

Born — Died

1922-02-22 — 2003-01-01

Place of birth

Acqui Terme, Alessandria

Known for

Writing

Credits

19 titles

Riccardo Ghione was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer. In 1951, he co-founded "Documento Mensile" with Marco Ferreri, a filmed magazine intended to involve numerous writers and directors. Ghione made his directorial debut in the 1960s with films such as Il Limbo (1967) and La rivoluzione sessuale (1968). He continued to explore various genres, directing Il prato macchiato di rosso (1973), a film that blends horror and social commentary. Ghione's work is characterized by its engagement with contemporary societal issues and experimentation with different cinematic styles.

Known for

Love in the City poster
6.5

Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.

Love in the City

1953

Delizia poster
4.6

Italian fashion model living in New York decides to sell a villa located in the central Italian countryside and to make it back to their homeland.

Delizia

1986

Unscrupulous poster
5.2

Silvia belongs to a respectable family, the wife of a jeweler in Turin, but charming woman bored by marriage. One night she is alone at home and unwisely opens the door to a stranger trying to rob her and eventually decides to rape her. The police and her husband try to convince Silvia not complain, but she starts looking for the man who raped her for revenge. When he finds, however, is attracted by humiliation and violence suffered and she becomes his lover with anything.

Unscrupulous

1986

Scandalous Gilda poster
4.1

A woman catches her husband in bed with a much younger lady. Shocked and distraught, the woman leaves her husband. She decides to embark on a road trip of erotic self discovery. The woman meets a cartoonist during her sensual pilgrimage and gets involved in a torrid sexual affair with him.

Scandalous Gilda

1985

The Bloodstained Lawn poster
5.5

Various undesirables and hippie drifters are invited to the luxury, ultra-modern country home of Dr. Antonio and his wife; when they begin to vanish, it becomes clear that something sinister — and deadly — is afoot.

The Bloodstained Lawn

1973

The Dark Side of Love poster
5.5

The sexual relationship between a successful woman and her brother, an introvert, hypochondriacal youth, who is also a pornophile.

The Dark Side of Love

1984

Behind the camera

Love in the City poster
6.5

Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.

Love in the City

1953

Delizia poster
4.6

Italian fashion model living in New York decides to sell a villa located in the central Italian countryside and to make it back to their homeland.

Delizia

1986

Unscrupulous poster
5.2

Silvia belongs to a respectable family, the wife of a jeweler in Turin, but charming woman bored by marriage. One night she is alone at home and unwisely opens the door to a stranger trying to rob her and eventually decides to rape her. The police and her husband try to convince Silvia not complain, but she starts looking for the man who raped her for revenge. When he finds, however, is attracted by humiliation and violence suffered and she becomes his lover with anything.

Unscrupulous

1986

Scandalous Gilda poster
4.1

A woman catches her husband in bed with a much younger lady. Shocked and distraught, the woman leaves her husband. She decides to embark on a road trip of erotic self discovery. The woman meets a cartoonist during her sensual pilgrimage and gets involved in a torrid sexual affair with him.

Scandalous Gilda

1985

The Bloodstained Lawn poster
5.5

Various undesirables and hippie drifters are invited to the luxury, ultra-modern country home of Dr. Antonio and his wife; when they begin to vanish, it becomes clear that something sinister — and deadly — is afoot.

The Bloodstained Lawn

1973

The Bloodstained Lawn poster
5.5

Various undesirables and hippie drifters are invited to the luxury, ultra-modern country home of Dr. Antonio and his wife; when they begin to vanish, it becomes clear that something sinister — and deadly — is afoot.

The Bloodstained Lawn

1973

The Dark Side of Love poster
5.5

The sexual relationship between a successful woman and her brother, an introvert, hypochondriacal youth, who is also a pornophile.

The Dark Side of Love

1984

Notes on a True Story poster
5.9

On the evening of March 11, 1950, Annabella Bracci, a 12-year-old girl, was brutally killed and thrown into a pit on the outskirts of Rome, near the village of Primavalle. A brief and poetic account of the events and their impact on an impoverished community. A handful of wild flowers and a painful catch in the voices.

Notes on a True Story

1951

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Documento mensile

1951

Il conte di Melissa poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il conte di Melissa

2001

What a Girl poster
5.5

Gianni is a middle-aged man with sexual problems. His doctor, seeing that medicines are useless, advised him to try to have relationships with several women but only a beautiful psychologist will be able to solve his problem.

What a Girl

1990

Il raccomandato di ferro poster
7.5

An Italian clerk has been helped to his position by a fake kickback letter from a politician who, meanwhile has become a state secretary. His colleagues thus send him to Rome to settle an important matter with the powerful character. The poor fellow goes hoping the truth will not come out.

Il raccomandato di ferro

1959

Dirty Love 2: The Love Games poster
5.0

Valentine Demy stars as Eva, the gorgeous queen of the town brothel, which she left after inheriting a villa from a wealthy client. Now alone and bored, she picks up three handsome young men (including David D'Ingeo) and, one after the other installs them in her villa where she lovingly cares for each of them. The boys are more than happy to share exuberant Eva's brazen sensuality, without any jealousy, whilst Eva entertains them with arousing tales from her brothel days. However, the idyll ends when Eva falls for an older businessman, upsetting her young lovers who then plot to kill her. But they soon realise instead how Eva has changed their lives for the better, and they happily set off for more adventures leaving Eva the chance to begin a new life.

Dirty Love 2: The Love Games

1989

Fontana di Trevi poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fontana di Trevi

1960

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

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

Senza scrupoli 2 poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Senza scrupoli 2

1990

No artwork available
10.0

Unhappily married with an affluent banker, former hippie Silvana awaits her chance to get rid of her husband without giving up his wealth.

A cuore freddo

1971

Belle da morire poster
6.5

Edward Sacchi is a wealthy and apparently content married man but underneath he is driven by a desire to seduce and discard women. One of his conquests, Lucy, falls in love with him and when spurned, commits suicide. Edward is shocked but continues as before. Each of his lovers are subsequently murdered and he is arrested. However, his wife saves him by arranging an appointment with the real killer...

Belle da morire

1992