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
6.5Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.
Love in the City
1953
4.6Italian 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
5.2Silvia 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
4.1A 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
5.5Various 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
5.5The 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
6.5Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.
Love in the City
1953
4.6Italian 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
5.2Silvia 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
4.1A 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
5.5Various 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
5.5Various 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
5.5The sexual relationship between a successful woman and her brother, an introvert, hypochondriacal youth, who is also a pornophile.
The Dark Side of Love
1984
5.9On 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 synopsis available yet.
Documento mensile
1951
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Il conte di Melissa
2001
5.5Gianni 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
7.5An 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
5.0Valentine 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
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Fontana di Trevi
1960
4.9Fourteen 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
4.9Fourteen 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
4.3No synopsis available yet.
Senza scrupoli 2
1990
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
6.5Edward 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
