Robert Rietti
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1923-02-08
Locus Natus: Paddington, London, England, UK
Et ut: Bobby Rietti, Roberto Rietti, Robert Rietti, Sir Robert Rietti, Robert Rietty, Lucio Herbert Rietti
The Scarlet Blade
A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the english civil war. A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on...
release : 1963.09.01popularis : 6.196
Hilary and Jackie
The tragic story of world-renowned cellist Jacqueline du Pré, as told from the point of view of her sister, flautist Hilary du...
release : 1998.12.30popularis : 12.113
The Crooked Road
An investigative reporter travels to a small European country with the hope of exposing its dictator's family secrets.
release : 1965.02.03popularis : 1.274
Song of Norway
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic...
release : 1970.11.04popularis : 2.054
The Black Rider
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined...
release : 1954.12.01popularis : 3.518
55 Days at Peking
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer...
release : 1963.05.06popularis : 10.764
Sunday Bloody Sunday
Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artist Bob Elkin, fully aware that he's also...
release : 1971.07.01popularis : 8.781
The Golden Coach
A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru.
release : 1952.12.05popularis : 7.201
The Sea Change
Arrogant businessman Rupert Granger is used to getting everything he wants... everything except Alison. Rupert is determined to win her over, only...
release : 1998.05.19popularis : 0.902
Gulliver's Travels
Based on the novel of the same name by Jonathan Swift and built around the Lilliput and Blefuscu episode. It was made partly in live action and...
release : 1977.01.01popularis : 2.522
The Desperados
A Confederate and his sons become postwar marauders and face another son who left them, in Texas.
release : 1969.02.28popularis : 8.259
That Lady
In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his...
release : 1955.05.11popularis : 2.798
A Matter of Life and Death
When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But...
release : 1946.12.15popularis : 11.007
Cross of Iron
It is 1943, and the German army—ravaged and demoralised—is hastily retreating from the Russian front. In the midst of the madness,...
release : 1977.01.29popularis : 14.939
The Guns of Navarone
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range...
release : 1961.04.27popularis : 25.097
Girls Will Be Boys
The Duke of Bridgewater sends for the heir he's never seen. His heir is Patricia, and the Duke is a woman-hater, so Patricia disguises herself as a...
release : 1934.10.29popularis : 2.099
Let's Be Happy
On receiving an inheritance from her grandfather, Canadian Jeannie MacLean decides to visit the family's Scottish roots. On the plane she meets...
release : 1957.05.07popularis : 5.323
The Persuaders!
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis),...
release : 1973.04.01popularis : 2.12
The Key
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives...
release : 1958.05.28popularis : 8.49
Time to Remember
A gang of jewel thieves rob a house which has just become empty following the recent death of it's rich lady owner. The robbery is not a complete...
release : 1962.07.01popularis : 1.956
The Challenge
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
release : 1938.09.14popularis : 1.499
My Song Goes Round the World
Set in Venice, the touching and sometimes comic story of a diminutive tenor who falls in love whilst striving for success. Also filmed in German as...
release : 1934.09.22popularis : 0.731
The Yellow Rolls-Royce
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The...
release : 1964.12.31popularis : 13.187
Facing The Music
A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s...
release : 1933.01.01popularis : 0.986
Melba
Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.
release : 1953.08.07popularis : 1.597
Becket
King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another...
release : 1964.03.11popularis : 18.201
Give Us This Day
Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in...
release : 1949.10.14popularis : 4.637
The Last Run
A former mob getaway driver from Chicago has retired to a peaceful life in a Portuguese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job - to...
release : 1971.07.07popularis : 2.525
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Academy Award-honoree Peter O'Toole stars in this musical classic about a prim English schoolmaster who learns to show his compassion through the...
release : 1969.11.05popularis : 6.945
The Ruling Class
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman;...
release : 1972.09.13popularis : 8.812
The Blood of Fu Manchu
Fu Manchu inoculates ten women with poison, to kill ten world leaders.
release : 1968.08.23popularis : 6.073
The Fall of the Roman Empire
In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius...
release : 1964.03.24popularis : 20.487
Lawrence of Arabia
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War....
release : 1962.12.11popularis : 34.279
The Omen
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he...
release : 1976.06.25popularis : 31.423
Mr. Arkadin
Claiming that he doesn't know his own past, a rich man enlists an ex-con with an odd bit of detective work. Gregory Arkadin says he can't remember...
release : 1955.08.09popularis : 12.084
Heads We Go
A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.
release : 1933.07.28popularis : 0.715
I Spy
Two Americans in England--a wealthy playboy and an actress--join forces to stop international spies.
release : 1934.08.26popularis : 0.634
Doctor Zhivago
The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship...
release : 1965.12.22popularis : 14.2
Othello
When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes...
release : 1951.11.28popularis : 12.786
Last Video and Testament
Rich old businessman suspects his much younger wife of cheating on him. When his weak heart forces him to have a risky surgery he leaves a videotaped...
release : 1984.09.12popularis : 1.179
Barbarella
In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual...
release : 1968.10.10popularis : 20.264
Doctor's Orders
Leslie Fuller stars as a quack whose son qualifies as a doctor in total ignorance of his father's occupation!
release : 1934.11.01popularis : 2.04
The Italian Job
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose...
release : 1969.06.02popularis : 22.85
Stock Car
Katie attempts to save her father's failing garage, after he is killed during a stock car race. She is assisted by an American driver, Larry Duke,...
release : 1955.01.01popularis : 1.547
Tank Force!
During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
release : 1958.04.22popularis : 2.741
Hawk the Slayer
Hawk the Slayer, after seeing both his father and bride die at the hands of his malevolent brother, Voltan, sets out for revenge and the chance to...
release : 1980.08.27popularis : 13.486
Love with a Perfect Stranger
Beautiful wealthy American businesswoman meets eccentric Irishman on an Italian train, who sets out to woo her. What ensues is something neither...
release : 1986.10.12popularis : 1.88
Hannibal
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again...
release : 2001.02.08popularis : 6.367
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get involved with Balkan terrorists to save Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from an assassination at the opera...
release : 1991.12.06popularis : 4.483
Avalanche Express
CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel...
release : 1979.09.27popularis : 11.448
The Thief of Baghdad
A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.
release : 1978.01.10popularis : 3.721
Gawain and the Green Knight
The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
release : 1973.06.01popularis : 3.135
The Truth About Women
Baffled and at a loss to understand the mentality of Diana, his wife, Anthony makes a frantic visit to the home of her parents to discover that she...
release : 1957.10.01popularis : 2.724
Hot Enough for June
A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
release : 1964.01.01popularis : 3.54
The Hiding Place
The Hiding Place is an account of a Dutch family who risk their lives by offering a safe haven for Jews during World War II
release : 1975.05.04popularis : 15.518
Never Say Never Again
James Bond returns as the secret agent 007 to battle the evil organization SPECTRE. Bond must defeat Largo, who has stolen two atomic warheads for...
release : 1983.10.07popularis : 20.416
Sleeping Car to Trieste
Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
release : 1948.10.06popularis : 1.495
Middle Course
During World War II, the residents of a French village find an able helper in their task of making life difficult for German-occupying forces in a...
release : 1961.11.10popularis : 2.079
Madame Sousatzka
In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays...
release : 1988.10.14popularis : 2.257
Joseph and His Brethren
A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power - but shows forgiveness and compassion to...
release : 1961.08.23popularis : 3.217
Emil and the Detectives
Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version...
release : 1935.02.05popularis : 1.498
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence...
release : 1966.09.28popularis : 20.014
You Can't Win 'Em All
During the 1922 Turkish Civil War, two Americans and a group of foreign mercenaries offer their services to a local Turkish governor who hires them...
release : 1970.07.23popularis : 11.635
Hell Is Empty
On the run from the police, a female thief and her band of robbers take refuge on a desert island where they discover a mansion inhabited by a family...
release : 1967.12.20popularis : 0.932
October Revolution
French director Frederic Rossif presents this historical documentary that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Stock...
release : 1967.10.11popularis : 1.224
The Night of the Generals
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects,...
release : 1967.01.29popularis : 11.315
The Ceremony
A man has an affair with his condemned brother's girlfriend while plotting his escape in Tangier.
release : 1963.12.18popularis : 4.554
Reflections in a Golden Eye
Bizarre tale of sex, betrayal, and perversion at a military post.
release : 1967.10.13popularis : 10.932
Light in the Piazza
A young American woman traveling in Italy with her mother is slender, blonde, beautiful and there is something charmingly naive about her. Fabrizio...
release : 1962.02.07popularis : 4.39
Triple Cross
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
release : 1966.12.09popularis : 9.505
Checkpoint
Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However,...
release : 1956.12.25popularis : 2.292
Trail of the Pink Panther
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears...
release : 1982.12.03popularis : 14.747
The Boy Who Stole a Million
A boy gets involved in a bank robbery
release : 1960.09.02popularis : 2.395
Lost Command
After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of...
release : 1966.05.01popularis : 9.387
Time Bomb
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation,...
release : 1953.02.05popularis : 3.818
Prelude to Fame
While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine, becomes...
release : 1950.05.02popularis : 0.992
Battle of the Bulge
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive...
release : 1965.12.16popularis : 14.78