Gian Maria Volonté
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1933-04-09
Locus Natus: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
Et ut: Johnny Wels, Gian-Maria Volonte, Джан Мария Волонте
For a Few Dollars More
Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.
release : 1965.12.18popularis : 28.982
Journey Beneath the Desert
A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt.
release : 1961.05.05popularis : 2.278
Le Cercle Rouge
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a...
release : 1970.10.19popularis : 21.707
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him...
release : 1970.10.16popularis : 10.921
Rosi About Eboli
An exceptional documentary filmed in 1978 by Swedish directors Björn Blixt and Peter Englesson showing the behind-the-scenes of the film Christ...
release : 2022.11.16popularis : 1.086
Christ Stopped at Eboli
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty...
release : 1979.02.23popularis : 6.203
Hercules and the Captive Women
King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the...
release : 1961.08.19popularis : 3.55
Open Doors
Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he kills his superior who sacked him, the man who replaced him and his wife. He wants a quick...
release : 1990.03.29popularis : 2.082
A Bullet for the General
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill...
release : 1967.01.13popularis : 15.607
The Witch
A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces...
release : 1966.09.16popularis : 3.475
The Mattei Affair
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public...
release : 1972.01.26popularis : 7.933
Il caso Moro
On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the...
release : 1986.11.20popularis : 3.632
Face to Face
History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher...
release : 1967.11.23popularis : 4.997
The Abyss
The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe...
release : 1988.05.13popularis : 1.964
Operation Ogre
Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the...
release : 1979.09.28popularis : 3.76
Giordano Bruno
Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in...
release : 1973.11.29popularis : 3.763
The Four Days of Naples
September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, most people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon realize Germans are still in...
release : 1962.11.16popularis : 3.24
Sacco & Vanzetti
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist...
release : 1971.03.16popularis : 7.978
Slap the Monster on Page One
1972, Milan. Just a few days before the general elections, a young girl from an esteemed family is raped and murdered. Bizanti, editor-in-chief of a...
release : 1972.10.19popularis : 6.597
One Way or Another
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing,...
release : 1976.04.30popularis : 5.518
Lady of the Camelias
A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique...
release : 1981.02.26popularis : 4.924
Girl with a Suitcase
Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated....
release : 1961.02.09popularis : 4.969
We Still Kill the Old Way
A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to...
release : 1967.02.24popularis : 7.039
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.
release : 1971.09.17popularis : 10.379
The Violent Four
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
release : 1968.03.29popularis : 2.867
I Am Afraid
During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally...
release : 1977.10.06popularis : 5.117
A Boy from Calabria
Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who...
release : 1987.09.11popularis : 2.336
Many Wars Ago
Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the...
release : 1970.09.17popularis : 10.21
Lucky Luciano
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years...
release : 1973.10.19popularis : 4.588
On the Tiger's Back
Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous...
release : 1961.12.20popularis : 2.307
A Simple Story
After many years, a retired diplomat returns to his native Sicily to visit an abandoned property and delve into family correspondence. But is it...
release : 1991.09.12popularis : 2.346
The Suspect
Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization,...
release : 1975.02.21popularis : 2.393
Wake Up and Die
A petty hoodlum pulls jewellery store heists in broad daylight. The cop on his tail knows he has accomplices and focuses on the gangster's girl...
release : 1966.04.06popularis : 2.766
Seasons of Our Love
Vittorio is a 40-year-old journalist who reaches a mid-life crisis. His wife nags him constantly for ignoring her and their child. After his mistress...
release : 1966.03.25popularis : 1.13
The Assassination
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World....
release : 1972.10.04popularis : 4.866
The Death of Mario Ricci
A TV reporter and his assisstant go to a small Swiss village to do a programme with a reclusive scientist, an expert on world food shortages. During...
release : 1983.05.25popularis : 7.578
The Bandit
Sicily, 1865. Two peasants, Gramigna and his father are tricked by Baron Nardò and robbed of their field, which then the baron lets to...
release : 1969.01.29popularis : 2.36
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by...
release : 1987.05.08popularis : 8.53
The Magnificent Cuckold
Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he...
release : 1964.10.19popularis : 7.08
The Seven Cervi Brothers
The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World...
release : 1968.02.16popularis : 2.76
The Terrorist
In Venice in 1943, a group of partisans led by Renato Braschi organize a series of autonomous terrorist attacks against the fascists while the...
release : 1963.10.25popularis : 3.714
Banderas, the Tyrant
In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels...
release : 1993.11.19popularis : 3.882
A Man for Burning
Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the...
release : 1962.10.26popularis : 2.818
Pestalozzi's Mountain
In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he...
release : 1989.03.17popularis : 2.97
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
The film documents the trade union battle of the workers of the Apollon printing house in Rome, occupied for a few months after the management...
release : 1969.04.20popularis : 0.4
La tenda in piazza
The film recounts the struggle of the factory workers of five Italian factories, Cagli, Coca Cola, Filodont, Luciani and Metalfer. A montage of...
release : 1972.02.19popularis : 0.223
Summit
Paolo, a special guest of an Italian newspaper, leaves for Paris to attend an international conference, a summit meeting, the 'summit' of hope. He...
release : 1968.10.16popularis : 0.372
Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli
The film examines the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell from the fourth floor of the police headquarters in Milan December 15, 1969,...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 0.57
Stark System
Armenia Balducci's film, featuring Gian Maria Volontè as Stark, a cop-movie actor that falls prey to paranoia because he fears his latest...
release : 1980.03.14popularis : 1.314
The Felling of the Forest
In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an...
release : 1963.09.18popularis : 0.431
Fedra
Theatre play adaptation of Jean Racine's Phaedra filmed for TV.
release : 1957.02.26popularis : 0.608
Summer Night
Barcelona in the early sixties: black and white chronicle of the ups and downs in the relationship of several young couples of the Catalan...
release : 1963.06.03popularis : 2.251
Wind from the East
A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a...
release : 1970.08.19popularis : 3.247
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.
release : 2005.09.03popularis : 1.233
Gangster Girl
A successful young writer is in search of his true destiny. Is it the life with his wife and typewriter in Amsterdam or the offers to go to the...
release : 1966.10.13popularis : 1.439
Letters from Marusia
Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most...
release : 1975.12.26popularis : 2.96
We Are Cinema
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
release : 2021.12.16popularis : 2.408
Tre colonne in cronaca
Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a...
release : 1990.03.09popularis : 3.011
Forgotten Activism
Volonté, the militant. How many people know this singular and important aspect of the great Milanese actor's life? "Forgotten Activism"...
release : 2017.01.01popularis : 0.119
Under the Sign of Scorpio
An island has been decimated by a volcanic eruption and the few survivors escape to a nearby island. Led by Rutolo, they know that their new home is...
release : 1969.04.04popularis : 1.184
Funes, a Great Love
A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.
release : 1993.04.01popularis : 1.208
Under Ten Flags
"Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and...
release : 1960.09.15popularis : 2.089
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté
release : 2004.01.12popularis : 1.305
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
A portrait of the famous italian actor and political activist Gian Maria Volonté.
release : 2005.10.29popularis : 0.731
Caravaggio
A miniseries about Caravaggio's life.
release : 1967.10.15popularis : 1.051
A Fistful of Dollars
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter....
release : 1964.09.12popularis : 31.545
For Love and Gold
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a...
release : 1966.04.07popularis : 8.397
Zénon the Rebel
Zénon is the hero of “The Abyss”, the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He is also the main character in...
release : 2019.12.11popularis : 1.505
La strada più lunga
Michele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he returns home in 1943, but is now tired and...
release : 1965.11.24popularis : 0.916
Spanish Western
A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it...
release : 2015.05.04popularis : 2.471
Reflections on a Political Cinema
This documentary addresses the challenges facing the Italian film industry in 1978 by focusing on the television productions of Francesco Rosi's...
release : 1978.07.05popularis : 0.452
Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli
After a wave of arrests in 1969, Italian anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli allegedly falls out of a police building window while being interrogated. The...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 1.211
Volonté - The Man of a Thousand Faces
A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and...
release : 2024.08.28popularis : 5.774
Saul
Television play adaptation of Vittorio Alfieri's tragedy Saul (1782).
release : 1959.11.06popularis : 0.292