Romolo Valli
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1925-02-07
Locus Natus: Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Et ut: Ромоло Валли
Duck, You Sucker
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert...
release : 1971.10.20popularis : 11.458
The Leopard
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes...
release : 1963.03.27popularis : 21.584
1900
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
release : 1976.08.28popularis : 11.4
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
In late 1930s Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Continis are a leading family: wealthy, aristocratic, and urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children,...
release : 1970.12.04popularis : 11.973
Womanlight
Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
release : 1979.08.29popularis : 4.444
Death in Venice
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy...
release : 1971.03.05popularis : 11.604
Bobby Deerfield
Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
release : 1977.09.29popularis : 6.642
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been...
release : 1959.03.18popularis : 2.109
Boccaccio '70
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city;...
release : 1962.02.23popularis : 10.201
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
What?
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.
release : 1972.12.07popularis : 9.119
The Story of Romance and Knife
The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.
release : 1971.09.18popularis : 4.282
An Average Little Man
Giovanni Vivaldi is an average middle-aged man with a secure job as a government accountant. He wishes nothing more than to set up his only son...
release : 1977.03.17popularis : 7.899
Conversation Piece
A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her...
release : 1974.12.20popularis : 9.043
Complexes
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for...
release : 1965.08.15popularis : 4.327
Right You Are (if you think so)
Absurdism’s king of comedy, Luigi Pirandello, adapted a 1915 short story he wrote titled “Signora Frola and Signor Ponza, Her...
release : 1974.01.01popularis : 0.434
The Rules of the Game
Leone, a very rational man, silently accepts that his wife Silia is cheating on him with Guido. When a well-known swordsman offends Silia, the woman...
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 0.616
The Lovemakers
The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full...
release : 1961.06.13popularis : 3.28
A Day for Lionhearts
September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving...
release : 1961.09.05popularis : 0.732
Don't Sting the Mosquito
Rita, a vivacious co-ed flees her boarding school with her music teacher, who is also engaged to her. She wants to take part in a singing contest but...
release : 1967.03.24popularis : 2.271
The Visit
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and...
release : 1964.05.06popularis : 6.904
The Constancy of Reason
Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals — instilled by Millo, a father figure and...
release : 1964.11.27popularis : 0.486
The Great War
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to...
release : 1959.10.28popularis : 7.203
The Mandrake
A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.
release : 1965.11.18popularis : 1.626
Silence the Witness
De Luca is killed by Marchetti's chauffeur. Marchetti ordered the murder because he was to be accused by De Luca. The two have a car accident while...
release : 1974.05.15popularis : 0.706
The Devil's Advocate
A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being...
release : 1977.10.26popularis : 3.556
The Slave
Silvia is young, beautiful and rich. When her husband goes on a business trip, she starts working as a secretary for Margaret, a famous film star....
release : 1969.12.07popularis : 6.087
A Fistful of Dynamite
Based on the Lucky Luke comic books; Lucky Luke (Terence Hill) arrives into a tiny western town, Purgatory, and is asked to escort 12 mail order...
release : 1971.01.01popularis : 1.291
My Dear Nephews
1936. In a village in the Bassa Padana, a beautiful and shapely forty-year-old girl is aunt of some boys in the middle of their sexual maturity.
release : 1974.01.01popularis : 0.657
Boom!
Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a...
release : 1968.05.26popularis : 3.095
Una storia milanese
Milan, one winter in the early sixties. Valeria, a free young woman who usually goes from one man to another, falls in love with Giampiero. This...
release : 1962.09.06popularis : 2.038
Outlaws of Love
This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absence of a divorce law. Five scenarios...
release : 1963.12.03popularis : 1.305
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 : 21.755
Holocaust 2000
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
release : 1977.11.25popularis : 6.096
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the...
release : 1968.02.08popularis : 1.408
Six Characters in Search of an Author
Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore is an Italian staged filmmaking of the play of the same name, written by Luigi Pirandello about the relationship...
release : 1965.09.25popularis : 0.624
The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci
release : 1976.02.28popularis : 0.801
Five Branded Women
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to...
release : 1960.03.15popularis : 4.468
Memories of a Young Pianist
Interview with the italian composer Claudio Gizzi about his lifetime and work as part or the extras of the Blu-Ray edition from What? (Che?) (1972)...
release : 2009.11.03popularis : 1.855
Ciao, Federico!
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
release : 1970.10.28popularis : 2.849
I piaceri del sabato notte
Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.
release : 1960.05.04popularis : 1.393
Sweet and Sour
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is...
release : 1963.09.04popularis : 2.012
The Shortest Day
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
release : 1963.02.14popularis : 3.954
Paulina 1880
In 1880's Italy, young Paulina must join a monastery to escape a doomed relationship with a married count. However, neither she, nor the count can...
release : 1972.06.09popularis : 0.551