List of the best Francesco Rosi movies: The Mattei Affair(1972), Many Wars Ago(1970), Salvatore Giuliano(1962), Three Brothers(1981), The Palermo Connection(1991), Lucky Luciano(1974), Hands Over the City(1962), Eboli(1979), More Than a Miracle(1967) ... ...
Crime, Drama, Biography
Italy
1972
115 Minutes
Director
Gian Maria Volonte Luigi Squarzina Peter Baldwin Franco Graziosi Edda Ferronao Gianfranco Ombuen Accursio Di Leo Furio Colombo
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ... See full summary »
Drama, War
Italy|Yugoslavia
1970
101 Minutes
Director
Mark Frechette Alain Cuny Gian Maria Volonte Giampiero Albertini Pier Paolo Capponi Franco Graziosi Mario Feliciani Brunetto Del Vita Alberto Mastino
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On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the Italian troops.
Crime, Drama
Italy
1962
119 Minutes
Director
Salvo Randone Bruno Ekmar Federico Zardi Frank Wolff Pietro Cammarata
The unclear and complicated twists between governal powers, independentist party and Mafia in the Sicily of the '40s culminate with the death of Salvatore Giuliano.
Drama
Italy|France
1981
113 Minutes
Director
Philippe Noiret Michele Placido Vittorio Mezzogiorno Charles Vanel Andréa Ferréol Maddelena Crippa Sara Tafuri Pietro Biondi Maddalena Crippa
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Three men face their mother's death.
Drama
USA
1991
100 Minutes
Director
James Belushi Mimi Rogers Joss Ackland Philippe Noiret Vittorio Gassman Carolina Rosi Harry Davis Marco Leonardi Ronald Yamamoto Marino Mase Vyto Ruginis
Story of a 1940s photographer who specializes in crime and is not getting involved until this time.
Biography, Drama, Crime
USA|France|Italy
1974
110 Minutes
Director
Gian Maria Volonte Rod Steiger Vincent Gardenia Silverio Blasi Charles Cioffi Larry Gates Magda Konopka Jacques Monod
Biopic of Mafia boss Lucky Luciano, covering his life from 1946 to 1962 with occasional flashbacks.
Drama
1962
105 Minutes
Director
Rod Steiger Salvo Randone Guido Alberti Angelo D'Alessandro Carlo Fermariello Dany Paris Guglielmo Metafora Marallo Cannavale
Drama
1979
118 Minutes
Director
Gian Maria Volonte Irene Papas Paolo Bonacelli Alain Cuny Léa Massari François Simon Antonio Allocca
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A fact-based account of author-artist Carlo Levi's political exile in a remote Italian village during the 1930s.
Fantasy
1967
110 Minutes
Director
Sophia Loren Omar Sharif Dolores del Río Georges Wilson Leslie French Marina Malfatti Anna Nogara Rita Forzano Rosa Maria Martino Carlotta Barilli Fleur Mombelli
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A 17th-century Spanish prince (Omar Sharif) falls for a peasant (Sophia Loren) instead of one of his mother's (Dolores del Río) seven princesses.