List of the best Valerio Zurlini movies: Girl With a Suitcase(1961), The Camp Followers(1965), Violent Summer(1959), Family Diary(1962), Black Jesus(1968) ... ...
Comedy, Drama
Italy|France
1961
135 Minutes
Director
Claudia Cardinale Jacques Perrin Corrado Pani Romolo Valli Luciana Angelillo Renato Baldini Ciccio Barbi Nadia Bianchi Elsa Albani Riccardo Garrone Edda Soligo
singer playboy teen boy bandleader amusing passionate italy nightclub hotel class distinctions show business first love atonement brother relationship love underdog 1960s
A girl pursues a guy who fooled her, but fascinates his younger brother instead.
War
Italy|France|West Germany|Yugoslavia
1965
136 Minutes
Director
Mario Adorf Anna Karina Marie Laforêt Léa Massari Tomas Milian Rosanna Di Rocco Milena Dravic Guido Alberti Valeria Moriconi Mila Stanic
prostitute lieutenant fascist soldier love interest sergeant engaging gripping tense athens, greece albania truck world war ii military survival journey love prostitution love quest
In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.
Drama
Italy|France
1959
99 Minutes
Director
Eleonora Rossi Drago Jean-Louis Trintignant Jacqueline Sassard Lilla Brignone Cathia Caro Raf Mattioli Federica Ranchi Enrico Maria Salerno
young man father widow son friend love interest engaging intense playful italy beach nightclub apartment romance world war ii father/son relationship mother/son relationship self-sacrifice ignorance discovery
Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. ... See full summary »
Drama
Italy
1962
113 Minutes
Director
Marcello Mastroianni Jacques Perrin Sylvie Salvo Randone Valeria Ciangottini Liliana Campa Capodaglio Serena Vergano Marco Guglielmi
journalist man grandmother nun butler italian emotional bleak somber engaging heartwarming endearing florence, italy rome italy italian neighborhood brotherhood death family journalism
A man recollects the life of his late younger brother.
Drama
1968
100 Minutes
Director
Woody Strode Franco Citti Jean Servais Pier Paolo Capponi Stephen Forsyth Salvatore Basile
After mercenaries capture an African pacifist (Woody Strode), the regime hesitates to assassinate him, fearing his martyrdom.