Riz Ortolani Movies

An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey through the great...

Rome, 1929. The Pope's tailor sends his only son, 35-year-old virgin Nello, to more liberal Bologna hoping he'll find a wife. His head brimming with...

At a farmhouse, a large family cooks mountains of food for the next day's engagement party for Silvia and her city fiancé, Angelo. Her parents...

An Italian reporter is travelling on the Instabul-Athens train. A woman is murdered with the reporter's letter-opener so that makes him the main...

Although he is in his thirties, Orlando still feels like a child. He is terrified of the outside world and is stuck in an obsessive relationship with...

Friendship and competition among a group of bank clerks in 1980s Italy.

Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo.

Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.

A secret agent is assigned ot rescue the daughter of a deceased East German scienist, who discovered a valuable formula.

Christina Fisher arrives in Sardinia to spend a holiday with her university friend, Francesco. As they are touring the island, they are trapped by...

Based on Mikhail Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic...

Incredibly, the bride at the altar falls in love with the best man on first sight, and even though he makes efforts to avoid her infatuation with...

Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her.

A look at the careers of Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco Prosperi who invented the mondo genre with MONDO CANE in 1962. It follows their career until...

When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with...

Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.

A group of gangsters escape from prison and attempt to destroy a rival organisation holed up in a convent in Mexico.