Franco Cristaldi Movies

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sean Connery

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...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Gian Maria Volonté

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Philippe Noiret

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vittorio Gassman

In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Bruno Zanin

Vito Polara is ambitious and wants to get as more power and money as possible. He decides to leave the cigarette smuggling and try to get the total...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosanna Schiaffino

In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and...

Genre: History

Cast: Yves Beneyton

A vineyard's manager marries the owner's very young daughter; father dies. Deceit, infidelity. The husband is forced to watch from a distance as his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Schell

Sandra returns to her childhood village to take care of family business, but childhood memories and secrets soon overcome her.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudia Cardinale

Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Camilla, a middle-aged Venetian widow, arrives in Rome to take up service as a maid for the Rossetti family, who are not prosperous. With her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Luciana Angiolillo

Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Paolo Villaggio

A shipwreck strands a modern Italian businessman on a desert island. Like Robinson Crusoe he must find a way to return to civilization; unlike...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Paolo Villaggio

Love during wartime blossoms between crusader Bradamante—a female knight wearing an invincible suit of armor—and Moorish prince Ruggero....

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Zeudi Araya

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Peter Finch

Krios, the youngest of the Titans, may be the least strong of the seven brothers whose strength comes from their mother, earth-goddess Gaia, but is...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Antonella Lualdi

Annalisa is married to Marco, a journalist too busy with her career, who neglects her even though she loves him deeply. He therefore decides to find...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Monica Vitti

Aliens send a hypnotic signal through a TV channel, and the signal makes people dance and makes them forget their fears.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Maurizio Nichetti

The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nino Castelnuovo

Misadventures of Colombo, an engineer in Milano. He is the only winner of an admission test for a job, and just for this reason he isn't hired. So he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maurizio Nichetti

Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sarah Miles

England, first half of the 19th century. Edmund Kean is a celebrated theatre actor, notorious for his tumultuous private life. He is in love with the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vittorio Gassman

An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nino Manfredi

An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gian Maria Volonté

In 1956, with the independence of Morocco, the Fedala conference in Tangier is set in a city of turmoil.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Valeria Golino

An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudia Cardinale

Three friends meeting after the absence of one of them for 15 years out of the country. This sudden gathering give them the opportunity to examine...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vittorio Gassman

The real-life courage and audacity of aeronautic acrobats whose ground life is often as exciting as flight maneuvers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Riccardo Salvino

At the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudia Cardinale

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gian Maria Volonté

Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the famous place Ramazzini and has so many...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Johnny Dorelli

A detective gets involved with the beautiful daughter of an old friend. The daughter turns out to be a jewel thief, who in turn gets the detective...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Rock Hudson

Two racy women decide to chuck their mundane lives and go on a wild adventure.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Monica Vitti

As he does every year, Severino, a young hawker who goes around the festivals of the various villages in the Po Delta, returns to Migliarino to sell...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

Playwright irreparable failure is betrayed by a concubine with the lawyer that finances the charade. But one day arrives at his house Honey, Eastern...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Johnny Dorelli

The usual gang of robbers are hired by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will hinder the success of the operation.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vittorio Gassman

Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young son Giulio develops a cough. The doctor recommends...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pietro Germi

In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Freddie Jones

Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Carole André

The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Stefania Sandrelli

Renato and Gedeon have just opened a nightclub in a disreputable area of New York, triggering the hostility of Gionata, a gang leader and owner of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Renato Rascel

Italy, 1972. Political elections are taking place and Christian Democrat victory is expected; but the electronic computer of the Ministry of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Steffen Zacharias

Maurizio wakes up after sleeping for twenty years and goes to live with his cousin Carlina, who shares her apartment with two other women: one an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Maurizio Nichetti

Giovanna and Franco are lovers pretending to be brother and sister in order to con unsuspecting marks while staying in the most luxurious locales...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Monica Vitti

Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Totò

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A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Claudia Cardinale

Sicilian bandit Salvatore Giuliano's bullet-riddled corpse is found facedown in a courtyard in Castelvetrano, a handgun and rifle by his side. Local...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Salvo Randone

Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Daniele Costantini

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

A young aspiring director steals a silent movie camera to make his movie.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Benjamin Lev

Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

Giordano is a young man from Milan who accepts a ride from a trio of Americans (an "open" couple and a homosexual) sightseeing in Italy. The husband...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Janet Ågren

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sydne Rome

A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a handsome younger man are amongst the lodgers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gina Lollobrigida

The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Manuel Colao

An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Ben Gazzara

Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Enzo Jannacci

September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving...

Genre: War

Cast: Renato Salvatori

Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Glauco Mauri

The wife of an accused murderer embarks on a dangerous masquerade to find the real culprit behind a dancer's death.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Brigitte Bardot

An alien takes over the body of a factory worker in order to learn about Earth so his race can take it over.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Renato Salvatori

There was once upon a time the Grand Duchy of Forilalì where Aladdin lived. After taking part in many robberies, he decided to turn honest for...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Gianni Morandi

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gian Maria Volonté

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marcello Mastroianni

During WW2 a platoon of marines fights the Japanese on a little island in the Pacific Ocean. On the island there is a hut where old Taikiki lives...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Renato Rascel

The adventures of Lieutenant Airoldi of Piedmont who is trying to gather intelligence for the Republic about the advancing Austrian armies near the...

Genre: War

Cast: Oscar Navarro

The adventures of Lieutenant Airoldi of Piedmont who is trying to gather intelligence for the Republic about the advancing Austrian armies near the...

Genre: War

Cast: Oscar Navarro