Silvio Narizzano

Silvio Narizzano

Birth : 1927-02-08, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Death : 2011-07-26

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Silvio Narizzano

Movies

Young Shoulders
Director
Drama adaptation of his own novel by John Wain, with Robert Smith, concerning the deeply critical view of his parents by their son, exacerbated by the tragic death of his younger sister.
Choices
Director
A popular high school student seems to have it all; a spot on the football team, the love of playing music in the school orchestra and a girlfriend. His world seems to come apart when the school doctor discovers he is partially deaf, causing him to be cut from the football team on the advice of the doctor. The student's friends fight to keep him on the team; while he struggles with his problem by withdrawing from everything he loves and starts falling in with the wrong crowd.
Staying On
Director
A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.
Bloodbath
Director
Chicken, a desperate hippie junkie living in a small Spanish village, is finding it difficult to separate fantasy and reality. This isn't helped by the villagers practising magic and child sacrifice, or his involvement with a group of boozy expatriates lost in their own dreams and regrets.
The Class Of Miss MacMichael
Director
A dedicated teacher tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
Come Back, Little Sheba
Director
An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.
Why Shoot the Teacher?
Director
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not a dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid.
Fade-In
Producer
A sophisticated Hollywood film editor, on location for a film she is working on, falls for a local cowboy who is hired to work on the film.
Redneck
Director
Franco Nero and Telly Savalas star in the story of a trio of jewel thieves on the lam after a heist goes very wrong. Wrecking their car they take another unaware that there is a teenager hiding in the back. As the flight becomes more frantic, the young man is discovered, upsetting the balance of the thieves.
Pal
Director
Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.
Loot
Director
Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott.
Blue
Director
A young man is torn between the woman he loves and his loyalty to his father, the leader of a mexican gang.
Georgy Girl
Director
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while attempting to please her glamorously stuck-up roommate Meredith.
Fanatic
Director
A young woman is terrorized by her fiance's demented mother who blames her for her son's death.
Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life
Director
Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised to change, most of her strait-laced relatives are up in arms. But Clare Lester, Helen's grandmother, says the girl is free to join the man she loves. On one condition, that she listen to the story of a day in Clare's own life and of a man she tried to change.
Thunder on Sycamore Street
Director
When Joseph Blake, who once did prison time, and his daughter, Anna, move to Sycamore Street, their neighbors on the otherwise "peaceful" street converge to chase them out. But the Blakes don't back down.
Granada: From the North
Himself
A 1992 documentary marking the history and achievements of the British televison company, Granada TV.