Alfio Contini

Nascimento : 1927-09-19, Castiglioncello, Livorno, Tuscany, Italy

Morte : 2020-03-23

Filmes

Keller - Teenage Wasteland
Director of Photography
Sebastian and Paul are two bored boys about 16 years of age. They drink alcohol, steal - and attend a private school. They can't find a sense of meaning in their present adolescent existence. They abduct Sonja and lock her in an old, abandoned factory building. But what shall they do with her? Disorientation, fear, desire and also love are changing to cruel aggressivity.
O Retorno do Talentoso Ripley
Director of Photography
Tom Ripley (John Malkovich) possui um dom incomum: é capaz de imitar, com perfeição, a assinatura, a voz, o modo de se mexer, tudo numa pessoa. Para sobreviver Ripley utiliza este dom das mais diversas formas, até mesmo para cometer crimes. Num de seus golpes ele consegue, indiretamente, convencer Jonathan Trevanny (Dougray Scott) a assassinar um homem por uma grande quantia de dinheiro. Porém o que Ripley não contava era que a situação fugiria de seu total controle.
Anxiety
Cinematography
Além das Nuvens
Director of Photography
Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see".
Reflections in a Dark Sky
Cinematography
In a sordid account of mutual charity, an alcoholic doctor tries to make a captive heroin addict kick her self-destructive behavior — and vice-versa.
Speaking of the Devil
Director of Photography
Bull Webster is a taxi driver with some work problems on his hands: the Spider Corporation, a giant financial holding company, has decided to buy out his taxi co-operative in order to make it go bankrupt and purchase its land at a low cost.
Treno di panna
Director of Photography
A struggling musician living in New York starts working at an Italian restaurant and falls in love with two women.
What if Gargiulo Finds Out?
Director of Photography
Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?
Renegado - Um Osso Duro de Roer
Director of Photography
"Renegado" Luke (Terence Hill) leva sua vida sempre na maior tranquilidade. Viajando através do sudoeste americano com seu cavalo Joe, ele consegue algum dinheiro aplicando pequenos golpes. Porém, tudo termina quando encontra seu velho amigo Moose que está preso. Ele lhe pede ajuda em uma perigosa missão: acabar com os planos de um ganancioso gangster que quer destruir Green heaven, um verdadeiro paraíso ecológico. Para ajudá-lo Luke vai contar com a ajuda de Matt, o filho de seu amigo que também está disposto a enfrentar qualquer encrenca..
Joan Lui
Director of Photography
In a world ravaged by violence, and other serious social problems, Joan - a character that alludes to Christ (which represents the return to Earth) arrives to Italy by train and preaching for the salvation of mankind, condemning the hypocrisy and hedonism.
The Naked Sun
Director of Photography
An Italian businessman travels to Brazil looking for a new job. When things don't go his way, he becomes despondent until he meets a beautiful woman who reveals Rio de Janeiro's most magical, secret locales.
Chi mi aiuta
Cinematography
Paolo and Carlo are good friends. The first introverted, disillusioned and intellectual, while the other is happy if shallow. Despite their differences they share accommodation. Paolo runs an “alternative” kind of library; Carlo plays the violin in a little band. Their lives go on peacefully, when suddenly Paolo falls in love with one of his a customers - Lili, an amateur actress - whom he decides to take home. Carlo doesn’t react well to the fact he’s got to share with a third person, so he comes up with a weird idea - he flirts with the new girl and manages to seduce her. Paolo thinks his best friend is now guilty of a real betrayal, while Lili is undecided: she’s attracted by both the culture of Paolo and the physical attraction of Carlo. This love triangle ends when Paolo tries to commit suicide, Carlo feels guilty and Lili leaves them both, returning to her previous life and still hoping to find her one true love.
Bingo Bongo
Director of Photography
The ape-man, found somewhere in the jungles of Congo, transferred to Milan and named Bingo Bongo. The only one who believes in the human qualities of him is Laura, a woman anthropologist , so their affection for each other even grows to love.
The Girl from Trieste
Director of Photography
A middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) being rescued from drowning. He loans her a blanket. Later she returns the blanket and they have sex several times, but she always leaves right afterward, leaving the man to wonder who she is and where she goes. Things become more complicated as he begins to fall in love with her, and after his regular girlfriend (Mimsy Farmer), with whom he has a curiously open relationship, returns. He eventually begins to realize his mysterious new lover may be very much insane.
Porca vacca
Director of Photography
When a stage artist is send to fight he met a lovely girl.
Più bello di così si muore
Director of Photography
In Rome a man needing money become a transvestite prostitute.
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Director of Photography
Walter Klozett is a spy arrested and imprisoned by the French Police who know him in possession of stolen booty which the French secret services would like to recover at all costs.
The Taming of the Scoundrel
Director of Photography
A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl...
My Wife is a Witch
Director of Photography
A witch being condemned to burn to death by the Holy Inquisition makes a contract with the devil to be reborn in our times...
La baraonda
Director of Photography
A young mother and a doctor rekindle their brief romance during a sports event.
The Warning
Director of Photography
It is a law police officials obey out of fear. A rule chilling in its simplicity. Accept corruption...or die! They have sealed an unholy alliance. The great banks of Europe. And the blackhearted underworld empire. Together, with their matchless wealth, there is no stopping their almighty, corrosive power. Even the police force's investigation into the diabolical link has been polluted by corruption and terror! When key police officials of the inquiry are viciously assassinated, only two honest men remain--a commissioner and police chief--to carry out the suicidal investigation. And they must fight a deepening mistrust of each other. For they too, know the only rule of the game. They too, have been warned!
Exit... But No Panic
Director of Photography
A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine.
Velvet Hands
Director of Photography
Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, who've lost hundreds of customers, and the burglarers. When he temporarily looses his memory and voice in an accident, of all people, a family of thieves finds and cares for him - believing he's a pocket-picker. Things get complicated when he falls in love with his host Tilli.
Mimi
Director of Photography
Guido is an international journalist with an unusually difficult relationship with his daughter, Mimi. He hasn't seen her for several years and has just taken her away from the boarding school she was immured in. She is now 15, and for some reason is doing everything in her power to get him to have sex with her. She even brings herself to orgasm while lying in the bed next to him. He goes nearly apoplectic trying to avoid her advances. Eventually, her school chum Therese comes to visit them, and Guido at last has a semi-suitable object for his by now quite overheated passions. The story is loosely based on a novel by Guido Morselli.
Geppo il folle
Director of Photography
Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
Writer
Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband, two Bolognese spouses quarrel and do not realize that the civil war has broken out, a Neapolitan fan scandalizes a first class compartment ..
Damned in Venice
Director of Photography
A blind boy receives a vision that warn him of the birth of the anti-christ.
Evil Thoughts
Director of Photography
Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milan, with a wonderful wife and a high social life. But Mario has a problem: every time he sees his wife talking to one of their friends he immediately visualises them in a hot affair. His jealousy spirals out of control, until a young man who hides inside their flat crosses his path.
Mimì Bluette... Flower of My Garden
Cinematography
Mimi Bluette, daughter of a prostitute, lives in Paris where she is idolized by men of all kinds and class, is about to settle with a rich man when, in a bar, she meets a stranger.
Peccatori di provincia
Director of Photography
Rich and respected Emanuele Lo Curcio dies leaving all his possessions to his natural daughter Domitilla, actually a nun, whose relatives, including his brother and Mayor Angelo Lo Curcio, ignored the existence of hers. The disappointment and anger of his numerous relatives, indebted up to their necks, pushes them to try with all sorts of scams to strip off Domitilla's legacy.
Il gatto mammone
Director of Photography
Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida) at an orphanage for unwed mothers (who has already given an illegitimate child up for adoption). They hire her as a maid, but she is under the impression they're going to adopt her, leading to some quasi-incestual misunderstandings...
Eye of the Cat
Director of Photography
In this intellectual drama, Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who, somewhat like the Biblical King David, covets another man's wife as his own. Unlike David, however, Ras wants to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined. He forces Marcello to seek an annulment to his marriage through the Vatican.
Yuppi Du
Director of Photography
Felice Della Pietà is indifferent to money and the turbulences of life. His wife Sylvia simulates suicide in order not to live in poverty with him.
Flávia, a Freira Muçulmana
Director of Photography
Puglia, sul da Itália, por volta de 1400. Um convento é invadido pelo culto da Tarântula, cujos membros fanáticos e loucos profanam o lugar sagrado cometendo atos obscenos e sangrentos.
O Porteiro da Noite
Director of Photography
Treze anos após o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial, a sobrevivente do campo de concentração Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) e seu torturador Max (Sir Dirk Bogarde), atualmente o porteiro noturno em um hotel de Viena, se reencontram e voltam ao relacionamento sadomasoquista.
Sexo Louco
Director of Photography
How Funny Can Sex Be? is an nine-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy.
Um Verão Russo
Director of Photography
Buona parte di Paolina
Cinematography
Paulina, sister of Napoleon I, is married to Camillo Borghese, presented as a helpless coward. She is eager to offer herself to all the young people that propose to her, and performs naked in front of the Roman people flocking to the walls of Villa Borghese, which she turned into a private residence. She also poses half naked for the famous statue of Canova, who is also presented as a effeminate and scoundrel. When her reputation as a depraved spreads, on the advice of the Pope, she is segregated away from all the men. when the French troops deport from Rome the Pope and the cardinals as well, Paulina sees prostitution as the only way to find herself some "fresh meat". Finally after seven years villa Borghese is reopened to the public, as Paulina goes back to Paris, to the great relief of the Roman people and the clerical circles.
Sono stato io!
Director of Photography
Mortadella
Director of Photography
A história mostra as dificuldades e reações de Maddalena (Sophia Loren), uma visitante italiana chegando em Nova York. Ela veio ao país carregando uma enorme mortadela que ela pretende dar como presente para seu noivo. Mas a Alfândega, por regras de vigilância sanitária, não permite que o embutido entre nos EUA, então ela fica detida no aeroporto JFK.
Oasis of Fear
Director of Photography
Two young sexually free hippies, Dick and Ingrid, finance their travels by selling naked snaps of Ingrid until their plan is brought to an abrupt end by the Police. Forced on the run the two seek refuge at a seemingly empty isolated large villa. As it turns out the house is inhabited by the middle-aged Barbara who invites them in for some potential three-way hanky-panky that soon locks them into something far more twisted and chilling!
As Troianas
Director of Photography
In the aftermath of the Trojan Wars, Queen Hecuba takes stock of the defeated kingdom. Her son has been killed, and his widow, Andromache, is left to raise their son, Astyanax, alone. Hecuba's daughter, Cassandra, fears being enslaved by her Greek masters, while Helen of Troy risks being executed. Astyanax also becomes the focus of the Greeks' attention as the last male heir of the Trojan royal family.
A Mulher do Padre
Director of Photography
Discovering her boyfriend is married, a young lady attempts to take her life, pausing only to phone a Help Line. Finding herself very much alive in hospital she meets the priest who took the call and, much taken with him, she starts trying to date him. He in turn succumbs to her charms and they soon realise their major problem is his Holy vow of celibacy.
Zabriskie Point
Director of Photography
Um retrato épico do final dos anos sessenta dos EUA, visto através da representação de dois de seus filhos: a estudante de antropologia Daria (que está ajudando um promotor de imóveis a construir uma aldeia no deserto de Los Angeles) e o estudante Mark que abandonou a faculdade (que é procurado pelas autoridades por supostamente matar um Policial durante uma revolta estudantil). Os dois começam um romance desenfreado, fazendo amor em qualquer terreno empoeirado. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Diary of a Telephone Operator
Director of Photography
Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband.
O Mando é das Mulheres
Director of Photography
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
A Fine Pair
Director of Photography
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 involved in a caper in Austria.
Galileu
Director of Photography
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
Il diario segreto di una minorenne
Director of Photography
Italian erotic drama
Deus Perdoa... Eu Não!
Director of Photography
Os amigos Cat Stevens (Terence Hill) e Hutch Bessy (Bud Spencer) somam forças para encontrar um velho amigo, Bill San Antonio (Frank Wolff), que supostamente estava morto, e recuperar o ouro que Bill roubou num assalto ao trem pagador.
Per amore... per magia...
Director of Photography
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 the love of the beautiful Princess Esmeralda. But his intention lasted only a few days. Afterward he found himself in jail with his old companions. They were freed by the magician Magrebì and in a night of lunar eclipse, Aladdin found a magic lamp. He succeeded in cleaning his sister Adalgisa's house with the help of the genie and then, with no help at all, to marry Esmeralda. But evil powers were in action.
Yankee
Director of Photography
A man referred to only as "Yankee" rides into a dying, desolate town in frontier New Mexico which is completely controlled by a man called the "Grand Cougar." Almost immediately, a battle for dominance ensues.
7 Golden Monks
Director of Photography
Count Raimondo and his girlfriend Veronique return to Italy from Switzerland carrying with them a load of contraband cigarettes but, using the pretense of a kidnapping to cheat their supplier, they hide out in the convent run by his uncle Friar Hugh. In the same convent without anyone's knowledge, the bandit Lucky Marciano is also hiding out with a significant quantity of gold ingots stolen from the Swiss Federal Bank.
Money
Director of Photography
Episodic comedy about the corrupting influence of money.
Snow Job
Director of Photography
Lucio sees his holiday on the Italian Alps interrupted when he is suddenly and unwillingly involved in an International plot involving fake dollar bills.
002: Perigos Públicos
Director of Photography
Dois trapaceiros de dois bits atrapalham um ringue criminoso e fazem com que a espera acabe. Os dois fogem para o Paraíso evitando uma represália e tentam roubar o halo de São Pedro.
Extraconiugale
Director of Photography
Easy Love
Director of Photography
O Caradura
Director of Photography
An italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Director of Photography
Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestrials incognito, but end up getting involved in the Roman "dolce vita".
The Thursday
Director of Photography
It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day however, he will succeed in establishing a positive relationship with his son and telling the truth about himself.
I cuori infranti
Director of Photography
Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes.
Os Monstros
Director of Photography
Os mitos dos anos sessenta são satirizados em 20 episódios.
The Terrorist
Cinematography
In Venice in 1943, a group of partisans led by Renato Braschi organize a series of autonomous terrorist attacks against the fascists while the National Liberation Committee urges caution. Renato is determined to carry out his ideas, risking his own life, and not only that...
The Swindlers
Director of Photography
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.
A Marcha Sobre Roma
Director of Photography
March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts
Aquele Que Sabe Viver
Director of Photography
No verão de 1962, Bruno, um playboy quarentão, leva Roberto, um tímido estudante de direito, para uma viagem de dois dias pelas estradas de Roma e da Toscana. Neste período, vivem uma série de aventuras e desventuras, com um desfecho surpreendente.
Sodoma e Gomorra
Director of Photography
Baseado na bíblica história de Sodoma e Gomorra, cidades dominadas pelas tentações e pelo pecado, o filme conta a saga de Lot (Stewart Granger). Lot, homem justo e sobrinho de Abraão, retira o povo hebreu do deserto e conduz a duas cidades, Sodoma e Gomorra. Lá o povo hebreu, com excessão de Lot, é, aos poucos, dominados pelos prazeres e pelo pecado, corrompendo a carne e o espírito. Tais corrupções despertarão a ira de Deus, e Lot, como líder do povo, irá tentar salvar seu povo do maior castigo divino sobre a terra.
I due della legione
Director of Photography
Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra boss and enlist in the Foreign Legion. They are inept but are mistaken for brave people by their commander and sent to break a weapon smuggling ring.
Getting Away with It the Italian Way
Director of Photography
Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed.
Os Filhos do Trovão
Director of Photography
An evil king makes a bargain with a devil in order to get away with murdering his wife.
Akiko
Director of Photography
The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Japanese girl knocks at her door, claiming to be the daughter of her late husband, an Italian military officer who went to Japan on a secret mission during WWII and reportedly killed in action there.
Call 22-22 Lieutenant Sheridan
Director of Photography
Cathrine has been sentenced to the gas chamber but Police Lieutenant Sheridan does not believe she is guilty of the murder she has been accused of. He has twenty-four hours to prove her innocence.
The Huns
Director of Photography
An orphan, raised by a foreign tribe, becomes a warrior queen and falls in love with the leader of her enemies.
Ferdinand I King of Naples
Camera Operator
The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises in search of love adventures. With the De Filippo brothers to complete.
Noi siamo due evasi
Camera Operator
Two inmates escape prison changing clothes with a couple of businessmen. They'll be taken by the financiers and find themselves surrounded by wealth and beautiful women.
Il padrone delle ferriere
Camera Operator
Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu.
Carmela is a doll
Camera Operator
Carmela defies her father who wants her to marry Baron Prospero and sleepwalks every night to Toto's room.
Napoli sole mio
Camera Operator
Lorella must marry Dr. Matteini, but when she goes to Naples to meet him, she meets Michele, who sings in restaurants. The fateful spark is ignited, and although Michele is poor, Lorella decides to marry him against his mother's wishes.
The Wide Blue Road
Camera Operator
Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll…
Il conte Max
Camera Operator
Alberto, a newspaper man, tries a one-time shot of living the good life with the help of his penniless mentor.
The Bigamist
Camera Operator
A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.
Roman Tales
Camera Operator
Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?
La moglie è uguale per tutti
Camera Operator
Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
Modern Virgin
Assistant Camera
The young Claudia wants to escape from the gray life of the province and aims rich men but each time with unhappy results. Only the brother will eventually succeed in shaking her from this purpose.
Tripoli, bel suol d'amore
Assistant Camera
The young Alberto Ruotolo leave the country cottage to go for the sharpshooter. But the command does not pull good air, three riflemen arrogant and unruly bear much disorder as anger Marshal Nero.
The Age of Indiscretion
Camera Operator
In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.
The Overcoat
Assistant Camera
Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat.