Pier Paolo Capponi

Pier Paolo Capponi

Nascimento : 1938-06-09, Subiaco, Rome, Italy

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Pier Paolo Capponi

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The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Roberto Rosone
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
Heart and Sword
Dinas
After the death of his father, prince Tristan is living in Cornwall at the court of his uncle, King Marke, who treats him like a son. When the Irish king sends his son Morold over to demand high tax payments, Tristan challenges him to combat. He manages to kill Morold but is very badly injured, and is placed in a boat to be healed by the magic powers of the sea, which takes him across to Ireland.
Farinelli
Broschi
Carlo Broschi, conhecido por Farinelli, foi um dos mais notáveis cantores de ópera do seu tempo, chegando a ser o mais bem pago do mundo. Porém, ele era também um "castrato", a quem foram retirados os testículos quando criança a fim de impedir a mudança da voz. Este filme explora a sua vida, a sua carreira, a relação difícil com os compositores, particularmente Handel, e a sua problemática relação com o irmão, o compositor Ricardo Broschi.
Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele
The Lawyer
An American independent director comes to Italy to shoot a film. But inconveniences and obstacles stand in the way at every step. These are the years in which “Tangentopoli” rages and the golden rule of officials and collaborators is “one (bribe) to you, one to me, one to Raffaele”.
Aconteceu na Primavera
Duilio
The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he did not commit, Elisabette curses the family. Bad luck travels from generation to generation. As the latest Benedettis tell their children about their eccentric grandfather, the children worry that the family curse will be passed on.
Au nom du père et du fils
Patrice's father was murdered in 1978. Time has done nothing to erase the pain, the anger, the questions and the regrets caused by the tragedy. Twelve years later, Patrice enrolls his son with him on a search about his past and his roots.
A Season of Giants
Burchard
As Aventuras de Charlie
M. de Ghuilain
Bankomatt
With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself in to the police, since they don't know about his existence. At least, that's the way his rescuer Bruno (Bruno Ganz) sees it. Besides, Bruno needs such an overly enterprising fellow to help him pull off a really big heist that he's been planning for a long time. It takes some doing, but the boy and his girlfriend are recruited by the older man, who has been keeping a low profile by working as a gardener.
Mussolini - A História Não Contada
Don Chiot
A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler to the betrayal of his son-in-law and untimely demise.
Blood and Diamonds
Tony
A man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were to blame for his arrest. The prize for this deadly fight is a large cache of diamonds.
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life.
The Last Desperate Hours
The Inspector
Paolo Mancuso is a gang boss whose rivals want dead. During a failed assassination attempt, he is bitten by an infected lab rat. In the short time he has left to live, he tracks down his enemies and kills them one by one.
Three Cheers for Us
Rufo
A story about ten year old Enrico who spends the summer in the village mostly playing Indians with his friends.
The Castro's Abbess
Francesco Cittadini
A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess. She has to deal with corruption in the church.
Delitto d'autore
Marco Girardi
Against the wishes of her Aunt Valeria, attractive Milena travels to Milan in order to secretly marry Marco Giraldi. Three years later, Milena returns to her hometown Fermo, where her husband's shoe business is in financial difficulties. Shortly afterwards, she is abducted, a valuable painting is stolen and Aunt Valeriais murdered. Two young villains, who carried out the dirty work, are then killed...
The Boss
Cocchi
A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don Corrasco's clan. Cocchi is determined to revenge. His actions, including the Corrasco's daughter kidnap, in a Palermo in which also the police is corrupted, will soon destroy the old equilibrium giving the way to an escalation of violence that won't save anyone. If Cocchi will survive to the mafia war he will be the new boss for sure.
The Nun and the Devil
Don Carlos
It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela.
Valéria , a Esquisofrênica
David Rocchi
The story of a young. beautiful and very frustrated woman screwing everything in sight in every possible location. She is married to a famous choreographer. She has everything material she wants: clothes, a fancy home, jewelry, servants. Except one thing: her husband refuses to have sex with her because she wants to get pregnant and have a child.
Sete Orquídeas Manchadas de Sangue
Inspector Vismara
Um misterioso assassino está matando jovens mulheres com brutalidade, e sempre deixa um adorno em formato de meia-lua junto aos cadáveres. Quando Giulia, que seria a terceira vítima do criminosos, sobrevive ao ataque, seu namorado Mario e o investigador do caso resolvem simular sua morte para que ela ajude a investigar as motivações por trás dos assassinatos - que podem estar ligados ao passado das vítimas e a um verão que passaram no mesmo hotel.
Sergeant Klems
Mohamed Abdel Krim
A man masquerading as a dead soldier seeks to desert his post and join the enemy in their struggle.
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
This vehicle for the great actress Anna Magnani was one of the four made for Italian television and shown in 1971-1972 at the end of her career. The other three were "La sciantosa," "Correva l'anno di grazia 1870," and "L'automobile" and were all directed by Alfredo Giannetti.
O Gato de Nove Caudas
Police Supt. Spini
Um repórter de jornal e um jornalista aposentado e cego tentam resolver uma série de assassinatos ligados a projetos experimentais de pesquisa ultra secreta de uma empresa farmacêutica e, ao fazê-lo, tornam-se alvos do assassino.
Fotos Proibidas
Peter
A esposa de um empresário é chantageada por um homem misterioso, para que tenha um relacionamento sádico com ele, ou divulgará evidências condenatórias que sugerem que seu marido é um assassino.
Defeat of the Mafia
Scott Luce
At the Rome airport two men are taken into custody. Inspector Scott Luce thinks their two suit-cases are full of drugs, but the suit-cases contains only white powder. Afterwards the corpse of Susan Palmer is found. She was a drug runner for the Cosa Nostra boss Frankie Agostino. Susan's friend, Jenny Ryan, meets a mysterious man from America, Arthur Ardigan, supposedly her cousin. In the meantime Inspector Luce is investigating.
Many Wars Ago
Lt. Santini
Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.
Black Lemons
Francesco Macaluso
Rosario Inzulìa, a young man involved with the Mafia, was sentenced to labor camp, forced to pay also for crimes he didn't commit. After eight long years of imprisonment he's finally released. Rosario goes back to Sicily, where he learns that his wife died in an accident. He tries to rebuild his life, but when he finds out that his wife was murdered, he decides that it's time to take action: alone against the Mafia!
Nailed Lips
Francesco
A young commissioner investigates the murder of a Sicilian criminal with the help of a social worker.
Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
The Private Detective
After many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his father (who he suspects was actually murdered). He attempts to untangle that mystery while still carrying an unhealthy obsession toward his mother, who committed suicide ten years ago. This obsession then draws in his attractive cousin and takes a sexual turn.
A Season in Hell
The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at thirty-seven; and his passionate relationship with Paul Verlaine, full of wanderings, storms and falling out.
Naked Violence
Marco Lamberti
Some youngsters rape and kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers.
The Lady of Monza
Count Taverna
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," a 17th century nun accused of and tried by the church for breaking celibacy and plotting murder.
Bandits in Rome
Director of Supermarket
After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
Comando Sullivan
Corbi
Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. After the soldiers have knifed the Italians in their beds, they find a hooker living at the camp. Sullivan's commandos are to hold this camp and its weaponry until an American battalion arrives, all the while these Italian-Americans pretend to be Italian soldiers, often hosting the enemy. Lt. Valli is a young, "green," by-the-book officer who constantly argues with Sgt. Sullivan, who tells his superior that he has no idea what he is doing. One man on the base, probably a touch from Argento, is an entomologist who is needlessly killed. Things go terribly wrong after that.
Sentado à Sua Direita
Officer
A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi.
The Falling Man
O'Neil (as Paul Carey)
Henry Silva is the police inspector Sterling who is devastated when a gang of robbers kill his son. He then becomes accused of having killed a police informer and is kicked out of the police department. His life seems ruined. To clear his name he will have to take the law into his own hands, and excitement will ensue!
Mister X
Mister X (as Norman Clark)
A retired ex-criminal, the notorious Mister X, must clear his name when an up-and-comer commits a heinous copycat crime.
Meu nome é pecos
Joe Kline
Pécos Martinez foi testemuna de um assassinato e roubo. O dinheiro, escondido pelos assassinos dentro de um barril, transformou a vida dos habitantes do pequeno povoado em um inferno.Cansado, Pécos se apodera do barril e o esconde, ficando a espera do retorno dos bandidos.Sem Piedade, ele empreende uma calçada e vai eliminando cada integrante do bando.
Esse Mundo é dos Loucos
Un officier anglais
Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, Charles é enviado à uma cidade da França para desativar uma bomba colocada lá pelos alemães. No entanto Charles é perseguido por alguns alemães e vai parar em um hospício onde os presos se convencem de que ele é o “Rei de Copas”. Sentindo-se na obrigação de ajudar os loucos, ele decide levá-los para fora da cidade.
Um Homem pela Metade
Ugo
A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Michele returns to his boyhood home, where he learns the reasons for his present mental state.
A Décima Vítima
Terrace Snack Bar Manager (uncredited)
Para conter o ímpeto destrutivo e agressivo da humanidade, o governo estimula uma caçada humana na qual tanto o caçador pode matar sua vítima, quanto a vítima matar o caçador. Quem sobrevive a dez caçadas passa a ser herói nacional e ganha uma fortuna. Ao mesmo tempo, uma história de amor entre vítima e caçador.