Giuseppe Ruzzolini

Documentary about Sergio Leone

In 1st century BC Palestine, Joseph is a carpenter who wants to travel and see the world, but destiny makes him meet young Mary. The two fall in love and marry. One day, Mary becomes pregnant and tells Joseph an unbelievable truth... He decides to stay on her side, but things won't be easy.

Genua, 3rd October 1985. Together with over 500 other passengers Margot and Pierre Bergeron, a married couple from France, the Serafinis, an Italian family, Anne Higgins, an Englishwoman, Gitta and Helmut Holzer from Germany and an American couple called Marilyn and Leon Klinghoffer board the 'Achille Lauro'. The mood is cheerful and relaxed, everyone is looking forward to twelve days of sun, sea and peace. No one suspects that there are four Palestinian terrorists among the passengers: Al Assadi, Fatayer, Al Ashker and Molqi, their leader. The ship puts to sea in perfect weather. Three marvellous days follow. Everyone appears to be happy and contented. But in the case of some of the passengers appearances are deceiving. Marilyn Klinghoffer, for example, only pretends to her crippled husband that she is well and happy; in reality she is seriously ill with cancer and knows that this will be her last voyage. She does not want to upset her husband, however. A crisis is brewing between ...

The daughter of a star quarterback is falsely accused of drug smuggling while visiting a small Caribbean island. After his attempts to get her out of jail fail, his coach and teammates show up in full football gear and armed to the teeth, ready to free her by any means necessary.

O retrato de doze cidades italianas feito para a Copa do Mundo de futebol, que aconteceu em 1990, na Itália.

Elvio Battistini works as a ticket taker in the local cinema of the small town where he lives. He has a prosthesis in one leg, the result of an accident, but he tells anyone who will listen it is a war injury. Giuseppe Mondardini, is also an older man living alone in what was the splendid family home. When Elvio and Giuseppe meet, they hit it off immediately. A trip to a cooler area is in order, so Mordardini unveils his ancient automobile.

Love triangles often provoke the most unpredictable behavior. Will anybody end up happily in love at the end of this amorous debacle? One outrageous scene after another leads to a series of romantic escapades that will leave viewers bewitched, bewildered, and thoroughly entertained.

The Roman taxi driver Pietro Marchetti finds himself to witness a mafia crime. Having to testify at the trial, he is checked by the police, especially when he has to go to the United States to attend the graduation of his son Francesco.

Angelina is tired of long serious relationships. One day she is brutally raped and she changes dramatically. Suddenly she is getting involved in more and more dangerous relations with unknown men until her behavior leads to a fatal crime.

A former convict discovers that his son has been adopted by a couple living on the mountains and tries to establish a contact with him

Andy e Vicky participaram de experimentos secretos quando jovens. Eles se casaram e tiveram uma filha, que adquiriu uma estranha habilidade de causar incêndios com a força da mente. Logo, ela se torna alvo de uma enigmática agência.

A group of adventurers are gathered together to retrieve some mystical gems which are in the possession of a deadly cult.

The movie is basically two unrelated comedic features: the first one features the travails of a man who stutters and tries to woo a woman he wants to date. The second features the wonderful Renato Pozetto as a gay man who lives with a partner, but finds himself falling for a woman, and not knowing how to tell his partner, who is prone to melodrama.

Ulderico Quario hires as servant a very beautiful young woman Teresa. Ulderico decides to proceed like a new Pygmalion and he sets about teaching her the art of seductions. But Teresa together with Cecchina start using these newfound skills to persuade Ulderico to marry her in order to claim his inheritance.

8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.

Two minstrels singing for their supper in Rome discover they've both been lovers to the same woman, and one of them is the father of her infant son; a privilege neither is willing to concede.

Alberto deceived by his wife, goes to some place in the mountains to escape. There he meets a woman who was there for the same reasons that he was.

The old Emir of the Qudmar discovers he has a natural son in Italy. Secret agents and oil companies involve the man, an aspiring gas station, in the fight for the succession to the emirate.

Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence discovers that his wife Adelina no longer wishes to live with him.

Jovem casal italiano, cansados da rotina, decide fazer uma longa viagem pelo deserto da Califórnia. No caminho, os dois ajudam um homem na estrada e, sem saber, envolvem-se com um fugitivo, desesperado para atravessar a fronteira com o México.

Three episodes of casual erotic character: a porn scriptwriter and his secretary, a man locked up among homosexuals, and a shy man who decides to hire a prostitute over the phone.

Esta foi uma das maiores produções da década de 70, com a explosão de clássicos italianos de faroeste, Terence Hill interpreta Joe Thanks, o grande bandido "quase artista", e oponente do Major Cabot (McGoohan), que retrata um oficial desonesto da cavalaria, cujo plano de um grande massacre indígena, supostamente lhe trará grande lucro. O filme apresenta uma performance extraordinária por parte de Patrick McGoohan, além de uma participação especial ímpar de Klaus Kinski.

Inspector Rizzo is accused of drug trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department.

Voltaire, a 16th century author was furious that learned members of a "civilized" society could claim that the apparent senseless violence and mayhem wrought by disasters, war, disease, man's cruelty, etc. was actually only a part of some 'greater good'. After all, God (being perfect) could not 'logically' have created anything but the 'best of all possible' universes.

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.

Capítulo final da trilogia de Pasolini inspirada em contos clássicos do erotismo, que se iniciou com "O Decameron" e "Os Contos de Canterbury." Aqui a história é centrada num jovem que se apaixona por uma escrava. Um homem começa uma viagem à procura de sua amante, uma bela escrava chamada Zumurrud, que foi raptada por um ser de olhos azuis. No caminho de sua longa busca, seu caminho vai cruzar com uma série de outros personagens envolvidos em traições, cobiças e desejos.

Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda), que já foi o maior pistoleiro do Velho Oeste, só quer se mudar para a Europa e se aposentar em paz, mas um jovem pistoleiro, conhecido apenas como "Ninguém" (Terence Hill), o idolatra e quer vê-lo sair em uma chama de glória. Ele organiza para que Jack enfrente a gangue de 150 homens, conhecida como The Wild Bunch, e, assim, ganhe seu lugar na história.

This Italian film is a searing indictment of the greed and ambition which warp the medical profession. It focuses especially on surgeons in the persons of Professor Valiotti (Gabriele Ferzetti) and Dr. Giordani (Enrico Maria Salerno). Many of the scenes are based on Italian news stories of the period ('70s) which recount the suffering and high costs of unnecessary or overly aggressive treatment motivated by academic ambitions or simple greed.

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.

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.

To gain fame quickly - three actors - Mino, Giacinto and Mirella, stage a fake murder (Mirella is the "victim"), then plan to find the "body" at the most opportune moment. Unfortunately, a real murder takes place in Mirella's apartment when a young woman named Margaret is killed. Having left abundant clues to the fake murder, Mino and Giacinto realise the only way to save themselves from jail is to find Margaret's killer. Despite the intrusions of a stupid police inspector, the two men discover she was killed by a mysterious "organization". Although every witness they try to question is killed by a hitman, they eventually unravel the mystery...

An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.

Roma.During a clash between demonstrating laborers (whose fight the students have joined) a policeman and a student are both killed. The investigating magistrate - in charge of the case with two commissioners - wants to believe to the version of the police: the student was killed by one of the laborers, while the policeman would have been killed by Massimo Trotti.

Em Praga, um jornalista americano investiga o desaparecimento repentino da namorada. Com trilha de Ennio Morricone e excelente elenco, essa pequena obra-prima é um giallo original que antecipa “De Olhos Bem Fechados.”

No início da Revolução Mexicana em 1913, o bandido mexicano Juan Miranda e o idealista irlandês John H. Mallory, especialista em explosivos, se encontram com um grupo de revolucionários que estão planejando roubar um banco nacional. Quando se descobre que o governo vem usando o banco como esconderijo para presos políticos ilegalmente detidos, que são liberados pela explosão. Miranda se torna um herói revolucionário contra a sua vontade.

Nino Manfredi is a police captain, giving an onlooker's point-of-view towards the decadent society folk. Party itself features a down & out baron, who dances with the party's glamorous hostess Virna Lisi so that he can steal her valuable earrings. When they're missing, she's angry enough to call in the cops (Manfredi shows up) and have the baron taken away.

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.

Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him.

A história de um canibal em um páramo medieval está entrelaçada com a do filho de um ex-industrial nazista na Alemanha moderna. O jovem alemão, que se sente mais atraído por porcos do que por sua noiva, e o canibal se tornam vítimas sacrificiais de suas diferentes sociedades.

A beautiful smiling guy's walking on the streets of a city, bringing with him a large paper poppy. The boy is the goodness and innocence of youth, which is soon cut short by human wickedness.

Retomando o tema de Édipo Rei da "Culpa da Inocência," o cândido personagem Riccetto caminha pela Via Nazionale alheio às desigualdades, guerras e conflitos do entorno.

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.

The tragic and self-destructive sexual battle between a man and his wife. A drama for the desperate struggle of those who are different against the normality that rejects the margins. The couple is preparing to consume a relationship of extreme sadomasochism. Recorded theatre production.

Em Milão a vida de uma rica família burguesa é totalmente modificada por um misterioso visitante, que seduz a empregada, o filho, a mãe, a filha e finalmente o pai. Além disto, tem um contato intelectual com todos eles, convencendo-os da futilidade da existência, e após cumprir seu objetivo parte em poucos dias. Após sua ida ninguém da família consegue continuar vivendo da mesma forma.

A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.

An industrialist tries to find an advertising gimmick for his canned meat product "Eat it!". In the fields he finds a savage individual who has reduced himself to two functions only: eating huge amounts of food and making love. So he uses this savage man for his advertising purposes by making the public believe that his meat is an aphrodisiac. Some time later the strange being loses his "gifts". The industrialist tries to replace him, but the incredible amounts of meat he eats turns him into a cow! (Digitmovies)

Édipo Rei começa em 1920 na Itália, relatando um nascimento, fruto de um caso entre uma burguesa e um oficial militar. O filme se desenvolve retratando o mito de Édipo sobre parricídio e incesto. O epílogo mostra Édipo tocando sua flauta na agitação urbana da Bolonha dos anos 60.

O empresário Marletti vai para o mar se encontrar com sua esposa Giuliana para passar o fim de semana com ela e muitos amigos. Depois de três dias, Marletti voltou dirigindo seu carro para Roma. Assim ele pode dormir, sozinho e feliz, com o silêncio em torno dele. (e 18 - Estimado 18 Anos)

Adriana, uma ingênua camponesa italiana, se muda para Roma para se tornar uma estrela de cinema e experimenta o lado sombrio dos negócios. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)

Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.

Partindo da Imaculada Conceição, a vida de Cristo é reconstituída segundo o Evangelho de São Mateus. Quando Jesus viaja pela Palestina com os seus discípulos para espalhar a palavra de Deus, os romanos conspiram para que ele seja silenciado, resultando na sua prisão, crucificação, e ressurreição.

Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...

Quatro curtas-metragens de quatro diretores diferentes lidando com princípios da vida moderna.

Story of Roberta, a beautiful young woman from a wealthy industrialist family and her relationship with Franco, a rough car mechanic and stranger whom she meets on the beach of Forte dei Marmi.

The four days of Naples was not a revolution. They had no leaders, no preparations of any kind. The revolt was born and flared up in a matter of hours. The whole population of Naples took part in it, but they all did so without consulting the others. Driven by a kind of necessity, the Neapolitans took up their rifles, armed themselves with stones, household objects, and bottles of petrol, and fought on their stretch of road, anonymous and silent. Once the battle was over, everyone returned to their homes and the revolt remained in memory with only the names of the dead, those, at least, who were known. One figure still remembered is that of Gennarino Capuozzo, a ten-year-old boy who was killed on a barricade while fighting against the invaders of his village.

Tommaso Puzzilli is a boy who grew up in the suburb of Pietralata outside Rome. Not having a job, Tommaso and his friends are committing crimes to make money.

Um clássico do cinema italiano dirigido pelo talentoso Antonio Pietrangeli (O Magnífico Traído) e estrelado pelos astros Marcello Mastroianni (A Doce Vida), Simone Signoret (As Diabólicas) e Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima, mon Amour). Roma, 1958. Uma nova lei determina o fechamento dos bordéis da cidade e as prostitutas Adua, Lolita, Milly e Marilina precisam tomar um novo rumo na vida. Juntas, elas decidem abrir uma trattoria na periferia. Será que elas conseguirão deixar o passado para trás? Com roteiro co-escrito por Ettore Scola e sob a influência do Neo-Realismo, Pietrangeli realizou uma pequena obra-prima repleta de ternura e humanismo.

It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.

Danae, a woman who came from the sea is a beautiful blonde girl at the center of a spy story during the second world war. In Gibraltar, Italian and British divers perform mutual sabotage actions. The secret agents, on the other hand, face off on the mainland and the Italian spies have the best thanks to the girl's intervention.

Shortly after moving to Madrid, a dancer is killed. His condition as a womanizer, in addition to his arrogance, makes us suspect that it is a crime of passion. As the investigation progresses, the doubts and jealousy of one of his neighbors threatens to ruin his family life.

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?

A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters her life. The ensuing crisis will help the newlyweds overcome their differences and start a fresh, better new life.

Oreste is known for his deliberation and caution in handling license forms at his office.But when he needs money to send his 3 girls off to Capri to find rich suitors, he is tempted to take bribes to put a license through more quickly.

In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom.