Directors - Dino Risi
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2. Il siero della verità (1950)
Documentary
About the effects on some Milan hospital patients of penthotal injections.
Director: Dino Risi
3. Vacanze col gangster (1952)
90 min | Comedy
Five kids, schoolmates, Gianni, Andrea, Mario, Ugo and Nino, playing with each other, break a papier-mâché horseback, inside which is a note written by a lifer, in his opinion unjustly ... See full summary »
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marc Lawrence, Giovanna Pala, Terence Hill, Lamberto Maggiorani
Votes: 99
4. Il viale della speranza (1953)
86 min | Comedy
Joys and disappointments of three young girls who dreaming of making a career in film: Luisa has talent and triumphs; Franca tries to seduce a producer, however no artistic skills, Giuditta... See full summary »
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Cosetta Greco, Marcello Mastroianni, Liliana Bonfatti, Piera Simoni
Votes: 117
5. Love in the City (1953)
Not Rated | 115 min | Drama, Romance
Six separate episodes: would-be suicides discuss their despair. A provincial dance hall. An investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be. A young unwed mother. Girl-watching techniques of Italian men. A glimpse into prostitution.
Directors: Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Alberto Lattuada, Carlo Lizzani, Francesco Maselli, Dino Risi, Cesare Zavattini | Stars: Rita Josa, Rosanna Carta, Enrico Pelliccia, Donatella Marrosu
Votes: 1,463
6. The Sign of Venus (1955)
97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Agnese has many men who woo her and lives with her cousin Cesira Franca Valeri, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Sophia Loren, Franca Valeri, Vittorio De Sica, Raf Vallone
Votes: 1,627
7. Scandal in Sorrento (1955)
92 min | Comedy, Romance
Returning to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Lea Padovani, Antonio Cifariello
Votes: 2,528
8. Poor But Beautiful (1957)
101 min | Comedy, Romance
Romolo and Salvatore are two young men who are neighbors and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona in Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with the beautiful Giovanna.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marisa Allasio, Maurizio Arena, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto
Votes: 787
9. La nonna Sabella (1957)
89 min | Comedy
Raffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He immediately goes to Pollena to be beside her.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Peppino De Filippo, Sylva Koscina, Renato Salvatori, Paolo Stoppa
Votes: 242
10. Belle ma povere (1957)
99 min | Comedy, Romance
Romulus and Salvatore are two Roman boys, engaged respectively with Anna Maria and Marisa, the first sister of Salvatore and the second of Romulus.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marisa Allasio, Maurizio Arena, Renato Salvatori, Lorella De Luca
Votes: 361
11. Venice, the Moon and You (1958)
107 min | Comedy, Romance
The "casanova" gondolier Bepi struggles to accept his future monogamous life, being Venice a hub of attracting tourists.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Marisa Allasio, Ingeborg Schöner, Niki Dantine
Votes: 477
12. Poor Millionaires (1959)
95 min | Comedy
Salvatore has an accident that makes him lose his memory and becomes director of the department store where his brother-in-law works.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Maurizio Arena, Renato Salvatori, Lorella De Luca, Alessandra Panaro
Votes: 309
13. The Widower (1959)
91 min | Comedy
A mediocre businessman who's married to a much more successful businesswoman relies heavily on her financial support for his bad business ideas, and to pay off his mounting debt, but both of them have had enough of each other.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Franca Valeri, Livio Lorenzon, Nando Bruno
Votes: 1,476
14. Love and Larceny (1960)
103 min | Comedy
Gerardo, an aspiring theater actor, is roped into performing a scam but gets double crossed by his partner and goes to prison. After prison, he turns into a successful con artist using his ability to mimic different Italian dialects.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Dorian Gray, Anna Maria Ferrero, Mario Carotenuto
Votes: 844
15. Un amore a Roma (1960)
107 min | Drama, Romance
A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, whose amoral nature and hungry curiosity drives her from one adventure to another.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Mylène Demongeot, Elsa Martinelli, Peter Baldwin, Claudio Gora
Votes: 311
16. A porte chiuse (1961)
100 min | Comedy, Drama
The movie is about the celebrated trial of Olga Duvovich, very beautiful woman accused of killing her husband, a wealthy financier. Both the defense and the prosecution have large ... See full summary »
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Anita Ekberg, Claudio Gora, Fred Clark, Gianni Bonagura
Votes: 70
17. A Difficult Life (1961)
Not Rated | 118 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Lea Massari, Franco Fabrizi, Lina Volonghi
Votes: 2,185
18. The Easy Life (1962)
Not Rated | 108 min | Comedy, Drama
An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student with him for a two-day road trip from Rome to Tuscany.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudio Gora
Votes: 12,413
19. La marcia su Roma (1962)
94 min | Comedy
After the 1st world war, two veterans, starving, but fools, are enlisted with the fascists, where they can eat. But when it comes to killing, they drop out.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi, Roger Hanin, Mario Brega
Votes: 736
20. Il successo (1963)
104 min | Comedy
With the desire to be rich gnawing at him, an arriviste pursues a golden real-estate opportunity at the expense of friends and family. Now, he has to renounce his dignity. What's the good of chasing success when you are left all alone?
Directors: Mauro Morassi, Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Anouk Aimée, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Cristina Gaioni
Votes: 293
21. The Monsters (1963)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Lando Buzzanca, Marino Masé
Votes: 2,779
22. Il giovedì (1964)
105 min | Drama
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, ... See full summary »
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Walter Chiari, Michèle Mercier, Roberto Ciccolini, Umberto D'Orsi
Votes: 396
23. Il gaucho (1964)
111 min | Comedy
An italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Amedeo Nazzari, Nelly Panizza, Maria Grazia Buccella
Votes: 385
24. The Dolls (1965)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy, Romance
Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film.
Directors: Mauro Bolognini, Luigi Comencini, Dino Risi, Franco Rossi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Virna Lisi, Elke Sommer, Maurizio Arena
Votes: 380
25. I complessi (1965)
107 min | Comedy
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer Gabriella, lover of Alvaro, with the complexity of shyness. In the second part, Prof. Beozi, in order to avoid a scandal, ends up in a raid of... See full summary »
Directors: Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Dino Risi, Franco Rossi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Ilaria Occhini, Riccardo Garrone, Umberto D'Orsi
Votes: 920
26. Weekend, Italian Style (1965)
90 min | Comedy
Manager Marletti goes to the sea to meet his wife Giuliana to spend the weekend with her and many friends. After three days Marletti comes back driving his car to Rome. So he can sleep, alone and happy, with silence around him.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Enrico Maria Salerno, Sandra Milo, Daniela Bianchi, Trini Alonso
Votes: 428
27. I nostri mariti (1966)
105 min | Comedy, Romance
Three episodes about Italian husbands and those relationships in marriage.
Directors: Luigi Filippo D'Amico, Dino Risi, Luigi Zampa | Stars: Alberto Sordi, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Alessandro Cutolo, Elena Nicolai
Votes: 177
28. The Treasure of San Gennaro (1966)
104 min | Comedy, Crime
An American gangster in Italy enlists a local gang to help him steal the treasure of Naples' patron saint.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Senta Berger, Mario Adorf, Harry Guardino
Votes: 1,768
29. The Tiger and the Pussycat (1967)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A middle-aged businessman finds himself in thirst for romance adventure, and it seems that a proper partner is not far away.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ann-Margret, Eleanor Parker, Fiorenzo Fiorentini
Votes: 481
30. The Prophet (1968)
PG | 100 min | Comedy
Pietro Breccia is a man who has long decided to abandon civilization becoming a hermit, leaving behind the strain of modern life and the futility of consumer society and living for years in... See full summary »
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ann-Margret, Vittorio Gassman, Oreste Lionello, Liana Orfei
Votes: 357
31. Straziami ma di baci saziami (1968)
104 min | Comedy
Marino decided to go to Rome to win back his girlfriend. After many hardships their paths eventually crossed but to his shock, he discovered that she is now married to a deaf and mute man.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Pamela Tiffin, Moira Orfei
Votes: 611
32. Vedo nudo (1969)
117 min | Comedy
Seven episodes light-heartedly revolving around sexuality and eros with seven funny characters all played by great Nino Manfredi.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Sylva Koscina, Véronique Vendell, Umberto D'Orsi
Votes: 529
33. Il giovane normale (1969)
98 min | Comedy
The escapades of a young hitchhiker who is picked up by an American tourist group comprised of very diverse characters.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Lino Capolicchio, Janet Agren, Eugene Walter, Jeff Morrow
Votes: 73
34. The Priest's Wife (1970)
PG | 103 min | Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Venantino Venantini, Jacques Stany
Votes: 723 | Gross: $0.04M
35. Noi donne siamo fatte così (1971)
112 min | Comedy
The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Monica Vitti, Carlo Giuffrè, Enrico Maria Salerno, Ettore Manni
Votes: 186
36. In the Name of the Italian People (1971)
103 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A judge investigates the death of a young woman, possibly a murder. He suspects a famous industry tycoon with high political connections. But to what extent do the latter's lies and frauds influence the magistrate's opinion?
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Ely Galleani, Yvonne Furneaux
Votes: 1,702
37. Dirty Weekend (1973)
107 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
In 1970s Italy, an industrialist and his mistress are taken hostage by three left-wing extremists who robbed a bank but the police and a media circus follow them closely on a cross-country car chase.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Oliver Reed, Carole André, Lionel Stander
Votes: 558
38. How Funny Can Sex Be? (1973)
R | 97 min | Comedy
Exploring love, sex and marriage in contemporary mid-'70s Italy.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Laura Antonelli, Paola Borboni, Alberto Lionello
Votes: 734
39. Scent of a Woman (1974)
R | 103 min | Comedy, Drama
A young private is assigned to accompany a blind captain. It soon becomes clear that they are both complex personalities.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Alessandro Momo, Agostina Belli, Moira Orfei
Votes: 5,158
40. The Career of a Chambermaid (1976)
120 min | Comedy
A young chambermaid from Venice who is a fan of Italian "Telefoni bianchi" cinema of the fascist era decides to follow her dream and goes to Rome hoping to become an actress.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Agostina Belli, Cochi Ponzoni, Maurizio Arena, William Berger
Votes: 477
41. The Forbidden Room (1977)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion in Venezia, and it's soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Deneuve, Danilo Mattei, Anicée Alvina
Votes: 1,308
42. The Bishop's Bedroom (1977)
110 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Patrick Dewaere, Lia Tanzi
Votes: 1,051
43. Viva Italia! (1977)
R | 90 min | Comedy
Several episodes depicting Italian's life in short humoristic stories.
Directors: Mario Monicelli, Dino Risi, Ettore Scola | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi
Votes: 2,110
44. First Love (1978)
R | 115 min | Comedy, Drama
Ugo Cremonesi, left without work and awaiting liquidation, leaves the world of the vaudeville momentarily and takes refuge in Villa Serena, a shelter for old artists.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Mario Del Monaco, Caterina Boratto
Votes: 516
45. Dear Father (1979)
105 min | Drama
The story of the decadent lifestyle of a wealthy businessman's dysfunctional family.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Aurore Clément, Andrée Lachapelle, Stefano Madia
Votes: 237
46. Sono fotogenico (1980)
114 min | Comedy
Antonio Barozzi, an aspiring actor, goes to Rome to seek both fame and fortune.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Renato Pozzetto, Edwige Fenech, Aldo Maccione, Julien Guiomar
Votes: 531
47. Sunday Lovers (1980)
R | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, the U.S., and Italy).
Directors: Bryan Forbes, Édouard Molinaro, Dino Risi, Gene Wilder | Stars: Roger Moore, Lino Ventura, Ugo Tognazzi, Gene Wilder
Votes: 429
48. Fantasma d'amore (1981)
96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Romy Schneider, Eva Maria Meineke, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 819
49. Sesso e volentieri (1982)
101 min | Comedy
Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Johnny Dorelli, Laura Antonelli, Gloria Guida, Jackie Basehart
Votes: 197
50. Le bon roi Dagobert (1984)
112 min | Comedy
The caravan of the lazy king Dagobert is attacked by robbers who massacre the guards and rape the women. Dagobert escapes and becomes a penitent on a pilgrimage to Rome with the Pope.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Coluche, Michel Serrault, Ugo Tognazzi, Carole Bouquet
Votes: 510
51. Scemo di guerra (1985)
108 min | Comedy
The medical sub-lieutenant Marcello Lupi, endowed with a great humanity and common sense, at the end of 1940 was assigned to a health section installed near the oasis of Sorman, Libya and commanded by Major Bellucci.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Coluche, Beppe Grillo, Bernard Blier, Fabio Testi
Votes: 404
52. Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986)
91 min | Comedy
Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question... See full summary »
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Lino Banfi, Maurizio Ferrini, Maurizio Micheli, Isabel Russinova
Votes: 772
53. Teresa (1987)
98 min | Drama
Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Serena Grandi, Luca Barbareschi, Eros Pagni, Flora Carosello
Votes: 170
54. Love for Life (1988 TV Movie)
64 min | Drama
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Carol Alt, Andrea Occhipinti, William Berger, Pino Quartullo
Votes: 21
55. Running Away (1989 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 181 min | Drama
This tense story is set during World War II Italy. A mother and her daughter flee what once was the safety of Rome to seek refuge in the mountains. Their journey turns out to be one they could never have imagined.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Sophia Loren, Robert Loggia, Andrea Occhipinti, Carla Calò
Votes: 223
56. Tolgo il disturbo (1990)
94 min | Drama
Augusto Scribani is an old retiree, cultured and genteel, who comes to Rome to visit his children and his granddaughter Rosa.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Vittorio Gassman, Dominique Sanda, Elliott Gould, Valentina Holtkamp
Votes: 192
57. Vita coi figli (1991 TV Movie)
88 min | Drama
A recently-widowed father of five finds himself overwhelmed when he's left to play father and mother to a group of kids in whose lives he hadn't taken a whole lot of interest in a long time, if ever.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Giancarlo Giannini, Corinne Cléry, Monica Bellucci, Nicola Farron
Votes: 191
58. Giovani e belli (1996)
90 min | Comedy
In Rome Luca, looking for himself and coming from a very wealthy family, got to know Gino, who lives by expedients and petty thefts.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Anna Falchi, Luca Venantini, Edoardo Scatà, Gina Rovere
Votes: 99
59. Esercizi di stile (1996)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on.
Directors: Sergio Citti, Volfango De Biasi, Maurizio Dell'Orso, Claudio Fragasso, Alex Infascelli, Francesco Laudadio, Luigi Magni, Lorenzo Mieli, Mario Monicelli, Alessandro Piva, Pino Quartullo, Dino Risi, Faliero Rosati, Cinzia TH Torrini | Stars: Elena Sofia Ricci, Massimo Wertmüller, Sal Borgese, Joanna Chatton
Votes: 55
60. Le ragazze di Miss Italia (2002 TV Movie)
115 min | Comedy
A story set behind the scenes of the annual Miss Italia pageant, with its load of young girls and recognizable characters.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Christiane Filangieri, Alessandra Meloni, Nadia Bengala, Barbara Chiappini
Votes: 37
61. Rudolf Nureyev alla Scala (2005 Video)
76 min | Documentary
Directors: Claudio Risi, Dino Risi | Stars: Roberto Bolle, Maurice Béjart, Liliana Cosi, Carla Fracci
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