Directors: Italian Directors 1895-1970

1. Pier Paolo Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life ...

2. Francesco Maselli

Director | Storia d'amore

Francesco Maselli was born on December 9, 1930 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Storia d'amore (1986), Codice privato (1988) and Time of Indifference (1964). He was married to Stefania Brai and Goliarda Sapienza. He died on March 21, 2023 in Rome, Italy.

3. Carlo Lizzani

Director | Banditi a Milano

Carlo Lizzani was born on April 3, 1922 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for The Violent Four (1968), Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954) and Celluloide (1996). He was married to Edith Bieber. He died on October 5, 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

4. Alberto Lattuada

Writer | Guendalina

Alberto Lattuada was born on November 13, 1914 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Guendalina (1957), Flesh Will Surrender (1947) and Bambina (1974). He was married to Carla Del Poggio. He died on July 3, 2005 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

5. Ettore Scola

Writer | Una giornata particolare

Ettore Scola was born on May 10, 1931 in Trevico, Campania, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for A Special Day (1977), The Family (1987) and Passion of Love (1981). He was married to Gigliola. He died on January 19, 2016 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

6. Mario Monicelli

Writer | I compagni

Mario Monicelli was born on May 16, 1915 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Organizer (1963), Speriamo che sia femmina (1986) and Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958). He was married to Chiara Rapaccini and Antonella Salerni. He died on November 29, 2010 in Rome, Lazio,...

7. Federico Fellini

Writer | Le notti di Cabiria

The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina (the ...

8. Elio Petri

Writer | Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto

Elio Petri was born on January 29, 1929 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970), We Still Kill the Old Way (1967) and His Days Are Numbered (1962). He was married to Paola Pegoraro. He died on November 10, 1982 in Rome, Lazio,...

9. Bernardo Bertolucci

Writer | Il conformista

Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian director whose films were known for their colorful visual style, was born in Parma, Italy. He attended Rome University and became famous as a poet. He served as assistant director for Pier Paolo Pasolini in the film Accattone (1961) and directed The Grim Reaper (...

10. Dario Argento

Writer | Profondo rosso

Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other ...

11. Luchino Visconti

Writer | Il gattopardo

Born in his ancestral palazzo, situated in the same Milanese square as both the opera house La Scala and the Milan Cathedral, Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976) was raised under the auspices of aristocratic privilege, theater and Catholicism. This triangulation of monuments would create an equally ...

12. Roberto Rossellini

Writer | Roma città aperta

The master filmmaker Roberto Rossellini, as one of the creators of neo-realism, is one of the most influential directors of all time. His neo-realist films influenced France's nouvelle vague movement in the 1950s and '60s that changed the face of international cinema. He also influenced American ...

13. Vittorio De Sica

Director | Ladri di biciclette

Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee ...

14. Michelangelo Antonioni

Writer | Blow-Up

Together with Fellini, Bergman and Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni is credited with defining the modern art film. And yet Antonioni's cinema is also recognized today for defying any easy categorization, with his films ultimately seeming to belong to their own distinctive genre. Indeed, the ...

15. Carmelo Bene

Director | Nostra signora dei turchi

Carmelo Bene was born on September 1, 1937 in Campi Salentina, Puglia, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Nostra signora dei turchi (1968), One Hamlet Less (1973) and Salome (1972). He was married to Raffaella Baracchi and Giuliana Rossi. He died on March 16, 2002 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

16. Marco Ferreri

Writer | Storie di ordinaria follia

Marco Ferreri was born on May 11, 1928 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981), L'udienza (1972) and El cochecito (1960). He was married to Jacqueline Ferreri. He died on May 9, 1997 in Paris, France.

17. Marco Bellocchio

Writer | Il traditore

Marco Bellocchio is one of the most consistent and most adventurous of today's Italian directors-an achievement all the more remarkable given that he made his feature debut almost fifty years ago. Over those years, he has amassed a body of films that encompasses a large number of original ...

18. Giuseppe Ferrara

Director | Il caso Moro

Giuseppe Ferrara was born on July 15, 1932 in Castelfiorentino, Tuscany, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Il caso Moro (1986), Bambini nell'acquedotto (1960) and La città del malessere (1973). He died on June 25, 2016 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

19. Giorgio Diritti

Director | Il vento fa il suo giro

Giorgio Diritti was born on December 21, 1959 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Wind Blows Round (2005), The Man Who Will Come (2009) and Hidden Away (2020).

20. Giuliano Montaldo

Writer | L'industriale

Born in 1930 in Genoa. Still a young student in 1950 when director Carlo Lizzani gave him a role in the film Achtung Banditi!. Following this experience he traveled to Rome where, after acting in film and theater, he became the assistant director to Lizzani, Gillo Pontecorvo, Sergio Leone, ...

21. Gianni Amelio

Director | Il ladro di bambini

After school, Amelio studied philosophy. He graduated with a doctorate. Amelio developed a keen interest in film at a young age. In 1970 he began working as a cameraman for the Italian state television RAI. A little later, Amelio worked as an assistant director for RAI. In 1970 he directed his ...

22. Mario Monicelli

Writer | I compagni

Mario Monicelli was born on May 16, 1915 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Organizer (1963), Speriamo che sia femmina (1986) and Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958). He was married to Chiara Rapaccini and Antonella Salerni. He died on November 29, 2010 in Rome, Lazio,...

23. Giovanni Pastrone

Director | Cabiria

Giovanni Pastrone was born on September 13, 1883 in Montechiaro d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Cabiria (1914), Julius Caesar (1909) and Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) (1916). He died on June 27, 1959 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.

24. Stefano Pittaluga

Writer | Maciste all'inferno

Stefano Pittaluga was born on February 2, 1887 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was a producer and writer, known for Maciste in Hell (1925), La canzone dell'amore (1930) and Caporal Saetta (1924). He died on April 26, 1932 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

25. Dino Risi

Director | Il sorpasso

Dino Risi became a movie director by chance. In 1940 he met Alberto Lattuada at a friend's boutique. Lattuada told him they needed an assistant director for the movie Piccolo mondo antico (1941). Risi accepted just for fun, not for work. Later, he became a psychiatrist and wrote some articles for a...

26. Pietro Germi

Writer | Il ferroviere

Pietro Germi was born on September 14, 1914 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Railroad Man (1956), Divorce Italian Style (1961) and The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966). He was married to Olga D'Aiello and Anna Bancio. He died on December 5, 1974 in Rome, ...

27. Francesco Rosi

Writer | Cadaveri eccellenti

His father was a shipowner. After school, Rosi initially began studying law, which he soon dropped out to work as a broadcast journalist and book illustrator in Naples. From 1944 to 1945 he worked for "Radio Napoli". In the immediate post-war years, Rosi moved to Rome, where he came into contact ...

28. Giuseppe Tornatore

Director | La migliore offerta

Giuseppe Tornatore was born on May 27, 1956 in Bagheria, Sicily, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Best Offer (2013), Cinema Paradiso (1988) and The Legend of 1900 (1998). He is married to Roberta Pacetti.

29. Giuseppe De Santis

Writer | Caccia tragica

Giuseppe De Santis was born on February 11, 1917 in Fondi, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Tragic Hunt (1947), Giorni d'amore (1954) and Bitter Rice (1949). He was married to Gordana Miletic. He died on May 16, 1997 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

30. Franco Piavoli

Director | Al primo soffio di vento

Franco Piavoli was born on June 21, 1933 in Pozzolengo, Lombardy, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Al primo soffio di vento (2002), The Blue Planet (1982) and Voices Through Time (1996). He is married to Neria Poli. They have one child.

31. Vittorio De Seta

Director | Banditi a Orgosolo

Vittorio De Seta was born on October 15, 1923 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Bandits of Orgosolo (1961), Un uomo a metà (1966) and Islands of Fire (1955). He died on November 28, 2011 in Sellia Marina, Calabria, Italy.

32. Silvano Agosti

Editor | Uova di garofano

Silvano Agosti was born on March 23, 1938 in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. He is an editor and director, known for Uova di garofano (1991), Quartiere (1987) and Fit to Be Untied (1975).

33. Luigi Comencini

Writer | Voltati Eugenio

Luigi Comencini was born on June 8, 1916 in Salò, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Voltati Eugenio (1980), Everybody Go Home! (1960) and Bread, Love and Dreams (1953). He was married to Giulia Grifeo. He died on April 6, 2007 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

34. Valerio Zurlini

Writer | Cronaca familiare

Valerio Zurlini was born on March 19, 1926. During his law studies in Rome, he started working in the theatre. In 1943, he joined the Italian resistance. Zurlini became a member of the Italian Communist Party. He filmed short documentaries in the immediate post-war period and in 1954 directed his ...

35. Liliana Cavani

Director | L'ospite

Liliana Cavani was born on January 12, 1933 in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. She is a director and writer, known for L'ospite (1971), Dove siete? Io sono qui (1993) and The Night Porter (1974).

36. Franco Brusati

Writer | Pane e cioccolata

Franco Brusati was born on August 4, 1922 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Bread and Chocolate (1974), Romeo and Juliet (1968) and I tulipani di Haarlem (1970). He died on February 28, 1993 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

37. Gillo Pontecorvo

Director | La battaglia di Algeri

Gillo Pontecorvo was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for his 1966 masterpiece, The Battle of Algiers, widely viewed as one of the finest films of its genre: realistic though fictionalized documentary. Its portrayal of the Algerian resistance during the Algerian War uses the neorealist style ...

38. Steno

Writer | La polizia ringrazia

Steno was born on January 19, 1917 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Execution Squad (1972), Cops and Robbers (1951) and La patata bollente (1979). He died on March 12, 1988 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

39. Francesco Bertolini

Director | L'Inferno (Remastered)

Francesco Bertolini is known for L'Inferno (Remastered) (2024), Il disco d'oro (1921) and Dante's Inferno (1911).

40. Giuseppe de Liguoro

Director | L'Inferno

Giuseppe de Liguoro was born on January 10, 1869 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was a director and actor, known for Dante's Inferno (1911), Homer's Odyssey (1911) and Re Lear (1910). He died on March 19, 1944 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

41. Adolfo Padovan

Director | L'Inferno (Remastered)

Adolfo Padovan was born in Northern Italy and grew up city of Varese at the feet of Sacro Monte di Varese, part of the Campo dei Fiori mountain range, that hosts an astronomical observatory.

On completing high school he settled in Milan where he went on to study astronomy, although he chose to ...

42. Emidio Greco

Director | Una storia semplice

Emidio Greco was born on October 20, 1938 in Leporano, Puglia, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Una storia semplice (1991), Notizie degli scavi (2010) and L'uomo privato (2007). He died on December 22, 2012 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

43. Sergio Citti

Writer | I magi randagi

Sergio Citti was born on May 30, 1933 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for We Free Kings (1996), Vipera (2000) and Il minestrone (1981). He died on October 11, 2005 in Ostia, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

44. Giuseppe Bertolucci

Writer | Berlinguer ti voglio bene

Giuseppe Bertolucci was born on February 24, 1947 in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Berlinguer: I Love You (1977), Segreti segreti (1985) and The Sweet Sounds of Life (1999). He was married to Lucilla Albano. He died on June 16, 2012 in Diso, Puglia, Italy.

45. Sergio Leone

Writer | Once Upon a Time in America

Sergio Leone was virtually born into the cinema - he was the son of Roberto Roberti (A.K.A. Vincenzo Leone), one of Italy's cinema pioneers, and actress Bice Valerian. Leone entered films in his late teens, working as an assistant director to both Italian directors and U.S. directors working in ...

46. Paolo Taviani

Director | La notte di San Lorenzo

Paolo Taviani studied liberal arts at the University of Pisa, becoming interested in the cinema after seeing Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (1946). After writing and directing short films and plays with his brother Vittorio, he made his first feature in 1962. The brothers have continued to work ...

47. Vittorio Taviani

Director | La notte di San Lorenzo

Vittorio Taviani studied law at the University of Pisa, becoming interested in the cinema after seeing Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (1946). After writing and directing short films and plays with his brother Paolo, he made his first feature in 1962. The brothers have continued to work together ever ...

48. Alberto Grifi

Cinematographer | In viaggio con Patrizia

Alberto Grifi was born on May 29, 1938 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a cinematographer and director, known for In viaggio con Patrizia (1995), La nostra anima (1987) and Michele alla ricerca della felicità (1978). He died on April 22, 2007 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

49. Roberto Faenza

Writer | Jona che visse nella balena

Roberto Faenza was born on February 21, 1943 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for Look to the Sky (1993), Escalation (1968) and I Viceré (2007).

50. Mauro Bolognini

Director | Madamigella di Maupin

Mauro Bolognini was born on February 28, 1922 in Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Madamigella di Maupin (1966), Mosca addio (1987) and Careless (1962). He died on May 14, 2001 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

51. Vittorio Cottafavi

Director | Traviata '53

The son of an army officer and landowner, Cottafavi (christened Benedetto Vittorio Emmanuele Secondo) was already endowed with a university education in law, philosophy and literature by the time he graduated from the famous Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome in 1938.

He began his ...

52. Lino Del Fra

Writer | Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere

Lino Del Fra was born on June 20, 1927 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere (1977), Klon (1992) and Cake in the Sky (1973). He was married to Cecilia Mangini. He died on July 19, 1997 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

53. Cecilia Mangini

Writer | All'armi siam fascisti!

Cecilia Mangini was born on July 31, 1927 in Mola di Bari, Apulia, Italy. She was a writer and director, known for All'armi siam fascisti! (1962), Klon (1992) and Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere (1977). She was married to Lino Del Fra. She died on January 21, 2021 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

54. Luciano Salce

Director | Colpo di stato

Luciano Salce was born on September 25, 1922 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Colpo di stato (1969), La voglia matta (1962) and Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno (1974). He was married to Jole Bertolazzi and Diletta D'Andrea. He died on December 17, ...

55. Lina Wertmüller

Writer | Pasqualino Settebellezze

During the 1970s, Lina Wertmüller emblazoned her name into the pantheon of Italian cinema with a series of intensely polemical, deeply controversial and wonderfully entertaining films. Among the most politically outspoken and iconoclastic members of the second generation of postwar directors - the ...

56. Tinto Brass

Writer | La vacanza

Giovanni Brass was born on 26 March 1933 into the family of a famous artist, Italico Brass, who was his grandfather. Italico gave his grandson a nickname "Tintoretto," which Giovanni later adapted into his cinematic name, Tinto Brass.

Tinto inherited his grandfather's artistic skills, but he applied...

57. Tonino Valerii

Director | Il mio nome è Nessuno

Tonino Valerii was born on May 20, 1934 in Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for My Name Is Nobody (1973), A Girl Called Jules (1970) and Day of Anger (1967). He was married to Rita. He died on October 13, 2016 in Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy.

58. Flavio Mogherini

Writer | La ragazza dal pigiama giallo

Flavio Mogherini was born on March 25, 1922 in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy. He was a production designer and art director, known for The Pyjama Girl Case (1977), La viaccia (1961) and Delitto passionale (1994). He died on April 23, 1994 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

59. Pasquale Squitieri

Writer | Gli invisibili

Pasquale Squitieri was born on November 27, 1938 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Gli invisibili (1988), The Gun (1978) and Razza selvaggia (1980). He was married to Ottavia Fusco and Silvana Filotico. He died on February 18, 2017 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

60. Luigi Magni

Writer | Nemici d'infanzia

Luigi Magni was born on March 21, 1928 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Nemici d'infanzia (1995), In the Name of the Pope King (1977) and Nell'anno del Signore (1969). He was married to Lucia Mirisola. He died on October 27, 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

61. Sergio Corbucci

Writer | Django

Sergio Corbucci was born on December 6, 1926, in Rome, Italy. He entered grade school with thoughts of becoming a businessman, but after earning a college degree in economics he took an abrupt detour into the world of cinema. Corbucci began his career as a film critic, first for the Italian film ...

62. Alessandro Blasetti

Director | Prima comunione

Alessandro Blasetti was born on July 3, 1900 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for First Communion (1950), La corona di ferro (1941) and Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966). He was married to Maria Laura Quagliotti. He died on February 1, 1987 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

63. Guido Salvini

Director | Adriana Lecouvreur

Guido Salvini was born on May 12, 1893 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Adriana Lecouvreur (1955), Regina della Scala (1937) and Il conte Aquila (1955). He died on May 4, 1965 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy.

64. Luigi Chiarini

Writer | La bella addormentata

Arguably more important than his contributions as director (5 films) or scenarist (11 titles which include work for De Sica and Rossellini) are the roles Luigi Chiarini (1900-75) played in Italy as theorist, editor, festival director and film school founder. During the Fascist era, in 1935 he ...

65. Franco Giraldi

Director | La rosa rossa

Franco Giraldi was born on July 11, 1931 in Comeno, Gorizia, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy [now Komen, Slovenia]. He was a director and writer, known for La rosa rossa (1974), A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and Roma dodici novembre 1994 (1995). He died on December 2, 2020 in Trieste, Friuli, Italy.

66. Aldo Lado

Writer | Alibi perfetto

Aldo Lado was born on December 5, 1934 in Fiume, Italy [now Croatia]. He was a writer and director, known for Alibi perfetto (1992), The Conformist (1970) and Love Ritual (1989). He died on November 25, 2023 in Rome, Italy.

67. Mario Bava

Cinematographer | Ecologia del delitto

Italian director Mario Bava was born on July 31, 1914 in the coastal northern Italian town of Sanremo. His father, Eugenio Bava (1886-1966), was a cinematographer in the early days of the Italian film industry. Bava was trained as a painter, and when he eventually followed his father into film ...

68. Lucio Fulci

Writer | Lo squartatore di New York

Lucio Fulci, born in Rome in 1927, remains as controversial in death as he was in life. A gifted craftsman with a sharp tongue and a wicked sense of dark humor, Fulci achieved some measure of notoriety for his gore epics of the late 1970s and early 1980s, but respect was long in coming.

Abandoning ...

69. Ruggero Deodato

Director | Deathcember

Ruggero Deodato was born on May 7, 1939, in Potenza, Italy, and grew up outside Rome. One of his close friends at the time was Renzo Rossellini, the son of famed Italian director Roberto Rossellini. Knowing Ruggerio's love for the movies, Renzo persuaded him to work as a second unit director on ...

70. Leopoldo Savona

Director | La guerra continua

Leopoldo Savona was born on July 13, 1913 in Lenola, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and assistant director, known for Warriors Five (1962), Apocalypse Joe (1970) and Arms of the Avenger (1963). He died on October 19, 2000 in Jesi, Marche, Italy.

71. Luigi Zampa

Writer | Processo alla città

Abandoning earlier studies in architecture and engineering, Luigi Zampa learned screenwriting and directing at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, between 1932 and 1937. He went on to make military training films for the Italian army during World War II, as well as collaborating on ...

72. Mario Soldati

Writer | La provinciale

Mario Soldati studied by the Jesuits and in the 1920s was acquainted with liberal intellectuals who gathered around Piero Gobetti. He wrote his first play ("Pilatus") when he was 18, and published hist first short story collection ("Salmace") in 1929. In 1935 he reached literary success with "...

73. Mario Mattoli

Director | Abbandono

Mario Mattoli was born on November 30, 1898 in Tolentino, Marche, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Abbandono (1940), La damigella di Bard (1936) and Schoolgirl Diary (1941). He was married to Mity Mignone. He died on February 26, 1980 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

74. Antonio Pietrangeli

Writer | Io la conoscevo bene

Antonio Pietrangeli was born on January 19, 1919 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for I Knew Her Well (1965), The Visit (1963) and March's Child (1958). He was married to Margherita Ferroni. He died on July 12, 1968 in Gaeta, Lazio, Italy.

75. Giorgio Bianchi

Director | Cronaca nera

Giorgio Bianchi was born on February 18, 1904 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and actor, known for Cronaca nera (1947), Il conte Max (1957) and La maestrina (1942). He died on February 9, 1967 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

76. Renato Castellani

Writer | Romeo and Juliet

Renato Castellani was born on September 4, 1913 in Finale Ligure, Liguria, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Romeo and Juliet (1954), Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952) and Sotto il sole di Roma (1948). He died on December 28, 1985 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

77. Franco Zeffirelli

Director | Romeo and Juliet

Franco Zeffirelli is an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He was also a senator from 1994 until 2001 for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party. Some of his operatic designs and productions have become worldwide classics.

He was known for several of the movies he ...

78. Carlo Tuzii

Director | Ciao Gulliver

Carlo Tuzii is known for Ciao Gulliver (1970), Dieci registi italiani, dieci racconti italiani (1982) and L'uomo dei venti (1975).

79. Salvatore Samperi

Director | Malizia

Salvatore Samperi was born on July 26, 1943 in Padua, Veneto, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Malicious (1973), Ernesto (1979) and Smell of Flesh (1974). He was married to Francesca Bardella. He died on March 5, 2009 in Trevignano Romano, Lazio, Italy.

80. Corso Salani

Director | Voci d'Europa

Corso Salani was born on September 9, 1961 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Voci d'Europa (1989), Talsi: Confini d'Europa #4 (2007) and C'è un posto in Italia (2005). He died on June 16, 2010 in Ostia, Rome, Lazio, Italy.

81. Renato De Maria

Director | Hotel paura

Renato De Maria was born in 1958 in Varese, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for Hotel paura (1996), The Front Line (2009) and Italian Gangsters (2015). He has been married to Isabella Ferrari since April 2002. They have two children.

82. Giuseppe Stasi

Writer | The Bad Guy

Giuseppe G. Stasi (director and screenwriter) and Giancarlo Fontana (director and editor) began their career in 2011, making a number of satirical videos for the web such as Inception Made in Italy and Il Processo Ruby, which enjoyed great success online, getting over one million views.

Later they ...

83. Andrea Adriatico

Director | Il vento, di sera

Andrea Adriatico was born in 1966 in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, Italy. He is a director and writer, known for The Wind in the Evening (2004), Pugni e su di me si chiude un cielo (2002) and L'auto del silenzio (2002).