Dino Risi Movies

Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will.

Stylish, sophisticated and absolutely broke, Dino and Maria pursue a romance until they realize neither of them has any money, which forces the gold...

Remake of the famous 1960 "La Ciociara" movie.

Romolo and Salvatore look for jobs to impress their girlfriends, but things get complicated when their old flame Giovanna reappears.

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise...

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

Anna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who...

June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on...

A group of boys calling themselves The Monte Cristo gang find a note from an innocent prisoner and set out to free him from a fortress-like prison.

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy,...

Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.

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...

A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the Lybian desert during World War II.

The story of one man dealing with an unexpected series of events, discovering his youth once again in the relationship with a much younger woman and...

In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to...

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.

Giordano is a young man from Milan who accepts a ride from a trio of Americans (an "open" couple and a homosexual) sightseeing in Italy. The husband...

Luca, a young man from a rich family, travels to Rome. Here he encounters Gino, who makes a living with petty theft.

The "casanova" gondolier Bepi struggles to accept his future monogamous life, being Venice a hub of attracting tourists.