Cast: Adolfo Celi

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Adolfo Celi. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Phantom of Liberty

1974 · Movie · 104 min. · France

Direction Luis Buñuel

Cast Michel Piccoli · Jean Rochefort · Michael Lonsdale · Monica Vitti

Plot One of Luis Bunuel's most free-form and purely Surrealist films, consisting of a series of only vaguely related episodes - most famously, the dinner party scene where people sit on...

7.3

3K votes

7.3

3K votes

All My Friends Part 2

1982 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Philippe Noiret · Gastone Moschin · Adolfo Celi

Plot The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still...

7.3

537 votes

7.3

537 votes

The Honey Pot

1967 · Movie · 131 min. · United States

7.2

2K votes

7.2

2K votes

My Friends

1975 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Philippe Noiret · Gastone Moschin · Adolfo Celi

Plot Necchi (a bar owner), Perozzi (a journalist), Melandri (an architect) and Mascetti (a broken nobleman) live in Florence. They have been friends since their youngest years and spend every free...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Agony and the Ecstasy

1965 · Movie · 139 min. · United States

Direction Carol Reed

Cast Charlton Heston · Rex Harrison · Diane Cilento · Harry Andrews

Plot Pope Julius is eager to leave behind works by which he will be remembered. To this end he cajoles Michelangelo into painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. When not...

7.1

3K votes

7.1

3K votes

Café Express

1980 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Loy

Cast Nino Manfredi · Adolfo Celi · Vittorio Caprioli · Vittorio Mezzogiorno

Plot An Italian laborer (Nino Manfredi) foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Vallo della Lucania-to-Naples train.

7.0

49 votes

7.0

49 votes

King of Hearts

1966 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Alan Bates · Geneviève Bujold · Jean-Claude Brialy · Julien Guiomar

Plot During the latter part of World War I, Private Charles Plumpick is chosen to go into the French town of Marville and disconnect a bomb that the German army has...

6.8

166 votes

6.8

166 votes

Brancaleone at the Crusades

1970 · Movie · 116 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Adolfo Celi · Stefania Sandrelli · Beba Loncar

Plot Following to "L'Armata Brancaleone (1966). Our medieval hero in his way to the Holy Land during the Crusades, with all the wildest shenanigans thrown in. He is joined by a...

6.8

292 votes

6.8

292 votes

Guagilo

1948 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Adolfo Celi · Tina Pica · Mario Russo · Luigi Dermasti

Plot On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While making every effort to retrieve his baggage he finds...

6.7

30 votes

6.7

30 votes

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

1972 · Movie · 121 min. · Italy

Direction Franco Zeffirelli

Cast Graham Faulkner · Judi Bowker · Leigh Lawson · Kenneth Cranham

Plot The story follows young Francesco (Graham Faulkner) as he emerges from post-war trauma, renounces all worldly possessions, and attains enlightenment as a simple monk. His materialist father wants him to...

6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

Grand Prix

1966 · Movie · 176 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast James Garner · Eva Marie Saint · Yves Montand · Toshirô Mifune

Plot GRAND PRIX is John Frankenheimer's film about the nine-leg world championship of Formula 1 auto racing stars James Garner as driver Pete Aron. During the opening race in Monaco, a...

6.5

986 votes

6.5

986 votes

Febbre da cavallo

1976 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Steno

Cast Gigi Proietti · Enrico Montesano · Catherine Spaak · Mario Carotenuto

Plot Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is always at the track together with his...

6.5

40 votes

6.5

40 votes

Libera, My Love

1975 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Bruno Cirino · Adolfo Celi · Philippe Leroy

Plot The couple formed by Matteo Zannoni (Bruno Cirino) and Libera Valente (Cardinale) can't bear fascism. They move constantly between cities, settling down in Modena, where Libera quickly collides with the...

6.5

78 votes

6.5

78 votes

All My Friends Part 3

1985 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Loy

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Renzo Montagnani · Gastone Moschin · Adolfo Celi

Plot This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone...

6.4

93 votes

6.4

93 votes

They Have Changed Their Face

1971 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

Direction Corrado Farina

Cast Adolfo Celi · Geraldine Hooper · Giuliano Esperanti · Francesca Modigliani

Plot In this allegory on capitalism, director of a known car corporation invites one of his employees to his country villa to give him the good news. He just got promoted....

6.3

53 votes

6.3

53 votes

Thunderball

1965 · Movie · 129 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Terence Young

Cast Sean Connery · Claudine Auger · Adolfo Celi · Luciana Paluzzi

Plot James Bond is in disgrace. His monthly medical report is critical of the high living that is ruining his health, and M packs him off for a fortnight to a...

6.3

7K votes

6.3

7K votes

Von Ryan's Express

1965 · Movie · 117 min. · United States

Direction Mark Robson

Cast Frank Sinatra · Trevor Howard · Raffaella Carrà · Sergio Fantoni

Plot Von Ryan's Express is an excellent war adventure set in Italy during WWII. The movie is about a group of prisoners attempting to escape to freedom by taking over the...

6.3

853 votes

6.3

853 votes

Hired to Kill

1972 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Fernando Di Leo

Cast Mario Adorf · Henry Silva · Woody Strode · Adolfo Celi

Plot When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to...

6.2

171 votes

6.2

171 votes

That Man from Rio

1964 · Movie · 107 min. · France

Direction Philippe de Broca

Cast Jean-Paul Belmondo · Françoise Dorléac · Jean Servais · Roger Dumas

Plot Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves steal an Amazon figurine from the Trocadéro and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, the daughter of...

6.1

407 votes

6.1

407 votes

Danger: Diabolik

1968 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Bava

Cast John Phillip Law · Marisa Mell · Michel Piccoli · Adolfo Celi

Plot In a generic European country of the late 60's, Diabolik is an anti-hero whose life consists on preparing schemes to steal government money and make a fool of the entire...

6.1

556 votes

6.1

556 votes