Cast: Paolo Bonacelli

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


Midnight Express

1978 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction Alan Parker

Cast Brad Davis · John Hurt · Bo Hopkins · Irene Miracle

Plot Based on William Hayes's autobiography, MIDNIGHT EXPRESS tells the harrowing story of a young American tourist arrested and sentenced to 30 years in prison by Turkish authorities for trying to...

7.7

29K votes

7.7

29K votes

Night on Earth

1991 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Jim Jarmusch

Cast Winona Ryder · Giancarlo Esposito · Gena Rowlands · Armin Mueller-Stahl

Plot An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.

Max

7.5

11K votes

7.5

11K votes

Christ Stopped at Eboli

1979 · Movie · 150 min. · Italy

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Paolo Bonacelli · Alain Cuny · Lea Massari

Plot The story follows a real life anti-fascist intellectual, Carlo Levi, into his forced exile in small, isolated village in a remote region of Southern Italy. The village is populated by...

7.5

520 votes

7.5

520 votes

Nothing Left to Do but Cry

1984 · Movie · 113 min. · Italy

Direction Roberto Benigni · Massimo Troisi

Cast Massimo Troisi · Roberto Benigni · Iris Peynado · Amanda Sandrelli

Plot Saverio, a teacher and Mario, a janitor of the same school in which they both work, travel back in time and find themselves in central Italy at the end of...

7.1

533 votes

7.1

533 votes

Ciao, Professore!

1992 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Paolo Villaggio · Isa Danieli · Gigio Morra · Sergio Solli

Plot Marco Sperelli is a teacher, he is divorced and he is sent to work in Corzano, a town near Naples. The first day of work he finds in the school...

6.9

60 votes

6.9

60 votes

6.9

88 votes

Illustrious Corpses

1975 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Lino Ventura · Tino Carraro · Marcel Bozzuffi · Paolo Bonacelli

Plot A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. During the investigation he discovers a complot that involves the Italian Communist Party.

6.6

401 votes

6.6

401 votes

Johnny Stecchino

1991 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Roberto Benigni

Cast Roberto Benigni · Nicoletta Braschi · Paolo Bonacelli · Franco Volpi

Plot An accident-prone bus driver (Roberto Benigni), who happens to be an exact lookalike for a Sicilian mob boss marked for death, is set up for assassination by the capo's wife...

6.3

3K votes

6.3

3K votes

Saló, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1975 · Movie · 117 min. · Italy

Direction Pier Paolo Pasolini

Cast Paolo Bonacelli · Giorgio Cataldi · Umberto Paolo Quintavalle · Aldo Valletti

Plot Set in the Nazi-controlled, northern Italian state of Salo in 1944, four dignitaries round up sixteen perfect specimens of youth and take them together with guards, servants and studs to...

6.3

14K votes

6.3

14K votes

Henry IV

1984 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Claudia Cardinale · Leopoldo Trieste · Paolo Bonacelli

Plot The story begins at a medieval dressing party. A man, dressed as the King Enrico IV, falls from his horse and hits his head. This causes him serious lesions and...

6.3

109 votes

6.3

109 votes

The Murri Affair

1974 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Giancarlo Giannini · Fernando Rey · Tina Aumont

Plot Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder....

6.2

53 votes

6.2

53 votes

The Inheritance

1976 · Movie · 121 min. · Italy

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Anthony Quinn · Fabio Testi · Dominique Sanda · Gigi Proietti

Plot Wealthy patriarch Gregorio Ferramonte (Anthony Quinn) openly lusts after his new daughter-in-law (Dominique Sanda). Seemingly resistant at first to the lecherous Quinn, Sanda rapidly succumbs to his crude charms. There's...

6.1

299 votes

6.1

299 votes

Good News

1979 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

6.0

32 votes

6.0

32 votes

The Stendhal Syndrome

1996 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Dario Argento

Cast Asia Argento · Thomas Kretschmann · Marco Leonardi · Luigi Diberti

Plot Dario Argento's thriller stars the director's daughter Asia as Anna Manni, a policewoman trying to capture a vicious serial rapist and killer. The problem is that she suffers from "Stendhal's...

5.9

624 votes

5.9

624 votes

5.9

173 votes

Seven Times Seven

1968 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

5.7

24 votes

5.7

24 votes

The Head of the Family

1967 · Movie · 97 min. · Italy

5.6

52 votes

5.6

52 votes

Francesco

1989 · Movie · 118 min. · Italy

5.5

426 votes

5.5

426 votes

Caligula

1979 · Movie · 150 min. · Italy

Direction Tinto Brass

Cast Peter O'Toole · Malcolm McDowell · Helen Mirren · John Gielgud

Plot "Caligula" is Bob Guccione's star-studded pornographic look into the world of Ancient Rome. It depicts the lusty and demented Caesar Caligula (12 AC-41 AC) during his short-lived stint as Emperor...

5.4

6K votes

5.4

6K votes