Cast: Gian Maria Volonté

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Gian Maria Volonté. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


For a Few Dollars More

1965 · Movie · 132 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Clint Eastwood · Lee Van Cleef · Gian Maria Volonté · Mara Krupp

Plot The film establishes episodes for each of the main characters. There is Colonel Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), an aging bounty killer, and the Man With No Name (Clint Eastwood), another...

Max

8.0

35K votes

8.0

35K votes

The Red Circle

1970 · Movie · 140 min. · France

Direction Jean-Pierre Melville

Cast Alain Delon · Bourvil · Gian Maria Volonté · Yves Montand

Plot Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing...

7.6

3K votes

7.6

3K votes

A Fistful of Dollars

1964 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Clint Eastwood · Marianne Koch · Gian Maria Volonté · Wolfgang Lukschy

Plot A cigarillo smoking stranger (Eastwood) rides into the Mexican border town of San Miguel, a town in which rival factions are battling for control: there are those employed by Sheriff...

Max

7.6

28K votes

7.6

28K 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

I Am Afraid

1977 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

7.2

56 votes

7.2

56 votes

The Working Class Goes to Heaven

1971 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Mariangela Melato · Gino Pernice · Salvo Randone

Plot Lulu is a real hard worker. For this reason he is loved by the masters and hated by his own colleagues. The unions decide agitations against the masters. Lulu doesn't...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Girl with a Suitcase

1961 · Movie · 121 min. · Italy

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Jacques Perrin · Luciana Angiolillo · Gian Maria Volonté

Plot Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Mattei Affair

1972 · Movie · 118 min. · Italy

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Luigi Squarzina · Gianfranco Ombuen · Edda Ferronao

Plot Winner of the 1972 Cannes Film Festival "Palme d'Or" Prize. Enrico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through...

7.2

768 votes

7.2

768 votes

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

1970 · Movie · 118 min. · Italy

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Florinda Bolkan · Gianni Santuccio · Orazio Orlando

Plot A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

7.1

119 votes

The Four Days of Naples

1962 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Loy

Cast Regina Bianchi · Aldo Giuffrè · Lea Massari · Jean Sorel

Plot The film shows the history of the Neapolitan popular revolt against the invading Germans, during the second world war. During the four days in Naples the revolt turns over in...

7.1

107 votes

7.1

107 votes

For Love and Gold

1966 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Catherine Spaak · Gian Maria Volonté · Maria Grazia Buccella

Plot A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia (south of Italy). They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia,...

7.1

814 votes

7.1

814 votes

Giordano Bruno

1973 · Movie · 114 min. · Italy

Direction Giuliano Montaldo

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Hans Christian Blech · Mathieu Carrière · Renato Scarpa

Plot Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was one of the pivotal thinkers of the Renaissance. A Dominican friar in Italy, he left the order and taught widely throughout Europe. Among the ideas he...

7.1

243 votes

7.1

243 votes

Slap the Monster on Page One

1972 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Bellocchio

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Fabio Garriba · Carla Tatò · Jacques Herlin

Plot We are just a few days before the general elections. The daughter of a well-known professor is found dead. Mr Bizanti editor in chief of newspaper "Il Giornale", in agreement...

7.0

203 votes

7.0

203 votes

Many Wars Ago (Uomini contro)

1970 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

Direction Francesco Rosi

Cast Mark Frechette · Alain Cuny · Gian Maria Volonté · Giampiero Albertini

Plot On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the decimated Italian troops.

7.0

176 votes

7.0

176 votes

Ogro

1979 · Movie · 100 min. · Spain

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · José Sacristán · Ángela Molina · Eusebio Poncela

Plot A film about Basque terrorism when terrorist group ETA killed Spanish Government President Carrero Blanco. Operación Ogro ("Operation Ogre") was the name given by ETA to the assassination of Luis...

6.9

4K votes

6.9

4K votes

6.9

128 votes

The Abyss

1988 · Movie · 88 min. · Belgium

Direction André Delvaux

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Sami Frey · Jacques Lippe · Anna Karina

Plot In the sixteenth century, Spain occupies Flanders, an Inquisition enforces the faith. Aging writer and philosopher, Zénon Ligre, comes to Bruges using a false name and papers to serve as...

6.8

55 votes

6.8

55 votes

Open Doors

1990 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy

Direction Gianni Amelio

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Ennio Fantastichini · Renzo Giovampietro · Renato Carpentieri

Plot On 10 March 1937, in Palermo, the clerk Tommaso Scalia that was the scapegoat for embezzlement in the Confederation Building kills with a bayonet his former chief, the lawyer Spadafora...

6.6

107 votes

6.6

107 votes