Cinematography: Fernando Risi

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Fernando Risi. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


St. John the Baptist Beheaded

1940 · Movie · 89 min. · Italy

Direction Amleto Palermi · Giorgio Bianchi

Cast Totò · Titina de Filippo · Silvana Jachino · Augusto Di Giovanni

Synopsis Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy...

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Loves of Three Queens

1954 · Movie · 67 min. · Italy

Direction Marc Allégret · Edgar G. Ulmer

Cast Hedy Lamarr · Massimo Serato · Alba Arnova · Elli Parvo

Synopsis Beautiful Hedy Lamarr finds herself faced with a difficult decision when she must choose an appropriate costume for an important masquerade ball in this metaphorical fantasy that unfolds in three parts. To help her decide, she asks a trio of...

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Fate of Two Queens

1954 · Movie · 77 min. · Italy

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Bellezze in bicicletta

1951 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Campogalliani

Cast Silvana Pampanini · Delia Scala · Franca Marzi · Peppino De Filippo

Synopsis Two chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift. The driver gets, however, too fresh with the two girls and they decide...

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Antonio Meucci

1940 · Movie · 87 min. · Italy

Direction Enrico Guazzoni

Cast Luigi Pavese · Leda Gloria · Nerio Bernardi · Greta Gonda

Synopsis This fascist-era historical movie tells episodes of the life of Antonio Meucci, a nineteenth-century Italian inventor and supporter of Giuseppe Garibaldi who may well have beaten Alexander Graham Bell in the tumultuous race to invent the telephone.

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The Confessions of a Woman

1928 · Movie · 148 min. · Italy

Direction Amleto Palermi

Cast Enrica Fantis · Augusto Bandini · Maria Catalano · Gemma De Ferrari

Synopsis The film relates a woman falling into high-class prostitution, and her eventual redemption.

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