Cinematography: Roberto Gerardi

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


The Great War

1959 · Movie · 135 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio Gassman · Silvana Mangano · Folco Lulli

Synopsis Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army. Giovanni bribes Oreste, believing to his false pledges...

7.7

2K votes

7.7

2K votes

Marriage Italian Style

1964 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Sophia Loren · Marcello Mastroianni · Gianni Ridolfi · Marilú Toló

Synopsis MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE presents director Vittorio De Sica's fourth collaboration with actress Sophia Loren, and the film exploits the busty Amazon for all she's worth. In the role of Filomena Marturano, a lusty prostitute, Loren's costumes range from tiny to...

7.0

4K votes

7.0

4K votes

Arturo's Island

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

6.9

86 votes

6.9

86 votes

Fiasco in Milan

1959 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Loy

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Nino Manfredi · Renato Salvatori · Tiberio Murgia

Synopsis In this comedy, a bungling gang leader and his henchmen attempt to swipe a suitcase full of loot from a soccer pool. The task seems simple enough, but the gang suffers a variety of zany mishaps before the leader finally...

6.5

441 votes

6.5

441 votes

The Warm Life

1964 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Florestano Vancini

Cast Catherine Spaak · Fabrizio Capucci · Jacques Perrin · Gabriele Ferzetti

Synopsis A pair of randy adolescents, Mark (Fabrizio Capucci) and Freddy (Jacques Perrin), invite a beautiful young friend of theirs, Sergia (Catherine Spaak), to stay at their parent’s island lodge for the weekend, with the unsurprising intention of getting into her...

6.5

23 votes

6.5

23 votes

The Empty Canvas

1963 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Horst Buchholz · Catherine Spaak · Bette Davis · Isa Miranda

Synopsis The son of a wealthy American woman and a deceased Italian nobleman, Dino, dabbles away at painting. Thinking he has found the image for his "empty canvas", he takes up with man-crazy nymphet Cecilia, who refuses to marry him--even after...

6.4

80 votes

6.4

80 votes

The Condemned of Altona

1962 · Movie · 114 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Sophia Loren · Maximilian Schell · Fredric March · Robert Wagner

Synopsis After being denounced to the Gestapo by his father, and later becoming a torturer, Franz von Gerlach locks himself in a room for fifteen years, isolated from the world -except from Leni, his sister-lover- to confront himself to an imaginary...

6.3

70 votes

6.3

70 votes

The Last Tyrant

1974 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Rod Steiger · Franco Nero · Lisa Gastoni · Henry Fonda

Synopsis The true story of the greatest manhunt of the century!

6.3

135 votes

6.3

135 votes

The Master and Margaret

1972 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Aleksandar Petrovic

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Mimsy Farmer · Alain Cuny · Velimir 'Bata' Zivojinovic

Synopsis The film is set in the Soviet Union under Stalin, it has several story-lines, that are intertwined. Maestro Nikolai Masoudov, a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret, are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate. The Satan - Woland,...

5.9

29 votes

5.9

29 votes

5.9

29 votes

Il marito

1958 · Movie · 82 min. · Italy

Direction Nanni Loy · Fernando Palacios · Puccini

Cast Alberto Sordi · Aurora Bautista · Luigi Tosi · Alberto de Amicis

Synopsis Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister who live with the married couple.

5.6

47 votes

5.6

47 votes

Thrilling

1965 · Movie · 117 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani · Gian Luigi Polidoro · Ettore Scola

Cast Alberto Sordi · Nino Manfredi · Walter Chiari · Dorian Gray

Synopsis Three segments: in the first one (Il vittimista) a teacher is obsessed with the idea his wife betrays him. When he goes to a shrink he lets him understand that his fear has to do with him having cheated on...

5.5

24 votes

5.5

24 votes

Being Twenty

1978 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Fernando Di Leo

Cast Gloria Guida · Lilli Carati · Raymond Lovelock · Vincenzo Crocitti

Synopsis Lia and Tina are two beautiful girls who meet and realize that they have a lot in common. They are both young, beautiful and pissed off, so they decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to find Nazariota's commune, a...

5.5

29 votes

5.5

29 votes

The Wind's Fierce (Trinity Sees Red)

1971 · Movie · 102 min. · Spain

Direction Mario Camus

Cast Terence Hill · Maria Grazia Buccella · Fernando Rey · Mario Pardo

Synopsis This western is set in Valencia, Spain at the end of the 19th century, and stars Terence Hill as a close-mouthed gunslinger. The bad guy is the local landlord and aristocrat (Fernando Rey), who horribly abuses the laborers in his...

5.3

232 votes

5.3

232 votes

To Arms with Love

1967 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Catherine Spaak · Robert Hossein · Tomas Milian · Mikaela

Synopsis Mlle de Maupin, an Hungarian young woman, escapes from her country under the guise of a monk. A strict army officer forces Theodore the 'monk', to enlist in the King's army, for the times are of war, and not even...

5.3

35 votes

5.3

35 votes

Madame Sans-Gêne

1961 · Movie · 98 min. · France

Direction Christian-Jaque

Cast Sophia Loren · Robert Hossein · Julien Bertheau · Renaud Mary

Synopsis Catherine, an out-spoken Parisian laundress follows Napoleon's army to the battlefront to be near her Sergeant Lefevre. The couple perform a deed of heroism which abets Napoleon's victory, so that after the war the grateful Emperor bestows on the now...

5.3

84 votes

5.3

84 votes

Lady Caliph

1970 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

5.2

44 votes

5.2

44 votes

Direction Maximilian Schell

Cast Jon Voight · Jacqueline Bisset · Martin Ritt · Robert Shaw

Synopsis While investigating a high-profile murder case, a savvy but unorthodox veteran police inspector has to cope with a bad conscience, bad health, an overzealous partner, a timid superior and interference from political interests. This is an existential whodunit, but a...

5.0

40 votes

5.0

40 votes

Africa Express

1976 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Michele Lupo

Cast Giuliano Gemma · Ursula Andress · Jack Palance · Giuseppe Maffioli

Synopsis John Baxter (Giuliano Gemma) is a freewheeling trader of goods in Africa with a pet chimpanzee and one dream: to save enough money to buy a gas station in Detroit. Ursula Andress is Madeleine Cooper, the lady of mystery he...

4.5

44 votes

4.5

44 votes