Direction: Luigi Zampa
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Luigi Zampa. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 34
Difficult Years
1948 · Movie · 113 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Umberto Spadaro · Ave Ninchi · Delia Scala · Massimo Girotti
Synopsis Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into...
7.6
123 votes
7.6
123 votes
Roaring Years
1962 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Nino Manfredi · Gino Cervi · Michèle Mercier · Gastone Moschin
Synopsis In the thirties, during the Fascist Dictatorship, an insurance broker, Omero Battifiori, reaches a small country town from Rome seeking for new customers. The main authorities, expecting an incognito inspection from the Fascist Party of the capital, suspect him to...
7.4
195 votes
7.4
195 votes
Angelina: Member of Parliament
1947 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Anna Magnani · Nando Bruno · Ave Ninchi · Armando Migliari
Synopsis A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and...
7.2
136 votes
7.2
136 votes
The City Stands Trial
1952 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Amedeo Nazzari · Silvana Pampanini · Paolo Stoppa · Dante Maggio
7.1
84 votes
7.1
84 votes
To Live in Peace
1947 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Gar Moore · Mirella Monti · John Kitzmiller
6.8
86 votes
6.8
86 votes
The Traffic Policeman
1960 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio De Sica · Marisa Merlini · Mara Berni
Synopsis Othello (Alberto Sordi), an unemployed loser, is constantly being jeered at and publicly humilated at the local Cafès and bars, for being a useless man supported by his hard working wife, until through family connections and friends he gets a...
6.7
144 votes
6.7
144 votes
Be Sick... It's Free
1968 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Alberto Sordi · Sara Franchetti · Ida Galli · Nanda Primavera
Synopsis Story of an ambitious young medical school graduate, Guido Tersilli, who through not always ethical means makes a rapid career.
6.4
137 votes
6.4
137 votes
We, the Women
1953 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Alfredo Guarini · Gianni Franciolini · Roberto Rossellini · Luigi Zampa
Cast Ingrid Bergman · Anna Magnani · Isa Miranda · Alida Valli
Synopsis Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars. The first episode (of Alfredo Guarini) is the chronicle of a contest for aspirant actresses: Emma Danieli and Anna Amendola. In the second (of Gianni...
6.4
187 votes
6.4
187 votes
Woman of Rome
1954 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Daniel Gélin · Franco Fabrizi · Raymond Pellegrin
6.4
172 votes
6.4
172 votes
The Art of Getting Along
1955 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Alberto Sordi · Marco Guglielmi · Franco Coop · Luisa Della Noce
Synopsis Tells the life of Sicilian Rosario Scimoni before he ends in prison. His life in Catania at the beginning of 20th century, as the secretary of the mayor who is his uncle. His becoming into Comunism, later into Fascism, and...
6.4
103 votes
6.4
103 votes
Ladro lui, ladra lei
1958 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Alberto Sordi · Sylva Koscina · Alberto Bonucci · Mario Carotenuto
Synopsis Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.
6.3
31 votes
6.3
31 votes
A Girl in Australia
1971 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Alberto Sordi · Claudia Cardinale · Riccardo Garrone · Corrado Olmi
Synopsis The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's ,who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's. His wife hunting task is made even more arduous...
6.2
98 votes
6.2
98 votes
The Magistrate
1959 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast José Suárez · François Périer · Jacqueline Sassard · Massimo Serato
6.0
56 votes
6.0
56 votes
A Question of Honour
1966 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Nicoletta Machiavelli · Bernard Blier · Franco Fabrizi
5.7
55 votes
5.7
55 votes
The Flower in His Mouth
1975 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Jennifer O'Neill · Franco Nero · James Mason · Orazio Orlando
Synopsis A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the...
5.4
38 votes
5.4
38 votes
Tigers in Lipstick
1979 · Movie · 83 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Ursula Andress · Laura Antonelli · Sylvia Kristel · Monica Vitti
Synopsis 8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each: in the 1st sketch, Kristel lures an unsuspecting man into her room, but what is her real purpose?...
3.4
90 votes
3.4
90 votes
Our Husbands
1966 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Filippo D'Amico · Dino Risi · Luigi Zampa
Cast Alberto Sordi · Ugo Tognazzi · Jean-Claude Brialy · Michèle Mercier
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Children of Chance
1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Patricia Medina · Manning Whiley · Yvonne Mitchell · Barbara Everest
Synopsis Set on the Island of Ischia, concerns the difficulties encountered by a local priest who founded a home for illegitimate daughters of allied soldiers.
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A Yank in Rome
1945 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Valentina Cortese · Leo Dale · Adolfo Celi · Paolo Stoppa
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Rome-Paris-Rome
1951 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Aldo Fabrizi · Sophie Desmarets · Vera Nandi · Peppino De Filippo
Synopsis Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome to Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France, Ginette a widow with a four year old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to...
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