Direction: Luigi Zampa

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Luigi Zampa. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


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

7.1

84 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

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

6.0

56 votes

6.0

56 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

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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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Not rated

A Yank in Rome

1945 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

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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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Not rated