Direction: Valerio Zurlini

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


Violent Summer

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Eleonora Rossi Drago · Jean-Louis Trintignant · Jacqueline Sassard · Cathia Caro

Synopsis Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a...

7.2

263 votes

7.2

263 votes

Girl with a Suitcase

1961 · Movie · 121 min. · Italy

Direction Valerio Zurlini

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

Synopsis 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 standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Camp Followers (Women at War)

1965 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Tomas Milian · Anna Karina · Mario Adorf · Lea Massari

Synopsis In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.

7.2

71 votes

7.2

71 votes

Family Diary

1962 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Jacques Perrin · Valeria Ciangottini · Salvo Randone

Synopsis A touching story of brothers raised apart and then brought together under tragic circumstances, this drama by Valerio Zurlini remains true to Vasco Pratolini's novel. Told in a series of flashbacks as Enrico (Marcello Mastroianni) remembers the past, the brothers...

7.2

466 votes

7.2

466 votes

The Professor

1972 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy

6.7

395 votes

6.7

395 votes

La stazione (S)

1952 · Documentary · 11 min. · Italy

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Synopsis An early Zurlini's documentary short film on Roma Termini Station in a cinema verite style. A kind of wordless, avant-garde cinema, including the sounds and whistles of trains, and a view from on high looking down at passengers waiting for...

6.6

48 votes

6.6

48 votes

The Desert of the Tartars

1976 · Movie · 140 min. · Italy

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Giuliano Gemma · Helmut Griem · Philippe Noiret

Synopsis As his first assignment, lieutenant Drogo is sent to an isolated fortress on the borders of a desert and of a range of high mountains. The mission of the garrison is to prevent a possible incursion by the fearsome Tartars,...

6.4

586 votes

6.4

586 votes

6.3

34 votes

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L'Italia con Togliatti

1964 · Documentary · 38 min. · Italy

Not rated

Not rated

Black Jesus

1968 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Woody Strode · Franco Citti · Jean Servais · Pier Paolo Capponi

Synopsis A Congo rebel leader is captured and imprisoned with two white felons in this 81-minute feature containing religious symbolism and condemnation of colonial exploitation. Maurice Lalubi is thrown in jail with a soldier and an Italian thief. The trio endures...

Not rated

Not rated

Serenata da un soldo (S)

1953 · Documentary · 11 min. · Italy

Not rated

Not rated