Direction: Marco Ferreri

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


El pisito

1959 · Movie · 76 min. · Spain

Direction Marco Ferreri · Isidoro M. Ferry

Cast Mary Carrillo · José Luis López Vázquez · Concha López Silva · Celia Conde

Synopsis Madrid, in the late 1950s. In Franco’s Spain, there is a severe housing crisis. Rodolfo and Petrita have been engaged for twelve years, and yearn to marry, but cannot until they have their own apartment. Desperate to find a place...

7.3

6K votes

7.3

6K votes

The Big Feast

1973 · Movie · 125 min. · France

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Ugo Tognazzi · Philippe Noiret · Michel Piccoli

Synopsis Four wealthy middle-aged men decide to get together at a country villa and eat themselves to death. They are: Marcello, a pilot; Ugo, a chef; Philippe, a judge; and Michel, a television executive. After the first night, they agree that...

6.8

3K votes

6.8

3K votes

The Ape Woman

1964 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Annie Girardot · Ermelinda De Felice · Achille Majeroni

Synopsis A man, Antonio Focaccia (Ugo Tognazzi), meets a woman, Maria (Annie Girardot), full of hair on her body. Antonio makes Maria to become a freak to earn a lot of money, and he gets married with her, too.

6.8

249 votes

6.8

249 votes

The Conjugal Bed

1963 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Marina Vlady · Walter Giller · Linda Sini

Synopsis A 40 years old man, Alfonso, finally succeeds to marry a virgin, educate, beautiful and very catholic woman. But soon she, Regina, starts stressing him because she wants to be pregnant. When the stress is at its peak Regina at...

6.7

75 votes

6.7

75 votes

Los chicos

1959 · Movie · 80 min. · Spain

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Joaquín Zaro · Alberto Jiménez · José Sierra · Ana María Vidal

Synopsis Ferreri's film "Los Chicos" (The Boys) is about the lives of four lower-middle class Spanish boys coping with the effects of the Spanish Civil War. The film depicts an inhospitable urban environment, conflict between male and female adolescents, and an...

6.6

712 votes

6.6

712 votes

Nitrate Base

1996 · Documentary · 87 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast László Balogh · Eric Berger · Ingrid Bergman · Marc Berman

Synopsis This documentary celebrates the 100th anniversary of the cinema birth. It is an historic running through the technical and artistic evolution of the 7th art. We move from mute to sound, from B&W to color, trough all the genders (musical,...

6.2

50 votes

6.2

50 votes

6.2

22 votes

The Harem

1967 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Carroll Baker · Gastone Moschin · Renato Salvatori · Michel Le Royer

Synopsis A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.

6.1

30 votes

6.1

30 votes

5.9

499 votes

5.9

29 votes

Dillinger Is Dead

1968 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Michel Piccoli · Anita Pallenberg · Gino Lavagetto · Carla Petrillo

Synopsis Husband Piccoli comes home from work one evening, cooks dinner, reads in a newspaper about Dillinger’s death - and goes off-the-wall. Surreal, strangely fascinating drama is pretty senseless but nevertheless compelling, even hypnotic. An artistic triumph for writer-director Ferreri, whose...

5.8

348 votes

5.8

348 votes

5.8

83 votes

Le banquet (TV)

1989 · Movie · 78 min. · France

5.8

34 votes

5.8

34 votes

5.7

285 votes

The Seed of Man

1969 · Movie · 113 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Marco Margine · Anne Wiazemsky · Annie Girardot · Rada Rassimov

Synopsis A young couple argue about having a child in the days after a global plague wipes out most of Earth's population.

5.6

70 votes

5.6

70 votes

5.6

232 votes

Love to Eternity

1972 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Catherine Deneuve · Marcello Mastroianni · Corinne Marchand · Michel Piccoli

Synopsis Liza slowly replaces Melampo, Giorgio's dog. While she accepts it, Giorgio forces her to wear collars and leashes

5.6

103 votes

5.6

103 votes

The Story of Piera

1983 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Isabelle Huppert · Marcello Mastroianni · Hanna Schygulla · Angelo Infanti

Synopsis The liberated Eugenia and her spaced-out husband - a professor - live in a small provincial Italian town, where Eugenia is noticed as she zooms around on her bicycle and chats up strangers at the train station. While still no...

5.5

178 votes

5.5

178 votes

The Future Is Woman

1984 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Ornella Muti · Hanna Schygulla · Niels Arestrup · Maurizio Donadoni

Synopsis Anna and Gordon live together and love each other. They've decided not to have children, because they're scared about the menace of the atomic bombs. Until they meet Malvina, a lonely and nomad girl who's six months pregnant. A strange...

5.5

58 votes

5.5

58 votes