Direction: Carlo Lizzani

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


Chronicle of Poor Lovers

1954 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Anna-Maria Ferrero · Cosetta Greco · Antonella Lualdi · Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis In 1925 the young florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girl-friend Bianca. Here he becomes friends with Maciste, his landlord, and Ugo, anti-fascists both of them. When Campolmi is beaten by the fascists, Mario...

7.0

97 votes

7.0

97 votes

The Verona Trial

1963 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Silvana Mangano · Frank Wolff · Vivi Gioi · Françoise Prévost

Synopsis This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her husband by fanatics of her father.

7.0

62 votes

7.0

62 votes

La vita agra

1964 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Giovanna Ralli · Rossana Martini · Giampiero Albertini

Synopsis The movie tells the story of Luciano Bianchi, an intellectual coming from a provincial area of Italy, moving to Milan after a mine accident killed some of his friends and co-workers. Milan in the is the symbol of the economic...

6.6

33 votes

6.6

33 votes

Roberto Rossellini: Frammenti e battute

2000 · Documentary · 65 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Isabella Rossellini · Martin Scorsese · Marcella De Marchis · Silvia D'Amico Bendico

Synopsis Documentary about master director Roberto Rossellini, who tells details of his life and childhood and visits the places where he has lived and shot some of his most famous movies.

6.6

22 votes

6.6

22 votes

6.6

35 votes

Celluloid

1997 · Movie · 121 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Anna Falchi · Massimo Ghini · Lina Sastri

Synopsis The difficult making of Roberto Rossellini's masterpiece 'Roma, città aperta (1946)' in a Rome still suffering from the wounds of just ended WWII.

6.6

120 votes

6.6

120 votes

Love in the City

1953 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni · Federico Fellini · Alberto Lattuada · Carlo Lizzani

Cast Rita Josa · Rosanna Carta · Enrico Pelliccia · Donatella Marrosu

Synopsis A daring new film experience... Made without fear...without taboos!

6.5

230 votes

6.5

230 votes

Lucchino Visconti. A portrait

1999 · Documentary · 60 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Björn Andrésen · Laura Antonelli · Tina Apicella · Helmut Berger

Synopsis A chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his theatricality, role in the neorealist movement, use of melodrama, and relation to decadence. It touches on the impact of a fabulously wealthy childhood, his writing for...

6.5

26 votes

6.5

26 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 Dirty Game

1965 · Movie · 133 min. · United States

Direction Terence Young · Werner Klingler · Carlo Lizzani · Christian-Jaque

Cast Henry Fonda · Robert Ryan · Vittorio Gassman · Annie Girardot

Synopsis The US intelligence chief in Europe relates the stories of three different operations that he was involved in with colleagues in Paris and Djibouti, Rome, and Berlin.

6.0

29 votes

6.0

29 votes

Love and Anger

1969 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Bellocchio · Bernardo Bertolucci · Jean-Luc Godard · Carlo Lizzani

Cast Tom Baker · Julian Beck · Jim Anderson · Judith Malina

Synopsis Amore e rabbia (Love and Anger) is a 1969 anthology film that includes five films directed by five Italian directors and one French director. It premiered at the 19th Berlin International Film Festival in 1969.

5.9

249 votes

5.9

249 votes

Roma bene

1971 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Nino Manfredi · Senta Berger · Virna Lisi · Irene Papas

Synopsis Nino Manfredi is a police captain, giving an onlooker's point-of-view towards the decadent society folk. Party itself features a down & out baron, who dances with the party's glamorous hostess Virna Lisi so that he can steal her valuable earrings....

5.8

25 votes

5.8

25 votes

Black Turin

1972 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Marcel Bozzuffi · Bud Spencer · Françoise Fabian · Guido Leontini

Synopsis Mino and Lello, two sons of a worker wrongly accused of murder, try to find out evidence of his innocence and begin to investigate mafia business in Torino.

5.6

62 votes

5.6

62 votes

12 registi per 12 città

1989 · Documentary · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni · Bernardo Bertolucci · Giuseppe Bertolucci · Mauro Bolognini

Synopsis Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities.

5.5

54 votes

5.5

54 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

5.5

39 votes

Let Them Rest

1967 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Lou Castel · Mark Damon · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Barbara Frey

Synopsis The son of a Mexican bandit comes upon a village that is under the thumb of a deranged former Confederate officer, who is--among other things--stealing land from the locals with phony land grants.

5.2

152 votes

5.2

152 votes

The House of the Yellow Carpet

1983 · Movie · 84 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Erland Josephson · Béatrice Romand · Vittorio Mezzogiorno · Milena Vukotic

Synopsis Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man rings saying he wishes to buy the rug. But the man's visit becames...

5.2

21 votes

5.2

21 votes

The Hills Run Red

1966 · Movie · 89 min. · Italy

4.8

93 votes

4.8

93 votes