Screenplay: Valerio Zurlini

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Valerio Zurlini. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Violent Summer

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Valerio Zurlini

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

7.2

466 votes

7.2

466 votes

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

1971 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Dominique Sanda · Lino Capolicchio · Helmut Berger · Romolo Valli

Plot In the late 1930s, in Ferrara, Italy, the Finzi-Contini are one of the leading families, wealthy, aristocratic, urbane; they are also Jewish. Their adult children, Micol and Alberto, gather a...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K 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

Plot 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...

6.6

48 votes

6.6

48 votes

The Gold Rimmed Glasses

1987 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Giuliano Montaldo

Cast Philippe Noiret · Rupert Everett · Valeria Golino · Nicola Farron

Plot In this tragic romance set in Ferrara, Italy in 1938, and at a nearby seaside resort, a wealthy Jewish boy is thwarted in marrying the girl he loves when Mussolini's...

6.6

86 votes

6.6

86 votes

Black Jesus

1968 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy

Direction Valerio Zurlini

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

Plot 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...

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Guendalina

1957 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Jacqueline Sassard · Raf Mattioli · Sylva Koscina · Raf Vallone

Plot Set in Viareggio an Italian famous tourist place, this movie is a gentle comedy based on a subject of Valerio Zurlini, the movie well screenplayd tells the transformation of a...

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Not rated