Screenplay: Francesco Rosi
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Francesco Rosi. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 22
Bellissima
1951 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy
Direction Luchino Visconti
Cast Anna Magnani · Walter Chiari · Tina Apicella · Gastone Renzelli
7.6
2K votes
7.6
2K votes
Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979 · Movie · 150 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Paolo Bonacelli · Alain Cuny · Lea Massari
Plot The story follows a real life anti-fascist intellectual, Carlo Levi, into his forced exile in small, isolated village in a remote region of Southern Italy. The village is populated by...
7.5
520 votes
7.5
520 votes
Hands Over the City
1963 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Rod Steiger · Salvo Randone · Guido Alberti · Marcello Cannavale
Plot Rod Steiger is ferocious as a scheming land developer in Francesco Rosi's Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film...
7.2
557 votes
7.2
557 votes
The Mattei Affair
1972 · Movie · 118 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Luigi Squarzina · Gianfranco Ombuen · Edda Ferronao
Plot Winner of the 1972 Cannes Film Festival "Palme d'Or" Prize. Enrico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through...
7.2
768 votes
7.2
768 votes
The City Stands Trial
1952 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Amedeo Nazzari · Silvana Pampanini · Paolo Stoppa · Dante Maggio
7.1
84 votes
7.1
84 votes
Many Wars Ago (Uomini contro)
1970 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Mark Frechette · Alain Cuny · Gian Maria Volonté · Giampiero Albertini
Plot On the Italian/Austrian front during World War I, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian positions leads to a mutiny among the decimated Italian troops.
7.0
176 votes
7.0
176 votes
Salvatore Giuliano
1962 · Movie · 124 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Frank Wolff · Salvo Randone · Federico Zardi · Pietro Cammarata
7.0
671 votes
7.0
671 votes
Illustrious Corpses
1975 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Lino Ventura · Tino Carraro · Marcel Bozzuffi · Paolo Bonacelli
Plot A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. During the investigation he discovers a complot that involves the Italian Communist Party.
6.6
401 votes
6.6
401 votes
The Challenge
1958 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Elsa Valentino Ascoli · Tina Castigliano · Paquale Cennamo · Decimo Cristiani
Plot Vito Polara is a young Neapolitan with very few scruples. His ambition is to make a fortune in whatever way possible. For some time, he has been selling cigarettes on...
6.6
98 votes
6.6
98 votes
The Magliari
1959 · Movie · 111 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Alberto Sordi · Renato Salvatori · Belinda Lee · Nino Vingelli
Plot Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police...
6.6
114 votes
6.6
114 votes
Carmen
1984 · Movie · 148 min. · France
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Julia Migenes · Plácido Domingo · Ruggero Raimondi · Faith Esham
Plot A film version of the famous Bizet opera, where a french soldier (Don Jose) falls in love with a beautiful spanish factory worker (Carmen), but she does not reciprocate his...
6.5
121 votes
6.5
121 votes
The Truce
1997 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast John Turturro · Rade Serbedzija · Massimo Ghini · Roberto Citran
Plot John Turturro stars as an Auschwitz survivor returning to Italy after the war in director Franceso Rosi's new adaptation of Primo Levi's autobiographical "La Tregua" ("The Truce"). The film, an...
6.4
696 votes
6.4
696 votes
Three Brothers
1981 · Movie · 113 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Philippe Noiret · Michele Placido · Vittorio Mezzogiorno · Andrea Ferréol
Plot In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from...
6.4
212 votes
6.4
212 votes
The Moment of Truth
1965 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Miguel Mateo · Linda Christian · José Gómez · Pedro Basauri
6.1
167 votes
6.1
167 votes
Lucky Luciano
1973 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Edmond O'Brien · Vincent Gardenia · Silverio Blasi
6.1
307 votes
6.1
307 votes
The Bigamist
1956 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy
Direction Luciano Emmer
Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Franca Valeri · Giovanna Ralli · Marisa Merlini
6.1
23 votes
6.1
23 votes
The Palermo Connection (To Forget Palermo)
1990 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast James Belushi · Mimi Rogers · Joss Ackland · Philippe Noiret
Plot Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily...
5.4
24 votes
5.4
24 votes
More Than a Miracle
1967 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Sophia Loren · Omar Sharif · Georges Wilson · Leslie French
Plot A handsome prince searches for love in this whimsical fairy tale. Prince Rodrigo (Omar Sharif) has been pledged to an arranged marriage by the Queen Mother (Dolores Del Rio), but...
5.4
120 votes
5.4
120 votes
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1987 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Anthony Delon · Rupert Everett · Lucía Bosé · Ornella Muti
Plot In a small Columbian town, Santiago Nasar has awoken early on the day of his own murder to see the pope stop at the town docks. The town is still...
5.2
1K votes
5.2
1K votes
Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
1956 · Movie · 80 min. · Italy
Direction Vittorio Gassman · Francesco Rosi
Cast Vittorio Gassman · Cesco Baseggio · Mario Carotenuto · Anna-Maria Ferrero
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