Screenplay: Francesco Rosi

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


Bellissima

1951 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy

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

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

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

6.1

167 votes

6.1

167 votes

6.1

307 votes

The Bigamist

1956 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

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