Screenplay: Giuseppe de Santis

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Giuseppe de Santis. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Rome 11:00

1952 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Eva Vanicek · Carla del Poggio · Massimo Girotti · Lucía Bosé

Plot Based on an actual incident, this is the story of five girls who are among the 200 women who answer a want ad for a modest secretarial position one rainy...

7.7

238 votes

7.7

238 votes

Ossessione

1943 · Movie · 135 min. · Italy

Direction Luchino Visconti

Cast Clara Calamai · Massimo Girotti · Juan de Landa · Dhia Cristiani

Plot "Ossessione", made in 1942 and banned in Italy by Mussolini, is a powerful delineation of the ill-fated love between Gino, a virile young drifter who arrives by chance at a...

7.4

1K votes

7.4

1K votes

Bitter Rice

1949 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Silvana Mangano · Vittorio Gassman · Doris Dowling · Raf Vallone

Plot Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant...

7.4

2K votes

7.4

2K votes

The Tragic Pursuit

1947 · Movie · 89 min. · Italy

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Massimo Girotti · Michele Riccardini · Andrea Checchi · Checco Rissone

Plot In the Emilia of the immedate postwar period, the life of an agricultural cooperative is threatened by some bandits that act on behalf of a landowner. Mix of actuality and...

7.1

93 votes

7.1

93 votes

Desire

1946 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

6.5

49 votes

6.5

49 votes

No Peace Under the Olive Tree

1950 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Raf Vallone · Lucía Bosé · Folco Lulli · Maria Grazia Francia

Plot Raf Vallone plays Francesco Dominici, a shepherd and war veteran who returns home to find that his flock of sheep have been stolen by the area thuggish big-shot landlord Agostino...

6.1

36 votes

6.1

36 votes

Days of Love

1954 · Movie · 97 min. · Italy

6.1

35 votes

6.1

35 votes

A Husband for Anna

1953 · Movie · 75 min. · Italy

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I fidanzati della morte

1957 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy

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Angels of Darkness

1954 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Giuseppe Amato

Cast Linda Darnell · Valentina Cortese · Lea Padovani · Giulietta Masina

Plot Tamara, a Roman prostitute, tries to kill herself throwing herself out of the window of the licensed brothel she works in. While she is being taken to hospital the other...

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The Year Long Road

1958 · Movie · 162 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Silvana Pampanini · Eleonora Rossi Drago · Massimo Girotti · Bert Sotlar

Plot The plot is set in an underdeveloped and remote area of a fictitious country, where the locals try to build an asphalt road in spite of careless attitude of the...

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La garçonnière

1960 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Raf Vallone · Eleonora Rossi Drago · Gordana Miletic · Nino Castelnuovo

Plot A building constructor repeatedly betrays his wife in an apartment he rented in a popular neighborhood. She pawns him, finds out the truth and leaves him. The couple will recover...

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Attack and Retreat

1964 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Giuseppe de Santis

Cast Arthur Kennedy · Zhanna Prokhorenko · Raffaele Pisu · Tatyana Samojlova

Plot Italiani brava gente is an Italian historical film drama directed by Giuseppe De Santis. The movie follows Italian soldiers fighting on the Eastern Front in World War II.

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Outcry

1946 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

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Riscatto

1953 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

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