Screenplay: Ugo Pirro

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


The Working Class Goes to Heaven

1971 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Mariangela Melato · Gino Pernice · Salvo Randone

Plot Lulu is a real hard worker. For this reason he is loved by the masters and hated by his own colleagues. The unions decide agitations against the masters. Lulu doesn't...

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

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

1970 · Movie · 118 min. · Italy

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Florinda Bolkan · Gianni Santuccio · Orazio Orlando

Plot A chief of detectives, homicide section, kills his mistress and deliberately leaves clues to prove his own responsibility for the crime.

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Iron Prefect

1977 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Pasquale Squitieri

Cast Giuliano Gemma · Claudia Cardinale · Stefano Satta Flores · Massimo Mollica

Plot True story about the struggle against the Sicilian Mafia. In 1925 Mussolini, who came to power 3 years ago, sent Cesare Mori/1872-1942/ to Sicily, as a police prefect, with the...

7.0

49 votes

7.0

49 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 Verona Trial

1963 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

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

Plot 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...

7.0

62 votes

7.0

62 votes

Ogro

1979 · Movie · 100 min. · Spain

Direction Gillo Pontecorvo

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · José Sacristán · Ángela Molina · Eusebio Poncela

Plot A film about Basque terrorism when terrorist group ETA killed Spanish Government President Carrero Blanco. Operación Ogro ("Operation Ogre") was the name given by ETA to the assassination of Luis...

6.9

4K votes

6.9

4K votes

Metello

1970 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy

6.7

127 votes

6.7

127 votes

The Day of the Owl

1968 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Franco Nero · Lee J. Cobb · Tano Cimarosa

Plot Based on the Leonardo Sciascia novel of the same title, this story deals with the difficulties facing a northern police officer investigating a Mafia murder in a small Sicilian town...

6.7

344 votes

6.7

344 votes

Property Is No Longer a Theft

1973 · Movie · 114 min. · Italy

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Flavio Bucci · Daria Nicolodi · Gigi Proietti

Plot A cashier, allergic to money, is so exasperated that he decides that he must mine rich people's private property in order to give a shock to their lives. His main...

6.6

169 votes

6.6

169 votes

Celluloid

1997 · Movie · 121 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

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

Plot 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

The Boy from Calabria

1987 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Santo Polimeno · Gian Maria Volonté · Diego Abatantuono · Thérèse Liotard

Plot A BOY FROM CALABRIA is the story of 13-year-old Mimi (Santo Polimeno), who achieves earthly ecstasy whenever he is running... and always in bare feet, like his hero, the Ethiopian...

6.6

42 votes

6.6

42 votes

Empty Eyes

1953 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

6.4

31 votes

6.4

31 votes

We Still Kill the Old Way

1967 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Irene Papas · Gabriele Ferzetti · Salvo Randone

Plot A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.

6.4

193 votes

6.4

193 votes

Somewhere Beyond Love

1974 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

6.4

35 votes

6.4

35 votes

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

1976 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Comencini · Nanni Loy · Luigi Magni · Mario Monicelli

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Ugo Tognazzi · Nino Manfredi · Vittorio Gassman

Plot An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel...

6.3

200 votes

6.3

200 votes

Five Branded Women

1960 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Martin Ritt

Cast Jeanne Moreau · Vera Miles · Silvana Mangano · Barbara Bel Geddes

Plot Yugoslav partisans grimly crop the hair of a village quintet of women believed to have consorted with the occupational Nazis. Four, for various reasons, have indeed - and their seducer...

6.3

100 votes

6.3

100 votes

Wasted Lives

1957 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

6.2

34 votes

6.2

34 votes

The Inheritance

1976 · Movie · 121 min. · Italy

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Anthony Quinn · Fabio Testi · Dominique Sanda · Gigi Proietti

Plot Wealthy patriarch Gregorio Ferramonte (Anthony Quinn) openly lusts after his new daughter-in-law (Dominique Sanda). Seemingly resistant at first to the lecherous Quinn, Sanda rapidly succumbs to his crude charms. There's...

6.1

299 votes

6.1

299 votes