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
Direction Mauro Bolognini
Cast Massimo Ranieri · Ottavia Piccolo · Frank Wolff · Tina Aumont
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
Direction Antonio Pietrangeli
Cast Irène Galter · Gabriele Ferzetti · Paolo Stoppa · Pina Bottin
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
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Giuliano Gemma · Stefania Sandrelli · Brizio Montinaro · Renato Scarpa
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
Direction Luciano Emmer
Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Giovanna Ralli · Marisa Merlini · Bice Valori
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
Men and Wolves
1957 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy
Direction Giuseppe de Santis · Leopoldo Savona
Cast Silvana Mangano · Yves Montand · Pedro Armendáriz · Irene Cefaro
6.0
45 votes
6.0
45 votes