Screenplay: Piero de Bernardi

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


Once Upon a Time in America

1984 · Movie · 225 min. · United States

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Robert De Niro · James Woods · Elizabeth McGovern · Tuesday Weld

Synopsis Once Upon a Time in America (1984) is an epic crime drama spanning decades, following the lives of Jewish gangsters in New York City. The story intertwines past and present, exploring themes of friendship, betrayal, and the consequences of ambition....

8.3

55K votes

8.3

55K votes

The Marquis of Grillo

1981 · Movie · 139 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Elena Daskowa Valenzano · Isabella De Bernardi · Elisa Mainardi

Synopsis The marquess of Grillo is a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes...

7.4

362 votes

7.4

362 votes

All My Friends Part 2

1982 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Philippe Noiret · Gastone Moschin · Adolfo Celi

Synopsis The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall...

7.3

537 votes

7.3

537 votes

Girl with a Suitcase

1961 · Movie · 121 min. · Italy

Direction Valerio Zurlini

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Jacques Perrin · Luciana Angiolillo · Gian Maria Volonté

Synopsis Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is...

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

Synopsis 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

7.2

226 votes

My Friends

1975 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Philippe Noiret · Gastone Moschin · Adolfo Celi

Synopsis Necchi (a bar owner), Perozzi (a journalist), Melandri (an architect) and Mascetti (a broken nobleman) live in Florence. They have been friends since their youngest years and spend every free moment together organizing complex and terrible jokes to all the...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

The Life of Verdi (TV Series)

1982 · Series · 600 min. · Italy

Direction Renato Castellani

Cast Ronald Pickup · Carla Fracci · Giampiero Albertini · Omero Antonutti

Synopsis The complete series which cost over 10 million dollars to create, and several years to film. It provides a meticulously accurate portrayal of the life of one of the greatest composers of opera the world has ever known, Giuseppe Verdi....

7.2

385 votes

7.2

385 votes

A Man of Straw

1958 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Pietro Germi · Franca Bettoia · Luisa Della Noce · Edoardo Nevola

Synopsis Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young son Giulio develops a cough. The doctor recommends the seaside. Luisa leaves with Giulio for several weeks. Andrea stays to work at the...

7.1

121 votes

7.1

121 votes

You're on Your Own

1959 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Peppino De Filippo · Totò · Laura Adani · Cristina Gaioni

Synopsis In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel.

7.0

68 votes

7.0

68 votes

Marriage Italian Style

1964 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Sophia Loren · Marcello Mastroianni · Gianni Ridolfi · Marilú Toló

Synopsis MARRIAGE ITALIAN STYLE presents director Vittorio De Sica's fourth collaboration with actress Sophia Loren, and the film exploits the busty Amazon for all she's worth. In the role of Filomena Marturano, a lusty prostitute, Loren's costumes range from tiny to...

7.0

4K votes

7.0

4K votes

Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations

1992 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Paolo Panelli · Alessandro Haber · Marina Confalone · Pia Velsi

Synopsis Like every year, everyone is going back to the ancestral family's home for the Christmas holidays. But this time, the old folks have a surprise, a good surprise for them. They have decided to go living with one of their...

7.0

164 votes

7.0

164 votes

Ciao, Professore!

1992 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Paolo Villaggio · Isa Danieli · Gigio Morra · Sergio Solli

Synopsis Marco Sperelli is a teacher, he is divorced and he is sent to work in Corzano, a town near Naples. The first day of work he finds in the school only the school-caretaker and few girls and boys in the...

6.9

60 votes

6.9

60 votes

6.9

150 votes

Misunderstood

1967 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Comencini

Cast Anthony Quayle · Stefano Colagrande · Simone Gianozzi · John Sharp

Synopsis When the wife of an English consul in Roma dies suddenly, her husband begins to lavish affection on their younger son, thinking the older boy to be unmoved by his mother's death.

6.9

257 votes

6.9

257 votes

Fun Is Beautiful

1980 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Verdone

Cast Carlo Verdone · Mario Brega · Renato Scarpa · Verónica Miriel

Synopsis Three stories, three characters all played by Verdone. The first is an awkward young man, who meet a Spanish tourist in Rome. The second has planned a trip towards East with a suitcase full of stockings and biro pens. The...

6.8

75 votes

6.8

75 votes

White Collar Blues

1975 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy

6.8

151 votes

6.8

151 votes

Il secondo tragico Fantozzi

1976 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Luciano Salce

Cast Paolo Villaggio · Anna Mazzamauro · Gigi Reder · Ugo Bologna

Synopsis The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.

6.7

94 votes

6.7

94 votes

Dear Goddamned Friends

1994 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Paolo Villaggio · Massimo Ceccherini · Vittorio Rap · Marco Graziani

Synopsis Tuscany, August 1944: the Allies have just entered Florence, Italy is devasted by the war, and the people are hungry. "Dieci", who claims to have been a boxer and a manager, gathers a group of young men in order to...

6.6

38 votes

6.6

38 votes

Compagni di scuola

1988 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Verdone

Cast Carlo Verdone · Christian De Sica · Nancy Brilli · Eleonora Giorgi

Synopsis Former high school friends meet for a party after 15 years, only to discover that much of the innocence and friendship is gone.

6.5

62 votes

6.5

62 votes