Screenplay: Carlo Lizzani

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


Germany, Year Zero

1948 · Movie · 74 min. · Italy

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Edmund Moeschke · Ernst Pittschau · Barbara Hintz · Franz-Otto Krüger

Plot Edmund, a young boy who lives in war-devastated Germany after the Second World War has to do all kinds of work and tricks to help his family in getting food...

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8.0

7K votes

8.0

7K 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

Chronicle of Poor Lovers

1954 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Anna-Maria Ferrero · Cosetta Greco · Antonella Lualdi · Marcello Mastroianni

Plot In 1925 the young florentine typographer Mario moves to via del Corno to be near his girl-friend Bianca. Here he becomes friends with Maciste, his landlord, and Ugo, anti-fascists both...

7.0

97 votes

7.0

97 votes

Roberto Rossellini: Frammenti e battute

2000 · Documentary · 65 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Isabella Rossellini · Martin Scorsese · Marcella De Marchis · Silvia D'Amico Bendico

Plot Documentary about master director Roberto Rossellini, who tells details of his life and childhood and visits the places where he has lived and shot some of his most famous movies.

6.6

22 votes

6.6

22 votes

Gold of Rome

1961 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

6.6

35 votes

6.6

35 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

Lucchino Visconti. A portrait

1999 · Documentary · 60 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Björn Andrésen · Laura Antonelli · Tina Apicella · Helmut Berger

Plot A chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his theatricality, role in the neorealist movement, use of melodrama, and relation to decadence. It touches on...

6.5

26 votes

6.5

26 votes

The Last Tyrant

1974 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Rod Steiger · Franco Nero · Lisa Gastoni · Henry Fonda

Plot The true story of the greatest manhunt of the century!

6.3

135 votes

6.3

135 votes

6.2

56 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

Love and Anger

1969 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Bellocchio · Bernardo Bertolucci · Jean-Luc Godard · Carlo Lizzani

Cast Tom Baker · Julian Beck · Jim Anderson · Judith Malina

Plot Amore e rabbia (Love and Anger) is a 1969 anthology film that includes five films directed by five Italian directors and one French director. It premiered at the 19th Berlin...

5.9

249 votes

5.9

249 votes

Roma bene

1971 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Nino Manfredi · Senta Berger · Virna Lisi · Irene Papas

Plot Nino Manfredi is a police captain, giving an onlooker's point-of-view towards the decadent society folk. Party itself features a down & out baron, who dances with the party's glamorous hostess...

5.8

25 votes

5.8

25 votes

Attention! Bandits!

1951 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

5.5

39 votes

5.5

39 votes

Duel of Champions

1961 · Movie · 85 min. · Italy

Direction Ferdinando Baldi

Cast Alan Ladd · Franca Bettoia · Franco Fabrizi · Robert Keith

Plot A duel takes place in order to put an end to the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. Three valiant brothers are chosen for each side....

4.5

25 votes

4.5

25 votes

The Hunchback of Rome

1960 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Gérard Blain · Anna-Maria Ferrero · Bernard Blier · Ivo Garrani

Plot Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo (Il Gobbo del Quarticciolo), during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt. He starts his career of rebel like...

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Nel Mezzogiorno qualcosa è cambiato (S)

1950 · Documentary · 22 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Mario Alicata

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The Bandit

1969 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy

Direction Carlo Lizzani

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Stefania Sandrelli · Ivo Garrani · Assen Milanov

Plot Gramigna and his father are robbed of their field by Baron Nardò. The Baron let the field to Assunta and Gemma that is secretly beloved of Gramigna. Gemma succeeded to...

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Barbagia

1969 · Movie · 83 min. · Italy

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The Devils of Monza

1987 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Luciano Odorisio

Cast Myriem Roussel · Alessandro Gassman · Renato De Carmine · Alina De Simone

Plot The young noble Don Monza is caught and thrown out by the nun Virginia de Leva when she catches him flirting with one of her nun sisters across the stone...

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