Screenplay: Pietro Germi

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


Man of Iron

1956 · Movie · 118 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Pietro Germi · Luisa Della Noce · Sylva Koscina · Saro Urzi

Plot The railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud with his work, drinking wine after hours...

7.5

513 votes

7.5

513 votes

Divorce, Italian Style

1961 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Daniela Rocca · Stefania Sandrelli · Leopoldo Trieste

Plot Baron Fefé Cefalù is a Sicilian nobleman bored of life and of wife Rosalia: he falls in love with young and beautiful cousin Angela, who spends summers in the same...

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7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

Seduced and Abandoned

1964 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Stefania Sandrelli · Saro Urzi · Aldo Puglisi · Lando Buzzanca

Plot Agnese a 15-year-old Sicilian girl is seduced and impregnated by Peppino, her sister's Matilde fiancé;. Soon Vincenzo, Agnese's father, discovers everything and after had hit like hell his daughter run...

7.4

371 votes

7.4

371 votes

My Friends

1975 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

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

Plot 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...

7.2

1K votes

7.2

1K votes

Path of Hope

1950 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Raf Vallone · Elena Varzi · Saro Urzi · Saro Arcidiacono

Plot Women wait anxiously at a minehead in Capodarso, Sicily. Their men are underground. The mine is closing and the miners refuse to come up unless the owner relents. After three...

7.2

223 votes

7.2

223 votes

In the Name of the Law

1949 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Massimo Girotti · Jone Salinas · Camillo Mastrocinque · Charles Vanel

Plot A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.

7.2

115 votes

7.2

115 votes

A Man of Straw

1958 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

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

Plot 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...

7.1

121 votes

7.1

121 votes

The Climax

1967 · Movie · 97 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Stefania Sandrelli · Gigi Ballista · Renee Longarini

Plot Sergio Masini, a violin player, is going to be the father of a sixth child... by his second mistress, Marisa. Quite nervous about that, he does not leave the clinic......

7.0

91 votes

7.0

91 votes

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

1966 · Movie · 118 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Virna Lisi · Gastone Moschin · Nora Ricci · Alberto Lionello

Plot A citizen of the Veneto in her sixties. Three stories of "love in the country": a pseudo Don Giovanni confesses his impotence to the doctor in confidence but he becomes...

7.0

641 votes

7.0

641 votes

The Bandit of Tacca Del Lupo

1952 · Movie · 82 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Amedeo Nazzari · Cosetta Greco · Saro Urzi · Fausto Tozzi

Plot In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom.

6.8

22 votes

6.8

22 votes

Jealousy

1955 · Movie · 86 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Marisa Belli · Erno Crisa · Alessandro Fersen · Liliana Gerace

Plot A Sicilian nobleman is very jealous of his mistress and when she gets married flies off his handle and commits a murder of which an innocent man is accused. He...

6.8

71 votes

6.8

71 votes

Lost Youth

1948 · Movie · 76 min. · Italy

6.7

41 votes

6.7

41 votes

Four Ways Out

1951 · Movie · 84 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Renato Baldini · Cosetta Greco · Paul Muller

Plot As a soccer match is in progress, a group of four criminals robs the stadium office. Before they can make their getaway, a chase begins, and they must split up...

6.6

92 votes

6.6

92 votes

The Testimony

1946 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

6.3

35 votes

6.3

35 votes

Alfredo, Alfredo

1972 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy

5.8

133 votes

5.8

133 votes

Serafino

1968 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Adriano Celentano · Ottavia Piccolo · Saro Urzi · Francesca Romana Coluzzi

Plot Serafino a young and innocent shepherd inherits a huge fortune. He immediately spends the entire sum in presents for his friends. For this reason he is believed mad, and his...

5.1

71 votes

5.1

71 votes

Black 13

1953 · Movie · 75 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Ken Hughes

Cast Peter Reynolds · Rona Anderson · Patrick Barr · Lana Morris

Plot Peter Reynolds is the screwed-up son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automobile accident. His crime spurt is petty...

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Il figlio del corsaro rosso

1943 · Movie · 80 min. · Italy

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Gli ultimi filibustieri

1943 · Movie · 82 min. · Italy

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Retroscena

1939 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Alessandro Blasetti

Cast Filippo Romito · Elisa Cegani · Camillo Pilotto · Lia Orlandini

Plot The title literally translates as "Back Stage," and it is on the most basic level a love story between an icily beautiful concert pianist (Elisa Cegani) and a baritone singer...

Not rated

Not rated