Screenplay: Elio Petri

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Elio Petri. 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

I giorni contati

1962 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

7.1

95 votes

7.1

95 votes

15 from Rome

1963 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Ugo Tognazzi · Lando Buzzanca · Marino Masé

Plot The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.

7.0

614 votes

7.0

614 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

Todo Modo

1976 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Marcello Mastroianni · Mariangela Melato · Ciccio Ingrassia

Plot Don Gaetano (Marcello Mastroianni) is a priest who is supervising a group of Christian Democrats on a religious retreat. The objective is to help these politicians purify their past wrongdoings,...

6.5

153 votes

6.5

153 votes

The Assassin

1961 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Micheline Presle · Cristina Gaioni · Salvo Randone

Plot A socialite is murdered and her playboy lover, is brought in for questioning. During his stay in custody we get to see the real sneaky playboy in action via flashback....

6.5

178 votes

6.5

178 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

Days of Love

1954 · Movie · 97 min. · Italy

6.1

35 votes

6.1

35 votes

A Quiet Place in the Country

1969 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Franco Nero · Vanessa Redgrave · Georges Géret · Gabriella Grimaldi

Plot Nymphomania, necrophilia, fetishism, sadomasochism.

6.0

128 votes

6.0

128 votes

Good News

1979 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

6.0

32 votes

6.0

32 votes

L'impiegato

1960 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

6.0

23 votes

6.0

23 votes

The 10th Victim

1965 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Ursula Andress · Elsa Martinelli · Salvo Randone

Plot Some people like violence so much, that they decide to create a club in which human hunts are organized - members being alternately hunters, and prey, until they end up...

5.7

451 votes

5.7

451 votes

A Husband for Anna

1953 · Movie · 75 min. · Italy

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Train Without a Timetable

1959 · Movie · 121 min. · Yugoslavia

Direction Veljko Bulajic

Cast Olivera Markovic · Lia Rho-Barbieri · Inge Ilin · Ljiljana Vajler

Plot The story about colonization of poor Dalmatian peasants to the fertile Pannonian plain shortly after WWII.

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South Wind

1959 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Enzo Provenzale

Cast Renato Salvatori · Claudia Cardinale · Rossella Falk · Ivo Garrani

Plot Antonio Spagara, a young Sicilian worker, has been assigned by the Mafia to murder a nobleman, Marquis Macri. But at the last minute Antonio reneges on his commitment and instead...

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Il carro armato dell'8 settembre

1960 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy

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Angels of Darkness

1954 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Giuseppe Amato

Cast Linda Darnell · Valentina Cortese · Lea Padovani · Giulietta Masina

Plot Tamara, a Roman prostitute, tries to kill herself throwing herself out of the window of the licensed brothel she works in. While she is being taken to hospital the other...

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Nasce un campione (S)

1953 · Documentary · 10 min. · Italy

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Corrado Mantoni

Plot This short documentary, Elio Petri's directorial debut, deals with the passion of the Italians for cycling. It concentrates on a young deliveryman, who uses the bicycle at all times of...

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