Screenplay: Vittorio Cottafavi

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


Traviata '53

1953 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

7.3

32 votes

7.3

32 votes

Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis

1961 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio Cottafavi

Cast Reg Park · Ettore Manni · Fay Spain · Luciano Marin

Plot The ever intrepid world-trotting hunk of a man Herc (Hercules to those who are not his friends) saves a beautiful maiden from the hands of an evil creature. She takes...

5.4

141 votes

5.4

141 votes

Lo sconosciuto di San Marino

1948 · Movie · 85 min. · Italy

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Maria Zeff

1981 · Movie · 123 min. · Italy

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Nozze di sangue

1941 · Movie · 85 min. · Italy

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Jailbirds

1954 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio Cottafavi

Cast Richard Basehart · Eddie Constantine · Walter Chiari · Antonella Lualdi

Plot Three prisoners are discharged from jail: Stefano Luprandi, a surgeon accused of murdering a patient by doing an unauthorized surgery, Giuseppe Rasi, unjustly processed for robbery, and Franco Cesari, a...

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Cardinal Messias

1939 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

Direction Goffredo Alessandrini

Cast Camillo Pilotto · Mario Ferrari · Enrico Glori · Amedeo Trilli

Plot The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic Church. He comes...

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Il diavolo sulle colline

1985 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

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The Trojan Women

1967 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio Cottafavi

Cast Luisa Aluigi · Lia Angeleri · Anna Maria Chio · Vittoria Dal Verme

Plot In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film...

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Our Dreams

1943 · Movie · 83 min. · Italy

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Toro bravo

1960 · Movie · 95 min. · Spain

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Antigone (TV)

1971 · Movie · 118 min. · Italy

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Fiamma che non si spegne

1949 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio Cottafavi

Cast Gino Cervi · María Denis · Leonardo Cortese · Luigi Tosi

Plot Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.

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Fiamme sul mare

1948 · Movie · min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio Cottafavi · Michal Waszynski

Cast Carlo Ninchi · Evi Maltagliatim · Silvana Jachino · Edda Albertini

Plot A former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members.

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