Screenplay: Diego Fabbri

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


General della Rovere

1959 · Movie · 132 min. · Italy

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Hannes Messemer · Sandra Milo · Giovanna Ralli

Plot Genoa, 1943. Grimaldi is a swindler, pretending to be a colonel in the Italian army to get money from the family of people put into jail by the Nazis. Once...

7.7

2K votes

7.7

2K votes

Blackout in Rome

1960 · Movie · 150 min. · Italy

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Leo Genn · Giovanna Ralli · Sergei Bondarchuk · Hannes Messemer

Plot In the tumult of Nazi-occupied Rome, a sympathetic bootlegger, already accustomed to living outside the law, opens her home to a trio of escaped Allied prisoners of war--an American, a...

7.2

378 votes

7.2

378 votes

The City Stands Trial

1952 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

7.1

84 votes

7.1

84 votes

The Conjugal Bed

1963 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Ferreri

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Marina Vlady · Walter Giller · Linda Sini

Plot A 40 years old man, Alfonso, finally succeeds to marry a virgin, educate, beautiful and very catholic woman. But soon she, Regina, starts stressing him because she wants to be...

6.7

75 votes

6.7

75 votes

The Vanquished

1953 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

6.5

171 votes

6.5

171 votes

Barabba (Barabbas)

1961 · Movie · 131 min. · Italy

Direction Richard Fleischer

Cast Anthony Quinn · Vittorio Gassman · Silvana Mangano · Jack Palance

Plot Barabbas, the criminal that Pontius Pilate induced the populace to vote to set free, so that Christ could be crucified, is haunted by the ghost of the prophet for the...

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

The Testimony

1946 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

6.3

35 votes

6.3

35 votes

Fabiola

1949 · Movie · 164 min. · Italy

Direction Alessandro Blasetti

Cast Michèle Morgan · Henri Vidal · Michel Simon · Gino Cervi

Plot In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a gallic gladiator. When Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the...

6.2

54 votes

6.2

54 votes

Il seduttore

1954 · Movie · 84 min. · Italy

6.2

24 votes

6.2

24 votes

The Betrayer

1961 · Movie · 127 min. · Italy

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Sandra Milo · Laurent Terzieff · Martine Carol · Paolo Stoppa

Plot Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Free Masons.

6.2

78 votes

6.2

78 votes

6.1

271 votes

Devil of Paris

1962 · Movie · 110 min. · France

Direction André Hunebelle

Cast Jean Marais · Dany Robin · Jill Haworth · Raymond Pellegrin

Plot The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.

6.0

57 votes

6.0

57 votes

Garibaldi

1961 · Movie · 138 min. · Italy

Direction Roberto Rossellini

Cast Renzo Ricci · Paolo Stoppa · Franco Interlenghi · Giovanna Ralli

Plot The 1800s sees the emergence of Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), a hero-statesman Italian who works to unify his country.

5.9

213 votes

5.9

213 votes

5.8

156 votes

The Wedding March

1966 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

5.8

83 votes

5.8

83 votes

The Gate of Heaven

1945 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

5.7

24 votes

5.7

24 votes

Toto and Marcellino

1958 · Movie · 83 min. · Italy

5.7

39 votes

5.7

39 votes

The Voyage

1974 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

Direction Vittorio De Sica

Cast Sophia Loren · Richard Burton · Ian Bannen · Barbara Pilavin

Plot Adriana De Mauro loves Cesar Braggi, but Cesar, honoring his father's dying wish, allows his brother, Antonio, to marry Adriana. As fate wills, Antonio dies in an automobile accident. Adriana's...

5.7

176 votes

5.7

176 votes

From a Far Country

1981 · Movie · 120 min. · Poland

Direction Krzysztof Zanussi

Cast Cezary Morawski · Sam Neill · Christopher Cazenove · Lisa Harrow

Plot The film is a biography of Pope John Paul II. It starts in 1926 when the boy Karol Wojtila was celebrating Christmas with his father in Poland. Some years later...

5.6

22 votes

5.6

22 votes

Nero's Big Weekend

1956 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Steno

Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio De Sica · Gloria Swanson · Brigitte Bardot

Plot Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina,...

5.3

79 votes

5.3

79 votes