Screenplay: Luigi Magni

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


In the Name of the Pope King

1977 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Magni

Cast Nino Manfredi · Danilo Mattei · Carme Scarpita · Giovannella Grifeo

Plot In 1867 three rebels blow up the Zouaves' barracks. Monsignor Colombo learns that a brief liaison with a countess 20 years' before produced a son, one of the rebels arrested...

7.0

133 votes

7.0

133 votes

State buoni... se potete

1983 · Movie · 149 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Magni

Cast Johnny Dorelli · Philippe Leroy · Rodolfo Bigotti · Flora Carabella

Plot Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel. He is no clergyman by the book, but a true...

6.9

67 votes

6.9

67 votes

La cambiale

1959 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

Direction Camillo Mastrocinque

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Sylva Koscina · Ugo Tognazzi · Georgia Moll

Plot The well-known financier Pierluigi Bruscatelli is arrested after having paid two fraudsters with a bill of 100 000 lire.

6.5

37 votes

6.5

37 votes

The Mandrake

1965 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Rosanna Schiaffino · Philippe Leroy · Jean-Claude Brialy · Totò

Plot The passage of time has vitiated "Mandragola," Machiavelli's cynical lampoon of 16th-century Florentine morality and the fabulous fertility attributes of the mandrake root. As presented in the Italian period comedy...

6.4

75 votes

6.4

75 votes

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

1976 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Comencini · Nanni Loy · Luigi Magni · Mario Monicelli

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Ugo Tognazzi · Nino Manfredi · Vittorio Gassman

Plot An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel...

6.3

200 votes

6.3

200 votes

The Girl with a Pistol

1968 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Monica Vitti · Carlo Giuffré · Stanley Baker · Corin Redgrave

Plot Monica Vitti is Assunta, a Sicilian girl seduced and abandoned by Vincenzo who then escapes to London in order to avoid a shotgun wedding. Assunta's only chance to restore her...

6.3

151 votes

6.3

151 votes

Scipio the African

1971 · Movie · 114 min. · Italy

5.8

270 votes

5.8

270 votes

5.8

41 votes

El Greco

1966 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

5.6

26 votes

5.6

26 votes

The Conspirators

1969 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Magni

Cast Nino Manfredi · Enrico Maria Salerno · Claudia Cardinale · Robert Hossein

Plot Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola (Tognazzi) and colonel Nardoni (Salerno) are in charge to suppress liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia (Manfredi) got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada (Ekland) is a...

5.6

74 votes

5.6

74 votes

La Tosca

1973 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Magni

Cast Monica Vitti · Gigi Proietti · Umberto Orsini · Vittorio Gassman

Plot To the St. Andrew's Church in Rome comes a fugitive - Cesare Angelotti, former consul, who was sentenced to death for taking a part in a conspiracy against tyranny that...

5.5

45 votes

5.5

45 votes

To Arms with Love

1967 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

Direction Mauro Bolognini

Cast Catherine Spaak · Robert Hossein · Tomas Milian · Mikaela

Plot Mlle de Maupin, an Hungarian young woman, escapes from her country under the guise of a monk. A strict army officer forces Theodore the 'monk', to enlist in the King's...

5.3

35 votes

5.3

35 votes

The Queens

1966 · Movie · 114 min. · Italy

Direction Mauro Bolognini · Mario Monicelli · Antonio Pietrangeli · Luciano Salce

Cast Capucine · Claudia Cardinale · Raquel Welch · Alberto Sordi

Plot The Four Queenly Virtues are Constancy, Fidelity, Chastity and Honor.

4.9

73 votes

4.9

73 votes

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...

1967 · Movie · 89 min. · Italy

Direction Pasquale Festa Campanile

Cast Tony Curtis · Monica Vitti · Hugh Griffith · John Richardson

Plot For three nights of abstinence after their wedding with the youg virgin Boccadoro (Monica Vitti), hot-bloded Sir Guerraldo (Tony Curtis) is persuaded by many means to keep a cool head...

4.5

32 votes

4.5

32 votes

Gli attendenti

1961 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy

Direction Giorgio Bianchi

Cast Vittorio De Sica · Renato Rascel · Dorian Gray · Gino Cervi

Plot Colonels, majors, lieutenants: all of them live in the same building. Some of them have a wife or children or none, but everyone has his orderly. Major Penna is harassed...

Not rated

Not rated

Childhood Enemies

1995 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

Not rated

Not rated

La Celestina P... R...

1965 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Not rated

Not rated

Il corazziere

1960 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Camillo Mastrocinque

Cast Renato Rascel · Claudia Mori · Tino Buazzelli · Aldo Bufi Landi

Plot In fascist Italy, Urbano Marangoni aspires to become Corazziere, like his late father, but it is a dream destined not to come true because of his short stature.

Not rated

Not rated