Screenplay: Bernardino Zapponi
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Bernardino Zapponi. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Marquis of Grillo
1981 · Movie · 139 min. · Italy
Direction Mario Monicelli
Cast Alberto Sordi · Elena Daskowa Valenzano · Isabella De Bernardi · Elisa Mainardi
Plot The marquess of Grillo is a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes...
7.4
362 votes
7.4
362 votes
Fellini's Roma
1972 · Movie · 128 min. · Italy
Direction Federico Fellini
Cast Peter Gonzales Falcon · Fiona Florence · Britta Barnes · Pia De Doses
Plot A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
7.4
4K votes
7.4
4K votes
Toby Dammit
1968 · Movie · 35 min. · Italy
Direction Federico Fellini
Cast Terence Stamp · Salvo Randone · Anne Tonietti · Marina Yaru
Plot "Toby Dammit" features a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him.
7.2
546 votes
7.2
546 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
The Clowns (TV)
1970 · Documentary · 92 min. · Italy
Direction Federico Fellini
Cast Anita Ekberg · Fanfulla · Riccardo Billi · Tino Scotti
Plot I clowns (also known as The Clowns) is a 1970 television film by Federico Fellini about the human fascination with clowns and circuses. It was made for TV, the Italian...
6.9
560 votes
6.9
560 votes
Casanova
1976 · Movie · 148 min. · Italy
Direction Federico Fellini
Cast Donald Sutherland · Tina Aumont · Cicely Brown · Carme Scarpita
Plot Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person ? Is he really alive ?
6.7
3K votes
6.7
3K votes
The New Monsters
1977 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy
Direction Mario Monicelli · Dino Risi · Ettore Scola
Cast Vittorio Gassman · Ornella Muti · Alberto Sordi · Ugo Tognazzi
Plot Series of short stories which show a little bit of Italy and its people. One story is about an Italian gentleman, who provides a Good Samaritan service to an injured...
6.7
599 votes
6.7
599 votes
Deep Red
1975 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Dario Argento
Cast David Hemmings · Daria Nicolodi · Gabriele Lavia · Macha Méril
Plot A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen...
6.7
4K votes
6.7
4K votes
Fellini Satyricon
1969 · Movie · 129 min. · Italy
Direction Federico Fellini
Cast Martin Potter · Hiram Keller · Max Born · Salvo Randone
Plot In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, argue about ownership of the boy Gitone, divide their belongings and split up. The boy, allowed to choose who he...
6.6
3K votes
6.6
3K votes
City of Women
1980 · Movie · 140 min. · Italy
Direction Federico Fellini
Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Anna Prucnal · Bernice Stegers · Iole Silvani
Plot A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
6.5
1K votes
6.5
1K votes
Lost Soul
1977 · Movie · 97 min. · Italy
Direction Dino Risi
Cast Catherine Deneuve · Vittorio Gassman · Danilo Mattei · Anicée Alvina
Plot Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
6.5
318 votes
6.5
318 votes
Stardust
1973 · Movie · 142 min. · Italy
Direction Alberto Sordi
Cast Alberto Sordi · Monica Vitti · John Phillip Law · Edoardo Faieta
6.4
48 votes
6.4
48 votes
Ghost of Love
1981 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy
Direction Dino Risi
Cast Romy Schneider · Marcello Mastroianni · Eva Maria Meineke · Wolfgang Preiss
Plot After witnessing the brutal murder of an elderly lady, a man has an encounter with a bizarre woman who claims to be an old lover of his... A lover who...
6.3
202 votes
6.3
202 votes
Dirty Weekend
1973 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy
Direction Dino Risi
Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Oliver Reed · Carole André · Lionel Stander
Plot A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police...
6.2
28 votes
6.2
28 votes
Traffic Jam
1979 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Alberto Sordi · Annie Girardot · Fernando Rey · Patrick Dewaere
Plot A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally....
6.1
581 votes
6.1
581 votes
Down the Ancient Staircase
1975 · Movie · 97 min. · Italy
Direction Mauro Bolognini
Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Françoise Fabian · Marthe Keller · Barbara Bouchet
Plot A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to...
6.1
50 votes
6.1
50 votes
I See Naked
1969 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Dino Risi
Cast Nino Manfredi · Enrico Maria Salerno · John Karlsen · Sylva Koscina
6.1
39 votes
6.1
39 votes
The Career of a Chambermaid
1976 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy
Direction Dino Risi
Cast Agostina Belli · Cochi Ponzoni · Maurizio Arena · William Berger
Plot It relates the story of a poor girl in the Fascist Italian time, who wants to be an actress and has to sleep left and right to get there.
6.0
61 votes
6.0
61 votes
Spirits of the Dead
1968 · Movie · 121 min. · France
Direction Federico Fellini · Louis Malle · Roger Vadim
Cast Jane Fonda · Alain Delon · Brigitte Bardot · Terence Stamp
Plot Histoires extraordinaires (1968) dubbed Spirits of the Dead for English and Tre Passi Nel Delirio for Italian, is an "omnibus" film comprising three segments. The French title Histoires extraordinaires (translated...
6.0
1K votes
6.0
1K votes
Fellini: A Director's Notebook (TV)
1969 · Documentary · 52 min. · Italy
Direction Federico Fellini
Cast Ennio Antonelli · Caterina Boratto · Marina Boratto · Federico Fellini
Plot Fellini discusses his views of making motion pictures and his unorthodox procedures. He seeks inspiration in various out of the way places. During this film viewers go with him to...
5.8
81 votes
5.8
81 votes