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

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

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