Screenplay: Lina Wertmuller

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


Pasqualino: Seven Beauties

1975 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Fernando Rey · Shirley Stoler · Elena Fiore

Plot Pasqualino, an Italian everyman, deserts the army during World War II. Germans capture him and send him to a prison camp, where he does just about anything to survive. In...

7.2

634 votes

7.2

634 votes

Love and Anarchy

1973 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Mariangela Melato · Eros Pagni · Pina Cei

Plot Italy in the 30s. Tonino, a sad faced, freckled peasant, comes to Rome to kill Mussolini. He has anarchist connections, and his contact in Rome is Salome, a lively flapper...

7.2

347 votes

7.2

347 votes

The Basilisks

1963 · Movie · 84 min. · Italy

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Antonio Petruzzi · Stefano Satta Flores · Sergio Ferrarino · Luigi Barbieri

Plot The neorealistic story follows the uneventful lives of Francesco, Sergio and Antonio, three young men, who live in a small, poverty-stricken village. Since all three are unemployed they while their...

7.0

45 votes

7.0

45 votes

The Seduction of Mimi

1972 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Mariangela Melato · Agostina Belli · Turi Ferro

Plot Mimi is a Sicilian dockworker who loses his job when he votes against the Mafia candidate in what he thinks is a secret ballot. He leaves his wife behind and...

7.0

311 votes

7.0

311 votes

Ciao, Professore!

1992 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Paolo Villaggio · Isa Danieli · Gigio Morra · Sergio Solli

Plot Marco Sperelli is a teacher, he is divorced and he is sent to work in Corzano, a town near Naples. The first day of work he finds in the school...

6.9

60 votes

6.9

60 votes

Swept Away

1974 · Movie · 116 min. · Italy

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Mariangela Melato · Riccardo Salvino · Isa Danieli

Plot A rich woman, Raffaella, and some friends rent a yacht to sail the Mediterranean Sea during summer. The sailor, Gennarino, who is a communist, does not like this woman but...

6.9

253 votes

6.9

253 votes

Francesca and Nunziata (TV)

2001 · Movie · 125 min. · Italy

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Sophia Loren · Giancarlo Giannini · Claudia Gerini · Raoul Bova

Plot At the beginning of the century, in Italy, a wealthy woman Francesca (Sophia Loren), adopts a poor little girl named Nunziata. The years pass, Nunziata falls in love Federico (Raoul...

6.0

72 votes

6.0

72 votes

The Family

1970 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

5.5

258 votes

5.5

258 votes

A Complex Plot About Women, Alleys and Crimes

1985 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Ángela Molina · Harvey Keitel · Isa Danieli · Paolo Bonacelli

Plot A film about mafia, drugs, intrigue and police.

4.9

42 votes

4.9

42 votes

4.0

57 votes

3.8

31 votes

Dear Parents

1973 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Enrico Maria Salerno

Cast Florinda Bolkan · Catherine Spaak · Maria Schneider · Tom Baker

Plot An Italian mother (Bolkan) who has not heard from her daughter (Schneider) in a long time travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted...

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The Nymph

1996 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy

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When it rains, it pours (TV)

2009 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Gabriella Pession · Sergio Assisi · Tommaso Ramenghi · Piera Degli Esposti

Plot Three young Neapolitans, Antonio, Chicchino and Maria want to import the Nobel prize Winner Muhammed Yunus' micro-credit system, so well working in India, to their poor neighbourhood in Naples. Their...

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Which Way Is Up?

1977 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction Michael Schultz

Cast Richard Pryor · Lonette McKee · Margaret Avery · Morgan Woodward

Plot Richard Pryor is playing three different roles here. The first being a poor orange picker named Leroy Jones who gets laid off when by mistake he joins the worker's union...

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Sotto... sotto... strapazzato da anomala passione

1984 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Enrico Montesano · Veronica Lario · Luisa De Santis · Mario Scarpetta

Plot hile walking in a garden of statues of women, Ester and her friend Adele see two women kissing. Ester then dreams of kissing Adele and later imagines making love to...

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Direction Lina Wertmuller

Cast Giancarlo Giannini · Candice Bergen

Plot Fantasy drama about the relationship between an Italian journalist and his feminist American wife.

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The Belle Starr Story

1968 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

Direction Piero Cristofani · Lina Wertmuller

Cast Elsa Martinelli · Robert Woods · George Eastman · Francesca Righini

Plot Abused and dominated by men in her youth, Belle Starr now out-rides, out-smokes, out-shoots, and out-gambles them as she makes her way around the Old West, usually wearing male garb....

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