Screenplay: Franco Solinas
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Franco Solinas. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
The Battle of Algiers
1966 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy
Direction Gillo Pontecorvo
Cast Jean Martin · Yacef Saadi · Brahim Haggiag · Fusia El Kader
Plot A film commissioned by the Algerian government that shows the Algerian revolution from both sides. The French foreign legion has left Vietnam in defeat and has something to prove. The...
8.0
6K votes
8.0
6K votes
State of Siege
1972 · Movie · 125 min. · France
Direction Costa-Gavras
Cast Yves Montand · Renato Salvatori · Jacques Weber · O.E. Hasse
Plot Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.
7.6
3K votes
7.6
3K votes
Burn!
1969 · Movie · 132 min. · Italy
Direction Gillo Pontecorvo
Cast Marlon Brando · Evaristo Márquez · Renato Salvatori · Norman Hill
Plot The man who sells war. The bloodier the battle - the higher the price. He's going to make a fortune on this one.
7.2
2K votes
7.2
2K votes
Kapo
1960 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy
Direction Gillo Pontecorvo
Cast Susan Strasberg · Laurent Terzieff · Emmanuelle Riva · Didi Perego
Plot A young Jewish girl leads an escape attempt from a concentration camp.
7.1
508 votes
7.1
508 votes
The Savage Innocents
1960 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Nicholas Ray
Cast Anthony Quinn · Yoko Tani · Peter O'Toole · Carlo Giustini
Plot Nicholas Ray's epic 1959 film about Eskimo life was unfairly victimized on release, censored at the UK cinema, and neglected by both TV and home video for decades. The Savage...
7.1
2K votes
7.1
2K votes
Salvatore Giuliano
1962 · Movie · 124 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Rosi
Cast Frank Wolff · Salvo Randone · Federico Zardi · Pietro Cammarata
7.0
671 votes
7.0
671 votes
The Wide Blue Road
1957 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy
Direction Gillo Pontecorvo
Cast Yves Montand · Alida Valli · Francisco Rabal · Peter Carsten
Plot The nearly forgotten first feature by director Gillo Pontecorvo is an engaging artifact that whips up some strong suspense, in which a poor Italian fisherman named Squarcio (Yves Montand) supports...
6.8
189 votes
6.8
189 votes
Mr. Klein
1976 · Movie · 117 min. · France
Direction Joseph Losey
Cast Alain Delon · Jeanne Moreau · Francine Bergé · Juliet Berto
Plot Paris, 1942. Robert Klein is a successful art dealer, profiteering from the French government’s treatment of its Jewish citizens. To escape deportation to Germany, Jews are forced to sell their...
6.8
1K votes
6.8
1K votes
Hanna K.
1983 · Movie · 108 min. · France
Direction Costa-Gavras
Cast Jill Clayburgh · Jean Yanne · Gabriel Byrne · Mohammed Bakri
Plot An Israeli lawyer is defending a Palestinian charged by The Military Court System in the Israeli-Occupied Territories. It's a tough case because of a strong political background.
6.5
286 votes
6.5
286 votes
A Professional Gun
1968 · Movie · 111 min. · Italy
Direction Sergio Corbucci
Cast Franco Nero · Jack Palance · Tony Musante · Giovanna Ralli
Plot While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for...
6.5
695 votes
6.5
695 votes
The Suspect
1975 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Francesco Maselli
Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Annie Girardot · Renato Salvatori · Gabriele Lavia
6.4
23 votes
6.4
23 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
A Bullet for the General
1966 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy
Direction Damiano Damiani
Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Klaus Kinski · Martine Beswick · Lou Castel
Plot El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to...
6.1
357 votes
6.1
357 votes
Tepepa: Long Live the Revolution
1969 · Movie · 136 min. · Italy
Direction Giulio Petroni
Cast Tomas Milian · Orson Welles · John Steiner · Luciano Casamonica
5.7
127 votes
5.7
127 votes
Madame Sans-Gêne
1961 · Movie · 98 min. · France
Direction Christian-Jaque
Cast Sophia Loren · Robert Hossein · Julien Bertheau · Renaud Mary
Plot Catherine, an out-spoken Parisian laundress follows Napoleon's army to the battlefront to be near her Sergeant Lefevre. The couple perform a deed of heroism which abets Napoleon's victory, so that...
5.3
84 votes
5.3
84 votes
The World's Most Beautiful Woman
1955 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy
Direction Robert Z. Leonard
Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Vittorio Gassman · Robert Alda · Anne Vernon
5.3
119 votes
5.3
119 votes
I fidanzati della morte
1957 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy
Direction Romolo Marcellini
Cast Rik Battaglia · Sylva Koscina · Margit Nünke · Gustavo Rojo
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Behind Closed Shutters
1951 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Massimo Girotti · Eleonora Rossi Drago · Giulietta Masina · Liliana Gerace
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Violent Life
1962 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy
Direction Paolo Heusch · Brunello Rondi
Cast Franco Citti · Serena Vergano · Enrico Maria Salerno · Angelo Maria Santiamantini
Plot Based on a novel by Pier Paolo Pasolini,it chronicles the life and death of Tommaso, a street kid who is equally comfortable running with the Fascists, the Communists and just...
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Giovanna
1955 · Movie · 35 min. · Italy
Direction Gillo Pontecorvo
Cast Armida Gianassi · Carla Pozzi
Plot This short is set in the early 1950s in a small textile factory in central Italy (Prato). Giovanna and her fellow female workers decide to enact a protest against the...
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