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...

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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

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

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

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

5.3

119 votes

I fidanzati della morte

1957 · Movie · 93 min. · Italy

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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...

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated