Screenplay: Alfredo Giannetti

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


Man of Iron

1956 · Movie · 118 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Pietro Germi · Luisa Della Noce · Sylva Koscina · Saro Urzi

Synopsis The railroad engineer Andrea Marcocci has been working with his partner and friend Gigi Liverani for thirty years and feels happy and proud with his work, drinking wine after hours with his friends in a bar owned by the former...

7.5

513 votes

7.5

513 votes

Divorce, Italian Style

1961 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Daniela Rocca · Stefania Sandrelli · Leopoldo Trieste

Synopsis Baron Fefé Cefalù is a Sicilian nobleman bored of life and of wife Rosalia: he falls in love with young and beautiful cousin Angela, who spends summers in the same palace. Since divorce is impossible in Italy in the 1960s,...

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7.4

3K votes

7.4

3K votes

A Man of Straw

1958 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Pietro Germi · Franca Bettoia · Luisa Della Noce · Edoardo Nevola

Synopsis Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young son Giulio develops a cough. The doctor recommends the seaside. Luisa leaves with Giulio for several weeks. Andrea stays to work at the...

7.1

121 votes

7.1

121 votes

The Climax

1967 · Movie · 97 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Stefania Sandrelli · Gigi Ballista · Renee Longarini

Synopsis Sergio Masini, a violin player, is going to be the father of a sixth child... by his second mistress, Marisa. Quite nervous about that, he does not leave the clinic... except to drive Giulia, his legitimate wife, along with his...

7.0

91 votes

7.0

91 votes

Febbre da cavallo

1976 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Steno

Cast Gigi Proietti · Enrico Montesano · Catherine Spaak · Mario Carotenuto

Synopsis Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is always at the track together with his friends Armando Pellicci, known as "Er Pomata" cause his use...

6.5

40 votes

6.5

40 votes

Miss Arizona

1987 · Movie · 109 min. · Italy

Direction Pál Sándor

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Hanna Schygulla · Alessandra Martines · Urbano Barberini

Synopsis Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.

5.5

29 votes

5.5

29 votes

Serafino

1968 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Adriano Celentano · Ottavia Piccolo · Saro Urzi · Francesca Romana Coluzzi

Synopsis Serafino a young and innocent shepherd inherits a huge fortune. He immediately spends the entire sum in presents for his friends. For this reason he is believed mad, and his uncle decides to legally forbid him to take any decision...

5.1

71 votes

5.1

71 votes

La spada del Cid

1962 · Movie · 86 min. · Italy

4.7

21 votes

4.7

21 votes

4.7

89 votes

The Blue-Eyed Bandit

1980 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

Direction Alfredo Giannetti

Cast Franco Nero · Dalila Di Lazzaro · Carlos de Carvalho · Pierfrancesco Poggi

Synopsis An office employee, pretending to be weak and crippled, reveals himself as a ruthless criminal.

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Insurance on a Virgin

1967 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Giorgio Bianchi

Cast Romina Power · Leopoldo Trieste · Vittorio Caprioli · Daniela Rocca

Synopsis The plot has both familiar and novel elements: the teenage daughter (Romina Power!) of a poor family is being asked in marriage by a middle-aged aristocrat (Vittorio Caprioli – not as broadly comic as usual). Goaded by a money-grubbing relative...

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Italian Engagement

1964 · Movie · 85 min. · Italy

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Maruzzella

1956 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Capuano

Cast Marisa Allasio · Massimo Serato · Ivette Lebo · Adolfo Geri

Synopsis Maruzzella is in love with Salvatore but Salvatore is infatuated with Donna Carmela who is the step-mother of Maruzzella. Besides, Carmela deprived Maruzzella of her inheritance. When Salvatore asks Renato, an old school-mate of his, to stay with him, the...

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Di mamma non ce n'è una sola

1974 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Alfredo Giannetti

Cast Senta Berger · Lino Capolicchio · Sonia Petrovna · Vittorio Caprioli

Synopsis Marcello, the scion of a noble and rich family, is morbidly obsessed with his mother, Countess Elisabetta di Tarcento. When she dies, things go haywire as people around him reveal their true identity and he gets a new motherly companion.

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World of Miracles

1959 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Luigi Capuano

Cast Virna Lisi · Jacques Sernas · Marisa Merlini · Aldo Silvani

Synopsis A young actor gives up a theatre career because he wants to make it into the movie world. He is too ambitious though and he doesn't succeed. Meanwhile he has fallen in love with his ex theatre manager's daughter who...

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