Screenplay: Lucio Battistrada
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Lucio Battistrada. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Il delitto Matteotti
1973 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy
Direction Florestano Vancini
Cast Franco Nero · Mario Adorf · Riccardo Cucciolla · Damiano Damiani
Plot During the fascist period in Italy, the killing of Giacomo Matteotti, a socialist member of the Italian Parliament, forces an official investigation by the fascist government of Mussolini, whose "Black...
6.8
75 votes
6.8
75 votes
Gold of Rome
1961 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy
Direction Carlo Lizzani
Cast Gérard Blain · Paola Borboni · Miranda Campa · Andrea Checchi
6.6
35 votes
6.6
35 votes
The Octopus (TV Miniseries)
1984 · Series · 400 min. · Italy
Direction Damiano Damiani
Cast Michele Placido · Barbara De Rossi · Nicole Jamet · Angelo Infanti
Plot Corrado Cattani is a police inspector whose life is devoted to fighting the Italian mafia (known here as "La Piovra" or "The Octopus"). Even as his family and life are...
6.5
153 votes
6.5
153 votes
Empty Eyes
1953 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy
Direction Antonio Pietrangeli
Cast Irène Galter · Gabriele Ferzetti · Paolo Stoppa · Pina Bottin
6.4
31 votes
6.4
31 votes
The Fifth Day of Peace
1970 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy
Direction Giuliano Montaldo
Cast Franco Nero · Richard Johnson · Larry Aubrey · Helmuth Schneider
Plot At the end of WWII, German deserters are tried for desertion by fellow POWs inside a prisoner of war camp for Nazies.
5.5
62 votes
5.5
62 votes
Autopsy
1975 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Armando Crispino
Cast Mimsy Farmer · Barry Primus · Raymond Lovelock · Carlo Cattaneo
Plot Simona Sana (Mimsy Farmer) is a young pathologist whom works in a morgue in Rome, Italy which gets with with a wave of violent suicides which are attributed to a...
5.4
55 votes
5.4
55 votes
A Stranger in Paso Bravo
1968 · Movie · 83 min. · Italy
Direction Salvatore Rosso
Cast Anthony Steffen · Eduardo Fajardo · Giulia Rubini · José Jaspe
Plot A drifter returns to a small town to avenge the murder of his wife and daughter.
5.4
29 votes
5.4
29 votes
Let Them Rest
1967 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy
Direction Carlo Lizzani
Cast Lou Castel · Mark Damon · Pier Paolo Pasolini · Barbara Frey
Plot The son of a Mexican bandit comes upon a village that is under the thumb of a deranged former Confederate officer, who is--among other things--stealing land from the locals with...
5.2
152 votes
5.2
152 votes
The House of the Yellow Carpet
1983 · Movie · 84 min. · Italy
Direction Carlo Lizzani
Cast Erland Josephson · Béatrice Romand · Vittorio Mezzogiorno · Milena Vukotic
Plot Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man rings saying he...
5.2
21 votes
5.2
21 votes
The Dead Are Alive (The Etruscan Kills Again)
1972 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Armando Crispino
Cast Alex Cord · Samantha Eggar · John Marley · Nadja Tiller
Plot A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.
5.1
36 votes
5.1
36 votes
Commandos
1968 · Movie · 112 min. · Italy
Direction Armando Crispino
Cast Lee Van Cleef · Jack Kelly · Giampiero Albertini · Marino Masé
Plot Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. After the soldiers have knifed...
4.7
39 votes
4.7
39 votes
Death in the Vatican (Vatican Conspiracy)
1982 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Marcello Aliprandi
Cast Terence Stamp · Fabrizio Bentivoglio · Paula Molina · Gabriele Ferzetti
Plot An eremit who has had contact to terrorists is planning to kill the pope by poisoning.
4.5
30 votes
4.5
30 votes
John the Bastard
1967 · Movie · 116 min. · Italy
Direction Armando Crispino
Cast John Richardson · Claudio Camaso · Martine Beswick · Claudio Gora
4.3
22 votes
4.3
22 votes
The Castro's Abbess
1974 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Armando Crispino
Cast Barbara Bouchet · Pier Paolo Capponi · Ida Galli · Antonio Cantafora
Plot A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess. She has to deal with corruption in the church.
4.1
21 votes
4.1
21 votes
Rififi in Amsterdam
1967 · Movie · 86 min. · Italy
Direction Sergio Grieco
Cast Roger Browne · Aida Power · Umberto Raho · Miguel de la Riva
4.0
21 votes
4.0
21 votes
Password: Kill Agent Gordon
1966 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy
Direction Sergio Grieco
Cast Roger Browne · Helga Liné · Miguel de la Riva · Franco Ressel
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Un dramma borghese
1979 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy
Direction Florestano Vancini
Cast Franco Nero · Dalila Di Lazzaro · Lara Wendel · Carlo Bagno
Plot The fifteen year-old Maria "Mimmina" Luiza leaves the boarding school in Genève to stay in the Bechten Hotel nursing her father, the widower writer Guido, who is paralyzed by rheumatism....
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Slum Boy
1976 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy
Direction Giulio Paradisi
Cast Stefano Arquilla · Ennio Panosetti · Rita Tushingham · Nino Bignamini
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Un uomo dalla pelle dura
1972 · Movie · 83 min. · Italy
Direction Franco Prosperi
Cast Robert Blake · Catherine Spaak · Ernest Borgnine · Gabriele Ferzetti
Plot Boxer Teddy Wilcox (Robert Blake) leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox's first fight, Nick receives a threat-- Wilcox loses, or Nick will die. Despite...
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La sposa era bellissima
1987 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy
Direction Pál Gábor
Cast Ángela Molina · Stefania Sandrelli · Massimo Ghini · Marco Leonardi
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