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

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

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

War

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

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

4.0

21 votes

4.0

21 votes

Password: Kill Agent Gordon

1966 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

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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....

Not rated

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Slum Boy

1976 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

Not rated

Not rated

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...

Not rated

Not rated

La sposa era bellissima

1987 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

Not rated

Not rated