Screenplay: Furio Scarpelli

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


The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

1966 · Movie · 161 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Leone

Cast Clint Eastwood · Lee Van Cleef · Eli Wallach · Aldo Giuffrè

Synopsis The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) follows three gunslingers in the American Civil War era, each with distinct motives, as they race to find a hidden fortune of Confederate gold. The stoic "Good" (Blondie), the ruthless "Bad" (Angel...

8.2

65K votes

8.2

65K votes

The Organizer

1963 · Movie · 128 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Renato Salvatori · Annie Girardot · Folco Lulli

Synopsis The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is sent by, presumably, the Socialists to help them organize...

8.0

1K votes

8.0

1K votes

We All Loved Each Other So Much

1974 · Movie · 124 min. · Italy

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Nino Manfredi · Vittorio Gassman · Stefania Sandrelli · Stefano Satta Flores

Synopsis Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is the story of the life of these three idealists and how they...

7.9

2K votes

7.9

2K votes

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Marcello Mastroianni · Renato Salvatori · Totò

Synopsis It tells the story of a sad-sack group of bumbling thieves and their desperate attempts to pull off the perfect heist.

7.8

4K votes

7.8

4K votes

The Great War

1959 · Movie · 135 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Alberto Sordi · Vittorio Gassman · Silvana Mangano · Folco Lulli

Synopsis Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army. Giovanni bribes Oreste, believing to his false pledges...

7.7

2K votes

7.7

2K votes

7.6

718 votes

The Family

1987 · Movie · 127 min. · Italy

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Stefania Sandrelli · Fanny Ardant · Philippe Noiret

Synopsis "The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's...

7.5

2K votes

7.5

2K votes

Seduced and Abandoned

1964 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Stefania Sandrelli · Saro Urzi · Aldo Puglisi · Lando Buzzanca

Synopsis Agnese a 15-year-old Sicilian girl is seduced and impregnated by Peppino, her sister's Matilde fiancé;. Soon Vincenzo, Agnese's father, discovers everything and after had hit like hell his daughter run to Peppino house and did the same. He also oblige...

7.4

371 votes

7.4

371 votes

The Postman

1994 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Michael Radford

Cast Philippe Noiret · Massimo Troisi · María Grazia Cucinotta · Linda Moretti

Synopsis A simple postman’s eyes are opened to a world of amorous possibilities when he delivers letters to one of the most romantic poets of the 20th century in this lyrical tale. The film was inspired by an incident in the...

7.4

27K votes

7.4

27K votes

Le bal

1983 · Movie · 112 min. · Algeria

Direction Ettore Scola

Cast Étienne Guichard · Régis Bouquet · Francesco De Rosa · Arnault LeCarpentier

Synopsis 1983: women arrive at a dance hall one at a time. Men enter and couples dance, their personalities on display. With the dancers changing characters, the film travels in time. In 1936, the Popular Front gives energy to the working...

7.3

874 votes

7.3

874 votes

Mafioso

1962 · Movie · 99 min. · Italy

Direction Alberto Lattuada

Cast Alberto Sordi · Norma Bengell · Gabriella Conti · Ugo Attanasio

Synopsis A long-lost comic classic from the Golden Age of Italian cinema, lovingly restored to its original glory. The incomparable Alberto Sordi gives one of his finest performances as Antonio Badalamenti, a punctilious factory supervisor in Northern Italy who takes his...

7.2

322 votes

7.2

322 votes

March on Rome

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Ugo Tognazzi · Roger Hanin · Mario Brega

Synopsis March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a comedy aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts. The movie's main theme is...

7.2

231 votes

7.2

231 votes

7.1

119 votes

For Love and Gold

1966 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Catherine Spaak · Gian Maria Volonté · Maria Grazia Buccella

Synopsis A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia (south of Italy). They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this...

7.1

814 votes

7.1

814 votes

7.1

1K votes

The Band of Honest Men

1956 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

7.0

79 votes

7.0

79 votes

Laugh for Joy

1960 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Monicelli

Cast Anna Magnani · Totò · Ben Gazzara · Fred Clark

Synopsis On New Year's Eve, an insecure, struggling actress (Anna Magnani) has nothing to do. When a colleague invites her to a New Year's party, she jumps at the opportunity. Accidentally she runs into an old acting acquaintance (Toto), who is...

7.0

125 votes

7.0

125 votes

15 from Rome

1963 · Movie · 115 min. · Italy

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Vittorio Gassman · Ugo Tognazzi · Lando Buzzanca · Marino Masé

Synopsis The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.

7.0

614 votes

7.0

614 votes

The Birds, the Bees and the Italians

1966 · Movie · 118 min. · Italy

Direction Pietro Germi

Cast Virna Lisi · Gastone Moschin · Nora Ricci · Alberto Lionello

Synopsis A citizen of the Veneto in her sixties. Three stories of "love in the country": a pseudo Don Giovanni confesses his impotence to the doctor in confidence but he becomes betrayed by him - the medic speaks about his patient...

7.0

641 votes

7.0

641 votes

In the Name of the Italian People

1971 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

Direction Dino Risi

Cast Ugo Tognazzi · Vittorio Gassman · Justine Gall · Yvonne Furneaux

Synopsis An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the...

6.9

318 votes

6.9

318 votes