Screenplay: Furio Scarpelli
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Furio Scarpelli. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Titles found: 127
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
Everybody Go Home
1960 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Alberto Sordi · Serge Reggiani · Martin Balsam · Carla Gravina
7.6
718 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
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
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
On the Tiger's Back
1961 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy
Direction Luigi Comencini
Cast Nino Manfredi · Mario Adorf · Valeria Moriconi · Gian Maria Volonté
7.1
119 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
Unfair Competition
2001 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy
Direction Ettore Scola
Cast Diego Abatantuono · Sergio Castellitto · Gérard Depardieu · Jean-Claude Brialy
7.1
1K votes
7.1
1K votes
The Band of Honest Men
1956 · Movie · 101 min. · Italy
Direction Camillo Mastrocinque
Cast Totò · Peppino De Filippo · Giacomo Furia · Anita Ciarli
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