Antonio PietrangeliFilmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter

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Come, Quando, Perche

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniele Gaubert, Philippe Leroy, Horst Buchholz

Synopsis: When Paola (Daniele Gaubert) feels her husband Marco (Philippe Leroy) is neglecting her, she willingly falls for his best friend Alberto (Horst Buchholz). Marco allows the affair to proceed and Paola experiences feelings of love she never knew were possible. She returns to her marital commitments Read More

7/31/69
Le Fate

Crew: Director

Actors: Monica Vitti, Enrico Maria Salerno, Renzo Giovampietro, Franco Balducci, Claudia Cardinale

Synopsis: This melodramatic Italian and French anthology is comprised of four unrelated short films directed by four different directors. The first vignette, "Queen Sabina" (or "The Hitchhiker") chronicles the sexual misadventures of a teenage girl on the road home. "Queen Armenia" (aka "The Room with a Read More

11/22/66
Io la Conoscevo Bene

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Robert Hoffman, Jean-Claude Brialy, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Adriana (Stefania Sandrelli) is a young woman from the country who gets caught up in the tempestuous temptations of the big city in this somber moral drama. She has a series of affairs that are just for fun, but she becomes depressed when she desperately looks for a more meaningful relationship. Read More

12/1/65
Il Magnifico Cornuto

Crew: Director

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Bernard Blier, Michéle Girardon, Philippe Nicaud, Salvo Randone

Synopsis: This uninhibited Italian comedy was originally titled Il Magnifico Cornuto. Ugo Tognazzi plays a philandering businessman, inordinately proud of his hyperactive libido. Claudia Cardinale is his sexy wife, which makes one wonder why Tognazzi would ever want to stray. Be that as it may, Cardinale Read More

10/21/64
La Visita

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sandra Milo, François Perier, Mario Adorf, Gastone Moschin

Synopsis: In this drama, a single woman approaching 40 grows bored of her affair with a married trucker and writes to a singles column. She ends up paired with an outwardly conservative bookstore clerk. During their date, he drinks and soon turns into a rude, crude, drunken slob. She is mortified until he Read More

12/28/63
La Parmigiana

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Nino Manfredi, Salvo Randone, Didi Perego, Lando Buzzanca

Synopsis: Catherine Spaak was only eighteen, yet already known, when she co-starred in this comedy-drama with Nino Manfredi. She plays naive young woman Dora, who heads for the big city and a lot of growing up. Her exploits are mainly centered on the men she meets as she flits from one to the next without a Read More

1963
Fantasmi a Roma

Crew: Director

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo, Vittorio Gassman, Eduardo de Filippo, Belinda Lee

Synopsis: An impressive cast graces the 105 minutes of Ghosts of Rome. Don't let the title mislead you: the "ghosts" are not genuine wraiths, but instead a group of disenfranchised tenants in a contemporary Roman rooming house. When the house is condemned, the various residents seek out new lodgings Read More

4/1/61
Adua e le Compagne

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Simone Signoret, Gina Rovere, Sandra Milo, Emmanuelle Riva, Claudio Gora

Synopsis: Four unemployed prostitutes attempt to open a restaurant in this comedy. They look all over Rome for a restaurant they can afford. When they find a ramshackle cafe. The landlord is willing to let them have it; they can even use his name to buy the food license, but he has one condition: they must Read More

9/16/60
It Happened in Rome

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: It Happened in Rome -- as well as in Venice, Florence, and points in between in this frothy excursion into beautiful Italy. The slight story concerns two young girls -- the German Hilde (Inge Schoener) and the French Josette (Isabelle Corey) -- who are hitching through the countryside. Vacationing Read More

1959
Souvenir d'Italie

Crew: Director

Actors: June Laverick, Inge Schoener, Isabelle Corey, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: The superb cinematography of Aldo Tonti adds immeasureably to the enjoyment of Souvenir D'Italie. The story revolves around three lovely young ladies: Margaret (June Laverick) from England, Hilde (Ingeborg Schoener) from Germany and Josette (Isabelle Corey) from France. Hitchhiking through Read More

4/18/57
Les Epoux Terribles

Crew: Director

Actors: Jacqueline Sassard, Gabriele Ferzetti, Mario Marin

1957
Lo Scapolo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Sandra Milo, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Abbe Lane, Xavier Cugat

Synopsis: Alberto Sordi plays the title character in the Spanish-Italian Lo Scapolo (The Bachelor). Forever on the verge of marriage, our hero is invariably "rescued" by an inbuilt mental quirk. He is convinced that he is thoroughly satisfied with his bachelorhood, but eventually realizes he's been lying to Read More

12/30/55
Amori Di Mezzo Secolo

Crew: Director

2/18/54
Europa '51

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Bergman, Alexander Knox, Ettore Giannini, Giulietta Masina, Sandro Franchina

Synopsis: Only a few of the films that grew from the notorious liaison between actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini were truly worthy of their talents. One such was the Italian-made Europa '51. Playing a character far older than herself, Bergman portrays a society woman whose life is in Read More

12/4/52
Due Moglie Sono Troppe

Crew: Screen Story

Synopsis: In this comedy, a braggart and his new bride head for a honeymoon in Italy. There they go to the small village the groom claims to have freed all by himself. Unfortunately, the villagers are most unhappy to see him. Before he can safely continue his honeymoon, he must clear his name with them. Read More

9/1/51
La Terra Trema

Synopsis: Luchino Visconti's pseudo-documentary look at the exploitation of Sicilian fishermen was based on Giovanni Verga's 1881 novel I Malavoglia. The townspeople of Aci Trezza, Sicily, portrayed themselves, speaking in their native dialects and fretting about economic hardship for over 160 minutes of Read More

9/2/48
Ossessione

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Juan de Landa, Dhia Cristani, Elia Marcuzzo, Vittorio Duse

Synopsis: Often considered one of the first examples of Italian neorealism, Luchino Visconti's first film was this adaptation of James M. Cain's steamy novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, which would also be made twice in the U.S., first in 1946 with Lana Turner and John Garfield and then in 1981 with Jack Nicholson Read More

5/17/43