Armando TrovajoliFilmography

Born:: Rome, Italy
Occupation:: Composer (Music Score)

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Marcello: A Sweet Life

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Ettore Scola, Armando Trovajoli, Chiara Mastroianni, Barbara Mastroianni

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) was arguably the most famous and respected leading man in the history of Italian cinema. A favorite of such directors Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Michelangelo Antonioni, Mastroianni's fame in Europe extended to the United States, where he was nominated Read More

2006
The Lives of the Saints

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sophia Loren, Sabrina Ferilli, Fabrizio Filippo, Jessica Paré, Nick Mancuso, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: A young boy's innocence is shattered when his mother enters into an elicit affair with a mysterious blue-eyed stranger in a two-part, four hour miniseries directed by Jerry Ciccoritti and starring Academy Award-winner Sophia Loren. Vittorio Innocente is a typical young boy from the tiny Italian Read More

2004
Gente Di Roma

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Valerio Mastrandrea, Sabrina Impacciatore, Arnoldo Foa, Stefania Sandrelli, Antonello Fassari

2003
Concorrenza Sleale

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Sergio Castellitto, Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Claude Brialy, Claude Rich

Synopsis: The insidious emergence of state-sanctioned anti-Semitism in Fascist Italy sets the stage for this historical drama. In 1938, Umberto (Diego Abatantuono) is a tailor who is beginning to lose business to Leone (Sergio Castellito), a haberdasher whose shop is next door to Umberto's. Leone offers Read More

2001
La Cena

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Fanny Ardant, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Lea Gramsdorff, Eros Pagni

Synopsis: This complexly plotted comedy interweaves snippets from the lives of nearly 40 diverse patrons sitting at 14 tables in a little Italian trattoria. Though the diners come from all levels of society, most are bound by one or two common threads: their engagement in illicit romantic affairs and the Read More

1998
Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: Rarely has any actor, and especially one with a filmography as rich as that of Marcello Mastroianni (1923-1996), been given such a lavish screen biography. But then, director Anna Maria Tató was Mastroianni's companion for the last 22 years of his life, and she clearly saw this film, made for Read More

9/10/97
Romanzo di Un Giovane Povero

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Rolando Ravello

Synopsis: Unhappy neighbors hatch a homicidal scheme, then turn on each other in this Italian thriller similar to Strangers on a Train (1951). Vincenzo Persico (Rolando Ravello) is a miserable man. Despite graduating from college six years ago, he can't land a teaching position, so he's forced to live in Read More

1995
Mario, Maria e Mario

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Giulio Scarpati, Valeria Cavalli, Laura Betti, Willer Bordon

Synopsis: A young Italian Communist couple come to grips with the fall of Italy's Communist Party and find themselves drifting apart in this Italian-French drama. As the Berlin Wall collapsed in the late '80s, so did the Italian Communist Party. In it's stead has come the more left-wing party the PDS. Since Read More

1994
Cinecitta...Cinecitta

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Amanda Sandrelli, Massimo Wertmuller, Fabio Traversa, Franco Trevisi

Synopsis: In an innovative collaboration, the maker of this movie got the cooperation of the mainstream director (Ettore Scola) to shoot this film on the set for the film Captain Fracassa's Journey. While the latter film is being made, the characters in this film are all attempting to break into show biz Read More

1992
Cattiva

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Julian Sands, Giuliana de Sio, Erland Josephson, Milena Vukotic, Flaminia Lizzani

Synopsis: This 1991 Italian period drama is not to be confused with the 1990 Australian vampire film with the same English-language title, Wicked. The entire story, a genuine psychological detective tale, concerns the attempt by a young doctor (Julian Sands) working early in the 20th century in a Swiss Read More

1991
Il Viaggio Di Capitan Fracassa

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Massimo Troisi, Ornella Muti, Vincent Perez, Emmanuelle Béart, Jean-François Perrier

Synopsis: Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th century, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts. This picaresque romantic comedy is based on the 1863 novel Le Capitaine Fracasse by Theophile Read More

1990
Che ora è?

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Anne Parillaud, Renato Moretti, Lou Castel

Synopsis: Marcello (Marcello Mastroiano) has worked hard all his life to achieve a certain standing and success as a lawyer in Rome. He is pleased to be able to offer the fruits of his success to his son Michele (Massimo Troisi), and is perplexed and distressed that his unambitious son has no interest in Read More

9/21/89
Miss Arizona

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Dorottya Udvaros, Alessandra Martines, Urbano Barberini

Synopsis: Mitzi (Hanna Schygulla) turns to Sandor (Marcello Mastroianni) for help when her husband is murdered by right-wing extremists looking for a cache of diamonds. She and her young son escape with Sandor to Italy. By the 1930s, they return to Budapest to run the successful Arizona Club, a posh Read More

1/29/88
La Famiglia

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Fanny Ardant, Stefania Sandrelli, Andrea Occhipinti, Alberto Gimignani

Synopsis: A family history is recalled by the venerable patriarch Carlo (Vittorio Gassman) as he prepares to celebrate his 80th birthday. Young Carlo (Andrea Massimo) marries Beatrice (Stefania Sandrelli) in 1926 but later has an illicit affair with her bohemian artist sister Adriana (Fanny Ardant). Read More

1/22/87
L'Isola

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1986
Maccheroni

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jack Lemmon, Marcello Mastroianni, Daria Nicolodi, Isa Danieli, Maria Luisa Santella

Synopsis: Ettore Scola directed this light comedy starring Jack Lemmon and Marcello Mastroianni that Scola calls "a story about two men who have reached the age where you look back and take stock." Lemmon plays business executive Robert Traven, who returns Naples for the first time since 1946, when he had Read More

10/24/85
Frankenstein 90

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean Rochefort, Eddy Mitchell, Fiona Gelin, Herma Vos, Ged Marlon

Synopsis: Yet another incarnation of Mary Shelley's 1818 Frankenstein, this uneven spoof by Alain Jessua casts Victor Frankenstein as a cybernetics wizard who constructs his monster with a notable lack of aesthetic sense but invests him with great microprocessors, and the newly-minted ogre finds life rather Read More

1984
Il Conte Tacchia

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Enrico Montesano, Vittorio Gassman, Paolo Panelli

Synopsis: Loosely based on an historical character and his ennoblement by a Pope, Conte Tacchia relates the adventures of Checco (Enrico Montesano), an upbeat carpenter living at the beginning of the 20th century who is convinced that he is the illegitimate son of a local prince (Vittorio Gassman). Because Read More

12/23/82
Grand Hotel Excelsior

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Adriano Celentano, Carlo Verdone, Enrico Montesano, Diego Abatantuono, Eleonora Giorgi

Synopsis: Four popular Italian comedians (Adriano Celentano, Carlo Verdone, Enrico Montesano, and Diego Abantantuono), at the time this film was shot, play characters who either work in or visit a large hotel. Each comedian reprises some of the roles or attitudes that made him famous in a series of Read More

10/7/82
La Nuit De Varennes

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla, Harvey Keitel, Jean-Claude Brialy

Synopsis: This talky French costume drama chronicles the adventures of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as they attempt to flee Paris during the 1791 revolution. While en route to Varennes, the couple encounter and have philosophical debates with a number of fascinating historical figures including Read More

5/15/82
Il Paramedico

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Enrico Montesano, Edwige Fenech, Enzo Cannavale, Rossano Brazzi

Synopsis: Mario (Enrico Montesano) works as a hospital orderly whose lucky win in a lottery for a new luxury car turns out to be his greatest misfortune. His first mistake was to hide the car from his wife (Edwige Fenech) in an effort to hang on to it, rather than sell it off for the money as she would Read More

2/5/82
La Ballade De Mamlouk

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Yorgo Voyagis, Irene Papas

Synopsis: Mamluk (Yorgo Voyagis) is an unassuming, handsome young peasant who happens to have come along just in time to save the king from a fatal trap, and as a reward, the king offers him the amount of land he can mark off by walking around in one day -- but he must return to the starting point before Read More

1982
Tais-Toi Quand Tu Parles!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Aldo Maccione, Edwige Fenech, Jacques Francois, Philippe Nicaud, Philippe Clair

Synopsis: Just as a man (Aldo Maccione) is enjoying his fantasies of being another "Agent 007" in bed with a voluptuous, intelligent co-spy, the unsuspecting dreamer is mistaken for a real spy and shipped off to Tunisia where he has to carry out a true-life mission. Unfortunately, the real spy is a Read More

9/2/81
Passione D'Amore

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Valeria D'Obici, Bernard Giraudeau, Laura Antonelli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: Professional soldier Bernard Giraudeau is enmeshed in an affair with the beautiful but very much married Laura Antonelli. Transferred to a remote outpost, Giraudeau discovers to his chagrin that the only woman in the region (Valeria D'Obici) is about as appealing as a plate of pickles. Even so, Giraudeau Read More

5/7/81
La Terrazza

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Marcello Mastroianni, Stefania Sandrelli

Synopsis: Perhaps a little over-ambitious for the casual audience unfamiliar with the Italian world of entertainment and politics, La Terrazza involves a total of eight main protagonists and how they have changed or are changing. All eight are sitting on a terrace talking, while flashbacks and flashforwards Read More

2/8/80
La Vita è Bella

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ornella Muti, Giancarlo Giannini, Otar Koberidze, Stefano Madia, Yevgeny Lebedev, Regimantas Adomajtis, Juozas Budraitis

Synopsis: In this political drama, the critically acclaimed Russian director Grigori Chukhrai -- who also wrote the script -- focuses on the nature of political persecution through his hero Antonio (Giancarlo Giannini), a taxi driver in the capital of a dictatorship. Running alongside the political theme is Read More

12/21/79
Das Fuenfte Gebot

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Helmut Berger, Peter Hooten, Udo Kier, Heinrich Giskes

Synopsis: "Thou shalt not kill" is the fifth of the ten commandments handed down to Moses on Mount Sinai. In this movie, Bernhard and Leo Redder (Helmut Berger and Peter Hooten), who have grown up in an abusive family, escape into the streets at the earliest opportunity. In the Germany of the 1920s Read More

1979
Ligabue

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Flavio Bucci, Giuseppe Pambieri, Pamela Villoresi, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: The Italian artist Ligabue grew up as a withdrawn child in Switzerland, speaking a hodge-podge of Italian and German. On his return to Italy, he takes up residence by the banks of the Po river, but his uncouth speech and his near-mad behavior cause him to be shunned and ridiculed. In the movie, he Read More

11/23/78
Viva Italia

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Ornella Muti, Alberto Sordi, Ugo Tognazzi, Orietta Berti

Synopsis: This Italian black comedy is comprised of nine short stories all related to the theme that most men are selfish cads. At the 1978 Oscars, the film was nominated for Best Foreign film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
In Nome Del Papa Re

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Danilo Mattei, Carmen Scarpitta, Giovannella Grifea, Carlo Bagno

Synopsis: Italian actor/director Nino Manfredi gives an award-calibre performance in In the Name of the Pope-King. He plays a magistrate in a small region under the realm of Papal rule. Manfredi faces the legal battle of his life when his own son is accused of being a terrorist. Justice, mercy, and love Read More

12/3/77
Mogliamante

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Laura Antonelli, Marcello Mastroianni, Leonard Mann, Olga Karlatos

Synopsis: A comeback film of sorts for director Marco Vicario, Mogliamante stars Laura Antonelli as the wife of political activist Marcello Mastrioanni. When her husband has to go into hiding from the authorities, Laura consoles herself by going through his private papers. Curiously, discovering the length Read More

10/27/77
La Stanza Del Vescovo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Patrick Dewaere

Synopsis: In this drama, Temistocle Orimbelli (Ugo Tognazzi) is a middle-aged man with a profound appreciation for womankind -- an appreciation that does not extend to Cleofe (Garbiella Giacobbe) his dried up old shrew of a wife. He is much taken with the charms of his sister-in-law Matilde (Ornella Muti) Read More

3/18/77
Una Giornata Particolare

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon, Françoise Berd

Synopsis: The film is set during the late 1930s: the occasion is the first meeting between Mussolini and Hitler. Left alone in her tenement home when her fascist husband runs off to attend the historic event, Sophia Loren strikes up a friendship with her homosexual neighbor Mastroianni. As the day segues Read More

1977
Cattivi Pensieri

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this drama an Italian lawyer comes back home to a real surprise concealed in his closet. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

10/26/76
Down and Dirty

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: Down & Dirty was originally titled Brutti, sporchi e cativi in Italy. That translates literally to "dirty, nasty and bad", in reference to the lower-class characters and surroundings in this Ettore Scola film. Scola zeroes in on a particularly offensive Roman family. The stingy patriarch, Nino Manfredi Read More

9/23/76
Blazing Magnum

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Stuart Whitman, Carole Laure, Martin Landau, Jean Le Clerc, Tisa Farrow

Synopsis: In this violent actioner, a misanthropic Ottawa police captain searches for the person who poisoned his little sister, who was attending the university in Montreal. So desperate is he for vengeance that he casts protocol to the winds and begins using his own brutal methods to find the killer. Soon Read More

1976
La Moglie Vergine

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: The title of the Italian At Last, At Last refers to sex. In fact, virtually every line of dialogue in this domestic comedy has an erotic tinge. The plot concerns a newlywed couple's attempt to cure the husband's impotence. You guessed it: "outside specialists" are brought into arouse hubby's Read More

12/20/75
L'Anatra all'Arancia

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Monica Vitti, Ugo Tognazzi, Barbara Bouchet, John Richardson

Synopsis: The English-language title for the Italian L'Anatra All'arancia was Duck in Orange Sauce. Though Ugo (Ugo Tognazzi) is comfortably married to Lisa (Monica Vitti), he nonetheless takes up with pretty (and fetchingly underdressed) American Patty (Barbara Bouchet). In retalitaiton, Lisa begins an Read More

12/20/75
We All Loved Each Other So Much

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis: Stefania Sandrelli, a bit player in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, stars in the deliberately Felliniesque comedy We All Loved Each Other So Much. Sandrelli plays the longtime object of three friends' affections. The film traces the interrelationships of those friends-Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi Read More

12/21/74
Profumo di Donna

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Alessandro Momo, Agostina Belli

Synopsis: Before Al Pacino ever picked up a blind man's cane in the 1992 production of Scent of A Woman, Vittorio Gassman played a blind army captain in the 1974 Italian film Profumo di Donna, based on a novel by Giovanni Arpino. The earlier film unquestionably inspired the later one, though they differ Read More

12/20/74
Amore Amaro

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: An older woman and a much younger man explore their attraction and the differences between them in this romance, based on the novel by Carlo Bernari and set in the pre-World War II period. Among the obstacles they must face is the disapproval of the society around them. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More

11/9/74
Sessomatto

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: How Funny Can Sex Be? is an eight-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy. Some of the segments--particularly those featuring Laura Antonelli and Giancarlo Giannini--are fun, but just as many fall flat. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

12/20/73
Paolo il Caldo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: This Italian feature caters to a self-congratulatory stereotype of male virility which many an Italian male might fantasize as being true for himself. Paolo is from the lower ranks of the Sicilian nobility, and he shares his grandfather's penchant for beautiful women. Indeed, he proved his Read More

10/24/73
Sono Stato Io

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: An obsession with fame leads to life in prison for the window-washer in this Italian farce/satire. Biagio Solise (Giancarlo Giannini) loves working on the windows of the skyscrapers high above Milan but feels overwhelmed on the ground by the tumult and pressure of the crowded streets. He makes Read More

3/15/73
La Piu Bella Serata Della Mia Vita

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Pierre Brasseur, Claude Dauphin, Charles Vanel, Michel Simon, Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: This film marks the final performance of the notable French film star Pierre Brasseur, who died not long after the film was shot. One of his better-known films is Children of Paradise. In this film, an Italian industrialist (Alberto Sordi) who has made his fortune using some shady tactics Read More

12/21/72
La Mala Ordina

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Woody Strode, Cyril Cusack, Henry Silva, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: This Italian action film focuses on a crook, framed as a drug kingpin, whose wife is killed by the mob as a result. He must take matters into his own hands to have revenge. Manhunt was also re-titled The Italian Connection to steal thunder from its French counterpart. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

9/2/72
Permette? Rocco Papaleo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this Italian film set in the U.S., Marcello Mastrioanni stars as sweet-natured Sicilian immigrant Rocco, a former boxing champion. In the story, he comes to Chicago with a friend to see a boxing match. After the match, his friend leaves him alone in the town, and Rocco grows more and more Read More

10/29/71
Noi Donne Siamo Fatti Cosi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

9/29/71
Homo Eroticus

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lando Buzzanca

Synopsis: Since the Italian Homo Eroticus was released to the US as Man of the Year, this video version is available under both titles. Lando Buzzanca plays the servant to dazzling socialite Rosanna Podesta. His duties go far beyond carrying tea on a silver tray. Fact is, Rosanna is what you might call Read More

9/15/71
Il Vichingo Venuto dal Sud

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This comedy is in the Italian language. In Italy, shoe salesman Rossario runs the risk of being killed by outraged relatives if he has a brief affair with an unmarried woman, or by outraged husbands if he has an affair with a married woman. So when Rossario gets an opportunity to do his job in Read More

8/12/71
La Moglie del Prete

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni star in this Italian comedy. The story begins with Loren as Valerie, a woman whose suicide attempt, prompted by a romantic disappointment, is thwarted by Don Mario (Mastroianni), a priest whom she called before she lost consciousness. She immediately falls in Read More

11/19/70
Il Prete Sposato

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Lando Buzzanca

Synopsis: This comedy takes sharp aim at the hypocritical behavior of supposedly celibate Roman Catholic clergy. Keeping to the middle ground, neither too "holy" nor too critical, it was a hit in native Italy. Don Clemente (Lando Buzzanca) has done too good a job as a priest in his rural parish and is Read More

10/8/70
Dramma della Gelosia - Tutti i Particolari in Cronaca

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Hercules Cortes, Monica Vitti, Marcello Mastroianni, Giancarlo Giannini, Marisa Merlini

Synopsis: The Pizza Triangle is a freewheeling satire of Italian mores, hilarious despite its outwardly morbid plotline. The murder of flower girl Monica Vitti triggers a long flashback involving Vitti, middle-aged Communist bricklayer Marcello Mastrioanni, and young pizza chef Giancarlo Giannini. The Read More

4/30/70
May Morning

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Jane Birkin, Alessio Orano, and John Steiner star in this drama about three students whose lives intersect intellectually, emotionally, and sexually while attending classes at Oxford University. May Morning (also released as Alba Pagana and May Morning in Oxford) takes its title from the college's Read More

1970
Nell'Anno Del Signore

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Hossein, Renaud Verley

Synopsis: Revolutionaries in papal-dominated Rome are hunted down by the minions of Cardinale Rivarola (Ugo Tognazzi) for daring to rise up against the Pope. Cornacchia (Nino Manfredi) is the politician who helps the rebel outlaws Montanari (Robert Hossein) and Targhini (Renaud Verley). Martial law is Read More

10/24/69
Il Commisario Pepe

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Gaetano Cimarosa, Veronique Vendell

Synopsis: Pepe (Ugo Tognazzi) is the progressive chief of police in a small Italian town. Using his brains instead of his gun, his investigations net far more results than the traditional cops. Most of his inquiries involve arresting prostitutes and orgy organizers and halting gay and Lesbian lechers from Read More

9/24/69
Come, Quando, Perche

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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
The Libertine

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Luigi Pistilli

Synopsis: When Catherine Spaak's husband dies, she discovers a hitherto hidden room on their estate. The room is surrounded by mirrors and curious sexual devices; when Spaak takes a peek at hubby's diary, she learns he was carrying on a secret life that made Sacher-Masoch and Krafft-Ebbing look like pikers. Read More

12/23/68
Riusciranno I Nostri Eroi A Ritrovare L'Amico Miseriosamente Scompars In Africa

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Nino Manfredi, Bernard Blier

Synopsis: Fausto (Alberto Sordi) heads into the African jungle to find his long-lost cousin in this slapstick comedy. The Italian gentleman and his personal secretary Ubaldo (Bernard Blier) search for Oreste (Nino Manfredi) with orders to write a story about the man. Comedy ensues as they make their way Read More

12/19/68
Faustina

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vonetta McGee, Enzo Cerusico, Renzo Montagnani

Synopsis: This romantic comedy concerns a young girl who is the product of a black American-Army regular and a Roman woman who shared a romance in World War II. The woman is pursued by two men who both covet a relationship with the dark-skinned girl. Scenes often take place amidst the Roman antiquities and Read More

10/11/68
Straziami, Ma Di Baci Saziami

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Pamela Tiffin, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: A romance between a young woman factory worker and a barber is stopped when her parents raise protests over her relationship with the man. When rumors of the romance run rampant in the small town, she leaves for Rome. She takes a job as an assistant to a deaf-mute tailor and eventually accepts his Read More

10/4/68
The Fuller Report

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

2/24/68
Marito e Mio e L'Ammazzo Quando Mi Pare

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Hywel Bennett, Hugh Griffith, Romolo Valli, Gianrico Tedeschi

Synopsis: The literal translation of this Italian title is "He's My Husband, I'll Kill Him When I Please." A young woman is married to a man in his 70s. To make sure his wife is taken care of after his death, the husband tries to arrange her marriage to a friend of his. When the young bride discovers this Read More

2/8/68
Operazione San Pietro

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: An ingenious thief steals Michelangelo's Pieta, worth $30 billion in the farce. The trouble is, he has no buyers and so lets an American gangster have it for $40 and a spaghetti dinner. Meanwhile, the Vatican, not wanting the abduction to become public, sends out a priest to find the thieves and Read More

12/29/67
Le Dolci Signore

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ursula Andress, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell, Claudine Auger, Brett Halsey

Synopsis: Yet another entry in a long series of 1960s Italian sex comedies, this one has some clever moments in its study of four beautiful women (Ursula Andress, Marisa Mell, Virna Lisi, and Claudine Auger) who cheat on their husbands to relieve their marital discontent. Jean-Pierre Cassel also stars in Read More

9/19/67
Col Cuore in Gola

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ewa Aulin, Roberto Bisacco, Charles Kohler, Luigi Bellini

Synopsis: This Italian-French co-production weds the giallo thriller with pop hipness in a manner akin to Blow-Up, but comes across as a less-inspired variant on the same year's La Morte Ha Fatto l'Uovo. Like that film, Col Cuore in Gola stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ewa Aulin in a loud, deranged Read More

1967
Opiate '67

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Fifteen "monsters of modern Rome" are presented in this Italian episodic drama. Each of these "monsters" is highly misanthropic and nasty. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1967
Maigret a Pigalle

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

12/30/66
L'Arcidiavolo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Mickey Rooney, Claudine Auger, Annabella Incontrera

Synopsis: This mild comedy finds two envoys from Hell sent to Earth to cause trouble. Relfagor (Vittorio Gassman) and his faithful sidekick Adramalek (Mickey Rooney) start out by disintegrating the peace soon to take place between Rome and Florence. While traveling, they manage to seduce the wife of an Read More

12/21/66
Operazione San Gennaro

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Senta Berger, Mario Adorf, Harry Guardino, Totò

Synopsis: In this comedy, two Yankee con artists pose as tourists visiting scenic Naples. There they intend to rob an old church. Before pulling the caper, the two enlist the aid of a local criminal. The theft succeeds, but afterwards the crooks begin double-crossing each other. Murder and mayhem ensues as Read More

11/25/66
Le Fate

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

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
I Lunghi Giorni Della Vendetta

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1966
Casanova '70

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michele Mercier, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell, Marco Ferreri

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni portrays the handsome lover Casanova pitted against a thoroughly modern woman. This is a legendary hero often depicted in movies, but this time he is portrayed with a slightly different problem - the only time he's "in the mood" is when he feels that he is in danger. His job Read More

10/20/65
Sette Uomini D'oro

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Musical Direction/Supervision

Actors: Rossana Podestà, Philippe Leroy, Gastone Moschin, Maurice Poli, José Suárez, Gabriele Tinti, Manuel Zarzo, Giampiero Albertini, Ennio Balbo, Alberto Bonucci, Gianni di Benedetto, Renato Terra, Renzo Palmer

Synopsis: The bulk of this amusing crime film consists of a plan to steal a fortune in gold from the supposedly impregnable vaults of Geneva's Credit Suisse Bank. A criminal genius (Philippe Leroy) watches from across the street as his six henchmen -- whose names all begin with the letter "A" -- carry out Read More

9/8/65
I Complessi

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alberto Sordi

Synopsis: This gang-directed comedy combines the talents of Dino Risi, Franco Rossi, and Luigi Filippo Sonego. In "A Decisive Day," Nino Manfredi plays a shy company employee who wins the heart of a longtime flame only to discover she is married. Franco Rossi directs "Complex Of The Nubian Slave" starring Ugo Tognazzi Read More

8/15/65
Bambole!

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Virna Lisi, Nino Manfredi, Elke Sommer, Maurizio Arena

Synopsis: Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film. The vignettes are "The Phone," about a woman so busy talking on the phone that she fails to notice that her husband is having sex with a neighbor; "Treatise on Eugenics," the chronicle of a Swedish girl's search Read More

1/27/65
A Day in Court

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Courtroom tomfoolery provides the basis for this four-episode Italian anthology comedy. In the first segment "Adultery in 16mm," an angry wife attempts to sue her neglectful husband by charging him with abandonment. Meanwhile, he charges her with adultery and claims to have a few reels of Read More

1965
Il Mito

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This film has two segments exploring relationships subjected to sudden trauma. In the first, "Violence," a young wife is gang-raped while her husband is forced to watch. Afterwards, neither one even acknowledges what happened. In "Love," a wife is hospitalized after attempting suicide, and her Read More

1965
La Congiuntura

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Joan Collins, Jacques Bergerac, Hilda Barry

Synopsis: In this caper comedy designed for international distribution, Jane (Joan Collins) and Don Giuliano (Vittorio Gassman) are part of a group of currency smugglers who are trying to get their gang's money over the border into Swiss banks. They are following a plan designed by their crafty mastermind Read More

12/29/64
Marriage Italian Style

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi, Marilù Tolo, Pia Lindström

Synopsis: In flashback, Marcello Mastroianni recalls his wartime romance with Sophia Loren. He is so enamored with her that he finances her escape from the bordello where she lives and sets her up with a good job in the restaurant that he owns, and later finds a place for her on his mother's domestic staff. Read More

12/18/64
La Mia Signora

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Claudio Gora

Synopsis: Alberto Sordi co-stars with Silvia Mangano in this Dino DeLaurentiis comedy production gang-directed by Tinto Brass, Mauro Bolognini, and Luigi Comenichi. The sketches primarily deal with the endearing battles between husbands and wives, giving Sordi the chance to mug for the camera in the comic Read More

10/29/64
Il Magnifico Cornuto

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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 Ragazza in Prestito

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this romance, a middle-aged playboy finds himself running his father's fur business after his father's death. He continues to allow his papa's mistress to run the business. The playboy's fiancee gets pregnant and he refuses to marry her. She dumps him in favor of his best friend. Soon the Read More

10/16/64
Italiani Brava Gente

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Tatiana Samoilova, Andrea Kekki, Raffaele Pisù, Zhanna Prokhorenko, Arthur Kennedy, Andrea Checchi

Synopsis: The Russo/Italian coproduction Attack and Retreat was titled Italiano Brava Gente in Italy and Oni Shli Na Vostok in the USSR. This "solidarity" war epic hinges on the plot device of Italian and Soviet WWII troops forming a united front against their one-time ally, the Germans. To drum up business Read More

9/16/64
Se Permettete ... Parliamo Di Donne

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general, as referred to by the title. Prior to this feature, Gassman had worked with both Read More

3/25/64
Alta Infedeltà

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Fulvia Franco, Monica Vitti, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: In this comedy anthology, the sex-capades of several Italian couples are chronicled. In "The Scandal," a dull and insensitive husband is unaware that his lonely wife has been flirting with a young buck at a vacation resort. When the husband finally finds out, he gets jealous and the marriage is Read More

1/22/64
La Visita

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

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
Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffré, Agostino Salvietti, Armando Trovajoli, Lino Mattera, Tina Pica

Synopsis: Each of the episodes in the three-part Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Ieri, Oggi E Domani) stars Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni. In "Adelina-Naples," Loren and Mastroianni are married, and Loren is in trouble with the law. Each time the authorities close in, Loren eludes capture by Read More

12/19/63
I Mostri

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, Lando Buzzanca

Synopsis: This two hour film contains no less than twenty different vignettes. Traffic jams, a father passing on to his son the deceitful ways to survive everyday life, punch drunk ex-fighters, exploitation of a blind man are among the many stories. Vittorio Gassmann and Ugo Tognazzi lead the cast of actors Read More

10/26/63
Solo Contro Roma

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: This somewhat stilted sword-and-sandal adventure based on Gastad Green's novel The Gladiator deals with the conquest of Antigonea by the 13th Roman Legion. Silla (Philippe Leroy), the corrupt temporary governor, takes a local concubine, Fabiola (Rosanna Podesta), who is really in love with a bound Read More

9/6/62
Boccaccio '70

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sophia Loren, Luigi Giuliani, Anita Ekberg, Peppino De Filippo, Romy Schneider, Romolo Valli, Tomas Milian

Synopsis: Released in the US by 20th Century-Fox, Boccaccio '70 is a compendium of short subjects directed by three of Italy's top filmmakers. Each story is written in the style of the famed Italian essayist Boccaccio, albeit told in contemporary terms. First up is "The Raffle", written by Cesare Zavattini Read More

2/23/62
Warriors Five

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this WW II actioner, an American paratrooper lands behind enemy lines and begins an espionage assignment. He ends up captured and imprisoned. With four Italian POWs, he manages to escape. He then talks them into helping him blow up a strategically important bridge. Mayhem ensues until the only Read More

1962
Hercules in the Haunted World

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Reg Park

Synopsis: Horrormeister Mario Bava helmed this entry in the series, in which Hercules (Reg Park) must journey to the bowels of Hell to recover a magical plant that is the only hope of a dying princess. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

11/16/61
Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Barbara Lass, Carl Schell, Curt Lowens, Maurice Marsac, Maureen O'Connor

Synopsis: A school for wayward girls is plagued by mysterious attacks by a strange beast. This low budget, melodramatic horror film has several shadowy characters who are suspected of being werewolves. The girls really are wayward as they wander off into the nearby forest every time the moon is full. A Read More

11/9/61
The Giant of Metropolis

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In the year 20,000 B.C., the continent of Atlantis is ruled by King Yotar (Roldano Lupi), who has set his people on a course of fantastic scientific development. The Atlanteans have dominated the Earth from their capitol city of Metropolis with their powers and technology, but they have also Read More

10/26/61
Hercules and the Captive Women

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Reg Park

Synopsis: Hercules (Reg Park) and King Androcles (Ettore Manni) are on an ocean expedition when Androcles is washed overboard during a storm near a mysterious island. Making landfall, Hercules finds that the island is the kingdom of Atlantis, ruled by a beautiful, cruel, and ambitious queen, Antinea (Fay Spain Read More

8/19/61
La Grande Olimpiade

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Long before the Olympics became tarnished by the questionable way in which sites for the games were selected, this excellent sports documentary by director Romolo Marcellini and his crew reminds viewers of the games' ideals, true spirit, and emotional impact. Rome is the site of the 1960s summer Read More

1961
Atom Age Vampire

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Alberto Lupo, Susanne Loret, Sergio Fantoni, Franca Parisi Strahl

Synopsis: A less-stylish variant on Franju's classic Les Yeux Sans Visage, this low-budget Italian production borrows heavily from that film's plot to tell the tale of a scientist who employs a radical new procedure to restore the beauty of a young hoochie-koochie dancer disfigured in a car accident. All Read More

1961
The Magic World of Topo Gigio

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: Topo Gigio was a mouse puppet who appeared regularly on the Ed Sullivan Show during the '60s. This children's fantasy is his feature film debut and chronicles his adventurous attempt to make it to the moon. Accompanied by his best pals, Topo boards a rocket. Unfortunately, it lands in an amusement Read More

1961
The Planets Against Us

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this sci-fi film, an alien android escapes from his home planet and ends up on Earth where he discovers that everyone he touches dies. In the end, he is defeated by a ship from his planet and the Italian army. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1961
Two Women

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sophia Loren, Eleanora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Renato Salvatori

Synopsis: Normally, an actor or actress in a foreign-language film was not the ideal candidate for an Academy Award, inasmuch as his or her English-language "performance" was often dubbed in by an anonymous third party. Such was not the case of Sophia Loren in Two Women (La Ciociara), who did her own Read More

12/22/60
Le Pillole di Ercole

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Sylva Koscina, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Valerie

Synopsis: In spite of its title, this sex comedy by director Luciano Salce is not another mythic costume drama with Steve Reeves in the lead. Instead, those little pills mentioned in the title are Herculean in their impact on the sexual drives of anyone who takes them. According to this tale, long before Read More

9/9/60
I Piacieri del Sabato Notte

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Jean Valerie, Andreina Pagnani, Roberto Risso, Pierre Brice

Synopsis: This conventional, unimaginative drama is about a coterie of "ladies of the evening" who get themselves embroiled in a cover-up that results in murder and suicide. Life seems to be proceeding as normal until one of the hookers has an elderly client die on her. The women rightly deduce that if Read More

1960
Le Diciottenni

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Marisa Allasio, Ave Ninchi, Virgilio Riento

Synopsis: In keeping with the film's title, most of the characters in Le Diciotenni are 18 years old. The story takes place in a girl's finishing school, populated entirely by knockout beauties. One of the girls (Marisa Allasio) faces expulsion because her father has been known to consort with criminals. Read More

1956
Bravissimo

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

11/22/55
La Donna del Fiume

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Sophia Loren, Rik Battaglia, Gérard Oury, Enrico Olivieri

Synopsis: Sophia Loren was still in the "Anna Magnani" phase of her career when she starred in La Donna del Flume (The River Girl). Sophia is cast as Nives, the girlfriend of capricious cigarette smuggler Gino Lodi (Rik Battaglia). When Gino deserts her, the impregnated Nives is soured on all men, including Read More

12/29/54
Two Nights with Cleopatra

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Synopsis: In this Italian bedroom farce, the lusty "Queen of the Nile" is determined to be with her lover, Marc Antony, before he heads off to war. Unfortunately, she has been assigned a new guard. She made love to her previous guard and he ended up executed as had several guards before him. Her new guard Read More

2/4/54
Un Giorno in Pretura

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

1954
Le Infedeli

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, May Britt, Anna Maria Ferrero, Pierre Cressoy, Marina Vlady

Synopsis: Le Infedeli is graced by two internationally popular leading ladies: Italy's Gina Lollobrigida and Sweden's Mai Britt. The two actresses are but small portions of a larger plot mosaic, all about keeping up appearances no matter what the provocation. A group of "respectable" people are all partly Read More

1/23/53
La Tratta Delle Bianche

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Silvana Pampanini, Sophia Loren, Tamara Lees, Marc Lawrence, Vittorio Gassman

Synopsis: Originally released as Trattedella Blanche, Girls Marked Danger offers a voyeuristic glimpse at the subrosa world of 20th century white slavery. Veteran Hollywood heavy Marc Lawrence plays a vice lord who recruits innocent young Italian ladies for his nefarious purposes, on the pretext of hiring Read More

9/25/52

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