Elio PetriFilmography

Born:: January 29, 1929 in Rome, Italy
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Italian filmmaker Elio Petri got his start working as a film critic for the communist newspaper L'Unita. Prior to that he had earned a degree in literature from Rome University. As a director, he started out making documentaries and co-penning scripts, primarily for De Santis. Petri made his...Read More

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Buone Notizie

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Ángela Molina, Aurore Clément, Paolo Bonacelli, Ombretta Colli

Synopsis: A junior executive (Giancarlo Giannini) is exasperated with his sexually repressed wife (Angela Molina) in this black comedy dripping with satire. The couple later ends up in bed with the man's mistress (Ombretta Colli) for a menage a trois. The man is pestered by his frantic friend Gualitiero (Paolo Bonacelli Read More

11/22/79
Todo Modo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Set at an indeterminate time in the near future, this routine, well-acted drama by Elio Petri tackles favorite Italian topics: religion and politics. A bit of macabre fantasy is added to the mix, but the end product remains somewhat muddled. Don Gaetano (Marcello Mastroianni) is a priest who is Read More

4/30/76
La Proprieta Non E Piu un Furto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Flavio Bucci, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: Italian Director Elio Petri, best known for his film Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion, here tells a complicated tale about a bank clerk who is literally allergic to money. Not only that, the clerk (Flavio Bucci) doesn't like the effect money has on people. For some reason, he steals Read More

10/3/73
La Classe Operaia Va in Paradiso

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: If this Italian drama were any less well told, it would come off as a pure union propaganda piece. Instead, it is a worthy film for the director who made the acclaimed film Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion. In any manufacturing situation, it simply doesn't pay to be the fastest and Read More

9/17/71
Indagine su un Cittadino al di Sopra di Ogni Sospetto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Salvo Randone, Gianni Santuccio, Arturo Dominici, Orazio Orlando

Synopsis: Better known as Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, this Oscar-winning political drama stars Gian Maria Volonte as the citizen of the title, an unnamed police inspector. The story finds the inspector calmly cutting his mistress' throat, then planting evidence that will clear him of Read More

2/9/70
Un Tranquillo Posto di Campagna

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Nero, Vanessa Redgrave, Georges Géret, Gabriella Grimaldi, Madeleine Damien

Synopsis: Leonardo (Franco Nero) is a painter who retreats to a house in the country to regain his lost inspiration. He is plagued by the presence of an erotic apparition. The gorgeous ghost soon moves the painter to the point he wishes to carry on a relationship with her. Leonardo is several bristles shy Read More

1969
Opiate '67

Crew: Screenwriter

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
A Ciascuno il Suo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Salvo Randone

Synopsis: Paolo Giana Maria Volonte is a lonely teacher who learns that two of his friends have been murdered in this twisting crime drama. He discovers that the victims were the recipients of threatening, anonymous letters. Paolo falls for Louisa Irene Papas, the widow of one of the dead men. He finds out Read More

1967
10th Victim

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli, Massimo Serato, Salvo Randone

Synopsis: Based on an interesting plot from a novel by Robert Sheckley, this movie features tongue-in-cheek performances by Andress and Mastroianni, which are responsible for its status as a minor cult favorite. Set in the 21st century, this science fiction movie depicts a society in which population Read More

12/1/65
Alta Infedeltà

Crew: Director

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
Il Maestro Di Vigevano

Crew: Director

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Claire Bloom, Vito de Taranto

Synopsis: Mombelli (Alberto Sordi) is an elementary school teacher whose wife Ada (Claire Bloom) dreams of becoming wealthy. She talks him into quitting his job and investing all of their money in a shoe factory. The family and the business fall apart when Ada is killed in a car wreck, and the colorless Read More

1964
I Giorni Contati

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Salvo Randone, Franco Sportelli, Vittorio Caprioli, Regina Bianchi, Paolo Ferrari

Synopsis: Excellently directed by Elio Petri, this psychological and social drama illustrates the contrast between an older man's humanity and the reality of the world around him. When Cesare (Salvo Randone) sees a man die of a heart attack while on a streetcar, he is shocked into changing his own lifestyle Read More

1962
L'Assassino

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Micheline Presle, Andrea Checchi

Synopsis: In this amusing look at the petty deceits of everyday life, Marcello Mastroianni shines as wealthy antique dealer Nello Poletti, a man with every comfort money can buy. One day, however, Poletti is falsely accused of murdering his former mistress (Micheline Presle), who set him up in a life of Read More

4/1/61
Il Gobbo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Blain, Bernard Blier, Ivo Garrani, Pier Paolo Pasolini

Synopsis: This drama, loosely based on the legend of the "Hunchback," is set in Rome, 1944. The story begins as the Hunchback, a leader of the Resistance rapes a Nazi collaborator's daughter. Later he falls in love with her. As he is trying to steal arms from a Nazi arsenal, the Germans shoot the Hunchback. Read More

12/1/60
La Garconniere

Crew: Screenwriter

10/12/60
Lady Killer of Rome

Crew: Director

Synopsis: When a woman is found murdered, her lover is accused in this crime comedy. (AKA The Assassin) ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1957
Uomini e Lupi

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Silvana Mangano, Yves Montand, Pedro Armendáriz, Irene Cefaro

Synopsis: Uomini e Lupi was released outside of Italy as Men and Wolves. Pedro Armendariz and Yves Montand star as a pair of courageous wolf-hunters in the Abruzzi region of Italy. When Montand returns to his village with a dog instead of a wolf, he is branded a coward. He redeems himself by teaming with Read More

1957