Francesco RosiFilmography

Born:: November 15, 1922 in Naples, Italy
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Distinguished Italian director Francesco Rosi is best known for the political films he made during the 1960s. He had his start assisting Luchino Visconti on La Terra Trema in 1947. Afterward, Rosi assisted other major directors, including Michelangelo Antonioni, and collaborated on film scripts...Read More

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I Magliari

Crew: Director

Actors: Antonio de la Torre, Roberto Enríquez, Verónica Sánchez, Raúl Arévalo, Leticia Herrero

Synopsis: A handful of Italian exiles fall into a turf war over the right to sell cloth in this drama from Italian auteur Francesco Rosi. Mario (Renato Salvatori) is a laborer who left Italy for Hanover, where he tried to get work as a miner with little success. Mario had decided to make his way back home Read More

2009
Epreuves d'Artistes

Actors: Pedro Almodóvar, Robert Altman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Benigni, Bernardo Bertolucci

2004
The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti

Actors: Helmut Berger, Meralda Caracciolo Di Melito, Claudia Cardinale, Luchino Gastel, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: Legendary Italian filmmaker Luchino Visconti's life and remarkable cinematic achievements are investigated in depth in Adam Low's 2002 documentary produced by the BBC entitled The Life and Times of Count Luchino Visconti. Born into Italian aristocracy in 1906, Visconti's life was one of Read More

2002
The Truce

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: John Turturro, Massimo Ghini, Rade Serbedzija

Synopsis: Italian chemist turned author Primo Levi was interred at Auschwitz during WW II until 1945. Following his release, he returned to his native Turin and penned the wrenching autobiographical account of life in the concentration camp If This Is a Man. In 1962, he wrote a companion book, The Truce, a Read More

11/19/97
Diario Napoletano

Crew: Director

1992
Dimenticare Palermo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: James Belushi, Mimi Rogers, Joss Ackland, Philippe Noiret, Carolina Rosi

Synopsis: This political drama chronicles the corruption of a mayoral candidate for New York City. His ordeal begins when he launches a campaign for the legalization of heretofore illegal narcotics. Alarmed by the support it gets, Mafiosos frame the candidate for a crime he did not commit and force him to Read More

1989
Cronaca di una Morte Annunciata

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rupert Everett, Ornella Muti, Anthony Delon, Gian Maria Volontè, Irene Papas, Lucia Bosé

Synopsis: This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year Read More

5/7/87
Carmen

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham, Jean-Philippe Lafont

Synopsis: Georges Bizet's 1875 opera about Carmen, the colorful cigarette factory worker whose flirtations with the soldier Don José are forgotten in her love for the matador Escamillo, is the source for director Francesco Rosi's cinematic version of the same story. Plácido Domingo sings the part of Don Read More

3/14/84
Three Brothers

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Michele Placido, Charles Vanel, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Director Francesco Rosi earned a Best Foreign Film Academy Award nomination for his drama Tre Fratelli (Three Brothers), an adaptation of a work by Andrei Platonov. When the matriarch of an Italian family dies, the husband brings his three boys, each of whom are facing difficult personal problems Read More

3/19/81
Christ Stopped at Eboli

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari

Synopsis: Based on an autobiographical novel by Carlo Levi, Cristo si e fermato a Eboli stars Gian-Maria Volonte as Levi, a prominent anti-fascist author and artist who, during Mussolini's regime was exiled to Eboli, a tiny village in Southern Italy. The government believed Levi's controversial views would Read More

2/23/79
Cadaveri Eccellenti

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lino Ventura, Alain Cuny, Paolo Bonacelli, Marcel Bozzuffi, Tina Aumont

Synopsis: Francesco Rosi utilizes the breathtakingly beautiful Italian landscape in an unspecified Italian city to hatch this mystery film involving murder and corruption in high places. As the film begins, a well-known prosecutor is killed. The murder turns out to be the first in a series of murders -- and Read More

2/12/76
Lucky Luciano

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Rod Steiger, Charles Siragusa, Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Gardenia

Synopsis: Director Francesco Rosi returns to his recurring theme of the connections between legal and illegal exercises of power in this sensationalized account of the infamous gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Gian Maria Volonte). The film examines the life of Luciano after serving nine years of his Read More

10/19/73
Il Caso Mattei

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè

Synopsis: Well-known actor Gian Maria Volonte carries this Italian biographical film almost single-handedly in his role as the industrialist Enrico Mattei. Mattei gave Italian industry a much-needed shot in the arm in the postwar era and died under suspicious circumstances in 1962. However, like many Read More

1/25/72
Uomini Contro

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volontè, Franco Graziosi, Pier Paolo Capponi

Synopsis: Italian army regulars resist the orders of a cruel general whose rigid interpretations of the rules call for a man to be shot. Leone (Alain Cuny) orders the execution of an army regular who halted the troops while under enemy fire. A sympathetic lieutenant substitutes a dead body for that of the Read More

9/11/70
C'era una Volta

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sophia Loren, Omar Sharif, Dolores Del Rio, Georges Wilson, Leslie French

Synopsis: A handsome prince searches for love in this whimsical fairy tale. Prince Ramon (Omar Sharif) has been pledged to an arranged marriage by the Queen Mother (Dolores Del Rio), but he balks at marrying a woman whom he doesn't love, and rides away on his horse rather than face the altar. While riding Read More

10/19/67
Il Momento della Verita

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Linda Christian

Synopsis: World class toreador Mateo Miguelin plays an impoverished Spanish lad who becomes a bullfighter in this routine drama. He quickly rises to the top and is soon appearing before capacity crowds in the bullrings of Barcelona. Linda Christian plays the beautiful society woman who is intrigued by the Read More

3/3/65
Le Mani Sulla Città

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Rod Steiger, Guido Alberti, Salvo Randone

Synopsis: A corrupt city councilman seeks a huge profit in a suburban real estate deal. Nottola (Rod Steiger) manipulates corrupt local government officials in the political instability that plagues Italy following World War II. The only councilman who tries to block the shady deals in defense of the people Read More

10/9/63
Salvatore Giuliano

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Salvo Randone, Frank Wolff, Federico Zardi, Pietro Cammarata

Synopsis: This is a documentary-style Italian drama chronicling the rise and fall of the title character, a real-life Mob chieftain who rose to prominence in post-WWII Sicily. Salvatore Giuliano himself is almost unseen and his career is recalled in flashbacks after his assassination in 1950. With the help Read More

2/28/62
I Magliari

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Renato Salvatori, Belinda Lee, Aldo Giuffré

Synopsis: A young group of enterprising con artist attempt to break up some Italian expatriates trying to sell an inferior cloth as genuine quality fabric. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

9/23/59
La Sfida

Crew: Director

Actors: José Suárez, Rosanna Schiaffino, Nino Vingelli, Pasquale Cennamo

Synopsis: 3DLa Sfida3D (3DThe Challenge3D) marked the directorial debut of former screenwriter Francesco Rosi. Based on a true story, the plot concerns a young man named Vito (Jose Suarez), who harbors a grudge against the Neopolitan Mafia. At great personal risk, Vito vows to smash the mobsters who Read More

9/6/58
Camicie Rosse

Crew: Director

Actors: Anna Magnani, Raf Vallone, Alain Cuny, Jacques Sernas, Carlo Ninchi

Synopsis: Camicie Rosse (Red Shirts) was released in most markets as Anita Garibaldi, in deference to the star status of Anna Magnani. The actress plays the wife of the great Italian patriot Garibaldi, who at the beginning of the film hovers on the brink of death, harking back to past glories. Most of the Read More

8/15/52
Bellissima

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella, Gastone Renzelli, Arturo Bragaglia

Synopsis: This early Luchno Visconti drama stars Anna Magnani as an overbearing stage mother. Magnani's daughter (Tina Apicella) has zero talent, but Magnani raises such a ruckus at the studio after the girl's abortive screen test that the producers eventually find work for the girl. By this point, Magnani Read More

12/27/51