Marco FerreriFilmography

Born:: May 11, 1928 in Milan, Italy
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Savage, grotesque, funny, original, disturbing. All can be used to describe the social satires of Italian filmmaker Marco Ferreri. After having assisted on numerous Italian productions in the '50s, Ferreri began directing and co-scripting films in Spain in 1958. In Italy he made a reputation for...Read More

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Diario Di Un Vizio

Crew: Director

Actors: Jerry Calà, Sabrina Ferilli, Valentino Macchi

Synopsis: In this stylish and offbeat black comedy, Benito ( Jerry Calà) keeps a diary of his sexual fantasies and cravings. As a result of his on-again, off-again relationship with the beautiful and insatiable Luigia (Sabrina Ferilli), his thoughts along these lines have grown increasingly bizarre. For his Read More

1/29/97
Nitrato D'Argento

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Doriana Bianchi, Eric Berger, Marc Berman

Synopsis: This dramatic retrospective from Marco Ferreri eulogizes the passing of cinema as a culturally vital art form. While not all will agree with Ferreri's thesis that cinema for the masses is a lost art and has become an elitist endeavor, the director, using a combination of archival documentary Read More

1996
Faictz Ce Que Vouldras

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This French biopic offers a dramatized profile of the notoriously earthy 16th-century French doctor, humanist and satirist, Francois Rabelais. It was filmed in the region of Lire where the author once lived. At the story's core is a tremendous outdoor banquet, for 500 people, in celebration of the Read More

1995
La Carne

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Francesca Dellera, Philippe Léotard, Petra Reinhardt

Synopsis: Paolo is a divorced father of two who earns his living as a nightclub entertainer. One night, he meets Francesca, a strangely attractive woman, and after some rather peculiar talk about her having had sex with an Indian guru, they head off for his beach house for an assignation. Francesca uses Read More

1991
La Casa Del Sorriso

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ingrid Thulin, Dado Ruspoli, Francesca Antonelli

Synopsis: In the hippie era, the motto used to be "never trust anyone over 30." In this geriatric romance, the motto might be amended to read "never trust anyone under 60." Still sprightly and interested in life though they are in their 70s, the two lovers in this film are confined in an unsympathetic "rest Read More

1990
Y'a Bon Les Blancs

Crew: Art Director, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Maruschka Detmers, Michele Placido, Juan Diego, Michel Piccoli, Jean-François Stévenin

Synopsis: A European humanitarian organization tries to bring relief to the famine-stricken Sahel region of North Africa in this satirical comedy. The convoy of five trucks is victimized by rebel guerillas and marauding tribes and is soon lost in the desert. When two party members try to leave, they end up Read More

1988
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema

Synopsis: Survey of the history of Italian cinema, featuring clips from such classics as "Open City," "8-1/2," and "Seven Beauties," and interviews with illustrious stars and filmmakers, including Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Toto, Monica Vitti, Anna Magnani, Vittorio DeSica, Federico Fellini, Pier Paolo Pasolini Read More

9/13/86
I Love You

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Anémone, Eddy Mitchell, Christopher Lambert, Agnes Soral, Flora Barillaro

Synopsis: In another indictment of the flaws of our so-called civilization, this satire from the late director (Marco Ferreri) features (Christopher Lambert) as Michel, a miserable man who has failed at love and finds solace in a mechanical key holder. Michel has just been dumped by Barbara (Anemone) Read More

1986
Il Futuro è Donna

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ornella Muti, Hanna Schygulla, Niels Arestrup

Synopsis: In this improbable, ponderous story about a couple who do not want to have children of their own, and a pregnant, single woman who needs a home for awhile, the relationship between the three protagonists is strange, at the very least. After Anna (Hanna Schygulla) and Gordon (Niels Arestrup) invite Read More

9/15/84
La Storia di Piera

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Hanna Schygulla, Isabelle Huppert, Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: This sometimes confusing erotic drama about the incestuous relationship of a mother and daughter is based on the autobiography of Italian theater actress Piera Degli Esposti though it focuses more on her mother Eugenia (Hanna Schygulla). The liberated Eugenia and her spaced-out, husband (Marcello Mastroianni Read More

2/2/83
Tales of Ordinary Madness

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ben Gazzara, Ornella Muti, Susan Tyrrell, Tanya Lopert

Synopsis: Ben Gazzara delivers a gutsy, four-barreled performance as skid-row poet and storyteller Charles Bukowski (rechristened Charles Serking onscreen) in Tales of Ordinary Madness, blackly comic Italian director Marco Ferreri's adaptation of Bukowski's roman à clef Erections, Ejaculations Read More

9/11/81
Pipicacadodo

Crew: Director

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Dominique Laffin, Carlo Monni

1980
Seeking Asylum

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Roberto Benigni, Dominique Laffin

Synopsis: Roberto Benigni and Dominique Laffin co-star in this symbolic social drama about a well-meaning teacher and his young pre-school class. Although his unconventional techniques enthrall his young students, his methods stir controversy among the more traditionally minded parents and school Read More

10/24/79
Bye Bye Monkey

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Marcello Mastroianni, James Coco, Gail Lawrence, Geraldine Fitzgerald

Synopsis: Lafayette (Gerard Depardieu), a young-ish misfit Frenchman and Nocello (Marcello Mastroianni), an older misfit Italian, live in a run-down section of New York City and are friends. Lafayette works for Flaxman (James Coco), an excitable antiquarian who owns and runs something called the "Roman Read More

2/24/78
L'Ultima Donna

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gérard Depardieu, Ornella Muti, Michel Piccoli, Renato Salvatori, Zouzou

Synopsis: This otherwise straightforward movie that chronicles the conflict between a man's romantic urges and the feminist ideal and a custody battle over the man's young son has a cataclysmic ending which is not for the fainthearted. In the story, Gerard (Gerard Depardieu) is an engineer who has just been Read More

9/4/76
Don't Touch the White Woman

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Catherine Deneuve, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars in this French farce, an absurd "western" set in Paris, with Mastroianni as the incurably vain General George Armstrong Custer. Richard Nixon is the American president, but everyone is costumed appropriately for the previous century. Buffalo Bill (Michel Piccoli), the Read More

1/23/74
La Grande Bouffe

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Marcello Mastroianni, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret, Andréa Ferréol

Synopsis: Subversive Italian satirist Marco Ferreri directed and co-wrote (with Rafael Azcona) this grotesquely amusing French black comedy about four men who grow sick of life, and so meet at a remote villa with the goal of literally eating themselves to death. The quartet comes from various walks of life Read More

5/17/73
Liza

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Marcello Mastroianni

Synopsis: This dark offbeat comedy features Marcello Mastroianni and Catherine Deneuve. Mastroianni plays Giorgio, who lives on a island somewhere off the Mediterranean coast of France. He lives there with his dog, and the remains of an old German World War II airbase. He earns his living drawing cartoons. Read More

8/11/72
L'Udienza

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Alain Cuny, Vittorio Gassman, Enzo Jannacci, Michel Piccoli, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: This tiresome comedy features pop singer Enzo Jannacci as Amedeo, a country rube who comes to Vatican City seeking a personal audience with the Pope. Detailing Amedeo's battle with officious Vatican bureaucrats and bungling attempts to catch the Pope off-guard, the film rarely rises to the level Read More

3/31/72
Ciao Gulliver

Synopsis: A particular highlight of this symbolic Italian drama is that it marks the return of Lucia Bose to film. She retired from film when she married the famed Spanish bullfighter Dominguin in the 1950s. Socialite Danielo is a higher-up in the television world but is repulsed both by high society and Read More

11/14/70
Il Seme dell'Uomo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marco Margine, Anne Wiazemsky, Annie Girardot, Rada Rassimov, Maria Teresa Piaggio

Synopsis: Set in a post-apocalyptic future, this Italian sci-fi thriller presents a dim view of humanity. Following the devastation of WW III, very few people are left and there is a big push to procreate. The dark tale begins on a decimated sea shore settlement were a young couple appears. The male wants Read More

9/27/69
Porcile

Actors: Pierre Clémenti, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Alberto Lionello, Ugo Tognazzi, Anne Wiazemsky

Synopsis: Julian (Jean-Pierre Leaud) is the son of German industrialist Klotz (Alberto Lionello) who seeks to go into business with the former Nazi Herdhitze (Ugo Tognazzi). Herdhitze had spent most of World War II collecting human skulls for experiments with brain matter. As a protest, Julian refuses to Read More

8/29/69
Dillinger e Morto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michel Piccoli, Anita Pallenberg, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: This offbeat combination of reality and fantasy finds Glauco (Michel Piccoli) returning home from his job as an industrial engineer to find his wife (Anita Pallenberg) in bed with a headache. Deciding to fix dinner for himself, he reads from a gourmet cookbook as he watches television, or listens Read More

1/23/69
Vent d'Est

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Allen Midgette

Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard makes another foray into Marxist film in this poorly-wrought attempt at a political film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1969
L'Uomo dei Cinque Palloni

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Catherine Spaak

Synopsis: Mario (Marcello Mastroianni) is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting. His principle romantic interest in this feature is played by Catherine Spaak. The majority of the film seems to come from previous efforts from 1964 and 1965 Read More

1968
L'Harem

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This satirical comedy illustrates that women are just as likely to succumb to the pleasures of the flesh as their male counterparts. Carol Baker enjoys a series of unashamed romantic romps with three different men. She tells her story to a homosexual male friend and a six-month-old cheetah when Read More

10/6/67
Il Fischio Al Naso

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Tina Louise, Olga Villi, Alicia Brandt, Franca Bettoja

Synopsis: In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets. When his nose starts to whistle uncontrollably, he checks into a clinic to resolve the problem. What begins as a minor affliction worsens, and Giuseppe is placed Read More

1967
Corrida!

Crew: Director

1966
Oggi, Domani e Dopodomani

Crew: Director

Actors: Marcello Mastroianni, Pamela Tiffin, Virna Lisi, Luciano Salce, Raimondo Vianello

Synopsis: Marcello Mastroianni stars in this film which combines much of the 1965 release Paranoia with new footage. A police inspector is told of the bizarre behavior of a pistol-packing papa who shoots blanks at his wife to keep her intimidated. He inserts a real bullet every so often just to let her know Read More

12/21/65
Casanova '70

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
La Donna Scimmia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ugo Tognazzi, Annie Girardot

Synopsis: Like The Elephant Man, The Ape Woman (original Italian title: La Donna Scimmia) is based on the real-life exploitation of a deformed human being. Ugo Tognazzi stars as a charming ne'er-do-well who happens upon young Annie Girardot, who outside of the fact that she is covered with hair from head to Read More

1/29/64
Controsesso

Crew: Director

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Anna Maria Ferrero, Renzo Marignano, Ugo Tognazzi

Synopsis: The Italians continue their penchant for gang-directed features in this sexploitation comedy. Part one is entitled "Cocaine On Sunday" in which a husband (Nino Manfredi) and wife (Annamaria Ferrero) start snorting the stuff after the friend who owned the bottle is arrested. In part two, Ugo Tognazzi Read More

1964
Ape Regina

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Marina Vlady, Ugo Tognazzi, Riccardo Fellini, Walter Giller

Synopsis: In this Italian sex comedy, a middle-aged car dealer marries a young girl and gets more than he bargained for. She is obsessed with getting pregnant pronto. To this end, she keeps him in bed all the time. The poor man simply cannot keep up with her demands. He even tries a series of hormone shots. Read More

4/7/63
Mafioso

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Ugo Attanasio

Synopsis:
In this crime comedy with heavy neorealist influence, Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is a Sicilian auto plant worker who has almost completely forsaken his southern Italian roots by marrying a fair-haired girl from the north and conceiving two children with her. As the movie opens, Antonio prepares Read More

10/25/62
Le Tresor Des Hommes Bleus

Crew: Director

Actors: Lex Barker, Marpessa Dawn, Odile Versois

1960
El Cochecito

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jose Isbert, José Luis Lopez Vasquez

Synopsis: This was one of the first feature-length films for director Marco Ferreri, known for his interest in the grotesque, macabre, and darkly satirical side of life. In this black comedy, an elderly old man who lives with his mean-spirited, insensitive family, enjoys a happier side of life with an Read More

1960
Caravane Pour Zagora

Crew: Director

Actors: Marpessa Dawn, Lex Barker, Odile Versois, Michele Bally

1960
El Pisito

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1959

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