Dino Risi Movies

Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of...

A story set behind the scenes of the annual Miss Italia pageant, with its load of young girls and recognizable characters.

Stylish, sophisticated and absolutely broke, Dino and Maria pursue a romance until they realize neither of them has any money, which forces the gold...

The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).

Various generations of filmmakers talk about what cinema means for them.

The movie is about the celebrated trial of Olga Duvovich, very beautiful woman accused of killing her husband, a wealthy financier.

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he...

This 2006 documentary was filmed on the occasion of director Dino Risi's ninetieth birthday. It features interviews with his collaborators, friends,...

A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the Lybian desert during World War II.

A group of boys calling themselves The Monte Cristo gang find a note from an innocent prisoner and set out to free him from a fortress-like prison.

The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on.

Acclaimed Ukranian dancer Svetlana Zakharova, who later became one of the youngest ballerinas in Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, stars in the title...

The real masterpiece, among these early works by Risi, is certainly 1848 . Made to order for the centenary of the Milan uprising against Austrian...

On a layover at a hotel, a young stewardess meets a handsome man. Though they do not speak a common language, they share a brief yet intense romantic...

In Milan, the beggar Carlone has formed a brotherhood. Carlone's sister Anna, is a poor blind girl. One day Carlone saves a mutilated, who tried to...