12 Movies Starring Renato Salvatori

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1958-07-26

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

106 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

(5894 Reviews)

Director:

Mario Monicelli

Genres:

ComedyCrime

Cast:

Writer:

Agenore Incrocci (story)

Furio Scarpelli (story)

Agenore Incrocci (screenplay)

Furio Scarpelli (screenplay)

Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)

Mario Monicelli (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Peppe, formerly a boxer, organizes the break-in of a pawnshop. Tiberio, an unemployed photographer, Mario, a receiver, the Sicilian Michele and Capannelle, an ex-jockey, are the other members of the gang. Though they are advised by Dante, a retired burglar, the task is not so easy...

The Magliari

The Magliari

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-09-23

Languages:

Italian, German

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

132 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (265 Reviews)

Director:

Francesco Rosi

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Suso Cecchi D'Amico (story)

Francesco Rosi (story)

Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)

Giuseppe Patroni Griffi (screenplay)

Francesco Rosi (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after loosing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.

Rocco and His Brothers

Rocco and His Brothers

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1961-06-26

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

180 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

8.3 (10352 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Luchino Visconti (story)

Suso Cecchi D'Amico (story)

Vasco Pratolini (story)

Suso Cecchi D'Amico (screenplay)

Pasquale Festa Campanile (screenplay)

Massimo Franciosa (screenplay)

Enrico Medioli (screenplay)

Luchino Visconti (screenplay)

Giovanni Testori (inspired by episodes in the novel "Il ponte della Ghisolfa")

Fullplot:

The widow Rosaria moves to Milano from Lucania with her 4 sons, one of whom is Rocco. The fifth son, Vincenzo, already lives in Milano. In the beginning, the family has a lot of problems, but everyone manages to find something to do. Simone is boxing, Rocco works in a dry cleaners, and Ciro studies. Simone meets Nadia, a prostitute, and they have a stormy affair. Then Rocco, after finishing his military service, begins a relationship with her. A bitter feud ensues between the two brothers, which will lead as far as murder...

The Organizer

The Organizer

Basic Info:

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France, Yugoslavia

Runtime:

126 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

(1097 Reviews)

Director:

Mario Monicelli

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Agenore Incrocci (story)

Furio Scarpelli (story)

Mario Monicelli (story)

Fullplot:

The story of exploited textile factory workers in Turin, Italy at the turn of the century and their beginnings of their fight for better working conditions. Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is sent by (presumably) the Socialists to help them organize their strike and give form to their struggle.

Burn!

Burn!

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1970-10-21

Languages:

Italian, Portuguese, English

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (3145 Reviews)

Genres:

ActionDrama

Cast:

Writer:

Franco Solinas (story)

Giorgio Arlorio (story)

Franco Solinas (screenplay)

Giorgio Arlorio (screenplay)

Norman Gant (based on novels by)

Fullplot:

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.

Indian Summer

Indian Summer

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-11-01

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

132 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (953 Reviews)

Director:

Valerio Zurlini

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Enrico Medioli

Valerio Zurlini (story)

Valerio Zurlini

Fullplot:

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the Liceu replacing another teacher. His relationship with his mate Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio Mosca, Marcello and Gerardo Pavani. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old mysterious student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend, and he feels a great attraction for her. They meet and know each other outside class, and they fall in love for each other. Their relationship leads to a tragic end.

Indian Summer

Indian Summer

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1978-11-01

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

132 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (955 Reviews)

Director:

Valerio Zurlini

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Enrico Medioli

Valerio Zurlini (story)

Valerio Zurlini

Fullplot:

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the Liceu replacing another teacher. His relationship with his mate Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio Mosca, Marcello and Gerardo Pavani. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old mysterious student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend, and he feels a great attraction for her. They meet and know each other outside class, and they fall in love for each other. Their relationship leads to a tragic end.

A Brief Vacation

A Brief Vacation

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-02-09

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, Spain

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (573 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Rodolfo Sonego (story)

Cesare Zavattini

Fullplot:

A women lives a miserable life in the basement of her Milan apartment, with her boring inlaws and three children (boys). Her husband has been injured. Her bleak life takes an unexpected turn when she is diagnosed with tuberculosis and has to go to a sanatorium in the Italian Alps. At the medical clinic in Milan she meets young mechanic with the similar health problems. At the sanatorium she meets again the same man and they start a passionate love affair. All good things must come to an end. When she is cured, she has to return to that rathole from which she only briefly emerged.

State of Siege

State of Siege

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1973-02-08

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Italy, West Germany

Runtime:

120 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (2245 Reviews)

Director:

Costa-Gavras

Cast:

Writer:

Franco Solinas

Costa-Gavras (original scenario)

Franco Solinas (original scenario)

Fullplot:

In Uruguay in the early 1970s, an official of the US Agency for International Development (a group used as a front for training foreign police in counterinsurgency methods) is kidnapped by a group of urban guerillas. Using his interrogation as a backdrop, the film explores the often brutal consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerillas.

The Suspect

The Suspect

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1975-02-21

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy

Runtime:

105 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (66 Reviews)

Genres:

CrimeDrama

Fullplot:

The Last Woman

The Last Woman

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1976-04-21

Languages:

French

Countries:

France, Italy

Runtime:

112 min

Rated:

X

IMDB Ratings:

6.8 (694 Reviews)

Director:

Marco Ferreri

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Marco Ferreri (story)

Rafael Azcona (screenplay)

Marco Ferreri (screenplay)

Dante Matelli (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Gerard and his 9-month-old son have been left by his wife for feminist reasons. The custody of his son is being threatened by his next romance.

Luna

Luna

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1979-09-30

Languages:

Italian, English

Countries:

Italy, USA

Runtime:

142 min

Rated:

R

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (2918 Reviews)

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Franco Arcalli (story)

Bernardo Bertolucci (story)

Giuseppe Bertolucci (story)

Giuseppe Bertolucci

Clare Peploe

Bernardo Bertolucci

Fullplot:

Recently widowed American opera diva Caterina takes her teenaged son Joe with her on a long singing tour to Italy. Absorbed in her hectic work in various Verdi operas around Rome, Caterina is soon shocked to discover that her troubled and lonely son has become a heroin addict. Her desperate attempts to wean the youth off the drug result in an incestuous relationship, but also in a possibility to reunite Joe--maybe even herself--with his real father, whose existence she has kept a secret from him.

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