Carlo Lizzani Movies

A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.

A documentary about film director Luchino Visconti

A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by...

A film of Enrico Berlinguer's funeral in Rome, briefly tracing his career as leader of the Italian Communist Party.

The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.

Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man...

A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II.

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front...

Promotional omnibus film, made for the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy, featuring portraits of 12 Italian cities.

Russia, 1937. Nicolai Bukharin and his wife Anna Mikhailovna Larina are living through a tragedy in their apartment. The husband fears that he will...

A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.

Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big...

A drama about several teenage girls from different backgrounds who are drawn to prostitution and enter a world of violence and abuse that is almost...

A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.

Based on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina.

This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her...

Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of...

A quartet of young neo-Fascists terrorise the Milanise locals while the Police mostly look the other way.