The best Renato Salvatori’s movies

Renato Salvatori

Renato Salvatori

20/03/1933- 27/03/1988
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Ace

Ace
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/04/1981
  • Character: Bretella
Asso, THE best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the 'final' game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?

La Luna

La Luna
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/08/1979
  • Character: Communist
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

Z

Z
8.2/10
Repression is the rule of the day in this film that skewers Greek governance of the 1960s. Z, a leftist rabble rouser, is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. But given the political climate, the death of such a prominent activist raises troubling questions. Though it's too late to save Z's life, a postmortem examination suggests that the ruling party was behind his death. As the facts leak out, those who tell the truth pay the price for their honesty.

Rocco and His Brothers

Rocco and His Brothers
8.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/10/1960
  • Character: Simone Parondi
When a widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

The Burglars

The Burglars
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 27/10/1971
  • Character: Renzi
In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.

Two Women

Two Women
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 22/12/1960
  • Character: Florindo
Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the remote village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village and onward, the mother does everything she can to protect Rosetta. Meanwhile, a sensitive young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira.

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Big Deal on Madonna Street
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 06/06/1958
  • Character: Mario Angeletti
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

Indian Summer

Indian Summer
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/10/1972
  • Character: Marcello
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 local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend.

State of Siege

State of Siege
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 30/12/1972
  • Character: Captain Lopez
Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.

The Light at the Edge of the World

The Light at the Edge of the World
6/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 16/07/1971
  • Character: Montefiore
Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.

Flic Story

Flic Story
6.9/10
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.

Burn!

Burn!
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 21/12/1969
  • Character: Teddy Sanchez
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.

Illustrious Corpses

Illustrious Corpses
7.3/10
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

The Organizer

The Organizer
8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 23/10/1963
  • Character: Raoul
Professor Sinigaglia (Marcello Mastroianni) is the title character in this darkly comedic Italian drama about mistreated factory workers in the city of Turin. Toiling away in appalling conditions in a textile mill, these employees have no one to stand up for them until Sinigaglia puts his academic career on the line by helping them to start a strike. Although the teacher comes under scrutiny by unsympathetic authorities, he maintains his dedication to the workers' cause.

Poor But Beautiful

Poor But Beautiful
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 12/12/1956
  • Character: Salvatore
Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna.

Fiasco in Milan

Fiasco in Milan
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/12/1959
  • Character: Mario Angeletti
The usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation.

Hell in the City

Hell in the City
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1959
  • Character: Piero
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.

Ernesto

Ernesto
7/10
Ernesto (Martin Halm) is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees--then experiments with heterosexuality, courtesy of an obliging prostitute. When the boy finds himself participating in an arranged marriage with the female twin of one of his male lovers, he finally makes the choice that will determine the direction of his subsequent sex life.

One Way or Another

One Way or Another
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/04/1976
  • Character: Dr. Scalambri
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.

The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day
5.8/10
The Shortest Day is a 1962 Italian comedy film. It is a parody of the war movie The Longest Day and stars the popular duo Ciccio Ingrassia and Franco Franchi in the leading roles. Dozens of many other well-known actors accepted to appear in the movie in cameo roles for free, to avert the bankruptcy of the production company Titanus.

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