Bernardino Zapponi

A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.

A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse. (imdb)

Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone... (imdb)

In first century Rome, two student friends, Encolpio and Ascilto, argue about ownership of the boy Gitone... (imdb)

Three renowned European directors (Federico Fellini, Roger Vadim and Louis Malle) each adapt a Poe short story to the screen: "Toby Dammit," (Fellini) featuring Terence Stamp as a disheveled drugged and drunk English movie star who nods acceptance in the Italian press and his producers fawn over him. "Metzengerstein" (Vadim) with Jane Fonda (Mrs. Vadim at the time) as a Mediveal countess who has a love-hate relationship with a black stallion - who, it turns out is really her dead lover... (imdb)

A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens... (imdb)

The culmination of filmmaker Federico Fellini's lifelong love affair with circus folk. Fellini's alter ego this time is a young boy, taking in his first circus... (All Movie Guide)

Luciano and Leonardo are life-long friends, who run a luxury garage in Milan...

A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. "Paprika" is the name given to her by the madam. (imdb)

"The New Monsters" -literally translated- is a collection of nine short films of Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli, being three of each one...

Il Marchese del Grillo is a 1981 comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli, starring Alberto Sordi as the titular character. The movie depicts some episodes of the life of a noble in the Rome of the early 19th century. Loosely based on folklore accounts about the real Onofrio del Grillo (who actually lived in the 18th century), this character plays a number of pranks, one even involving Pope Pius VII. (karagarga.net)

Roberto Razzi is the esteemed host of a tv show in which he exposes fake magicians and faith healers. After an accident during a travel in India, he discovers he's got what seem to be real special powers.

Vittorio Gassman plays a flint-hearted industrialist who thinks as little of destroying his business partner as he does of cheating on his wife. Gassman's son is an apparently weak-willed lad, who may or may not have become involved in the "Red Brigade". When Gassman learns that his son has been appointed to execute someone known only as "P", he assumes the victim is his ex-partner. (allmovie.com)

A tremendous congestion hit the Roma highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen endures for more than 36 hours. People blocked in their cars react at the beginning normally. But the more the time advance the more we are witness of personal dramas, hysteric reactions and more. All the episodes are linked like one only plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a major universe: the congestion. (imdb)

Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile'. Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso'. Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance.. (imdb)

The widow Guerrino Castiglioni meets Chantal, a young photographic model, and soon marries her. But then he discovers that she was a paratrooper in Germany, and that she has changed sex: a transsexual, in fact. The family and Guerrino's mother start sniping at the situation, and the marriage is in crisis. They separate, but Guerrino can't live without his Chantal. (tg-films)

The story traces the development of a love affair between a girl and a young Venetian boy over a period of time from 1935 to 1950. She becomes a star and he eventually disappears during the Russian campaign. (bfi)

Film picturing several sexually disturbed characters, one a publisher who sees all women in the nude, a maniac assassin, a timid clerk who believe he is a woman, etc... (bfi)

During World War II, American USO tours gave new life to Italy's native music-hall performers, as it gave them a livelier venue for entertaining both the local population and the incoming soldiers. This Italian film, starring Alberto Sordi and Monica Vitti, tells the story of two such performers, their ambitions and their struggles. (allmovie)

After witnessing the brutal murder of an elderly lady, a man has an encounter with a bizarre woman who claims to be an old lover of his... A lover who apparently committed suicide years ago. (imdb)

Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel. He is no clergyman by the book, but a true believer in terms good and bad and he teaches this to his children. Neri is not very well-seen by the church and his only "friend" is the dry, humorless Ignatius De Loyola. But Neris real counterpart is the devil himself, working in endless incarnations in Neris direct neighborhood, trying to seduce his kids... (imdb)

When the wife wants to leave her husband in preference of a romantic Frenchman, the husband seemingly does not raise difficulties and invites his rival, along with his own secretary, for a weekend. His real purpose is taking her wife back through an elaborate plan. (imdb)

Film in ten episodes: Domenica in. La nuova Marisa. Radio taxi. Rasoio all'antica. Il macho. Lady Jane. Armanda e il violinista. L'avventura. Luna di miele. La principessa e il cameriere. (bfi)

Don Celeste, one day during Carnival, is cycling along a lane in the open country when he is attacked by three masqueraded girls. Two of them hold him down while the third, the one dressed up as a devil, rapes him. The priest should report the fact to the police, but the bishop, in order to avoid scandal, with tones that savour more of an order than of advice, suggests that he investigates the matter alone. Thus his investigation begins.. (filmexport)

7 episodes which tell about Italy during the nineties. Two newly elected MPs from different parties have an affair, two newly weds' temptations during their first night on their honeymoon, the very unlikely erotic adventures of two girls and a husband who leaves his wife in the hands of a masseur thinking he's a girl. (imdb)

Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.

Federico Fellini's loose adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's "Never Bet The Devil Your Head" stars Terence Stamp as an alcoholic actor who suffers from disturbing visions. (imdb)