Dino Risi Movies

June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on...

This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated...

Romolo and Salvatore look for jobs to impress their girlfriends, but things get complicated when their old flame Giovanna reappears.

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.

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise...

Bepi, a gondolier with a girl in every port becomes entangled in too many romances. While Bepi is overly focused on a pair of gamine American...

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

It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life...

A young stewardess meets a handsome Middle-Eastern man. Though they do not speak a common language, they share a brief yet intense romantic...

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...

A documentary.

After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a...

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

In this comedy, a guru’s groupie plans to seduce him so she can number him among her many conquests.

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy,...

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

Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.

A car accident leaves a young woman completely paralyzed and forced to live in an iron lung. Her boyfriend leaves her, but the unfortunate woman...

Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.