Elio Petri Movies

Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy...

Antonio Spagara, a young Sicilian worker, has been assigned by the Mafia to murder a nobleman, Marquis Macri. But at the last minute Antonio reneges...

An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona.

When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their...

Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became...

Italian director Giueseppe DeSantis was the creative force behind this Yugoslavian "slice of life" drama. The title translates as The Year-Long Road;...

After a wave of arrests in 1969, Italian anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli allegedly falls out of a police building window while being interrogated. The...

Two young men try to make it big as musicians.

The story about colonization of poor Dalmatian peasants to the fertile Pannonian plain shortly after WWII.

The film examines the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell from the fourth floor of the police headquarters in Milan December 15, 1969,...

A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.

Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.

Two young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful Teresa is the center of attention.

This documentary addresses the challenges facing the Italian film industry in 1978 by focusing on the television productions of Francesco Rosi's...

This short documentary, Elio Petri's directorial debut, deals with the passion of the Italians for cycling. It concentrates on a young deliveryman,...

A collection of varieties numbers from various night clubs.