Vittorio Gassman Archives

Mortacci

Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arrived at eternal peace.

NR

7.3

1989 102 min Play

5.4

The Rogues

The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.

NR

5.4

1987 Comedy 121 min Play

7.5

The Family

"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.

NR

7.5

1986 Drama 127 min Play

5.5

Big Deal After 20 Years

Fresh out prison, Tiberio reconnects with his old partners in crime, Michele Ferribote and Peppe the Panther, only to realise that a lot has changed--including crime--after twenty years. Can he cope with this new reality?

NR

5.5

1985 Comedy 99 min Play

6.1

Life Is a Bed of Roses

In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.

NR

6.1

1983 Comedy 110 min Play

7

The Terrace

Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the middle class.

NR

7

1980 Drama 150 min Play

5.3

Quintet

During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.

R

5.3

1979 Drama 118 min Play

6.8

Lost Soul

Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.

NR

6.8

1977 Drama 100 min Play

6.8

The New Monsters

15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever (Tognazzi, Gassmann, Sordi) one of the most beautiful woman in the world (Ornella Muti) participate to this great tribute.

NR

6.8

1977 Comedy 115 min Play

6.8

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the ...

NR

6.8

1976 Comedy 105 min Play

6.4

The Desert of the Tartars

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

NR

6.4

1976 History 140 min Play

5.8

The Immortal Bachelor

Tina is on trial for the murder of her lover, Gino. The violent nature of their relationship, revealed in the trial, seems to make obvious that she accidentally killed him during a fight. The lone female jury member compares her life to Tina's and, believing her to be innocent, sets out on her own to find a missing witness that can prove Tina's innocence.

NR

5.8

1975 Comedy 100 min Play

8.3

We All Loved Each Other So Much

Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable disillusionments of life.

NR

8.3

1974 Comedy 124 min Play

7.6

Scent of a Woman

An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.

NR

7.6

1974 Drama 103 min Play

7.3

In the Name of the Italian People

An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?

NR

7.3

1971 Comedy 103 min Play

7.1

Brancaleone at the Crusades

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.

NR

7.1

1970 Comedy 116 min Play

5.3

Twelve Plus One

Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him.

R

5.3

1969 Comedy 94 min Play

6.7

Ghosts, Italian Style

Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work.

NR

6.7

1967 Comedy 104 min Play

7.7

For Love and Gold

A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia (south of Italy). They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.

NR

7.7

1966 Adventure 120 min Play

6.1

The Dirty Game

A U.S. intelligence general (Robert Ryan) recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet (Henry Fonda), French and Italian (Vittorio Gassman) spies.

NR

6.1

1965 Drama 113 min Play

5.9

Let’s Talk About Women

Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.

NR

5.9

1964 Comedy 107 min Play

6.9

Il gaucho

An italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.

NR

6.9

1964 Comedy 111 min Play

6.5

Il successo

With the desire to be rich gnawing at him, an arriviste pursues a golden real-estate opportunity at the expense of friends and family. Now, he has to renounce his dignity. What's the good of chasing success when you are left all alone?

NR

6.5

1963 Comedy 106 min Play

7.3

The Monsters

The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.

NR

7.3

1963 Comedy 115 min Play