Renzo Rossellini first collaborated with his father, Roberto Rossellini, as an assistant director and, later, as his producer until 1977. Then, he founded and served as chairman of "Gaumont Italia" and, later, "Artisti Associati Spa". With these companies, he produced, financed and distributed more than 100 films.
Five portraits of actresses in their "common" life, seen as women rather than movie stars.
Release Date1953-10-27
Charactersd Renzo (segment "Ingrid Bergman") (uncredited)
Vote Count21
La Balena di Rossellini origins from one of the most beautiful Roberto Rossellini's dreams, an exemplary project for his autorial path. The film conceived, but never realized, by Rossellini took shape in his notes after a trip to Chile conducted in May of 1971, a trip made to conduct an interview-portrait of Salvador Allende, then actually carried out by the director of "Rome, Open City". October 28, 1971: Rossellini, back from Santiago, Chile, reads a newspaper reports of a beached whale on the Pacific coast near a poor village inhabited by fishermen. From this simple news comes a film script for a fable about wealth and poverty. A film whose shooting Rossellini would have been entrusted to the young student Claudio Bondì, just graduated from the Experimental Center of Cinematography.
Release Date2010-04-26
Charactersd Himself
In this documentary, giants of italian cinema such as Rossellini, De Sica, Fellini and Zavattini talk about the importance of cinema after WW2, and about huge moments of social rebellion. This movie gives the floor to the creators of italian neorealism.
Release Date1967-01-01
Charactersd Self
Vote Count2
A new documentary film on Fellini's 'La Città del Donne' ('City of Women') directed by Dominique Maillet, featuring producer Renzo Rossellini, film historian Aldo Tassone, producer and film historian Carlo Lizzani, and Federico Fellini's assistant Dominique Delouche (1955-1960).
Release Date2011-05-17
Charactersd Self
A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.
Release Date2009-09-17
Charactersd Self
Vote Count10
A laid-back journey in search of one of the world’s most fascinating families, observed and examined from within its most intimate relationships, where the truth and depth of a memoir meet the ironic tone of an indie comedy.
Release Date2021-11-19
Charactersd Self
Vote Count3
Documentary about master director Roberto Rossellini, who tells details of his life and childhood and visits the places where he has lived and shot some of his most famous movies.
Release Date2001-04-04
Charactersd Self
Vote Count5
Television documentary about the making of Roberto Rossellini's 1945 film "Rome, Open City".
Release Date2006-05-27
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.
Release Date1997-02-01
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Release Date2013-01-01
Charactersd Self
Release Date2015-03-01
Charactersd Self
Russian poet Andrei Gorchakov journeys through Italy with his interpreter Eugenia to research the life of an 18th-century Russian composer who once lived abroad. Isolated and consumed by an unrelenting longing for his homeland, Andrei becomes drawn to Domenico, a radical mystic obsessed with spiritual redemption. Through austere imagery and extended temporal rhythms, Tarkovsky examines exile, memory, and the profound melancholy of being unable to belong fully to either place or language.
Release Date1983-05-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count608
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
Release Date1982-12-17
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Vote Count888
Fitzcarraldo is a dreamer who plans to build an opera house in Iquitos, in the Peruvian Amazon, so, in order to finance his project, he embarks on an epic adventure to collect rubber, a very profitable product, in a remote and unexplored region of the rainforest.
Release Date1982-03-02
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count889
Having both suffered extreme losses, two disparate souls try to form a relationship for consolation rather than romance.
Release Date1979-08-29
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Vote Count32
This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open bottles of Champagne while most of the Parisians are almost starving.
Release Date1959-09-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count22
In WWII-Italy, the Gestapo blackmails a con man to impersonate a dead partisan commander in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
Release Date1959-10-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count148
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to seize control of the government.
Release Date1981-04-25
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Vote Count28
Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Release Date1962-06-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count53
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
Release Date1982-05-15
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count71
In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
Release Date1981-12-23
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count500
This dramatization from the New Testament originated as a 342-minute, five-part television mini-series; it was subsequently released in a shortened, 280-minute version. In part one, the Apostles call the pilgrims of Jerusalem to be baptized, and Peter (Jacques Dumur) and John (Mohamed Kouka) are arrested by the Sanhedrin but later set free. In part two, Stephen (Zignani Houcine) is stoned for disobeying Mosaic Law, Philip (Bepy Mannaiuolo) baptizes an Ethiopian eunuch, and Saul (Edoardo Torricella) is blinded by the Lord while journeying to Damascus. In part three, Peter baptizes a centurion and Saul, renamed Paul, makes his first mission journey from Antioch in Syria to Pisidian Antioch. In part four, Paul preaches the equality before God of both the circumcised and uncircumcised. In part five, Paul is arrested in Jerusalem and sent to stand trial in Rome.
Release Date1969-04-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count5
Vote Count5
A segment of "Love at Twenty" tells the story of a tough mistress who loses her lover to an older, wealthier and more-appreciative woman.
Release Date1962-06-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
Release Date1963-02-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count132
In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and camaraderie abound until the ship is descended upon by an Austrian flagship. The Serbians are forced to board it, but naturally they resist, igniting a skirmish that ends in destruction.
Release Date1983-10-07
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count164
King's Dagobert I intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his royal caravan then barely makes it to Rome to personally give thanks to the Pope. After he arrives at the Vatican, he becomes involved in the battle between two contenders for the papacy and has to face the machinations of a ruthless Byzantine princess.
Release Date1984-08-22
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count35
Blurring the boundaries between documentary and historical fiction, this twelve-part series examines and imagines man's struggle to survive, from the days of cave dwellers to modern journeys into space.
Release Date1970-07-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count12
Vote Count2
Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.
Release Date1966-10-08
DepartmentCrew
JobSecond Unit
Vote Count52
Descartes left the Jesuit college where he had spent his childhood. He doubted the knowledge that had been instilled in him, with the exception of mathematics and geometry. He enlisted in the army of the Prince of Nassau in Breda. Upon his return, he wanted to escape the worldly atmosphere and devote himself to his studies. During an intense night, he found the foundations of a new science.
Release Date1974-02-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Release Date1981-10-02
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he supports Victor Emmanuel II of Italy who achieves a lasting unification under the aegis the House of Savoy. Roberto Rossellini has said he was prouder of this film than of any other film he ever made.
Release Date1961-02-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count20
Michele is a young filmmaker frustrated by the lack of understanding his work receives and at odds with the film industry, especially a colleague making a musical on the '68 student protests. As he struggles to complete his own film about Freud's mother, Michele's insecurity and creative block manifest in a series of unsettling nightmares. Nanni Moretti's self-inquiry into cinema, political ennui, and men's relationships with their mothers.
Release Date1981-09-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count99
This is an exposition of the social and political history of renaissance Florentine history, told through dramatized conversations between the main participants, Cosimo de Medici and Brunelleschi.
Release Date1972-12-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count3
Vote Count6
Coming back from work by night, shy watchmaker Tommaso runs over a girl with his car, luckily without serious consequences. Next day he finds her waiting for him at his door. She asks him for help, as she can't remember anything prior to the incident.
Release Date1993-03-12
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Vote Count1
Release Date2013-05-25
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
In this evocative, atmospheric biography, Roberto Rossellini brings to life philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal, who, amid religious persecution and ignorance, believed in a harmony between God and science.
Release Date1972-05-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count14
A comprehensive overview of the entire Iron Age from the time of the Ertuscans to the present day.
Release Date1965-02-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count1
A man approaches in a car from the garage of a house, gets out of the car, and stops in front of the house. As if he were a fool, he tries to open the garage, but fails because he does not have the keys. This provokes some laughter from the audience, given the man's awkward and confused attitude. Suddenly, the screen experiences technical difficulties and the entire scene disappears into complete darkness, until signs protesting against cuts to culture appear.
Release Date2010-06-03
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Screen adapatation of Mozart's greatest opera. Don Giovanni, the infamous womanizer, makes one conquest after another until the ghost of Donna Anna's father, the Commendatore, (whom Giovanni killed) makes his appearance. He offers Giovanni one last chance to repent for his multitudinious improprieties. He will not change his ways So, he is sucked down into hell by evil spirits. High drama, hysterical comedy, magnificent music!
Release Date1979-11-06
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Vote Count41
Release Date1987-10-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
After his military service, Mario is hosted by a friend in New York and joins his circle of Italians residing abroad.
Release Date1983-09-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count3
In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.
Release Date1960-07-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count23
Mokumentary. Year 2020, Nicolino Amore becomes the new mayor of Naples and begins a war on garbage and organized crime. In this way, Naples will soon be the cleanest and safest city on earth.
Release Date2011-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Maria studies at the university while her boyfriend Paolo is an established journalist. Both are drug addicts. Maria and Paolo try to detox with the help of a specialized clinic but it doesn't last long: back from a trip during which they proved to themselves that they could resist without drugs, both fall victim to addiction again. The consequences are not long in coming.
Release Date1985-03-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
One of the many faux documentary mondo films produced in Italy during this era, Mondo sulle spiagge's primary goal was reportedly putting a striptease on screen. Shockingly, it was panned by critics.
Release Date1962-08-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A passionate affair set against the intense encounter between a film-maker and a novelist. The story begins with young scriptwriter François tracking down the author of a once-scandalous novel. His aim is to adapt the work for the screen but several elements of the novel he finds difficult to comprehend. The author, Jeanne, is initially cautious of relaying information, insisting the presumably autobiographical book in no way relates to her personal life. However, eventually she takes the man into confidence to tell the background of Benvenuta.
Release Date1983-09-07
DepartmentProduction
JobCo-Producer
Vote Count11
A documentary about Sicily and its peculiar customs, with an emphasis on religious rites and the clash of modernity versus traditional values.
Release Date1967-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man rings saying he wishes to buy the rug. But the man's visit begins a twisted a nightmare.
Release Date1983-09-09
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count19
A biography of St. Augustine as he enters the episcopacy and deals with heresy and the decline of the Western Roman Empire.
Release Date1972-10-25
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count10
Release Date1937-10-31
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Vote Count1
A film by Renzo and Roberto Rossellini.
Release Date1974-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
