Riz Ortolani Movies

The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman.

Story of a kind fisherman who wants to build himself a better future elsewhere. He crosses the border and settles in New York. But life for...

Lino and Chicca are an aging, childless middle-class couple whose life is disrupted after he's diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

In Rome a man needing money become a transvestite prostitute.

A group of gangsters escape from prison and attempt to destroy a rival organisation holed up in a convent in Mexico.

After spending many years as husband and wife, the architect Andre discovers that his partner Francesca is cheating on him with Ernesto, his best...

The documentary's main focus is on the works and some controversial episodes from personal life of Gualtiero Jacopetti, one of the originators of...

1770. Young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with “normal”...

An inter-racial affair against a background of corrupt businessmen attempting to manipulate the national resources of an emerging nation that bears a...

An interview with actress Florinda Bolkan about her performances in the films "Don't Torture a Duckling" and "Lizard in a Woman's Skin".

In the winter of 1943, deep in the frozen waste of German occupied Yugoslavia, a lone parachute drifts from the snowy skies, falling ever closer to...

Incredibly, the bride at the altar falls in love with the best man on first sight, and even though he makes efforts to avoid her infatuation with...

The young Vittorio Pieroni throws himself from a railway overpass when a train is passing by; escaped suicide and rescued by an ambulance, remembers...

A Vietnam veteran and aspiring filmmaker spirals through a world of fragments and interludes that offer as much surreal comedy as existential dread.

Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a...

A video discussion about Lucio Fulci's classic Giallo "Don't Torture a Duckling".

Ofelia, the sexy operator of a service station, attracts the attentions of several admirers, including her former lover Rocky, a truck driver, and...

A video essay about 1972 Giallo "Don't Torture a Duckling", focusing on accusations of misogyny against director Lucio Fulci.