Riz Ortolani Movies

Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.

Lisa, a widow on vacation with her son, meets Alessandro and falls in love. The man is actually a former agent of the communist Germany who escaped...

Two racy women decide to chuck their mundane lives and go on a wild adventure.

An Italian woman who has not heard from her daughter for a while travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted...

An advertiser who lives in Milan learns from a former teacher that his mother is dying. He leaves immediately in his car; as he drives thinks back to...

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

During a high-stakes investigation into corporate and banking elites tied to organized crime, a police chief and his team are murdered for refusing a...

The revenge of a young woman who sees her family brutally shot to death.

In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the...

Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.

A journalist meets a mysterious blonde. The meeting upsets his existence. Indeed, the man risks losing it completely.

Mimi Bluette, daughter of a prostitute, lives in Paris where she is idolized by men of all kinds and class, is about to settle with a rich man when,...

Underwater documentary exploring the shipwreck of SS Andrea Doria, an Italian ocean liner which sunk in 1956.