Known for Directing
Filmography
19 films, 1 show


Ciao, Professore!
1992 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples


Opera
1987 · 1h 47m
country: Italy
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.


Sotto Sotto
1984 · 1h 45m
country: Italy
Ester finds herself sexually attracted to her newly divorced friend Adele. When Ester admits another love to her hot-headed husband, he searches manically for the rival, who he never suspects is a woman.


A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit
1983 · 1h 45m
country: Italy
When the Minister of the Interior accidentally becomes locked inside his computerized, armoured limo following a mechanical failure, it triggers a series of headline-making events, especially as he happens to be in front of his political opponent's home. The event becomes a scandal involving many, including the rival, his feminist daughter, his wife, and her one-time terrorist lover hiding in the basement.


Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
1981 · 1h 56m
country: Italy
The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory.


Black Journal
1977 · 1h 52m
country: Italy
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.


La Tosca
1973 · 1h 39m
country: Italy
Rome, 1800. Napoleon threatens the power of the Church and executions of Jacobins are constant. Angelotti, the most famous of them all has escaped from prison and the chief of police is on his tail. Angelotti is being helped by a painter, lover of "La Tosca", a famous singer. The police chief suspects the truth and tries to arouse the jealousy of "La Tosca" to catch the escapee.


Slap the Monster on Page One
1972 · 1h 27m
country: France
Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.


The Working Class Goes to Heaven
1971 · 1h 53m
country: Italy
After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.


Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1970 · 1h 51m
country: Italy
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.