Known for Acting
Francesco "Nino" Castelnuovo (28 October 1936 - 6 September 2021) was an Italian actor of film, stage, and television. Castelnuovo appeared as Guy Foucher in the French-language musical film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and as D'Agostino in the romantic-drama The English Patient (1996). His other films include the drama Rocco and His Brothers (1960), the sexploitation Camille 2000 (1969), the black-comedy L'emmerdeur (A Pain in the ..., 1973), the giallo film Il prato macchiato di rosso (1973), and the spaghetti-westerns Massacre Time (1966) and The Five Man Army (1969).
Born
October 28, 1936
Died
September 6, 2021 (age 84)
Birthplace
Lecco, Lombardy, Italy
Filmography
57 films, 10 shows
Tonta que soy
Tonta que soy
2026 · 4m
country: Chile
Between porn theaters, soda fountains in downtown Santiago, romantic movies and an episode of "Caso Cerrado", María Isabel tells her granddaughter a story from her youth about an impossible love affair with a married man.


The Truth About Love Is...
2017 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
Dora, raises her two children with the help of her eccentric family, free-spirited best friend, and a charming poet-turned- nanny.


Il sottile fascino del peccato
2010
country: Italy


The Beaches of Agnès
2008 · 1h 50m
country: France
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.


L'isola degli smemorati
2005 · 1h
country: Unknown
On an island in the middle of the ocean, inhabited by nine elderly people, including the ancient wizard Lucanòr, no one remembers what children are. One day, however, a boat carrying a group of helpless shipwrecked children arrives on this piece of land surrounded by the sea. Will the children manage to gain respect? Who will help them?


With the Eyes of the Killer
2001 · 1h 30m
country: Italy


The English Patient
1996 · 2h 42m
country: United Kingdom
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.


The World of Jacques Demy
1995 · 1h 33m
country: Belgium
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.


A Viso Coperto
1985
country: Italy
Un delitto
Un delitto
1984
country: Italy


Star Odyssey
1979 · 1h 43m
country: Italy
Earth is attacked by an intergalactic villain and his army of robotic androids.


Strip Nude for Your Killer
1975 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
After a fashion model dies during a botched abortion, the doctor stages her death to exonerate himself but is murdered by a mysterious assailant who soon begins hunting down her agency colleagues.


Strip First, Then We Talk
1975 · 1h 36m
country: Unknown
An employee discovers the infidelity of the girlfriend and will try to take revenge.


That Malicious Age
1975 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.


La collegiale
1975 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
The sexually naive Daniela returns home from boarding school only to realize that her family is involved in an excess of bed-hopping and sexual perversion.
I mariti
I mariti
1974
country: Italy


Loving in the Rain
1974 · 1h 36m
country: France
Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, Giovanni, while young Cecile is courted by an apprentice cook. It seems that mother and daughter are drifting apart from each other, but then their holidays are over.


Gott schützt die Liebenden
1973 · 1h 46m
country: Germany
Engineer Paul Holland returns from a trip. His girlfriend Sybille has disappeared from their apartment without leaving a note. He searches for her and finds himself in the middle of a manhunt for an international drug ring.


A Pain in the Ass
1973 · 1h 25m
country: France
Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.


The Bloodstained Lawn
1973 · 1h 26m
country: Italy
Various undesirables and hippie drifters are invited to the luxury, ultra-modern country home of Dr. Antonio and his wife; when they begin to vanish, it becomes clear that something sinister — and deadly — is afoot.


The Big Deal
1972 · 1h 33m
country: Spain
Three clumsy thieves come up with a robbery scheme against the "Grandi Magazzini Romani". They call to their aid a skilled "only by reputation" French burglar, Pierre Le Compte.


Wife by Night
1971 · 1h 26m
country: Italy
The story of a beautiful young woman who, for the love of her ambitious husband, becomes a blackmail victim and has to resort to prostitution...


The Divorce
1970 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.


Diary of a Telephone Operator
1969 · 1h 50m
country: Italy
Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband.


The 5-Man Army
1969 · 1h 45m
country: Italy
At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.


Camille 2000
1969 · 2h 10m
country: Italy
Marguerite, a beautiful woman of affairs, falls for the young and promising Armand, but sacrifices her love for him for the sake of his future and reputation.


Love and Anger: Love
1969 · 26m
country: France
Godard dissects movie romance as row intellectuals watch an Italian-speaking man and his French-speaking partner talk about love.


Love and Anger
1969 · 1h 42m
country: France
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.


Virgin Merchants
1969 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
A man who sells counterfeit drugs decides to become a marriage counselor. Having barely started this business, he finds himself in serious trouble, threatening him with mortal danger...


Psychout for Murder
1969 · 1h 28m
country: Argentina
Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.


Red Roses for the Fuhrer
1968 · 1h 37m
country: Italy
James Daly is an American special soldier who goes behind enemy territory during WWII. His Objective: to steal top secret SS document that can change the course of the war.


On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
1967 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.


The Path of Oil
1967 · 2h 15m
country: Italy
La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made following Bertolucci’s breakthrough second feature Before the Revolution, and the director has said that it’s a documentary made by a man who is desperate to direct another feature. The film was presented in three parts: "The Origins", "At Sea" and "In the Heart of Europe".


The Creatures
1966 · 1h 34m
country: France
A writer decides to use the strange inhabitants of a small island as a basis for characters in his new book.


Massacre Time
1966 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
In 1866, prospector Tom Corbett returns to his hometown of Laramie, Texas, now under the brutal control of gangster Jason Scott and his violent son, Junior. With his brother Jeff, a struggling drunk cared for by their maid Mercedes, Tom seeks to overthrow the Scotts' tyrannical rule and restore peace to the town.


A Young World
1966 · 1h 23m
country: France
A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced with the situation, he pressures her to have an abortion, even sleeping with an older woman for money. She later decides to keep the baby.


We'll Go to the City
1966 · 1h 42m
country: Italy
"Andremo in città" (We'll Go to the City) is a 1966 Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. It is based on the novel of the same name by Edith Bruck, Risi's wife. Bruck, a Hungarian concentration camp-survivor, settled in Italy after the Second World War and wrote about her experiences in autobiographical and fictional formats.[1] The film stars Geraldine Chaplin and Nino Castelnuovo.


Made in Italy
1965 · 2h 6m
country: France
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.


The Reward
1965 · 1h 32m
country: United States
A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.


The Double Bed
1965
country: France
Various sketches centered on alcove stories.


The Cavern
1964 · 1h 34m
country: Germany
Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?


A Dirty Business
1964 · 1h 20m
country: Italy
A gang of four boys and a woman kidnap a lawyer.


The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964 · 1h 33m
country: France
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.


The Demon
1964 · 1h 40m
country: France
Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.


The Eye of the Needle
1963 · 1h 37m
country: France
Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.


The Shortest Day
1963 · 1h 27m
country: Italy
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.


Escapade in Florence
1962 · 1h 21m
country: United States
American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they accidentally discover an art forgery ring in Florence, Italy.


Day by Day, Desperately
1961 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members.


A Day for Lionhearts
1961 · 1h 54m
country: Italy
September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line.


Laura nuda
1961 · 1h 34m
country: France
Laura, a young woman from the Verona bourgeoisie, seeks to emancipate herself, but is desperately confronted with what she considers to be the hypocrisy of men and the conformism of a society that only considers women if they marry and procreate.


The Hunchback
1960 · 1h 36m
country: France
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.


Everybody Go Home!
1960 · 1h 57m
country: Italy
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.


Rocco and His Brothers
1960 · 2h 58m
country: Italy
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.


The Angel Wore Red
1960 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.


The Apartment
1960 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.


The Facts of Murder
1959 · 1h 55m
country: Italy
A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation.


The Virtuous Bigamist
1956 · 1h 37m
country: France
The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.