Riz Ortolani Movies

Teresa gets her first taste of crime -- and its consequences -- when, during World War II, she is nabbed for robbing an apartment. But being poor and...

A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they...

In Rome a man needing money become a transvestite prostitute.

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

Rome, 1929. The Pope's tailor sends his only son, 35-year-old virgin Nello, to more liberal Bologna hoping he'll find a wife. His head brimming with...

A U.S. agent goes undercover as a rich playboy to stop a madman from destroying a NASA moon project.

Friendship and competition among a group of bank clerks in 1980s Italy.

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

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

In Mussolini's Rome a murderer is targeting young girls. The movie explores how the fascist mind works, how it plays its values off the sentiment of...

Pino is a young man who lives in Assisi with his father Damiano, a communist revolutionary, and his partner Nadine. One day Pino sees Maria Teresa...

Ulderico Quario hires as servant a very beautiful young woman Teresa. Ulderico decides to proceed like a new Pygmalion and he sets about teaching...

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...

The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own gain.

During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally...

Pregnant with their 10th child, Agata discovers that her lazy husband Gennaro betrays her cheerfully.

When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with...

Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her.

A journalist and secretary get involved in espionage.