Marco Ferreri
Biography: Marco Ferreri (11 May 1928 – 9 May 1997) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. He was born in Milan and died in Paris of a myocardial infarction. Upon his death, Gilles Jacob, artistic director of the Cannes International Film Festival, said: The Italian cinema has lost one of its most original artists, one of its most personal authors (...) No one was more demanding nor more allegorical than he in showing the state of crisis of contemporary man. His best known film is La Grande Bouffe, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret and Ugo Tognazzi. His 1979 film Chiedo asilo won him the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1991, his film La casa del sorriso won the Golden Bear at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marco Ferreri, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 11, 1928
Deathday: May 09, 1997
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An Almost Perfect Affair
1979-04-27
An Almost Perfect Affair
Overview: An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair begins, but the couple's romance is tested as they face the temptations of fame and fortune.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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Il fischio al naso
1967-08-06
Il fischio al naso
Overview: In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets. When his nose starts to whistle uncontrollably, he checks into a clinic to resolve the problem. What begins as a minor affliction worsens, and Giuseppe is placed on a different floor as his ailments multiply. The sicker he gets, the higher he goes up in the floors of the clinic, until he is near death's door.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-06
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Pigsty
1969-09-02
Pigsty
Overview: Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-02
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Droit de Réponse
1981-12-12
Droit de Réponse
Overview: "Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel, presented by Michel Polac and produced by Maurice Dugowson. Broadcast live on a weekly basis, on Saturdays from 8.30 p.m., the right of reply has been the source of many controversies, due to the various speakers who have come to present their point of view on the show (which leads to famous scandals , remained in the memory of viewers), but also for the variety and relevance of the topics covered, which ensured the success of the program on the air for several years. On French television, this program is considered by some observers as a “pioneer program in terms of controversy-show or clash, in modern language”.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-12
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Don't Touch the White Woman!
1974-01-23
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Overview: A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-23
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Ferreri
1967-05-30
Ferreri
Overview: 16mm short by Mario Schifano.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-30
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Kiss the Other Sheik
1965-12-28
Kiss the Other Sheik
Overview: Italian comedy film in three segments
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-28
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Wind from the East
1970-08-19
Wind from the East
Overview: A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-08-19
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My Monster Mom
2008-07-02
My Monster Mom
Overview: Single-mom Esme gives her daughter for adoption to her elder brother who immediately goes to America. Twenty-seven years later, daughter Abby goes back to the Philippines to meet her real mom. But Abby's excitement is foiled upon knowing that Esme is loud mouthed and worst nightmare. Days spelled hell for Abby, as she discovers that she and her horrific mother are complete polar opposites.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: tl
Release Date: 2008-07-02
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So Long Gulliver
1970-11-14
So Long Gulliver
Overview: Story of a man with a double personality, on one side his character is honest and sincere, which makes him appreciate reality and participates with sorrow in the tragedies of our times: his other side is that of a dreamer and he identifies himself with Swift's hero Gulliver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-11-14
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Love in the City
1953-11-27
Love in the City
Overview: Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-27
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The Seed of Man
1969-09-27
The Seed of Man
Overview: During a Post-Apocalyptic period in the near future the majority of the European population has been wiped out by some sort of undefined plague. Cino and Dora, a young couple, are rounded up by what constitutes the authorities on an isolated temporary base. They are examined and given antibiotics which will protect them for six months, told to pick out a deserted house to live in the area, and use that time to conceive a child.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-27
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Casanova '70
1965-06-15
Casanova '70
Overview: The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-06-15
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The Little Apartment
1959-06-15
The Little Apartment
Overview: Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or "pisito", in Spanish dialect). Unfortunately their low salaries prevent them from acquiring one. Soon, Rodolfo's co-workers urge him to marry the old and frail Doña Martina, who is the main tenant in the apartment he boards in. According to Spanish rent-control law, he could inherit the lease from his spouse. Thus begin his misgivings and Petrita's. Written by Emilio
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-15
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
1985-01-01
Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Overview: A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Man with the Balloons
1967-08-08
The Man with the Balloons
Overview: Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-08
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The Boarder
1954-02-25
The Boarder
Overview: A prostitute goes on vacation to a beach resort with her young daughter (who's being schooled by nuns). Everything is cheerful and pleasant at the seashore; the customers at the hotel think she's a poor widow - she always wears black - and treat her like a lady. But when one of her former clients arrives, her carefree days on the beach are numbered.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
2017-05-09
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Overview: Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his studies to become a veterinarian, choosing instead to concern himself principally with the human animal, in our corporeal and yearning essence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-05-09
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Lui per lei
1972-01-01
Lui per lei
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Porn to Be Free
2016-06-24
Porn to Be Free
Overview: Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-06-24
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The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
2017-05-28
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Overview: A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers of his time and has built a dazzling career of remarkable merit and success, focusing on his work during the 1970s and his professional relationship with Claude Sautet, Romy Schneider, Marco Ferreri and Luis Buñuel.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-28
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Women and Soldiers
1955-11-25
Women and Soldiers
Overview: Donne e soldati was an example of a ‘decentralised’ production, far from Rome, something that for the most part Italian cinema didn’t fully succeed in achieving until the 1990s. . In many ways the film, which is both Picaresque and anti-heroic, was too far ahead of its time, and it is often considered the precursor to Monicelli’s L’armata brancaleone. This time out, Ferreri takes the reins as producer of the ill-fated undertaking (the two directors will never make another film); however, Donne e soldati, apart from marking Ferreri’s estrangement from Italian cinema for a number of years, today appears to display earthy and carnivalesque elements that will subsequently influence certain aspects of the Milanese director’s vision.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-25
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