Vittorio Cottafavi Movies
- 1985

The Devil in the Hills
The Devil in the Hills5.51985HD
It is in the late 1930s, and Cesare Pavese, a writer, with two of his friends meets a very uninhibited noble couple.
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- 1965

The Power of Darkness
The Power of Darkness01965HD
A film by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the Leo Tolstoy play.
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- 1949

The Flame that Never Dies
The Flame that Never Dies5.21949HD
Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice...
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- 1965

Antonio e Cleopatra
Antonio e Cleopatra01965HD
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play for Italian TV.
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- 1963

The Felling of the Forest
The Felling of the Forest71963HD
In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an...
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- 1958

Antigone
Antigone01958HD
Faithful TV adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy.
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- 1954

Jailbirds
Jailbirds41954HD
Three jailbirds— a surgeon, a robber, and a wrongly convicted man— must adjust to their lives once released from prison.
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- 1967

The Trojan Women
The Trojan Women01967HD
In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio...
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- 1967

L'idolo delle scene
L'idolo delle scene01967HD
A comedy of misunderstandings caused by words. Walter Chiari is a stage actor who tries to cash a check at a public office.
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- 1973

Napoleone a Sant'Elena
Napoleone a Sant'Elena01973HD
A reconstruction of Napoleon Bonaparte's years after Waterloo, from his exile to St. Helena until his death under mysterious circumstances: between...
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- 1953

The Glorious Avenger
The Glorious Avenger6.51953HD
A group of royalists during the French Revolution make several attempts to rescue Marie Antoinette from prison, in this combination of genres:...
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- 1954

A Free Woman
A Free Woman6.71954HD
Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she...
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- 1969

Oliver Cromwell: Ritratto di un dittatore
Oliver Cromwell: Ritratto di un dittatore01969HD
Television movie about Oliver Cromwell.
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- 1961

La trincea
La trincea01961HD
On the Carso front in 1915, Italians and Austrians fight each other without mercy in a suffocating battle. In the trenches, soldiers discuss their...
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- 1967

The July Plot
The July Plot01967HD
The plot by a group of German officers to depose of Adolf Hitler in July 1944.
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- 1948

Fantasmi del mare
Fantasmi del mare01948HD
Evocation of a dramatic episode of the Second World War told by an old guard. Boarded as a non-commissioned officer on the battleship sailed from...
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- 1939

Abuna Messias - Vendetta africana
Abuna Messias - Vendetta africana51939HD
The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic...
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- 1954

In amore si pecca in due
In amore si pecca in due4.51954HD
Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi.
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- 1979

Con gli occhi dell'occidente
Con gli occhi dell'occidente01979HD
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- 1959

False Steps
False Steps01959HD
A scientist kills his rival with a perfect alibi and tries to get away with it.
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