Riz Ortolani Movies

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

Lisa, a widow on vacation with her son, meets Alessandro and falls in love. The man is actually a former agent of the communist Germany who escaped...

An FBI agent goes to Hong Kong to short-circuit a smuggler of electrical parts to the communists.

A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a...

Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allan Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds...

Ofelia, the sexy operator of a service station, attracts the attentions of several admirers, including her former lover Rocky, a truck driver, and...

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 middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) being rescued from drowning. He loans her a blanket....

A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old gunfighter.

Madame is running a high class escort (and prostitution) service. She wants to quit the business as soon as she makes enough money to make her dreams...

A journalist meets a mysterious blonde. The meeting upsets his existence. Indeed, the man risks losing it completely.

The Milanese nudist professor Paolo Barca moved to the province of Catania; there he will succeed in changing something both in the school and in his...

Producer, director and projectionist watch an assortment of musical numbers and brainstorm about framing narrative that could contain them all.

A Vietnam veteran and aspiring filmmaker spirals through a world of fragments and interludes that offer as much surreal comedy as existential dread.

Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone.

A kidnapped mobster persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.

A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.