The best Salvatore Basile’s drama movies

Salvatore Basile

Salvatore Basile

10/11/1940 (83 años)
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Salvatore Basile’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Salvatore Basile.

Bomber

Bomber
6.2/10
  • Genre: ActionComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/08/1982
  • Character: Spectator in the meetings (uncredited)
Bomber is an unemployed boat captain. One day he meets Jerry, a manager of boxers who are struck by the force of his fists. That is when they see the chance to win big money.

Cobra Verde

Cobra Verde
6.9/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 03/12/1987
  • Character: Captain Fraternidade
A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires Cobra Verde to oversee his slaves. But when Cobra Verde impregnates Don Octávio’s three daughters, the incensed plantation owner exiles the outlaw to Africa where he is expected to reopen the slave trade. Following his trans-Atlantic journey, Cobra Verde exploits tribal conflicts to commandeer an abandoned fortress and whips an army of naked warriors into a frenzied bloodlust as he vies for survival.

The Strategy of the Snail

The Strategy of the Snail
7.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/12/1993
  • Character: Matatigres
A group of tenants living in an old house are confronted with having to move out due to a renovation project the city has undertaken. The tenants decide to unite and come up with a strategy, but in the process—while the landlord and his aggressive attorney are chasing them—the tenants transform into the opposite of who they once were.

Ilona Arrives with the Rain

Ilona Arrives with the Rain
6.9/10
Maqroll, Ilona, and Abdul all share a common dream: to sail the world in a tramp-steamer. But who could afford such a thing? Over the years they have become separated. Alone in Panama City, smuggler Maqroll is finding neither great success nor happiness — until the tropical rains come, bringing Ilona: friend, lover, and partner in crime. Abdul, in Morocco, has found a steamer to suit them. In Panama, Ilona and Maqroll begin a new scheme, in search of impossible wealth. But fate has further twists in store.

Cartagena

Cartagena
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/11/2009
  • Character: Le kinésithérapeute
Muriel is beautiful, free-spirited and bed-ridden since a horrific accident. Leo is a drunk middle-aged ex-boxer. Desperate for work and unqualified, he interviews for Muriel, who hires him to cook and care for her against her better judgment. Initially out of his depth, Leo slowly wins Muriel's trust. As Muriel teaches him to read, he forces her to confront the joys beyond her window.

Black Jesus

Black Jesus
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/05/1968
A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi.

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