The best Vittorio Gassman’s movies

Vittorio Gassman

Vittorio Gassman

01/09/1922- 29/06/2000
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Barabbas

Barabbas
6.9/10
Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was spared crucifixion when Pilate manipulated the crowd into pardoning him, rather than Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.

Sleepers

Sleepers
7.5/10
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.

War and Peace

War and Peace
6.7/10
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.

Sharky's Machine

Sharky's Machine
6.3/10
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.

Il Sorpasso

Il Sorpasso
8.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 05/12/1962
  • Character: Bruno Cortona
Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.

Bitter Rice

Bitter Rice
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 21/09/1949
  • Character: Walter
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.

We All Loved Each Other So Much

We All Loved Each Other So Much
8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 21/12/1974
  • Character: Gianni
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.

Abraham

Abraham
7/10
This engrossing dramatization of the life of Abraham, the most tested servant of God and the father of Judaism, spans from the patriarch's quest for the Promised Land to the sacrifice of his son, Isaac.

1001 Nights

1001 Nights
5.4/10
Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.

A Difficult Life

A Difficult Life
8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/12/1961
  • Character: lui-même
Silvio Magnozzi is a man so dedicated to his high moral standards that he loses out on most of the things he wants in life -including his wife. He watches while others march up the ladder of success way ahead of him, sometimes by hypocritically licking the boots of their superiors or doing just anything at all to attain advancement. After his death grip on his principles causes his wife to walk out, Silvio relents and starts to live like others. Now he is supposedly happily residing on Easy Street, his wife is back -- and so what is bugging him? (AllMovie)

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Big Deal on Madonna Street
7.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 06/06/1958
  • Character: Peppe il pantera
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

Scent of a Woman

Scent of a Woman
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/12/1974
  • Character: Fausto Consolo
An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.

The Terrace

The Terrace
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/02/1980
  • Character: Mario
Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the middle class.

A Wedding

A Wedding
7/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 29/08/1978
  • Character: Luigi Corelli
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the reception starts. Could be quite an occasion.

The Palermo Connection

The Palermo Connection
5.6/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 01/02/1990
  • Character: Il principe
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.

The Desert of the Tartars

The Desert of the Tartars
7.5/10
  • Genre: History
  • Release: 29/10/1976
  • Character: Filimore
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.

The Miracle

The Miracle
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/11/1959
  • Character: Guido
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.

The Great War

The Great War
8.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 28/10/1959
  • Character: Giovanni Busacca
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.

For Love and Gold

For Love and Gold
7.7/10
  • Genre: AdventureComedy
  • Release: 07/04/1966
  • Character: Brancaleone da Norcia
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia (south of Italy). They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.

Tempest

Tempest
6.4/10
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.

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