Leo Gullotta
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1946-01-09
Locus Natus: Catania, Sicily, Italy
Et ut: Leo, Salvatore Leopoldo Gullotta
Cinema Paradiso
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's...
release : 1988.11.17popularis : 31.18
Stark System
Armenia Balducci's film, featuring Gian Maria Volontè as Stark, a cop-movie actor that falls prey to paranoia because he fears his latest...
release : 1980.03.14popularis : 1.5
Baaria
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian...
release : 2009.09.24popularis : 7.937
Department Store
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
release : 1986.06.06popularis : 6.433
The Nurse on a Military Tour
Army Doctor Eva Marini wants to join a regiment to secure equal rights for women. So her commanding officer sends her off to a boot camp led by Renzo...
release : 1977.09.02popularis : 19.815
The Escort
The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local...
release : 1993.04.15popularis : 5.402
The Professor
An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.
release : 1986.09.12popularis : 7.854
Vecchio
Aldo lives as a guest in an RSA. Every day he waits for his loved ones looking out the window of his room. On his birthday there will be a surprise...
release : 2022.01.03popularis : 0.914
Il Bi e il Ba
A man goes to Rome because he wants a magician to solve his problem: dandruff.
release : 1986.03.07popularis : 1.826
Un uomo perbene
In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
release : 1999.10.01popularis : 1.415
The Prince of the Dinosaurs
Join Rakhal, Prince of the Land of Ice, and his five dinosaur friends on a journey to find the meaning of an ancient parchment. The friends must free...
release : 2003.03.21popularis : 1.29
Blue Tango
Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing photographer and a porter who works in a...
release : 1987.02.02popularis : 1.645
Snowball
Snowball, a dolphin, gets into trouble when it swallows a bottle with the records of pension payments owed to Billy Bolla, an aged cruise ship...
release : 1995.12.21popularis : 4.406
Italiani a Rio
A bank sends three prize-winning employees on a vacation to Rio.
release : 1987.04.22popularis : 1.316
Domani è un'altra truffa
The plot focuses on the classic "Italian scams", where those who deceive are in turn duped by other individuals. The amount lost increases from time...
release : 2005.01.25popularis : 1.668
Spaghetti House
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
release : 1982.10.22popularis : 3.613
Rock 'n Roll
Passionate rock'n roll dancer, Rodolfo has his partner Ornella as a partner. Frozen by the frivolous behavior of the boy, however, the young girl no...
release : 1978.12.23popularis : 1.2
L'ultimo metro di pellicola
A compassionate look at the way the digital revolution has affected the Sicilian movie theater industry.
release : 2014.11.01popularis : 0.376
Quel posto nel tempo
Mario, a retired conductor, spends his days in a luxury resort in the south of England. He has been suffering from Alzheimer's for some time and is...
release : 2022.11.27popularis : 1.497
Scarlet Diva
A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for...
release : 2000.05.26popularis : 6.833
Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Sinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers.
release : 1989.04.01popularis : 4.491
Cafè Express
An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.
release : 1980.02.16popularis : 4.416
L'insegnante di violoncello
Leo is a street vendor who, always accompanied by his dog Cagliostro, he entertains shoppers on the beach telling stories more or less agreeable to a...
release : 1989.11.04popularis : 2.708
The Paramedic
At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When...
release : 1982.02.07popularis : 50.281
The Heart in the Well
Istria, 1944. A small community is shaken by the entry of Tito's partisans. Novak, his commander, is a man who years ago had a child with a local...
release : 2005.02.06popularis : 3.275
In This World of Thieves
A group of middle-aged time-share investors get ripped off and their desire for revenge is well-timed for them to be recruited by a bank clerk who...
release : 2004.10.29popularis : 4.623
Vajont
On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, the...
release : 2001.10.12popularis : 5.42
Savages
A group of Italian tourists on a Caribbean holiday finds itself stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash.
release : 1995.12.15popularis : 7.53
Men Men Men
Four homosexual men in their 40s have issues and no small degree of self hatred. Yet, can laugh at themselves and their comrades and often do.
release : 1995.03.02popularis : 1.823
A che punto è la notte
In Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A second assassination, that of a Carabinieri Marshal,...
release : 1994.04.07popularis : 1.539
Where's Picone?
During a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire...
release : 1984.01.12popularis : 3.533
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in...
release : 1982.12.26popularis : 2.743
The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed
An unemployed teacher asks for help from her lover, an MP, and finds out that he is married.
release : 1981.08.13popularis : 2.219
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
Misadventures of a sacristan with three eager tourists, a commendatore with a sheikh, a worker who is passionate about hunting with a wife too good...
release : 1977.08.25popularis : 1.888
Leo the Lion
It’s a hard life for young Leo: his family just doesn’t understand why he’s a vegetarian lion. His solitude ends when he meets...
release : 2005.06.17popularis : 2.762
3
At the end of the 18th century, a couple of libertine Tuscan aristocrats welcome in their villa (and into their bedroom) an handsome young...
release : 1996.10.04popularis : 1.752
Teste di quoio
A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage.
release : 1981.01.01popularis : 1.116
L'esercito più pazzo del mondo
In an unnamed village there is a barracks where improbable soldiers have been recruited, who are up to all sorts of things. From a completely wrong...
release : 1981.10.30popularis : 0.435
The Swindle
A rude Roman policeman Nico Giraldi and an English detective team up in search of a gang that has carried out an enormous fraud against the Lloyd's...
release : 1977.11.18popularis : 3.78
It’s the Law
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
release : 2017.01.19popularis : 6.719
In arte Nino
Biopic about Italian actor Nino Manfredi, focusing on the period between 1939 and 1959, depicting his difficult beginnings, his passion for acting...
release : 2016.12.07popularis : 3.532
The Star Maker
The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in...
release : 1995.09.21popularis : 5.5
Everybody's Fine
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides...
release : 1990.09.19popularis : 4.592
Mezzo destro mezzo sinistro - 2 calciatori senza pallone
The "Marchigiana" soccer team has been promoted to the Serie A of the national championship, but it is the last in the standings due mainly to two...
release : 1985.10.10popularis : 2.569
I carabbimatti
Two fools eventually become Carabinieri, and jump from a trash situation to another.
release : 1981.10.14popularis : 1.799
Stormtroopers II
A group of misfits form an army in an absurd war.
release : 1982.12.01popularis : 1.564
Sad Letters
A father writes down in a letter to his daughter how he feels about his Alzheimer's disease.
release : 1970.01.01popularis : 0.649
In The Rose Garden
A successful businessman is haunted by the memories of his mother.
release : 1990.09.01popularis : 1.455
The Red Tree
A powerful and poetic short film that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during...
release : 2018.03.13popularis : 1.025
The Game Bag
In late summer 1991, three Italians reach a hunting reserve in Croatia with a station wagon. They go to deer, but, unaware of what's in store for...
release : 1997.03.14popularis : 1.929
Miss Right
After falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome must dump his numerous female lovers one by one.
release : 1982.01.01popularis : 2.491
Sono solo fantasmi
Three brothers pretend they're ghost hunters to inherit from their father.
release : 2019.11.14popularis : 5.022
Il delitto Mattarella
January 6, 1980. President of the Sicily Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family when a young man approaches his car and shoots him in...
release : 2020.07.02popularis : 2.367
The Great Wave
The entrepreneurial turning point of one of the most heinous and powerful criminal organizations on the planet: the 'Ndrangheta, told through the...
release : 2020.11.09popularis : 0.932