
Pier Paolo Capponi
Actor · 1938 – 2018 · Subiaco, Rome, Italy
Pier Paolo Capponi (9 June 1938 – 15 February 2018) was an Italian actor and screenwriter. Born in Subiaco, after his studies Capponi attended a theater school and later was chosen by director Vittorio De Seta for an important role in Un uomo a metà. His film career was divided equally between auteur films (with, among others, Paolo e Vittorio Taviani, Valerio Zurlini, Gérard Corbiau, Francesco Rosi and Nelo Risi) and genre films, in which he was sometimes credited as Norman Clark. On the big screen with some regularity for a decade, after 1977 Capponi focused his appearances on TV series and on stage. Source: Article "Pier Paolo Capponi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movies24
Movie6.7HorrorMysteryA newsman works with a blind puzzle-solver to uncover a deadly conspiracy linked to a genetic research facility.
Movie6.6ComedyDramaIn the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most popular form of entertainment in the world and also attracts participants who are looking for fame and fortune. It includes ten rounds for each competitor, five as the hunter and five as the victim.
Movie6.5HistoryDramaThe life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.
Farinelli
1994 · 199 votes
Movie5.4DramaHorrorIt's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela.
Movie5.7ActionWarSgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. After the soldiers have knifed the Italians in their beds, they find a hooker living at the camp. Sullivan's commandos are to hold this camp and its weaponry until an American battalion arrives, all the while these Italian-Americans pretend to be Italian soldiers, often hosting the enemy. Lt. Valli is a young, "green," by-the-book officer who constantly argues with Sgt. Sullivan, who tells his superior that he has no idea what he is doing. One man on the base, probably a touch from Argento, is an entomologist who is needlessly killed. Things go terribly wrong after that.
Commandos
1968 · 32 votes
Movie6.8CrimeActionA hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
Movie6.1CrimeComedyCampana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.
Movie5.8DramaRomanceThe Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he did not commit, Elisabette curses the family. Bad luck travels from generation to generation. As the latest Benedettis tell their children about their eccentric grandfather, the children worry that the family curse will be passed on.
Fiorile
1993 · 21 votes
Movie7.7DramaHistoryAt the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leonardo Da Vinci (John Glover) create their masterpieces, while dealing with religious persecution, political turmoil, and the discovery of America.
A Season of Giants
1990 · 3 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaAn ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
Movie4.9DramaA true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," a 17th century nun accused of and tried by the church for breaking celibacy and plotting murder.
Movie6.2HorrorMysteryA maniac on the loose is committing savage acts of slaughter, and one survivor may be the only key to unmasking the serial slayer known as the Half-Moon Killer. The mysterious half-moon lockets he leaves with his victims could be the only key to unraveling his sinister motives, but will that be enough before he completes his ice-cold plot to claim his intended seven victims?
Movie6.8WesternPecos Martinez rides into Houston looking to settle an old score with gang leader Clane, who is after the money that disappearred from a recent robbery. The hunt for the loot and Pecos' quest become intertwined with the efforts of the locals to stay alive long enough for help to arrive.
Movie5.5DramaHistoryThe tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at thirty-seven; and his passionate relationship with Paul Verlaine, full of wanderings, storms and falling out.
Movie5.3AdventureDramaThis is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just prior to the American Civil War. He is a reluctant French spy and is captured and spends time in a Union prison. There are two parallel love stories (he is French) and some battles with his uncle for control of the family vineyard (because his father married his mother who the uncle also loved).
Champagne Charlie
1989 · 3 votes
Movie9.0ActionAdventureAfter the death of his father, prince Tristan is living in Cornwall at the court of his uncle, King Marke, who treats him like a son. When the Irish king sends his son Morold over to demand high tax payments, Tristan challenges him to combat. He manages to kill Morold but is very badly injured, and is placed in a boat to be healed by the magic powers of the sea, which takes him across to Ireland.
Movie7.3DramaWarTime after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.
Movie8.0DramaThrillerWith three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself in to the police, since they don't know about his existence. At least, that's the way his rescuer Bruno (Bruno Ganz) sees it. Besides, Bruno needs such an overly enterprising fellow to help him pull off a really big heist that he's been planning for a long time. It takes some doing, but the boy and his girlfriend are recruited by the older man, who has been keeping a low profile by working as a gardener.
Bankomatt
1989 · 1 votes
Movie5.6ActionCrimeA retired ex-criminal, the notorious Mister X, must clear his name when an up-and-comer commits a heinous copycat crime.
Movie6.6AdventureA man masquerading as a dead soldier seeks to desert his post and join the enemy in their struggle.
Movie6.3ThrillerHistoryA reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
Movie7.3CrimeDramaHenry Silva is the police inspector Sterling who is devastated when a gang of robbers kill his son. He then becomes accused of having killed a police informer and is kicked out of the police department. His life seems ruined. To clear his name he will have to take the law into his own hands, and excitement will ensue!
Movie6.9DramaAntonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life.
Movie6.6ThrillerCrimeSome youngsters rape and kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers.
Series6
- TV9.0DocumentaryDrama
A dramatization of the human, scientific and historical aspects leading to the development of the first atomic bomb.
Race for the Bomb
1987 · 1 votes
- TV8.0Drama
L'avvocato delle donne is an Italian television series.
L'avvocato delle donne
1997 · 1 votes
TV8.4DramaThe search for Anna, who suddenly disappeared from a quiet family home.
Dov'è Anna?
1976 · 4 votes
TV8.0Miniseries about the early life of Garibaldi.
Il giovane Garibaldi
1974 · 1 votes
TV8.0DramaIn 1935, Pietro Spina, a communist intellectual forced to emigrate for political reasons, secretly returns to Italy, driven by nostalgia for his homeland. Under the identity of Don Paolo Spada, a priest recovering from illness, he moves to Pietrasecca, a small village in the mountains of Abruzzo.
Vino e pane
1973 · 1 votes
TV7.0CrimeDramaRome, Nora Mariani, an established photographer at an advertising agency, Signal, is haunted by strange phone calls in which a female voice tells her that she is her sister Claudia, who died following a road accident that occurred two years earlier in Germany, in which Nora, who was driving the car, and a German hitchhiker, to whom the two had given a lift, had also been involved; Because of that trauma, Nora was no longer able to drive. The phone calls are increasingly frequent and insistent, so much so that Nora becomes convinced that her sister is still alive.
L'enigma delle due sorelle
1980 · 1 votes