
May 3, 1917 · 109 years old
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leopoldo Trieste (3 May 1917, Reggio Calabria – 25 January 2003) was an Italian actor, film director and script writer. Trieste was born in Reggio Calabria. He worked with directors such as Pietro Germi, Francis Ford Coppola, Giuseppe Tornatore, Tinto Brass, C…

Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.

An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

A married couple grieving the recent death of their young daughter are in Venice when they encounter two elderly sisters, one of whom is psychic and brings a warning from beyond.

A dramatization of the ascent to Caesar and subsequent reign of Caligula, one of the most notorious leaders of ancient Rome.

A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.

After being shipwrecked with a magnificent horse off the coast of Africa in the 1940s, a boy bonds with the stallion, and trains him to race after their rescue.

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The murder of a wealthy countess triggers a chain reaction of brutal killings in the surrounding bay area as several unscrupulous characters try to seize her large estate.

During a day of their honeymoon, newlyweds are separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.

A photographer and the types of people he encounters.

During WWII in Italy, a wine-producing village hides a million bottles from the Germans

A desperate Sicilian man, whose 15-year-old daughter was seduced and impregnated by his older daughter's fiancé, tries to find a way to save the family's honor.

A mischievous nobleman and his poor doppelganger get into serious troubles when a practical joke endangers the Pope.

Police Commissioner Rizzo, Bigfoot (Piedone by nickname) and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing. The professor has discovered an insect that can smell where oil is and lots of criminals are i...

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A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.

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An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.

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