Ugo Gregoretti Movies

100 years ago, a terrible earthquake, followed by an equally terrible tidal wave, devastated and largely destroyed Messina and Reggio Calabria.

Gregoretti's Il pollo ruspante ("Free Range Chicken") shows an Italian middle-class family with two children traveling via an autostrada (highway) to...

The film documents the trade union battle of the workers of the Apollon printing house in Rome, occupied for a few months after the management...

One of the first tv-movie of Gianni Amelio: a journalistic investigation about boys of Calabria.

Centers on a band of hookers who listen to their pimp and seek out old men in retirement villages. They convince the old fellows to marry them so...

Falling somewhere in-between a documentary and a droll drama (more like an enactment of reality, with a wink), this film by TV director Ugo...

The story of La Rabbia by Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Guareschi, a movie lost in the archives of a laboratory in Rome, and recently...

Opera by Nino Rota

Easygoing Gianni looks forward to retirement - until he is informed that a change in the law obliges him to work three more years. Faced with the...

Ugo Gregoretti and Andrea Camilleri, renowned writers and longtime friends, have fun dressing up and playing the roles of the Cat (Gregoretti) and...

This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hot-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a...

In a hypothetical future not too far away people are completely dazed and spend their days passively watching TV. The state is controlled by a...

An hour with Roberto Rossellini. Interviewed by Gregoretti, the director of Paisà and Europa 51 retraces his life, his work, his relationship...