Giuliano Montaldo
Born in 1930 in Genoa. Still a young student in 1950 when director Carlo Lizzani gave him a role in the film Achtung Banditi!. Following this experience he traveled to Rome where, after acting in film and theatre, he became the Assistant Director of Lizzani, Gillo Pontecorvo, Sergio Leone, Francesco Rosi. In 1960 he made his debut as a Director with Tiro Al piccione, a film about the Partisan Resistance, on competition at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. In 1964 he directed La Moglie Svedese, an episode of the film Extraconiugale. With his second movie, Una Bella Grinta, won the special prize of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1965, a film about a social climber in Italy during the time of the economic miracle. That year he also directed the second unit of Pontecorvo's masterpiece The Battle Of Algiers.
| Known For | Directing |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9008 |
| Birthday | 1930-02-22 |
| Place of Birth | Genoa, Liguria, Italy |
| Also Known As | Elio Montesti, Giuliano Monteldo, |
2006
The Caiman
6.696/280
Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s p...
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The Caiman
2025
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
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Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
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Noi c'eravamo
10/1
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Noi c'eravamo
2022
Ennio
8.302/378
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Ennio
1954
High School
6.5/2
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High School
1955
Abandoned
7/20
A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them...
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Abandoned
2023
One Hour Only
8/3
Rome, the 1960s. A young couple speed through the city toward the sea in a brand new Fiat 500. Yearning to make love for the first time, they play the...
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One Hour Only
2006
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
7/1
Created by his son Leonardo, this portrait of Adolfo Celi reconstructs his personal and artistic journey between Italy and Brazil. Through interviews,...
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Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
1957
The Most Wonderful Moment
6/6
Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she prepares for...
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The Most Wonderful Moment
2017
Raccontare Venezia
9/1
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Raccontare Venezia
2017
Tonino
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Tonino
2018
The Legal Death
7/2
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The Legal Death
1957
The Doll that Took the Town
5/3
A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police...
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The Doll that Took the Town
2022
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
7.3/68
To mark the recent thirtieth anniversary of Sergio Leone’s death, this documentary sets out to pay tribute to one of the great legends of world cinema...
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Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2007
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
10/1
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1995
Un eroe borghese
6.688/16
1979. Lawyer Giorgio Ambrosoli is appointed liquidator of Banca Privata Italiana, the empire of mighty financier Michele Sindona. Teaming up with unas...
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Un eroe borghese
2012
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
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Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
2012
The Years of Lost Images
0/0
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The Years of Lost Images
2011
Voi siete qui
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Voi siete qui
2010
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
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Flaiano: il meglio è passato
1954
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
6.732/28
Florence, Italy, 1925, during the fascist dictatorship. In order to live near his girlfriend Bianca, young Mario moves to a humble street in the old c...
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Chronicle of Poor Lovers
1951
Attention! Bandits!
6.117/30
During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in Genoa, in order to pick up a delivery of weapons....
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Attention! Bandits!
2009
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
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Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
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Everything You Want
7.4/289
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Everything You Want
1953
La cieca di Sorrento
7.5/2
A small girl goes blind when her mother is murdered.
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La cieca di Sorrento
2016
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
5.523/281
Yuri Pelagatti is a stage actor who is left jobless after a traumatic separation that resulted in his inability to remember his lines. Arturo Merlino...
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L'abbiamo fatta grossa
2004
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
6.5/2
Indagine su un cittadino di nome Volonté is a documentary exploring the life and career of Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté. Known for his roles in fi...
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Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
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The Long Silence
7/5
Carla Aldrovandi, a gynecologist, and her husband Marco Canova, a magistrate live on the front line of criminal and political powers in Italy. She is...
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The Long Silence
2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
6.833/6
How the cinema industry does not respect the author's work as it was conceived, how manipulates the motion pictures in order to make them easier to wa...
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2017
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
6.5/4
The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth o...
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2011
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
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1953
At the Edge of the City
7/5
Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.
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At the Edge of the City
2013
The Haunting of Helena
5.7/165
After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist...
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The Haunting of Helena
2006
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
9.6/5
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Celluloide
6.571/7
June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on...
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Celluloide
2004
Western all'italiana
4/1
"Western all'italiana" is a documentary produced and broadcast by the satellite broadcaster Studio Universal in 2004, on the occasion of the broadcast...
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1961
The Assassin
6.808/86
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The Assassin
2020
Vera & Giuliano
7/1
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Vera & Giuliano
2024
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
7.1/5
A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and never-be...
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2015
Il segreto di Otello
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1955
The Girls of San Frediano
5.313/16
Andrea, a young and charming florentine mechanic in the 1950s, romances five beautiful women simultaneously, enjoying life without really committing t...
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The Girls of San Frediano
2017
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
5.2/5
An account of the life and work of legendary cinematographer and director Carlo Di Palma (1925-2004) and an emotional journey through the great moment...
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