Riz Ortolani Movies

Mimma starts working in Madame Colette’s brothel to help her boyfriend financially. There she is rechristened “Paprika,” and falls...

A chronicle of the violence that occurred in much of the African continent throughout the 1960s. As many African countries were transitioning from...

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who...

At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo...

After the renewed flings with their former lovers prove to be disastrously unlike the romantic memories, an unfaithful couple returns to each other.

In 1950s Ferrara, a lonely innkeeper explores a series of relationships while awaiting her missing husband’s return from war.

Anna, a beautiful lawyer's wife, feels abandoned by her husband and grows closer to their maid, Angela. The maid convinces Anna to try increasingly...

While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man....

A famous surgeon earns enormous amounts of money by speculating on patients, although he is generally considered a great man and an excellent doctor....

A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.

Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany...

A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.

A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town...

A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel.

A dishonored Union Army officer leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.

Though a fictionalized Western based on George Armstrong Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of the Little Big Horn, the film is almost a...

Madame is running a high class escort (and prostitution) service. She wants to quit the business as soon as she makes enough money to make her dreams...

Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.

In the future, two television networks compete for ratings by producing violent game shows. One network produces a modern day version of the Roman...

When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful...