Mario Garriba

Mario Garriba

Born: November 13, 1944
Died: December 31, 2013
in Soave, Verona, Veneto, Italy

Movies for Mario Garriba...

Little Flames
Title: Little Flames
Character: Leo
Released: September 13, 1985
Type: Movie
Tommaso, a quiet, thoughtful child of five, lives in a world of his own, conversing daily with three imaginary friends. Seemingly loved by his parents, Tommaso senses that their affections are superficial and he yearns for something more.
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Bianca
Title: Bianca
Character: neighbor father
Released: February 23, 1984
Type: Movie
Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he feels more alone than ever. Then, out of the blue, a new French teacher called Bianca arrives at school. Amongst uncertainties and contradictions, the two start dating. In the meantime, a series of homicides take place and a police officer begins to suspect that Michele is involved. Bianca will save him providing an alibi at the right moment, but then, everything goes wrong again.
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Sweet Dreams
Title: Sweet Dreams
Released: September 10, 1981
Type: Movie
Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.
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Male, Female, Flower, Fruit
Title: Male, Female, Flower, Fruit
Released: November 7, 1979
Type: Movie
A pair of twins, Anna and Tony, leave their country to go to Rome to make their fortune. Anna knows how to sing and Tony knows how to dance. They suffer many setbacks, but they are willing to go the distance in order to succeed.
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La vita in gioco
Title: La vita in gioco
Released: September 22, 1975
Type: Movie
A filmmaker of committed films, together with his lover, plans to commit suicide within a few days.
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That Malicious Age
Title: That Malicious Age
Released: March 11, 1975
Type: Movie
Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.
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The Suspect
Title: The Suspect
Released: February 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers.
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Zelda
Title: Zelda
Released: November 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Henry Davis and Zelda are a couple with peculiar sexual tastes. In order to have more freedom, they send their daughter Ingrid to study in a school away from home. They have a relationship with Ursula but, after some time, when they get tired of her, they involve Christian and his wife Clarissa in their erotic games. When Ingrid comes to spend some time home, her presence becomes the catalyst of profound transformations.
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A Black Ribbon for Deborah
Title: A Black Ribbon for Deborah
Released: October 4, 1974
Type: Movie
A young woman with psychic powers is obsessed with having a child. Even though she is unable to conceive, her desire to do so creates a supernatural force determined to fulfill her wishes
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The Minor
Title: The Minor
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: Movie
Suffocated from the strict atmosphere of her high school, Valeria has been experiencing erotic dreams with sadistic motorcyclist rapists, a doctor who decides more than an exam is in order and a torturous priest whipping her in pure delight. After leaving school she finds out that the her bourgeois family setting has something to do with her recurring dreams and suppressed desires. She idealistically seeks out romance and love, but falls short time and time again...
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Littlefoot the Policeman
Title: Littlefoot the Policeman
Released: August 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Petralia, a Neapolitan policeman casually makes friends with Maria, a girl engaged in the smuggling of cigarettes and belonging to the family of Ferdinando Il Barone.
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Shoot First, Die Later
Title: Shoot First, Die Later
Released: July 12, 1974
Type: Movie
When mobsters try to put an honest policeman on the payroll, he seeks revenge on the mob. But, he soon learns that his actions, however honest, have dire consequences.
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Silence the Witness
Title: Silence the Witness
Released: May 15, 1974
Type: Movie
De Luca is killed by Marchetti's chauffeur. Marchetti ordered the murder because he was to be accused by De Luca. The two have a car accident while going home to get an alibi. There is a witness, Sironi, who calls the police. But when the police arrive the car has gone and so have the two men. Inspector Santi and young judge Novelli look into the strange case. Marchetti, however, is a powerful man and Sironi and his family begin to be obsessed first by threats then by assaults.
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A Brief Vacation
Title: A Brief Vacation
Released: July 21, 1973
Type: Movie
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
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No More Time
Title: No More Time
Released: April 10, 1973
Type: Movie
This Italian black-and-white film, based on a true story, was originally made for television. It concerns the life and sad end of Evariste Gallois (Mario Barriba), a brilliant student mathematician whose republican politics and hot-bloodedness resulted in his death; it is unclear whether he died by political assassination or as a result of a duel.
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Increase and Multiply
Title: Increase and Multiply
Released: March 15, 1973
Type: Movie
Italian comedy