Marco Ferreri

Marco Ferreri

Born: May 11, 1928
Died: May 9, 1997
in Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Marco Ferreri (11 May 1928 – 9 May 1997) was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. He was born in Milan and died in Paris of a myocardial infarction. Upon his death, Gilles Jacob, artistic director of the Cannes International Film Festival, said: The Italian cinema has lost one of its most original artists, one of its most personal authors (...) No one was more demanding nor more allegorical than he in showing the state of crisis of contemporary man. His best known film is La Grande Bouffe, starring Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret and Ugo Tognazzi.

His 1979 film Chiedo asilo won him the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1991, his film La casa del sorriso won the Golden Bear at the 41st Berlin International Film Festival.

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Movies for Marco Ferreri...

Title: Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: TV
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The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Title: The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Released: May 28, 2017
Type: Movie
A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers of his time and has built a dazzling career of remarkable merit and success, focusing on his work during the 1970s and his professional relationship with Claude Sautet, Romy Schneider, Marco Ferreri and Luis Buñuel.
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Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Title: Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 9, 2017
Type: Movie
Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once supernatural and earthbound. He dropped out of his studies to become a veterinarian, choosing instead to concern himself principally with the human animal, in our corporeal and yearning essence.
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Porn to Be Free
Title: Porn to Be Free
Character: Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Released: June 24, 2016
Type: Movie
Italy, 1970. An increasing legion of harmless warriors begins a peaceful struggle for sexual freedom through pornography, shaking and shocking religious authorities and conservative political institutions. They are ironic, happy, crazy. They are dreamers, defenders of definitive communion between body and soul. But they were censored and humiliated. They were mistreated and arrested for demanding loud a new cultural renaissance.
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My Monster Mom
Title: My Monster Mom
Character: Kevin
Released: July 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Single-mom Esme gives her daughter for adoption to her elder brother who immediately goes to America. Twenty-seven years later, daughter Abby goes back to the Philippines to meet her real mom. But Abby's excitement is foiled upon knowing that Esme is loud mouthed and worst nightmare. Days spelled hell for Abby, as she discovers that she and her horrific mother are complete polar opposites.
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Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
Title: Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
Character: Himself
Released: September 6, 2007
Type: Movie
The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often considered a visionary and experimental. The documentary honors the memory of a filmmaker too soon forgot that left an indelible mark in the seventh art.
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Title: Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
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Droit de Réponse
Title: Droit de Réponse
Character: Self
Released: December 12, 1981
Type: Movie
"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel, presented by Michel Polac and produced by Maurice Dugowson. Broadcast live on a weekly basis, on Saturdays from 8.30 p.m., the right of reply has been the source of many controversies, due to the various speakers who have come to present their point of view on the show (which leads to famous scandals , remained in the memory of viewers), but also for the variety and relevance of the topics covered, which ensured the success of the program on the air for several years. On French television, this program is considered by some observers as a “pioneer program in terms of controversy-show or clash, in modern language”.
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An Almost Perfect Affair
Title: An Almost Perfect Affair
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1979
Type: Movie
An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair begins, but the couple's romance is tested as they face the temptations of fame and fortune.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Don't Touch the White Woman!
Title: Don't Touch the White Woman!
Character: The Reporter (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1974
Type: Movie
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Lui per lei
Title: Lui per lei
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
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So Long Gulliver
Title: So Long Gulliver
Character: Priest
Released: November 14, 1970
Type: Movie
Story of a man with a double personality, on one side his character is honest and sincere, which makes him appreciate reality and participates with sorrow in the tragedies of our times: his other side is that of a dreamer and he identifies himself with Swift's hero Gulliver.
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Wind from the East
Title: Wind from the East
Released: August 19, 1970
Type: Movie
A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.
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The Seed of Man
Title: The Seed of Man
Character: Beach house owner
Released: September 27, 1969
Type: Movie
During a Post-Apocalyptic period in the near future the majority of the European population has been wiped out by some sort of undefined plague. Cino and Dora, a young couple, are rounded up by what constitutes the authorities on an isolated temporary base. They are examined and given antibiotics which will protect them for six months, told to pick out a deserted house to live in the area, and use that time to conceive a child.
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Pigsty
Title: Pigsty
Character: Hans Günther
Released: September 2, 1969
Type: Movie
Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.
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The Man with the Balloons
Title: The Man with the Balloons
Released: August 8, 1967
Type: Movie
Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting.
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Il fischio al naso
Title: Il fischio al naso
Character: dottor Salamoia
Released: August 6, 1967
Type: Movie
In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets. When his nose starts to whistle uncontrollably, he checks into a clinic to resolve the problem. What begins as a minor affliction worsens, and Giuseppe is placed on a different floor as his ailments multiply. The sicker he gets, the higher he goes up in the floors of the clinic, until he is near death's door.
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Ferreri
Title: Ferreri
Character: Himself
Released: May 30, 1967
Type: Movie
16mm short by Mario Schifano.
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Oggi, domani, dopodomani
Title: Oggi, domani, dopodomani
Character: (segment "L'uomo dei 5 palloni") (uncredited)
Released: December 28, 1965
Type: Movie
Italian comedy film in three segments
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Casanova '70
Title: Casanova '70
Character: il conte
Released: June 15, 1965
Type: Movie
The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.
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The Little Apartment
Title: The Little Apartment
Character: Luisito - el casero (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Rodolfo and Petrita each live in separate quarters in dilapidated Madrid, while looking to have a little apartment (or "pisito", in Spanish dialect). Unfortunately their low salaries prevent them from acquiring one. Soon, Rodolfo's co-workers urge him to marry the old and frail Doña Martina, who is the main tenant in the apartment he boards in. According to Spanish rent-control law, he could inherit the lease from his spouse. Thus begin his misgivings and Petrita's. Written by Emilio
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Women and Soldiers
Title: Women and Soldiers
Character: Landlord
Released: November 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Donne e soldati was an example of a ‘decentralised’ production, far from Rome, something that for the most part Italian cinema didn’t fully succeed in achieving until the 1990s. . In many ways the film, which is both Picaresque and anti-heroic, was too far ahead of its time, and it is often considered the precursor to Monicelli’s L’armata brancaleone. This time out, Ferreri takes the reins as producer of the ill-fated undertaking (the two directors will never make another film); however, Donne e soldati, apart from marking Ferreri’s estrangement from Italian cinema for a number of years, today appears to display earthy and carnivalesque elements that will subsequently influence certain aspects of the Milanese director’s vision.
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The Boarder
Title: The Boarder
Character: ex-fumatore grasso
Released: February 25, 1954
Type: Movie
A prostitute goes on vacation to a beach resort with her young daughter (who's being schooled by nuns). Everything is cheerful and pleasant at the seashore; the customers at the hotel think she's a poor widow - she always wears black - and treat her like a lady. But when one of her former clients arrives, her carefree days on the beach are numbered.
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Love in the City
Title: Love in the City
Character: Man in Trinità de' Monti (segment "Gli italiani si voltano")
Released: November 27, 1953
Type: Movie
Six separate episodes exploring themes of love, sex and romance in the Italian capital. "Paid Love" offers a glimpse into prostitution; "Attempted Suicide" features would-be suicides discussing their despair; "Paradise for Three Hours" depicts an evening at a provincial dance hall; "Marriage Agency" follows an investigative reporter posing as a husband-to-be; "Story of Caterina" tells the story of a young unwed mother forced to abandon her child; and "Italians Stare" catalogues the girl-watching techniques of Italian men.