Movies: Pier Luigi Pizzi

Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore bides his time to determine which side ...

Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she ...

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold....

1943. The affair between Anna, unhappily married to wheelchair-bound Pino, and deserter Franco unfolds in foggy Ferrara, intertwining with the power struggle taking place within local Fascist ranks that culminates in a massacre of civilians, includin...

A well known actor comes to off-season Capri to unwind and meets a young man. The attraction is immediate and mutual but before their relationship can get off the ground, an alluring woman with a spontaneous sexuality and care free attitude joins the...

A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the daughter-in-law stumbles upon a secret of the family's Nazi past....

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants....

To get her husband more interested in her, the wife invents a lover. The husband will collect every hint trying to figure out who is the lover....

A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work....

Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting infidelity, and a wealthy woman's drunken escapades with her butler....

Young Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, rejects his first wife Margherita Farnese, obtaining the annulment of the union and, at the same time, raising strong doubts about her virginity...

A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages....

A film documentarian stops at nothing to record unusual and supposedly true-to-life situations....

Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes....

A staging of Britten's opera filmed at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice in June 2008....

The ironic study of a young man's poignant adventures and sensual adventures...based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia....

An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes....

In 17th-century Rome, a young man in a choir of castrati falls for the beautiful wife of a powerful aristocrat....

For those with any interest in Vivaldi's operas Orlando Furioso is essential viewing, being a 1989 San Francisco Opera revival by Pier Luigi Pizzi of his own 1979 production which was largely responsible for beginning modern interest in Vivaldi's sta...

An inhabitant of the Moon, crashed on the Earth due to the violent shock caused by an atomic experiment, remains amazed by the discovery of this planet and gives life to a puppet, begging him to introduce him into the world of men....