An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on a night train to Naples. Read More »
Tag Archives: Adolfo Celi
The Night of the Assassin AKA Appuntamento col disonore (1970) Adriano Bolzoni, Michael Craig, Eva Renzi, Adolfo Celi
During the civil war in Cyprus, an island nation split between the Greeks and the Turks Read More »
El Greco (1966) Luciano Salce, Mel Ferrer, Rosanna Schiaffino, Adolfo Celi
16th-century Spain, the famed Greek painter El Greco journeys to Toledo to paint an altarpiece. Read More »
Libera, My Love AKA Libera, amore mio! (1975) Mauro Bolognini, Adolfo Celi, Bruno Cirino, Claudia Cardinale
Director Mauro Bolognini inserts this story in Fascist Italy, with careful attention to details. Read More »
Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man AKA Uomini si nasce poliziotti si muore (1976) Ruggero Deodato, Marc Porel, Ray Lovelock, Adolfo Celi
Fred and Tony are members of an elite ‘special squad’ of police in Rome Read More »
Pete, Pearl and the Pole AKA Piazza pulita (1973) Luigi Vanzi, Tony Anthony, Adolfo Celi, Lucretia Love
In 1931, when the late American Prohibition major bosses have now divided the territory to exploit, the family of one of them – killed in a clash Read More »
They Have Changed Their Face AKA Hanno cambiato faccia (1971) Corrado Farina, Adolfo Celi, Geraldine Hooper, Giuliano Esperanti
In this allegory on capitalism, director of a known car corporation invites one of his employees to his country villa Read More »
Eye in the Labyrinth (1972) Mario Caiano, Rosemary Dexter, Adolfo Celi, Alida Valli
A woman searches for her missing lover, a psychiatrist who has suddenly vanished for no apparent reason. Read More »
Operation Kid Brother (1967) Alberto De Martino, Neil Connery, Daniela Bianchi, Adolfo Celi
The evil crime syndicate Thanatos is bent on taking over the world Read More »
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (1973) Ennio De Concini, Alec Guinness, Simon Ward, Adolfo Celi
A dramatization based on eye witness accounts of Hitler’s final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun. Read More »
E venne un uomo (1965) Ermanno Olmi, Rod Steiger, Adolfo Celi, Giorgo Fortunato
Based on the diary Pope John XXIII kept between the ages of 14 and 18, his lifelong concern for tolerance, the underprivileged, and world peace is told. Read More »
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976) Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy, Senta Berger, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Gassman, Comedy
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. Read More »
The Phantom of Liberty (1974) Luis Buñuel, Jean-Claude Brialy, Adolfo Celi, Michel Piccoli, Comedy
This surrealist film is made up of series of only vaguely connected episodes, most beautifully the dinner party scene where individuals sit lavatories around a dinner table Read More »
Master Stroke (1967) Michele Lupo, Richard Harrison, Adolfo Celi, Margaret Lee, Crime, Drama
In Madrid, actor Lang is hired by Monsieur Bernard to impersonate a certain Owen for a time. Read More »
Slalom / Snow Job (1965) Luciano Salce, Vittorio Gassman, Adolfo Celi, Daniela Bianchi, Comedy
Lucio (Vittorio Gassman) and his sidekick (Adolfo Celi) accidently gets mixed up with a gang of international counterfeiters in this fast-moving and suspenseful comedy with music from Ennio Morricone. The crooks hope to upset the U.S. economy by flooding the world with bogus bills. Lucio is an overworked businessman who only wants a little rest and relaxation. Instead, he is skiing in Northern Italy on one day and the next day enduring the searing heat in the Egyptian desert.
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