Riz Ortolani Movies

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...

Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.

Pregnant with their 10th child, Agata discovers that her lazy husband Gennaro betrays her cheerfully.

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

In 1939, in a French prison camp, José Garcés of the defeated Spanish Republican army raises the spirits of his fellow prisoners by...

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

Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in...

Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a...

An Italian woman who has not heard from her daughter for a while travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted...

Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat...

A documentary consisting of a series of travelogue vignettes providing glimpses into cultural practices throughout the world intended to shock or...

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...

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

King Louis XIV has without his knowledge a twin brother, Philippe, but when he is told, he immediately locks up his brother in the Bastille. The king...

Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.

A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they...

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...

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

An airplane goes down in the ocean during a storm and a few survivors find refuge on a small tour boat. Swept out to sea, these people slowly starve...

A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.