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Carlo Di Palma

Born April 17, 1925 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

Died July 9, 2004 · aged 79

No biography available.

Known For

The Secret of My Success · 1987

The Secret of My Success

★ 6.51987

MovieComedy

Brantley Foster, a well-educated kid from Kansas, has always dreamed of making it big in New York City, but once there, he learns that jobs - and girls - are hard to get. When he visits his uncle, Howard Prescott, who runs a multi-million-dollar company, he is given a job in the mail room.

Bicycle Thieves · 1948

Bicycle Thieves

★ 8.21948

MovieDrama

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

Husbands and Wives · 1992

Husbands and Wives

★ 7.01992

MovieComedyDrama

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

Hannah and Her Sisters · 1986

Hannah and Her Sisters

★ 7.51986

MovieComedyDrama

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

Shadows and Fog · 1991

Shadows and Fog

★ 6.71991

MovieComedyMystery

With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

Everyone Says I Love You · 1996

Everyone Says I Love You

★ 6.41996

MovieComedyRomance

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.

Mighty Aphrodite · 1995

Mighty Aphrodite

★ 6.71995

MovieComedyRomance

When Lenny and his wife, Amanda, adopt a baby, Lenny realizes that his son is a genius and becomes obsessed with finding the boy's biological mother in hopes that she will be brilliant too. But when he learns that Max's mother is Linda Ash, a kindhearted prostitute and porn star, Lenny is determined to reform her immoral lifestyle. A Greek chorus chimes in to relate the plot to Greek mythology in this quirky comedy.

Filmography

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The Secret of My Success · 1987

The Secret of My Success

★ 6.51987

MovieComedy

Director of Photography

Bicycle Thieves · 1948

Bicycle Thieves

★ 8.21948

MovieDrama

Focus Puller

Husbands and Wives · 1992

Husbands and Wives

★ 7.01992

MovieComedyDrama

When their best friends announce that they're separating, a professor and his wife discover the faults in their own marriage.

Director of Photography

In an industrializing Italian town, a married woman, rendered mentally unstable after a traffic accident, drifts into an affair with a friend of her husband.

Director of Photography

Hannah and Her Sisters · 1986

Hannah and Her Sisters

★ 7.51986

MovieComedyDrama

Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

Director of Photography

Shadows and Fog · 1991

Shadows and Fog

★ 6.71991

MovieComedyMystery

With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.

Director of Photography

Everyone Says I Love You · 1996

Everyone Says I Love You

★ 6.41996

MovieComedyRomance

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.

Director of Photography

Mighty Aphrodite · 1995

Mighty Aphrodite

★ 6.71995

MovieComedyRomance

Director of Photography

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... · 1967

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...

★ 4.61967

MovieRomanceAdventure

A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.

Director of Photography

Divorce Italian Style · 1961

Divorce Italian Style

★ 7.91961

MovieComedyCrime

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.

Director of Photography

After a suicide attempt, Lane has moved into her country house to recuperate. Her best friend, Stephanie, has come to join her for the summer. Lane's mother, Diane, has recently arrived with her husband Lloyd, Lane's stepfather. Lane is close to two neighbors: Peter, and Howard. Howard is in love with Lane, Lane is in love with Peter, and Peter is in love with Stephanie.

Director of Photography

Manhattan Murder Mystery · 1993

Manhattan Murder Mystery

★ 7.31993

MovieComedyMystery

A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.

Director of Photography

Bullets Over Broadway · 1994

Bullets Over Broadway

★ 7.11994

MovieComedyCrime

After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress. David puts up with the leading man who is a compulsive eater, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Olive's interfering hitman/bodyguard—but, eventually he must decide whether art or life is more important.

Director of Photography

Deconstructing Harry · 1997

Deconstructing Harry

★ 7.21997

MovieComedyDrama

Writer Harry Block draws inspiration from people he knows, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.

Director of Photography

A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

Director of Photography

A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris.

Director of Photography

Alice Tate, mother of two, with a marriage of 16 years, finds herself falling for a handsome sax player, Joe. Stricken with a backache, she consults herbalist Dr. Yang, who realizes that her problems are not related to her back, but in her mind and heart. Dr. Yang's magical herbs give Alice wondrous powers, taking her out of her well-established rut.

Director of Photography

Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is all about-- that he is the main suspect in the killing of his wealthy ex-lover. Is he guilty, or is he just a sleaze?

Director of Photography

Identification of a Woman · 1982

Identification of a Woman

★ 5.91982

MovieDramaRomance

Movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him and disappears while searching for her, he meets a variety of other willing girls. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women's relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie.

Director of Photography

The Girl with a Pistol · 1968

The Girl with a Pistol

★ 6.91968

MovieComedy

A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.

Director of Photography

Don't Drink the Water · 1994

Don't Drink the Water

★ 5.61994

MovieComedyTV Movie

Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American Embassy, which is temporarily being run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son, Axel.

Director of Photography

Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.

Second Unit Director of Photography

A Drama of Jealousy (and other things) · 1970

A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)

★ 7.21970

MovieComedyDrama

Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often goes to communist rallies, and enjoys the filthy beaches of Ostia. Will the hostile environment pave a way to jealousy?

Director of Photography

The Narrator tells us how the radio influenced his childhood in the days before TV. In the New York City of the late 1930s to the New Year's Eve 1944, this coming-of-age tale mixes the narrator's experiences with contemporary anecdotes and urban legends of the radio stars.

Director of Photography