Directing
Marco Ferreri
Born May 11, 1928 · Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Died May 9, 1997 · aged 68
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 alleg…
Known For
La Grande Bouffe · 1973La Grande Bouffe
★ 7.11973
MovieDramaComedy
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
Pigsty · 1969Pigsty
★ 7.01969
MovieDrama
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.
The Ape Woman · 1964The Ape Woman
★ 7.31964
MovieDramaComedy
A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.
The Flesh · 1991The Flesh
★ 5.71991
MovieDramaRomance
A piano player meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism. After some time he becomes sick of it and she relieves his paralysis. Eventually she gets bored and decides to leave, but he can't take it because he loves her…
Don't Touch the White Woman! · 1974Don't Touch the White Woman!
★ 5.51974
MovieComedyWestern
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.
Love in the City · 1953Love in the City
★ 6.51953
MovieDramaRomance
Six vignettes explore love and desire in Rome, from prostitution and heartache to unwed motherhood and the male gaze.
The Last Woman · 1976The Last Woman
★ 6.21976
MovieDrama
Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.
The Story of Piera · 1983The Story of Piera
★ 5.91983
MovieDrama
Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations with her before they are committed to insane asylums.
A special connection, between a mother and her daughter, full of sensuality and complicity, has allowed to portray a family full of fears, rather unbalanced, but nevertheless searching infinite love.
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