Nastro d'Argento 1980-1989
Nominated or awarded movies in Nastro d'Argento during the 80s
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- DirectorSalvatore PiscicelliStarsIda Di BenedettoMarcella MichelangeliTommaso BiancoA love story between two women in the Naples outskirts, a universe so far away from the glare of modernity, turbid, rural, completely naked in its ugliness and sorrow, where "people are talking".
- DirectorMaurizio NichettiStarsMaurizio NichettiAngela FinocchiaroEdy AngelilloMisadventures of Colombo, an engineer in Milano. He is the only winner of an admission test for a job, and just for this reason he isn't hired. So he becomes a barman, and he discovers a special formula that turns simple water into the "Immortality drink". He is robbed of the magic water copyright. So he tries to set up a theatrical company, but the first show is a fiasco. Since finding a normal job seems a mission impossible, he tries to set the sentimental side of his life. He targets the most beautiful girl of his building, and for her he builds a robot able to dance like Tony Manero (John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever (1977)). The robot gets drunk (!). It is another fiasco. So he targets an ugly girl and finally with her succeeds to live his surreal world for ever.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsNino ManfrediAdolfo CeliVittorio MezzogiornoAn Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on a night train to Naples.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnna PrucnalBernice StegersA businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
- DirectorAlberto SordiStarsAlberto SordiEdwige FenechCatherine SpaakEnrico Melotti, a middle-aged businessman, is dominated by a fierce as naive form of machismo and sees women only for what they can give him, both in terms of emotional and sexual satisfaction, and in terms of labor services and domestic labor. Therefore, he has a difficult relationship with his wife Marisa, his secretary/lover Claudia and his maid Teresa. During a business trip to America, his friend Arturo shows him how he solved the same problems. At Arturo's home, Enrico is astonished in seeing Caterina, a female-looking robotic maid that does all domestic chores better than a human because it doesn't need to sleep or feed. The only thing that puzzles Enrico is that the robot keeps calling Arturo by phone at regular intervals, as if to show concern like a human mate. Returning home from the trip, Enrico has again arguments with Claudia, Teresa and Marisa: he ignores Claudia's complaints (she would have him leave his wife and be with her in the public), he disapproves of Marisa having a job and a social life, and demands that Teresa perform extra activities on her evening off. Enrico resolves to break the relationship with the three women and to buy a Caterina robot for domestic duties, determined to live alone and not having to answer to anyone. At first, although spending is significant, everything seems to be going well, although Catherine shows strange (almost human) reactions and gives some strange sign of unrest during a visit from Marisa. Enrico believes that he has solved all of his problems, and starts looking for a female companion that does not demand so much as his former ones. He invites home the young and beautiful Elisabetta, whom he met at Marisa's store. The girl becomes uneasy at the sight of Caterina (as Enrico's ex-wife had been), especially after the robot seems to reject her as it did with Marisa. When Enrico and Elisabetta are about to spend the night together, Caterina loses control, plays havoc with the house and even tries to kill its master. Elisabetta panics, runs away and disappears from Enrico's life. The intervention of the engineer who built the robot is of little help: Caterina, in fact, is such a sophisticated machine that it acquired almost total autonomy from its original setting. In front of the engineer it pretends to behave, in order not to be removed and replaced, but as soon as the technician goes away, she starts imposing conditions on Enrico: she will serve him devoutly and without complaining if he will give her the respect and dedication owed to a real woman. So, when an American girl phones Enrico asking to be hosted at his home, the man vehemently answers no, in fear of a possible retaliation from the robot. The film ends with Enrico having dinner alone, duly served by Caterina in a room where she has closed all the doors like in a jail.
- DirectorPasquale SquitieriStarsSaverio MarconiStefano MadiaImma PiroMario lives in Turin with his sister Michelina. He works in the factory. He meets a young Turin man running a night club frequented by unsavory people related to drug trafficking.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsMariangela MelatoAnthony FranciosaOrazio OrlandoIn 1943, during the war, widow Francesca moves with her three daughters to her country house to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her.
- DirectorSalvatore PiscicelliStarsMarina SumaAngelo CannavaccioloSergio BoccalatteRosa, a Neapolitan worker, decides to prostitute herself with the approval of Comrade Tonino. Tonino in turn binds himself to a rich homosexual. He wants to marry Rosa and Tonino to have a child of the couple.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsMonica VittiPaolo BonacelliFranco BranciaroliOne long decade after the assassination of her husband, a reclusive queen comes face-to-face with the deceased's doppelgänger and anarchist poet, and strikes a three-day pact; however, fate has other plans. What is the mystery of Oberwald?
- DirectorFrancesco LaudadioStarsFranco NeroGabriele FerzettiOmero AntonuttiTwo convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy.
- DirectorLuciano OdorisioStarsMichele PlacidoTino SchirinziGiuliana de SioA well established music conductor in Chieti (Italy) tries to rebuild a historic city orchestra, which no longer exists.
- DirectorGiulio ParadisiStarsNino ManfrediRita TushinghamRudolph WalkerThree black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsEnrico MontesanoVeronica LarioLuisa De SantisWhile walking in a garden of statues of women, Ester and her friend Adele see two women kissing. Ester then dreams of kissing Adele and later imagines making love to her while she is in her husband Oscar's arms. She confesses her passion to Adele and tells Oscar she loves another. His jealousy takes over: he assumes it's a man and begs Adele to help him discover his rival's identity. Eventually Ester tells him she loves a woman. This makes him even less reasonable: he jumps between bewilderment ("Am I a cuckold?") and violent anger. After he gets drunk and figures out that Adele is the object of Ester's unconsummated desire, he becomes dangerous.
- DirectorAnna Maria TatòStarsFanny ArdantLeonardo TreviglioFrancesca De SapioIn an Italian hotel where a first communion party is in full swing, Vincenzo unexpectedly enters Lucia's room. A half-consented rape ensues. Lucia ends up enjoying the amorous assault of the brutish but attractive man just before rebelling, knocking him out and running away. On the road, she runs into the first communion girl, but Vincenzo finds them and pursues them.
- DirectorRenzo ArboreStarsRenzo ArborePietra MontecorvinoPippo BaudoAfter the success of his last film, Renzo Arbore is looking for fresh ideas for a new project. While wandering aimlessly through the streets of Rome he discusses with Luciano De Crescenzo, who, aware of his friend's lack of vein, lets himself go to a prediction: only a miracle of San Gennaro could give the right inspiration to the two.
- DirectorRoberto RussoStarsJean-Luc BideauMonica VittiAlessandro HaberAfter a 22-year marriage, a couple shows the signs of a crisis. She thinks he has a lover, and actually it seems so, but is the lover for real?
- DirectorGiuseppe BertolucciStarsLina SastriRossana PodestàGiulia BoschiYoung terrorist Laura will be the common thread that links six women's personal stories, determining their sometimes tragic destinies, and discovering silence and complicity that she does not seek.
- DirectorPasquale SquitieriStarsClaudia CardinaleGiuliano GemmaCatherine SpaakA journalist wants to make a film about the life and death of Claretta Petacci, the mistress of Benito Mussolini. For this, she will turn to her sister Miriam.
- DirectorPeter Del MonteStarsDino JaksicValeria GolinoCarlotta WittigLittle boy Tommaso has several imaginary friends who like to play cruel pranks on the staff in his house. When new maid Mara arrives, Tommaso bonds with her, but his jealous imaginary friends devise the cruelest prank yet for her.
- DirectorGianni MinelloStarsStefano Maria MioniStefania LupiAntonio GrazianiPino comes to the big city from his village and quickly falls in with the wrong element. Turning to prostitution to support himself, he quickly becomes in petty crime and drugs dealing. When he meets a gay artist he may have a chance at changing his life. Will he?
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsJerry CalàVanessa GravinaRicky TognazziCarlo, a thirty-something man-child, platonically falls in love with eleven-year-old Giulia.
- DirectorCarlo VerdoneStarsCarlo VerdoneAlberto SordiStella HallOscar is a Roman guy who dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. Staging an accident to contact a manufacturer, he injures young actress Nancy. He remedies the damage by letting her recover in his home.
- DirectorMaurizio PonziStarsEnrico MontesanoNino ManfrediMassimo BoldiCarabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge to investigate on a fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is linked with his case. Things get more complicated when the main suspected, Lorenzini, is killed. More, Cordelli villa is blow up and the evidences drive to the conclusion the whole case could be solved only flying to London. Here another impediment waits Cordelli and his superior Col. Vinci...
- DirectorLuigi FacciniStarsBruno ZaninOlga KarlatosMattia SbragiaThe merciless decline of a great poet, Dino Campana, author of the Canti Orfici, remembered more for his passionate relationship with Sibilla Aleramo than for the depth of his art. Locked up in an asylum in his early thirties, psychopathic yet brilliant, subjected to the cruel care of a doctor who would really like to rehabilitate him, Campana slides towards death with hallucinating determination, alternating delirium with flashes of lucidity, the memory of Sibilla with a poetic creativity stronger than his alienation.
- DirectorVolker SchlöndorffStarsDustin HoffmanKate ReidJohn MalkovichAn aging traveling salesman recognizes the emptiness of his life and tries to fix it.
- DirectorAdriano CelentanoStarsAdriano CelentanoClaudia MoriFederica MoroJoan Lui, a preacher who came from nowhere and without a past, arrives to Italy.
- DirectorCarlo LizzaniStarsBerta Domínguez D.Alessandro HaberStefania SandrelliBased on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsUgo TognazziGastone MoschinAdolfo CeliThis time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
- DirectorCarlo CottiStarsBarbara BlancGiuppy IzzoFrancesca FlorioThe story of a teenager whose biggest dream is to marry Simon Le Bon, singer of pop band Duran Duran.
- DirectorValerio ZeccaStarsLuca BarbareschiGeppy GleijesesMarilù PratiPaolo and Carlo are good friends. The first is introverted, disillusioned and intellectual, while the other one is happy and shallow. Despite their differences, they share accommodation. Paolo runs an "alternative" kind of library with a colleague. Carlo plays the violin in a little band. Their lives go on peacefully until suddenly Paolo falls in love with a customer of his own library - Lili, an amateur actress - whom he decides to take home. Carlo doesn't react well to the fact he's got to share the same space with a third person, so he comes up with a weird idea. He flirts with the new girl and manages to seduce her. Paolo thinks his best friend is now guilty of a real betrayal, while Lili is undecided: she's attracted by both the culture of Paolo and the physical attractiveness of Carlo. This love triangle comes to an end when Paolo tries to commit suicide, Carlo feels remorseful and Lili leaves them both, returning to her previous life and still hoping to find her one true love.
- DirectorMassimo MazzuccoStarsLuca BarbareschiWalter ChiariPatrizia FachiniA father and son try to reconcile spending a few days together and confronting each other also through their own marital experiences.
- DirectorCinzia TH TorriniStarsJohn SavageRachel WardMassimo TroisiMarco Venieri receives word that his brother Luca, an ex-terrorist turned state's evidence, has killed himself in Columbia. Marco takes the journey to Columbia only to find a country permeated with poverty, corruption, racism and crime.
- DirectorGiuseppe PiccioniStarsRoberto De FrancescoSergio RubiniFederica MastroianniItaly, the early sixties: Yuri, a young boy who lives with his mother and a little sister (his father has abandoned them) meets Razzo, a tough streetwise boy and becomes his friend. Eight years later the two friends meet again on different political sides: Yuri has become a leftist while Razzo goes out with some right wing boys. Nevertheless during a brawl Razzo saves Yuri's life before meeting a doomed fate.
- DirectorLuigi MagniStarsNino ManfrediStefania SandrelliLando BuzzancaThe story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate.
- DirectorMassimo TroisiStarsMassimo TroisiMarco MesseriJo ChampaSet during the '20s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves.
- DirectorFranco AmurriStarsRenato PozzettoJoska VersariGiulia BoschiOn the day of his eighth birthday, Marco wishes to be a grown-up man and, suddenly, it happens.
- DirectorLuciano De CrescenzoStarsSilvio CeccatoBenedetto CasilloSergio SolliThree episodes about the relativity of time.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsVincent SpanoJoaquim de AlmeidaGreta ScacchiAfter the bankruptcy of their father's stonemasonry firm, Nicola and Andrea emigrate to America to restore their fortunes. After many adventures and near-disasters, they end up in Hollywood designing sets for D.W. Griffith and marry beautiful actresses, but tragedy strikes with the arrival of World War I, which finds the brothers fighting on opposite sides...
- DirectorSergio NascaStarsLina SastriTuri FerroRoberto AlpiRenata Fonte, council member in the town of Nardò, is assassinated. The inquiry will bring to the discovery of an involvement of the Mafia in redevelopment projects which Renata Fonte had tried to fight back.
- DirectorFrancesco NutiStarsFrancesco NutiClarissa BurtRicky TognazziPsychiatrist Caruso is arguably as nutty as his patients. He can remember at two years old being completely besotted by the charms of a naked girl. Even today, he can think of little else besides sex, sex, sex.
- DirectorFrancesco MaselliStarsOrnella MutiAnna's partner, a famous writer, has left her after several years together, and she is determined to find out why. After discovering the access code to his computer, Anna reads unsent letters that reveal the true reason for their breakup.
- DirectorSergio StainoStarsPaolo HendelDavid RiondinoVincent GardeniaIn the 1832 Marquess Ottavio (Riondino) and his friend Paolo (Hendel) left Napoli to reach Sicily following same itinerary of poet Goethe. After few miles they are assaulted and robbed by bandits. They decided to stop in the Cilento, in the beautiful villa of a Prince their friend. This last will try in all the way to make his inconstant daughter to marry one of the two.
- DirectorFrancesco CalogeroStarsMaurizio PuglisiAntonio AlvearioAntonino BruschettaInspired by portuguese author Fernando Pessoa's masterpiece "The Book if Disquiet", the film tells the story of Giorgio, an editor who decides to read Federico Cani's review of a show he just saw. Federico is normally a cinical man, but this time, he is benevolent to the young pianist, Irene Della Pace.
- DirectorCristina ComenciniStarsAsia ArgentoMarco ParenteDaniel OlbrychskiMartina lives in the Rome's zoo, because her father is the guardian. She becomes friend with a young Slavic escaped from a gypsy camp. When the police arrives searching for the kid, they run away riding an elephant.
- DirectorMaurizio NichettiStarsMaurizio NichettiCaterina Sylos LabiniFederico RizzoA movie resembling Bicycle Thieves (1948) is shown on TV, but the real-life world gets muddled with the film and the TV commercials.
- DirectorGianfranco MingozziStarsPiera Degli EspostiNicola FarronFederico ProvvediGilberta is a widow and piano teacher who, all unbeknownst to her, is mostly supported by her 16-year old son, Enzo. He manages this by selling old, forgotten family bric-a-brac and by cleaning the community swimming pool. To improve their circumstances, Gilberta rents one of the rooms in their lodgings to Toni a handsome young man. Toni takes Gilberta to his bed, and she takes him into her heart. Her son warily accepts the arrangement, but is concerned for his mother. These concerns prove justified when the lodger takes up with a (much younger) music student of Gilberta's. Driven literally mad with her grief at this unendurable abandonment, Gilberta is eventually compelled to ask Enzo to help her end her misery.
- DirectorElvio PortaStarsGiuliana de SioRichard AnconinaMario ScarpettaTeresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick.
- DirectorÉtienne ChatiliezStarsBenoît MagimelHélène VincentValérie LalandeA revengeful nurse switches a girl and a boy at birth. They are raised in two radically different families. When the switch is revealed many years later, the now teenagers and families need to cope with their new environments.