Raffaello Matarazzo
Largely misunderstood, at best considered a little master of an Italian cinema in full revival after the war thanks to neo-realism, Raffaello Matarazzo is nevertheless the author of some sumptuous melodramas whose success was spectacular in post-fascist Italy. Matarazzo started writing film reviews for the Roman newspaper Il Tevere before re-editing scripts for the Italian film company Cines. His first films were comedies until he shifted to making melodramas. With Catene, produced by Titanus in 1949, he became the most successful director in Italy. Audience loved his melodramas. Critics, however, have tended to disparage his work, saying that Matarazzo films were Neorealismo d'appendice. Since the 1970s, some film critics have tried to restore Matarazzo's reputation. French magazine Positif loved his erotic-historical peplum The Ship of Lost Women.
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Movies (46)
Amore mio
1964 · Story, Screenplay, Producer, Director
Adultero lui, adultera lei
1963 · Director, Story, Screenplay
I terribili sette
1963 · Director, Screenplay
Cerasella
1959 · Director, Screenplay
Melancholy Autumn
1958 · Director
The Last Violence
1957 · Director, Story, Producer
Rice Girl
1956 · Director
The Intruder
1955 · Director, Screenplay
The White Angel
1955 · Director, Story, Producer
Good night… lawyer!
1955 · Story
Guai ai vinti
1954 · Director, Screenplay
The Slave of Sin
1954 · Director
Torna!
1954 · Producer, Director
Giuseppe Verdi
1953 · Director, Screenplay
The Ship of Condemned Women
1953 · Director, Writer
Vortice
1953 · Story, Screenplay, Director, Producer
He Who Is Without Sin...
1952 · Director
Lieutenant Giorgio
1952 · Director
Nobody's Children
1951 · Director, Producer
Dora la espía
1950 · Director, Writer
Paolo e Francesca
1950 · Director, Screenplay
Tormento
1950 · Director, Producer
Chains
1949 · Director, Producer
The Opium Den
1947 · Director, Screenplay
Lo sciopero dei milioni
1947 · Director
Empezó en boda
1944 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Daddy's Little Devil
1943 · Director, Writer
Giorno di nozze
1942 · Director
The Adventuress from the Floor Above
1941 · Director, Story, Screenplay
Notte di fortuna
1941 · Director, Story, Screenplay
L'imprevisto
1940 · Writer, Screenplay
Giù il sipario
1940 · Writer, Editor, Director
Trappola d'amore
1940 · Director, Screenplay
Il marchese di Ruvolito
1939 · Director, Screenplay
The Hotel of the Absent
1939 · Director, Screenplay
L'amor mio non muore!
1938 · Screenplay
I Was to Blame
1937 · Director, Screenplay
Joe il Rosso
1936 · Director
The Anonymous Roylott
1936 · Editor, Director
The Serpent's Fang
1935 · Director, Writer
Tourist Train
1933 · The Director of the Band (uncredited), Director, Story, Screenplay
Littoria
1933 · Director
La Voce Lontana
1933 · Screenplay
Mussolinia di Sardegna
1933 · Director
Sabaudia
1933 · Director
Two Happy Hearts
1932 · Screenplay
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