Raffaello Matarazzo

Known for DirectingBorn 1909-08-17Died 1966-05-17Rome, Italy

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Joe il Rosso

La Voce Lontana

I terribili sette

Paolo e Francesca

Dora la espía

Empezó en boda

Vortice

Amore mio

The Last Violence

Lieutenant Giorgio

Lo sciopero dei milioni

Giorno di nozze

L'imprevisto

Trappola d'amore

The Serpent's Fang

The Intruder

L'anonima Roylott

Nobody's Children

The Adventuress from the Floor Above

Melancholy Autumn

Giuseppe Verdi

Littoria

Two Happy Hearts

Tormento

Good night… lawyer!

Cerasella

He Who Is Without Sin...

The Hotel of the Absent

Guai ai vinti

The Ship of Condemned Women

The White Angel

Tourist Train

Chains

The Opium Den

Daddy's Little Devil

Adultero lui, adultera lei

Giù il sipario

Rice Girl

Torna!

The Slave of Sin

I Was to Blame

Mussolinia di Sardegna

Sabaudia