Raffaello Matarazzo
Directing
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.
Known for
Directing41
movieAmore mio
1964
Director
movieI terribili sette
1963
Director
movieCerasella
1959
Director
movieMelancholy Autumn
1958
Director
movieThe Last Violence
1957
Director
movieRice Girl
1956
Director
movieThe Intruder
1955
Director
movieThe White Angel
1955
Director
movieGuai ai vinti
1954
Director
movieThe Slave of Sin
1954
Director
movieTorna!
1954
Director
movieGiuseppe Verdi
1953
Director
movieVortice
1953
Director
movieLieutenant Giorgio
1952
Director
movieNobody's Children
1951
Director
movieDora la espía
1950
Director
moviePaolo e Francesca
1950
Director
movieTormento
1950
Director
movieChains
1949
Director
movieThe Opium Den
1947
Director
movieLo sciopero dei milioni
1947
Director
movieEmpezó en boda
1944
Director
movieDaddy's Little Devil
1943
Director
movieGiorno di nozze
1942
Director
movieNotte di fortuna
1941
Director
movieGiù il sipario
1940
Director
movieTrappola d'amore
1940
Director
movieIl marchese di Ruvolito
1939
Director
movieThe Hotel of the Absent
1939
Director
movieI Was to Blame
1937
Director
movieJoe il Rosso
1936
Director
movieL'anonima Roylott
1936
Director
movieTourist Train
1933
Director
movieLittoria
1933
Director
movieMussolinia di Sardegna
1933
Director
Sabaudia
1933
Director
Writing30
movieAmore mio
1964
Screenplay, Story
movieAdultero lui, adultera lei
1963
Screenplay, Story
movieI terribili sette
1963
Screenplay
movieCerasella
1959
Screenplay
movieThe Intruder
1955
Screenplay
movieGuai ai vinti
1954
Screenplay
movieGiuseppe Verdi
1953
Screenplay
movieVortice
1953
Story, Screenplay
movieDora la espía
1950
Writer
moviePaolo e Francesca
1950
Screenplay
movieThe Opium Den
1947
Screenplay
movieEmpezó en boda
1944
Screenplay, Story
movieThe Adventuress from the Floor Above
1941
Screenplay, Story
movieNotte di fortuna
1941
Story, Screenplay
L'imprevisto
1940
Writer, Screenplay
movieGiù il sipario
1940
Writer
movieTrappola d'amore
1940
Screenplay
movieIl marchese di Ruvolito
1939
Screenplay
movieThe Hotel of the Absent
1939
Screenplay
movieL'amor mio non muore!
1938
Screenplay
movieI Was to Blame
1937
Screenplay
movieTourist Train
1933
Screenplay, Story
movieLa Voce Lontana
1933
Screenplay
movieTwo Happy Hearts
1932
Screenplay
Production8
movieAmore mio
1964
Producer
movieThe Last Violence
1957
Producer
movieThe White Angel
1955
Producer
movieTorna!
1954
Producer
movieVortice
1953
Producer
movieNobody's Children
1951
Producer
movieTormento
1950
Producer
movieChains
1949
Producer
Editing2
Acting1
movieTourist Train
1933
The Director of the Band (uncredited)