Director
Raffaello Matarazzo
117 years · Rome, Italy · 43 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 43
Amore mio
1964 · Screenplay, Producer
Adultero lui, adultera lei
1963 · Director, Screenplay
I terribili sette
1963 · Director, Screenplay
Cerasella
1959 · Director, Screenplay
Melancholy Autumn
1958 · Director
The Last Violence
1957 · Director, Producer
Rice Girl
1956 · Director
The Intruder
1955 · Director, Screenplay
On Amazon Prime Video
The White Angel
1955 · Producer, Director
On Criterion Channel
Guai ai vinti
1954 · Screenplay, Director
The Slave of Sin
1954 · Director
Torna!
1954 · Producer, Director
Giuseppe Verdi
1953 · Director, Screenplay
On Darkroom
The Ship of Condemned Women
1953 · Director, Writer
Vortice
1953 · Screenplay, Director
He Who Is Without Sin...
1952 · Director
On Criterion Channel
Lieutenant Giorgio
1952 · Director
Nobody's Children
1951 · Director, Producer
On Criterion Channel
Dora la espía
1950 · Director, Writer
Paolo e Francesca
1950 · Director, Screenplay
Tormento
1950 · Director, Producer
On Criterion Channel
Chains
1949 · Director, Producer
On Criterion Channel
The Opium Den
1947 · Director, Screenplay
Lo sciopero dei milioni
1947 · Director