Giuliano Montaldo
Known for: Directing
Born: February 22, 1930
Died: September 5, 2023
Place of birth: Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Born in 1930 in Genoa. Still a young student in 1950 when director Carlo Lizzani gave him a role in the film Achtung Banditi!. Following this experience he traveled to Rome where, after acting in film and theatre, he became the Assistant Director of Lizzani, Gillo Pontecorvo, Sergio Leone, Francesco Rosi. In 1960 he made his debut as a Director with Tiro Al piccione, a film about the Partisan Resistance, on competition at the 1961 Venice Film Festival. In 1964 he directed La Moglie Svedese, an episode of the film Extraconiugale. With his second movie, Una Bella Grinta, won the special prize of the jury at the Berlin Film Festival in 1965, a film about a social climber in Italy during the time of the economic miracle. That year he also directed the second unit of Pontecorvo's masterpiece The Battle Of Algiers.
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Filmography
73 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
5.0
Siamo in un film di Alberto Sordi?
2025
7.1
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
2024
8.0
One Hour Only
2023
7.4
Sergio Leone: The Italian Who Invented America
2022
8.3
Ennio
2022
7.0
Vera & Giuliano
2020
7.0
The Legal Death
2018
NR
Tonino
2017
9.0
Raccontare Venezia
2017
6.5
Cinecittà Babilonia: Sex, Drugs and Black Shirts
2017
7.4
Everything You Want
2017
5.2
Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life
2017
5.5
L'abbiamo fatta grossa
2016
NR
Il segreto di Otello
2015
5.7
The Haunting of Helena
2013
NR
Giuliano Montaldo - Quattro volte vent'anni
2012
NR
The Years of Lost Images
2012
NR
Giovanna Cau - Diversamente giovane
2011
10.0
Noi c'eravamo
2011
NR
Voi siete qui
2011
5.3
The Entrepreneur
2011NR
Flaiano: il meglio è passato
2010
NR
L'oro di Cuba
2009
NR
Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso
2009
5.5
The Demons of St. Petersburg
2008
10.0
Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms
2007
6.7
The Caiman
2006
9.6
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
2006
7.0
Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
2006
6.8
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005
6.5
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
20044.0
Western all'italiana
200410.0
Years of the Eagle
1997
6.6
Celluloide
1996NR
Rome, November 12, 1994
1995
6.7
Un eroe borghese
1995
7.0
The Long Silence
1993
4.8
Time to Kill
1989
6.2
The Gold Rimmed Glasses
1987
5.6
Control
1987
NR
Cinecittà Cinecittà
1985
6.5
Farewell to Enrico Berlinguer
1984
NR
Sabatoventiquattromarzo
1984
8.5
Turandot
1983
8.0
Arlecchino
1983
6.8
Marco Polo
1982
7.0
A Dangerous Toy
1979
6.7
Closed Circuit
1978
6.6
And Agnes Chose to Die
1976
6.3
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
1975
6.4
Giordano Bruno
1973
7.7
Sacco & Vanzetti
1971
5.5
The Fifth Day of Peace
1970
6.1
Machine Gun McCain
1969
7.1
Grand Slam
1967
7.9
The Battle of Algiers
1966
5.7
The Reckless
1965
7.0
Extraconiugale
1964
10.0
Nudi per vivere
1963
5.6
Duel of Champions
1961
7.2
Pigeon Shoot
1961
6.9
The Assassin
1961
6.9
Kapo
1960
5.2
Esterina
1959
6.2
The Wide Blue Road
1957
6.0
The Most Wonderful Moment
1957
5.0
The Doll that Took the Town
1957
7.0
Abandoned
1955
5.4
The Girls of San Frediano
1955
7.0
Giovanna
1955
6.5
High School
1954
6.8
Chronicle of Poor Lovers
1954
7.0
At the Edge of the City
1953
7.5
The Blind Woman of Sorrento
1953
6.1
Attention! Bandits!
1951