Nastro d'Argento 1980-1989
Nominated or awarded movies in Nastro d'Argento during the 80s
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- DirectorSalvatore PiscicelliStarsIda Di BenedettoMarcella MichelangeliTommaso BiancoA love story between two women in the Naples outskirts, a universe so far away from the glare of modernity, turbid, rural, completely naked in its ugliness and sorrow, where "people are talking".
- DirectorMaurizio NichettiStarsMaurizio NichettiAngela FinocchiaroEdy AngelilloMisadventures of Colombo, an engineer in Milano. He is the only winner of an admission test for a job, and just for this reason he isn't hired. So he becomes a barman, and he discovers a special formula that turns simple water into the "Immortality drink". He is robbed of the magic water copyright. So he tries to set up a theatrical company, but the first show is a fiasco. Since finding a normal job seems a mission impossible, he tries to set the sentimental side of his life. He targets the most beautiful girl of his building, and for her he builds a robot able to dance like Tony Manero (John Travolta's character in Saturday Night Fever (1977)). The robot gets drunk (!). It is another fiasco. So he targets an ugly girl and finally with her succeeds to live his surreal world for ever.
- DirectorNanni LoyStarsNino ManfrediAdolfo CeliVittorio MezzogiornoAn Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on a night train to Naples.
- DirectorFederico FelliniStarsMarcello MastroianniAnna PrucnalBernice StegersA businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
- DirectorAlberto SordiStarsAlberto SordiEdwige FenechCatherine SpaakEnrico Melotti, a middle-aged businessman, is dominated by a fierce as naive form of machismo and sees women only for what they can give him, both in terms of emotional and sexual satisfaction, and in terms of labor services and domestic labor. Therefore, he has a difficult relationship with his wife Marisa, his secretary/lover Claudia and his maid Teresa. During a business trip to America, his friend Arturo shows him how he solved the same problems. At Arturo's home, Enrico is astonished in seeing Caterina, a female-looking robotic maid that does all domestic chores better than a human because it doesn't need to sleep or feed. The only thing that puzzles Enrico is that the robot keeps calling Arturo by phone at regular intervals, as if to show concern like a human mate. Returning home from the trip, Enrico has again arguments with Claudia, Teresa and Marisa: he ignores Claudia's complaints (she would have him leave his wife and be with her in the public), he disapproves of Marisa having a job and a social life, and demands that Teresa perform extra activities on her evening off. Enrico resolves to break the relationship with the three women and to buy a Caterina robot for domestic duties, determined to live alone and not having to answer to anyone. At first, although spending is significant, everything seems to be going well, although Catherine shows strange (almost human) reactions and gives some strange sign of unrest during a visit from Marisa. Enrico believes that he has solved all of his problems, and starts looking for a female companion that does not demand so much as his former ones. He invites home the young and beautiful Elisabetta, whom he met at Marisa's store. The girl becomes uneasy at the sight of Caterina (as Enrico's ex-wife had been), especially after the robot seems to reject her as it did with Marisa. When Enrico and Elisabetta are about to spend the night together, Caterina loses control, plays havoc with the house and even tries to kill its master. Elisabetta panics, runs away and disappears from Enrico's life. The intervention of the engineer who built the robot is of little help: Caterina, in fact, is such a sophisticated machine that it acquired almost total autonomy from its original setting. In front of the engineer it pretends to behave, in order not to be removed and replaced, but as soon as the technician goes away, she starts imposing conditions on Enrico: she will serve him devoutly and without complaining if he will give her the respect and dedication owed to a real woman. So, when an American girl phones Enrico asking to be hosted at his home, the man vehemently answers no, in fear of a possible retaliation from the robot. The film ends with Enrico having dinner alone, duly served by Caterina in a room where she has closed all the doors like in a jail.
- DirectorPasquale SquitieriStarsSaverio MarconiStefano MadiaImma PiroMario lives in Turin with his sister Michelina. He works in the factory. He meets a young Turin man running a night club frequented by unsavory people related to drug trafficking.
- DirectorPupi AvatiStarsMariangela MelatoAnthony FranciosaOrazio OrlandoIn 1943, during the war, widow Francesca moves with her three daughters to her country house to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her.
- DirectorSalvatore PiscicelliStarsMarina SumaAngelo CannavaccioloSergio BoccalatteRosa, a Neapolitan worker, decides to prostitute herself with the approval of Comrade Tonino. Tonino in turn binds himself to a rich homosexual. He wants to marry Rosa and Tonino to have a child of the couple.
- DirectorMichelangelo AntonioniStarsMonica VittiPaolo BonacelliFranco BranciaroliOne long decade after the assassination of her husband, a reclusive queen comes face-to-face with the deceased's doppelgänger and anarchist poet, and strikes a three-day pact; however, fate has other plans. What is the mystery of Oberwald?
- DirectorFrancesco LaudadioStarsFranco NeroGabriele FerzettiOmero AntonuttiTwo convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy.
- DirectorLuciano OdorisioStarsMichele PlacidoTino SchirinziGiuliana de SioA well established music conductor in Chieti (Italy) tries to rebuild a historic city orchestra, which no longer exists.
- DirectorGiulio ParadisiStarsNino ManfrediRita TushinghamRudolph WalkerThree black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
- DirectorLina WertmüllerStarsEnrico MontesanoVeronica LarioLuisa De SantisWhile walking in a garden of statues of women, Ester and her friend Adele see two women kissing. Ester then dreams of kissing Adele and later imagines making love to her while she is in her husband Oscar's arms. She confesses her passion to Adele and tells Oscar she loves another. His jealousy takes over: he assumes it's a man and begs Adele to help him discover his rival's identity. Eventually Ester tells him she loves a woman. This makes him even less reasonable: he jumps between bewilderment ("Am I a cuckold?") and violent anger. After he gets drunk and figures out that Adele is the object of Ester's unconsummated desire, he becomes dangerous.
- DirectorAnna Maria TatòStarsFanny ArdantLeonardo TreviglioFrancesca De SapioIn an Italian hotel where a first communion party is in full swing, Vincenzo unexpectedly enters Lucia's room. A half-consented rape ensues. Lucia ends up enjoying the amorous assault of the brutish but attractive man just before rebelling, knocking him out and running away. On the road, she runs into the first communion girl, but Vincenzo finds them and pursues them.
- DirectorRenzo ArboreStarsRenzo ArborePietra MontecorvinoPippo BaudoAfter the success of his last film, Renzo Arbore is looking for fresh ideas for a new project. While wandering aimlessly through the streets of Rome he discusses with Luciano De Crescenzo, who, aware of his friend's lack of vein, lets himself go to a prediction: only a miracle of San Gennaro could give the right inspiration to the two.
- DirectorRoberto RussoStarsJean-Luc BideauMonica VittiAlessandro HaberAfter a 22-year marriage, a couple shows the signs of a crisis. She thinks he has a lover, and actually it seems so, but is the lover for real?
- DirectorGiuseppe BertolucciStarsLina SastriRossana PodestàGiulia BoschiYoung terrorist Laura will be the common thread that links six women's personal stories, determining their sometimes tragic destinies, and discovering silence and complicity that she does not seek.
- DirectorPasquale SquitieriStarsClaudia CardinaleGiuliano GemmaCatherine SpaakA journalist wants to make a film about the life and death of Claretta Petacci, the mistress of Benito Mussolini. For this, she will turn to her sister Miriam.
- DirectorPeter Del MonteStarsDino JaksicValeria GolinoCarlotta WittigLittle boy Tommaso has several imaginary friends who like to play cruel pranks on the staff in his house. When new maid Mara arrives, Tommaso bonds with her, but his jealous imaginary friends devise the cruelest prank yet for her.
- DirectorGianni MinelloStarsStefano Maria MioniStefania LupiAntonio GrazianiPino comes to the big city from his village and quickly falls in with the wrong element. Turning to prostitution to support himself, he quickly becomes in petty crime and drugs dealing. When he meets a gay artist he may have a chance at changing his life. Will he?
- DirectorMarco RisiStarsJerry CalàVanessa GravinaRicky TognazziCarlo, a thirty-something man-child, platonically falls in love with eleven-year-old Giulia.