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Gian Maria Volonté has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 1970s. 2 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including A Fistful of Dollars.
Judgment at Nuremberg
1961
Drama · History
A Fistful of Dollars
1964 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included
For a Few Dollars More
1965 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Prime Video · Included
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1970 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Prime Video · Included
A Bullet for the General
1967 · Movie · Actor
Top 51%Prime Video · Included
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volonté
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volonté
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
Dir. Elio Petri · With Gian Maria Volonté, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli
After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Dir. Elio Petri · With Gian Maria Volonté, Mariangela Melato, Salvo Randone
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
Dir. Jean-Pierre Melville · With Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volonté
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
Dir. Giuliano Montaldo · With Gian Maria Volonté, Riccardo Cucciolla, Cyril Cusack
Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.
Dir. Marco Bellocchio · With Gian Maria Volonté, Fabio Garriba, Carla Tatò
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
Dir. Elio Petri · With Gian Maria Volonté, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato
Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
Dir. Francesco Rosi · With Gian Maria Volonté, Luigi Squarzina, Peter Baldwin
Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.
Dir. Francesco Rosi · With Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volonté
History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Solomon Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.
Dir. Sergio Sollima · With Gian Maria Volonté, Tomas Milian, William Berger
Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects?
Dir. Valerio Zurlini · With Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Luciana Angiolillo
as Professore Paolo Laurana
A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.
Dir. Elio Petri · With Gian Maria Volonté, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware of his true intentions.
Dir. Damiano Damiani · With Gian Maria Volonté, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick
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