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Renato Salvatori has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1950s through the 1980s. 2 rank in the Top 10%, led by Big Deal on Madonna Street.
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The Onion Field
1979
Crime · Drama

The Working Class Goes to Heaven
1971
Drama

F.I.S.T.
1978
Drama · Action

The Yakuza
1974
Crime · Drama

The Friends of Eddie Coyle
1973
Crime · Drama

The Judge and the Assassin
1976
History · Crime

The American Friend
1977
Drama · Thriller

Hands Over the City
1963
Drama

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Memmo Carotenuto

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
Dir. Luchino Visconti · With Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot

Assigned to South America, US official Philip Michael Santore is employed by a counterinsurgency agency. His position makes him a target for a local band of guerrillas, and, before long, Santore is kidnapped. As a prisoner, he undergoes interrogation, shedding light on the violent situation in the country. Once the insurgents are done with their questioning, they must decide whether Santore lives or dies.
Dir. Costa-Gavras · With Yves Montand, Renato Salvatori, O.E. Hasse

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

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend.
Dir. Valerio Zurlini · With Alain Delon, Sonia Petrovna, Giancarlo Giannini

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.
Dir. Mario Monicelli · With Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli
In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.
Dir. Henri Verneuil · With Jean-Paul Belmondo, Omar Sharif, Dyan Cannon

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
Dir. Francesco Rosi · With Lino Ventura, Tino Carraro, Marcel Bozzuffi
The usual gang of robbers are hired by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will hinder the success of the operation.
Dir. Nanni Loy · With Vittorio Gassman, Renato Salvatori, Claudia Cardinale

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.
Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo · With Marlon Brando, Evaristo Márquez, Renato Salvatori
Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the "final" game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?
Dir. Castellano, Pipolo · With Adriano Celentano, Edwige Fenech, Renato Salvatori
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
Dir. Jacques Deray · With Alain Delon, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Claudine Auger
While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.
Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Veronica Lazăr
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