Stefano Satta Flores Movies
Neapolitan actor Stefano Satta Flores appeared in several Italian features during the '70s and '80s. He made his debut in 1963 appearing in Lina Wertmuller's The Lizards. Later he became a playwright and occasionally acted in television shows. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide- 1984
- R
In many ways, this was a courageous film to make about Carlo Dalla Chiesa (played by Lino Ventura), an Italian general who gave his life trying to eliminate Mafia bosses and their supporters. Dalla Chiesa's wife was also murdered when her husband got too close to exposing the truth about the connections between the Mafia, the state, and the banking world. After Dalla Chiesa organized a campaign against the Red Brigades, he was sent to Sicily to clamp down on Mafia activities and bring some of the worst mob leaders to justice. His wife Emmanuela completely supported him in this dangerous undertaking, and during the course of his investigations, Dalla Chiesa began to check out the banks suspected in laundering money for the mob. That level of inquiry brought him a warning phone call from a government minister, and when he refused to stop his three-month investigation, he and his wife were murdered. In an eloquent statement of support for his efforts to combat the Mafia, a long list of sponsors for this film - including local organizations both inside and outside the government, anti-drug groups, and organizations in the cinematic field among many others, were listed in the closing credits. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Lino Ventura, Giuliana de Sio, (more)
- 1980
Argante (Alberto Sordi) is an eccentric recluse who suffers from a malady of real and imagined gastrointestinal difficulties in this tasteless, low-brow comedy. While his doctor (Bernard Blier) tries various cures, Argante exposes his unfaithful wife (Marina Vlady) and makes peace with his estranged daughter (Giuliana De Sio). The viewer is subjected to endless scenes of enemas as the film caters to the lowest levels of bathroom humor. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Alberto Sordi, Laura Antonelli, (more)
- 1979
Perhaps a little over-ambitious for the casual audience unfamiliar with the Italian world of entertainment and politics, La Terrazza involves a total of eight main protagonists and how they have changed or are changing. All eight are sitting on a terrace talking, while flashbacks and flashforwards fill in their past, present, and future relationships. Enrico (Jean-Louis Tritignant) is a burnt-out screenwriter, Amedeo (Ugo Tognazzi) is a self-made producer, Mario (Vittorio Gassman) is a communist member of parliament who is having an affair with the married Giovanna (Stefania Sandrelli) and is otherwise having a hard time trying to tow the tough, virtuous line the party demands. Giovanna, as well as the other women on the terrace, have all the spirit of people looking forward to the future while the men have been there and found it wanting. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Ugo Tognazzi, Vittorio Gassman, (more)
- 1978
- PG
Max (Robert Morley) is a wealthy, world-class conoisseur of fine food, who cannot stop himself from eating when the food is first-class. His doctor has given him stern warnings that he must lose over one hundred pounds, or he will die of heart failure. The presence of so many four-star chefs in Europe is a hazard for him. When many of these same chefs are found murdered in inventive ways, each related to the chef's specialty, it begins to appear that Max is the prime suspect in their deaths. Meanwhile, the ex-wife (Jaqueline Bisset) of a fast-food tycoon (George Segal) has earned the right to cook the dessert course at a dinner billed as "the world's most fabulous meal." Despite their profound disagreements, he is worried that she will be one of the murderer's victims.This film, which was loved by some critics and hated by others, is based on the best-selling novel Someone is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe by Nan and Ivan Lyons. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, (more)
- 1978
In this family drama, a man finds himself becoming increasingly estranged from his wife and teenage daughter. To rectify the situation he gets a handgun and begins to try to prove that he is indeed a real man. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Stefano Satta Flores, Claudia Cardinale, (more)
- 1978
Claudia is on a pilgrimage to the mountain site where her son was killed in an auto accident. Once in the area, she begins to see a young lad who closely resembles her lost son. Except for footprints in the snow, no one else sees him, and it begins to appear that she is either haunted or crazy. When she returns home, it becomes necessary to ask who poisoned her husband and family dog. When she later leaves town, was the boy in the car seat next to her there all along, or did he just appear? ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Agostina Belli, Stefano Satta Flores, (more)
- 1978
- R
In this fast-paced action/drama, a downtrodden farmer turns to crime and quickly rises to prominence in the Sicilian mafia. Along the way, he learns the importance of political connections and of having legitimate businesses to funnel ill-gotten cash into. Determined to do away with the old and more violent ways of doing things, he lays the groundwork for his own doom. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Giuliano Gemma, Claudia Cardinale, (more)
- 1978
- R
In this espionage drama, set in Greece, a former CIA agent (David Janssen) is being stalked by his former employers, led by Arthur Kennedy,after he writes a book about his life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- David Janssen, Corinne Clery, (more)
- 1977
Nothing remains the same in the love lives of those associated in any way with the case of the shooting death of Valeria (Carole Chauvet) by her husband Fabrizio (Marc Porel) during a hunting trip. Was it an accident or murder? Slowly, the police magistrate (Stefano Satta Flores) sifts through the evidence from the lives of those around the couple to determine the truth. This psychological detective story is based on an award-winning novel by Michele Prisco. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Marina Berti, Martine Brochard, (more)
- 1975
In this Italian political drama, an idealistic aristocrat begins an uprising against the Bourbon government. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Giulio Brogi, Stefano Satta Flores, (more)
- 1975
Paolo Barca is a sophisticate from Milan who is sent to Sicily to teach school. He is also a virgin. When he realizes the extent of his student's ignorance about sex, he makes classroom sex education a priority. This, naturally, creates a furor in conservative Sicily. Ironically, he soon receives lessons in sexuality from his female colleagues. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Renato Pozzetto, Magali Noël, (more)
- 1975
- R
This sequel to the blaxploitation hit Cleopatra Jones mixes in elements of the kung-fu genre and James Bond-styled spy adventures as it sends its colorful heroine to a high-flying adventure in an exotic locale. When fellow operatives (and childhood friends) Matthew Johnson (Albert Popwell) and Melvin Johnson (Caro Kenyatta) disappear during an undercover mission in Hong Kong, Cleopatra Jones (Tamara Dobson) travels there to find them. With the help of local detective Mi Ling (Tanny), Cleopatra discovers that her friends' disappearance has to do with The Dragon Lady (Stella Stevens), a much-feared woman who runs a Macao casino and controls a major chunk of the local drug trade. The finale finds Cleopatra and Mi Ling squaring off against the Dragon Lady and her minions in an explosive casino battle that involves kung-fu, gunplay, and roaring motorcycles. Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold didn't reach the same heights of success of its predecessor, but its colorful barrage of action has made it an enduring favorite amongst blaxploitation aficionados. Director Chuck Bail would go on to bigger success next year with the car-chase hit The Gumball Rally and star Dobson continued to play tough heroines in films like Chained Heat. ~ Donald Guarisco, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Tamara Dobson, Magali Noël, (more)
- 1975
Stefania Sandrelli, a bit player in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, stars in the deliberately Felliniesque comedy We All Loved Each Other So Much. Sandrelli plays the longtime object of three friends' affections. The film traces the interrelationships of those friends-Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi and Satta Flores-over a period of thirty years, beginning with their involvement in the wartime Resistance. In addition to freely quoting from La Dolce Vita, director Ettore Scola also calculatedly evokes memories of Fellini's I Vitteloni. As a bonus, the film offers affectionate homages to several other neorealist filmmakers, including Rossellini and de Sica. We All Loved Each Other So Much was originally released as C'erevamo tanto amati. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, (more)
- 1972
Teresa the Thief is a true story set during World War II. The eponymous Teresa, played by Monica Vitti, is an Italian woman who is determined to survive by any means. Thievery not only becomes a way of life for Teresa, but her claim to fame as well. Stefano Satto Flores and Isa Danieli costar in this Italian-made drama, originally released as Teresa la Ladra. Barely released theatrically in the US, the film became something of a perennial on cable TV. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1968
This wry comedy finds the beautiful Assunta (Monica Vitti) being kidnapped by Vincento (Carlo Giuffre) and taken to his remote home in the country. He plans to "dishonor her" and by doing so, win her hand in marriage. In a hilarious turn of events, Assunta willingly gives in to the amorous advances of Vincento. Finding him to her liking, the innocent girl suddenly turns into an insatiable sex fiend who causes the exhausted abductor to flee for his life. Assunta escapes, but the taunting of the local villagers causes her to leave and pursue the fleeing Vincento. She tracks him down to Britain and sheds her country-girl image for a mod makeover in order to fit into the blue-blooded London society. She plans to murder Vincento until she meets a divorced physician. She and Dr. Osborne (Stanley Baker) fall for each other, and the jilted Assunta is content to slap Vincento rather than shoot him to death. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Monica Vitti, Stanley Baker, (more)
- 1963
Three young men in a small town in Southern Italy lead directionless lives wandering around town, telling lies and boasting about their alleged romantic conquests. When one goes off to Rome with his Aunt, he returns with fabulous stories about the nightlife, the women and the modern advancements of the big city. He vows he will return, but soon is back to his familiar pattern of hanging out with his idle friends in pursuit of a good life they may never see. A woman kills herself when she feels her life is completely negated by her daughter-in-law. Another woman verbally assault her husband in the town square in front of disbelieving locals before she leaves him there. A man finally gets up the nerve to visit a hooker, only to be embarrassed when he meets an acquaintance on the way to her room. The film was written and directed by Lina Wertmuller, who vividly captures the mood of the sleepy town where the three young men seemed destined to spend their uneventful lives. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Stefano Satta Flores
