Carlo Lizzani (born 1922 April 3) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and critic. Born in Rome, after World War II Lizzani worked on such notable films of the late 1940s as Roberto Rossellini's Germany Year Zero, Alberto Lattuada's The Mill on the Po (both 1948) and Giuseppe De Santis' Bitter Rice (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story).

After helming documentaries, he debuted as a feature director with the admired World War II drama Achtung! Banditi! (1951). He films an episode of L'Amore in Città. Respected for his awarded drama Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954), he has proven a solid director of genre films, notably crime films such as The Violent Four (1968) and Crazy Joe (1974) or erotic comedy Roma Bene (1971).

He worked frequently for Italian television in the 1980s and was the jury of the Berlin Film Festival in 1994. His film Celluloide talks about the making of Rome, Open City.


Giuseppe De Santis (2008) (TV)
Hotel Meina (2007)
La passione di Angela (2005)
Le cinque giornate di Milano (2004) (TV)
Operazione Appia Antica (2003)
"Maria Josè, l'ultima regina" (2002) TV mini-series
Roberto Rossellini: Frammenti e battute (2000)
Luchino Visconti (1999)
La donna del treno (1998) TV mini-series
Celluloide / Celluloid(1995)
Il caso Dozier (1993) (TV)
Cattiva / The Wicked (1991)
La formula mancata /  La trappola (1989) TV mini-series
Capitolium (1989)
12 registi per 12 città (1989) (segment "Cagliari")
Série noire (1 episode, 1988)
    - Cause à l'autre (1988) TV episode
Caro Gorbaciov / Cordial Gorbatschev(1988)
Imago urbis (1987)
Emma. Quattro storie di donne (1987) (TV)
Un'isola (1986) (TV)
Mamma Ebe (1985)
Nucleo zero (1984) (TV)
L'addio a Enrico Berlinguer (1984)
La casa del tappeto giallo / The House of the Yellow Carpet (1983)
C'era una volta un re e il suo popolo (1983) (TV)
Отель "Кляйнхофф" / Kleinhoff Hotel / The Passionate Strangers (1977)
Fontamara (1977)
Площадь Сан-Бабила, 20 часов / San Babila ore 20 un delitto inutile / San Babila-8 P.M. (1976)
Storie di vita e malavita / Prostitute / The Teenage Prostitution Racket (1975)
Mussolini: Ultimo atto / Mussolini: The Last Four Days / he Last Days of Mussolini(1974)
Crazy Joe (1974)
Facce dell'Asia che cambia (1973)
Torino nera / Black Turin / La vengeance du sicilien (1972)
Roma bene / Roma bene - Liebe und Sex in Rom / Scandale à Rome (1971)
Barbagia / La società del malessere / The Tough and the Mighty (1969)
Любовь и ярость / Amore e rabbia / Évangile 70 / La contestation / Love and Anger (1969) (segment "L'indifferenza")
L'amante di Gramigna / The Bandit (1969)
Banditi a Milano / Bandits in Milan / The Violent Four (1968)
Убей и помолись / Requiescant / Kill and Pray (1967)
Un fiume di dollari / The Hills Run Red / River of Dollars (1966) (as Lee W. Beaver)
Svegliati e uccidi / Il solista del mitra / Too Soon to Die / Wake Up and Die (1966)
The Dirty Game / La guerra segret / The Dirty Agents / The Secret Agents (1965)
La Celestina P... R... (1965)
Thrilling (1965) (segment "Autostrada del sole, L'")
Amori pericolosi (1964) (segment "La ronda")
La vita agra (1964)
Il processo di Verona / Le procès de Verone / The Verona Trial (1963)
L'oro di Roma / Gold of Rome(1961)
Il carabiniere a cavallo (1961)
Il gobbo / The Hunchback of Rome / Le bossu de Rome (1960)
Esterina (1959)
La muraglia cinese / Behind the Great Wall (1958)
Lo svitato (1955)
Siluri umani / Human Torpedoes / Torpilles humaines (1954) (uncredited)
Cronache di poveri amanti / Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954)
L'amore in città / Love in the City (1953) (segment "Amore che si paga, L'")
Ai margini della metropoli (1952)
Achtung! Banditi! / Attention! Bandits! (1951)
Modena, città dell'Emilia Rossa (1950)
Nel Mezzogiorno qualcosa è cambiata (1950)
Via Emilia Km 147 (1949)
Viaggio al sud (1949)
Togliatti è ritornato (1948)