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Oreste Biancoli

Writer · Died November 25, 1971, aged 74 · Bologna, Italy

Born
October 20, 1897
Died
November 25, 1971 (aged 74)
From
Bologna, Italy
Works as
Writer
Titles
11 on MovieCove · 80 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 39 days to Oct 28Up 60% in 30 days

What are Oreste Biancoli's films like?

Across their 11 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Morality and Bonds.

Genres

Action3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 19th percentile
: browse their Action movies
Drama3 titlesTypical Midcredits score: 64th percentile, at or above their average across these genres
: browse their Drama movies

Their MovieCove films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Midcredits score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.

Themes

share of theme weight
Morality
28%
Bonds
27%
Power
18%
Survival
15%
Society
8%
Self
3%
Ideas
2%
Romantic love3 titles, browse their movies with this themeFamily bonds3 titles, browse their movies with this themeOppression2 titles, browse their movies with this themeSurvival3 titles, browse their movies with this themeRevenge2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 11 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

Grounded 4 · Stylized 5 · Heightened 2

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 2 · Charged 5 · Intense 4

Shifting: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their shifting movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 3 · Shifting 7 · Whiplash 1

Straight-faced: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their straight-faced movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

Straight-faced 7 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 1

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 7 · Relentless 0

Casual: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their casual movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 6 · Engaged 5 · Full focus 0

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 10 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 1

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Tense
8
Thrilling
4
Melancholic
4
Romantic
3
Warm
2
Other
7

How their films linger

Feel-good5 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHaunting3 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful3 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteBittersweet2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteFun2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteRousing2 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end · 2 with a twist

  • Happy6
  • Bittersweet2
  • Tragic3

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Oreste Biancoli's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 7 of their 11 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (7).

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Oreste Biancoli's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

80 credits, 11 with a MovieCove page.

  • 36 China Town (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)

    Original Story

  • Love and Marriage (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)

    Writer

  • The Avenger of Venice (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1964)

    Screenplay

  • The Ghost(1963)

    Screenplay · Story

    Midcredits score: 51st percentile of all films

  • The Masseuses (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1962)

    Screenplay

  • Marco Polo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1962)

    Writer

  • The Witch's Curse (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1962)

    Writer

  • Il mio amico Benito (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1962)

    Screenplay · Story

  • Pontius Pilate (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1962)

    Screenplay

  • Erik the Conqueror(1961)

    Screenplay · Story

    Midcredits score: 45th percentile of all films

  • Samson and the 7 Miracles of the World(1961)

    Screenplay · Story

    Midcredits score: 13th percentile of all films

  • Joseph and His Brethren(1961)

    Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 26th percentile of all films

  • Atlas Against the Cyclops(1961)

    Screenplay · Story

    Midcredits score: 8th percentile of all films

  • Love, the Italian Way (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)

    Screenplay · Story

  • Genitori in blue-jeans (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)

    Screenplay · Story

  • Gastone (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)

    Screenplay

  • Death of a Friend (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1960)

    Story

  • Son of Samson(1960)

    Writer

    Midcredits score: 19th percentile of all films

  • The Moralist (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1959)

    Screenplay

  • Winter Holidays (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1959)

    Screenplay · Story

  • Domenica è sempre domenica (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1958)

    Screenplay · Story

  • Non sono più guaglione (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1957)

    Screenplay

  • La canzone del destino (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1957)

    Writer

  • Desert Warrior (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1957)

    Screenplay

  • Occhi senza luce (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)

    Screenplay

  • Altair (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1956)

    Story

  • Scampolo 53 (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1955)

    Screenplay

  • Songs from all over Italy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1955)

    Screenplay

  • Divisione Folgore (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)

    Screenplay

  • A Free Woman (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)

    Adaptation · Screenplay

  • Il cardinale Lambertini (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)

    Screenplay

  • In the Eddy of Sin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)

    Screenplay

  • Rosso e nero (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)

    Writer

  • Submarine Attack (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)

    Screenplay

  • The Slave of Sin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)

    Story

  • Gran varietà (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)

    Writer

  • 100 Years of Love (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)

    Screenplay · Theatre Play

  • Mid-Century Loves (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)

    Screenplay

  • Cavalcade of Song (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1953)

    Writer

  • Voice of Silence (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1953)

    Screenplay

  • Black Feathers (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1952)

    Director · Screenplay · Story

  • Times Gone By (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1952)

    Screenplay

  • Wanda the Sinner (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1952)

    Screenplay

  • Half a Century of Song (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1952)

    Writer

  • The Little World of Don Camillo(1952)

    Writer

    Midcredits score: 94th percentile of all films

  • Il caimano del Piave (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1951)

    Writer

  • Tomorrow Is Another Day (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1951)

    Co-Writer

  • Cuori sul mare (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1950)

    Writer

  • Tomorrow Is Too Late(1950)

    Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 64th percentile of all films

  • Yvonne of the Night (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1949)

    Screenplay

  • Sicilian Uprising (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1949)

    Writer

  • The Flame that Never Dies (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1949)

    Screenplay · Script

  • Bicycle Thieves(1948)

    Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 99th percentile of all films

  • Heart (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1948)

    Adaptation · Screenplay

  • Sinfonia fatale(1947)

    Story

    Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)

  • The Great Dawn (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1947)

    Writer

  • The Bandit(1946)

    Screenplay

    Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all films

  • Sant'Elena, piccola isola (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1943)

    Screenplay

  • Il vagabondo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1941)

    Screenplay

  • Il chiromante (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1941)

    Director · Screenplay

  • The King's Jester (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1941)

    as Courtier

  • Il sogno di tutti (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1940)

    Director · Screenplay · Story

  • Piccolo alpino (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1940)

    Director

  • La gerla di papà Martin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1940)

    Screenplay

  • Ballo al castello (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1939)

    Writer

  • L'eredità in corsa (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1939)

    Director · Screenplay

  • Frenesia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1939)

    Screenplay

  • Ai vostri ordini, signora... (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1939)

    Screenplay

  • A Thousand Lire a Month (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1939)

    Story

  • Amicizia (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1938)

    Director

  • La mazurka di papà (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1938)

    Director · Theatre Play

  • Nina, non far la stupida (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1938)

    Screenplay

  • Tonight at Eleven (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1937)

    Director · Writer

  • Cavalleria (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1936)

    Screenplay · Story

  • Nozze vagabonde (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1936)

    Writer

  • Oggi sposi (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1934)

    Writer

  • Paprika (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1933)

    Writer

  • The Last Fling (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1932)

    Story

  • The Secretary for Everyone (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1932)

    Writer

  • The Private Secretary (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1931)

    Writer

Career shape

A full career of 78 titles from 1931 to 2006.

Biggest box office

Bicycle Thieves (1948)

$459K worldwide

Highest rated

Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Midcredits 99th

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting1 of 78: 1 only acting, 0 with another roleDirecting8 of 78: 2 only directing, 6 with another roleWriting75 of 78: 68 only writing, 7 with another role · typical Midcredits score45thOther crew1 of 78: 0 only other crew, 1 with another role

78 titles, 7 with more than one role — writing and directing overlap on 6 of them.

By decade

1930s16 · crew1940s15 · 1 acting · 14 crew1950s30 · crew1960s16 · crew2000s1 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

How do Oreste Biancoli's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 45th percentile, the median of all 11; across their 11 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 51st percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

51stpercentile
Typical film, the median of 11

Approval · how many liked their films

38thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 11

Reach · how many have seen their films

30thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 11

Midcredits score across 11 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up2
  • 50th to 74th3
  • 25th to 49th3
  • Below 25th3

Shape of the crowd

5 of their 11 titles are Mixed.

  • Universally Loved2
  • Crowd Pleaser2
  • Broadly Agreed2
  • Mixed5

Most divisive · writer

Sinfonia fatale (1947)

81st percentile spread · 46% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · writer

Bicycle Thieves (1948)

Midcredits 99th · 88% liked

Reviewers score the dialogue 41/100 and the plot and story 50/100 in their films, across 10 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a writer.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Oreste Biancoli work with?

People who share at least 2 of Oreste Biancoli's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Ermanno Donati shares the most, 5.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers, cinematographers and editors

Producers

Mixed roles