FILM DIRECTOR

Tinto Brass

1933 - Today

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Giovanni "Tinto" Brass (born 26 March 1933) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. In the 1960s and 1970s, he directed many critically acclaimed avant-garde films of various genres. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tinto Brass has received more than 2,787,018 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Tinto Brass is the 35th most popular film director (up from 41st in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from Italy (up from 418th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Italian Film Director.

Tinto Brass is most famous for his work in the Italian pornographic film industry. He has directed, produced, and written many films that are considered classics in the industry.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 71.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Tinto Brasses by language

Over the past year Tinto Brass has had the most page views in the with 383,920 views, followed by Italian (215,657), and Russian (139,380). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Haitian (265.24%), Czech (227.75%), and Simple English (199.53%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Tinto Brass ranks 35 out of 2,041. Before him are Miloš Forman, Konstantin Stanislavski, Fritz Lang, Roger Vadim, Quentin Tarantino, and Andrzej Wajda. After him are Tim Burton, Ken Loach, John Ford, Krzysztof Kieślowski, James Cameron, and David Lynch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Tinto Brass ranks 11. Before him are Dalida, Karl Lagerfeld, Montserrat Caballé, Yoko Ono, Lina Medina, and Michael Caine. After him are Claudio Abbado, Jalal Talabani, James Brown, Just Fontaine, Corazon Aquino, and Nina Simone.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Tinto Brass ranks 336 out of 5,161. Before him are Man in the Iron Mask (1640), Pope Eugene II (780), Giambattista Vico (1668), Antonio da Correggio (1489), Cosimo de' Medici (1389), and Pope Agatho (574). After him are Lisa del Giocondo (1479), Pope Sergius III (860), Albano Carrisi (1943), Reinhold Messner (1944), Pope Gregory VI (1000), and Filippo Lippi (1406).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Tinto Brass ranks 7. Before him are Federico Fellini (1920), Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922), Luchino Visconti (1906), Sergio Leone (1929), Bernardo Bertolucci (1941), and Michelangelo Antonioni (1912). After him are Vittorio De Sica (1901), Roberto Rossellini (1906), Frank Capra (1897), Franco Zeffirelli (1923), Dario Argento (1940), and Giuseppe Tornatore (1956).

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Filmography

Paprika
Director
A young country girl comes to town and works in a brothel in order to help her fiance get the money to start his own business. "Paprika" is the name given to her by the madam.
Feb 13o 19917.05 / 10
Caligula
Director
The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.
Aug 14o 19796.001 / 10
The Key
Director
Art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him - setting off a chain of unexpected events and emotional complications...
Oct 19o 19836 / 10