A Complete List of Adaptations of the Decameron and Decamerotici
Here is a list I've compiled of the many adaptations of Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron, and the films inspired by it. Not all the films on the list are based on the Decameron, but due to the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's "The Decameron," many other Italian filmmakers attempted to cash in on the success of the film in the first half of the seventies. Decamerotici are often set in Medieval times, and/or are marked by characters telling erotic stories to pass the time.
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- DirectorPier Paolo PasoliniStarsFranco CittiNinetto DavoliJovan JovanovicAn adaptation of nine stories from Boccaccio's "Decameron".
- DirectorDavid LelandStarsHayden ChristensenMischa BartonRyan CartwrightYoung Florentines take refuge from the black plague and engage in bawdy adventures and lusty exchanges.
- DirectorJeff BaenaStarsAlison BrieDave FrancoKate MicucciIn the Middle Ages, a young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns. Introduced as a deaf mute man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
- DirectorVittorio De SicaFederico FelliniMario MonicelliStarsAnita EkbergSophia LorenRomy SchneiderInspired by Boccaccio's novellas, each episode focuses on sex, love and seduction in Italy in the 1960s, an era of economic growth and major cultural changes.
- DirectorBernard ClarensJean DesvillesLouis GrospierreStarsRita BennettJackie RichardsRichard B. ShullA series of several short films deal with sex, desire, loneliness and in one case, even murder: "Claudia" A beautiful woman takes to spying on the windows of men who live in a tenement through a spy glass, silently sizing up which men are lonely and then selecting one to lavish with affection. Her current target is a poor soul that she meets and quickly marries. But it turns out that she is actually a black widow. The scenario ends with her scoping the tenement for her next victim. "David" A man and a woman build a relationship based mainly on sex. It is clear that the man is more into the relationship than the woman who looks sometimes uncomfortable and distant, probably because the man is more in love with his camera then with her. The indication is that the relationship ended after some time and that the man remembers and cherishes it more than the women ever did. "Gyorgy" A sculptor speaks on his passionate love for his chosen art form, even up to admitting that he finds the forms that he creates even more appealing than the real thing - from these sculpted works he sees the purest beauty in the world. But he is forced to confront notions of beauty in the world when he sees the death and degradation of his native France when it is taken over by The Nazis. "Robert" A timid young man sees the boredom and complacency in his own life, seeing the people around him as shallow and insignificant. But his mind keeps wandering back to one magical day on the beach long ago with two beautiful Swedish girls, where he regrets that he did not act on how he felt about them. The final segment features four damaged and lonely women from similar backgrounds who attempt to find some outlet via their sexual encounters: Adrian - A lonely housewife whose much older husband is too busy to meet her sexual needs. So, she finds her fulfillment in much younger men, mostly teenagers. Roxanne - A girl from a poor neighborhood who has given to becoming a mistress wherein she gets everything that she wants, eve through it can't completely fulfill her needs. Samantha Jane - An African-American prostitute since the age of nine who rose up from a life of dire poverty to sell her body for vast amounts of money. She claims to hate her clients. Gloria - A self-hating lesbian who marks encounters with girls just as lost as she. Never romantic, only useful.
- DirectorPaolo TavianiVittorio TavianiStarsLello ArenaPaola CortellesiCarolina Crescentini10 young friends hide out from a deadly disease in the countryside during the 1300s.
- DirectorHugo FregoneseStarsJoan FontaineLouis JourdanGodfrey TearleThe main story combines bits of Giovanni Boccaccio's own life (maybe and maybe not) with three of his most fabulous stories of love. It has Boccaccio following Fiametta to a country villa where she and five other women---The Contessa, Pampinea and three villa girls are hiding following the rape of their home city, Florance, Italy, by the Duke of Lorenzo. The recently-widowed Fiametta spurns overtures of love offered by the philandering Boccaccio who, in an effort to win her, spins two of his stories: The first is "Paganino the Pirate", a spicy tale of a young wife, married to an elderly gent, who prefers astrology to martial bliss, permits herself to be captured by a young pirate, to teach her husband a lesson. The second tale is "Wager on Virtue", concerning an elderly merchant,who loses faith in his beautiful young wife, on the strength of circumstantial evidence present him by a daring young rogue, who has previously goaded him into a bet on his wife's virtue, or lack thereof. The characters in this segment include Nerina, The Sultan, the Merchant Captain, a Merchant in French Inn and George and Bert Bernard as messengers. The third story, told by Fiametta, is "The Doctor's Daughter," concerning a delicate matter of matrimony when a wife, Isabella , finds herself spurned by the man, Bertrando, who has wed her at the command of his King. Characters include Maria, The Old Witch, Father Francaisco, and Signora Bucca.
- DirectorHerbert WilcoxStarsLionel BarrymoreIvy DukeWerner KraussA Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.
- DirectorRoberto LoyolaStarsPatrizia AdiutoriRik BattagliaShirley CorriganFather of English literature, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, involved in storytelling a rainy night at an inn.
- DirectorLorenzo Gicca PalliStarsLeonard MannErika BlancRosalba NeriThe knight Corrado and the servant Leporello belonging to the Order of the Templars (suppressed for sodomy and witchcraft) find refuge in Rome in the house of Olimpio Orsini, an abusive alchemist.
- DirectorLucio DandoloStarsClaudia BianchiMario BregaFortunato CeciliaThe writer, Geoffrey Chaucer, finds himself in an inn, together with pilgrims who are going to Canterbury. Since the bad weather prevents departure, the men entertain themselves by telling each other spicy stories.
- DirectorMino GuerriniStarsEnza SbordoneAntonio De LeoFrancesco D'AddaThe comic erotic misadventures of pilgrims comprised of young widows, buxom servants, newlywed brides and eager peasants while they travel from Canterbury to London to visit the tomb of Thomas Becket.
- DirectorMariano LaurentiStarsEdwige FenechPiero FocacciaRiccardo GarroneTo spite her father, a young woman enters a convent. However, the woman's old boyfriend shows up and tries to win her back.
- DirectorJoe D'AmatoStarsMonica AudrasMarzia DamonEnza SbordoneThe story of a group of monks, who are enjoying the forbidden pleasure of sexual adventures.
- DirectorGian Paolo CallegariStarsDon BackyFemi BenussiKrista NellCount Gianfigliazzo returns from the crusades with two black slaves, a boy and a girl.
- DirectorPiero VivarelliStarsBeryl CunninghamSerigne Ndiaye GonzalesJacqueline ScottThe endless search for pleasure and love by African men and women.
- DirectorBruno CorbucciStarsEnrico MontesanoSylva KoscinaPascale PetitBuffalmacco and his friend Bruno Degli Olivieri make a joke of Calandrino, forcing him, for ten florins, to buy a stone that should make invisible the one who owns it.
- DirectorJoe D'AmatoStarsGabriella GiorgelliMargaret Rose KeilEnza SbordoneGiovanni Boccaccio dreams of being led into hell.
- DirectorBrunello RondiStarsJanet AgrenTina AumontNorberto BottiThe wise and experienced maestro in the arts of love imparting his knowledge and techniques to a younger man before he dies.
- DirectorRenato SavinoStarsOsvaldo RuggieriRosalba NeriChrista LinderThe squire John Attelano is eager to put his son Falcotto on track, makes him marry Firdalba, the Rampaldi daughter. The newlyweds will receive 15,000 florins on condition that she reaches the altar a virgin.
- DirectorMariano LaurentiStarsEdwige FenechPippo FrancoKarin SchubertDuring the Middle Ages, a clumsy knight returns home where his wife awaits him. Sensuous and beautiful, she has attracted several male admirers during his absence, but her chastity belt has maintained her faithfulness. Now is her chance to wrest the key from him and enjoy herself. The knight's portly friend has a similar problem with his equally gorgeous wife. And to top it off, both men have designs on the other's wife -- leading them to devise painful methods to discourage the other from trespassing.
- DirectorMarino GirolamiStarsFranco AgostiniEnzo AndronicoAlberto AtenariDuring the early Italian Renaissance and the Black Death epidemic, a group of young men and women, seeking refuge in a secluded villa just outside the city of Florence, shares different stories of adultery and forbidden love.
- DirectorCarlo InfascelliAntonio RacioppiStarsDado CrostarosaCarlos de CarvalhoOrchidea De SantisThe young Ferruccio, after departing from Florence to bring a message to Abbot Gianni, welcomes the invitation to enter a convent and become a friar.
- DirectorGiuliano BiagettiStarsAldo Bufi LandiPupo De LucaOrchidea De SantisDecameroticus is a 1972 film directed by Pier Giorgio Ferretti. Inspired by tales of Boccaccio, Aretino and Bandello, it is divided into five episodes, in which the main theme is that of the cuckolded husband. In the episode The cucumber Ciccillo, the husband becomes beak trusting that a cucumber, peddled by the magician and healer Ciccillo, as a panacea for everything female, will be the antidote to heal the terrible boredom of his wife.
- DirectorMino GuerriniStarsEnzo PulcranoClaudia BianchiSalvatore GiocondoDuring a banquet, the diners begin to tell various stories to be happy. All the novels speak of betrayals and erotic adventures.
- DirectorMario CaianoStarsRosalba NeriChrista LinderPiero ScheggiItalian sex comedy anthology featuring seven erotic vignettes set in medieval times that are loosely inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron.
- DirectorLuigi BatzellaStarsMark DamonRosalba NeriAngelo BassiA young libertine in a series of love adventures.
- DirectorSilvio AmadioStarsCarla BraitGiorgio FavrettoVincenzo FerroThe three daughters of Madonna Violante: Nanna, Concetta Fiorenza and have only one thought, to have a good time as much as possible with men.
- DirectorCarlo InfascelliAntonio RacioppiStarsMalisa LongoMariana CamaraCarlos de CarvalhoTwo young friends - one poet, the other a sculptor - have fun conquering the wives of others.
- DirectorEnrico BombaStarsVinicio SofiaAngela BoDada GallottiA sultan regularly decapitates his lovers after enjoying them for one night. Two girls avoid death by telling the man some exciting stories.
- DirectorItalo AlfaroStarsPier Paola BucchiGiovanni ElsnerRoy BosierSeven novels of Boccaccio featuring dirty jokes.
- DirectorPiero RegnoliStarsMario CarraraGino CassaniRoberto CeccacciFour women of Gubbio--Angelica, Violetta, Lisa and Bettina--are conducted before the court by their lovers and husbands.
- DirectorManlio ScarpelliStarsAdriana AstiElena VeroneseGianni MusyA courtesan induces her daughter to prostitution in wealthy classes.
- DirectorSilvio AmadioStarsRomano BernardiGiulio DonniniGiorgio FavrettoThe main characters are two ruffians in various disguises as false priests.
- DirectorAntonio MargheritiStarsBarbara BouchetFemi BenussiBarbara MarzanoSultan Almamud suddenly becomes powerless, unable to enjoy his beautiful Zumurud. The councillors then call people who can excite them by telling stories. At the end of their tales, he will finally be able to enjoy her.
- DirectorGiuseppe VariStarsDado CrostarosaMalisa LongoGiacomo RizzoThe story teller Cecco Angiolieri manages to conquer women with his tricks.
- DirectorAldo GrimaldiStarsEdwige FenechVittorio CaprioliStefania CaredduA very little and nice village in Italy, Middle Ages. A woman is under legal action for adultery, three young men trying to seduce three beautiful girls, one of them is the daughter of an unfaithful 'Madonna' (ancient Italian for lady) and another is a virgin scared about sex. The attempts to seduce the girls cross with the two lady's intrigues, but the goal is for all to have sex with others.
- DirectorPaolo BianchiniStarsNino MuscoAnn OdessaLorenzo PianiThe film is divided into several episodes told by some commoners who go to the wash house.