Sergio Martino

Sergio Martino (born 19 July 1938 in Rome, Italy) is an Italian film director and producer, notable for his contributions to the giallo genre. Martino is the brother of producer Luciano Martino. They collaborated frequently in their respective professions. Their grandfather was director Gennaro Righelli. Martino worked for both the big screen as well as for Italian television (where he does most of his current work). He often worked with actress Edwige Fenech who in the 1970s was married to his brother Luciano. He also worked with a lot of genre actors such as George Hilton, Ivan Rassimov and Claudio Cassinelli, as well as famed Italian screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi. Martino's pseudonyms include: Julian Barry, Martin Dolman, Serge Martin, Christian Plummer, George Raminto. Description above from the Wikipedia article Sergio Martino, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Provare per credere

A man is left by his wife and to overcome the shock he follows the advice of his playboy friend , who suggests that he jump into the fray and surround himself with beautiful girls.

Release Date1987-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Uomo all'aeroporto (uncredited)

Vote Count1

All the Colours of the Dark

After a car accident that caused the loss of her baby, Jane experiences an increasing amount of nightmares that shake her to her core. After seeking professional help, her haunting visions turn into an even more frightening reality, one full of black magic, blood orgies, and murder.

Release Date1972-02-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Journalist / Policeman (uncredited)

Vote Count144

L'allenatore nel pallone

Oronzo Canà is called to coach Longobarda, the football team of a small town of Northern Italy, newly promoted to the First Division. His only task is not to be relegated, but Longobarda's owner plots against him, finding the team's current ranking far too expensive, and his top Brazilian striker is affected by a deep saudade.

Release Date1984-10-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd L'Avvocato

Vote Count388

Thrills, Chills and Cleavage

Interview of Sergio Martino discussing his film The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh.

Release Date2005-01-01

Charactersd Himself

The Violent Professionals

With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate.

Release Date1973-08-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Hospital Orderly (uncredited)

Vote Count23

Il Bar del Cult

Release Date2025-10-23

Charactersd Sé stesso

Silent Action

A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begins to unravel.

Release Date1975-04-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Chopper Pilot (uncredited)

Vote Count16

Dark Fears Behind the Door

Rare interview of Sergio Martino and Edwige Fenech (with Luciano Martino, Ernesto Gastaldi & George Hilton) discussing their film The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh

Release Date2005-01-01

Charactersd Himself

Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs

Feature length documentary including interviews with Sergio Martino, Alberto de Martino, Ovidio G. Assonitis and more.

Release Date2020-03-30

Charactersd Himself

George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring

The life of one of the most famous leading-men of Italian popular cinema.

Release Date2019-10-08

Charactersd Himself

Titanus 1904

Release Date2024-10-17

Charactersd Self

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the italian director Mario Bava

Release Date2004-04-30

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

I Tarantiniani

Tarantino reveres them, and for good reason. Welcome to the world of the kings of the Italian B-Movie.

Release Date2013-02-21

Charactersd Self

Pretendo l'inferno

Release Date2024-03-11

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Spaghetti alla Martino

The film documentary by Daniele Ceccarini and Francesco Tassara tells the prolific career of the Italian director Sergio Martino.

Release Date2019-06-18

Charactersd Self

All the Colors of Giallo

'Giallo' is Italian for 'yellow', the color of the lurid pulp novels that inspired one of the most intense, extreme and influential genres in movie history. In this unprecedented collection, experience the full chronological evolution of giallo with more than 100 rare and classic trailers from such masters as Mario Bava, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Sergio Martino, Antonio Margheriti, Umberto Lenzi and many more. Then slip on black leather gloves and set the mood with a Bonus CD of legendary soundtrack music from composers that include Ennio Morricone, Riz Ortolani, Bruno Nicolai, Stelvio Cipriani and others, along with all-new featurettes that thrust even deeper into the genre. "But be warned," says Gizmodo.com, "Once you start going down the blood- slicked giallo rabbit hole, you may become dangerously obsessed."

Release Date2019-01-29

Charactersd Self - Director / Screenwriter

Vote Count23

Italian Kings Of B

Documentary on Italian genre cinema.

Release Date2003-01-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

The Last of Us

A documentary recounting the stories that have characterized the personal and artistic lives of Sergio Martino and Ruggero Deodato, two filmmakers who have represented Italian genre cinema in the world, loved by directors such as Quentin Tarantino, Eli Roth, Tim Burton, etc. All this takes place in the setting of a typical Roman restaurant, where the two directors meet for a lunch based on "spaghetti alla carbonara". Pasta is a determining element in Italian culture and, like the spaghetti western, it will characterize our story.

Release Date2022-09-29

Charactersd Self

Dragonland: L'Urlo di Chen terrorizza ancora l'occidente

The first Italian documentary on the most extraordinary phenomenon of the 70s: the Kung-fu films!

Release Date2008-01-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count1

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.

Release Date2008-03-06

Charactersd Self

Vote Count3

Through the Keyhole: An Interview with Sergio Martino

An interview with Sergio Martino about the making of YOUR VICE IS A LOCKED ROOM AND ONLY I HAVE THE KEY.

Charactersd Self

From Rollerball to Rome - Reflection on a Sci-Fi Classic

Produced for the "ultimate edition" of "Rollerball" from Capelight Pictures in Germany, 2020. The Blu-Ray of the original 1975 classic comes packed with this fascinating 85-minute documentary that charts the influence of "Rollerball" on contemporary scifi cinema, including "Mad Max", "The Warriors" and "Escape from New York", as well as the Italian variant that struck the big time with motion picture successes such as "The Bronx Warriors" franchise, "The New Barbarians" and the wonderfully trashy "Endgame".

Release Date2020-04-17

Charactersd Self

Masters of Mayhem

For decades Italian genre cinema dominated the world and before changing beyond recognition it went to unthinkable places. Giants don't die quietly however and this is the story of an industry's most absurd, extreme, blood-soaked fight for survival. Through dozens of brand new interviews, and never-before-seen archival materials, with the men and women who were there during one of the most unique moments in film history, MASTERS OF MAYHEM tells their stories of scandal, contradictions, drama and outrage.

Charactersd Self

Craving Desire

Luigi, who is engaged to a rich bourgeois, Cinzia, meets his lovely cousin, Sonia, at the cremation of their grandmother. Six months later, Sonia moves in and enters his life, and gradually succeeds in seducing him. Sonia upsets his life. Now, Cinzia is jealous but he can not resist the seductress.

Release Date1993-06-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count34

Mixed Double

Two married couples horn each other .. choosing the same vacant apartment as the place of the escapade! How many misunderstandings can arise in this continuous game of doors that open and close?

Release Date1986-08-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

Libido

A young man visits his ancestral home accompanied by his guardian and their wives, where he is plagued by the memories and influence of his murderous, psychosexual father.

Release Date1965-08-12

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Manager

Vote Count22

The Dolls

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.

Release Date1965-01-27

DepartmentProduction

JobProduction Secretary

Vote Count18

The Opponent

Greene plays an up and coming boxer with a powerful right hand and a heart of gold. He works night shifts in a bar and has a girlfriend whose father played by Ernest Borgnine disapproves of the relationship thinking Greene is a no good for nothing loser. To prove himself Greene catches the attention of a local boxing promoter played by Giuliano Gemma who decides to make a champion out of his newfound protégé.

Release Date1988-07-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5

The Smile of the Fox

Mark, a hitman haunted by his past as a corrupt Miami cop and the death of his wife and son, prepares for his next killing. Gradually he becomes fascinated by the beautiful prostitute who lives in the next apartment and they embark on a passionate affair. Their dreams of a life together are complicated by her pimp being a drugs baron; before they can escape he must die, but things are never that simple...

Release Date1992-05-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count58

Cream Horn

Mariana and Domenico are on the run from her jealous boyfriend who just happens to be an over-jealous professional football player.

Release Date1981-09-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count65

Love in 4 Easy Lessons

Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.

Release Date1976-11-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

American Rickshaw

After a stripper tricks him into filming a sex tape, Miami rickshaw runner Scott Edwards becomes embroiled in the murder of a televangelist's son when he inadvertently takes the wrong videotape. With the help of the stripper and a witch, Edwards sets out to clear his name while avoiding the assassin dead-set on retrieving the tape.

Release Date1989-01-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count21

Torso

A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.

Release Date1973-01-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count212

Naked Cities

A globetrotting travel all over earth looking for the absolute most intimately arousing and exciting towns.

Release Date1971-08-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Honey Horn

A stressed-out husband views his life as a series of endless complications.

Release Date2000-05-10

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

The Demon

Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.

Release Date1964-01-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Assistant Director

Vote Count49

Padre papà

Release Date1998-06-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Devil Fish

A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.

Release Date1984-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count73

After the Condor

A hotshot, wisecracking New York newspaper reporter, teams up with his crippled Army buddy Steve and sexy pilot Anne in Argentina to find an airplane called Condor rumored to have been carrying Chinese treasure when it crashed into a glacier forty years earlier.

Release Date1991-07-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Ferragosto O.K.

Funny events of the clients who spend their summer holidays at the Hotel Internazionale in San Benedetto del Tronto.

Release Date1986-08-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Spaghetti at Midnight

Savino La Gastra discovers his wife Celeste has a liaison with an architect: Andrea. Even if also Savino has a story with Elvira, a judge's wife, he decides anyway to ask to a mobster to kill his wife. In the mean time Celeste is organizing a surprise party for Savino's birthday, and that day things start to get complicated. First Savino kills accidentally the mafia killer in charge to kill Celeste; second his lover Elvira arrives to the party with the judge... not to mention the police and the mafia Don...

Release Date1981-02-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count61

A Man Called Blade

Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of power in a corrupt mining town, he unleashes a firestorm of brutality, betrayal and cold-blooded murder. Now, one man stalks a savage land where justice walks a razor and no bullets slice deeper than vengeance. He is A MAN CALLED BLADE.

Release Date1977-08-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count35

Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio

The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs.

Release Date1983-11-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count113

Beyond Kilimanjaro, Across the River of Blood

Tony La Palma lives in Kenya, where he helps Dr. Sean in his work to protect animals. His love affair with Giulia brings the past from which he is running away, and that haunts him thousands of miles from New York, where he is wanted for murder.

Release Date1990-12-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

The Queer ... The Erotic

The documentary shows in succession a ritual of male initiation in an African tribe, a lesson in sexual education in an European country; a travelling through the rooms of a museum of erotism in Germany, the window shopping of prostitutes in Amsterdams red district, a public bath for both sexes in an unhinibited Scandinavian country, the headquarters of an association that is against keeping ones virginity, a marriage ceremony of two homosexuals, and the effects of drugs on addict people.

Release Date1969-03-06

DepartmentProduction

JobAssociate Producer

Don't Play with Tigers

A stories of three really unlucky characters are discovered during the trial.

Release Date1982-01-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count77

Slave of the Cannibal God

A woman and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.

Release Date1978-07-12

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count107

Beauty Queen Olivia

A family from the wrong side of the tracks moves to Rome. 16-year-old Olivia has a hard time making friends in her new school but eventually teams up with Lilli, a great fan of the film "Grease" and its star Olivia Newton-John.

Release Date2002-04-29

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

Private Crimes

When a prominent businessman is found murdered, an ambitious newspaper reporter and a local police inspector will uncover a bizarre web of small-town corruption, violence and dark secrets.

Release Date1993-01-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count1

So Sweet... So Perverse

An industrialist's affair with a troubled woman entangles him in a dangerous situation with her abusive boyfriend. His glamorous life spirals into unexpected peril.

Release Date1969-10-31

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count41

Wages of Sin

Documentary that analyzes sexuality during it's so-called "revolution", the late sixties. The film shows some sexual "oddities" brought on by the fall of sexual taboos: a German woman who founded an billion dollar industry by selling erotic material; young and beautiful girls who are rented by large complexes to entertain and "persuade" customers; women young and old going to school to learn the art of awakening the interest of their husbands; couples in unscrupulous act as models to abstract painters; single women looking for a mate for the weekend, taking advantage of the "pink train" set up by the German Federal Railways.

Release Date1969-10-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Acapulco, Last Beach... on the Left

Release Date1983-02-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count28

Hands of Steel

A story about a cyborg who is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands.

Release Date1986-03-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count85

The Wife on Vacation... The Lover in Town

Andrea Damiani sends his wife Valeria off on a skiing holiday so he can spend time with his demanding mistress, Giulia. Little does he suspect that Valeria is having a rendezvous with a Count she recently met. However, Valeria does not know that 'Count' Giovanni is really just a manager's assistant, namely, Andrea's.

Release Date1980-08-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count67

Giovannona Long-Thigh

When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they discover the judge has a predilection for married women, the owner employs a prostitute to pose as his wife in an attempt to seduce the judge.

Release Date1973-04-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count52

The Beautiful Summer

A mother keeps making excuses for why her son's father has not returned home. Jon Marco, just celebrating his ninth birthday, concludes his parents have separated and develops a plan to place himself in dad's care. Along with a new friend they run away to Milan to search for Marco's father. Once executed, our little hero learns the truth about his famous race-car driving father. Can mom and his pals help him deal with the trauma?

Release Date1974-11-20

DepartmentWriting

JobDialogue

Island of the Fishmen

After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really doing, and why the prisoners keep disappearing mysteriously.

Release Date1979-01-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count77

James Tont Operation U.N.O.

The diabolical Goldsinger, enraged at being excluded from the UN, hatches a plot to blow up the assembly while all the heads of the state participate. Luckily, inept agent James Tont discovers the plot and sets out to stop Goldsinger.

Release Date1965-11-20

DepartmentProduction

JobUnit Manager

Vote Count2

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh

When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.

Release Date1971-01-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count164

Saturday, Sunday and Friday

SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.

Release Date1979-06-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count26

Gambling City

Luca Altieri is a gambler. He likes cards and he is a master in playing poker. He is a cardsharper too. He begins working for "The President", who has many gambling houses and everything seems to go well until Luca falls for Maria Luisa. Unfortunately for them, she is the girl of Corrado, the son of "The President"...

Release Date1975-01-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count8

A Bear Called Arthur

A composer rushing to meet a deadline meets a beautiful woman who says she is his biggest fan. However, it turns out that not only is she not a fan, she is a secret agent who has her own reasons for wanting to meet him.

Release Date1992-02-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Sex with a Smile

Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.

Release Date1976-01-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count26

Sugar, Honey and Pepper

Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. In the third episode, Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.

Release Date1980-10-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count59

Hercules Against Rome

Hercules comes from Greece to Ravenna, Italy, because a friend from childhood days has sent for him: Hercules should help the Roman Emperor who is in danger because of an intrigue lead by the leader of the pretorian guards.

Release Date1964-05-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Assistant Director

Vote Count4

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key

Oliviero is a drunk, burned-out writer who amuses himself by hosting orgies at his grand country manor and humiliating his wife Irina. When a number of women are murdered in grisly fashion, Oliviero becomes a prime suspect.

Release Date1972-08-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count132

L'ultimo rigore

Carlo Corsi, coach of a rising football team, encourages his talented son Marco to become a champion. However, Marco struggles with the pressure, leading him to use performance-enhancing drugs. The mother, Giovanna, tries to reunite the family through their shared love of the sport.

Release Date2002-01-06

DepartmentProduction

JobResearcher

High School Girl

A shy schoolboy's life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer.

Release Date1974-03-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

L'allenatore nel pallone 2

The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty years before, tasking him with bringing the club back to its old winning ways. Oronzo puts his trust in the intervention of a Russian billionaire who has bought the club for promotion. But it is a deception.

Release Date2008-01-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count236

2019: After the Fall of New York

After a nuclear war society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks, and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile woman left on Earth.

Release Date1983-07-22

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count98

The Case of the Scorpion's Tail

After her husband dies in a freak plane accident, a woman leaves London for Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy. She soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money - and are willing to kill for it. Meanwhile, a private investigator arrives to investigate irregularities in the claim, teaming up with a beautiful reporter.

Release Date1971-08-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count90

Scorpion with Two Tails

An archeologist's wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating a lost temple. After a phone call where she is forced to listen to him being murdered, she travels to the excavation site to solve the mystery of his death.

Release Date1982-09-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count22

Caccia al ladro d'autore

Release Date1985-11-20

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Casablanca Express

It is 1942 and the conflict between the U.S. and Germany is getting heated, U.S. Intelligence soon discovers that the Natzis are planning to capture Winston Churchill. In order to protect him they send commando Al Cooper to guard Churchill who is going by train to Casablanca where he will meet with Roosevelt and Stalin.

Release Date1989-12-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Adios, Hombre

A man is arrested, tried and convicted for a robbery that was actually committed by someone else. After he gets out of prison, he goes in search of the real robbers.

Release Date1967-04-29

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count11

The Battle of El Alamein

June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!

Release Date1969-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count29

The Great Alligator

Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them.

Release Date1979-11-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count49

$10,000 for a Massacre

After being hired to free a landowner's kidnapped daughter, a bounty hunter double-crosses his employer and joins the kidnapper's gang.

Release Date1967-03-03

DepartmentProduction

JobLine Producer

Vote Count40

Vengeance Is Mine

Johnny Forest, bounty hunter, attempts to carry out his mother's dying wish that he bring in his outlaw brother, Clint, alive. On the run from Jurago, a former partner he has crossed, Clint accepts Johnny's help, and agrees to surrender ..... for now.

Release Date1967-11-30

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count19

The Suspicious Death of a Minor

Police detective Paolo Germi and the mysterious Marisa meet each other at a dance hall. Germi is unsuspecting of the secret Marisa is carrying with her: adverse conditions forced her into prostitution. As Germi finds the young girl brutally murdered, he decides to go after her killers. During his investigation, he enters a world of intrigue and obfuscation that leave an endless trail of blood.

Release Date1975-08-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count58

Rally

Release Date1989-01-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

An Australian in Rome

Jill, a young and beautiful girl Australian party for a vacation in Italy. In Rome Pierluigi meets the young, a boy sympathetic and fascinating. The two begin to frequentarsi and what began as a simple friendship soon turns into a much stronger feeling. Everything seems to wonder proceed between the two, as in a beautiful tale with a happy ending, as long as it abides Pierluigi victim of a bad car accident.

Release Date1987-06-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

Arizona Colt Returns

Famed gunman Arizona Colt is sent by Moreno to rescue his daughter from the grips of Arizona's old enemy, Keane. But certain complications make the mission far more dangerous than expected.

Release Date1970-08-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count17

If All Goes Well We Are Ruined

Release Date1983-12-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

The Fishmen and Their Queen

Two teenagers prowl a devastated landscape, polluted by radioactive waste in search for food. On their quest of survival, they meet Socrates, a man who takes them to an island that seems a far cry away from the urban misery they struggled in. But the two youngsters ignore that the island is ruled by a beautiful but ruthless queen whose slaves are the hideous fishmen.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Naked and Violent

Cult director Sergio Martino, during the most glorious mondo years, delivered Naked and Violent, a documentary which unveils the brutality of the USA. Hidden behind a mask of perfection and justice, Naked and Violent traces the problems of American society in the 70s: from racial persecutions to the depraved sexual habits of the middle class, from the drug market to illegal gambling.

Release Date1970-07-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball

The "Marchigiana" soccer team has been promoted to the Serie A of the national championship, but it is the last in the standings due mainly to two players, Gigi and Andrea.

Release Date1985-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count30

The Girl from Cortina

Vanessa Gravina is vapidly pretty as the heroine, who changes her hair color and hair style in order to escape an abusive painter husband and start a new life. She fakes her death by motorcar accident off a cliff, and the film heads downward from there, as surely as the vehicle plunges towards the Gothic waves-crashing-on-rocks below, set on the Greek island of Hydra.

Release Date1994-11-29

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count9

Il paese delle piccole piogge

Anna, married to a mafioso, loses her child and escapes from a killer seeking mafia bank details. Fleeing to Malindi, Kenya, she befriends Bodo, follows him as an African missionary, and becomes a respected volunteer. She meets Mandher, a dedicated doctor fighting for the African people. Anna finds purpose in helping heal a wounded country and gains respect in the community.

Release Date2012-10-23

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

A due passi dal cielo

Release Date1999-02-03

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Scratch and Win

Andrea, Maurizio and Sergio are professional idlers, lazy, indolent and full of inventiveness. Maurizio is engaged to the policewoman Anna, of whom he is extremely jealous, Sergio still lives with his mother and Andrea is tyrannized by his wife and his brother-in-law, a former boxer. When a crew arrives in town to shoot a commercial, Andrea and Sergio meet two actresses; in the meantime, Maurizio is dumped by Anna. The three spend a large sum of money on a scratch card to travel to Sardinia in search of the actresses in the commercial.

Release Date1996-08-16

DepartmentCrew

JobScript

Vote Count5

Mozart Is a Murderer

When Chiara, a violinist at the conservatory, is brutally murdered after a performance, inspector Maccari is put on the case. Maccari, whose own wife was once murdered by a serial killer, suspect professor Baraldi, the director of the conservatory. But as more fall prey to the killer, Maccari comes to a shocking conclusion...

Release Date1999-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

Masks

In the 70s Matteusz Gdula invented an acting method that was supposed to make every actor “shine”. Still, lots of his students die mysteriously and Gdula commits suicide. His method gets banned. Now: Stella, an ambitious, but rather untalented drama student, gets accepted at the „Matteusz Gdula“-school. When she bears witness to some strange occurrences, she gets drawn into the bizarre and deadly web that surrounds the dark secret of the school...

Release Date2011-07-28

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count36

Lo Scorpione a Due Code

Joan Mulligan is waiting in vain for her husband, Arthur Blanc, an Etruscologist who has traveled to Tuscany in search of materials for an exhibition. The woman, who suffers from metapsychic disturbances, "sees" in a nightmare the cave her husband has discovered, where Arthur is mysteriously murdered. She then departs for Italy herself, determined to shed light on her husband's death, and finds herself entangled in a series of other murders that have taken place in the same cemetery—all of which share one same macabre detail. Mike, a secret agent who has fallen in love with her, must uncover the truth behind the intricate mystery. (extended version of Assassinio al Cimitero Etrusco)

Release Date1982-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Il cielo tra le mani

Release Date2000-06-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film

A High Rising Productions documentary on the short-lived craze of Italian cannibal films in the '70s and '80s, featuring interviews with Umberto Lenzi, Ruggero Deodato, Sergio Martino, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, and Robert Kerman. Featured on the Grindhouse Releasing Blu-ray for "Cannibal Ferox" in the US, and the upcoming UK Blu-ray for "Zombi Holocaust" by 88 Films.

Release Date2015-05-26

Vote Count7

Banned Alive! The Rise and Fall of Italian Cannibal Movies

2 1/2 hour-documentary on the rise and fall of one of the most controversial Italian genres every created. Starting with Deep River Savages arriving to the infamous Cannibal Ferox.

Release Date2016-03-01

Vote Count3