Lucio Battistrada (Writer)

Linee d'ombra

Macchie solari (Autopsy), L'etrusco uccide ancora (The Etruscan kills again), commandos are titles that refer to a category for lovers, that of B-movies, Italian thriller of the '60s and' 70s. But in the life and in the poetry of their director, Armando Crispino, there is more, says his son Francesco. Searching for a meeting with his father in the maze of his production, he finds himself investigating the world of Italian genre cinema. Finding that even in this area left in the shadows by the critical discourse we can find more, and better, than we think.

Release Date2007-10-18

Charactersd Self

The Octopus

An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.

Release Date1984-03-11

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count57

Kill and Pray

A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a preacher. Years later, the boy is now a soft-spoken, devout young man with perfect shooting skills (despite being a pacifist). On his journey to help his half-sister out of a complicated situation, he crosses paths with the men who killed his family, unbeknownst to him.

Release Date1967-03-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count29

Outlaws of Love

This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absence of a divorce law. Five scenarios with different actors portray realistic situations where divorce is clearly warranted but, because marriage was strictly in the purview of the Catholic Church at that time, which strictly forbade divorce, these people are shown to suffer the consequences in their daily lives. Italy got its first civilian divorce law in 1970.

Release Date1963-12-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

The Assassination of Matteotti

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.

Release Date1973-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count31

La baraonda

A young woman comes up to a womanizing man with a newborn baby he might be the father of. The background of the story is the 6-day bicycle indoor racing contest that used to take place in the Milano Palasport in the 1960s, '70s, and early '80s.

Release Date1980-09-06

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count1

Il nero

The events in Naples of a few ‘figli della Madonna’ (Madonna’s sons), young people born between 1945 and 1946 from the relationship between the local women and Afro-American soldiers.

Release Date1966-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Il principe ribelle

Release Date1950-04-30

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Gold of Rome

Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death.

Release Date1961-11-26

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count9

Gente dell’aria

Two half brothers, one a pilot, the other a repairman at the plane factory of their father, are in a disagreement due to the envy of the younger brother, son of the first wife of their father. Then both brothers fall in love with the same woman; this causes more conflict between the two, making worse an already tense situation.

Release Date1943-03-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobSecond Assistant Director

Commandos

Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. After the soldiers have knifed the Italians in their beds, they find a hooker living at the camp. Sullivan's commandos are to hold this camp and its weaponry until an American battalion arrives, all the while these Italian-Americans pretend to be Italian soldiers, often hosting the enemy. Lt. Valli is a young, "green," by-the-book officer who constantly argues with Sgt. Sullivan, who tells his superior that he has no idea what he is doing. One man on the base, probably a touch from Argento, is an entomologist who is needlessly killed. Things go terribly wrong after that.

Release Date1968-11-19

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count30

Empty Eyes

A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.

Release Date1953-09-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count17

Rififi ad Amsterdam

Release Date1966-08-18

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count2

Password: Kill Agent Gordon

A tough CIA agent is called in to put a stop to a shipment of weapons to the Viet Cong from an arms smuggling ring in this intercontinental spy thriller.

Release Date1966-03-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

The Dead Are Alive

A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.

Release Date1972-05-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count43

A Stranger in Paso Bravo

After spending many years in prison, Gary returns to Paso Bravo, where thugs burned his ranch killing his wife and daughter. Gary seeks revenge, and also finds a people who live terrorized by a group of gunmen led by Acombar. This situation causes Gary skip to face action this gang of murderers.

Release Date1968-03-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

Mimi

Home from boarding school after years abroad, a precocious teenager, Mimi, becomes obsessed with seducing her journalist father.

Release Date1979-06-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count9

The Castro's Abbess

A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess. She has to deal with corruption in the church.

Release Date1974-01-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

The Reckless

In the figure of Ettore Zambrini, a small industrialist with a dream of opening a factory overlooking the Autostrada del Sole, Montaldo offers us an effective narrative transposition of the 'animal spirits' that governed the economic boom in Italy at the time. He is a character of contradictory humanity: capable of handling business, overdue bills, trade union relations, marital betrayal, but also the passion that binds him to his wife with equal unscrupulousness.

Release Date1965-05-24

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count4

Autopsy

A series of random suicides in Rome, Italy are attributed to a heatwave, but a young pathologist named Simona—who is working on a thesis about murders disguised as suicides—suspects otherwise. When a young girl associated with Simona's playboy father ends up dead in another apparent suicide, Simona teams up with the girl's priest brother to prove she was murdered and track down the unknown serial killer.

Release Date1975-01-18

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count38

Ragazzo di borgata

Release Date1976-04-22

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

John the Bastard

Johnny Donald, a cynical seducer of women, discovers he is actually the son of Don Diego Tenorio, a wealthy Mexican landowner. Accompanied by his trusty servant Morenillo, he travels south in search of vengeance and riches, but manages to deflower and make enemies all along the way until he finally meets his match in the person of a Mormon assassin and a stone statue.

Release Date1967-11-16

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count4

The Bride Was Beautiful

The teenage boy, Giuseppe, lives with his mother in Cammarata, a Sicilian mountain village. His father left the family years ago, and has since then settled down as a guest worker in West-Germany and established a family. Under local moral rules, Maria is a so-called "white widow", who must stay faithful to her husband even if he never returns to her again. Maria and the newly arrived young doctor fall in love with each other. Their happiness is frowned upon not only by Giuseppe, but the entire village as well as the distant husband.

Release Date1987-08-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

The House of the Yellow Carpet

Franca and her husband Antonio decide to sell a yellow rug which was a gift of Franca's stepfather. One day, while Antonio is out, a strange man rings saying he wishes to buy the rug. But the man's visit begins a twisted a nightmare.

Release Date1983-09-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count18

Crime Boss

Hit man Antonio Mancuso travels to Italy to make the big time. He meets and befriends Mafia boss Don Vincenzo. Mancurso becomes part of the organization and the more he gets to know Vincenzo the more he wants his job but Mancurso will learn that success can come at a severe cost.

Release Date1972-08-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

The Fifth Day of Peace

Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied POW camp. When a rigid and militaristic German colonel learns about their desertion, he wants them court-martialed, even if the war is over. The uninterested Allied officers oblige him, and the two men face the firing squad on "the fifth day of peace".

Release Date1970-04-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count22

The Boxer

Boxer Teddy Wilcox leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox's first fight, Nick receives a threat-- Wilcox loses, or Nick will die.

Release Date1972-02-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count8

Death in the Vatican

A hermit who has had contact with terrorists is planning to kill the Pope by poisoning.

Release Date1982-08-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count5

Words and Blood

The youth protest against corruption in Italian politics. When they subsequently find themselves in trouble, they take the law into their own hands: they form the Red Brigade, which wreaks death and destruction.

Release Date1982-09-16

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay