Turi Vasile (Production)
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Works
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
Documentary on the life and films of Antonio Margheriti.
Release Date:2013-04-17
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things
Documentary about Sergio Leone
Release Date:2006-03-08
Character:Self
Vote Count:5
Classe Di ferro
Classe di ferro is an Italian action/adventure television series that aired from October 6, 1989 to December 26, 1991. The series focused on a diverse group of young adults who enroll in Italy's military service.
Release Date:1989-10-06
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:3
Day of the Cobra
An American narcotics agent is murdered in Italy. The head of the department decides to hire Larry Stanziani, 'The Cobra'. Larry, a former agent and now a third-rate private detective, uses the opportunity to get even with an old enemy, but soon he finds out he's facing a relentless organization
Release Date:1980-08-12
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:12
Killer Fish
Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.
Release Date:1979-12-07
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:63
The Squeeze
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
Release Date:1978-10-25
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:6
Sweetheart
Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence discovers that his wife Adelina no longer wishes to live with him.
Release Date:1977-09-15
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:4
Shock
A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.
Release Date:1977-08-12
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:119
The Flower in His Mouth
A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the town is hiding some very sinister secrets.
Release Date:1975-10-30
Department:Production
Job:Associate Producer
Vote Count:14
Bread and Chocolate
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?
Release Date:1974-05-05
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:91
Roma
A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most famous citizens.
Release Date:1972-03-16
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:327
Scipio the African
Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius Cato of the theft of 500 talents intended for Rome.
Release Date:1971-03-03
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:19
The Anonymous Venetian
Without mentioning the reason, Venetian musician Enrico invites his ex-wife Valeria to visit him, and her heart is broken again during their last days together.
Release Date:1970-09-30
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:46
Only the Cool
A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this espionage drama. Dominique is the neglected wife of a spy who tracks him down at a Paris antique shop. Finding him with a female spy, the enraged wife shoots both of them. Dominique hides out on a boat while the police investigate the murders, and international spies scramble to recover some missing microfilm. Helen is the spy boss who orders a hit man to go after Dominique.
Release Date:1970-06-03
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:6
Let's Have a Riot
Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
Release Date:1970-03-19
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:4
Alive or Preferably Dead
Two brothers, Monty and Ted, will inherit $300,000 if they manage to live together for six months.
Release Date:1969-09-17
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:13
Stuntman
Stuntman Johnny gets tired of putting his life constantly at risk and instead joins up with a bunch of international thieves who are looking to steal a priceless statue, but that's where the trouble starts....
Release Date:1968-12-31
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1
The Deserter and the Nomads
An apocalyptic story of three wars in three film tales encompassing the end of the WWI,WWII, as well as a vision of the world destroyed by nuclear weapons. This film was honored at the film festivals in Venice and Sorrento. Immediately after that the copy with Italian subtitles was locked in a safe as evidence of the anti-communist activities of the director, who used real footage of the Soviet invasion.
Release Date:1968-12-06
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:13
Better a Widow
Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate. Proby talks to the mob bosses about the project, but disagreements between different bosses complicate his efforts.
Release Date:1968-10-08
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Operation San Pietro
Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they shack up with a shady used car dealer caled Il Cajella to help finance their new life of crime by planing to rob a statue from the Vatican. But a big-time American gangster, named Joe Ventura, hears about the heist and wants the priceless statue for himself by having his mistress, Samantha, come onto and betray the woman-hungry Cajella to give the statue away to her.
Release Date:1967-12-29
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:14
The Head of the Family
A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.
Release Date:1967-09-29
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:23
The Treasure of San Gennaro
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Gennaro, in Napoli.
Release Date:1966-11-25
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:181
The Battle of the Mods
In Liverpool there's a gang war between the Mods (who dress in the latest fashions and styles) and the Rockers (who are more into the '50s "greaser" look). Ricky, the son of a wealthy businessman, is a Mod guitar player, and in a gang fight with some Rockers, his girlfriend is killed. He leaves Liverpool for the continent and winds up in Rome, where he becomes involved with his father's mistress.
Release Date:1966-08-05
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:2
How Do I Love You?
Gigliola is a young and humble Neapolitan swimmer who will compete in a competition in Spain and finds herself falling for the fiance of her best friend. But when they come to visit her in Italy, she pretends to be rich, with the complicity of their parents.
Release Date:1966-04-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:8
Weekend, Italian Style
Manager Marletti goes to the sea to meet his wife Giuliana to spend the weekend with her and many friends. After three days Marletti comes back driving his car to Rome. So he can sleep, alone and happy, with silence around him.
Release Date:1965-12-27
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:27
I Knew Her Well
A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
Release Date:1965-12-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:160
The Sons of the Leopard
Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and marries a rich woman. The mistress tries to have her rights established with the help of her sons.
Release Date:1965-04-29
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:8
Six Days a Week
Maria is a young beauty who is busy juggling three boyfriends (a count, a dentist and a student) at the same time. She manages this elaborate deception by impersonating her roommate Silvana who is a real life airline hostess. She lies to the count and the dentist about her flight schedules and her whereabouts so she can spend three days a week with each of them. She spends the remaining day of the week with the student who thinks she is a fellow student. One day surprising news of the real Silvana break out. Comedy and confusion ensure when Maria is forced to come up with a more elaborate scheme to cover her tracks and keep her boyfriends happy.
Release Date:1965-03-22
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:4
Minnesota Clay
Wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Minnesota Clay seeks revenge on the man who withheld evidence at his trial. There is a problem however, he is going blind.
Release Date:1964-11-12
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:34
Massacre At Grand Canyon
After a search for his father's killers, Wes Evans returns home only to find himself involved in a bloody land dispute.
Release Date:1964-05-25
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:4
Those Two in the Legion
Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra boss and enlist in the Foreign Legion. They are inept but are mistaken for brave people by their commander and sent to break a weapon smuggling ring.
Release Date:1962-08-16
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:12
Le signore
Release Date:1960-05-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Moana
Documentary focused on underwater shootings and hawaiian dances.
Release Date:1959-01-01
Vote Count:1
Legs of Gold
Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a triumphant championship, is about to be promoted to Serie C.
Release Date:1958-08-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:13
A Sailor's Promises
Release Date:1958-07-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
La donna che venne dal mare
Danae, a woman who came from the sea is a beautiful blonde girl at the center of a spy story during the second world war. In Gibraltar, Italian and British divers perform mutual sabotage actions. The secret agents, on the other hand, face off on the mainland and the Italian spies have the best thanks to the girl's intervention.
Release Date:1957-10-03
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:2
The Guilty
Valerio Rossello is a judge, with a rigid and uncompromising mentality. He is married to Lucia, a woman who instead follows the model of a loving and protective mother. From their union only one child was born: Maurizio. Both parents raise him completely differently, highlighting their character differences. Until the day when Maurizio, now a teenager, together with a friend commits an attack for futile reasons against a gas station attendant. Having learned of the incident, Valerio and Lucia also in this case intend to face the situation in a diametrically opposite way. The conflicts within the family thus strongly resurface, in which, amidst rebounds of responsibility, the errors of both parents emerge in the upbringing of their child.
Release Date:1957-03-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:3
Class of Iron
Release Date:1957-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The Bachelor
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?
Release Date:1955-12-30
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:33
Uomini ombra
Italian naval secret agents acquire a British codebook and the Italian counter-espionage agents start tracking enemy agents working undercover in Italy and providing false information.
Release Date:1954-11-26
Department:Production
Job:Producer
The Vanquished
Three tales of privileged youth entangled in murder: French students kill for money, an Italian student smuggles cigarettes, and an English poet exploits a grim discovery.
Release Date:1953-10-22
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:39
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 Date:1953-09-18
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:17
The World Condemns Them
Forced by her lover to sell her body, Renata is saved from a suicide attempt by Paolo Martelli, an engineer. She asks him to help her find a job. When Paolo's wife humiliates her, Renata gains revenge by seducing the woman's husband.
Release Date:1953-03-07
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:1
Ho scelto l'amore
A satire of the Cold War, Italian style. Soviet flunkey Boris Popovitc is sent on a goodwill mission to Rome, where he is to deliver a symbolic dove of peace to a group of WW II freedom fighters. Somehow, Boris winds up in Venice minus the dove. As he searches up street and down canal for the missing bird, he meets and falls in love with luscious flower-girl Maria.
Release Date:1953-03-03
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1
La passeggiata
A meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way of living but she is very hard to convince. When she finally realizes he really loves her it is too late.
Release Date:1953-01-27
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Times Gone By
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Release Date:1952-09-28
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:11
The City Stands Trial
Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.
Release Date:1952-09-05
Department:Writing
Job:Co-Writer
Vote Count:6
Fugitive in Trieste
An Italian Air Force officer is pursued and captured by the Allied police and is charged with the bombing of a hospital ship. Through the efforts of his sweetheart, a witness is found who proves the bombing was not intentional but the result of being hit by enemy fire. A four-way romantic involvement is also part of the mix that includes an Allied officer and Viennse beauty Lida. The latter was once in love with the accused and has a child by him.
Release Date:1952-04-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
The Seven Deadly Sins
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
Release Date:1952-03-27
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:13
Marito e Moglie
Two episode about the married life. In the first one a paralyzed man is forced by her wife to brood eggs while the mother hen is gone. In the second episode a good-willed man tries to escpape from the grey of the world that surround him
Release Date:1952-03-08
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1
Verginità
Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franco, a salesman.
Release Date:1951-09-04
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:2
Two Anonymous Letters
When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio. She comes to regret her decision when Tullio proves to be a Nazi collaborationist. Casting her lot with the Resistance movement, Gina is forced into a difficult decision when the safety of ex-lover Bruno is endangered by the treachery of Tullio.
Release Date:1945-11-03
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:8