Sergio Donati (born 13 April 1933) is an Italian screenwriter. He has written for more than 70 films since 1952. He was born in Rome, Italy. He started as a writer and had some of his books optioned for film. He is well known for his collaboration with Italian director Sergio Leone, who encouraged him to take up screenwriting as a full-time career, and with Italian producer Dino de Laurentis.
A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hundred unforgettable scores.
Release Date:2022-02-17
Character:Self
Vote Count:327
Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the first time that such a young woman from a Mafia family rebels and betrays the Mafia. From that moment on, Rita's days are numbered. She only has nine months to live...
Release Date:2008-12-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:48
Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became blockbusters throughout the world.
Release Date:2008-07-03
Character:Self
Release Date:2006-12-14
Department:Writing
Job:Storyboard
Episode Count:2
A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s.
Release Date:2005-09-01
Character:Self
Vote Count:3
The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and fascinating portrait through unpublished testimonies of collaborators, actors, directors and critics who reconstruct every aspect of his creative activity.
Release Date:2001-09-22
Character:Self - Screenwriter
Vote Count:5
A police inspector suspects a serial killer is afoot in the university city of Bologna, luring in his victims through online video chats before murdering them and assuming their identity.
Release Date:2000-11-17
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:63
As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the children's home run by his ma, Dr. Gioia. This year however, Christian's heart isn't in his summer fling but his lover at home, Anna, daughter of Karl's general manager Dr. Werner. Christian has a bad eye in Veronica, the woman who became Karl's much younger lover 'by travel fate', the first thing soon proved untrue. But by then, the Schneibel firm and estate have been taken over according to an elaborate conspiracy, which Christian takes on with some help from his friends.
Release Date:2000-01-02
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:2
Elena Serpieri is an Italian neurologist who is in the United States, because she obtained a scholarship in a New York hospital. There she works together with the FBI on the profile of a dangerous serial killer.
Release Date:1999-11-17
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Giallo based on the true crime of Rita Squeglia, who killed her lover and hid the body in a suitcase.
Release Date:1999-08-27
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Past and present intertwine when an archaeologist and her husband find a mysterious child on the banks of the Nile and adopt him. But the more they learn about the lost tomb of Pharaoh Mamose, the more Hapi, the little child, is plagued by frightening visions. Soon it is clear that powerful forces are trying to prevent the couple from finding the tomb.
Release Date:1999-06-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:15
11-year-old Christian lives with his Italian mother Gioia in poverty on the island of Ischia. His German father died in a rescue mission before Christian was born. The kind boy had an unremarkable and calm life until, one day, his grandfather Carl Schneibel finds him. Schneibel is a wealthy businessman who had never seen Christian before. Since the old lonely man has no heir, he decides to take Christian in and offer him a good education. Schneibel has never been on good terms with his son and never liked his son’s choice of wife, so he decides that Gioia must not come along. Despite, Gioia does not wish to obstruct her son’s future and allows him to go. Thanks to his good nature and his kind ways, Christian wins the heart of his grandfather and changes his life for the better.
Release Date:1996-12-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:9
Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every claim that becomes available, usually after the deaths of the previous owners at the hands of McLennon's 'assistants'. One of the miners targeted by McLennon, a half-Indian hunter named Hudson Saanteek, manages to escape his hired thugs and comes back into town looking to re-establish his claim and get revenge. McLennon and his men have the advantage of numbers and weapons, but Saanteek has his survival skills and knowledge of the Alaskan wilderness.
Release Date:1996-01-03
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:41
Release Date:1995-02-02
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:9
A woman's ex-husband, who is the son of an Arab chieftain, kidnaps their teenage son and brings him back to Morocco, where the boy is to be made the leader of the tribe. The child's mother hires a mercenary to get her son and bring him back to her.
Release Date:1992-12-02
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:9
Release Date:1991-03-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:5
Release Date:1991-01-30
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.
Release Date:1990-04-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:4
The story of two men from opposite backgrounds and social structures who become friends. Jack Phillips is a laid-back, wry service station proprietor in a small Australian country town. His world is disrupted when a fast talking, gesticulating, vocal Italian, Nino Patrovita bursts upon the scene.
Release Date:1989-08-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
A group of high fashion models have been invited to an isolated house to attend a party. As the night wears on, one of the models falls victim to a deadly 'accident,' which sets into motion a series of brutal murders, all traced back to a shocking secret...
Release Date:1988-11-24
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:26
In 1925, Desmond Jordan, an American archaeologist, tries to find the mysterious Speaking Mountain that is supposed to be in the middle of the Sahara desert, where he meets a bunch of deserters from the French Foreign Legion, who are pursued by the ruthless Lieutenant Ryker.
Release Date:1988-01-03
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:8
While on his travel across the Southwestern United States, with his Jeep CJ Renegade and his chestnut colt named Joe Brown, Luke meets Matt, son of a friend of his, Moose, who is in jail. Moose asks Luke to take care of Matt, and to help him to take possession of a piece of land. So starts their travel, full of adventures...
Release Date:1987-10-30
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:166
Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.
Release Date:1987-09-04
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:76
Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief Harry Shannon, whose son has been killed by a mobster named Patrovina, enlists Kaminsky in a personal vendetta with a promise of reinstatement into the FBI if Patrovina is taken down. To accomplish this, he must go undercover and join Patrovina's gang.
Release Date:1986-06-06
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:789
Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found in her the reason of his life. But when she accepts a job far from home, Francesco comes back to billiards.
Release Date:1985-02-16
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:25
Funny adventures of a taxi driver and his passenger - broken financial genius.
Release Date:1984-11-03
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:27
Love during wartime blossoms between crusader Bradamante—a female knight wearing an invincible suit of armor—and Moorish prince Ruggero. A sorceress predicts to Bradamante that her beloved will die in battle at the hand of a fellow Christian paladin, Rolando, whom in turn is in love with Isabella, Ruggero's sister.
Release Date:1983-09-21
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:12
Two stupid lowlifes are "forced" into a life of violent crime on the streets of Italy. What follows is a mocking takeoff of the American crime classic "Bonnie and Clyde."
Release Date:1983-02-17
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:45
In 1900 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized component of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows the cynical and ruthless Prince Torquato Terenzi, disappointed by life and progress, and also falls in love with the beautiful Duchess Elisa. When Prince Terenzi dies, Francesco realizes that he's not enriched for nothing with the inheritance, because the noble family is broke; so he enlistes himself for the war in Libya, but quickly returnes to Italy, disgusted by the atrocities of the fighting. His dream is to be a singer, and so he goes to America with the Duchess Elisa.
Release Date:1982-12-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:51
Trinity series star Bud Spencer returns to the Wild West in director Michele Lupo's comic tale of an outlaw drifter, Buddy, who is mistaken for a doctor after his Indian companion inadvertently steals a bag of surgical instruments. When a band of murderous outlaws attempts to overrun the small town Buddy is passing through, the presumed medico shows that his true talent is cracking skulls. Music is composed by Ennio Morricone.
Release Date:1981-05-14
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:121
A group of mercenaries escort a man with a million dollar bounty on his head across the African terrain. Double crosses, back stabbing, and gunfire follows.
Release Date:1979-03-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:2
A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he seeks revenge.
Release Date:1979-02-21
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:21
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 Date:1979-01-18
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:73
An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
Release Date:1977-11-25
Department:Writing
Job:Screenstory
Vote Count:51
After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, the captain, a female marine biologist and an Indigenous tribalist venture after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.
Release Date:1977-07-22
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:408
A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.
Release Date:1977-01-10
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:20
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.
Release Date:1976-04-13
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:4
Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory.
Release Date:1975-12-20
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:6
Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.
Release Date:1975-08-25
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:25
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
Release Date:1974-10-24
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:20
An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.
Release Date:1974-08-12
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:7
When mobsters try to put an honest policeman on the payroll, he seeks revenge on the mob. But, he soon learns that his actions, however honest, have dire consequences.
Release Date:1974-07-12
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:37
There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.
Release Date:1973-11-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:6
A skinny troublemaker and his good-natured, bemuscled sidekick find trouble in Hong Kong.
Release Date:1973-09-14
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:4
Romulus, a rough but genuine country man, finds, on the occasion of a religious festival, a girl, Rema, already his kindergarten companion. In love with her since then, he welcomes with joy the invitation to follow her to Rome, convinced that the young woman wants to marry him.
Release Date:1973-08-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."
Release Date:1973-02-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:2
Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.
Release Date:1972-10-19
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:172
A bunch of outlaws awaits the release from prison of an old goldminer, believed to have hidden 28 sacks of gold 20 years before... They all want the old man to speak, but only one of them will fulfill his dream.
Release Date:1972-08-19
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:2
Also known as Ben & Charlie. When Ben Bellow is released from prison, Charlie Logan is there waiting for him. Not to welcome him, but to tell him that he does not want to hear from him again. But his wish won't be granted as the the two men constantly forced to reconnect while still hating each other's guts...
Release Date:1972-02-04
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:14
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
Release Date:1971-10-29
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:1086
Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which happens to have been designed by Manteghin.
Release Date:1971-07-05
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:8
An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are dismayed to find that everything has been left to Barbara, the deceased's favourite daughter. The butler is soon found stabbed to death and Sergeant Thorpe, the local bobby, telephones Scotland Yard for assistance. Inspector Grey arrives and he and Barbara narrowly escape being shot. Cousin Ted and his wife Pauline are both killed. Sergeant Thorpe recalls some photos which Ted asked to have developed...
Release Date:1970-10-15
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:24
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
Release Date:1968-12-21
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:4435
When an international casino crime ring is planning a big score at a fixed roulette game, the casino police enlists the help of Jeff Miller, an alcoholic croupier, to nab the bad guys. Jeff is attracted to Laura, a singer at the casino, but she prefers the company of the leader of the thieving casino ring.
Release Date:1968-09-20
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:3
Release Date:1968-08-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
A gang of prison inmates escape and rob the Royal Mint. They then sneak back to prison.
Release Date:1968-04-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:8
History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.
Release Date:1967-11-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:102
Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but Jane thinks he has been killed because he was blackmailed for a picture of his second wife, Jane's mother in law. In the same Night Club Bernard finds the blackmailer corpse and Jane near him, but he believes she is innocent. So Bernard and Jane run away followed by a dwarf, the blackmailer's men, who believe Bernard killed their boss and of course, the Police. They believe that Jerome, Jane's brother, can help them to solve the case. But Jane doesn't know where he is, or so she says. Corpse after corpse, Bernard will find out the truth. But will the truth help him?
Release Date:1967-11-16
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Vote Count:31
An episode from the war in 1806 when a small troop of Prussian soldiers digs in at a mill in order to defend itself against the overwhelming advance of the French army.
Release Date:1967-11-16
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:6
A team of astronauts is sent to the moon to rescue an alien who is seeking help to save her dying race. They are attacked by a force of bandit robots and discover that enemy spies are out to kill the alien.
Release Date:1967-08-04
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:35
Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.
Release Date:1967-03-03
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:169
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Release Date:1966-12-22
Department:Crew
Job:Additional Dialogue
Vote Count:8824
A veteran US Secret Service agent must thwart the covert conspiracy of an enemy spy network that threatens the world's safety.
Release Date:1966-10-15
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:5
A journalist goes in search of his missing fiance.
Release Date:1966-08-12
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
In a desert region, Martin, bound to a wheelchair, is served by a gang of desperados to collect rents and kill anybody who resists. Then Lassiter arrives, telling Martin that he knows where Frank is, the man who made him a cripple. A reward is promised for his head. Then Frank smells danger... Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Release Date:1966-03-10
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:2
Two bounty hunters both pursue a brutal and sadistic bandit El Indio who has a massive bounty on his head.
Release Date:1965-12-18
Department:Crew
Job:Additional Writing
Vote Count:4048
An inhabitant of the Moon, crashed on the Earth due to the violent shock caused by an atomic experiment, remains amazed by the discovery of this planet and gives life to a puppet, begging him to introduce him into the world of men.
Release Date:1954-08-30
Release Date:1952-11-26
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay