From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michele Soavi, sometimes known as Michael Soavi (born 3 July 1957) is an Italian filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter best known for his work in the horror film genre, working alongside directors like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michele Soavi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
This documentary about the great master of European horror and fantastic films offers an immersive exploration into the life and legacy of the director of Suspiria. Using the writing process of his next film as a starting point, Dario Argento Panico immerses us in the mind of the Italian genius, and offers testimonials from other filmmakers who love his work, all key names in today's world of cinema including Gaspar Noé and Guillermo Del Toro.
Release Date:2024-10-14
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
Spaghetti westerns, giallo, mondo... are the legacy of a golden age in Italian genre filmmaking, which began in the sixties and came to an end in the eighties, but not without leaving behind a few final masterpieces. This film explores, a few decades later, what became of those filmmakers and their films. A number of the most famous survivors of Italian horror movies will help to shed light on what happened.
Release Date:2023-10-05
Character:Sé stesso
Blanca Ferrando is a young woman who became blind at the age of twelve, due to a dramatic fire in which her older sister Beatrice died and which was caused by her violent boyfriend, Sebastian. This tragedy made her develop a very strong sense of justice to the point of pushing her to join the police. Blanca is helped by her most trusted friends: her guide dog Linneo, a female bulldog who protects and comforts her in the most difficult moments, and her beautician friend, Stella. After overcoming her work challenges, she finds herself facing sentimental ones: torn between two men, Inspector Michele Liguori, a man of many secrets, and Nanni, a young cook.
Release Date:2021-11-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:42
Who was Joe D'Amato aka. Aristide Massaccesi? A genius of horror in the USA, a master of eroticism in France, the king of porn in Italy. A man with a thousand pseudonyms capable of making over 200 films while simultaneously holding the roles of producer, director, author, director of photography and even camera operator. An artisan of cinema as he liked to call himself, capable of working on all film genres. From spaghetti western to post-atomic, decamerotic to glossy eroticism, and blockbuster porn to bloody horror. Guided by the aesthetics of extremes and supported by an undeniable technical ability, Joe D’Amato pushed himself, and the viewer, beyond all limits following with dedication three rigid principles that have become his stylistic code: Amaze, Shock, Scandalize.
Release Date:2021-09-05
Character:Self
Vote Count:3
Saverio Lamanna, a journalist turned spokesman for an influential government politician, is fired after committing imprudence at work. Defeated both emotionally and professionally, Saverio decides to leave Rome and return to Màkari, his birthplace in Sicily: here he rediscovers a great passion that has remained dormant for years, that of the writer. Driven by the curiosity that characterizes him, Saverio decides to improvise as an investigator and investigate the various local cases, forming an unlikely trio together with the eccentric and light-hearted friend Peppe Piccionello and the determined architecture student Suleima.
Release Date:2021-03-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:16
Release Date:2020-01-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Release Date:2019-10-31
Character:Self
«Fulci for Fake» is the first biopic on Lucio Fulci. Lucio Fulci is an enigma. The mystery that surrounds Fulci is linked in part to his personal life. The director only rarely spoke about himself in interviews. But he did let his experience be reflected in his films. The setting of the film sees Nicola, a successful actor, agree to play the part of Lucio Fulci in a biopic on the director. Nicola will ask himself probing questions about the real nature of a man who, in his own lifetime, had already rewritten his biography.
Release Date:2019-04-10
Character:Himself
Vote Count:14
Monica Grossi wakes up after four months from a coma without remembering anything about the last eight years of her life. With the help of Stefano, brother of her alleged lover, who died in mysterious circumstances, she tries to reconstruct her past step by step to understand if she is really the woman that everyone remembers.
Release Date:2019-03-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:3
When six elementary school students suspect their missing teacher is Befana, a Christmas witch who delivers presents to good children, they set off on a magical journey to save her.
Release Date:2018-12-27
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:286
Release Date:2018-10-12
Character:Himself
Inspired by one of the most savage and violent crimes committed in Rome in the 1980s, "Rabbia Furiosa" is the story of Fabio, a small-time neighborhood crook, known as “Er Canaro” (the Dog Man) who suffers years of abuse and mistreatment from Claudio, a local boss of the criminal underworld. When he is driven to desperation and the brink of madness, he will carry out a terrible and bloody act of vengeance...
Release Date:2018-06-07
Department:Crew
Job:Thanks
Vote Count:27
An Italian magistrate leads a crusade against organized crime which ultimately costs him his life in this biopic told through his daughter's eyes.
Release Date:2018-01-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
A retrospective look at the making of Michele Soavi's "The Church" including interviews with cast and crew.
Release Date:2017-10-02
Character:self
Vote Count:1
Delves into the career of the notorious Italian filmmaker, Aristide Massaccesi aka Joe D'Amato, the infamous director behind the legendary Video Nasties Anthropophagus: The Beast and Absurd.
Release Date:2017-02-13
Character:Himself
Vote Count:1
Weed smoking, foulmouthed Rocco Schiavone is an offbeat Deputy Commissioner of the State Police. For disciplinary reasons he is transferred to the Alpine town of Aosta, far from his beloved Rome. The sophisticated but cranky Roman despises the mountains, the cold, and the provincial locals as much as he disdains his superiors and their petty rules. But he loves solving crimes.
Release Date:2016-11-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:56
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Release Date:2016-05-21
Character:(archive footage)
Vote Count:2
In post–WWII Italy, inspired industrialist Adriano Olivetti oversees the creation of the first all-Italian electronic calculator while theorizing a revolutionary business model based on the idea that profit should be reinvested for the benefits of the whole society. An utopian vision that catches the attention of powerful interests...
Release Date:2013-10-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:10
In post–World War II Italy, genius industrialist Adriano Olivetti oversees the creation of the first all-Italian electronic calculator while theorizing a revolutionary business model based on the idea that profit should be reinvested for the benefits of the whole society. His vision catches the attention of powerful interests...
Release Date:2013-10-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:5
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 Date:2008-03-06
Character:Self
Vote Count:3
Release Date:2008-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:8
Turi Leofonte is released from prison after eleven years and asks for the surviving members of his old security detail to escort him back in Sicily to get revenge on his former associates – something the authorities indulge to seize a large stash of Mafia money he claims to have access to.
Release Date:2007-11-23
Character:Shotgun Hitman
Vote Count:78
Offers a critical appreciation of Italian horror cinema, pioneered by directors such as Dario Argento and Mario Bava, a genre that influenced filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Takashi Miike.
Release Date:2007-09-14
Character:Self
November 12, 2003. A terrorist attack kills 24 Italian soldiers deployed in Nasiriyah, Iraq for a peace-keeping mission as part of "Operation Ancient Babylon".
Release Date:2007-03-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:10
The return of the Red Brigade in Italy, after 11 years of silence from this terrorist organization, was a traumatic event for the entire country. Especially for the families of the victims killed: professors D'Antona and Biagi, and subsequently the police superintendent Petri.
Release Date:2006-05-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:5
After the shocking assassination of a labor lawyer, an Italian anti-terrorism unit races against time to stop the new incarnation of the Red Brigades from killing their next target — and strike fear at the heart of the State.
Release Date:2006-05-22
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Episode Count:2
A brief overview of the inspiration and process behind making Cemetery Man.
Release Date:2006-03-06
Vote Count:1
Leftist radical-turned-terrorist Giorgio—who fled to Latin America in the '70s to escape justice—decides to surrender after hearing about the fall of the Berlin Wall. Determined to lead a comfortable, bourgeois life in his native Italy, he cuts a deal with a shady police chief, getting his sentence reduced in exchange for ratting out former comrades. Once released, Giorgio obsessively pursues his dream of becoming a "respectable" citizen, even if the way is paved with larceny, pimping, drug-dealing, rape, heist, and murder...
Release Date:2006-02-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:54
Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.
Release Date:2005-08-26
Department:Directing
Job:Second Unit Director
Vote Count:2767
Based on the case of the serial killer Donato Bilancia, who murdered 17 people between 1998 and 2000 in Genova.
Release Date:2003-02-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Release Date:2003-02-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Release Date:2002-10-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:11
Italian thriller
Release Date:2001-05-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:10
Rimini, 1991. For more than a year, the uno bianca gang - they always use a white Fiat Uno - has plagued the area. Their crimes are violent, sometimes killing carabineri, and there's no particular pattern: a bank one day, a petrol station the next, extortion of a small business the next. Are they terrorists? A foreign gang? Tied to the Mafia? After a particularly bloody shootout, two detectives are assigned to start fresh: they go through the notebooks of previous investigators and they interview a few witnesses again. They find a pattern in the crimes and predict the next assault, but the special task force in Bologna is dismissive. Can they carry on alone; how far will they get?
Release Date:2001-02-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:33
Uno bianca thriller
Release Date:2001-02-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
Cemetery watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, is tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves.
Release Date:1994-03-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Man in City Square (uncredited)
Vote Count:519
A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A lonely schoolteacher almost runs over an elderly man and takes him in, unbeknown to her the man has plans for her – plans that involve a permanent future with the Satanic cult.
Release Date:1991-03-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Magician on TV (uncredited)
Vote Count:113
When a woman is beaten into a coma and saved from being raped by her handyman (Donald O'Brien), the local security force does a cover-up to save the town's reputation and frames the saviour. After he hangs himself, the woman's strange comatose psi-powers revive him from the dead to exact revenge.
Release Date:1991-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:13
A documentary about the films of Italian horror director Dario Argento. Included are clips from many of his films and interviews with friends, actors and colleagues.
Release Date:1991-01-01
Character:Himself
Vote Count:5
Skiers in Northern Italy unwittingly awaken an ancient witch after removing her mask in a crevasse. Their actions unleash a curse, leading to terrifying consequences.
Release Date:1990-06-01
Character:Bebo
Vote Count:18
When a horror film based on the same source material as Suspiria and Inferno goes into production, the evil witch the story is based upon manifests herself and not only begins to terrorise the actress set to portray her on screen, but reveals plans to wreck havoc and bloodshed throughout the world.
Release Date:1989-04-09
Character:Carl - film director (uncredited)
Vote Count:21
In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic vengeance.
Release Date:1989-03-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:1st Policeman at Lisa's House
Vote Count:228
Exploring perspectives on witches from different angles, ranging from historical accounts to popular folklore, shedding light on the complex narratives surrounding these notorious figures.
Release Date:1989-01-01
Character:Bebo
Episode Count:1
A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Release Date:1987-12-19
Department:Directing
Job:Second Unit Director
Character:Inspector Daniele Soave (uncredited)
Vote Count:480
While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.
Release Date:1987-02-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Young Cop (uncredited)
Vote Count:212
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
Release Date:1985-10-04
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Character:Man in Black / Jerry
Vote Count:571
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Release Date:1985-01-25
Department:Directing
Job:First Assistant Director
Character:Kurt, Geiger's Assistant
Vote Count:824
Documentary on horror/mystery filmmaker Dario Argento. Features an in-depth interview with Argento and covers his work from 1969 to 1985.
Release Date:1985-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Self (Archive)
Vote Count:11
An ex-cop, fresh out of prison, returns home to find it ruled by violent rednecks and must fight to protect himself and his daughter, using his combat skills and a powerful grenade launcher.
Release Date:1984-07-14
Character:Pete
Vote Count:37
A team of scientists working to raise a sunken Russian nuclear submarine on an ocean platform off the coast of Miami, Florida, unearth an ancient Atlantean relic from the sea floor and bring in an expert to make some sense of it. But while attempting to raise the sub, radioactive leakage from its missles triggers the re-emergence of Atlantis, and the resulting tidal wave destroys the platform and leaves only a small group of survivors. Rescued by two Vietnamvets-turned-heavies who are out relaxing after their latest job, their boat eventually runs aground on a Carribean island nearby where, upon going ashore, it is discovered that everything has been destroyed and everybody killed. The culprits, a vicious group of well-armed raiders, and their leader, Crystal Skull, are descendants of Atlantis' original race who set about reclaiming the world and adding the survivors to the list of victims as they struggle to stay alive and defeat the raiders and send Atlantis back to the ocean floor.
Release Date:1983-11-25
Character:James
Vote Count:54
A telepathic mutant recruits a post World War III TV game show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety.
Release Date:1983-11-05
Department:Crew
Job:Second Unit
Character:Gold Carrier
Vote Count:45
Bruno, an up and coming film composer, has been hired to write the score to a new horror movie. After moving into a secluded villa, life begins to imitate art as a vicious killer starts bumping off anyone and everyone who happens to pay him a visit.
Release Date:1983-08-06
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Character:Tony Rendina
Vote Count:107
In a post-apocalyptic Texas, a band of warriors fight against a fascist regime that is trying to take control of all surviving population.
Release Date:1983-06-10
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Vote Count:23
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.
Release Date:1982-10-28
Department:Directing
Job:Second Assistant Director
Character:Maria's Boyfriend / Man Walking with Girl on Beach (uncredited)
Vote Count:619
A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Release Date:1982-03-04
Character:Newspaper Buyer (uncredited)
Vote Count:298
An insane young emperor finds his love of brutality and degradation surpassed only by his hunger for enslaved virgins, cruel vengeance, extreme acts of 'horseplay' and beyond.
Release Date:1982-02-02
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Character:Domitius
Vote Count:46
A priest-doctor chasing a man with supernatural regenerative abilities, who has recently escaped from a medical lab, reaches a small town where the mutant goes on a killing spree.
Release Date:1981-10-01
Department:Directing
Job:Assistant Director
Character:Biker (uncredited)
Vote Count:93
In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ago, but Berta refuses to leave her husband for him. Enne 2 is pursued by the fascists of Cane Nero and, instead of running away to Turin, waits for Berta to rejoin him
Release Date:1980-09-08
Vote Count:1
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
Character:Leo Kandinsky (uncredited)
Vote Count:12
A woman seemingly dies of fright after participating in a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns that the priest's suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell and must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.
Release Date:1980-08-11
Character:Tommy Fisher
Vote Count:393
A group of cave explorers are confronted in an underground cavern by a mysterious living rock. Little do they know that it bears home to deadly, flesh-eating creatures, intent on wiping out the entire human population. An ultra low-budget, unofficial and unauthorized sequel to the 1979 film Alien, although the plot has little connection to the original film.
Release Date:1980-04-11
Character:Burt
Vote Count:66
Two Roman boys, lazy and unhappy with the life they lead, dream of escaping by moving to Brazil, also involving a third friend, who works in his father's pastry shop.
Release Date:1979-12-27
Department:Directing
Job:Co-Director
Daniel, a young singer, tries to break into the world of music, but falls into a depressive crisis from which it only comes out thanks to a girl, Elisa, who has fallen in love with him.
Release Date:1979-06-14
Department:Editing
Job:Assistant Editor
Vote Count:1
A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 year-old war orphan niece, who now lives in the manor.
Release Date:1978-02-08
Character:The acrobat
Vote Count:24
A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
Release Date:1978-02-07
Character:Ted Foster (uncredited)
Vote Count:11
A rich Sicilian, Fefè Mottola, decides to call a wealthy girl graduate: Giovanna, who is about to become a teacher, because his son needs repetitions. The boy, named Franco, is shocked by the physical beauty of the teacher, and so to restrain himself decides to pose as gay. But the deception does not last long, because the sexual impulses of Alfredo explode.
Release Date:1975-07-11
Vote Count:45