Massimo De Rita (Writing)
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Works
Caruso, the voice of love
Caruso, the voice of love is an Italian television miniserie of 2012, inspired by Enrico Caruso, broadcast on Rai 1 on 23 and 24 September 2012. It was produced by Claudia Mori, for Hi Guys. The story focuses on contrasting relationships between Enrico Caruso and the two Florentine sisters Rina and Ada Giachetti-from which he had two children, Rodolfo and Enrico Jr. - And on marriage with the young American Dorothy Benjamin, from which Caruso had his daughter Gloria. (Translated from Italian, from Wikipedia)
Release Date:2012-09-23
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
General della Rovere
Giovanni Bertone a former colonel, is a fraudster who extorts money from the families of the Nazi-Fascist prisoners. He promises them their freedom. Discovered by Colonel Muller he is offered a pact: to save his life, he must go to Milan with a false identity to discover the members belonging to the Resistance.
Release Date:2011-10-09
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:6
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Release Date:2010-09-07
Character:Self
Vote Count:2
Everybody's Fine
Eight months after the death of his wife, Frank Goode looks forward to a reunion with his four adult children. When all of them cancel their visits at the last minute, Frank, against the advice of his doctor, sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring. As he visits each one in turn, Frank finds that his children's lives are not quite as picture-perfect as they've made them out to be.
Release Date:2009-12-04
Department:Writing
Job:Original Film Writer
Vote Count:988
Einstein
The relationship between renowned scientist Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Marić.
Release Date:2008-10-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:2
De Gasperi - L'uomo della speranza
Release Date:2005-04-25
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:5
The Heart in the Well
Release Date:2005-02-06
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Episode Count:2
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 Date:2004-04-30
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
Ferrari
Story of Enzo Ferrari's rise from a successful race driver to one of the most famous entrepreneurs of all time. Being interviewed by a fictitious, intrusive young journalist he recalls his setbacks and personal losses.
Release Date:2003-02-16
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:48
Ferrari
The story of Enzo Ferrari.
Release Date:2003-02-16
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:3
Italian Kings Of B
Documentary on Italian genre cinema.
Release Date:2003-01-01
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
La guerra è finita
Release Date:2002-05-05
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:7
Padre Pio: Miracle Man
The amazing details and events in Padre Pio's life as a boy and throughout his 50 years as a friar. Padre Pio was a man of great faith and devotion, deep spiritual concern for others, and great compassion for the sick and suffering, but he was persecuted by the church.
Release Date:2000-04-17
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:22
Incompreso
Freely taken from the novel "Misunderstood" by Florence Montgomery, "Incompreso" takes place in the second half of the 1950s in Lucca: Edoardo Quaratesi, an important producer of fine wines, while loving his wife Elisa and his two children, Francesco and Mino, is mainly dedicated to his work. To suffer the most from the absence of Edoardo is the firstborn, Francesco, who pours all his unsatisfied need for love on his mother and little brother. After Elisa's death due to a serious illness, the situation at the Quaratesi home gets complicated, until we reach a dramatic epilogue.
Release Date:1998-01-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:28
Everybody's Fine
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
Release Date:1990-09-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:150
The Mask of Satan
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
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:18
Sabbath
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
Department:Crew
Job:Script
Episode Count:1
The Secret of the Sahara
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
I padroni dell'estate
Release Date:1987-08-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
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 Date:1987-06-05
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:6
The Professor
An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.
Release Date:1986-09-12
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:115
La ragazza dei lillà
An honest and idealistic archaeologist, to find the legendary burial of an Etruscan king, collides with the interests of a group of "grave robbers". Larth is a passionate archaeologist of the Etruscan civilization, on the trail of a famous royal tomb. Vasco is a hotelier in the area which is enriched by plundering the graves and selling their treasures. Tania is the beautiful, thirteen year old, niece of Vasco (played by 18 yr old Brigitta Boccoli ) that disturbs the mature scholar Larth by attempting to seduce his wife Leonora. There is treasure, thievery, murder and seduction. Oh, and a red car.
Release Date:1986-08-28
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Blastfighter
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
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:37
Blood Link
A man who has been having psychic visions of himself killing naked women soon discovers that it's not himself he's seeing, it's his Siamese twin. (yes, they've been separated) So he travels to Hamburg, where the things he's seen start to come to pass…
Release Date:1982-10-15
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:17
Holy Cow
When a stage artist is send to fight he met a lovely girl.
Release Date:1982-09-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:25
Un centesimo di secondo
Release Date:1981-08-04
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Car Crash
When successful racer Nick, with friend and business manager Paul are threatened off the racing circuit they call in a favor from a stock car mechanic who delivers more than they bargained for as he gives them the ultimate power car which he has spent years perfecting.
Release Date:1981-07-24
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:7
Speed Driver
Rudi is forced into racing for a kingpin drug dealer, but after the murder of his brother he swears revenge.
Release Date:1980-12-04
Department:Writing
Job:Original Story
Vote Count:3
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 Date:1980-09-06
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:1
The Warning
During a high-stakes investigation into corporate and banking elites tied to organized crime, a police chief and his team are murdered for refusing a bribe. Meanwhile, another officer finds his bank account credited with a large sum and receives anonymous instructions on how to handle the subsequent inquiry.
Release Date:1980-08-15
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:7
Pumaman
Thousands of years ago, aliens visited Earth and fathered the Pumaman, a man-god with supernatural powers entrusted by a gold mask with the ability to control people's minds, which in present-day London, falls into the wrong hands.
Release Date:1980-02-14
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:73
Corleone
Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?
Release Date:1978-11-10
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:9
Break Up
Paolo has been reasonably happy for the past 10 years; he has a job at the university and has Sena as a lover all these years. When she suddenly decides to leave the relationship, it comes as a shock to him, and he desperately wants to know the reason. After a series of reconciliations and separations, he finally finds out and briefly has another apparently blissful relationship with Silva.
Release Date:1978-11-07
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:10
The Payoff
Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.
Release Date:1978-03-17
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:10
The Heroin Busters
Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport security, and Interpol's main man, Mike Hamilton, is at his wits' end. Fed up to the back teeth with the local police force's incompetence, his only hope is to rely on one of his own men, Fabio, an officer so deep undercover that no-one but Hamilton knows who he really is. Even as Fabio gains the trust of cartel leader Gianni, however, the dealers are edging ever closer to the truth, and when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted as Fabio finds himself alone in a desperate fight to survive.
Release Date:1977-08-13
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:19
The Big Racket
Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the threat of violence, no one dares to act, except for a restaurant owner who is forced by Palmieri to tell the truth.
Release Date:1976-08-12
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:36
The Con Artists
Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that moment on the two will join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicate when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.
Release Date:1976-04-15
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:134
The Hired Gun
Fabio Testi is an undercover cop doubling as the bodyguard (hence, “Gorilla”) of a cantankerous middle-aged industrialist targeted for extortion.
Release Date:1975-11-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:8
Order to Kill
An action drama about an assassin who is ordered to kill an old friend and the repercussions when he refuses. At the same time, although it has nothing to do with the plot, there seems to be a relentless undercurrent of sadism and masochism with a homosexual aura.
Release Date:1975-04-22
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:5
Street Law
Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side.
Release Date:1974-09-17
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:41
War Goddess
Alena Johnston is Antione, the War Goddess of the Amazons, who must mate with the Greek king Theseus to propogate her race. Traditionally this is done only out of duty, but this time she falls in love with her "boy toy"... a definite no-no for an Amazon queen. Helmed by James Bond director Terence Young and based on a story co-authored by Robert Graves, this sexy and spectacular entry in the sword-and-sandal genre features an incredible bevy of Euro-cult starlets including Rosanna Yanni, Helga Line and Luciana Paluzzi, plus a lyrical score by Academy Award-winner Riz Ortolani.
Release Date:1973-12-15
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:18
Revolver
An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.
Release Date:1973-09-27
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:53
Chino
Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unwelcome almost everywhere he goes. One day, a young runaway named Jimmy shows up at his door looking for work and a roof over his head. Reluctantly, Chino agrees to take him in and teach him the art of raising, breaking and breeding horses, until the pair finally begin to accept each other.
Release Date:1973-09-14
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:57
The Police Serve the Citizens?
In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that controls the port activities. But the law restrains his action.
Release Date:1973-09-06
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:3
Hospitals: The White Mafia
A famous surgeon earns enormous amounts of money by speculating on patients, although he is generally considered a great man and an excellent doctor. Only one of his colleagues rebels against the situation and tries to reveal the truth. But during a dramatic operation, the famous surgeon forces him to turn accomplice and the doctor must keep quiet. Not for long, however.
Release Date:1973-08-25
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:13
The Sicilian Checkmate
Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.
Release Date:1972-02-03
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:2
The Valachi Papers
When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.
Release Date:1972-01-06
Department:Writing
Job:Dialogue
Vote Count:103
Don't Turn the Other Cheek
A spaghetti western in which three adventurers team up during the Mexican Revolution. Mary O'Donnell, a radical Irish journalist, wants to foment a peasant revolt in Mexico. She enlists the help of a seedy bandit, Lozoya, by saving him from a death sentence in Utah. They meet a man calling himself Prince Dmitri Vassilovich Orlowsky, who claims to be a Russian prince, not to mention a man of the cloth. Wallach pretends to be a Mexican folk hero. The trio crosses the border, the two men seeking a cache of gold while O'Donnell pursues her revolution.
Release Date:1971-12-22
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:15
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
Arrested on suspicion of a hit and run, a succesful architect is put in prison awaiting trial or release. Whilst there he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.
Release Date:1971-10-27
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:28
The Man with Icy Eyes
A state senator is murdered outside his home, and the police arrest a strange man described as having "icy eyes" for the crime. An Italian reporter finds a stripper who claims to have been an eyewitness to the assassination and saw the man with the icy eyes commit it. At his trial she testifies against him, and he's sentenced to death. However, the reporter soon begins to find holes in the stripper's story, and other circumstances arise which makes him believe that the wrong man may have been convicted
Release Date:1971-04-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:8
Compañeros
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
Release Date:1970-12-18
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:101
Violent City
A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.
Release Date:1970-09-17
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:92
A Brief Season
A young American agent living in Rome meets with a beautiful Swedish translator.
Release Date:1969-11-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
The Tough and the Mighty
Based on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina.
Release Date:1969-09-23
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:6
A Bullet for Rommel
During World War II, a tough officer organizes a commando raid into Germany.
Release Date:1969-03-07
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:7
Bandits in Rome
After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
Release Date:1968-11-20
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1
The Violent Four
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
Release Date:1968-03-29
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:32
The Man Who Laughs
Spectacular adventures of twin brothers, one with a scar which gives him a permanent smile, and their meetings with the Borgias.
Release Date:1966-08-20
Department:Production
Job:Production Manager
Vote Count:5
Attack and Retreat
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Release Date:1964-09-16
Department:Production
Job:Production Coordinator
Vote Count:36
War of the Zombies
A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!
Release Date:1964-02-13
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:6
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.
Release Date:1963-02-10
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:170
Erik the Conqueror
In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.
Release Date:1961-12-07
Department:Production
Job:Production Manager
Vote Count:42
Esther and the King
Recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus wants to marry the beautiful Esther. But Esther is a Jewess, and Haman, the king's evil minister, is spreading hatred against the Jews.
Release Date:1960-11-18
Department:Production
Job:Unit Manager
Vote Count:14
Black Sunday
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
Release Date:1960-08-11
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:538
The Giant of Marathon
A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
Release Date:1959-12-03
Department:Production
Job:Assistant Production Manager
Vote Count:27
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
Academic researchers are chased by a nuclear-hot specimen of ancient Mayan blob.
Release Date:1959-08-07
Department:Production
Job:Production Manager
Vote Count:49
Hercules Unchained
En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
Release Date:1959-02-14
Department:Production
Job:Production Assistant
Vote Count:45
Hercules
In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.
Release Date:1958-02-20
Department:Production
Job:Production Assistant
Vote Count:61
Noi siamo le colonne
The adventures of three university students who live in the same boarding house. Ugo, the most serious one, is in love with Lea, daughter of the lodger. Aldo is a practical joker, Bartolozzi is the shiest. Ugo and Lea's love story becomes stormy because of Aldo.
Release Date:1956-12-29
Department:Production
Job:Production Secretary