Massimo De Rita (Writer)
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Works
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 Date2004-04-30
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
Italian Kings Of B
Documentary on Italian genre cinema.
Release Date2003-01-01
Charactersd Self
Vote Count1
L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Release Date2010-09-07
Charactersd Self
Vote Count2
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 Date1960-11-18
DepartmentProduction
JobUnit Manager
Vote Count15
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 Date2012-09-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
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 Date1973-09-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count58
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 Date1988-01-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count8
Il camorrista - Una serie di Giuseppe Tornatore
Release Date2025-03-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count2
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 Date2009-12-04
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Film Writer
Vote Count1011
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 Date1973-09-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count55
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 Date1976-04-15
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count140
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 Date1970-12-18
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count107
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 Date1960-08-11
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count551
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 Date1972-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobDialogue
Vote Count106
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 Date2000-04-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count22
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 Date1973-08-25
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count13
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.
Release Date1963-02-10
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count175
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 Date1958-02-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Assistant
Vote Count64
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 Date1989-01-01
DepartmentCrew
JobScript
Episode Count1
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 Date1976-08-12
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count37
The Professor
An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.
Release Date1986-09-12
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count119
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 Date1970-09-17
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count94
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 Date1974-09-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count43
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 Date1990-09-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count153
Ferrari
The story of Enzo Ferrari.
Release Date2003-02-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
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 Date1978-03-17
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count10
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 Date1959-02-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Assistant
Vote Count48
Holy Cow
When a stage artist is send to fight he met a lovely girl.
Release Date1982-09-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count25
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 Date1971-12-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count18
The Violent Four
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
Release Date1968-03-29
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count34
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 Date1980-02-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count77
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 Date1977-08-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count23
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 Date1973-12-15
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count19
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 Date1990-06-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count19
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 Date2003-02-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count48
Attack and Retreat
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Release Date1964-09-16
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Coordinator
Vote Count41
The Heart in the Well
Release Date2005-02-06
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Episode Count2
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 Date1980-08-15
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count7
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.
Release Date1978-11-07
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count10
The Giant of Marathon
A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
Release Date1959-12-03
DepartmentProduction
JobAssistant Production Manager
Vote Count27
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
Academic researchers are chased by a nuclear-hot specimen of ancient Mayan blob.
Release Date1959-08-07
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Manager
Vote Count49
The Tough and the Mighty
Based on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina.
Release Date1969-09-23
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count6
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 Date1961-12-07
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Manager
Vote Count42
The Man Who Laughs
This loose adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic shifts the story to Italy and back in time, with the deformed protagonist meeting Lucrezia Borgia instead of Queen Anne. Also, Gwynplaine is renamed Angelo (Jean Sorel) with his disfigurement represented by a single broad slash across his mouth, crude yet convincing. The story (not credited to Hugo) is a swashbuckler pitting the disfigured acrobat against the henchmen of the Borgias.
Release Date1966-08-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Manager
Vote Count6
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 Date1971-10-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count29
Rally
Release Date1989-01-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Eyewitness
Elisa is the only witness to a savage murder that takes place in a department store after hours. And yet, as a blind woman, she’s unable to visually describe the killer. Soon, the psychopath is after her too, and will stop at nothing to eliminate Elisa… and everyone around her.
Release Date1990-05-04
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
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 Date1984-07-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count42
Einstein
The relationship between renowned scientist Albert Einstein and his first wife, Mileva Marić.
Release Date2008-10-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
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 Date1998-01-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count28
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 Date1975-04-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
De Gasperi - L'uomo della speranza
Release Date2005-04-25
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count5
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 Date1978-11-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count9
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 Date2011-10-09
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count6
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 Date1971-04-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count8
A Bullet for Rommel
During World War II, a tough officer organizes a commando raid into Germany.
Release Date1969-03-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
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 Date1987-06-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count7
Piccolo Mondo Antico
Release Date2001-03-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
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 Date1973-09-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count4
War of the Zombies
A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!
Release Date1964-02-13
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count7
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 Date1975-11-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count8
Padre Pio
Release Date2000-04-17
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
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 Date1982-10-15
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count17
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 Date1956-12-29
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Secretary
Speed Driver
Rudi is forced into racing for a kingpin drug dealer, but after the murder of his brother he swears revenge.
Release Date1980-12-04
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count3
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
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 Date1972-02-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
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 Date1986-08-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Anita Garibaldi
A biographical drama about revolutionary Anita Garibaldi.
Release Date2012-01-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
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 Date1968-11-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
A Brief Season
A young American agent living in Rome meets with a beautiful Swedish translator.
Release Date1969-11-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Un centesimo di secondo
Release Date1981-08-04
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
La guerra è finita
Release Date2002-05-05
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count7
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 Date1981-07-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
Kidnapping – Ein Vater schlägt zurück
Release Date1998-04-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
I padroni dell'estate
Release Date1987-08-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay