Released Date:
1964-03-10
Languages:
Italian, English
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
105 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.3 (491 Reviews)
Director:
Damiano DamianiGenres:
DramaAlberto Moravia (novel)
Damiano Damiani
Tonino Guerra
Ugo Liberatore
The son of a wealthy American woman and a deceased Italian nobleman, Dino, dabbles away at painting. Thinking he has found the image for his "empty canvas", he takes up with man-crazy nymphet Cecilia, who refuses to marry him--even after he covers her nude body with 10,000-lire banknotes. She does agree to become his mistress--until a more interesting man comes along. Dino has a breakdown and is guided back to health by his mother. He tells her at fadeout that now he has suffered, and he thinks he might be able to fill that empty canvas.
Released Date:
1969-08-01
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
109 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (137 Reviews)
Director:
Damiano DamianiDamiano Damiani
Carlos Fuentes (novel)
Ugo Liberatore
A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work.
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France
Runtime:
112 min
Rated:
M
IMDB Ratings:
7.1 (641 Reviews)
Director:
Damiano DamianiDamiano Damiani
Ugo Pirro
Leonardo Sciascia (novel)
Rosa Nicolosi is not the widow of Salvatore Colasberna, the man murdered in the beginning of the movie, but she is in fact the wife of Paolo Nicolosi, the only eyewitness of the murder. Paolo goes missing the same morning as the murder occurs.
Released Date:
1969-02-07
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
100 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.2 (59 Reviews)
Director:
Damiano DamianiGenres:
ThrillerDamiano Damiani
Alberto Silvestri
Franco Verucci
A young girl called Claudia, flirts with two men, and at the same time, she is also having an affair with her step-mother who doles out her inheritance money from her dead father. Is she playing all three of them to get what she wants?
Released Date:
1971-03-26
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
101 min
Rated:
PG
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (704 Reviews)
Director:
Damiano DamianiDamiano Damiani (story)
Fulvio Gicca Palli (story)
Damiano Damiani (screenplay)
Salvatore Laurani (screenplay)
One of the first films about the mafia occurrence, in which the fight is hopeless, because "the polyp's feeler" reaches everything and everybody. A police inspector and a deputy public prosecutor try to prove that the architect in the city is in the mafia.
Released Date:
1975-12-19
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy, France, West Germany
Runtime:
126 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.4 (3473 Reviews)
Damiano Damiani (screenplay)
Ernesto Gastaldi (screenplay)
Ernesto Gastaldi (story)
Fulvio Morsella (screenplay)
Fulvio Morsella (story)
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.
Released Date:
1977-10-06
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
120 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.5 (265 Reviews)
Director:
Damiano DamianiNicola Badalucco
Damiano Damiani
Released Date:
1979-04-13
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (145 Reviews)
Director:
Damiano DamianiGenres:
ThrillerNicola Badalucco
Damiano Damiani (screenplay)
Damiano Damiani (story)
Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late.
Released Date:
1980-08-15
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
108 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (94 Reviews)
Director:
Damiano DamianiGenres:
CrimeDamiano Damiani
Nicola Badalucco
Arduino Maiuri
Massimo De Rita
Released Date:
1982-09-24
Languages:
English
Countries:
Mexico, USA, Italy
Runtime:
104 min
Rated:
R
IMDB Ratings:
5.4 (7029 Reviews)
Director:
Damiano DamianiTommy Lee Wallace (screenplay)
Hans Holzer (book)
An Italian-American family move into a house built on an ancient Indian burial ground. The oldest son is possessed by an evil spirit, and is forced to murder his family. The family's priest feels responsible, and tries to save the possessed boy's soul.
Released Date:
1980-08-15
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
108 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (95 Reviews)
Director:
Damiano DamianiGenres:
CrimeDamiano Damiani
Nicola Badalucco
Arduino Maiuri
Massimo De Rita
Released Date:
1970-03-12
Languages:
Italian
Countries:
Italy
Runtime:
108 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (296 Reviews)
Director:
Damiano DamianiDamiano Damiani (screenplay)
Damiano Damiani (story)
Enrico Ribulsi
Sofia Scandurra
Based on the story of Franca Viola and Filippo Melodia. In Sicily, as a Mafia boss leaves for prison, he advises Vito, a young man who's his potential successor, to marry a virtuous and poor woman. Vito's eye settles on Francesca, only 15, but lovely and self-possessed. Among her virtues are high self worth and forthright speech, so although she falls in love with Vito, she won't bow down to him. Believing he's losing face, he has his boys kidnap her and he rapes her. Then, he tells her he'll still marry her. Instead, she files charges. Her parents, brother, and neighbors refuse to support her. Will she break? Will Vito continue his assaults?
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