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Tag Archives: Damiano Damiani
The Most Beautiful Wife AKA La moglie più bella (1970) Damiano Damiani, Alessio Orano, Ornella Muti, Tano Cimarosa
Based on the story of Franca Viola and Filippo Melodia. In Sicily, as a Mafia boss Read More »
The Day of the Owl AKA Il giorno della civetta (1968) Damiano Damiani, Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb
Rosa Nicolosi is not the widow of Salvatore Colasberna, the man murdered in the beginning of the movie Read More »
The Dark Sun AKA Il sole buio (1990) Damiano Damiani, Jo Champa, Michael Paré, Phyllis Logan
After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy Read More »
Blood Feud AKA Il sicario (1961) Damiano Damiani, Belinda Lee, Sylva Koscina, Sergio Fantoni
An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Read More »
How to Kill a Judge AKA Perché si uccide un magistrato (1975) Damiano Damiani, Franco Nero, Françoise Fabian, Pierluigi Aprà
The latest success by film-maker Giacomo Solaris is a crime thriller about a judge who gets too friendly with the Mafia and is murdered. Read More »
A Genius, Two Partners and a Dupe AKA Un genio, due compari, un pollo (1975) Damiano Damiani, Terence Hill, Miou-Miou, Robert Charlebois
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Read More »
La noia AKA The Empty Canvas (1963) Damiano Damiani, Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak
The son of a wealthy American woman and a deceased Italian nobleman, Dino, dabbles away at painting. Read More »
The Tempter (1973) Damiano Damiani, Glenda Jackson, Claudio Cassinelli, Lisa Harrow
The Mother Superior of a convent wields power in its most vicious forms. And as she as she destroys the people in her care Read More »
Quién sabe / A Bullet for the General (1967) Damiano Damiani, Gian Maria Volontè, Klaus Kinski, Martine Beswick, Western
El Chuncho’s bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias’ revolutionaries. Read More »
Io Ho Paura / I Am Afraid (1977) Damiano Damiani, Gian Maria Volontè, Erland Josephson, Mario Adorf, Crime, Drama, Thriller
During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who’s already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally upright judge. Read More »
Il rossetto / Lipstick (1960) Damiano Damiani, Pierre Brice, Giorgia Moll, Pietro Germi, Crime, Drama
A prostitute is found dead in an adjoining that of Silvana, a girl of thirteen who is in love with his neighbor Gino, a thirty handsome building. Read More »
Confessions of a Police Captain / Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica (1971) Damiano Damiani, Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Marilù Tolo, Crime, Drama
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.
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Una ragazza piuttosto complicata / A Rather Complicated Girl (1969) Damiano Damiani, Catherine Spaak, Jean Sorel, Florinda Bolkan, Thriller, Erotic
This erotic sexploitation feature concerns a couple and their pursuit of sexual fulfillment with each other – and their mutually agreed upon third bed guests. Lesbian love angles includes the woman’s step-daughter. Alberto (Jean Sorel) is soon left alone when the women decides his services are no longer required. After acting on his erotic fantasies, he is left alone and driven to madness when his girlfriend marries another after leaving with her lesbian lover.
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L’isola di Arturo / Arturo’s Island (1962) Damiano Damiani, Vanni De Maigret, Key Meersman, Reginald Kernan
Arturo is a teenage boy who lives alone on an island. His mother died when he was born, and his father is always away. From time to time, Arturo’s father comes to see him, but only too soon leaves him again. He seems not to appreciate his son at all, but, nevertheless, Arturo adores his father. One day, Arturo’s father arrives with his second wife, Nunciata, a seventeen-year-old girl with whom Arturo soon falls in love…
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