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Umberto Lenzi
Director 1931 - 2017

Umberto Lenzi

Massa Marittima, Grosseto, Italy

Umberto Lenzi (August 6, 1931—October 19, 2017) was an Italian film director who was very active in low budget crime films, peplums, Eurospy films, spaghetti westerns, Macaroni Combat movies, cannibal films and giallo murder mysteries (in addition to writing many of the... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

38 titles
Detective Malone

Detective Malone

Umberto Lenzi 1991 1h 28m

A gang of terrorists kidnap an electronics engineer, hold him hostage, and demand he create a security system for their compound.

Paura nel buio

Paura nel buio

Umberto Lenzi 1989 1h 35m 3.5

A sick young man drives around in his daddy's camper, looking for lone stray females to kidnap, torture, rape and murder.

Nightmare Beach

Nightmare Beach

James Justice, Umberto Lenzi 1989 1h 30m 6.0

In Miami, Florida, biker gang leader Edward "Diablo" Santer is about to be executed for murder when he proclaims his innocence and vows revenge from the grave. When a mysterious biker comes to town during Spring Break festivities, leaving several teenagers electrocuted to death, some begin to suspect that Santer has made good on his promise.

Le porte dell'inferno

Le porte dell'inferno

Umberto Lenzi 1989 1h 30m 6.0

As part of a science experiment, a man has spent a record-breaking length of time alone down a hole, but an hour before he's due to re-emerge, something goes wrong and his colleagues have to go in to rescue him.

La casa delle anime erranti

La casa delle anime erranti

Umberto Lenzi 1989 1h 29m 3.0

A handful of young geologists are unlucky enough to be forced to stay at a rundown hotel in the middle of nowhere. What they don't know is that the hotel has been abandoned for twenty years because the owner of the hotel had killed his family and all the guests two decades ago. Strange things begin to happen, and suddenly murders are committed...

La casa del sortilegio

La casa del sortilegio

Umberto Lenzi 1989 1h 26m 5.0

A man discharged from the hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown is taken to a remote Italian villa by his strangely-behaving wife. But he has strong premonitions that the house is possessed by some force of witchcraft, which he has been experiencing in his recurring nightmare.

La casa 3

La casa 3

Umberto Lenzi 1988 1h 35m 4.0

A group of unlikely companions receive a radio call leading to a deserted house with a grisly past.

La guerra del ferro: Ironmaster

La guerra del ferro: Ironmaster

Umberto Lenzi 1983 1h 38m 5.0

A tale that takes place at the dawn of history. The movie tells the story of a tribe that discovers how to fashion weapons out of iron and use them for their own survival. However, the creation of iron also causes the tribe to battle for possession of the new weapons.

Incontro nell'ultimo paradiso

Incontro nell'ultimo paradiso

Umberto Lenzi 1982 1h 32m 5.0

Two college students decide to take a vacation to the Amazon. While in a small village getting supplies, they provoke the anger of a local scoundrel, whose ruffians beat them up. After renting a boat and sailing down the river in search of some good scenery, the two kids become lost and are forced to jump in the water to avoid a cascade.

Cannibal Ferox

Cannibal Ferox

Umberto Lenzi 1981 1h 33m 5.8

Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.

Mangiati vivi!

Mangiati vivi!

Umberto Lenzi 1980 1h 33m 5.3

A young woman teams up with an adventurer to find her missing sister in the jungles of New Guinea and they stumble upon a religious cult led by a deranged preacher whom has located his commune in an area inhabited by cannibals.

Incubo sulla città contaminata

Incubo sulla città contaminata

Umberto Lenzi 1980 1h 31m 6.8

A reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from the hordes of bloodthirsty, undead people exposed to nuclear radioactivity as military leaders fight a losing war of attrition against the relentless attacks.

Scusi, lei è normale?

Scusi, lei è normale?

Umberto Lenzi 1979 1h 30m

A moralistic judge declares war on pornography. His gay nephew, who lives with a transvestite, tries to save himself and also protect his friend Ana, a porn actress.

Il trucido e lo sbirro

Il trucido e lo sbirro

Umberto Lenzi 1979 1h 32m 5.5

A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.

La banda del gobbo

La banda del gobbo

Umberto Lenzi 1978 1h 35m 6.0

A hunchbacked gangster is betrayed by his gang during a robbery, and plots his revenge with the help of his no-good brother.

Il grande attacco

Il grande attacco

Umberto Lenzi 1978 1h 42m 5.0

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.

Il cinico, l'infame, il violento

Il cinico, l'infame, il violento

Umberto Lenzi 1977 1h 40m 6.0

A vengeful criminal targets the inspector who put him away, but the inspector survives and fakes his death. Ignoring orders to flee, he sets out to bring the fugitive back to justice.

Roma a mano armata

Roma a mano armata

Umberto Lenzi 1976 1h 34m 6.3

A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.

Napoli violenta

Napoli violenta

Umberto Lenzi 1976 1h 35m

Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and organized crime, and tries to force the syndicate out of town with any means necessary.

Il giustiziere sfida la città

Il giustiziere sfida la città

Umberto Lenzi 1975 1h 30m 5.5

After his friend is killed as a result of a war between two crime families, a biker vows to destroy the families and rescue a boy they have kidnapped.

Gatti rossi in un labirinto di vetro

Gatti rossi in un labirinto di vetro

Umberto Lenzi 1975 1h 31m 5.0

Killer in red cape and hood is killing off tourists on a tour bus by gouging out thier eyeballs.

Spasmo

Spasmo

Umberto Lenzi 1974 1h 34m 6.0

While walking along the beach, Christian (Robert Hoffmann) and his girlfriend discover a mysterious woman washed ashore. The following day, Christian meets the woman again at a yacht party and soon finds himself entangled in a web of lust, intrigue and murder

Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare

Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare

Umberto Lenzi 1974 1h 39m 7.5

A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't making him all that much money, so he figures to hit the "big time" by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.

Milano rovente

Milano rovente

Umberto Lenzi 1973 1h 40m 7.0

A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.

Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso

Sette orchidee macchiate di rosso

Umberto Lenzi 1972 1h 32m 5.7

A maniac on the loose is committing savage acts of slaughter, and one survivor may be the only key to unmasking the serial slayer known as the Half-Moon Killer.

Il paese del sesso selvaggio

Il paese del sesso selvaggio

Umberto Lenzi 1972 1h 33m 7.0

A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.

Il coltello di ghiaccio

Il coltello di ghiaccio

Umberto Lenzi 1972 1h 31m 5.5

A mute woman finds herself at the center of a series of murders in the mountains of Spain, which police suspect are being committed by a drug-addled Satanist.

Un posto ideale per uccidere

Un posto ideale per uccidere

Umberto Lenzi 1971 1h 30m 5.0

A young British man and his Dutch girlfriend travel through Italy illegally selling pornography. They get arrested and ordered to leave the country, but due to circumstances, they end up at a villa occupied by a mysterious woman.

Paranoia

Paranoia

Umberto Lenzi 1970 1h 34m 6.5

A race-car driver who's down on her luck is invited by her ex-husband's wife to stay at their plush villa. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As it turns out, though, they're not alone in plotting murder

Orgasmo

Orgasmo

Umberto Lenzi 1969 1h 31m 5.0

Following the death of her wealthy husband, American widow Kathryn West migrates to Italy and takes up a reclusive existence in a luxurious villa. After quickly succumbing to the charms of a local man, she lets him move into the villa and the two are later joined by his sister, which soon leads to complications.

La legione dei dannati

La legione dei dannati

Umberto Lenzi 1969 1h 30m

A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings. Wartime drama from Italy, starring Jack Palance, Wolfgang Preiss and Curd Jurgens.

Così dolce... così perversa

Così dolce... così perversa

Umberto Lenzi 1969 1h 29m 6.5

An industrialist's affair with a troubled woman entangles him in a dangerous situation with her abusive boyfriend. His glamorous life spirals into unexpected peril.

Kriminal

Kriminal

Umberto Lenzi 1966 1h 38m 7.0

A master criminal is pursued by inspector Milton

I pirati della Malesia

I pirati della Malesia

Umberto Lenzi 1964 1h 42m

Filmed in Singapore it tells the story of Sandokan who is a Malaysian rebel who, with a group of renegades, goes up against a British General who is trying to force the King to resign.

Zorro contro Maciste

Zorro contro Maciste

Umberto Lenzi 1963 1h 26m 6.0

The king of Nogara dies, leaving behind a will naming one of his nieces as his successor. Will it be blonde and virtuous Isabella or evil, dark-haired Malva? Each woman relies on a hero to locate the will. Malva hires the bare-chested strongman Samson while Isabella relies on the masked El Toro (a.k.a.

Sandokan, la tigre di Mompracem

Sandokan, la tigre di Mompracem

Umberto Lenzi 1963 1h 30m

After the capture of the Sultan of Muluder, Sandokan, the sultan's son, leads a guerilla army through treacherous jungles to free his father and defeat Queen Victoria's army of invaders.

Caterina di Russia

Caterina di Russia

Umberto Lenzi 1963 1h 45m

Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him.

Le avventure di Mary Read

Le avventure di Mary Read

Umberto Lenzi 1961 1h 27m 1.0

Redhead Mary is a girl who dresses like a man to better approach, and rob the jewels worn by the pretty ladies of her time.

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