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Ottavio Alessi
Writer 1919 - 2006

Ottavio Alessi

Cammarata, Sicily, Italy

Ottavio Alessi was an Italian screenwriter, producer, and film director whose career spanned from the 1940s to the 1970s. Born in Cammarata, Sicily, he entered the film industry in 1940 as an assistant director. By 1945, Alessi had transitioned to screenwriting, contributing... Read full bio →

Filmography

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9 titles
Quo Vadis?

Quo Vadis?

1985 1h 6.0

Drama about love and intrigues in ancient Rome during the times of Nero.

Cenerentola '80

Cenerentola '80

Roberto Malenotti 1984 1h 50m 1.0

A feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility.

Nero veneziano

Nero veneziano

Ugo Liberatore 1978 1h 35m

A blind boy, who lives alone with his mean sister in a rundown hotel in Venice, receives a vision that warns him of the upcoming birth of the Antichrist. Soon, his sister mysteriously becomes pregnant.

La bidonata

La bidonata

Luciano Ercoli 1977 1h 46m 6.0

Italian expat Renato lives off illegal trafficking in Paris. He learns from a prostitute about a kidnapping plot to be carried out shortly in Italy: the intended victim is the son of a rich family. Renato then decides to immediately return to Italy and recruit some friends in order to thwart the kidnapping.

Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage

Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage

Joe D'Amato 1976 1h 34m 3.5

Emanuelle is sent to Bangkok on a journalism assignment. While there, she embarks on her own exploration of the secrets of sensual pleasure. While learning much, she also reveals several secrets of her own.

Top Sensation

Top Sensation

Ottavio Alessi 1969 1h 39m 6.0

Attempting to cure her mentally handicapped son's virginity, his mother and several friends embark on a cruise which strands them on nearly deserted island where lust and murder are on the menu!

Adulterio all'italiana

Adulterio all'italiana

Pasquale Festa Campanile 1968 1h 35m 5.0

A betrayed wife decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson in this riotous farce. Marta (Catherine Spaak) discovers that husband Franco (Nino Manfredi) has been stepping out with her own best friend (Maria Grazia Buccella), and gets revenge by inventing an imaginary lover.

Che fine ha fatto Totò baby?

Che fine ha fatto Totò baby?

Ottavio Alessi 1964 1h 27m 6.0

A pair of brothers, Baby Toto and Pietro, sons of different mothers, live stealing suitcases at the Termini Station in Rome. After a theft, they discover that the stolen suitcase they got from an apparent sweet old lady actually contains a corpse.

Il testimone

Il testimone

Pietro Germi 1946 1h 34m 7.0

A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace of mind.

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