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Writer 1920 - 1996

Sandro Continenza

Rome, Italy

Filmography

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40 titles
Fico d'India

Fico d'India

Steno 1980 1h 33m

Lorenzo is the mayor of a small town. One evening, returning home, surprised the well-known playboy Ghigo Buccilli who tries to seduce his beautiful wife. Enraged, he threatens the two with a gun, and Buccilli is the victim of a heart attack: the man survives but, forced to total rest, remains at the mayor's house.

Quel maledetto treno blindato

Quel maledetto treno blindato

Enzo G. Castellari 1978 1h 39m 7.4

Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers on their way to military prison are beset upon by a German artillery attack, escaping with Switzerland in their sights. Before making it any farther, they volunteer to steal a V2 warhead for the French Underground - taking them deep into the heart of German territory.

Dove vai in vacanza?

Dove vai in vacanza?

Alberto Sordi, Luciano Salce 1978 2h 33m

In three vignettes, two exes, a tour guide and a married couple struggle to overcome a series of misadventures during their vacations.

No profanar el sueño de los muertos

No profanar el sueño de los muertos

Jorge Grau 1974 1h 35m 6.8

When a series of murders hit the remote English countryside, a detective suspects a pair of travelers when it is actually the work of the undead, jarred back to life by an experimental ultra-sonic radiation machine used by the Ministry of Agriculture to kill insects.

Ceremonia sangrienta

Ceremonia sangrienta

Jorge Grau 1973 1h 30m 5.0

Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.

Sette scialli di seta gialla

Sette scialli di seta gialla

Sergio Pastore 1972 1h 38m 6.0

A blind pianist tries to figure out who is responsible for a string of murders using a black cat with its caws dipped in curare.

Nonostante le apparenze... e purchè la nazione non lo sappia... all'onorevole piacciono le donne

Nonostante le apparenze... e purchè la nazione non lo sappia... all'onorevole piacciono le donne

Lucio Fulci 1972 1h 49m 5.0

Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.

L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco

L'iguana dalla lingua di fuoco

Riccardo Freda 1971 1h 32m 5.5

A corpse is found in the trunk of a car that belongs to the Swiss ambassador to the UK. Speculations run wild, as more people around the ambassador keep falling victim to the vicious killer. A former detective is hired to investigate.

Un condé

Un condé

Yves Boisset 1970 1h 35m 7.0

While investigating a drug case, an inspector is shot dead by a gangster. His colleague, Inspector Favenin, is assigned to solve this crime. He is ready to do anything to save his colleague's honor, even if it means going beyond the law.

Ti ho sposato per allegria

Ti ho sposato per allegria

Luciano Salce 1967 1h 40m

Pietro is a young bourgeois lawyer who married Giuliana, a pretty girl who was a little unscrewed, and met at a party of artists. Despite the premises, everything between the two seems to work best.

Sugar Colt

Sugar Colt

Franco Giraldi 1966 1h 46m

A former government spy disguises himself as an eccentric doctor to investigate the disappearance of an entire platoon of Union Army troops, whom he discovers are being held for ransom.

Per pochi dollari ancora

Per pochi dollari ancora

Giorgio Ferroni 1966 1h 45m 6.0

Near the end of the Civil War, an imprisoned Confederate raider is sent under guard to warn both his men and the Army at Fort Yuma that an impending rebel raid is really nothing but a ruse by scoundrels from both sides, in cahoots to take the fort's gold for themselves during the chaos.

Le piacevoli notti

Le piacevoli notti

Armando Crispino, Luciano Lucignani 1966 1h 57m

A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.

Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili

Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili

Giorgio Capitani 1964 1h 34m

Four muscular heroes fight the evil ruler of an oppressed people.

Il giorno più corto

Il giorno più corto

Sergio Corbucci 1963 1h 27m 1.0

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino

Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino

Giorgio Bianchi 1962 1h 36m

Antonio goes to West Berlin and meets Giuseppe. But Antonio looks like Canarinis, a wanted war criminal, So the daughter of the criminal pays Antonio to impersonate him.

La marcia su Roma

La marcia su Roma

Dino Risi 1962 1h 34m 4.0

March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts

Ercole al centro della terra

Ercole al centro della terra

Mario Bava 1962 1h 26m 7.3

Upon his return from battle in the previous film, the great warrior Hercules learns that his lover, Daianara, has lost her senses. Acording of the oracle Medea, Dianara's only hope is the Stone of Forgetfulness which lies deep in the realm of Hades.

Ursus nella valle dei leoni

Ursus nella valle dei leoni

Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia 1961 1h 34m

The evil dictator Ajak sends his armies to attack a neighboring kingdom, and during the battle, the besieged King Annurius orders one of his subjects to take his son Ursus to a place of safety outside of the city, after first putting a royal medallion around the baby's neck.

Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide

Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide

Vittorio Cottafavi 1961 1h 41m 7.0

King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the strongman falls overboard in a thick fog. Washed ashore, he saves a young Ismene from Proteus, an evil, shape-shifting creature.

Cerasella

Cerasella

Raffaello Matarazzo 1961 1h 38m

Cerasella escapes just before his marriage with Alfredo and meets Bruno, the son of a wealthy industrialist.

Teseo contro il minotauro

Teseo contro il minotauro

Silvio Amadio 1960 1h 45m

King Minos sacrifices the 'required' virgins to the Minotaur. As his wife lies dying, she confesses that her daughter has a twin she has secreted to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur. The daughter raised by Minos tries to have her twin killed, but failing in her first attempt, continues to try to have her given to the Minotaur.

Il mattatore

Il mattatore

Dino Risi 1960 1h 41m 7.0

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.

Gli amori di Ercole

Gli amori di Ercole

Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia 1960 1h 38m 7.0

Hercules must save his true love from an evil queen.

Tempi duri per i vampiri

Tempi duri per i vampiri

Steno 1959 1h 37m 4.0

A baron down on his luck has to sell his family castle to pay off his mounting debt. After the castle is turned into a hotel, he's hired as a bellboy. But all is not lost, as he discovers he has a rich uncle; unfortunately, he's a vampire.

La nipote Sabella

La nipote Sabella

Giorgio Bianchi 1959 1h 31m

Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles".

Il vedovo

Il vedovo

Dino Risi 1959 1h 27m 7.0

Un industriale romano organizza il "delitto perfetto" per uccidere la ricca moglie milanese ed assicurarsene la cospicua eredità, al fine di riparare ai propri disastri finanziari.

Annibale

Annibale

Edgar G. Ulmer, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia 1959 1h 30m 6.0

A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.

Pan, amor y Andalucía

Pan, amor y Andalucía

Javier Setó 1958 1h 33m

Determined to postpone his own wedding, a former marshal leaves his bride-to-be and participates in an international music festival in Spain, where he falls for a young dancer.

Io, mammeta e tu

Io, mammeta e tu

Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia 1958 1h 20m

In 1950s Naples, a couple struggles to be together against the will of the mother-in-law. In the end, not only will they be together, but the mother-in-law-to-be, a widow, finds love as well.

Mariti in città

Mariti in città

Luigi Comencini 1957 1h 35m 4.5

In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.

Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina

Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina

Camillo Mastrocinque 1956 1h 41m 7.3

I fratelli Capone sono diametralmente opposti: Peppino lavoratore e risparmiatore; Antonio sfaticato e scialacquone. Devono però unirsi per riportare il nipote, studente di medicina a Napoli, sulla retta via.

Mio figlio Nerone

Mio figlio Nerone

Steno 1956 1h 28m

On seaside holiday, Nero, Poppea, Seneca and their friends and family prepare a great show where Nero will star. When his mother Agrippina arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she's asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.

La fortuna di essere donna

La fortuna di essere donna

Alessandro Blasetti 1956 1h 40m 7.0

A photographer is forlorn when the model that he helped make famous becomes involved with a wealthy lothario

Piccola posta

Piccola posta

Steno 1955 1h 35m

Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.

Peccato che sia una canaglia

Peccato che sia una canaglia

Alessandro Blasetti 1955 1h 31m 6.5

When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.

Lo scapolo

Lo scapolo

Antonio Pietrangeli 1955 1h 28m 6.0

Paolo Anselmi is a happy single man. He lives in an apartment with a friend but must leave when his friend marries. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but leaves her.

Un giorno in pretura

Un giorno in pretura

Steno 1954 1h 37m

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.

Un americano a Roma

Un americano a Roma

Steno 1954 1h 25m 6.0

Nando Mericoni, baldo giovanotto di Trastevere e ballerino di tip-tap, ha il pallino dell'America e aspira soltanto a un viaggio negli Stati Uniti. Quello che poteva riuscire uno sketch di saporosa comicità è stato diluito in un film lungo di grana piuttosto grossolana. Segna, comunque, una svolta – e il decollo decisivo – nella carriera di Sordi.

Un turco napoletano

Un turco napoletano

Mario Mattoli 1953 1h 26m

Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.

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