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Sergio Leone
Writer 1929 - 1989

Sergio Leone

Rome, Italy

Sergio Leone (January 3, 1929 – April 30, 1989) was an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter most associated with the "Spaghetti Western" genre. Leone's film-making style includes juxtaposing extreme close-up shots with lengthy long shots. His movies include The... Read full bio →

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Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in America

Sergio Leone 1984 3h 49m 8.6

This Mafia film is the greatest and last work from Italian director Sergio Leone. Taking place in 1920 to 1960 America the film follows a group Jewish gangsters from childhood into their glory years of the prohibition and as they reunite in their later years.

Un genio, due compari, un pollo

Un genio, due compari, un pollo

Damiano Damiani 1975 1h 57m 6.3

Three rogues set out to rob $300,000 from an Indian-hating cavalry major.

Giù la testa

Giù la testa

Sergio Leone 1971 2h 37m 8.2

The last Italian-Western film from director Sergio Leone. The film takes place during the Mexican Revolution and story of how an I.R.A. explosive’s expert gets involved in the revolution. The second part of a Leone’s ‘Spaghetti Western’ trilogy.

C'era una volta il West

C'era una volta il West

Sergio Leone 1968 2h 46m 8.8

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.

Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.

Sergio Leone 1966 2h 41m 9.0

Scoundrels are competing for 200,000 dollars hidden in a grave. The third Italian-Western film of a trilogy from director Sergio Leone gives Western films a new (bloody) color.

Per qualche dollaro in più

Per qualche dollaro in più

Sergio Leone 1965 2h 12m 8.0

For a Few Dollars More is a Spaghetti Western from Italian director Sergio Leone from 1965 and the sequel to A Fistful of Dollars.

Per un pugno di dollari

Per un pugno di dollari

Sergio Leone 1964 1h 39m 7.8

A Fistful of Dollars is the 1964 Sergio Leone film starring Clint Eastwood and the first Spaghetti Western to take place in the United States. The film was the first in a trilogy that referenced Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Yojimbo’ and became an international success and founded the Spaghetti Western genre.

Romolo e Remo

Romolo e Remo

Sergio Corbucci 1961 1h 48m

Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome.

Il colosso di Rodi

Il colosso di Rodi

Sergio Leone 1960 2h 7m 5.2

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.

Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei

Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei

Mario Bonnard 1959 1h 43m 7.0

Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.

Afrodite, dea dell'amore

Afrodite, dea dell'amore

Mario Bonnard 1958 1h 40m

The construction of great temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, followed by new and high taxes and the arrival of a plague, create discontent in the population, and threatens the love between a sculptor and a slave.

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