Claudio Cassinelli

Hands of Steel (1986)

A story about a cyborg who is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands. ...

Un caso d'incoscienza (1985)

In Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target of a journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) who sets out to discover exactly what happened to the man and whether or not he is still alive. The biggest lead he has is th ...

The Adventures of Hercules (1985)

Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods. ...

Murder-Rock: Dancing Death (1984)

The world of dance can be brutal. The rehearsals are grueling. The competition is fierce. At the Arts for Living Centre in New York City, the best of the best are dying for a part in a major production. But only a select few will be chosen. The select ...

Warriors of the Year 2072 (1984)

In the future, two television networks compete for ratings by producing violent game shows. One network produces a modern day version of the Roman gladiators, only on motorcycles instead of chariots, and uses convicted murderers as the participants, The ne ...

Hercules (1983)

Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help of a benevolent sorceress, Circe, Hercules tries to save his beloved Cassiopeia from being sacrificed by Mi ...

Spy Connection (1983)

Musante plays a man blackmailed and forced to assassinate a highly guarded KGB official. Two British agents have kidnapped his daughter and want him to do what they tell him. Why him? He has the ability to see in darkness and is a sharpshooter. Will he get ...

Unguided Tour (1983)

Also known as "Letter from Venice," Susan Sontag's fourth and final film tells of a relationship that is fragmenting as the partners tour the decaying ruins of a hallucinatory Venice. ...

Scorpion with Two Tails (1982)

An archeologist's wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating a lost temple. After a phone call where she is forced to listen to him being murdered, she travels to the excavation site to solv ...

Grog (1982)

Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The tele ...

Roma dalla finestra (1982)

It is the story of a man and two women. Carlo, is a photojournalist from Rome. His wife Olga is a model in Paris (and in the first sequence of the film we see her being raped by an Indian in a fountain; but she laughs and says to the attacker: "It's the fi ...

The Good Thief (1980)

Caleb, "son of nobody" (Enrico Montesano) lives in Galilee in Jesus' day and struggles as a thief and con-man, pretending to be a magician. When he witnesses Jesus turning water into wine, he thinks he's found a competitor. So Caleb goes on, convinced that ...

The Great Alligator (1979)

Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them. ...

Avalanche Express (1979)

CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by ...

Island of the Fishmen (1979)

After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does s ...

Slave of the Cannibal God (1978)

A woman and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle. ...

Blood and Diamonds (1978)

A man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were to blame for his arrest. The prize for this deadly fight is a large cache of diamonds. ...

Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)

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. ...

Violent Milan (1976)

A gang of thieves decides to hit the headquarters of Aspex. The police intervened and only two of the robbers managed to escape with the loot, while the other two are forced to take hostages to escape. The police started investigations but also the gang le ...

Fantasia, ma non troppo, per violino (1976)

Love Under the Elms (1975)

An adolescent boy and girl meet at a rural, turn-of-the-century Austrian resort where they are vacationing with their respective liberal-minded, single parents. Their budding love affair hits a serious snag when their two parents fall in love as well. ...

The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975)

Police detective Paolo Germi and the mysterious Marisa meet each other at a dance hall. Germi is unsuspecting of the secret Marisa is carrying with her: adverse conditions forced her into prostitution. As Germi finds the young girl brutally murdered, he de ...

Killer Cop (1975)

In a crowded hotel in the center of Milan a bomb has been planted. The time device on its detonator has only minutes to run. A young detective discovers the bomb by accident and is drawn into a terrifying nightmare of intrigue, brutality and ruthless killi ...

The Long Night (1975)

Two Milanese girls meet in a toilet where a distracted bourgeois forgets a valuable ring. They take it and go in search of someone to sell it to, helped by a southern taxi driver. ...

The Tempter (1974)

A young writer is invited to stay in a religious hostel run by a sinister, manipulative nun who plays deadly psychological games with the inhabitants. ...

Allonsanfan (1974)

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause. ...

What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974)

An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released d ...

Flavia the Heretic (1974)

Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts. ...

Galileo (1968)

A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe. ...

China Is Near (1967)

A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry. ...