Dario Michaelis

Movie Rush (1976)

A young aspiring director steals a silent movie camera to make his movie. ...

The Mattei Affair (1972)

Enrico Mattei helped change Italy's future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On O ...

The Mad Butcher (1971)

After being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills her. Fearing he will be sent back to the hospital, he grinds up her ...

So Sweet... So Perverse (1969)

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. ...

The Tramplers (1965)

After the war of secession, the aging Cordeen, who owns thousands of acres in Texas, rules his numerous and quarrelsome sons with an iron hand. He sends them out to deal with the threat of the representatives from the North. However, not all the sons share ...

Operation Atlantis (1965)

An American agent discovers that the Red Chinese have built a secret atomic city from which they will attempt to invade America. ...

Mission Bloody Mary (1965)

An American secret agent is tasked with recovering a nuclear bomb stolen by spies. ...

Challenge of the Gladiator (1965)

Treacherous Roman senator Lucius Quintilius plans a secret journey into Thrace to recover a legendary treasure. He is accompanied by his daughter Livia posing as a Christian slave girl, his cruel henchman Commodio, and Terenzius, an ex-gladiator and Nero l ...

Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus (1965)

Goliath (Peter Lupus) comes to the aid of the former King Selim in order to regain his throne and rescue his daughter (Anna Maria Polani). ...

Gunmen Of The Rio Grande (1964)

Wyatt Earp comes to a small town, Rio Bravo, to help the woman saloon owner against the town villain and to save a mine owner from robbery. ...

Seduction Of The South (1961)

Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory. ...

Valley of the Doomed (1960)

1860, the great Duchess of Parma, Maria Luisa, wants to provide her little state with train tracks, in spite of the opposition she gets from certain noble people. ...

Il padrone delle ferriere (1959)

Philippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu. ...

The Day the Sky Exploded (1958)

Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed. ...

The Last Violence (1957)

Raped during the war by a stranger, Anna is forced by their parents to pretend that that her daughter Lisa is her sister. When she is about to marry the new doctor in the country, her jealous brother resorts to threats of blackmail in an attempt to keep th ...

Lust of the Vampire (1957)

A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess. ...

The House of Intrigue (1956)

A radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city. ...

Nana (1955)

Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana. ...

Ritrovarsi all'alba (1955)

Elba mine manager "Marco" meets, falls in love with, and marries "Paola" only to discover that her ex "André" is still keen. ...

I cinque dell'Adamello (1954)

The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later. ...

Heroic Charge (1952)

In 1941 an Italian regiment known as the Savoy Cavalry is sent by Mussolini to Russia to assist the German invasion. After crossing an extensive area of Soviet territory the men arrive at a village that seems deserted. A patrol sent on reconnaissance comes ...

I figli non si vendono (1952)

I figli non si vendono (literally, Children must not be sold) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film by Mario Bonnard ...

Quo Vadis (1951)

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero. ...

City of Violence (1951)

Amore e sangue (released in the U.S. as "City of Violence"), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as "John Wolff") West German/Italian romantic action adventure war thriller. ...

Come scopersi l'America (1949)