Mario Scaccia

Gabriel (2001)

Voglio stare sotto al letto (1999)

Leonardo is a young theater enthusiast who has written a comedy for a comedian at sunset, Giordani, and leaves for the Adriatic coast together with the producer Peppino and his assistant to reach the actor and convince him to stage the script. During the j ...

In camera mia (1992)

According to Pontius Pilate (1988)

The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate. ...

A proposito di Roma (1987)

The search for a feeling of Rome leads Renato Nicolini, an exceptional reporter, to take a journey through the city in an attempt to unravel its mystery. Following in the footsteps of famous and lesser-known visitors, on a physical and imaginary journey, t ...

L'ultima mazurka (1986)

Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio (1983)

The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs. The title translates as "Eye, Evil Eye, Parsley and Fennel". ...

Break Up (1978)

Paolo has been reasonably happy for the past 10 years; he has a job at the university and has Sena as a lover all these years. When she suddenly decides to leave the relationship, it comes as a shock to him, and he desperately wants to know the reason. ...

L'arte della commedia (1978)

Oreste Campese is the leader of a traveling troupe of actors—made up of his family—who find themselves in the middle of winter in an unspecified town in central Italy. During the prologue, Campese recounts the events leading up to the present: the trou ...

Double Murder (1977)

Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat and a worker are struck by lightning inside a fancy mansion. The incident would be relegated to freak acci ...

Black Journal (1977)

A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building. ...

Gastone (1977)

Un amore targato Forlì (1976)

The young Rimini native Stefano Santi goes to Rome, with a letter of recommendation for the maestro Melchiorri, artistic director of the Opera House, to take part in a competition for cellists. While trying in vain to be received by Melchiorri, he met an u ...

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. ...

Soldier of Fortune (1976)

Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore bides his time to determine which side is the ...

Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga (1976)

Eye of the Cat (1975)

Biting, sadistic satire punctuates this dark comedy about a feckless musician named Marcello Ferrari (Nino Manfredi) whose wife Giulia (Mariangela Melato) and kids are stolen away by the domineering, fascist madman Cesare (Eli Wallach). ...

The Sex Machine (1975)

The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of award-winning scientists succeeds in harnessing energy from the world's oldest source of reciprocating mo ...

The Antichrist (1974)

An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress. ...

Il generale dorme in piedi (1974)

A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up. ...

Bambina (1974)

In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her mentally-disturbed and sex-obsessed adolescent daughter. He plans to have her kidnapped and raped by an accomplice so s ...

The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974)

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother. ...

Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)

A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business unscrupulously. ...

The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972)

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company. ...

La calandria (1972)

The luxurious Livio bets with the lord of the city to seduce a young bride in a month, at the cost of his genitals. ...

Meo Patacca (1972)

Adapted from the mock-heroic poem in Roman dialect, tells the misadventures of the young trasteverino Bartolomeo Patacca that, because of the ambition of his woman, is having to train a group of beggars to go fight in defense of Christianity in Vienna, bes ...

Between Miracles (1971)

Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by ...

Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969)

Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy. ...

We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)

A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it. ...

Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966)

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta. ...

A Maiden for the Prince (1965)

Young Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, rejects his first wife Margherita Farnese, obtaining the annulment of the union and, at the same time, raising strong doubts about her virginity ...

All the Other Girls Do! (1964)

The innocent love of two young students is hindered by their families. The two meet in a squalid apartment where they will perhaps decide their future. At the exit, however, are arrested for a kiss exchanged on the road. ...

Easy Love (1964)

Five episodes: A professor decides to murder her husband to win a woman. A hotelier seduces a boarder. A man convinces a friend to marry his lover, so as not to arouse his wife's suspicions. A man borrows money from a loan shark to pay for the services of ...

Summer Frenzy (1964)

Five episodes: a mature model makes his lover jealous; lovers quarrel; a clumsy Don Juan in business; a dancer and a captain; a beauty falls in love with a Spanish cyclist. The characters in the episodes intertwine, but the stories are not always treated w ...

The Swindlers (1963)

A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager. ...

Adventure at the Motel (1963)

A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary. ...

The Seventh Sword (1962)

In this costume adventure, a dashing swordsman helps protect Philip III of Spain from the traitors trying to overthrow him. ...

Musketeers of the Sea (1962)

Three pirates are saved from a shipwreck and seize a galleon bound for Maracaibo, where they will save the governor from a conspiracy. Italian adventure movie directed by Steno. ...

Day by Day, Desperately (1961)

The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members. ...

Ursus (1961)

Ursus returns from war to find his fiancée, Attea, has been kidnapped by a mysterious sect which sacrifices virgins to its patron goddess. Ursus faces much treachery and is forced to display much courage and strength as he and the blind girl Doreide embar ...

A porte chiuse (1961)

The movie is about the celebrated trial of Olga Duvovich, very beautiful woman accused of killing her husband, a wealthy financier. ...

Robin Hood and the Pirates (1960)

On his way to (or from) the Crusades, Robin Hood is shipwrecked but saved by pirates who plan to return him home in order to ransom him to his father. ...

Revenge of the Barbarians (1960)

408 AD. The Visigoths led by Alaric invade northern Italy. At Ravenna, they have to battle, and they are stopped by the power of the Roman legions and the cunning of the emperor's sister, Galla Placidia. As the Goths lose many warriors in the cruel battle, ...

Love, the Italian Way (1960)

A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other. ...

The Traffic Policeman (1960)

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy. ...

Love and Larceny (1960)

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. ...

A Mink Coat (1956)

A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever. ...

What a Woman! (1956)

A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it. ...

Too Bad She's Bad (1954)

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. ...

The Anatomy of Love (1954)

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom. ...

La fiammata (1952)

Just before the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a party is held in the castle of the Stettin's Counts. ...