Massimo Serato

The Vulture Is a Patient Bird (1991)

A brilliant but sadistic safe-breaker; a beautiful seductress; an expert young hunter and an ace pilot with a shady past - this is the team that undercover operator Armo Shalik assembles to steal the priceless Borgia ring from millionaire Max Kahlenberg's ...

Fratelli d'Italia (1989)

Three episodes held together by a common element: a car rented by three different characters. ...

32nd of December (1988)

Three episodes about the relativity of time. ...

Singolo (1987)

A made-for-TV movie on right-wing terrorism in Italy. ...

Le lunghe ombre (1987)

Saving Grace (1986)

A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the outside world, he winds up in an impoverished Italian village, where his adventures ultimately teach the Pope and his new friends some important lessons about ...

The Country Boy (1984)

A man is forced to completely change his habits when he decides to move from the country to the city. ...

Nana (1983)

In Zola's Paris, an ingenue arrives at a tony bordello: she's Nana, guileless, but quickly learning to use her erotic innocence to get what she wants. She's an actress for a soft-core filmmaker and soon is the most popular courtesan in Paris, parlaying thi ...

Street of Mirrors (1983)

Francesca, a magistrate, seems happily married to a successful and wealthy engineer. They prepare to spend a holiday together when Francesca is instructed to shed light on the mysterious death of a girl, Rosa Franceschi, who threw herself from the terrace ...

Stigma (1980)

The death of Sebastian's father engenders in him pathological fears and hallucinations. His death wishes seem to cause horrible accidents, which he is unable to control. When his older brother dies, he feels that he has caused it. He undergoes hypnosis, bu ...

The Garden of Eden (1980)

A young pick-pocket meets a sheltered teenage girl at an art museum while trying to lift her wallet. He falls in love with her and lures her to deserted strip of beach where he pretends his stolen motorbike has broken down and they are stranded. An unlikel ...

Killer Nun (1979)

A demented nun sliding through morphine addiction into madness, while presiding over a regime of lesbianism, torture and death. Sister Gertrude is the head nurse/nun in a general hospital, whose increasingly psychotic behavior endangers the staff and patie ...

The Humanoid (1979)

Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help of the insane Dr. Kraspin, who has invented a chemical capable of turning an ordinary person into a perfect soldier. They test this chemical on the pilot Gol ...

Convoy Busters (1978)

In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to follow a trail that leads him toward high government officials. When his methods leave an innocent bystander dea ...

The Bloodstained Shadow (1978)

A schoolgirl was murdered seven years ago, and the case was never solved; now, the murderer seems to be back. ...

Ladies' Doctor (1977)

Dr. Lo Bianco, debt load, flees abroad and the headquarters avviatissimo study gynecological colleague Giovannaldi. These are adept at gaining the trust of high society and, thanks to the relationship established with the wife of a wealthy manufacturer (en ...

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti (1977)

A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre. ...

Evil Thoughts (1976)

Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milan, with a wonderful wife and a high social life. But Mario has a problem: every time he sees his wife talking to one of their friends he immediately visualises them in a hot affair. His jealousy spira ...

Autopsy (1975)

A series of random suicides in Rome, Italy are attributed to a heatwave, but a young pathologist named Simona—who is working on a thesis about murders disguised as suicides—suspects otherwise. When a young girl associated with Simona's playboy father e ...

Salvo D'Acquisto (1974)

In 1943 Italy is crumbling. Salvo D'Acquisto, a Carabinieri officer is trying to maintain law and order. One tragic incident will unravel a chain of events leading to him having to stand between the Germans and people he swore to protect. ...

Don't Look Now (1973)

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife. ...

Women in Cell Block 7 (1973)

A woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life. ...

Number One (1973)

This raw Italian political melodrama investigates the underbelly of Rome in the early '70s, exposing drugs, crime, and sexual scandals. ...

Handsome Face (1972)

Pierrette, an active labor activist, marries Mario. He had little sympathy for his wife's political activities. Nevertheless, he takes part in a strikers' demonstration she leads, where he is bludgeoned to death by the CRS. ...

One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future (1972)

The young lawyer Vincenzo, Lucetta's new husband, daughter of a building speculator, discovers, on the night of the wedding, that he can not fulfill his duty as husband. ...

Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why? (1972)

Carlo, a young photographer, is making love with his girlfriend at the beach when he witnesses a murder being feebly staged to look like a car accident. Carlo takes incriminating shots of the murderers (the victim turns out to be the local public prosecut ...

Sergeant Klems (1971)

A man masquerading as a dead soldier seeks to desert his post and join the enemy in their struggle. ...

At the End of the Rainbow (1971)

Roy runs away from the labor camp of Santa Lucia with Emiliano, a New Mexico rancher, both imprisoned unjustly for three powerful American bankers, to seize the gold mine that had Emiliano. During flight, the landowner dies and in his last moments asked Ro ...

Three Giants of the Roman Empire (1971)

The Great Swindle (1971)

A seductive woman gets involved in relationships with several people. All of the characters play games of deceit with one and other and things get more and more dangerous. ...

Lady Caliph (1970)

La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship. ...

Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming (1970)

Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a million dollars in gold and two million dollars in counterfeit money. Naturally, a bunch of other treacherous folks who include conniving widow Senora Manas ...

The Divorce (1970)

Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life. ...

The Gamblers (1970)

Card cheats travel by cruise ship to the Adriatic coast to fleece a wealthy aristocrat. ...

How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business? (1970)

Playboy magazine darling (and one-time playmate of Hugh Hefner) Barbi Benton is Naughty Cheerleader Lynne Keefe, a small-town, small-brained babe who gets caught up big-time in the sex business. As a high school cheerleader who can really twirl a baton bac ...

Edipeon (1970)

Gianni, a young engineer, is unable to have his own love life because of his unhealthy attraction to his mother. That all changes when he meets Lola in a brothel. He falls madly in love with her and wants to marry her, but she refuses so he tries to kill h ...

Camille 2000 (1969)

Marguerite, a beautiful woman of affairs, falls for the young and promising Armand, but sacrifices her love for him for the sake of his future and reputation. ...

Besieged (1969)

Story of a student in the town of Trieste, shaken up by the economic crisis. ...

It Was Good to Love You (1968)

Andrea, a young man from the provinces, leaves his home, his friends and his girlfriend to go to the city in search of new intellectual satisfactions that he believes he can no longer find in his small world. The young idealist meets Eleonora, a beautiful ...

Catch As Catch Can (1967)

Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him! ...

The Magnificent Texan (1967)

A gang of bandits burn down the Red House belonging to Pablo Lopez. The whole Lopez family is murdered except ten year old Manuel, who is scarred for life by the horrifying sight of his dead parents and burning home. Fifteen years later, Manuel has grown u ...

The Honey Pot (1967)

In Venice, a millionaire hires an actor to help him prank three greedy exes into thinking he's dying and leaving his fortune to one of them. ...

The Strange Night (1967)

Aldo, a middle class family man decides to enjoy his last night alone while his family is away on vacation. He meets a pretty girl and takes her to his home. While he is in the kitchen preparing drinks, a shot goes off. ...

La mujer perdida (1966)

Sara is the daughter of a fisherman. ...

The Wild, Wild Planet (1966)

A rogue cop must stop a scientist from taking over the world with his deadly female robots, who are shrinking the world leaders. ...

Almost Perfect Crime (1966)

SuperSeven Calling Cairo (1965)

Super 7 looks for a piece of a new metal hidden in a camera. ...

The 10th Victim (1965)

In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most popular form of entertainment in the world and also attracts participants who are looking for fame and fortune. It ...

$100,000 for Ringo (1965)

A stranger rides into Rainbow Valley where he's mistaken for a former resident who was believed killed in the Civil War and soon finds himself in opposition to local boss Tom Cherry, who seeks to find $100,000 stashed away by a Mexican general. ...

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 ...

La Celestina P… R… (1965)

The Revolt of the Seven (1964)

Milo, tyrant of Sparta, has betrayed the Achea League. The evidence of betrayal is hidden by one of the rebels who is killed before he can reveal the hiding place to his friend Keros. ...

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. ...

FBI Operation Yellow Viper (1964)

The secret agent Claus van Dongen is sent to Cape Town to end the activities of the criminal organization Yellow Viper. ...

The Lion of Thebes (1964)

Fleeing Troy in the wake of its destruction, fair-faced Helen and her faithful protector Arion run into the pharaoh Ramses, who sets his sights on Helen -- and is subsequently murdered. Now it's up to Arion to save Helen from those who wish her dead. ...

Hero of Rome (1964)

In ancient Rome, the people finally oust their despised king, Tarquinius, and declare the city a republic. Tarquinius makes an alliance with the Etruscan king, Porsenna, to take back power in Rome, but a Roman general, the heroic Mucius, sets out to stop h ...

Samson vs. the Giant King (1964)

The czar Nicolas sends a secret mission of experts to find a hidden treasure, while at the same time preparing a group of mercenaries to kill the experts after their return. ...

Full Hearts and Empty Pockets (1964)

A young German comes to Rome on vacation and is not slow to win female hearts. When the game become dangerous due to a possible marriage, the young man returns to his homeland. ...

Brennus, Enemy of Rome (1963)

This film features a colossal clash between a mass of invaders and the faithful Roman soldiers who must fight to defend the Roman Empire. ...

The Secret Seven (1963)

Greece is under the power of Rabirius, from which rise a few patriots led by Axel. He is taken prisoner and condemned to die of hunger and thirst. But his brother Leslio, who fears no one, makes him free. The next step Leslio takes, is to dissolve a group ...

The Tyrant of Lydia Against the Son of Hercules (1963)

Italian sword & sandal thrills as the son of Hercules is pitted against an evil king and his wretched followers. ...

Samson and the Slave Queen (1963)

The king of Nogara dies, leaving behind a will naming one of his nieces as his successor. Will it be blonde and virtuous Isabella or evil, dark-haired Malva? Each woman relies on a hero to locate the will. Malva hires the bare-chested strongman Samson whil ...

55 Days at Peking (1963)

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed r ...

The Invincible Masked Rider (1963)

In 17th century Spain, the evil, corrupt Don Luis intends to marry his ward, Carmencita, to his stepson, Don Diego. A peasant revolt, fuelled by a plague, complicates matters, as does the arrival of a Masked Avenger. ...

The Shortest Day (1963)

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

Giacobbe ed Esau (1963)

A film about twin bothers Jacob & Esau ...

Hypnosis (1962)

Erik, in love with Magda, the fiancée of Georg, his boss, secretly sends her roses every night. ...

The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan (1962)

D' Artagnan and Porthos received the order of Richelieu, which protrudes as a powerful figure of the French church, a plot against the King of France Louis XIII. uncover. Disguised as a monk enters D' Artagnan the Church, in which the conspirators act. D' ...

Pontius Pilate (1962)

The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John. ...

El Cid (1961)

Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain. ...

Constantine and the Cross (1961)

Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor. ...

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. ...

Ti aspetterò all'inferno (1960)

When a diamond heist goes wrong, the three would-be robbers go on the run from the law. They soon find themselves involved with a beautiful woman who may wind up being even more trouble for them than the botched robbery. ...

The Loves of Hercules (1960)

Hercules decides to avenge the death of his wife, murdered at the hands of Éurito, king of Ecalia, but everything is a plot of an ambitious courtier. Hercules ends up falling in love with Deyanira, who is now a good queen. ...

The Queen of the Pirates (1960)

In 16th century Italy, on the Adriatic coast, the duchy of Doruzza is governed by a tyrannical duke, Zulian, and his haughty daughter, Isabella. When they commit a great injustice, a ship's captain and his daughter turn pirate to fight back for the people. ...

David and Goliath (1960)

When the Philistines attack, the Israelites are hopeless against the fierce giant Goliath and don't know what to do. King Saul takes the advice of the prophets and sends an adolescent shepherd, David, into battle to conquer the oversized Philistine. David ...

The Pirate and the Slave Girl (1959)

When a ship carrying the daughter of Rhodes' governor and secret documents is captured by Mediterranean pirate Dragut, the governor tasks captain Diego with their recovery before they can be sold to Sultan Selim. ...

The Magistrate (1959)

Emilia Bonelli is an overly ambitious and driven woman. This dominant personality trait has its effects on her henpecked husband Luigi, and her daughter Carla. Circumstances ultimately lead to the courtroom and an aloof judge in the persona of Andrea Moran ...

Tunisi top secret (1959)

Cavalier in Devil's Castle (1959)

A mysterious horseman, called the Dark Knight, sets himself up as a masked vigilante and decides to free the duchet of Valgrado from the grip of a terrible tyrant. ...

The Sword and the Cross (1958)

Mary Magdalene, a notorious harlot, must choose between her lascivious lifestyle and the love and affection of her decent-minded brother. ...

Captain Falcon (1958)

Baron Oddo de Serra who is cruel to his subjects, is neighbor of the Count Gualtiero of Roccalta. The servants of the baron cross the lands of Count to escape his abuses. Baron hatches a plot to assassinate the earl. ...

The Naked Maja (1958)

A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba ...

Aphrodite, Goddess of Love (1958)

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. ...

The Silent Enemy (1958)

The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb. ...

Peppino, le modelle e... chella llà (1957)

Young painter Teddy is successful with women but not very clever about selling pictures. He is in love with Elisabetta but cannot marry her because he is penniless. The couple asks for help from Peppino, a retired clerk who often uses Teddy's painting, pre ...

Una grande ombra (1957)

Tormento d'amore (1956)

"Torment of love" - Sara and Pietro meet in Barcelona and immediately a strong friendship grows between them, that soon turns into love. Sara does not dare to tell Pietro about a recent affair with a man called Roberto. ...

Supreme Confession (1956)

The wife of a conductor with a stormy past agrees to meet a blackmailer in a small hotel. ...

Maruzzella (1956)

Maruzzella is in love with Salvatore, who in turn is infatuated with Donna Carmela, Maruzzella's stepmother. As if that were not enough, Carmela deprives Maruzzella of her inheritance. When Salvatore comes to visit Renato, his old poor and needy schoolmate ...

Der goldene Falke (1955)

Il piccolo vetraio (1955)

A poor fisherman entrusts his children Piero and Nino for money to the Frenchman Neroni who recruits young men to work in his glass factory. ...

The Widow (1955)

A woman falls in love with a race-car driver who two-times her for another girl. ...

Cartouche (1955)

The son of an ailing nobleman returns to France to clear his name and prove where the true guilt lies. ...

La trovatella di Milano (1955)

Love story set in Milan during the Five Days of 1848. ...

Loves of Three Queens (1954)

At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation. ...

Madame du Barry (1954)

The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France... ...

Pietà per chi cade (1954)

Carlo Savelli, gone missing after the war, returns to Italia after many years. His wife Anna, believing him dead, has established a romance with Andrea, and in order to keep him happy, she follows him to Venice. ...

Public Opinion (1954)

Following the death of his wife in unclear circumstances, the mechanic Egisto Bianchi is accused of auxoricide. A journalist begins to take care of the case and ignites public interest with a successful press campaign. The accused is acquitted for lack of ...

Foglio di via (1954)

When young Lucia attempts suicide by jumping from a train, she meets a man to whom she explains what has driven her to this. He, a former doctor, has his own demons and their conversation might just help both to face their future. ...

Lucrèce Borgia (1953)

In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister's husband murdered. But without her brother's knowledge, Lucrèce has taken a s ...

The Man From Cairo (1953)

"The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds Mike Canelli, the man from Cairo, nosing around Algiers with mystery surrounding the people he meets and the t ...

The Merchant of Venice (1953)

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, ...

Eager to Live (1953)

Massimo pretends to be rich but he's actually poor. ...

Gioventù alla sbarra (1953)

I Piombi di Venezia (1953)

A young Venetian officer falls in love with a slave girl. ...

The Story of William Tell (1953)

A short that follows the legend of Wilhelm Gorkeit of Tellikon (William Tell), the legendary archer and hero from Switzerland. ...

The Devil's Daughter (1952)

Garibaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to ...

Milady and the Musketeers (1952)

An official, betrayed by his lady servant, joins musketeers such as Athos, while she turns into a countess and a spy that will eventually be executed. ...

Red Love (1952)

I due derelitti (1951)

Incantesimo tragico (1951)

Some peasants are excited to marry their first-born with a young woman, but they are unaware of his ambitious personality. When the father-in-law finds a treasure, everything gets complicated. ...

Il conte di Sant'Elmo (1951)

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. ...

The Thief of Venice (1950)

A beautiful tavern-keeper finds herself getting caught up in a war between Italy and Turkey. ...

Fugitive Lady (1950)

A man drives his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. One insurance investigator is not so sure it was an accident or suicide and gets 48 hours to prove his case. ...

Sunday in August (1950)

The plot weaves several episodes with several groups of people, Roman families, youth gangs and young love couples, who spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia. ...

The Pirates of Capri (1949)

A group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples. The Queen is advised of the pirate's assault of a member of her court and she seeks to e ...

Marechiaro (1949)

Monastero di Santa Chiara (1949)

Rudolf a nazi officer falls in love with Ester a jewish singer and tries to save her from deportation hiding her in the Monastery of Santa Chiara. ...

The Revenge of Baccarat (1948)

In Paris, in the middle of the 19th century, the Comte de Chamery died of poisoning, leaving a considerable fortune to his long-dead son. Sir William, the count's murderer, hires a young rogue, Rocambole, to pretend to be the deceased's son. The two accomp ...

Rocambole (1948)

In the 19th century, a thug from the slums of Paris pretends to be a young aristocrat, but is unmasked by a demi-mondaine, from the same background as him. ...

I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli) (1948)

Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her. ...

La Danse de mort (1948)

A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past. ...

The Lost One (1947)

A courtesan sacrifices her relationship with a youthful admirer after the man's father pleads with her. Adapted from Giuseppe Verdi's 1853 opera in the three acts "La Traviata". ...

Sangue a Ca' Foscari (1947)

Outcry (1946)

A neorealist tribute to the Italian resistance fighters of World War II. ...

Il mondo vuole così (1946)

Accused of having stolen 3 million liras, a bank employee serves five years in prison. Having served his sentence and believed to be rich, he was showered with care and attention by everyone, even his wife. When the real perpetrator of the theft is found, ...

In High Places (1945)

A young man falls in love with a girl from whom he hides the fact that he is already engaged to a mature upper-class lady. To win her over, he hires two actors to portray his parents. ...

The Materassi Sisters (1944)

The quiet days of two elderly spinster sisters are changed for good with the unexpected arrival of their nephew. ...

Giacomo l'idealista (1943)

L'uomo venuto dal mare (1942)

An Italian drama from 1942. ...

Due cuori sotto sequestro (1941)

An Italian comedy released in 1941. ...

Piccolo mondo antico (1941)

Franco, a young man of noble descent, marries Luisa, daughter of a humble clerk, against his grandmother's will. ...

L'amore canta (1941)

Italian film directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli. ...

L'ispettore Vargas (1940)

A detective investigates on the death of a factory owner. ...

Le père Lebonnard (1939)

Father Lebonnard, a former watchmaker who made a fortune, remains simple while his wife is only dreaming of worldly affairs and pushes his son Freddy to marry Bianca, the daughter of the Marquis de Rocafort, their neighbor. She feeds a similar project for ...

Jeanne Doré (1938)