Sergio Martino

Il paese delle piccole piogge (2012)

Anna, married to a mafioso, loses her child and escapes from a killer seeking mafia bank details. Fleeing to Malindi, Kenya, she befriends Bodo, follows him as an African missionary, and becomes a respected volunteer. She meets Mandher, a dedicated doctor ...

Masks (2011)

In the 70s Matteusz Gdula invented an acting method that was supposed to make every actor "shine". Still, lots of his students die mysteriously and Gdula commits suicide. His method gets banned. Now: Stella, an ambitious, but rather untalented drama stude ...

L'allenatore nel pallone 2 (2008)

The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a grea ...

Beauty Queen Olivia (2002)

A family from the wrong side of the tracks moves to Rome. 16-year-old Olivia has a hard time making friends in her new school but eventually teams up with Lilli, a great fan of the film "Grease" and its star Olivia Newton-John. ...

L'ultimo rigore (2002)

Carlo Corsi, coach of a rising football team, encourages his talented son Marco to become a champion. However, Marco struggles with the pressure, leading him to use performance-enhancing drugs. The mother, Giovanna, tries to reunite the family through thei ...

Il cielo tra le mani (2000)

Honey Horn (2000)

A stressed-out husband views his life as a series of endless complications. ...

A due passi dal cielo (1999)

Mozart Is a Murderer (1999)

When Chiara, a violinist at the conservatory, is brutally murdered after a performance, inspector Maccari is put on the case. Maccari, whose own wife was once murdered by a serial killer, suspect professor Baraldi, the director of the conservatory. But as ...

Padre papà (1998)

Scratch and Win (1996)

Andrea, Maurizio and Sergio are professional idlers, lazy, indolent and full of inventiveness. Maurizio is engaged to the policewoman Anna, of whom he is extremely jealous, Sergio still lives with his mother and Andrea is tyrannized by his wife and his bro ...

The Fishmen and Their Queen (1995)

Two teenagers prowl a devastated landscape, polluted by radioactive waste in search for food. On their quest of survival, they meet Socrates, a man who takes them to an island that seems a far cry away from the urban misery they struggled in. But the two y ...

The Girl from Cortina (1994)

Vanessa Gravina is vapidly pretty as the heroine, who changes her hair color and hair style in order to escape an abusive painter husband and start a new life. She fakes her death by motorcar accident off a cliff, and the film heads downward from there, as ...

Craving Desire (1993)

Luigi, who is engaged to a rich bourgeois, Cinzia, meets his lovely cousin, Sonia, at the cremation of their grandmother. Six months later, Sonia moves in and enters his life, and gradually succeeds in seducing him. Sonia upsets his life. Now, Cinzia is je ...

The Smile of the Fox (1992)

Mark, a hitman haunted by his past as a corrupt Miami cop and the death of his wife and son, prepares for his next killing. Gradually he becomes fascinated by the beautiful prostitute who lives in the next apartment and they embark on a passionate affair. ...

A Bear Called Arthur (1992)

A composer rushing to meet a deadline meets a beautiful woman who says she is his biggest fan. However, it turns out that not only is she not a fan, she is a secret agent who has her own reasons for wanting to meet him. ...

After the Condor (1991)

A hotshot, wisecracking New York newspaper reporter, teams up with his crippled Army buddy Steve and sexy pilot Anne in Argentina to find an airplane called Condor rumored to have been carrying Chinese treasure when it crashed into a glacier forty years ea ...

Beyond Kilimanjaro, Across the River of Blood (1990)

Tony La Palma lives in Kenya, where he helps Dr. Sean in his work to protect animals. His love affair with Giulia brings the past from which he is running away, and that haunts him thousands of miles from New York, where he is wanted for murder. ...

Casablanca Express (1989)

It is 1942 and the conflict between the U.S. and Germany is getting heated, U.S. Intelligence soon discovers that the Natzis are planning to capture Winston Churchill. In order to protect him they send commando Al Cooper to guard Churchill who is going by ...

American Rickshaw (1989)

After a stripper tricks him into filming a sex tape, Miami rickshaw runner Scott Edwards becomes embroiled in the murder of a televangelist's son when he inadvertently takes the wrong videotape. With the help of the stripper and a witch, Edwards sets out t ...

The Opponent (1988)

Greene plays an up and coming boxer with a powerful right hand and a heart of gold. He works night shifts in a bar and has a girlfriend whose father played by Ernest Borgnine disapproves of the relationship thinking Greene is a no good for nothing loser. T ...

An Australian in Rome (1987)

Jill, a young and beautiful girl Australian party for a vacation in Italy. In Rome Pierluigi meets the young, a boy sympathetic and fascinating. The two begin to frequentarsi and what began as a simple friendship soon turns into a much stronger feeling. Ev ...

Provare per credere (1987)

A man is left by his wife and to overcome the shock he follows the advice of his playboy friend , who suggests that he jump into the fray and surround himself with beautiful girls. ...

Mixed Double (1986)

Two married couples horn each other .. choosing the same vacant apartment as the place of the escapade! How many misunderstandings can arise in this continuous game of doors that open and close? ...

Ferragosto O.K. (1986)

Funny events of the clients who spend their summer holidays at the Hotel Internazionale in San Benedetto del Tronto. ...

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. ...

Half Right Half Left - 2 Footballers Without a Ball (1985)

The "Marchigiana" soccer team has been promoted to the Serie A of the national championship, but it is the last in the standings due mainly to two players, Gigi and Andrea. ...

L'allenatore nel pallone (1984)

Oronzo Canà is called to coach Longobarda, the football team of a small town of Northern Italy, newly promoted to the First Division. His only task is not to be relegated, but Longobarda's owner plots against him, finding the team's current ranking far to ...

Devil Fish (1984)

A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast. ...

If All Goes Well We Are Ruined (1983)

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". ...

2019: After the Fall of New York (1983)

After a nuclear war society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks, and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile woman left ...

Acapulco, Last Beach... on the Left (1983)

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 ...

Don't Play with Tigers (1982)

A stories of three really unlucky characters are discovered during the trial. ...

Cream Horn (1981)

Mariana and Domenico are on the run from her jealous boyfriend who just happens to be an over-jealous professional football player. ...

Spaghetti at Midnight (1981)

Savino La Gastra discovers his wife Celeste has a liaison with an architect: Andrea. Even if also Savino has a story with Elvira, a judge's wife, he decides anyway to ask to a mobster to kill his wife. In the mean time Celeste is organizing a surprise part ...

Sugar, Honey and Pepper (1980)

Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, ...

The Wife on Vacation... The Lover in Town (1980)

Andrea Damiani sends his wife Valeria off on a skiing holiday so he can spend time with his demanding mistress, Giulia. Little does he suspect that Valeria is having a rendezvous with a Count she recently met. However, Valeria does not know that 'Count' Gi ...

The Great Alligator (1979)

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

Saturday, Sunday and Friday (1979)

SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man ...

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. ...

A Man Called Blade (1977)

Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of power in a corrupt mining town, he unleashes a firestorm of brutality, betrayal and cold-blooded murder. Now, o ...

Love in 4 Easy Lessons (1976)

Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations. ...

Sex with a Smile (1976)

Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor. ...

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 ...

Silent Action (1975)

A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begi ...

Gambling City (1975)

Luca Altieri is a gambler. He likes cards and he is a master in playing poker. He is a cardsharper too. He begins working for "The President", who has many gambling houses and everything seems to go well until Luca falls for Maria Luisa. Unfortunately for ...

The Beautiful Summer (1974)

A mother keeps making excuses for why her son's father has not returned home. Jon Marco, just celebrating his ninth birthday, concludes his parents have separated and develops a plan to place himself in dad's care. Along with a new friend they run away to ...

High School Girl (1974)

A shy schoolboy's life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer. ...

The Violent Professionals (1973)

With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate. ...

Giovannona Long-Thigh (1973)

When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they discover the judge has a predilection for married women, the owner employs a prostitute to pose as his wife ...

Torso (1973)

A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to h ...

Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)

Oliviero is a drunk, burned-out writer who amuses himself by hosting orgies at his grand country manor and humiliating his wife Irina. When a number of women are murdered in grisly fashion, Oliviero becomes a prime suspect. ...

All the Colours of the Dark (1972)

After a car accident that caused the loss of her baby, Jane experiences an increasing amount of nightmares that shake her to her core. After seeking professional help, her haunting visions turn into an even more frightening reality, one full of black magic ...

The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971)

After her husband dies in a freak plane accident, a woman leaves London for Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy. She soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money - and are willing to kill for it. Mean ...

Naked Cities (1971)

A globetrotting travel all over earth looking for the absolute most intimately arousing and exciting towns. ...

The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh (1971)

When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms ...

Arizona Colt Returns (1970)

Famed gunman Arizona Colt is sent by Moreno to rescue his daughter from the grips of Arizona's old enemy, Keane. But certain complications make the mission far more dangerous than expected. ...

Naked and Violent (1970)

Cult director Sergio Martino, during the most glorious mondo years, delivered Naked and Violent, a documentary which unveils the brutality of the USA. Hidden behind a mask of perfection and justice, Naked and Violent traces the problems of American society ...

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. ...

Wages of Sin (1969)

Documentary that analyzes sexuality during it's so-called "revolution", the late sixties. The film shows some sexual "oddities" brought on by the fall of sexual taboos: a German woman who founded an billion dollar industry by selling erotic material; young ...

The Queer ... The Erotic (1969)

The documentary shows in succession a ritual of male initiation in an African tribe, a lesson in sexual education in an European country; a travelling through the rooms of a museum of erotism in Germany, the window shopping of prostitutes in Amsterdams red ...

The Battle of El Alamein (1969)

June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first! ...

Vengeance Is Mine (1967)

Johnny Forest, bounty hunter, attempts to carry out his mother's dying wish that he bring in his outlaw brother, Clint, alive. On the run from Jurago, a former partner he has crossed, Clint accepts Johnny's help, and agrees to surrender ..... for now. ...

Adios, Hombre (1967)

A man is arrested, tried and convicted for a robbery that was actually committed by someone else. After he gets out of prison, he goes in search of the real robbers. ...

$10,000 for a Massacre (1967)

After being hired to free a landowner's kidnapped daughter, a bounty hunter double-crosses his employer and joins the kidnapper's gang. ...

James Tont Operation U.N.O. (1965)

The diabolical Goldsinger, enraged at being excluded from the UN, hatches a plot to blow up the assembly while all the heads of the state participate. Luckily, inept agent James Tont discovers the plot and sets out to stop Goldsinger. ...

Libido (1965)

A young man visits his ancestral home accompanied by his guardian and their wives, where he is plagued by the memories and influence of his murderous, psychosexual father. ...

The Dolls (1965)

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comenci ...

Hercules Against Rome (1964)

Hercules comes from Greece to Ravenna, Italy, because a friend from childhood days has sent for him: Hercules should help the Roman Emperor who is in danger because of an intrigue lead by the leader of the pretorian guards. ...

The Demon (1964)

Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence. ...

Titanus 1904 (2024)

Pretendo l'inferno (2024)

From Rollerball to Rome - Reflection on a Sci-Fi Classic (2020)

Produced for the "ultimate edition" of "Rollerball" from Capelight Pictures in Germany, 2020. The Blu-Ray of the original 1975 classic comes packed with this fascinating 85-minute documentary that charts the influence of "Rollerball" on contemporary scifi ...

Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs (2020)

Feature length documentary including interviews with Sergio Martino, Alberto de Martino, Ovidio G. Assonitis and more. ...

George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring (2019)

The life of one of the most famous leading-men of Italian popular cinema. ...

Spaghetti alla Martino (2019)

The film documentary by Daniele Ceccarini and Francesco Tassara tells the prolific career of the Italian director Sergio Martino. ...

All the Colors of Giallo (2019)

'Giallo' is Italian for 'yellow', the color of the lurid pulp novels that inspired one of the most intense, extreme and influential genres in movie history. In this unprecedented collection, experience the full chronological evolution of giallo with more t ...

Banned Alive! The Rise and Fall of Italian Cannibal Movies (2016)

2 1/2 hour-documentary on the rise and fall of one of the most controversial Italian genres every created. Starting with Deep River Savages arriving to the infamous Cannibal Ferox. ...

Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film (2015)

A High Rising Productions documentary on the short-lived craze of Italian cannibal films in the '70s and '80s, featuring interviews with Umberto Lenzi, Ruggero Deodato, Sergio Martino, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, and Robert Kerman. Featured on the Grindhouse ...

I Tarantiniani (2013)

Tarantino reveres them, and for good reason. Welcome to the world of the kings of the Italian B-Movie. ...

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 (2008)

This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the peopl ...

Dragonland: L'Urlo di Chen terrorizza ancora l'occidente (2008)

The first Italian documentary on the most extraordinary phenomenon of the 70s: the Kung-fu films! ...

Thrills, Chills and Cleavage (2005)

Interview of Sergio Martino discussing his film The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh. ...

Dark Fears Behind the Door (2005)

Rare interview of Sergio Martino and Edwige Fenech (with Luciano Martino, Ernesto Gastaldi & George Hilton) discussing their film The Strange Vice of Mrs. ...

Mario Bava: Operazione paura (2004)

Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the italian director Mario Bava ...

Italian Kings Of B (2003)

Documentary on Italian genre cinema. ...

Provare per credere (1987)

A man is left by his wife and to overcome the shock he follows the advice of his playboy friend , who suggests that he jump into the fray and surround himself with beautiful girls. ...

L'allenatore nel pallone (1984)

Oronzo Canà is called to coach Longobarda, the football team of a small town of Northern Italy, newly promoted to the First Division. His only task is not to be relegated, but Longobarda's owner plots against him, finding the team's current ranking far to ...

Silent Action (1975)

A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begi ...

The Violent Professionals (1973)

With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate. ...

All the Colours of the Dark (1972)

After a car accident that caused the loss of her baby, Jane experiences an increasing amount of nightmares that shake her to her core. After seeking professional help, her haunting visions turn into an even more frightening reality, one full of black magic ...