Silvano Tranquilli

Odore di spigo (1989)

Don Bosco (1988)

This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin. ...

L'ultimo giorno (1985)

An ailing widower finds a pretty woman willing to take care of his 20-year-old retarded son. One day the father and son are separated and the father gives up looking for the boy and returns home. Upon his arrival he sees the boy waiting for him on the step ...

The Women of Quiet Country (1980)

In the late thirties of Italy, In the background of peaceful village landscapes, Guido requires unquestioning obedience to his will in his house. Alberto dreams of breaking free from the dictatorial care. ...

Pumaman (1980)

Thousands of years ago, aliens visited Earth and fathered the Pumaman, a man-god with supernatural powers entrusted by a gold mask with the ability to control people's minds, which in present-day London, falls into the wrong hands. ...

Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective (1979)

After graduating in correspondence detective, Riccardo Finzi arrives in Milan. The first case he deals with is the death of a young maid. Cockpit in a surreal yellow from a novel by Luciano Secchi. ...

The stunt (1977)

Five bored rich boys from Rome receive a tip-off, and steal three cars that belong to a clandestine organisation that exports to Switzerland. One of the cars contains four billion lire. ...

Violent Naples (1976)

Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and organized crime, ...

MitGift (1976)

Edgar Burgman, after collaborating to assassinate the elder senator husband of Alice Young, the wife remarried. The woman, after a short period, doubts of love Edgar and convinces more and more that, having married out of interest, now wants to eliminate t ...

Lips of Lurid Blue (1975)

Elli and Marco are an unquestionably unusual wedded couple. Due to a damage as a kid, Marco harbors homosexual drives that he represses inside his married life and Elli is a barely surpressed nymphomaniac. The marriage is useful for both of them as it allo ...

Down the Ancient Stairs (1975)

A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man an ...

So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious... (1975)

Angela is not happy about her daddy's choice for a new wife and does everything she can to destroy her stepmother-to-be. ...

Syndicate Sadists (1975)

A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families. ...

Violent Rome (1975)

A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the department for a "questionable" shooting of a vicious criminal. However, he is soon approached by a representa ...

Manhunt in the City (1975)

A man's daughter is killed by thieves during a bank robbery. Due to the incompetence of the corrupt authorities, he decides to take to law into his own hands and track down the killers. ...

Madeline, Study of a Nightmare (1974)

A young woman is tormented by nightmares of her miscarriage. She becomes unfaithful to her husband and meets various lovers. Eventually, reality begins to unfurl around her. ...

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973)

There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. ...

The Legend of Blood Castle (1973)

Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty. ...

Tony Arzenta (1973)

A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue. ...

The Violent Professionals (1973)

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

High Crime (1973)

An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease. ...

The Art of Love (1973)

A married couple, he a failed intellectual, she completely unsatisfied, try to solve their marital crisis by throwing themselves into the arms of two lovers; he a young Swede, she with a handsome Greek man. ...

Happy New Year (1973)

Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there. ...

Love and Death on the Edge of a Razor (1973)

Stefano, the son of a wealthy businessman, meets a beautiful woman named Lidia while accompanying his father to a meeting with a cardinal. He pursues her through the streets of Venice and a romance develops. Upon returning from an overseas business trip, h ...

My Wife, A Body to Love (1973)

The story of a nymphomaniac model with a somewhat older businessman husband. ...

My Body With Anger (1972)

"Il mio corpo con rabbia" by Roberto Natale has been credited an uncertain and indefinite status between an art and an exploitation movie. Silvia is a daddy's girl who has wanted to have a drug experience only once, but this was enough for her parents to b ...

So Sweet, So Dead (1972)

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene. ...

Smile Before Death (1972)

After the death of her mother under strange circumstances, a teenage girl quickly begins to suspect that her recently widowed stepfather may be involved. ...

You're Jinxed, Friend, You've Met Sacramento (1972)

This fast-moving tale revolves around the kidnaping of a boxer's daughter. The boxer pays the ransom money but the girl is still not released. Her boyfriend decides to get her back his own way. ...

The Cat in Heat (1972)

A man returns home to his wife from a business trip only to find a dead body in their yard. ...

The Bloodstained Butterfly (1971)

When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi, seen fleeing the scene of the crime by numerous eyewitnesses. The evidence against him is damning... but i ...

The Double (1971)

A man is shot in an underground car-park by a mysterious bearded man. As he dies he recollects the events that led him to this situation, including adulterous liaisons and jealous envy. ...

Web of the Spider (1971)

Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allan Poe for an interview. ...

The Black Belly of the Tarantula (1971)

Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife. ...

The Hideout (1971)

A jewel thief hides his loot in a WELL while escaping. He returns several years later only to find there is a Resort on the site and the well is the centerpiece of the place. He then has to find a way to retrieve his haul. ...

Black Lemons (1970)

Rosario Inzulìa, a young man involved with the Mafia, was sentenced to labor camp, forced to pay also for crimes he didn't commit. After eight long years of imprisonment he's finally released. Rosario goes back to Sicily, where he learns that his wife die ...

Sunflower (1970)

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover? ...

Lonely Hearts (1970)

The marriage of a bored upper class couple gets in a crisis. ...

Quella chiara notte d'ottobre (1970)

A unhappily married woman tries to find happiness with a former lover, but when they witnesses crime, it leads them down a path of self-destruction ...

Unknown Woman (1969)

When an old lady dies two hours before her life insurance expires, the insurance lawyer suspects something dubious. He begins to investigate and he becomes the lover of the old lady's daughter... ...

Help Me, My Love (1969)

Giovanni and Raffaella are happily married from ten years, but their relationship goes into crisis when Raffaella falls in love with Valerio Mantovani, a handsome forty-year-old man she knew during the concerts of chamber music she weekly attends with her ...

The Invisible Woman (1969)

Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Alberto Moravia. ...

Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand (1966)

Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito, sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a compl ...

The Two Sans-culottes (1966)

The brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution, putting themselves in a lot of trouble. ...

Castle of Blood (1964)

When a cynical journalist accepts a wager that he won't survive the night in a haunted castle, it unlocks an odyssey of sexual torment, undead vengeance, and a dark seductress who surrenders the gravest of pleasures. ...

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)

In late 19th century London, a woman weds a necrophiliac doctor whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances - and who might be returning from the grave to torment her successor. ...

I piaceri del sabato notte (1960)

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution. ...

Perfide.... ma belle (1958)

Michele, a young mechanic, is in love with Angela Antonia, beautiful but capricious: the girl's father, once he learns of the relationship, has him fired from the place where he works and is forced to move to Naples. He asks for hospitality from his aunt C ...