Damiano DamianiFilmography

Born:: July 23, 1922 in Pasiano, Italy
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Damiani began making short documentaries in the late '40s, and was writing and assistant directing features by the mid-'50s. He debuted as a director in 1960 with the prize-winning Il Rossetto (aka Lipstick), and over the decade helmed such offbeat films as the Alberto Moravia adaptation La Noia...Read More

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Sergio Leone: The Way I See Things

Actors: Eugenio Alabisio, Nino Baragli, Claudia Cardinale, Damiano Damiani, Roberto Forges Davanzati

Synopsis: Few American film enthusiasts were even aware that anyone made westerns in Italy before Sergio Leone's breakthrough film, 1964's Per un Pugno di Dollari (aka A Fistful Of Dollars), made Clint Eastwood a worldwide star and introduced audiences to the forbidding beauty and troubling morality of Read More

2006
The Spaghetti West

Synopsis: The Spaghetti West documents the film genre referred to as Spaghetti Westerns. These movies were made in Italy, where production costs were very cheap and the terrain offered perfectly believable sets, during the 1950s and '60s. While Sergio Leone became the most well-known director that made his Read More

2005
Angeles de Negro

Crew: Director

2002
L'Angelo con la Pistola

Crew: Director

Actors: Tahnee Welch, Eva Grimaldi

Synopsis: An honest cop in Genoa has watched the gang leaders of his city's underworld escape any form of retribution for their many and heinous crimes. After years of this, he is near the end of his rope and is about to retire from crime fighting. When a waitress who has suffered at the hands of the Read More

1992
Il Sole buio

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Jo Champa, Michael Paré, Phyllis Logan, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: The complex cross-currents of conflicting loyalties among the inhabitants of Palermo, Sicily, come across vividly in this romantic thriller. Wealthy young Ruggero is the American son of an Italian mother. He returns to Sicily for his mother's funeral and looks in on the reformatory for wayward Read More

1990
L'Inchiesta

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel, Phyllis Logan, Angelo Infanti, Lina Sastri

Synopsis: Filmed in Italy, The Inquiry uses the Bible as a launching pad for speculative fiction. Shortly after the Crucifixion, Roman investigator Titus Valerius Taurus (Keith Carradine) is dispatched to the Holy Land. His mission: to find out who removed the body of Jesus Christ. Carradine is hampered in Read More

10/27/86
Pizza Connection

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Michele Placido, Simona Cavallari, Ida Di Benedetto

Synopsis: The real-life tragedies wrought by organized crime are mirrored in this fast-paced, suspense-filled action thriller by Damiano Damiani about Mario (Michele Placido), a young man from a Sicilian family who runs a pizza place in Brooklyn. All seems normal until Mario is called to Palermo by the Read More

1/25/85
La Piovra [TV Series]

Crew: Director

Actors: Michele Placido, Barbara de Rossi, François Perier, Florinda Bolkan

1984
Amityville II: The Possession

Crew: Director

Actors: Burt Young, Rutanya Alda, James Olson, Jack Magner, Diane Franklin

Synopsis: Delving into the horrific history of the infamous Long Island haunted house, this prequel to 1979's popular chiller The Amityville Horror is loosely based on the DeFeo murders but is at heart a straightforward horror-exploitation film with an Exorcist twist. When the violently dysfunctional Read More

1982
L'Avvertimento

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this convoluted crime drama, two incorruptible Italian policemen investigate Mafia-influenced corruption within their own department. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

8/15/80
Time of the Jackals

Crew: Director

1980
Un Uomo in Ginocchio

Crew: Director

1979
Goodbye and Amen

Crew: Director

Synopsis: While a CIA agent prepares to assist in the overthrow of an African nation, he discovers that his friend is interfering in the country's politics. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

12/23/77
Io Ho Paura

Crew: Director

10/6/77
How to Kill a Judge

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Nero, Marco Guglielmi

Synopsis: Franco Nero here plays a film producer whose film is about to be seized by a stiff-necked Sicilian judge, but the judge is murdered before the seizure order can be given. This death has had an effect similar to kicking open an ant's nest, and the corrupt local politicians are all scrambling to do Read More

2/5/75
Un Genio, Due Compari, un Pollo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Miou-Miou, Robert Charlebois, Patrick McGoohan, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: An amiable con man sets out to land a big score from a man even less honorable than himself in this comic spaghetti western. Joe Thanks (Terence Hill) is a swindler and quick-draw artist who wanders into a dusty little town after literally falling out of a stagecoach while asleep. After besting Read More

1975
Il Sorriso del Grande Tentatore

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this psychological melodrama, a nun becomes obsessed with purifying the souls of those dwelling in her hostel-convent. The guests, who inevitably become entangled with one another, include, a reproachable Polish priest and Nazi collaborator, a murderous widow, and a reporter who has come to do Read More

1/24/74
Il Delitto Matteotti

Actors: Mario Adorf, Franco Nero, Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis: This film explores the events surrounding the assassination of Mussolini's chief political opponent, socialist Giacomo Matteotti (1885-1924). Matteotti (Franco Nero) was outspoken in his opposition to Mussolini and his principles. Because the investigation of the assassination by an honest judge (Vittorio De Sica Read More

9/13/73
Girolimoni - Il Mostro Di Roma

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Nino Manfredi

Synopsis: This curious film attempts to mix suspense and comedy as it details the efforts of Mussolini's Italy to deal with the public outcry over a series of child sex murders. "Il Duce" must find someone to serve as a plausible culprit in order to restore public order and calm fears. While Girolomoni (Nino Manfredi Read More

9/18/72
L'Istruttoria E Chiusa, Dimentichi!

Crew: Director

10/27/71
Bad Cop Chronicles #1: Confessions of a Police Captain

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Marilù Tolo

Synopsis: A mild-mannered police commissioner (Martin Balsam) is frustrated at every attempt to capture a political crimelord with legal means, so he is forced to turn to vigilante justice to get his man. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

3/26/71
La Moglie Piu Bella

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ornella Muti, Alessio Orano, Tano Cimarosa, Pierluigi Apra

Synopsis: A 16 year old girl rebels against Sicilian tradition by refusing to partake in a pre-arranged marriage. When Francesca (Ornella Muti) is kidnapped and raped by the nephew of the local mafia Don, her accusations sends the rapist to jail. She confides in the local police chief (Pier Luigi Apra) when Read More

3/12/70
Una Ragazza Piuttosto Complicata

Crew: Art Director, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Catherine Spaak, Jean Sorel, Florinda Bolkan, Luigi Proietti, Gabriella Grimaldi

Synopsis: This erotic sexploitation feature concerns a couple and their pursuit of sexual fulfillment with each other -- and their mutually agreed upon third bed guests. Lesbian love angles includes the woman's step-daughter. Alberto (Jean Sorel) is soon left alone when the women decides his services are no Read More

1969
Il Giorno Della Civetta

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Franco Nero, Lee J. Cobb, Gaetano Cimarosa, Nehemiah Persoff

Synopsis: Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

2/17/68
A Bullet for the General

Crew: Director

Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Lou Castel, Martine Beswicke, Andrea Checchi, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: It is early in the 20th century, and an American traveler has come to Mexico at just the wrong time to continue living a peaceful life, for the Revolution has begun and he quickly finds himself in the thick of it. At first, he is right in the middle between government troops and the Read More

12/7/66
Strega in Amore

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this romantic horror movie, a family hires a genealogist to help them assemble the late patriarch's papers. While there, he falls in love with the daughter who is not nearly as angelic as she looks. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

9/11/66
La Noia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Bette Davis, Horst Buchholz, Catherine Spaak, Daniela Rocca, Lea Padovani

Synopsis: Horst Bucholz plays Dino, a painter who realizes he has no artistic vision and decides to move back into his wealthy mother's (Betty Davis) home. Just before he does this, however, he falls in love with beautiful and self-serving Cecilia (Catherine Spaak). Though Dino diligently attempts to Read More

12/4/63
Il Sepolcro dei Re

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This costume drama is set within the ancient courts of Egypt. It tells the story of Cleopatra's beautiful daughter who is slated to be buried alive in her husband's tomb. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1963
L'Isola di Arturo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Kay Meersman, Vanni de Maigret, Reginald Kernan

Synopsis: An early melodrama from director Damiano Damiani, this overheated coming-of-age story concerns a neglected teenager (Vanni De Maigret) living on an island in the Bay of Naples. Arturo's widowed father (Reginald Kernan) shows up one day with an attractive new wife (Kay Meersman), and leaves them Read More

1963
La Rimpatriata

Crew: Director

Actors: Walter Chiari, Francisco Rabal, Leticia Roman, Riccardo Garrone, Dominique Boschero

1963
Il Sicario

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A man hired to commit murder finds himself unable to do the deed in this crime drama. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

3/11/61
Jeux Precoces

Crew: Director

Actors: Pierre Brice, Bella Darvi, Giorgia Moll

1960
Rossetto

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Pierre Brice, Giorgia Moll, Pietro Germi, Bella Darvi

Synopsis: In this mystery, a 13-year old girl gets a crush on her good looking neighbor and soon finds herself entangled in a murder case when a prostitute is found dead in their apartment building. To create an alibi for himself, the handsome neighbor begins encouraging the girl's infatuation with him. In Read More

1960
Erode il Grande

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Edmund Purdom, Sylvia Lopez, Sandra Milo, Alberto Lupo, Massimo Girotti

Synopsis: The long-forgotten Italian historical epic Herod the Great (AKA Erode il Grande, 1960), dramatizes the dark final years of the title figure, an evil Judean Tetrarch notorious for sending Christ to the cross in league with Pontius Pilate. The story begins with Herod (Edmond Purdom) and Antony's Read More

1/1/59
Giuditta e Oloferne

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Massimo Girotti, Isabelle Corey, Renato Baldini, Yvette Masson, Gianni Rizzo

Synopsis: In this spectacle, the Assyrians launch a siege against the Asian city of Bethulia to force the city dwellers to stop worshipping God, and begin paying homage to an idol. This causes great restlessness among the residents who begin a conspiratorial underground, plotting the death of the Assyrian Read More

1958
La Venere di Cheronea

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Belinda Lee, Massimo Girotti, Jacques Sernas

Synopsis: British sex symbol Belinda Lee stars in the overheated Italian costume melodrama La Venere di Cheronea (The Venus of Cheronea). Lee is cast as Afrodite, the girl who allegedly inspired the greatest works of famed Greek sculptor Praxiletes (Massimo Girotti). According to the screenplay, Afrodite Read More

1958

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