Enzo G. CastellariFilmography

Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter

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Inglourious Basterds

Actors: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz, Eli Roth, Michael Fassbender, Diane Kruger

Synopsis: A group of hardened Nazi killers stalk their prey in Nazi-occupied France as a Jewish cinema owner plots to take down top-ranking SS officers during the official premiere of a high-profile German propaganda film. As far as Lt. Aldo Raine (aka Aldo the Apache," Brad Pitt) -- is concerned, the only Read More

8/21/09
Jonathan of the Bears

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Nero, John Saxon, Igor Alimov, Floyd "Red Crow" Westerman, Melody Robertson, Knifewing Segura

Synopsis: With a nod to Sergio Leone, this film, bills itself the first "borscht Western," It was photographed in Russia with a cast of Russians, Italians, and Americans. The story follows the past and present life of Jonathan. When he was only six, Jonathan watched while thieves killed his parents. The Read More

1994
Sinbad of the Seven Seas

Crew: Director

Actors: Lou Ferrigno

Synopsis: In this epic Italian fantasy a muscle-bound Sinbad and his sailors cross the seas to help a young prince regain his throne by battling it out with a powerful, wicked wizard. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Striker

Crew: Director

Actors: Frank Zagarino, John Phillip Law, John Steiner

Synopsis: In this actioner, a courageous soldier-of-fortune boldly gets in the midst of the conflict between Sandinistas and Contras in war-torn Nicaragua while trying to save an imperiled American journalist. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Lightblast

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Erik Estrada, Michael Pritchard, Thomas Moore, Peggy Rowe, Bob Taylor

8/13/85
Escape from the Bronx

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Mark Gregory, Henry Silva, Valeria D'Obici, Timothy Brent, Paolo Malco

Synopsis: In this routine sci-fi sequel, Trash (Mark Gregory) is back in action again after his introduction in 1990: The Bronx Warriors, to defend that much-maligned New York burrough from total extinction at the hands of a vicious corporate giant. The General Construction Corporation plans on building Read More

1985
Tuareg - Il Guerriero Del Deserto

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Mark Harmon stars in this highly explosive actioner from Italian maestro Enzo G. Castellari as Gacel Sayah, the leader of the most feared tribe in the Sahara, the Tuareg. Able to survive for days without food and water and traveling only by foot across the scorching landscape, the Tuareg are Read More

4/6/84
The New Barbarians

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fred Williamson, Anna Kanakis, Venantino Venantini

Synopsis: In this run-of-the-mill, derivative film about vulgar road warriors in the year 2019 -- after a nuclear holocaust -- the two macho heroes (Giancarlo Prete and Fred Williamson) have to single-handedly save a band of religious nomads plagued by the evil Templars. Between scenes and characters lifted Read More

4/7/83
The Bronx Warriors

Crew: Director

Actors: Vic Morrow, Christopher Connelly, Fred Williamson, Mark Gregory, Stefania Girolami

Synopsis: One of many post-apocalyptic science-fiction films which poured out of Europe in the wake of George Miller's Mad Max, this film stars Stefania Girolami as Anna, who runs away from her wealthy but obnoxious family into the surrealistic biker gangland of the Bronx. There, she meets Trash (Marco de Read More

1983
Winds of War, Part 3: Cataclysm

Synopsis: In the third episode of the seven-part, eighteen-hour miniseries The Winds of War, President Roosevelt has dispatched Naval Commander "Pug" Henry (Robert Mitchum) to Germany, there to try to reason with the power-mad Adolf Hitler (Gunter Meisner), whose army has just invaded Poland. Henry also Read More

1983
Great White

Crew: Director

Actors: James Franciscus, Vic Morrow, Joshua Sinclair, Gian Carlo Prete

Synopsis: A quaint little beach town is terrorized by a bloodthirsty great white shark in the infamous Italian Jaws rip-off The Last Shark. As usual, the powers that be turn a blind eye to it for tourist reasons, although eventually even they cannot escape the ocean of blood at their doorstep. Cue novelist Read More

4/2/81
El Cazador De Tiburones

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A brave shark fisherman is forced to contend with baddies on land. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Il Giorno del Cobra

Crew: Director

Actors: Franco Nero, Sybil Danning, William Berger, Carlo Gabriel Sparanero, Mario Maranzana

Synopsis: In this well-paced crime thriller, Larry Stanciani (Franco Nero) is a hard-boiled private investigator in San Francisco, an ex-cop kicked off the police force and thrown in prison for a time because of a frame-up by a Mafioso named Kandinsky. One day, he is called to the office of Goldsmith (William Berger Read More

8/12/80
Il Cacciatore di Squali

Crew: Director

Actors: Franco Nero

Synopsis: In this film, a tough shark hunter races to beat a group of gangsters to a fortune in sunken treasure. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

12/24/79
Sensitiva'

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This unusual Italian-Spanish co-production begins with a woman being pulled down into a lake by an unseen assailant. Her daughter Lillian (Eleonora Cristofani under the name "Leonora Fani") returns to her home village years later, and is attacked by an axe-wielding maniac. Lillian has the odd Read More

1979
The Inglorious Bastards

Crew: Director

Actors: Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson, Peter Hooten, Michael Pergolani, Jack Basehart

Synopsis: The Inglorious Bastards was the alternate title for the Italian adventure yarn Counterfeit Commandos. The main characters are five soldiers facing court-martial in World War II France. The quintet consists of Bo Svenson, Fred Williamson, Peter Hooten, Michael Pergolami, and Jackie Basehart. The Read More

2/8/78
Deadly Mission

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Convicted of crimes while in France during World War II, five soldiers are imprisoned by the Army. They later escape to try and make a difference in a crucial battle. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
La Via Della Droga

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fabio Testi, David Hemmings, Joshua Sinclair, Wolfgango Soldati, Sherry Buchanan

Synopsis: An undercover cop deeply entrenched in a lucrative international drug syndicate (Fabio Testi) and a trigger-happy Interpol agent (David Hemmings) attempt to survive on the streets long enough to bring the criminal element to their knees in director Enzo Castellari's explosive poliziotteschi. The Read More

8/13/77
Keoma

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Half-breed Keoma (Franco Nero) returns to his border hometown after service in the Civil War and finds it under the control of Caldwell (Donald O'Brien), an ex-Confederate raider, and his vicious gang of thugs. To make matters worse, Keoma's three half-brothers have joined forces with Caldwell Read More

11/25/76
Le Avventure e gli Amori di Scaramouche

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Ursula Andress, Aldo Maccione, Gian Carlo Prete, Michael Forest

Synopsis: In this comedy, Scaramouche (Michael Sarrazin) and his friend Whistle (Giancarlo Prete) are members of Napoleon's army, and through a series of adventures, become embroiled in the intrigues surrounding Napoleon (Aldo Maccione) and his Empress, Josephine (Ursula Andress). ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More

1/23/76
The Anonymous Avenger

Crew: Director

1976
The Big Racket

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Fabio Testi, Vincent Gardenia, Renzo Palmer, Orso Maria Guerrini, Romano Puppo

Synopsis: A by-the-books cop struggling to bust a brutal protection racket in Rome is forced to throw the rules out the window when the vicious gang attempts to cement their status by moving into the drug trade in director Enzo G. Castellari's tough-talking poliziotteschi. As the citizens of Rome continue Read More

1976
Cipolla Colt

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The title tells all in this western. The trouble is that it is difficult to tell whether or not the film is a serious venture or a parody. There is certainly plenty of violence. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

8/25/75
Il Cittadino si Ribella

Crew: Director

Actors: Franco Nero

Synopsis: When the police cannot prosecute heinous crimes effectively, some very brave men will do their jobs for them, this film seems to say. Carlo (Franco Nero) gets in the way of a group of crooks who are trying to rob a bank, and they mutilate him horribly for his trouble. When the police cannot quite Read More

9/17/74
La Polizia Incrimina: la Legge Assolve

Crew: Director

Actors: Franco Nero

Synopsis: International actors Franco Nero, James Whitmore and Fernando Rey pick up a few tax-free bucks in the Italian High Crime. The plot (perhaps cashing in on Rey's participation in 1971's The French Connection) involves a Mafia boss, at large in the city of Genoa. We can't tell the good guys from the Read More

8/12/73
The Con Men

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Jack Palance and Lionel Stander, two familiar Hollywood faces in foreign films of the 1960s and 1970s, star in Con Men. Palance and Stander play a pair of frontier sharpsters who sell shares in a worthless gold mine. You guessed it: the mine begins to yield a fortune. Now our two anti-heroes must Read More

1973
Cold Eyes of Fear

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An ex-convict comes after the nephew of the judge who put him away years ago. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

4/6/71
Ammazzali tutti e torna solo

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Chuck Connors, Frank Wolff, Franco Citti

Synopsis: In this spaghetti western, the head of a band of desperadoes steals the gold from a Union fort and hides it before the leader is captured by Yankee soldiers. In captivity, the outlaw is tortured by a sadistic Army officer, formerly the trader who conned him into the heist. The torture will not Read More

1970
La Battaglia d'Inghilterra

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Based on actual World War II events, La Battaglia d'Inghilterra chronicles the success of a German intelligence group's efforts to infiltrate the British army on the eve of the historic Battle of Britain. Directed by Enzo G. Castellari, the film features Ida Galli, Christian Hay, Van Johnson, Renzo Palmer Read More

9/20/69
Johnny Hamlet

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Stefania Careddu, Gabriella Grimaldi

Synopsis: Shakespeare is combined with the spaghetti western in this interesting offering. Though the language is modernized, the plot is basically the same as Hamlet. In this version, the hero does not die--instead he rides off into the sunset. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

3/22/68
Any Gun Can Play

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Edward Byrnes, Gilbert Roland, George Hilton, Kareen O'Hara, Pedro Sanchez

Synopsis: Gilbert Roland and Edd "Kookie" Byrnes star in this spaghetti western. Bounty hunter George Hilton is dispatched to track down a wily criminal. Hilton decides to wait until the crook leads him to a fortune in buried gold; at that point, the so-called hero intends to stake his own claim. Naturally Read More

9/26/67