Luciano Martino Filmography

Occupation:: Producer, Screenwriter

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The Wedding Director

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Donatella Finocchiaro, Sami Frey, Gianni Cavina, Bruno Cariello

Synopsis: After ending up in a scenic Sicilian town while trying to avoid his daughter's impending wedding to a devout Catholic, a famous film director becomes inexorably involved in the nuptials of another beautiful bride-to-be in director Marco Bellocchio's semi-surreal drama. Though he tries to keep a Read More

6/4/08
The Feast

Crew: Producer

Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Donatella Finocchiaro, Nino Frassica, Paolo Briguglia

Synopsis: Three aspiring moviemakers unexpectedly land a big break and their hometown comes out to celebrate in this warm comedy-drama. Gabriele (Paolo Briguglia), Nicola (Lele Nucera) and Marco (Lorenzo Di Ciaccia) are three young men growing up in Diamante, a small town in the Calabria region of Southern Read More

2007
The Merchant of Venice

Crew: Co-producer

Actors: Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Zuleikha Robinson

Synopsis: One of William Shakespeare's most powerful comedies has been given a bold cinematic adaptation in this film version of The Merchant of Venice. Bassanio (Joseph Fiennes) is a young and vital member of the aristocratic classes in 16th century Italy; however, Bassanio's impulsive nature and lavish Read More

12/29/04
Segreto Di Stato

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This Italian political thriller takes a look at a recent government scandal wherein everyone from politicos to chiefs of police to secret service people and financiers were involved in receiving kickbacks. Though the tale is fictionalized, many of its characters are based on real people, and as a Read More

1995
El Dia de la Bestia

Crew: Associate Producer

Actors: Alex Angulo

Synopsis: Spanish filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia followed his outlandish sci-fi/horror debut, Accion Mutante, with this colorful apocalypse fantasy about Father Angel (Alex Angulo), a scholarly priest whose intensive research into cabalistic "Bible Code" prophecies leads to a horrific discovery: the exact Read More

1995
Cuore Cattivo

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A robbery goes awry and results in a hostage situation in this tense Italian drama set during a long afternoon in a Rome suburb. It begins when two inept robbers botch a heist at a tobacco store. One of them is shot by the owner and captured. The other, Claudio, runs into a nearby apartment and Read More

1995
Nel Giardino Delle Rose

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ottavia Piccolo, Massimo Ghini, Barbara de Rossi, Gioia Maria Scola, Rossy de Palma

Synopsis: In this leisurely melodrama, a middle-aged man has resented his schoolteacher mother for decades because he imagines she had an affair with a colleague. In fact, he hasn't spoken to her in almost as long. This resentment has scarred his emotional life irreparably. Only when he hastens to his Read More

1990
Lo Zio Indegno

Crew: Producer

Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Giancarlo Giannini, Andréa Ferréol, Beatrice Palme

Synopsis: This wickedly funny Italian comedy centers upon a lascivious, fun-loving old uncle who hands out blood-test certificates to potential lovers to prove that he is "clean" and wreaks all sorts of havoc when he must temporarily stay with his wealthy but emotionally constipated nephew. At first the Read More

10/27/89
I Cammelli

Crew: Producer

Actors: Paolo Rossi, Diego Abatantuono, Giulia Boschi, Giancarlo Sbragia, Sabina Guzzanti

Synopsis: Ferroccio Ferri (Paolo Rossi) is a quiz-show champion who is an expert on camels in this offbeat comedy. He is eligible for the upcoming show that will award a sizeable sum of money to the grand-prize winner. Camillo (Diego Abatantuono) is the manager of a second-rate traveling troupe who recruits Read More

9/19/88
Uppercut Man

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Giuliano Gemma

Synopsis: An up-and-coming prizefighter inadvertently entangles himself with the mob after he saves a young woman's life. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1988
Occhio, Malocchio, Prezzemolo E Finocchio

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lino Banfi, Milena Vukotic, Janet Agren, Mario Scaccia, Johnny Dorelli

Synopsis: This undistinguished comedy in two acts features Lino Banfi as Altomare, the owner of an appliance store, who is obsessed with superstition, spells, and amulets to fight the "evil eye" that bedevils him, and Gaspare (Johnny Dorelli) a charlatan magician who through serendipity, encounters a real Read More

11/30/83
2019: After the Fall of New York

Crew: Producer

Actors: Michael Sopkiw, Valentine Monnier, Anna Kanakis, Roman Geer, Vincent Scalondro

Synopsis: Cult filmmaker Sergio Martino directed this violent sci-fi actioner, one of many to pour out of Italy in the wake of Mad Max (1979). Michael Sopkiw stars as Parsifal, who travels to New York in order to rescue the last fertile woman on Earth following a nuclear holocaust. Graphic scenes of rape Read More

1983
La Guerra del Ferro

Crew: Producer

Actors: Sam Pasco, Elvire Audray, George Eastman, Pamela Field, Jacques Herlin

Synopsis: George Eastman and Pamela Field star in Ironmaster. Seldom there has then been a more predictable 98 minutes' worth of Sword and Sorcery, but that doesn't mean it isn't enjoyable. Eastman plays a primitive tribesman, exiled by his own people. In disgrace, Eastman is sent to live out his life on a Read More

1983
Zucchero, Miele E Peperoncino

Crew: Producer

Actors: Lino Banfi, Edwige Fenech, Pippo Franco, Dagmar Lassander, Renato Pozzetto

10/3/80
Eaten Alive

Crew: Producer

Actors: Janet Agren, Mel Ferrer, Ivan Rassimov, Paola Senatore

Synopsis: A courageous mercenary journeys to the New Guinea jungle to find a missing young woman. He brings with him an expert on the terrain and with only a rotting, super-8 film to guide them, they try to figure out where she is. As they make the dangerous journey, they must deal with hungry cannibals and Read More

3/20/80
Il Fiume Del Grande Caimano

Crew: Producer

Actors: Claudio Cassinelli, Mel Ferrer

Synopsis: Il Fiume del Grande Caimano a low budget, monster-on-the-loose Italian horror film provides more chuckles than goosebumps in all but the least-sophisticated viewer. Joshua (Mel Ferrer) is a businessman who allows his greed to overcome his misgivings when he builds a resort on the turf of an Read More

11/3/79
L'Isola degli Uomini Pesce

Crew: Producer

Actors: Barbara Bach, Claudio Cassinelli, Richard Johnson, Joseph Cotten, Beryl Cunningham

Synopsis: This hokey Italian monster movie -- distributed in the U.S. through Roger Corman's New World Pictures under the title Screamers -- was rescued from certain cinematic obscurity thanks to New World's hilariously misleading one-sheet campaign, which boldly declared "WARNING! You will actually see a Read More

1/18/79
Concorde Affaire '79

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: This half-baked but entertaining disaster film (not to be confused with America's The Concorde - Airport '79) deals with the attempts of an evil corporation to sabotage the Concorde before it hurts their own airline business. James Franciscus plays a reporter who teams up with Mimsy Farmer Read More

1979
L'Insegnante Va in Collegio

3/1/78
La Vergine, Il Toro e Il Capricorno

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Silver screen sexpot Edwige Fenech headlines this bawdy Italian sex comedy about a gorgeous housewife who plots mischievous revenge against her philandering husband, a powerful businessman. Gioia (Fenech may be a stunner, but that doesn't stop her husband Gianni (Alberto Lionello) from attempting Read More

2/3/77
Classe Mista

Crew: Producer

Actors: Dagmar Lassander, Femi Benussi, Alfredo Pea, Alvaro Vitali, Gianfranco D'Angelo

Synopsis: A sultry new teacher ensures that school attendance spikes to an all-time high in this classic Italian sex comedy starring irresistible screen sirens Dagmar Lassander (The Legend of the Wolf Woman, The House by the Cemetery) and Femi Benussi (Hatchet for the Honeymoon, Strip Nude for Your Killer). Read More

8/11/76
Roma a mano armata

Crew: Producer

Actors: Maurizio Merli, Tomas Milian, Arthur Kennedy, Maria Rosaria Omaggio

Synopsis: Police Commissioner Tanzi (Marizio Merli) is sick and tired of criminals getting coddled by the Italian justice system and proceeds to do something about it. His co-workers and superior try to rein him in, but there's no stopping him; criminals are made to pay for their crimes by this one-man Read More

2/25/76
Sex with a Smile

Crew: Producer

1976
Syndicate Sadists

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tomas Milian, Joseph Cotten, Maria Fiore, Luciano Catenacci

Synopsis: Cult filmmaker Umberto Lenzi directed this bloody, gangster-oriented thriller starring Tomas Milian in a rare sympathetic role as Rambo, a principled biker who runs afoul of a blind crimelord (Joseph Cotten). The plot is standard Italian crime fare, but Milian's performance alone makes this gritty Read More

8/16/75
Zorro

Crew: Producer

Actors: Stanley Baker, Alain Delon, Moustache, Ottavia Piccolo, Adriana Asti

Synopsis: The internationally produced Zorro is set in South America instead of the California locales of the series. Alain Delon stars as the newly appointed governor who immediately butts heads with corrupt Colonel Huerta (Stanley Baker). To rescue the peasants from Huerta's despotry, the governor becomes Read More

3/6/75
Milano Odia: La Polizia non Può Sparare

Crew: Producer

Actors: Tomas Milian, Henry Silva, Anita Strindberg, Raymond Lovelock, Laura Belli

Synopsis: This melodramatic crime film concerns a petty thief named Julio (Tomas Milian) who kidnaps pretty Mary Lou (Laura Belli), the daughter of his girlfriend's rich employer, and holds her for ransom. Much of the film features Julio's hysterical populist rants targeting the wealthy elite, whom he both Read More

8/8/74
Secrets of a Call Girl

Crew: Producer, Screen Story

Synopsis: A beautiful salesgirl falls victim to a brutal gangster, and after being forced into a life of depravity, her escape is only the beginning of her terror in director Giuliano Carnimeo's gritty Eurocult classic. Anna (Edwige Fenech) was a naïve shop girl working in a small boutique when she fell Read More

11/27/73
Tony Arzenta e Big Guns

Crew: Producer

Synopsis: A Mafia hitman's decision to leave his profession results in bloodshed and tragedy. The violence begins when his bosses, to help him change his mind, have the assassin's wife and child brutally murdered, causing the hitman to launch a vendetta against his bosses. The film is also titled Big Guns. Read More

9/7/73
The Case of the Bloody Iris

Crew: Producer

Actors: Edwige Fenech, George Hilton, Annabella Incontrera

Synopsis: This brisk little thriller is a textbook example of a giallo: Perche Quelle Strane Gocce Di Sangue Sul Corpo Di Jennifer? doesn't make a lot of sense but it keeps the viewer guessing throughout and packs plenty of wild visual excess into its running time. Ernesto Gastaldi's script is thin on Read More

8/4/72
El Cristo del Oceano

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: The scene is a remote Mexican sea village. Four local fisherman reluctantly agree to play "surrogate daddy" for an orphan. They come to realize the wisdom of their decision as their lives undergo profound and wondrous changes. As the title indicates, the film has its share of religious overtones. Read More

10/30/71
L'Uomo Piu Velenoso Del Cobra

Crew: Screenwriter

8/5/71
Lo Strano Vizio Della Signora Wardh

Crew: Producer

Actors: George Hilton, Ivan Rassimov

Synopsis: This dubbed Italian/Spanish thriller offers non-stop shocks. George (George Hilton) and his wife Julie (Edwige Fenech) are having problems. Not with each other, so much, but with Jean (Ivan Rassimov), one of Julie's old boyfriends. He had some unpleasant habits, including a penchant for outdoor Read More

1971
Kiss Me, Kill Me

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Erika Blanc, Horst Frank, Carroll Baker, Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis: Before making the string of cannibal adventures which made him notorious, Umberto Lenzi directed three kinky giallo thrillers starring Carroll Baker (Baby Doll). This one is a bisexual round-robin, in which chemist Jean (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is married to Danielle (Erika Blanc), a Read More

10/31/69
Il Dolce Corpo di Deborah

Crew: Producer

Actors: Carroll Baker, Jean Sorel, Evelyn Stewart, Luigi Pistilli, George Hilton

Synopsis: Romolo Guerrieri directed this well-constructed thriller from a screenplay from genre specialist Ernesto Gastaldi. Returning to Geneva from their honeymoon, newlyweds Deborah (Carroll Baker) and Marcel (Jean Sorel) meet a man named Philip (Luigi Pistilli), who blames Marcel for the suicide of his Read More

3/20/68
Uno Scacco Tutto Matto

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Maria Grazia Buccella, Edward G. Robinson

Synopsis: It's Your Move (Uno Scacco Tutto Matto) stars Edward G. Robinson as MacDowell, a dilettante criminal who masterminds a fantastic bank heist. MacDowell exploits the fact that his butler's niece Monique (Maria Grazia Buccella) is the exact double of the bank president's secretary. Hiring three Read More

1968
Arizona Colt

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Giuliano Gemma, Fernando Sancho

Synopsis: This Italian/French/Spanish sagebrusher stars Giuliano Gemma as the Arizona Colt, a notorious bandit. Imprisoned in a desert town, the Colt is sprung by gang leader Gordon Watch (Fernando Sancho). Instead of galloping off into the sunset, Our Hero elects to stay in town to defend its citizens from Read More

8/27/66
10,000 Dollars Blood Money

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A bounty hunter is hired by a wealthy man to rescue his kidnapped daughter. But the bounty hunter likes the prospects of the kidnapper better--the two team up. After the kidnapper betrays him, though, the bounty hunter throws his lot back with the wealthy landowner, resolving to bring the girl Read More

1966
A 007 Sfida ai Killers

Crew: Producer

Actors: Richard Harrison, Dominique Boschero, Wandisa Guida

Synopsis: In this espionage drama, an American CIA agent must find the whereabouts of valuable microfilm that was smuggled over by two Russian scientists who had been hoping to defect. Unfortunately, they died for their efforts and the film fell into the greedy hands of a Lebanese business magnate who is Read More

1965
La Cite De L'Indicible Peur

Crew: Producer

Actors: Bourvil, Jean-Louis Barrault, Francis Blanche, Jean Poiret

1964
La Pupa

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Michele Mercier, Riccardo Garrone, Ettore Manni, Lia Zoppelli

Synopsis: Comedy occasionally works in this confusing Italian exploitation film in which a former madam refuses to sell her whorehouse to any of several interested people. Eventually she dies, and, after a series of intrigues, the house becomes the property of former employee Pupa (Michele Mercier). All Read More

1964
The Whip and the Body

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Christopher Lee, Daliah Lavi, Harriet Medin, Luciano Pigozzi, Haniet White, Jacques Herlin, Tony Kendall

Synopsis: Marred by controversy at the time of its release, this horror fantasy from Italy's legendary horror director Mario Bava centers on the twisted desires of a nobleman's son (Christopher Lee). Lee is ostracized by his father for his dalliances with a servant girl (who later commits suicide), but is Read More

8/29/63
Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: This film represents the first spaghetti western to gain world-wide notoriety. It chronicles the adventures of Buffalo Bill who was assigned by General Grant to create peace between the settlers and the Indians. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1962
Romolo e Remo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Steve Reeves, Gordon Scott, Virna Lisi, Jacques Sernas

Synopsis: This unexceptional Duel of the Titans takes place on two different levels at once. The legendary brothers Romulus and Remus go at it to see who will ultimately survive and found the city of Caesars. And the slightly less legendary but still impressive Steve Reeves (Romulus) and Gordon Scott Read More

12/6/61
I Mongoli

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: Cast in the epic tragedy mold, this is the story of a thirteenth century romance. Jack Palance is the son of Genghis Khan and Anita Ekberg is his mistress. Battle between Khan's forces and those of the rebels rages around them but, when peace is finally achieved, Ekberg kills Khan so that her Read More

8/31/61
Il Colosso di Rodi

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Rory Calhoun, Lea Massari, Georges Marchal, Jorge Rigaud, Conrado SanMartin, Angel Aranda

Synopsis: Sergio Leone's first solo directorial effort was this colorful sword-and-sandal epic set in ancient Greece. Rory Calhoun stars as Dario, a captain in the Greek army who must travel to the island of Rhodes to destroy the huge bronze statue of Colossus, which hurls molten lead at its attackers. Read More

8/25/61
La Terreur Des Mers

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Don McGowan, Emma Danieli, Livio Lorenzon, Silvana Pampanini

Synopsis: In this romantic Italian swashbuckler, a tyrannical 17th-century Spanish governor of a small Carribbean island mercilessly slaughters all who refuse to grovel at his feet. Two brave young men manage to escape the island and take over a ship to become pirates. They name their new vessel the Black Witch Read More

1961
Saffo, Venere di Lesbo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Kerwin Mathews, Tina Louise, Riccardo Garrone, Antonio Batistella, Susi Golgi

Synopsis: Top-heavy with wild action scenes and female pulchritude, this routine Italian costume adventure is set in the 7th century B.C. on the island of Lesbos, where the immortal poetess Sappho (Tina Louise) is leading a revolt against the corrupt government of Mytilene. Aiding her in overthrowing the Read More

8/24/60
La Scimitarra del Saraceno

Crew: Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this high-seas adventure set in the 15th century, a dashing hero is released from prison and assigned to save the governor of Rhodes' kidnapped daughter from a wicked pirate. Instead, the parolee joins the pirates, but when they catch him staring at the girl, they beat him senseless and leave Read More

10/22/59
La Donna Piu Bella del Mondo

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Vittorio Gassman, Robert Alda, Tamara Lees, Gino Sinimberghi

Synopsis: In the last stages of his career, veteran American director Robert Z. Leonard dabbled in international productions. One of the best-distributed of these was the Gina Lollobrigida vehicle Beautiful But Dangerous. Lollobrigida is cast as Lina Cavaliari, an earthy Italian peasant who becomes a Read More

10/21/55

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