Sergio Corbucci Filmography

Born:: December 6, 1926 in Rome, Italy
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: A film critic turned assistant director, Corbucci began helming features in the early '50s. He's remembered fondly for his muscular sword-and-sorcery adventure tales of the early '60s, Romolo E Remo (aka Duel of the Titans) with Steve Reeves, and Maciste Contro IL Vampiro (aka Goliath and the Vampires...Read More

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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
Nightclub

Crew: Director

3/2/89
Africa Express

Crew: Screenwriter

1989
Roba Da Ricchi

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lino Banfi, Laura Antonelli, Renato Pozzetto, Francesca Dellera, Paolo Villaggio

Synopsis: In this episodic comedy, the rich are seen to be different from the rest of us: more lustful and less scrupulous, for starters. In one episode, a parish priest fresh from a pilgrimage to Lourdes is drawn into a situation (approved of by the Pope himself) where he must try to discourage the notions Read More

11/6/87
Rimini Rimini

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Paolo Villaggio, Serena Grandi, Eleonora Brigliadori, Laura Antonelli, Jerry Calà

Synopsis: Gildo (Paolo Villaggio) is a moralistic magistrate who shuts down red light districts in this sex comedy. His enemies conspire to photograph him in a compromising position with sex goddess Lola (Serena Grandi). Laura Antonelli plays a wealthy woman who believes her husband has drowned. A priest is Read More

2/27/87
Sono Un Fenomeno Paranormale

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1985
A Tu Per Tu

Crew: Director

Actors: Johnny Dorelli, Paolo Villaggio

Synopsis: The two lead actors have little chance to overcome the stereotyped dialogue and action in this superficial tale about Emanuele (Johnny Dorelli) a free-wheeling, wealthy businessman fleeing from the law, and Gino (Paolo Villaggio) a poor, doltish cabbie driving him all over Europe. Emanuele has a Read More

10/30/84
Questo E Quello

Crew: Director

12/21/83
Sing Sing

Crew: Director

10/15/83
Chi Trova un Amico, Trova un Tesoro

Crew: Director

1983
Il Conte Tacchia

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Enrico Montesano, Vittorio Gassman, Paolo Panelli

Synopsis: Loosely based on an historical character and his ennoblement by a Pope, Conte Tacchia relates the adventures of Checco (Enrico Montesano), an upbeat carpenter living at the beginning of the 20th century who is convinced that he is the illegitimate son of a local prince (Vittorio Gassman). Because Read More

12/23/82
Super Fuzz

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Ernest Borgnine, Joanne Dru, Julius Gordon

Synopsis: Dave Speed is no ordinary Miami cop--he is an irradiated Miami cop who has developed super powers. Unfortunately, he doesn't quite know how to use them and this gets him in trouble with his long-suffering partner. The film was also known as Supersnooper. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1981
Mi Faccio la Barca

Crew: Director

Actors: Laura Antonelli, Johnny Dorelli, Christian de Sica

Synopsis: As an ex-husband (Johnny Dorelli), his wife (Laura Antonelli), and their two children take a vacation on the ex's new yacht, the scene is set for disaster when it becomes clear that the ex-husband knows absolutely nothing about yachting. The crew quickly find out that the Mediterranean has its own Read More

12/23/80
Giallo Napoletano

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Crime specialist Sergio Corbucci directed this madcap comic mystery that is just waiting to be discovered by cult audiences. It stars Marcello Mastroianni as a café mandolin player who performs on a streetcorner to help pay for his father's gambling debts. After a murder and a suicide occur, the Read More

4/12/79
Pari E Dispari

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Late Late Show devotees probably know this tongue-in-cheek actioner by its English-language title: Odds and Ends. Spaghetti-western regulars Terence Hill and Bud Spencer star as a couple of rebellious Miami cops. Badges? They don't need no stinkin' badges as they go merrily about busting Read More

10/28/78
La Mazzetta

Crew: Director

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Paolo Stoppa, Marisa Laurito

Synopsis: Nothing in his background has given Saso Iovine (Nino Manfredi) any preparation for the sticky situations he encounters when he is hired by the crooked building contractor Don Michele to find his daughter Giulia, and some important (and legally damaging) documents she stole from him before running Read More

3/17/78
Odds and Evens

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this Italian police drama, specially trained officers head for Miami to bring a nefarious international crime ring to justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1978
Ecco Noi Per Esempio

Crew: Director

10/28/77
Tre Tigri Contro Tre Tigri

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Renato Pozzetto, Dalila di Lazzaro, Enrico Montesano, Paolo Villaggio

Synopsis: Three episodes of slapstick sexual comedy comprise this film. In the first, a young priest is deserted by his flock until an American protestant minister comes to town with his lovely wife. When the parishioners are convinced that their priest has proved his manhood with the minister's wife Read More

9/15/77
The Con Artists

Crew: Director

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Adriano Celentano, Capucine, Corinne Clery

Synopsis: Sergio Corbucci directs the 1976 caper Il Grande Bluff, an Italian crime comedy inspired by he Sting, which has been released under several different titles. Bang (Anthony Quinn) gets out of prison and joins with young protege Félix (Adriano Celentano). The teacher and the student scam each other Read More

4/15/76
Il Signor Robinson

Crew: Director

Actors: Paolo Villaggio

1976
Di Che Segno Sei?

Crew: Director

10/23/75
Il Bianco, Il Giallo, Il Nero

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Giuliano Gemma, Tomas Milian, Eli Wallach

Synopsis: The Emperor of Japan has sent the U.S. President a very special Asian horse. Three incredible rogues hear of this horse and decide to kidnap it for a $500,000 ransom. One of them, the "white" is Giuliano Gemma, a grandiose kleptomaniac. Tomás Milian is the "yellow," a Japanese samurai, and the Read More

1/17/75
Il Bestione

Crew: Director

Actors: Giancarlo Giannini, Michel Constantin, Giuseppe Maffioli, Giuliana Calandra

Synopsis: This simple movie, which follow the exploits of two transcontinental truck drivers as they wrestle their semi across Europe, is much enhanced by having the veteran actors Michel Constantin and Giancarlo Giannini in the roles of Nino and Sandro. At the beginning of the film, the two men have not Read More

8/12/74
Rugantino

Crew: Director

10/25/73
Che C'entriamo Noi Con la Rivoluzione?

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

12/19/72
La Morte Accarezza a Mezzanotte

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Nieves Navarro, Simon Andreu, Pietro Martellanz, Claudie Lange, Carlo Gentili

Synopsis: A favorite among fans of outrageously bad films, this bloody, convoluted thriller deals with a model named Val (Nieves Navarro), whose tabloid-reporter boyfriend, Gio (Simon Andreu), talks her into experimenting with drugs. While she hallucinates, Val looks out the window and sees a man in dark Read More

11/17/72
J. and S. - storia criminale del far west

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Susan George, Tomas Milian

Synopsis: Jed (Tomas Milian) is an unlikely hero in this Italian western. As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, he nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When Sonny (Susan George) decides he should be Read More

8/11/72
Er Piu: Storia d'Amore E Di Coltello

Crew: Director

9/18/71
Companeros

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This politically oriented spaghetti western, chronicles the exploits of a mercenary who aligns himself with a revolutionary. Their goal is to liberate a peaceful professor and his students who are being held hostage in Texas. The mercenary's real reason for joining him is that the revolutionary Read More

12/18/70
Drop Them or I'll Shoot

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: This spaghetti western features hippie outlaws battling French singer Hallyday. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

11/26/69
A Professional Gun

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Nero, Tony Musante, Jack Palance, Giovanna Ralli, Eduardo Fajardo

Synopsis: This spaghetti western finds a despotic mine owner (Eduardo Fajardo) the target for revenge by the idealistic patriot Eufemio (Tony Musante). He hires Bill Douglas (Franco Nero) to incite a revolution that will oust the government and the greedy miner. Douglas agrees as long as his creature Read More

12/20/68
The Great Silence

Crew: Director

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff, Luigi Pistilli, Vonetta McGee

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci directed this serious-minded populist spin on the spaghetti western, starring Jean-Louis Trintignant as Silence, whose vocal cords have been slashed by sadistic bounty-hunters. Silence joins with local hillfolk in fighting the corrupt and tyrannical authorities in Read More

11/19/68
Bersaglio Mobile

Crew: Director

Synopsis: In this explicitly violent espionage drama, spies and counterspies collide in Athens as they endeavor to lay claim to a vital piece of microfilm that contains info regarding the identity of several key agents. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

10/9/67
The Hellbenders

Crew: Director

Actors: Joseph Cotten, Norma Bengell, Julián Mateos, Gino Pernice, Angel Aranda

Synopsis: In this spaghetti Western, Joseph Cotten stars as Jonas, an ex-Confederate soldier who robs a Union freight train in order to re-ignite the Civil War. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

2/2/67
Un Dollaro a Testa

Crew: Director

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Nicoletta Machiavelli, Tanya Lopert, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: This bloody spaghetti western (filmed entirely in Spain) tells the tale of how an Indian (Burt Reynolds), whose entire tribe was slain by Anglo outlaws, gets gruesome revenge upon them. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

11/25/66
Johnny Oro

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Not originally a "Ringo" entry, this exciting spaghetti western was redubbed to exploit the series' popular success. Mark Damon plays Ringo (Johnny in the original), a bounty-hunter who is hired to nab outlaw leader Franco Derosa, but ends up taking on Derosa's entire gang and demolishing half of Read More

7/15/66
Django

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Franco Nero, Loredana Nusciak, Eduardo Fajardo, Jose Bodalo

Synopsis: Sergio Corbucci crafted one of the most popular and widely imitated of the Italian "spaghetti westerns" of the 1960s with this violent but stylish action saga. A mysterious man named Django (Franco Nero) arrives in a Mexican border town dragging a small coffin behind him. When he attempts to save Read More

4/6/66
The Man Who Laughs

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lisa Gastoni, Edmund Purdom, Jean Sorel

Synopsis: Those fun-loving Borgia's are back in yet another chronicle of their 16th century political and sexual shenanigans in this bizarre Italian exploitation film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1966
Minnesota Clay

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Cameron Mitchell, Ethel Rojo, Georges Riviere, Diana Martin, Alberto Cevenini

Synopsis: In this western, a captured gunslinger is sentenced to swing, but before his execution day, manages to escape from prison. He then seeks out the one man who can prove his innocence. Because he is slowly going blind, he must use his enhanced sense of hearing. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

11/12/64
Massacro Al Grande Canyon

Crew: Director

5/25/64
Gli Onorevoli

Crew: Director

10/11/63
Il Giorno Piu Corto Commedia Umoristica

Crew: Director

Actors: Sylva Koscina, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia

Synopsis: Somewhere there is someone who finds the lunatic Italian comedy team of Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia funny; most filmgoers watch in stony silence, longing for Jerry Lewis to make a comeback. In The Shortest Day, F and C play a pair of zany World War I conscripts who cause more trouble on Read More

2/14/63
I Due Colonelli

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Totò, Walter Pidgeon, Scilla Gabel, Adriana Facchetti, Nino Taranto

Synopsis: In this Italian WW II comedy, an Italian colonel leads the invasion of Montegreco, a small town on the Greek-Albanian border. British troops also try to take over the village. The townsfolk are unconcerned as the two sides have "invaded" them more than threescore times already. The townies care Read More

12/21/62
Lo Smemorato Di Collegno

Crew: Director

9/6/62
Il Figlio di Spartacus

Crew: Director

Actors: Steve Reeves, Jacques Sernas, Gianna Maria Canale, Claudio Gora, Ivo Garrani

Synopsis: Steve Reeves once again dons sandals and hoists a sword to come to the dashing rescue of the oppressed masses in this routine Roman tale of the good old days when men were unbelievably muscular, invulnerable fighting machines. Randus (Steve Reeves) is a centurion assigned to Rome's army in Egypt Read More

8/24/62
I Due Marescialli

Crew: Director

12/21/61
Romolo e Remo

Crew: Director, 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
Maciste Contro il Vampiro

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Gordon Scott, Gianna Maria Canale, Jacques Sernas, Leonora Ruffo, Annabella Incontrera

Synopsis: Former big-screen Tarzan Gordon Scott appears in one of many sword-and-sandal epics featuring muscle-bound, mini-skirted hero Maciste (aka Goliath, cinematic kin to Steve Reeves's Hercules), sworn to protect the helpless with his strength and swordsmanship. In this horror-tinged outing, the Read More

8/24/61
Totò, Peppino e... la dolce vita

Crew: Director

Actors: Totò

3/23/61
Chi Si Ferma E Perduto

Crew: Director

12/15/60
Gli Ultimi Giorni di Pompeii

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Steve Reeves, Christine Kaufmann, Barbar Carroll, Fernando Rey, Anne Marie Baumann, Mimmo Palmara

Synopsis: This was ironically the last film made by director Mario Bonnard, and it follows the pattern of the classic Italian costume dramas about macho or mythic heroes, in this case, a certain Glaucus (Steve Reeves, the glorious Greco-Roman past could not occur without him). Taking the cue from its Read More

11/12/59
Acque Amare

Crew: Director

10/3/54

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