Sergio Martino Filmography

Born:: July 19, 1938 in Rome, Italy
Occupation:: Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Prolific Italian genre filmmaker Sergio Martino was born in Rome to a family with impressive film credits. His maternal grandfather, Genaro Rigelli, had directed films in Germany for many years and helmed the first Italian sound film, La Canzone dell'Amore. Starting his career as an assistant...Read More

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American Rickshaw

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Former Olympic star Mitch Gaylord heads the cast of American Tiger. Gaylord plays a squeaky-clean college student who is framed for murder. While trying to clear his name, he becomes involved with a procession of martial-arts specialists. Everything comes to a head in symbolic fashion on a Read More

1992
Casablanca Express

Crew: Director

Actors: Jason Connery, Francesco Quinn, John Evans

Synopsis: This actioner involves Nazi soldiers hijacking a train carrying England's prime minister. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

12/22/89
Uppercut Man

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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
Hands of Steel

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Daniel Greene, Janet Agren, John Saxon, George Eastman, Amy Werba

Synopsis: In a complex sci-fi tale set at some point in the not-too-distant future, an evil industrialist named Francis Turner (John Saxon) has created Paco Querak (Daniel Greene), a cyborg who is 70% robot and 30% human. Paco has been programmed to murder a blind ecologist whose environmental activism does Read More

1986
Mezzo Destro, Mezzo Sinistro

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

10/10/85
Occhio, Malocchio, Prezzemolo E Finocchio

Crew: Producer, Screenwriter

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
Acapulco, Prima Spiaggia... A Sinistra

Crew: Director

2/2/83
2019: After the Fall of New York

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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
The Scorpion with Two Tails

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Sergio Martino directed this strange mixed-genre horror film starring Elvire Audray as the young widow of an archaeologist (John Saxon), who was murdered while working on an Etruscan dig. Dreaming a premonition of his death, the widow leaves New York for Italy to investigate. Before long, she is Read More

1982
Cornetti Alla Crema

Crew: Director

9/11/81
Zucchero, Miele E Peperoncino

Crew: Director

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

10/3/80
Il Fiume Del Grande Caimano

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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
Sabato, Domenica E Venerdi

Crew: Director

Actors: Barbara Bouchet, Edwige Fenech, Michele Placido, Milena Vukotic, Adriano Celentano, Lino Banfi

Synopsis: This Italian anthology uses the standard sex comedy format but lacks the subtle social commentary present in its predecessors. In the "Saturday" episode, a modest accountant is sent by his boss to entertain a visiting Japanese engineer who turns out to be a pretty woman (Edwige Fenech). In the Read More

10/20/79
L'Isola degli Uomini Pesce

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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
Slave of the Cannibal God

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Susan Stevenson (Ursula Andress) and her brother, Arthur (Antonio Marsina), travel to New Guinea in the hopes of finding her husband, who has gone missing for three months. The pair encounter anthropologist Dr. Edward Foster (Stacy Keach), who agrees to lead a jungle expedition in search of the Read More

8/10/78
Mannaja

Crew: Director

Actors: Martine Brochard, Philippe Leroy, Maurizio Merli, Donald O'Brien, John Steiner

Synopsis: Despite coming along fairly late in the cycle, this spaghetti western is one of the genre's best. Maurizio Merli plays Blade, a bounty hunter who captures outlaw Burt Craven (Donald O'Brien) by throwing his hatchet and chopping off Craven's hand. In the nearby town of Suttonstead, Blade wins a Read More

8/13/77
Sex with a Smile

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

1976
Gambling City

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A sly card sharp tries to make it in the Mafia world of gambling. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

1976
Cugini Carnale

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Susan Player, Hugh Griffith, Riccardo Cucciolla, Rosalba Neri

Synopsis: In this Italian sex comedy, everyone in a small provincial town sleeps with everyone else, except for Nico, the shy, hapless nephew of Don Carlo, an important landowner. When his beautiful blonde cousin is sent to the manor for the summer, she uses all her wiles to get him into bed before she has Read More

3/7/74
The Violent Professionals

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Conte

Synopsis: In this Italian action film, a suspended police officer risks his badge in an attempt to bring a mob kingpin to justice. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

8/22/73
Torso

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Patricia Adiutori, Carla Brait, Angela Covello

Synopsis: A group of extremely glamourous college coeds (Suzy Kendall among them) are being stalked by a hooded sex-killer whose weapon of choice is a hacksaw. Despite this perverse premise and an equally sick title (which translates as "The Bodies Show Signs of Carnal Violence"), this remains a rather dull Read More

1/4/73
All the Colors of the Dark

Crew: Director

Actors: Nieves Navarro, Ivan Rassimov

Synopsis: Pretty Edwige Fenech spends most of her time either naked or dazed in this tiresome tale of devil worship from the director of I Corpi Presentano Tracce di Violenza Carnale. Set in England, the film stars Fenech as a woman who is in therapy for nightmares related to the long-ago murder of her Read More

2/28/72
Il Tuo vizio è una stanza chiusa e solo io ne ho la chiave

Crew: Director

Actors: Edwige Fenech, Luigi Pistilli, Ivan Rassimov

Synopsis: This seamy, atmospheric Italian thriller is a kinky variation on Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat. Luigi Pistilli stars as Oliviero Rouvigny, a racist, alcoholic writer who beats and verbally abuses his wife Irina (Anita Strindberg) in a remote castle. People are having their throats slashed with a Read More

1972
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail

Crew: Director

Synopsis: George Hilton stars in this devilishly entertaining giallo thriller about a garishly costumed killer knocking off people in Athens. Introducing Mrs. Baumer (Ida Galli) as the nominal heroine, director Sergio Martino then pulls a Psycho number by having her killed as she goes to collect the Read More

1971
Lo Strano Vizio Della Signora Wardh

Crew: Director, 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
Il Dolce Corpo di Deborah

Crew: Executive 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
The Murder Clinic

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: William Berger, Max Dean, Anne Field, William Gold

Synopsis: This spooky Italian thriller is set in a remote medical clinic for the deaf-mute in a town terrorized by a mysterious hooded slasher. Many suspect that the doctor himself has been killing lovely young women. The rumors say that he does the grisly deeds to help reconstruct the quick-lime burned Read More

3/17/66
A 007 Sfida ai Killers

Crew: Screenwriter

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