Damiano Damiani — Director (22)
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Words and Blood (1982) [Movie] TMDB
Parole e sangue
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Matteo Corvino / Corrado Gaipa …
other title: Parole e sangue
The youth protest against corruption in Italian politics. When they subsequently find themselves in trouble, they take the law into their own hands: they form the Red Brigade, which wreaks death and destruction.
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The Dark Sun (1990) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Il sole buio
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Michael Paré / Jo Champa …
other title: Il sole buio
After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to participate in various crimes commited by the mafia.
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Holiday Assassins (2002) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Assassini dei giorni di festa
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Carmen Maura / Riccardo Reim …
other title: Assassini dei giorni di festa / Angeles de negro …
In 1955 Buenos Aires, a broke theater troupe turns to scamming funerals for survival. Their big break comes with a wealthy embalmer's inheritance, but the lead actor's immersion in a female role triggers an unexpected identity crisis.
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Massacre Play (1989) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Gioco al massacro
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Elliott Gould / Tomas Milian …
other title: Spiel mit dem Tod / Gioco al massacro …
Estranged childhood friends, both passionate filmmakers, find themselves on divergent paths: one an acclaimed Oscar winner, the other struggling in TV. Accusations of plagiarism further strain their relationship as one's success is built on the other's stolen ideas.
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Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome (1972) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Girolimoni, il mostro di Roma
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Nino Manfredi / Gabriele Lavia …
other title: Girolimoni - Il mostro di Roma / Girolimoni, das Ungeheuer von Rom …
In Mussolini's Rome a murderer is targeting young girls. The movie explores how the fascist mind works, how it plays its values off the sentiment of the masses and explores the role of the press in creating a unified narrative.
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The Empty Canvas (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
La noia
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Horst Buchholz / Catherine Spaak …
other title: La noia / L'Ennui et sa diversion, l'érotisme …
An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship.
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A Rather Complicated Girl (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Una ragazza piuttosto complicata
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Catherine Spaak / Jean Sorel …
other title: Una ragazza piuttosto complicata / Una chica más bien complicada …
Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashamed and wants to end - at all costs. Alberto, now a slave to love, runs Greta over. But Claudia denies urging him to murder...
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I Am Afraid (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Io ho paura
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Gian Maria Volonté / Erland Josephson …
other title: Io ho paura / Ich habe Angst …
During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally upright judge. He feels increasingly fearful as the links of the upper echelons of police and government to the violence become clear.
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The Warning (1980) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
L'avvertimento
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Giuliano Gemma / Martin Balsam …
other title: L'avvertimento / Tödliche Warnung
During a high-stakes investigation into corporate and banking elites tied to organized crime, a police chief and his team are murdered for refusing a bribe. Meanwhile, another officer finds his bank account credited with a large sum and receives anonymous instructions on how to handle the subsequent inquiry.
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The Case Is Closed, Forget It (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
L'istruttoria è chiusa: dimentichi
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Franco Nero / Georges Wilson …
other title: L'istruttoria è chiusa: dimentichi - Tante sbarre / Das Verfahren ist eingestellt: Vergessen Sie's! …
Arrested on suspicion of a hit and run, a succesful architect is put in prison awaiting trial or release. Whilst there he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.
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How to Kill a Judge (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Perché si uccide un magistrato
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Franco Nero / Françoise Fabian …
other title: Perché si uccide un magistrato / Warum musste Staatsanwalt Traini sterben? …
A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.
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Arturo's Island (1962) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
L'isola di Arturo
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Vanni De Maigret / Key Meersman …
other title: L'isola di Arturo / Insel der verbotenen Liebe …
A lonely teenage boy, living isolated on an island, idolizes his distant father. Complications arise when his father brings home a young new wife, whom the boy falls for, and a recently released criminal, entangled in a web of complex relationships.
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The Sicilian Connection (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Pizza Connection
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Michele Placido / Mark Chase …
other title: Pizza Connection / New York Connection
An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals clash with the task, the only way to save him is through a sacrifice that appeases the mafia.
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A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot (1975) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Un genio, due compari, un pollo
director: Damiano Damiani actor: Terence Hill / Miou-Miou …
other title: Un genio, due compari, un pollo / Jeg hedder stadig Nobody …
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.