List of Italian films of 1980
Table:
Italian films released in 1980

Title

Director

Cast

Genre

Notes

3 Supermen Against the Godfather

Comedy science fiction

Action
Tinto Brass
Luc Merenda, Adriana Asti
—
[citation needed]

Alien 2: On Earth
Ciro Ippolito
Belinda Mayne, Mark Bodin, Robert Barrese
—
[1]

Antropophagus
Joe D'Amato
Tisa Farrow, George Eastman
Horror
[citation needed]

Arrivano i bersaglieri
Luigi Magni
Ugo Tognazzi, Giovanna Ralli, Pippo Franco
Comedy
[2]

Il Bisbetico Domato
Castellano & Pipolo
Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Edith Peters
Comedy, romance
[3]

Blow Job (Soffio erotico)
Alberto Cavallone
Danilo Micheli, Anna Massarelli, Anna Bruna Cazzato
—
[4]

The Blue-Eyed Bandit
Alfredo Giannetti
Franco Nero
Crime
[5]

Café Express
Nanni Loy
Nino Manfredi, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Caprioli
Comedy, crime
[6]

Cannibal Apocalypse
Antonio Margheriti
John Saxon, Elizabeth Turner, Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Horror
Italian-Spanish co-production[7]

Cannibal Holocaust
Ruggero Deodato
Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen
Horror
[8][9]

Catherine and I
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi, Edwige Fenech, Catherine Spaak
comedy

Ciao marziano
Pier Francesco Pingitore
Pippo Franco, Silvia Dionisio
Science fiction, comedy
[citation needed]

City of the Living Dead
Lucio Fulci
Christopher George, Catriona MacColl, Carlo De Mejo
Horror
[10][11][12]

City of Women
Federico Fellini
Marcello Mastroianni
Fantasy
Italian-French co-production[13][14]

Contamination
Luigi Cozzi
Ian McCulloch, Louise Marleau, Marino Masé
Horror, science fiction
Italian-West German co-production[15][16]

Contraband
Lucio Fulci
Fabio Testi, Ivana Monti, Marcel Bozzuffi
Crime
[17][18]

The Cricket
Alberto Lattuada
Virna Lisi, Anthony Franciosa
Drama

Day of the Cobra
Enzo G. Castellari
Franco Nero, Sybil Danning
Crime
[19]

La dottoressa ci sta col colonnello
Michele Massimo Tarantini
Lino Banfi, Nadia Cassini, Alvaro Vitali
Commedia sexy all'italiana

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3 Supermen Against the Godfather ( Italian : 3 supermen contro il padrino , Turkish : Süpermenler ) is a superhero film directed by Italo Martinenghi .
Action is a 1980 Italian black comedy directed by Tinto Brass . The film is reminiscent of the director 's earlier avant-garde low-budget works such as The Howl and Nerosubianco . Brass faced many difficulties in Italy due to lawsuits concerning the production of Caligula so he filmed Action in London in 1979 .
Giovanni Tinto Brass ( born 26 March 1933 ) is an Italian filmmaker . In the 1960s and 1970s , he directed many critically acclaimed avant-garde films of various genres . Today , he is mainly known for his later work in the erotic genre , with films such as Caligula , Così fan tutte ( released under the English title All Ladies Do It ) , Paprika , Monella ( Frivolous Lola ) and Trasgredire .
Luc Charles Olivier Merenda ( born 3 September 1943 ) is a French film actor . He was one of the most prominent actors of the Italian poliziotteschi genre , working several times with Sergio Martino . He is of Italian origin through his paternal grandfather .
Adriana Asti ( born 30 April 1931 ) is an Italian theatre , film , and voice actress . On stage , she starred in Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw , Happy Days by Samuel Beckett , The Mistress of the Inn by Carlo Goldoni , and Three Men for Amalia . She won the SIAE prize in 1990 , and the Duse prize in 1993 . In 1999 , she wrote and starred in Alcohol . In 2000 , she starred in French Ferdinand . She was first married to Bernardo Bertolucci .
Alien 2 : On Earth , also known as Alien Terror , is a 1980 Italian-American science fiction horror film , written and directed by Ciro Ippolito before the trademark Alien was registered . It was released following the success of the 1979 film Alien as an unofficial sequel , albeit having little connection to the film . The film features a score by Guido De Angelis and Maurizio De Angelis , performed by the composers under the pseudonym Oliver Onions . [ citation needed ] The film co-starred a young Michele Soavi , years before he became a famed Italian horror film director in his own right , and a cameo appearance by Ciro Ippolito himself ( in the role of Joe ) . It was filmed in California , the Cinecittà studios in Rome , and in the Castellana Caves .
Ciro Ippolito ( born Naples , Italy , 27 January 1947 ) is an Italian film director , screenwriter and producer . He is known to horror film fans for his 1980 opus Alien 2 : On Earth , which he coproduced , wrote and directed .
Belinda Mayne is a British actress who has appeared in Films and TV and theatre shows in Germany , the UK , and the US since 1974 when she made her first appearance in Strangers .
Antropophagus is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Joe D'Amato and co-written by D'Amato and George Eastman , who starred in the film as a cannibal . The film also starred Tisa Farrow , Zora Kerova , Saverio Vallone , Serena Grandi , Margaret Mazzantini , and Mark Bodin . Antropophagus has been described as having a noted place in the annals of the escalation of gore . The film has gained cult status - if only amongst fringe horror video audiences . It has been argued that the reason for its cult status lies in its theme of cannibalism , hence consumption of humans , which lends itself to cult reception . The scene in which the titular man eater strangles a pregnant woman , tears out the fetus from her womb and bites into it , made it become one of the infamous Video Nasties that were prosecuted in the United Kingdom in the early 1980s , and the controversy greatly aided its cult reputation as well .
Aristide Massaccesi ( 15 December 1936 - 23 January 1999 ) , known professionally as Joe D'Amato , was an Italian film director , producer , cinematographer , and screenwriter who worked in many genres ( westerns , decamerotici , peplum , war films , swashbuckler , comedy , fantasy , postapocalyptic film , and erotic thriller ) but is best known for his horror , erotic and adult films . D'Amato worked in the 1950s as electric and set photographer , in the 1960s as camera operator , and from 1969 onwards as cinematographer . Starting in 1972 , he directed and co-directed around 200 films under numerous pseudonyms , regularly acting as cinematographer as well . [ citation needed ] Starting in the early 1980s , D'Amato produced many of his own and other directors ' genre films through the companies he founded or co-founded , the best known being Filmirage . From 1979 to 1982 and from 1993 to 1999 , D'Amato also produced and directed about 120 adult films . Among his best known erotic films are his five entries into the Black Emanuelle series of films starring Laura Gemser ( 1976-1978 ) and his horror/pornography crossover films Erotic Nights of the Living Dead and Porno Holocaust ( both shot in Santo Domingo in 1979 ) . In the horror genre , he is above all remembered for his films Beyond the Darkness ( 1979 ) and Antropophagus ( 1980 ) , which have gained cult status , as well as Absurd ( 1981 ) .
Theresa Magdalena Tisa Farrow ( born July 22 , 1951 ) is a retired American actress .
George Eastman ( born Luigi Montefiori ; August 16 , 1942 ) is an Italian B-movie actor and screenwriter well known for his frequent collaborations with notorious director Joe D'Amato . He is most famous for his role as the insane , cannibalistic serial killer Klaus Wortmann in the gory 1980 horror film Antropophagus ( aka The Grim Reaper ) . He also played a similar role in its 1981 follow-up , Absurd . Both films were directed by D'Amato and written by Eastman .
Arrivano i bersaglieri is a 1980 Italian historical-comedy film written and directed by Luigi Magni . The film is set during the days of the capture of Rome ( 1870 ) , an event that marked the Italian unification and the end of the Papal States and of the temporal power of the Popes .
Luigi Magni ( 21 March 1928 - 27 October 2013 ) was an Italian screenwriter and film director .
Ugo Tognazzi ( Italian pronunciation : [ ˈuːɡo toɲˈɲattsi ] ; 23 March 1922 - 27 October 1990 ) was an Italian film , TV , and theatre actor , director , and screenwriter .
Giovanna Ralli ( born 2 January 1935 ) is an Italian stage , film and television actress .
Pippo Franco ( pseudonym of Francesco Pippo ; born 2 September 1940 ) is an Italian actor , comedian , television presenter , and singer . He made his name first as a musician in the early 1960s , and in the late 1960s began a career in film , starring in a great number of commedia sexy all'italiana , the sexy comedy subgenre of Italian comedy . In the 1970s he expanded into television , acting in TV movies and presenting variety shows . His type of comedy borrows heavily from cabaret . Throughout his career he continued to sing , appearing many times at the Sanremo Festival . He has made children 's music as well , and has co-written three books on ( linguistic ) humor .
Il Bisbetico Domato ( The Taming of the Scoundrel ) is a 1980 Italian film directed by Franco Castellano and Giuseppe Moccia , credited as Castellano & Pipolo . It was the top grossing film in Italian market for the season 1980/1981 , earning about 17 billion of lire . The plot is loosely inspired by William Shakespeare 's The Taming of the Shrew . The closing theme song Innamorata , Incavolata A Vita performed by Adriano Celentano was a minor hit , ranking 18 and staying on the Italian singles chart for 16 weeks .
Castellano & Pipolo is the stage name used by the pair of Italian screenwriters and film directors Franco Castellano [ dead link ] ( 1925-1999 ) and Giuseppe Moccia ( 1933-2006 ) . Together , they wrote the screenplays for about seventy films , and directed twenty films , mainly comedies . Their 1984 film Il ragazzo di campagna was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival .
Adriano Celentano ( Italian pronunciation : [ adriˈaːno tʃelenˈtaːno ] ; born 6 January 1938 ) is an Italian singer-songwriter , musician , actor and film director . He is dubbed il Molleggiato ( the flexible one ) because of his dancing . Celentano has released many record albums which have enjoyed enormous commercial and critical success . He is often credited as the author of both the music and lyrics of his songs , although , according to his wife Claudia Mori , sometimes they were written in collaboration with others . Due to his prolific career and great success , both in Italy and the rest of the world , he is considered one of the pillars of Italian music . Celentano is also recognized for being particularly perceptive of changes in the music business . He is credited for having introduced Rock ' n'Roll to Italy - a genre that had great appeal on young people of that time . As an actor , Celentano has appeared in about 40 films , mostly comedies .
Ornella Muti ( born Francesca Romana Rivelli ; 9 March 1955 ) is an Italian actress .
Edith Peters ( April 14 , 1926 - October 28 , 2000 ) was an American singer and actress . She appeared in more than sixteen films from 1957 to 1981 .
Blow Job ( Soffio erotico ) ( transl . Blow Job ( Erotic whiff ) ) is a 1980 film directed by Alberto Cavallone .
Alberto Cavallone ( 28 August 1938 - 12 November 1997 ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter . He was born in Milan , Italy . Cavallone 's films are anti-conventional and often contain a mixture of graphic violence , surrealism and eroticism .
Il bandito dagli occhi azzurri ( internationally released as The Blue-Eyed Bandit ) is a 1980 Italian poliziottesco film written and directed by Alfredo Giannetti . It marked the film debut of Fabrizio Bentivoglio .
Alfredo Giannetti ( 1924-1995 ) was an Italian screenwriter and film director . He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1962 for his work in Divorce Italian Style .
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero ( born 23 November 1941 ) , better known by his stage name Franco Nero , is an Italian actor . He is best known for his breakthrough role as the title character in Sergio Corbucci 's Spaghetti Western film Django ( 1966 ) , a role that he reprised in Nello Rossati 's Django Strikes Again ( 1987 ) . Since then , he has performed over 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films and television programmes in both Italy and abroad , in genres ranging from poliziotteschi , to action , to drama , to war , and musicals . These include The Bible : In the Beginning . ( 1966 ) , Camelot ( 1967 ) , The Day of the Owl ( 1968 ) , The Mercenary ( 1968 ) , Battle of Neretva ( 1969 ) , Tristana ( 1970 ) , Compañeros ( 1970 ) , Confessions of a Police Captain ( 1971 ) , Keoma ( 1976 ) , Hitch-Hike ( 1977 ) , Force 10 from Navarone ( 1978 ) , Enter the Ninja ( 1981 ) , Die Hard 2 ( 1990 ) , Letters to Juliet ( 2010 ) and John Wick : Chapter 2 ( 2017 ) . He also played the narrator in the film Rasputin ( 2010 ) , directed by Louis Nero , and voiced the character of Uncle Topolino in the animated film Cars 2 ( 2011 ) directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Brad Lewis . In 2012 , Nero made a cameo appearance in Quentin Tarantino 's Django Unchained . According to Deadline Hollywood , Nero is expected to appear in the dark comedy feature film The Immortalist in 2020 , along with Sherilyn Fenn , Paul Rodriguez , Aries Spears , and Jeff DuJardin . directed by Vlad Kozlov . Nero is known for his ties to the Redgrave family , and has had a long-standing relationship with Vanessa , which began during the filming of Camelot . They were married in 2006 .
Café Express is a 1980 Italian comedy film directed by Nanni Loy and starring Nino Manfredi .
Nanni Loy ( born Giovanni Loi ; 23 October 1925 - 21 August 1995 ) was an Italian film , theatre and TV director . Specifically , Nanni Loy was Sardinian , and one of several notable Sardinian film makers , including Franco Solinas . Loy was born in Cagliari , Sardinia : his father was Guglielmo Loy-Donà , a lawyer issue from a distinguished Sardinian-Venetian family , and his mother was the noblewoman Donna Anna Sanjust of the Marquesses of Neoneli . Rosetta Loy , an Italian novelist , is his sister-in-law . [ circular reference ] He became famous for introducing in Italy the candid camera with his show Specchio segreto ( Secret mirror ) in 1965 . His 1962 film The Four Days of Naples was nominated for two Academy Awards . It also won the FIPRESCI Prize at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival in 1963 . His 1971 film Detenuto in attesa di giudizio was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival . The star , Alberto Sordi , won the Silver Bear for Best Actor award . He specialized in comedy films such as Padre di famiglia but he also shot film dealing with social themes ( Detenuto in attesa di giudizio and Sistemo l'America e torno ) . Loy died at Fregene , near Rome , in 1995 .
Saturnino Nino Manfredi ( Italian : [ ˈniːno maɱˈfreːdi ] ; 22 March 1921 - 4 June 2004 ) was one of the most prominent Italian actors in the commedia all'italiana genre . He was also a film and stage director , a screenwriter , a playwright , a comedian , a singer , an author , a radio and television presenter and a voice actor . During his career he won several awards , including six David di Donatello awards , six Nastro d'Argento awards and the Prix de la première oeuvre ( Best First Work Award ) at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for Between Miracles . Typically playing losers , marginalised , working-class characters yet in possession of their dignity , morality , and underlying optimism , he was referred to as one of the few truly complete actors in Italian cinema .
Adolfo Celi ( Italian pronunciation : [ aˈdolfo ˈtʃɛːli ] ; 27th July 1922 - 19 February 1986 ) was an Italian film actor and director . Born in Curcuraci , Messina , Sicily , Celi appeared in nearly 100 films , specialising in international villains . Although a prominent actor in Italian cinema and famed for many roles , he is best remembered internationally for his portrayal of Emilio Largo in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball . Celi later spoofed his Thunderball role in the film OK Connery ( aka Operation Double 007 ) opposite Sean Connery 's brother , Neil Connery .
Vittorio Caprioli ( 15 August 1921 - 2 October 1989 ) was an Italian film actor , director and screenwriter . He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990 , mostly in French productions . He was born and died in Naples , Italy .
Cannibal Apocalypse ( Italian : Apocalypse Domani , also known as Invasion of the Flesh Hunters ) is a horror film directed by Antonio Margheriti . The film combines the horror genre with a forerunner of Margheriti 's Vietnam War films .
Antonio Margheriti ( 19 September 1930 - 4 November 2002 ) , also known under the pseudonyms Anthony M. Dawson and Antony Daisies ( daisies is margherite in Italian ) , was an Italian filmmaker . Margheriti worked in many different genres in the Italian film industry , and was known for his sometimes derivative but often stylish and entertaining science fiction , sword and sandal , horror/giallo , Eurospy , spaghetti western , Vietnam War and action movies that were released to a wide international audience . He died in 2002 .
John Saxon ( born Carmine Orrico ; August 5 , 1935 ) is an American actor and martial artist who has worked on more than 200 projects during a span of 60 years . Saxon is known for his work in westerns and horror films , often playing police officers and detectives . Born and raised in Brooklyn , New York , Saxon studied acting with Stella Adler before beginning his career as a contract player for Universal Pictures , appearing in such films as Rock , Pretty Baby ( 1956 ) and Portrait in Black ( 1961 ) . In the 1970s and 1980s , he would establish himself as a character actor , frequently portraying law enforcement officials in horror films such as Black Christmas ( 1974 ) , Dario Argento 's Tenebrae ( 1982 ) , and A Nightmare on Elm Street ( 1984 ) . In addition to his roles in horror films , Saxon co-starred with Bruce Lee in the martial arts film Enter the Dragon ( 1973 ) , and has supporting roles in the westerns Death of a Gunfighter ( 1969 ) and Joe Kidd ( 1972 ) , as well as the adventure thriller Raid on Entebbe ( 1977 ) . In the 1990s , Saxon occasionally appeared in films , with small roles in Wes Craven 's New Nightmare ( 1994 ) and From Dusk till Dawn ( 1996 ) .
Elizabeth Turner is an American slalom canoeist who competed in the 1980s . She won a gold medal in the mixed C-2 event at the 1981 ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships in Bala , Gwynedd , Wales .
Giovanni Lombardo Radice ( born 23 September 1954 , Rome , Italy ) is an Italian film actor , better known to audiences as John Morghen . Radice is best known for his villainous roles in Italian horror films , and notably for the spectacular and gruesome death scenes his characters semi-regularly fall victim to . In several interviewe , he reportedly stated that he wished he had never portrayed Mike Logan in Cannibal Ferox , criticizing the movie for being both fascist and racist and abusive towards animals . Radice created his stage name , John Morghen , by taking the anglicized form of his first name ( Giovanni becomes John ) and using his grandmother 's maiden name as his last name ( Morghen ) . His family practically disowned him when they discovered he was using his family name to create incredibly violent films . Radice 's uncle is Pietro Ingrao , the first member of the Italian Communist Party to be Head of Parliament in the 1970s . Radice nowadays often posts texts criticizing social injustice , capitalism and corruption in Italy . Radice has written about having a cocaine addiction when younger .
Cannibal Holocaust is a 1980 Italian cannibal horror film directed by Ruggero Deodato and written by Gianfranco Clerici . It stars Robert Kerman as Harold Monroe , an anthropologist from New York University who leads a rescue team into the Amazon rainforest to locate a crew of filmmakers . Played by Carl Gabriel Yorke , Francesca Ciardi , Perry Pirkanen , and Luca Barbareschi , the crew had gone missing while filming a documentary on local cannibal tribes . When the rescue team is only able to recover the crew 's lost cans of film , an American television station wishes to broadcast the footage as a sensationalized television special . Upon viewing the reels , Monroe is appalled by the team 's actions and objects to the station 's intent to air the documentary . Influenced by the documentaries of Mondo director Gualtiero Jacopetti , Cannibal Holocaust was inspired by Italian media coverage of Red Brigades terrorism . The coverage included news reports that Deodato believed to be staged , an idea which became an integral aspect of the film 's story . Approximately half of the film consists of the documentary crew 's lost footage , the presentation of which innovated the found footage genre that was later popularized in American cinema by The Blair Witch Project . Noted for its realism , Cannibal Holocaust was filmed primarily on location in the Amazon rainforest of Colombia with indigenous tribes interacting with American and Italian actors . Cannibal Holocaust achieved notoriety as its graphic violence aroused a great deal of controversy . After its premiere in Italy , it was ordered to be seized by a local magistrate , and Deodato was arrested on obscenity charges . He was later charged with multiple counts of murder due to rumors that claimed several actors were killed on camera .
Ruggero Deodato ( born 7 May 1939 ) is an Italian film director , and has also performed as both a screenwriter , and more recently an actor in both his own and other projects . His career has spanned a wide-range of genres including , peplum , comedy , drama , poliziottesco and science fiction , yet he is perhaps best known for directing violent and gory horror films with strong elements of realism . His most notable film is Cannibal Holocaust , considered one of the most controversial and brutal in the history of cinema , which was seized , banned or heavily censored in many countries . It is also cited as a precursor of found footage films such as The Blair Witch Project and The Last Broadcast . The film strengthened Deodato 's fame as an extreme director and earned him the nickname Monsieur Cannibal in France . Deodato has been an influence on film directors like Oliver Stone , Quentin Tarantino and Eli Roth .
Robert Charles Kerman ( December 16 , 1947 - December 27 , 2018 ) , also known as R. Bolla , was an American actor who had a noted pornographic acting career during what is considered to be the golden age period of the porn film industry during the mid-1970s to the early/mid-1980s . He grew up in a middle-class Italian neighborhood of Bensonhurst , Brooklyn . As R. Bolla ( or Richard Bolla , a pun on slang terms for penis and testicles ) , he appeared in well over 100 pornographic films , most famously Debbie Does Dallas ( 1978 ) . He was one of few adult performers to have an appreciable mainstream acting career , with his most widely known leading role being Professor Harold Monroe in the controversial horror film Cannibal Holocaust ( 1980 ) .
Francesca Ciardi ( born July 26 , 1954 ) is an Italian film actress . She was one of four actors whom the Italian police believed had been murdered in the making of the 1980 horror film Cannibal Holocaust . So realistic was the film that shortly after it was released , its director Ruggero Deodato was arrested for murder . The actors had signed contracts to stay out of the media for a year in order to fuel rumours that the film was a snuff movie . The court was only convinced that they were alive when the contracts were cancelled and the actors appeared on a television show as proof . In 2014 , after over twenty years out of the film business , Ciardi returned to film in Spencer Hawken 's zero budget movie Death Walks .
Perry Pirkanen is an American actor . He is best known for starring in the 1980 Italian cannibal film Cannibal Holocaust . Pirkanen , then a student at New York City 's Actors Studio , was hired by director Ruggero Deodato who was looking for unknown actors to play the film 's four protagonists . So realistic was the film that shortly after it was released , its director Ruggero Deodato was indicted for the actors ' murder . The actors had signed contracts to stay out of the media for a year in order to fuel rumours that the film was a snuff movie . The court was only convinced that they were alive when the contracts were cancelled and the actors appeared on a television show as proof .
Io e Caterina ( internationally released as Catherine and I ) is a 1980 Italian comedy film directed by Alberto Sordi . For his performance , Alberto Sordi was awarded with a Globo d'oro for best actor .
Alberto Sordi Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( June 15 , 1920 - February 24 , 2003 ) was an Italian actor , voice actor , singer , director and screenwriter . He was known internationally as the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel and Hardy films .
Edwige Fenech ( French : [ ɛdviʒ fənɛʃ ] , [ citation needed ] Italian : [ edˈviʒ feˈnɛk , - ˈfɛːnek ] ; born Edwige Sfenek on 24 December 1948 ) is an Italian actress and film producer . She is mostly known as the star of a series of commedia sexy all'italiana and giallo films released in the 1970s , which turned her into a sex symbol .
Catherine Spaak ( born 3 April 1945 ) is a French-Italian actress and singer .
Ciao marziano is a 1980 Italian science fiction-comedy film directed by Pier Francesco Pingitore .
Pier Francesco Pingitore ( born 27 September 1934 ) is an Italian director , screenwriter , playwright and author .
Silvia Dionisio ( born 28 September 1951 ) is an Italian actress who appeared in several movies in the 1970s . Born in Rome , Dionisio made her debut in the world of cinema when she was only 14 years old in the movie Darling . Her career followed with parts in mediocre musical Italian movies , along with singers like Mario Tessuto , Gianni Dei , Little Tony and Mal . On the set of one of these movies she met director Ruggero Deodato , who became her husband . They had a son , Saverio Deodato-Dionisio , who worked as an actor . In 1970 , she played in A Girl Called Jules , a semi-erotic film with several non-nude scenes portraying lesbian sex . In 1975 Dionisio was the protagonist of Ondata di piacere , the sole truly erotic movie of her career , directed by Deodato . The same year , she played Ugo Tognazzi 's lover in Amici miei by Mario Monicelli . In late 1970s she starred in several action or sexy movies . In the early 1980s she left film industry . Her last appearance was in a liqueur spot directed by Federico Fellini .
City of the Living Dead ( Italian : Paura nella città dei morti viventi , lit . 'Fear in the city of the living dead ' ) is a 1980 Italian horror film directed by Lucio Fulci . The film is set in the small town of Dunwich , where the priest Father Thomas commits suicide which results in a gateway to Hell opening which releases a pack of zombies . During a seance in New York , Mary Woodhouse sees visions of the priest 's suicide and its consequence . After which she seemingly dies , only to be rescued by the journalist Peter Bell . The two travel to Dunwich to destroy the grave of Father Thomas in order to stop the mass zombie invasion . City of the Living Dead was developed after the financial success of Fulci 's previous film Zombi 2 , leading him to work with screenwriter Dardano Sacchetti to write a new horror film . During production of Contraband , the film was green-lit , which led to Fulci leaving production of the film to begin working on City of the Living Dead . The film was shot predominantly on location in the United States with interiors shot in Rome . The film was released distributed in Italy in 1980 and was followed by a release throughout Europe including a screening in Paris where Fulci won the Grand Prix du Public ( The Audience Award ) at the Festival international du film et de science-fiction . In West Germany , the film became part of a scandal which of releasing violent films to minors , leading the film to be banned from several home video releases from the mid-1980s to 2001 . The film was released in the United States as The Gates of Hell .
Lucio Fulci ( Italian : [ ˈlutʃo ˈfultʃi ] ; 17 June 1927 - 13 March 1996 ) was an Italian film director , screenwriter , producer , and actor . Although he worked in a wide array of genres through a career spanning nearly five decades , including comedy , spaghetti western , adventure , science fiction and comedy , he garnered an international cult following for his giallo and horror films . His most notable films include the Gates of Hell trilogy - City of the Living Dead ( 1980 ) , The Beyond ( 1981 ) , and The House by the Cemetery ( 1981 ) - as well as Massacre Time ( 1966 ) , One on Top of the Other ( 1969 ) , A Lizard in a Woman 's Skin ( 1971 ) , Do n't Torture a Duckling ( 1972 ) , White Fang ( 1973 ) , Four of the Apocalypse ( 1975 ) , Sette note in nero ( 1977 ) , Zombi 2 ( 1979 ) , Contraband ( 1980 ) , The Black Cat ( 1981 ) , The New York Ripper ( 1982 ) , Murder Rock ( 1984 ) , and A Cat in the Brain ( 1990 ) . Because of the high level of visceral graphic violence present in many of his films , especially Zombi 2 , The Beyond and the New York Ripper , Fulci is frequently referred to as The Godfather of Gore , a title also given to Herschell Gordon Lewis . Fulci was in his young adult years a politically active radical for the Italian Communist Party .
Christopher John George ( February 25 , 1931 - November 28 , 1983 ) was an American television and film actor , best known for his starring role on the 1960s television series The Rat Patrol . He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1967 as Best TV Star for his performance in the series . He was also the recipient of a New York Film Festival award as the Best Actor in a Television Commercial . George was married to actress Lynda Day George .
Catriona MacColl ( born 3 October 1954 ) is an English actress who has worked extensively in both film and television across Europe . She is best known for her leading roles in several Italian horror films during the early 80s .
Carlo De Mejo ( 17 January 1945 - 18 December 2015 ) was an Italian actor .
City of Women ( Italian : La città delle donne ) is a 1980 Italian fantasy comedy-drama film written and directed by Federico Fellini . Amid Fellini 's characteristic combination of dreamlike , outrageous , and artistic imagery , Marcello Mastroianni plays Snàporaz , a man who voyages through male and female spaces toward a confrontation with his own attitudes toward women and his wife .
Federico Fellini , Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( Italian : [ fedeˈriːko felˈliːni ] ; 20 January 1920 - 31 October 1993 ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter . Known for his distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness , he is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time . His films have ranked , in polls such as Cahiers du cinéma and Sight & Sound , as some of the greatest films of all time . Sight & Sound lists his 1963 film 8½ as the 10th-greatest film of all time . In a career spanning almost fifty years , Fellini won the Palme d'Or for La Dolce Vita , was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won four in the category of Best Foreign Language Film , the most for any director in the history of the Academy . At the 65th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles , he received an honorary award for Lifetime Achievement . Besides La Dolce Vita and 8½ , his other well-known films include La Strada , Nights of Cabiria , Juliet of the Spirits , Satyricon , Amarcord and Fellini 's Casanova .
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni ( Italian pronunciation : [ marˈtʃɛllo mastroˈjanni ] ; 28 September 1924 - 19 December 1996 ) was an Italian film actor . His prominent films include : La Dolce Vita ; 8½ ; La Notte ; Divorce Italian Style ; Yesterday , Today and Tomorrow ; Marriage Italian Style ; The 10th Victim ; A Special Day ; City of Women ; Henry IV ; Dark Eyes ; and Everybody 's Fine . His honours included British Film Academy Awards , Best Actor awards at the Cannes Film Festival and two Golden Globe Awards .
Contamination ( a.k.a . Alien Contamination ) is a 1980 science fiction-horror film directed by Luigi Cozzi and starring Ian McCulloch . The film is about an alien cyclops creature that uses human agents to place eggs all over Earth . The eggs release a gelatinous goo that causes people to explode when they come into physical contact with the substance . The tagline on the Italian one-sheet ( .e ora tocca a voi ! ) translates as .and now it 's your turn ! .
Luigi Cozzi ( born 7 September 1947 ) is an Italian film director and screenwriter . At a young age , Cozzi became a fan of science fiction and began his career as an overseas correspondent for Western film magazines . After directing his first film The Tunnel Under the World , Cozzi befriended director Dario Argento and began working with him in film and television as well as directing his own features including Hercules as well as continuing work with Argento . In the 2010s , he returned to directing with the film Blood on Méliès ' Moon .
Ian McCulloch ( born 18 November 1939 ) is a Scottish actor of stage , film , and television . McCulloch is perhaps best known for his role as Greg Preston in the post-apocalyptic 1975-77 TV series Survivors and for his work in European genre cinema .
Louise Marleau ( born August 26 , 1944 ) is a Canadian actress . She won the 1985 Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role for her role in A Woman in Transit ( La Femme de l'hôtel ) and was nominated in the same category in 1980 for her role in Heartbreak ( L'Arrache-cœur ) , a role for which she won the 1979 Montreal World Film Festival . Born in Montreal , she has been acting since she was a child , and she made her professional debut in 1962 at 18 . Since that time she has worked with all the major theatrical companies in Canada , including the Stratford Festival , performing in works by Molière , Feydeau , Genet , Cocteau and Shakespeare . Marleau recently [ when ? ] translated Eve Ensler 's play The Vagina Monologues into French ( Canadian French ) .
Marino Masé ( born 21 March 1939 ) is an Italian actor . He has appeared in more than 70 films since 1961 . Masé was born in Trieste . While still a teenager , he joined the laboratory for young actors of the production company Vides by Franco Cristaldi and studied acting under Alessandro Fersen . He made his stage debut in 1960 in L'arialda , directed by Luchino Visconti , and his film debut in the 1961 adventure Romulus and the Sabines by Richard Pottier . He had several leading roles in the first half of the 1960s , including Marco Bellocchio 's Fists in the Pocket and Jean-Luc Godard 's Les Carabiniers , then he was mainly cast in supporting roles . Masé is also active in the adaptation of the dialogues for dubbing .
Contraband ( Italian : Luca il contrabbandiere , lit . 'Luca the smuggler ' ) is a 1980 poliziotteschi film directed by Lucio Fulci . The film is set in Naples , where Luca Di Angelo ( Fabio Testi ) and his brother Michele use speedboats to smuggle cigarettes , and find themselves between two contraband bosses after they lose a load of cigarettes . The film 's story was changed to include additional scenes of violence and to better pace the plot . On the second week of a ten-week shooting schedule , the production exhausted its budget and received funding from real life smugglers in Naples . The smugglers also made changes to the plot and title of the film .
Fabio Testi ( born 2 August 1941 ) is an Italian film actor , notable as the star of , among other films , First Action Hero and The Inheritance . Born in Peschiera del Garda , Italy , the 1.84m tall actor started his film career as a stuntman in his college years . His most famous job as a stuntman was in Sergio Leone 's Once Upon a Time in the West , where he fell from a rooftop and hit the ground on his shoulder .
Ivana Monti ( born 20 February 1947 ) is an Italian stage , television and film actress .
Marcel Bozzuffi ( 28 October 1928 - 1 February 1988 ) was a French film actor , perhaps best remembered for his role as a brutal hitman in the Oscar-winning American film The French Connection . In 1963 , he married French actress Françoise Fabian .
The Cricket ( Italian : La Cicala ) is a 1980 Italian erotic drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada . For this film Virna Lisi was awarded David di Donatello for best actress , while Fred Bongusto won the Nastro d'Argento for best score .
Alberto Lattuada ( Italian pronunciation : [ alˈbɛrto lattuˈaːda ; latˈtwaːda ] ; 13 November 1914 - 3 July 2005 ) was an Italian film director .
Virna Pieralisi ( Italian : [ ˈvirna pjeraˈliːzi ] ; 8 November 1936 - 18 December 2014 ) , better known as Virna Lisi [ ˈvirna ˈliːzi ] , was an Italian actress . Her film appearances included How to Murder Your Wife ( 1965 ) , Not with My Wife , You Do n't ! ( 1966 ) , Beyond Good and Evil ( 1977 ) , and Follow Your Heart ( 1996 ) . For the 1994 film La Reine Margot , she won Best Actress at Cannes and the César Award for Best Supporting Actress .
Anthony Franciosa ( born Anthony George Papaleo , October 25 , 1928 - January 19 , 2006 ) was an American film , TV and stage actor . He began as a successful stage actor , gaining a Tony Award nomination for the drug-addiction play A Hatful of Rain . After relocating to Hollywood he made numerous feature films , including A Face in the Crowd ( 1957 ) , The Long , Hot Summer ( 1958 ) , and Career ( 1959 ) , for which he won the Golden Globe for Best Actor/Drama . In television he played lead roles in five television series : the sitcom Valentine 's Day ( 1964-65 ) , drama The Name of the Game ( 1968-71 ) , Search ( 1972-73 ) , Matt Helm ( 1975 ) and Finder of Lost Loves ( 1984 ) .
In film and television , drama is a genre of narrative fiction ( or semi-fiction ) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone . Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular subgenre , such as police crime drama , political drama , legal drama , historical period drama , domestic drama , teen drama or comedy-drama . These terms tend to indicate a particular setting or subject-matter , or else they qualify the otherwise serious tone of a drama with elements that encourage a broader range of moods . All forms of cinema or television that involve fictional stories are forms of drama in the broader sense if their storytelling is achieved by means of actors who represent ( mimesis ) characters . In this broader sense , drama is a mode distinct from novels , short stories , and narrative poetry or songs . In the modern era before the birth of cinema or television , drama within theatre was a type of play that was neither a comedy nor a tragedy . It is this narrower sense that the film and television industries , along with film studies , adopted . Radio drama has been used in both senses - originally transmitted in a live performance , it has also been used to describe the more high-brow and serious end of the dramatic output of radio .
Day of the Cobra ( Italian : Il giorno del Cobra ) is a 1980 Italian poliziottesco film directed by Enzo G. Castellari .
Enzo Girolami Castellari ( born 29 July 1938 ) is an Italian director , screenwriter and actor .
Sybil Danning ( born Sybille Johanna Danninger ; May 24 , 1952 ) is an Austrian American actress , model , and film producer . She is best known for her frequent appearances in B movies during the 1970s and 1980s .
La dottoressa ci sta col colonnello ( The doctor is there with Colonel ) is a 1980 commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini , starring Lino Banfi with Nadia Cassini . The film is a late installment of the genre , combining 1970s ' soldatessa and dottoressa themes ( made popular by Edwige Fenech ) with abundant absurd comedy elements a year after Cassini 's breakthrough film L'insegnante balla . con tutta la classe .
Michele Massimo Tarantini ( born 7 August 1942 ) is an Italian film director .
Lino Banfi ( born Pasquale Zagaria ; 9 July 1936 ) is an Italian film actor and presenter . He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1960 .
Gianna Lou Cassini née Müller ( born January 2 , 1949 ) , better known with her stage name Nadia Cassini , is a retired American actress , singer and showgirl who became famous in Italian exploitation films of the 1970s and early 1980s , particularly in the commedia sexy all'italiana genre in late 1970s .
Alvaro Vitali ( Italian pronunciation : [ alˈvaːro viˈtaːli ] ; born 3 February 1950 ) is an Italian actor . He was an electrician until he was discovered by Federico Fellini and played a small part in Satyricon ( 1969 ) , it led to other roles , notably in the movie Amarcord ( 1973 ) , becoming the only actor in the world who participated in four Fellini films . In the 1970s , Vitali became one of the most charismatic actors in the commedia erotica all'italiana ( erotic comedy ) genre . He was very popular in Spain as well . He recently worked for the satirical TV show Striscia la notizia in a parody of Ferrari manager Jean Todt .
The commedia sexy all'italiana ( lit . sex comedy Italian style ) , also known as commedia scollacciata or commedia erotica all'italiana , is a subgenre of Italian commedia all'italiana film genre .