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

Drawing on the accompanying table along with the relevant paragraphs listed at the end.

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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 .