Enzo G. Castellari
Also Known As: Enzo Girolami Castellari, E.G. Rowland, Stephen M. Andrews, Enzo Girolami, E. Girolami, Enzo Castellari
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Enzo G. Castellari (born July 29, 1938) is an Italian film director. He became famous during the 1960s by directing several spaghetti westerns with such titles as Go Kill and Come Back (Vado... l'ammazzo e torno, 1967) , One Dollar Too Many (1968), Seven Winchesters for a Massacre (Sette winchester per un massacro, 1967) and Go Kill Everybody and Come Back Alone (Ammazzali tutti e torna solo, 1968). His films exhibited a flair for violent action and gunfights, often using slow-motion to spectacular effect. His film Keoma (1976) is considered the last great film of the genre. Description above from the Wikipedia article Enzo G. Castellari, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Roma, Lazio, Italia
Birthday: July 29, 1938
Adult: No
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Overview: This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-06
Popularity:
Day of the Cobra
Overview: An American narcotics agent is murdered in Italy. The head of the department decides to hire Larry Stanziani, 'The Cobra'. Larry, a former agent and now a third-rate private detective, uses the opportunity to get even with an old enemy, but soon he finds out he's facing a relentless organization
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-08-12
Popularity:
Cobra Mission
Overview: Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held there. These four include Roger, whose daughter's just been married, the unemployed James, Mark, who's quit his job at an Arizona roadside tavern, and Richard, recently a patient at a mental hospital. In the jungles of S.E. Asia they discover American POWs but also find out about a U.S. Government plot to keep this knowledge a secret.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-31
Popularity:
Street Law
Overview: Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-17
Popularity:
Between God, The Devil and a Winchester
Overview: A man gains access to a treasure map and persuades a guide to accompany him in his search to recover it. Both are pursued by bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-07
Popularity:
Cry, Onion!
Overview: Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-25
Popularity:
Ennio
Overview: A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-time Oscar winner and the author of over five hundred unforgettable scores.
Genres: Documentary Music History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-02-17
Popularity:
El último truco
Overview: Documentary film about visual effects master Emilio Ruiz del Rio. From his early works on films at 1942, to his last contribution at 2007, Emilio Ruiz talks on his film experiences and traditional trickery, using foreground miniatures, glass shots, and painted cut out miniatures. It shows interviews with some of the professionals he has worked with, like, Rafaela de Laurentiis, Ray Harryhausen, Guillermo del Toro, or Enzo Castellari
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-11-20
Popularity:
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Overview: A documentary concerning the violent Italian 'poliziotteschi' cinematic movement of the 1970s which, at first glance, seem to be rip-offs of American crime films like DIRTY HARRY or THE GODFATHER, but which really address Italian issues like the Sicilian Mafia and red terrorism. Perhaps even more interesting than the films themselves were the rushed methods of production (stars performing their own stunts, stealing shots, no live sound) and the bleed-over between real-life crime and movie crime.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-30
Popularity:
Western, Italian Style
Overview: A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that particular point in time. Contains behind-the-scenes footage from the films "Il Grande Silenzio" "Vado, Vedo e Sparo" "Ammazza Tutti e Torna Solo" and "Corri, Uomo, Corri" and interviews with their directors and cast.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1968-01-01
Popularity:
The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-03-31
Popularity:
Building a Better Zombi: Retrospective of Zombi 2
Overview: Documentary about Fulci's "Zombi 2".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-07-27
Popularity:
The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti
Overview: Documentary on the life and films of Antonio Margheriti.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-04-17
Popularity:
Inglourious Basterds
Overview: In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-08-02
Popularity:
Quanto sei bella Roma
Overview: Claudio and Maurizio, two young and reckless taxi drivers in a Roman gas station meet two American tourists, daughters of a Spanish man that has oil wells in America. Maurizio and Claudio walk the tourists to the Eternal City and forget their girlfriends Patricia and Lorella. The brides, aware of their wanderings,begin to pay them with the same currency.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-17
Popularity:
I Tarantiniani
Overview: Tarantino reveres them, and for good reason. Welcome to the world of the kings of the Italian B-Movie.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-02-21
Popularity:
Violent Shit: The Movie
Overview: Rome is shattered by a series of gruesome murders that paint the Eternal City deep red. The suspicion grows that these atrocious crimes are connected with the return of one of the most heinous serial killers of our time - Karl the Butcher.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-03-12
Popularity:
Pretendo l'inferno
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-03-11
Popularity:
The House by the Edge of the Lake
Overview: A young university student returns to her family's country villa near a lake where years earlier her mother drowned. She is supposedly researching a local legend, a witch called Kira and strange symbol associated with her.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-09-28
Popularity:
Road to Hell
Overview: In a stagecoach stop far away in the Wild West the unexpected arrival of a man called "Colonel" will change all of the passengers' peaceful lives. He begins a macabre game, solely asking for one thing - to abide by his law and wait. But the night is long and the vultures perceive the smell of death that the stagecoach stop emits.
Genres: Western Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-10-31
Popularity:
The Shark Hunter
Overview: A crusty recluse on a Caribbean island who is dedicated to destroying sharks gets involved in a hunt for buried treasure.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-12-24
Popularity:
Striker
Overview: John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandinista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out this mission, but then he's captured, tortured, and forced to deal with the fact that he's been betrayed.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-03-17
Popularity:
Jonathan of the Bears
Overview: A young boy witnesses his parents' murder. Later, as he grows up, he befriends a bear in the wilderness and the chief of a local Indian tribe, and he stays with the Indians, but makes an enemy of the chief's son. As he enters adulthood he sets out to find the men responsible for his parents' deaths.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-04-21
Popularity:
Shuna: The Legend
Overview: An Indian woman is looking for vengeance.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-01-01
Popularity:
Vittorio D.
Overview: A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-17
Popularity:
The Inglorious Bastards
Overview: Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers on their way to military prison are beset upon by a German artillery attack, escaping with Switzerland in their sights. Before making it any farther, they volunteer to steal a V2 warhead for the French Underground - taking them deep into the heart of German territory.
Genres: Action War Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-08
Popularity:
High Crime
Overview: An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-12
Popularity:
The Heroin Busters
Overview: Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport security, and Interpol's main man, Mike Hamilton, is at his wits' end. Fed up to the back teeth with the local police force's incompetence, his only hope is to rely on one of his own men, Fabio, an officer so deep undercover that no-one but Hamilton knows who he really is. Even as Fabio gains the trust of cartel leader Gianni, however, the dealers are edging ever closer to the truth, and when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted as Fabio finds himself alone in a desperate fight to survive.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-13
Popularity:
Tuareg: Desert Warrior
Overview: In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp of a Tuareg warrior where they're given water and shelter. Soldiers from the new Arab government now arrive by Jeep and demand the two men be turned over to them. The warrior refuses, citing the sacred laws of hospitality. The soldiers shoot dead one of the men and carry off the other - a political foe of the new government. The warrior mounts his camel and rides off to rescue his kidnapped guest.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-03-12
Popularity:
The Big Racket
Overview: Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the threat of violence, no one dares to act, except for a restaurant owner who is forced by Palmieri to tell the truth.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-12
Popularity:
Piano 17
Overview: A man is hired to place a bomb inside a high-rise building to destroy some compromising documents, but he gets stuck in the elevator with two unaware workers, while the timer on the bomb keeps ticking.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-03-16
Popularity:
George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring
Overview: The life of one of the most famous leading-men of Italian popular cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-10-08
Popularity:
1990: The Bronx Warriors
Overview: In post-apocalyptic New York City a policeman infiltrates the Bronx which has become a battleground for several murderous street gangs.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-08-22
Popularity:
The New Barbarians
Overview: Two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-06-10
Popularity:
The Spaghetti West
Overview: A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-09-01
Popularity:
I Miei Sogni in Pellicola
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-12-18
Popularity:
Escape from the Bronx
Overview: A ragtag group of people have to fight extermination squads amid their ruined city.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-08-15
Popularity:
Dragonland: L'Urlo di Chen terrorizza ancora l'occidente
Overview: The first Italian documentary on the most extraordinary phenomenon of the 70s: the Kung-fu films!
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-01-01
Popularity:
Italian Kings Of B
Overview: Documentary on Italian genre cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-01
Popularity:
Goodbye Ringo
Overview:
Genres: Documentary Western
Original Language: ca
Release Date: 2018-02-28
Popularity: