Cinematography: Joe D'Amato

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Joe D'Amato. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


What Have You Done to Solange?

1972 · Movie · 103 min. · Italy

Direction Massimo Dallamano

Cast Fabio Testi · Cristina Galbó · Karin Baal · Joachim Fuchsberger

Plot Several girls are murdered by an elusive "Catholic priest" in a residents college. Police and teachers are unable to locate the killer, and prevent further deaths. Henry, who has a...

6.1

309 votes

6.1

309 votes

Beyond the Darkness

1979 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Kieran Canter · Cinzia Monreale · Franca Stoppi · Sam Modesto

Plot A young rich orphan loses his fiancée to voodoo doll mischief on the part of his housekeeper who is jealous of his attentions. He digs his girlfriend up, cleans her...

5.4

306 votes

5.4

306 votes

Counselor at Crime

1973 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Alberto De Martino

Cast Martin Balsam · Tomas Milian · Francisco Rabal · Dagmar Lassander

Plot When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio (Martin Balsam) agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of...

5.2

44 votes

5.2

44 votes

Monster Hunter

1981 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast George Eastman · Annie Belle · Charles Borromel · Katya Berger

Plot Priest comes to small town to help get rid of a monster whose blood coagulates very fast. This creates problems as the monster is very hard to kill and then...

5.2

169 votes

5.2

169 votes

Blood Vengeance

1975 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast George Eastman · Rosemarie Lindt · Annie Carol Edel · Patrizia Gori

Plot This is one of the more bizarre entries in the Emanuelle series, playing more like a sex-themed giallo. Emanuelle (Lindt) is out to avenge her sister (Gori), who committed suicide...

5.0

22 votes

5.0

22 votes

The Antichrist

1974 · Movie · 112 min. · Italy

Direction Alberto De Martino

Cast Carla Gravina · Mel Ferrer · Arthur Kennedy · George Coulouris

Plot Ippolita is a paralyzed young woman with serious mental problems stemming from the death of her mother. Her crisis of faith and the intervention of a well-meaning psychologist lead Ippolita...

5.0

258 votes

5.0

258 votes

The Arena (Naked Warriors)

1974 · Movie · 83 min. · United States

Direction Steve Carver · Joe D'Amato

Cast Pam Grier · Margaret Markov · Lucretia Love · Paul Muller

Plot Two thousand years ago, the people of Rome are so blasée, so used to violence, that entertaining them becomes a political problem. Someone suggests, after a hectic girl fight in...

5.0

41 votes

5.0

41 votes

Images in a Convent

1979 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Paola Senatore · Marina Hedman · Paola Maiolini · Marina Ambrosini

Plot Women of faith fall victim to the most sordid of temptations in this erotic drama from cult director Joe D'Amato. The sisters of an Italian nunnery are suddenly overcome by...

4.7

49 votes

4.7

49 votes

Challenge to White Fang

1974 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Lucio Fulci

Cast Franco Nero · Virna Lisi · John Steiner · Raimund Harmstorf

Plot Lucio Fulci's sequel to Zianna Bianca (White Fang), set some years after the events in the first White Fang movie, has the wolf-dog befriended by another young boy, named Bill...

4.7

34 votes

4.7

34 votes

La morte ha sorriso all'assassino

1973 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Ewa Aulin · Klaus Kinski · Angela Bo · Sergio Doria

Plot A man discovers an ancient Incan formula for raising the dead, and uses it for a series of revenge murders.

4.6

59 votes

4.6

59 votes

Emanuelle Around the World

1977 · Movie · 97 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Laura Gemser · Ivan Rassimov · Karin Schubert · Don Powell

Plot Famous undercover journalist Emanuelle teams with her friend Cora Norman to uncover a white slave ring that traffics in women kidnapped from various locales around the world. Her investigations leaves...

4.6

41 votes

4.6

41 votes

Emanuelle in America

1977 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Laura Gemser · Gabriele Tinti · Roger Browne · Riccardo Salvino

Plot American journalist and fashion photographer Emanuelle (Laura Gemser) travels throughout the world in search of a good story by joining a modern-day harem and traveling to Venice to see what...

4.6

82 votes

4.6

82 votes

L'assassino... è al telefono

1972 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

Direction Alberto De Martino

Cast Telly Savalas · Anne Heywood · Osvaldo Ruggieri · Giorgio Piazza

Plot A woman whose husband was murdered five years previously, is stalked by his killer, who wants to eliminate her as a potential witness. What he doesn't know is that the...

4.3

27 votes

4.3

27 votes

Endgame

1983 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Al Cliver · Laura Gemser · George Eastman · Hal Yamanouchi

Plot A telepathic mutant recruits a post-World War III TV game-show warrior to lead her band of mutants to safety.

4.1

108 votes

4.1

108 votes

Sexy Nights of the Living Dead

1980 · Movie · 111 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Laura Gemser · George Eastman · Dirce Funari · Mark Shannon

Plot A sailor takes an American businessman and his girlfriend to an island where the businessman wants to build a resort. Soon a weird voodoo couple show up and warn them...

4.1

50 votes

4.1

50 votes

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

1977 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Laura Gemser · Gabriele Tinti · Nieves Navarro · Donald O'Brien

Plot While doing undercover work in a NYC mental hospital, Emanuelle discovers a girl who seems to have been raised by a tribe of amazonian cannibals. Intrigued, Emanuelle and friends travel...

4.0

116 votes

4.0

116 votes

Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade

1978 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Laura Gemser · Justine Gall · Gabriele Tinti · Venantino Venantini

Plot While attempting to interview an elusive gangster, photojournalist Emanuelle notices a man pushing a girl in a wheelchair through the airport. Later, in another country she sees the same man...

3.9

37 votes

3.9

37 votes

The Alcove

1985 · Movie · 86 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Lilli Carati · Laura Gemser · Annie Belle · Al Cliver

Plot An English soldier (Cliver) returns home from the Zulu war with the daughter of a tribal king (Gemser) as his slave (a gift that he was given for "saving" the...

3.8

28 votes

3.8

28 votes