Direction: Joe D'Amato

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Joe D'Amato. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Beyond the Darkness

1979 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

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

Synopsis 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 out, stuffs her, and puts her in bed at the...

5.4

306 votes

5.4

306 votes

Monster Hunter

1981 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

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

Synopsis 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 decides to go on a killing spree of its own.

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

Synopsis 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 after escaping from her sadistic lover Carlo (Eastman). So she...

5.0

22 votes

5.0

22 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

Synopsis 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 a kitchen between a Nubian and a Viking slave, as...

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

Synopsis 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 the sinister influence of a statue that is possessed of...

4.7

49 votes

4.7

49 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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 plenty of time, however, for globe-trotting and bed-hopping. As each...

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

Synopsis 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 really goes on at diplomatic parties. While trying to expose...

4.6

82 votes

4.6

82 votes

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Tisa Farrow · Saverio Vallone · Serena Grandi · Margaret Mazzantini

Synopsis A group of tourists become stranded on an uninhabited island where they are stalked by an insane, violent, and grotesque killer that slaughtered the town's former residents.

4.5

464 votes

4.5

464 votes

Endgame

1983 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

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

Synopsis 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

Synopsis 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 of bad things that are going to happen. It doesn't...

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

Synopsis 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 deep into the Amazon jungle, where they find that the...

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

Synopsis 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 and the girl up and walking. Intrigued, she does a...

3.9

37 votes

3.9

37 votes

Black Cobra Woman

1976 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Jack Palance · Laura Gemser · Gabriele Tinti · Michele Starck

Synopsis Judas, a wealthy playboy living in Hong Kong, is obsessed with snakes. His apartment is full of them, and he treats them as if they were his children. One night Judas' brother persuades him to accompany him to see a...

3.9

28 votes

3.9

28 votes

The Alcove

1985 · Movie · 86 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

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

Synopsis 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 kings life). The spoils of war, ya know? While he's...

3.8

28 votes

3.8

28 votes

Ator the Invincible

1982 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Miles O'Keeffe · Sabrina Siani · Ritza Brown · Edmund Purdom

Synopsis During the childhood of manhood: while some peoples just have discovered the fire, others already use technology. Inventor Akron discovers the 'radiating matter' which can be used to make earth a paradise, but also to make it hell. Soran, a...

3.5

599 votes

3.5

599 votes

Ator III: The Hobgoblin

1990 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Eric Allan Kramer · Margaret Lenzey · Donald O'Brien · Laura Gemser

Synopsis Once upon a time a god gave a mighty sword to the king of Aquiles to bring justice to his people. Now he wants it back - but the king rather gives his life than the sword. Goddess Dehamira, who...

3.4

40 votes

3.4

40 votes

Black Emanuelle 2 Goes East

1976 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato

Cast Laura Gemser · Gabriele Tinti · Justine Gall · Ivan Rassimov

Synopsis Journalist Emanuelle travels to the Orient to interview a close relative of a King, but comes too close to uncovering official secrets for the state's liking. Her hotel room is ransacked and her passport stolen, leaving her stranded and at...

3.4

54 votes

3.4

54 votes

Black Orgasm

1982 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

3.4

28 votes

3.4

28 votes

2020 Texas Gladiators

1982 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

Direction Joe D'Amato · George Eastman

Cast Al Cliver · Harrison Muller Jr. · Daniel Stephen · Peter Hooten

Synopsis The year is 2020 and the setting is post-nuclear holocaust Texas. It's a dusty, nasty world now as can be seen in the opening scenes when a gang of outlaws rape and murder innocent nuns at a mission. They then...

3.3

73 votes

3.3

73 votes