Direction: Damiano Damiani

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Damiano Damiani. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


I Am Afraid

1977 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

7.2

56 votes

7.2

56 votes

The Assassin of Rome

1972 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Nino Manfredi · Gabriele Lavia · Orso Maria Guerrini · Guido Leontini

Synopsis This film attempts to mix suspense and comedy as it details the efforts of Mussolini's Italy to deal with the public outcry over a series of child sex murders.

7.1

73 votes

7.1

73 votes

Arturo's Island

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

6.9

86 votes

6.9

86 votes

The Day of the Owl

1968 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Claudia Cardinale · Franco Nero · Lee J. Cobb · Tano Cimarosa

Synopsis Based on the Leonardo Sciascia novel of the same title, this story deals with the difficulties facing a northern police officer investigating a Mafia murder in a small Sicilian town in 1961. Salvatore Colasbena, a construction supplier, was murdered #...

6.7

344 votes

6.7

344 votes

6.7

149 votes

Lipstick

1960 · Movie · 89 min. · Italy

6.6

47 votes

6.6

47 votes

A Man on His Knees

1979 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Giuliano Gemma · Eleonora Giorgi · Michele Placido · Tano Cimarosa

Synopsis Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing...

6.5

21 votes

6.5

21 votes

6.5

120 votes

The Octopus (TV Miniseries)

1984 · Series · 400 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Michele Placido · Barbara De Rossi · Nicole Jamet · Angelo Infanti

Synopsis Corrado Cattani is a police inspector whose life is devoted to fighting the Italian mafia (known here as "La Piovra" or "The Octopus"). Even as his family and life are being destroyed by ruthless criminals, the intrepid comissar keeps fighting...

6.5

153 votes

6.5

153 votes

The Empty Canvas

1963 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Horst Buchholz · Catherine Spaak · Bette Davis · Isa Miranda

Synopsis The son of a wealthy American woman and a deceased Italian nobleman, Dino, dabbles away at painting. Thinking he has found the image for his "empty canvas", he takes up with man-crazy nymphet Cecilia, who refuses to marry him--even after...

6.4

80 votes

6.4

80 votes

The Case Is Closed, Forget It

1971 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Franco Nero · Georges Wilson · John Steiner · Riccardo Cucciolla

Synopsis Because of a violation of traffic regulations an architect is put in prison. There he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.

6.4

64 votes

6.4

64 votes

The Most Beautiful Wife

1970 · Movie · 108 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Alessio Orano · Ornella Muti · Tano Cimarosa · Joe Sentieri

Synopsis A 16 year old girl rebels against Sicilian tradition by refusing to partake in a pre-arranged marriage.

6.4

58 votes

6.4

58 votes

A Bullet for the General

1966 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Klaus Kinski · Martine Beswick · Lou Castel

Synopsis El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware he is an assassin working for the...

6.1

357 votes

6.1

357 votes

The Sicilian Connection

1985 · Movie · 126 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Michele Placido · Mark Chase · Ida Di Benedetto · Nick Delon

Synopsis Mario (Placido), an Italian American who manages a pizzeria in NYC, is charged with an assassination of a judge in Palermo. He leaves the States, comes back to Sicily and recruit Michele, his younger brother, for some help. Michele is...

6.0

22 votes

6.0

22 votes

Why Does One Kill a Magistrate?

1974 · Movie · 106 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Franco Nero · Françoise Fabian · Pierluigi Aprà · Giancarlo Badessi

Synopsis The latest success by film-maker Giacomo Solaris (Franco Nero) is a crime thriller about a judge who gets too friendly with the Mafia and is murdered...

6.0

66 votes

6.0

66 votes

The Inquiry

1986 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Keith Carradine · Harvey Keitel · Phyllis Logan · Angelo Infanti

Synopsis A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.

5.6

113 votes

5.6

113 votes

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

1975 · Movie · 126 min. · Italy

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast Terence Hill · Miou-Miou · Robert Charlebois · Patrick McGoohan

Synopsis An amiable con man sets out to land a big score from a man even less honorable than himself in this comic spaghetti western. Joe Thanks (Terence Hill) is a swindler and quick-draw artist who wanders into a dusty little...

5.4

285 votes

5.4

285 votes

Amityville II: The Possession

1982 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Damiano Damiani

Cast James Olson · Burt Young · Rutanya Alda · Jack Magner

Synopsis Prequel to the first Amityville set years before the Lutz family moved into the infamous haunted house, has the Montelli family moving into the ominous Long Island house where their eldest son becomes possessed by the evil lurking within.

5.0

609 votes

5.0

609 votes

4.4

27 votes