Direction: Damiano Damiani
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Damiano Damiani. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 31
I Am Afraid
1977 · Movie · 120 min. · Italy
Direction Damiano Damiani
Cast Gian Maria Volonté · Erland Josephson · Mario Adorf · Angelica Ippolito
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
Direction Damiano Damiani
Cast Vanni De Maigret · Key Meersman · Reginald Kernan · Gabriella Giorgelli
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
Confessions of a Police Captain
1971 · Movie · 102 min. · Italy
Direction Damiano Damiani
Cast Franco Nero · Martin Balsam · Marilú Toló · Claudio Gora
6.7
149 votes
6.7
149 votes
Direction Damiano Damiani
Cast Pierre Brice · Georgia Moll · Pietro Germi · Bella Darvi
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
Lenin: The Train (TV)
1988 · Movie · 203 min. · Italy
Direction Damiano Damiani
Cast Ben Kingsley · Leslie Caron · Dominique Sanda · Timothy West
6.5
120 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
A Complicated Girl
1969 · Movie · Italy
Direction Damiano Damiani
Cast Jean Sorel · Catherine Spaak · Florinda Bolkan · María Luisa Bavastro
4.8
25 votes
4.8
25 votes
Killers on Holiday
2002 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Damiano Damiani
Cast Carmen Maura · Riccardo Reim · Domenico Fortunato · Sara D'Amario
4.4
27 votes
4.4
27 votes