Screenplay: Ernesto Gastaldi

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Ernesto Gastaldi. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Kidnap of Mary Lou (Almost Human)

1974 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Umberto Lenzi

Cast Tomas Milian · Henry Silva · Laura Belli · Gino Santercole

Synopsis A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't making him all that much money, so he figures to hit the "big time" by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.

6.8

102 votes

6.8

102 votes

The Whip and the Body

1963 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy

Direction Mario Bava

Cast Daliah Lavi · Christopher Lee · Tony Kendall · Ida Galli

Synopsis Kurt Menliff (Christopher Lee) is a ruthless and sadistic 19th Century nobleman who returns to his seafront castle home after years of wondering and is immediately at odds with his invalid father, a Count, as well as Kurt's spinless younger...

6.5

416 votes

6.5

416 votes

Day of Anger

1967 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy

Direction Tonino Valerii

Cast Lee Van Cleef · Giuliano Gemma · Walter Rilla · Christa Linder

Synopsis First-class Italian frontier saga starring Lee Van Cleef as a master gunslinger who joins forces with an orphan to take over a small town. After teaching the youngster everything he knows, Van Cleef finds himself facing his student in a...

6.5

838 votes

6.5

838 votes

The Terror of Dr. Hichcock

1962 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Riccardo Freda

Cast Barbara Steele · Robert Flemyng · Silvano Tranquilli · Maria Teresa Vianello

Synopsis The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral games. One day he accidentally administers an overdose and kills her. Several years later he remarries, with the intention of using the blood of...

6.1

266 votes

6.1

266 votes

The Long Hair of Death

1964 · Movie · 96 min. · Italy

Direction Antonio Margheriti

Cast Barbara Steele · Giorgio Ardisson · Ella Karin · Umberto Raho

Synopsis In a 15th-century feudal village, a woman is accused of witchcraft and the murder of the Count's brother. Her older daughter pleads for her mother’s life with the old Count but to no avail. The woman is burned at the...

6.1

176 votes

6.1

176 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

My Name Is Nobody

1973 · Movie · 107 min. · Italy

Direction Tonino Valerii

Cast Terence Hill · Henry Fonda · Jean Martin · Piero Lulli

Synopsis Spaghetti-Western star Terence Hill achieved international fame with 1974's My Name Is Nobody. A soldier of fortune, Nobody (Hill) is hired to gun down veteran outlaw Jack Beauregard (Henry Fonda). Before long, however, Nobody and Beauregard are bosom companions. When...

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

Torso

1973 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Martino

Cast Suzy Kendall · Tina Aumont · Luc Merenda · John Richardson

Synopsis Someone is strangling coeds in Rome. The only clue is that the killer owns a red and black scarf, and police are stumped. American exchange student Jane and her friends decide to take a break from classes by going up...

5.9

616 votes

5.9

616 votes

All the Colors of the Dark

1972 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Martino

Cast Edwige Fenech · George Hilton · Ivan Rassimov · Julián Ugarte

Synopsis The story centres around Jane, a young Londoner who recently suffered a miscarriage after being involved in a car crash. Her relationship with her boyfriend Richard has taken a turn for the worse, as she suffers from twisted nightmares and...

5.9

317 votes

5.9

317 votes

10,000 Dollars Blood Money

1967 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy

Direction Romolo Guerrieri

Cast Gianni Garko · Fidel Gonzáles · Loredana Nusciak · Adriana Ambesi

Synopsis Django has become a bounty hunter who is asked to chase a villain who has kidnapped a young girl, but because he is not offered enough money, he decides to join forces with the bandit. But he’s double-crossed by the...

5.8

77 votes

5.8

77 votes

The Grand Duel

1972 · Movie · 98 min. · Italy

Direction Giancarlo Santi

Cast Lee Van Cleef · Alberto Dentice · Jess Hahn · Horst Frank

Synopsis A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.

5.8

506 votes

5.8

506 votes

5.8

34 votes

Direction Sergio Martino

Cast George Hilton · Edwige Fenech · Conchita Airoldi · Manuel Gil

Synopsis Newly married to an older man, Julie returns to Vienna, where a razor wielding slasher is killing women. Jean, her cruel and sadistic former lover, immediately contacts her, certain that only he can satisfy her strange vice. But she rejects...

5.7

257 votes

5.7

257 votes

Violent Professionals

1973 · Movie · 104 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Martino

Cast Luc Merenda · Richard Conte · Silvano Tranquilli · Carlo Alighiero

Synopsis When Milano police lieutenant Giorga's chief is murdered by an organized crime ring, he vows to avenge his boss's death. Going undercover to continue the chief's investigation, he plans to take over a pimping outfit and then proceed to beat...

5.7

79 votes

5.7

79 votes

The Case of the Scorpion's Tail

1971 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy

Direction Sergio Martino

Cast George Hilton · Anita Strindberg · Alberto de Mendoza · Ida Galli

Synopsis The Case of the Scorpion's Tail begins with the mysterious death of a millionaire and spirals into the murder of his suddenly rich wife, which draws the attention of a dogged investigator, who follows a trail of blood to the...

5.7

288 votes

5.7

288 votes

Direction Sergio Martino

Cast Edwige Fenech · Anita Strindberg · Luigi Pistilli · Ivan Rassimov

Synopsis Oliviero Rouvigny, a failed writer and an alcoholic, lives in a crumbling mansion with his wife Irina, who is scared of Oliviero's cat, Satan, that used to belong to his late mother. To fight boredom, Oliviero organizes decadent parties for...

5.7

219 votes

5.7

219 votes

The 10th Victim

1965 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy

Direction Elio Petri

Cast Marcello Mastroianni · Ursula Andress · Elsa Martinelli · Salvo Randone

Synopsis Some people like violence so much, that they decide to create a club in which human hunts are organized - members being alternately hunters, and prey, until they end up dead.

5.7

451 votes

5.7

451 votes

Death Walks on High Heels

1971 · Movie · 105 min. · Italy

5.6

127 votes

5.6

127 votes

Puzzle

1974 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy

Direction Duccio Tessari

Cast Senta Berger · Rosario Borelli · Bruno Corazzari · Duilio Cruciani

Synopsis Peter has had a car accident which has left him with amnesia. He is being treated by a psychiatrist in London who introduces him to a man who says he knows Peter. Not recognizing him, Peter tries to find out...

5.5

64 votes

5.5

64 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