Screenplay: Dardano Sacchetti
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Dardano Sacchetti. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Seven Notes in Black
1977 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Lucio Fulci
Cast Jennifer O'Neill · Gabriele Ferzetti · Marc Porel · Gianni Garko
Plot A clairvoyant woman, inspired by a vision, smashes open a section of wall in her husband's home and finds a skeleton behind it. Along with her psychiatrist, she seeks to...
6.4
494 votes
6.4
494 votes
Cat o' Nine Tails
1971 · Movie · 114 min. · Italy
Direction Dario Argento
Cast James Franciscus · Karl Malden · Catherine Spaak · Pier Paolo Capponi
Plot Franco Arno is a blind man that lives with his young niece and makes a living writing crossword puzzles. One night, while walking on the street, he overhears a weird...
6.2
1K votes
6.2
1K votes
Rome Armed to the Teeth (Brutal Justice) (Assault with a Deadly Weapon)
1976 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Umberto Lenzi
Cast Tomas Milian · Maurizio Merli · Arthur Kennedy · Giampiero Albertini
Plot A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
6.0
103 votes
6.0
103 votes
Shock (Beyond the Door II)
1977 · Movie · 95 min. · Italy
Direction Mario Bava
Cast Daria Nicolodi · John Steiner · David Colin Jr. · Ivan Rassimov
Plot A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.
6.0
428 votes
6.0
428 votes
A Bay of Blood
1971 · Movie · 84 min. · Italy
Direction Mario Bava
Cast Claudine Auger · Luigi Pistilli · Claudio Camaso · Anna Maria Rosati
Plot A family's murderous battle over some bayfront property is the subject of director Mario Bava's bloody horror-thriller, which many have cited as the grandfather of the modern slasher film.
5.9
1K votes
5.9
1K votes
The Beyond
1981 · Movie · 87 min. · Italy
Direction Lucio Fulci
Cast Catriona MacColl · David Warbeck · Cinzia Monreale · Michele Mirabella
Plot A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where after a series of supernatural 'accidents', she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.
5.8
2K votes
5.8
2K votes
The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist
1977 · Movie · 100 min. · Italy
Direction Umberto Lenzi
Cast Maurizio Merli · John Saxon · Tomas Milian · Renzo Palmer
5.8
34 votes
5.8
34 votes
Demons
1985 · Movie · 88 min. · Italy
Direction Lamberto Bava
Cast Urbano Barberini · Natasha Hovey · Karl Zinny · Fiore Argento
Plot Art imitating art is the basis of this demonic tale of a group of invited guests who are granted a free lunch in the form of a screening of a...
5.7
3K votes
5.7
3K votes
The New York Ripper
1982 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy
Direction Lucio Fulci
Cast Jack Hedley · Almanta Suska · Howard Ross · Andrea Occhipinti
Plot A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
5.7
979 votes
5.7
979 votes
The House by the Cemetery
1981 · Movie · 84 min. · Italy
Direction Lucio Fulci
Cast Paolo Malco · Catriona MacColl · Giovanni Frezza · Giovanni De Nava
Plot In New York, Dr. Norman Boyle assumes the research about Dr. Freudstein of his colleague Dr. Petersen, who committed suicide after killing his mistress. Norman heads to Boston with his...
5.4
2K votes
5.4
2K votes
Zombie
1979 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy
Direction Lucio Fulci
Cast Tisa Farrow · Ian McCulloch · Richard Johnson · Al Cliver
Plot A young woman wants to search for her father who is missing since he made an expidition to the antilles. She starts the search together with her friends and a...
5.4
2K votes
5.4
2K votes
City of the Living Dead
1980 · Movie · 92 min. · Italy
Direction Lucio Fulci
Cast Christopher George · Catriona MacColl · Antonella Interlenghi · Carlo De Mejo
Plot In the small New England town of Dunwich, a priest commits suicide by hanging himself in the church cemetary which somehow opens the gates of hell allowing the dead to...
5.3
1K votes
5.3
1K votes
Blastfighter
1984 · Movie · 87 min. · Italy
Direction Lamberto Bava
Cast Michael Sopkiw · Valentina Forte · George Eastman · Stefano Mingardo
Plot The hero of the film is a murderer. He is an ex cop who served eight years in prison for the murder of his wife's murderer. Upon release from prison,...
5.2
65 votes
5.2
65 votes
The Last Hunter
1980 · Movie · 87 min. · Italy
Direction Antonio Margheriti
Cast David Warbeck · Tisa Farrow · Tony King · Bobby Rhodes
Plot During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped beind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him.
5.2
28 votes
5.2
28 votes
Demons 2: The Nightmare Returns
1986 · Movie · 91 min. · Italy
Direction Lamberto Bava
Cast David Edwin Knight · Nancy Brilli · Coralina Cataldi-Tassoni · Bobby Rhodes
Plot In this sequel to the 1985 Italian horror hit, residents trapped inside a high-rise apartment building are hunted down by bloodthirsty demons multiplying like cockroaches. Produced by Dario Argento, directed...
5.1
1K votes
5.1
1K votes
A Blade in the Dark
1983 · Movie · 110 min. · Italy
Direction Lamberto Bava
Cast Andrea Occhipinti · Anny Papa · Fabiola Toledo · Michele Soavi
Plot A killer stalks a composer staying at a posh Tuscany villa while writing the score to a horror film which has an incriminating clue to the killer's identity.
5.1
138 votes
5.1
138 votes
Amityville II: The Possession
1982 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
Direction Damiano Damiani
Cast James Olson · Burt Young · Rutanya Alda · Jack Magner
Plot 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...
5.0
609 votes
5.0
609 votes
Cut and Run
1985 · Movie · 90 min. · Italy
Direction Ruggero Deodato
Cast Lisa Blount · Leonard Mann · Willie Aames · Richard Lynch
4.8
165 votes
4.8
165 votes
1990: Bronx Warriors
1982 · Movie · 97 min. · Italy
Direction Enzo G. Castellari
Cast Vic Morrow · Christopher Connelly · Fred Williamson · Mark Gregory
Plot In a post-apocalyptic New York City, a policeman infiltrates the Bronx, which has become a battleground for several murderous street gangs.
4.5
642 votes
4.5
642 votes
Hands of steel
1986 · Movie · 94 min. · Italy
Direction Sergio Martino
Cast Daniel Greene · Janet Agren · Claudio Cassinelli · George Eastman
Plot A story about a cyborg who is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands.
4.4
372 votes
4.4
372 votes