Directing

Nick Nostro

Born April 21, 1931 · Gioia Tauro, Calabria, Italy

Died June 15, 2014 · aged 83

Nicola "Nick" Nostro was an Italian film director and screenwriter active during the 1960s. After earning a degree in literature, Nostro studied direction at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome. He began his career in the film industry as an assistant editor and script supervisor, later serving as an assistant director for Roberto Bianchi Montero and Giorgio Simonelli. In the 1960…

Known For

Web of Violence

Web of Violence · 1966

Web of Violence

MovieCrimeAdventure

A journalist goes in search of his missing fiance.

I baccanali di Tiberio

I baccanali di Tiberio · 1960

I baccanali di Tiberio

Cassio, a tourist guide, and Primo, his bus driver, are taking a bus load of tourists to visit villa Jovis, at Capri island. Then they have an accident, and they knock their heads hard, losing conscience. They come awake in the times of the Roman Empire in Tiberius' villa.

Operation Counterspy

Operation Counterspy · 1965

Operation Counterspy

A secret agent is sent to infiltrate the heavily guarded fortress of a madman bent on taking over the world.

Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators

Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators · 1964

Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators

MovieAdventureComedy

The story of Spartacus and 10 other gladiators who rebelled against the bloody coliseum sports. They escape and are faced at every turn by Roman soldiers bent on taking them back to the Coliseum - dead or alive!

Superargo vs Diabolicus

Superargo vs Diabolicus · 1966

Superargo vs Diabolicus

MovieActionScience Fiction

After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, masked wrestler Superargo quits wrestling and, following the advice of his friend Col. Alex Kinski of the Secret Service, becomes a secret agent, using his superhuman abilities to stop villain Diabolicus' plans to wreck the global economy by turning uranium into gold.

One After Another

One After Another · 1968

One After Another

Bespectacled pistolero Stan Ross comes to Canyon City and becomes involved with two feuding factions, after a clerk has been killed by the banker Jefferson during a botched holdup, while robbing his own bank.

Triumph of the Ten Gladiators

Triumph of the Ten Gladiators · 1964

Triumph of the Ten Gladiators

MovieDramaAction

The ten gladiators are hired to travel to Arbela, a small country on the outskirts of the Roman Empire to learn if Parthia is planning to war with Rome. Upon arriving, the heroes decide to kidnap the beautiful Parthian queen and spirit her to Syria to serve as a hostage.

Un dollaro di fifa

Un dollaro di fifa · 1960

Un dollaro di fifa

MovieWesternComedy

Two conmen, Alamo and Mike, find shelter in Paradise City, which is full of jokers like themselves, who assume them to be lawmen and are almost hanged.

Filmography

Sort

Web of Violence

Web of Violence · 1966

Web of Violence

MovieCrimeAdventure

A journalist goes in search of his missing fiance.

Director

I baccanali di Tiberio

I baccanali di Tiberio · 1960

I baccanali di Tiberio

Cassio, a tourist guide, and Primo, his bus driver, are taking a bus load of tourists to visit villa Jovis, at Capri island. Then they have an accident, and they knock their heads hard, losing conscience. They come awake in the times of the Roman Empire in Tiberius' villa.

First Assistant Director

Operation Counterspy

Operation Counterspy · 1965

Operation Counterspy

A secret agent is sent to infiltrate the heavily guarded fortress of a madman bent on taking over the world.

Screenplay

Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators

Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators · 1964

Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators

MovieAdventureComedy

The story of Spartacus and 10 other gladiators who rebelled against the bloody coliseum sports. They escape and are faced at every turn by Roman soldiers bent on taking them back to the Coliseum - dead or alive!

Director

Superargo vs Diabolicus

Superargo vs Diabolicus · 1966

Superargo vs Diabolicus

MovieActionScience Fiction

After accidentally killing an opponent in the ring, masked wrestler Superargo quits wrestling and, following the advice of his friend Col. Alex Kinski of the Secret Service, becomes a secret agent, using his superhuman abilities to stop villain Diabolicus' plans to wreck the global economy by turning uranium into gold.

Director

One After Another

One After Another · 1968

One After Another

Bespectacled pistolero Stan Ross comes to Canyon City and becomes involved with two feuding factions, after a clerk has been killed by the banker Jefferson during a botched holdup, while robbing his own bank.

Director

Triumph of the Ten Gladiators

Triumph of the Ten Gladiators · 1964

Triumph of the Ten Gladiators

MovieDramaAction

The ten gladiators are hired to travel to Arbela, a small country on the outskirts of the Roman Empire to learn if Parthia is planning to war with Rome. Upon arriving, the heroes decide to kidnap the beautiful Parthian queen and spirit her to Syria to serve as a hostage.

Director

Un dollaro di fifa

Un dollaro di fifa · 1960

Un dollaro di fifa

MovieWesternComedy

Two conmen, Alamo and Mike, find shelter in Paradise City, which is full of jokers like themselves, who assume them to be lawmen and are almost hanged.

First Assistant Director

Grazie zio, ci provo anch'io

Grazie zio, ci provo anch'io · 1971

Grazie zio, ci provo anch'io

Director

Che femmina!! E... che dollari!

Che femmina!! E... che dollari! · 1960

Che femmina!! E... che dollari!

MovieFamilyMusic

An American millionaire has just died. His sole legatee is a youthful indiscretion, a girl who is currently living in Italy. Two private eye detective agencies, in competition with each other, investigate. Combining business with pleasure, they search sunny Italy, but they only have one clue to find their heiress: she has three moles on the buttock. One of the private eyes falls in love with a gypsy who sings in nightclubs.

First Assistant Director

La Pica sul Pacifico

La Pica sul Pacifico · 1959

La Pica sul Pacifico

Adelaide takes possession of an island in the Pacific inherited from her deceased husband. She is opposed by the chieftain and a convict. To get the island's citizenship she tries to marry the convict, but he prefers to turn himself in.

First Assistant Director

Fantasmi e ladri

Fantasmi e ladri · 1959

Fantasmi e ladri

Tina, an old lady and detective stories buff, moves to town in the house of a god-daughter of hers whose husband is a private dick. She thinks she will be able to help him with his inquests. He does not agree with her and tries to discourage her by any possible means.

Second Assistant Director

I magnifici tre

I magnifici tre · 1961

I magnifici tre

MovieWesternComedy

Pablo, Domingo and Jose, three idiots, gunmen exchanged for large liberate a village in the republic of "Nonduras" from the oppression of dictator Bonarios. Parody of The Magnificent Seven, five writers got together for an anemic script that exploits a repertoire mixture with the song "A man alive"by Gino Paoli.

First Assistant Director

Noi siamo 2 evasi

Noi siamo 2 evasi · 1959

Noi siamo 2 evasi

Two inmates escape prison changing clothes with a couple of businessmen. They'll be taken by the financiers and find themselves surrounded by wealth and beautiful women.

First Assistant Director

I soliti rapinatori a Milano

I soliti rapinatori a Milano · 1961

I soliti rapinatori a Milano

First Assistant Director

The Three Enemies

The Three Enemies · 1962

The Three Enemies

A meek clerk is hunted by the counterespionage because he has a secret formula tattooed on his bottom.

First Assistant Director

2 samurai per 100 geishe

2 samurai per 100 geishe · 1962

2 samurai per 100 geishe

Two Sicilian cousins are forced to go to Japan to collect an inheritance. Once they arrive they realize they will have to adapt to the local customs. The tour will turn into a long series of troubles: the Sicilian cousins, to obtain the inheritance, will have to turn into real samurai.

First Assistant Director

Revenge of the Black Knight

Revenge of the Black Knight · 1963

Revenge of the Black Knight

MovieWesternHistory

La Cieca Di Sorrento (also known as Revenge of the Black Knight is a 1963 cloak and dagger film directed by Nick Nostro and based on the novel of the same name by Francesco Mastriani. Masked knights fight the cruel Tyrant Amedeo, tutor of the beautiful, rich and blind orphan Isabella. The knights are led by a young doctor who in the end will defeat Isabella's evil oppressor, give her her sight and marry her.

Director

Dollar of Fire

Dollar of Fire · 1966

A sheriff fights against a band of thugs led by a rich banker.

Director

Blood and Defiance

Blood and Defiance · 1962

Blood and Defiance

In a Latin American country, a rebel frees the prisoners of the local tyrant. Some traitors cause the death of many of his companions and he births the upcoming revolution.

Writer

Gagliardi and Babes

Gagliardi and Babes · 1958

Gagliardi and Babes

Paolo, a youth, associates with very dubious characters and shirks work but all in all he is a good guy. Will he mend his own ways?

First Assistant Director

Sing with us

Sing with us · 1955

The old friends Nicola and Pasquale meet in the city after many years. The two, now married and with their children, try to marry their four children, but it soon becomes more difficult than expected.

Script Supervisor

Dying as Hierarchs

Dying as Hierarchs · 1961

Dying as Hierarchs

Now in bankruptcy, the industrialist Merletti seeks the help of Mr. Frioppi, a rich ex-fascist with a real mania for ancient castles.

First Assistant Director

Rocco e le sorelle

Rocco e le sorelle · 1961

Rocco e le sorelle

A Sicilian leaves for Milan, in search of fortune, with the four sisters he supervises fiercely.

First Assistant Director