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Paolo Moffa

Born December 16, 1915 · Toulouse, France

Died October 1, 2004 · aged 88

Paolo Moffa was a French-born Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He began his career in the Italian film industry as an assistant director and production manager in the late 1930s. Moffa made his directorial debut with Il cavaliere del sogno (1947), a biographical film about the poet Theodor Körner. He directed several films, including The Corsican Brothers (1961) and The Avenger (…

Known For

The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins · 1952

The Seven Deadly Sins

MovieComedyDrama

A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.

Bellissima

Bellissima · 1952

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death · 1969

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death

MovieWesternMystery

Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.

Goliath and the Vampires

Goliath and the Vampires · 1961

Goliath and the Vampires

MovieActionAdventure

Maciste's village is attacked by pirates. The women, including Maciste's fiancee Guja, are carried off to Salmanak, where dwells the lair of the blood drinking Kobrak. Maciste vows to rescue them.

The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii · 1959

The Last Days of Pompeii

MovieAdventureHistory

Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.

The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii · 1950

The Last Days of Pompeii

MovieHistoryDrama

In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to make Lycias drink a love potion, but a young slave threatens to reveal everything. The high priest, unable to silence her, kills her and arranges to have Lycias accused...

The Children Are Watching Us

The Children Are Watching Us · 1943

The Children Are Watching Us

In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.

Bury Them Deep

Bury Them Deep · 1968

Clive Norton is a young captain ordered by his superior to recover two shipments of stolen army payroll gold. Clive enlists the help of Ted Hunter, a condemned prisoner whom he has released. They soon discover that two different gangs are responsible for the robberies...

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The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins · 1952

The Seven Deadly Sins

MovieComedyDrama

A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.

Production Manager

Bellissima

Bellissima · 1952

Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.

Production Manager

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death · 1969

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death

MovieWesternMystery

Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.

Producer

Goliath and the Vampires

Goliath and the Vampires · 1961

Goliath and the Vampires

MovieActionAdventure

Maciste's village is attacked by pirates. The women, including Maciste's fiancee Guja, are carried off to Salmanak, where dwells the lair of the blood drinking Kobrak. Maciste vows to rescue them.

Producer

The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii · 1959

The Last Days of Pompeii

MovieAdventureHistory

Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.

Executive Producer

The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii · 1950

The Last Days of Pompeii

MovieHistoryDrama

In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to make Lycias drink a love potion, but a young slave threatens to reveal everything. The high priest, unable to silence her, kills her and arranges to have Lycias accused...

Screenplay

The Children Are Watching Us

The Children Are Watching Us · 1943

The Children Are Watching Us

In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.

Assistant Director

Bury Them Deep

Bury Them Deep · 1968

Clive Norton is a young captain ordered by his superior to recover two shipments of stolen army payroll gold. Clive enlists the help of Ted Hunter, a condemned prisoner whom he has released. They soon discover that two different gangs are responsible for the robberies...

Director

The Cheerful Squadron

The Cheerful Squadron · 1954

The Cheerful Squadron

MovieComedyDrama

The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.

Director

Empty Eyes

Empty Eyes · 1953

A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.

Production Manager

Five for Hell

Five for Hell · 1969

Lt. Glenn Hoffmann is the the fun-loving leader of a bunch of oddball, acrobatic G.I.s whose mission is to steal the German's secret attack plans from a villa behind enemy lines, where they run into a brutal Nazi commander.

Producer

The Gates of Heaven

The Gates of Heaven · 1945

The Gates of Heaven

Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto.

Assistant Director

Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst

Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst · 1983

Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst

MovieDramaRomance

Investigative journalist Emanuelle breaks into a home to find a microfilm, which leads her to an "international expedition" in Hong Kong. This film was made entirely of footage from Joe D'Amato films released between 1976 and 1980, quickly becoming popular within the bootleg video market.

Producer

4 Dollars of Revenge

4 Dollars of Revenge · 1966

4 Dollars of Revenge

Bandits ambush Capt. Roy Dexter of the U.S. Cavalry while he and his men escort a fortune in Confederate gold coins. Only Dexter survives the attack. He's subsequently sentenced to life in prison on the false belief he masterminded the ambush. Escaping from prison, Dexter sets about tracking down and exposing the true culprits.

Producer

The Revolt of the Slaves

The Revolt of the Slaves · 1960

The Revolt of the Slaves

A rich man's daughter (Rhonda Fleming) sides with a Christian rebel during the fall of the Roman Empire.

Producer

A Pilot Returns

A Pilot Returns · 1942

A Pilot Returns

A young Italian pilot is interned in a British prison camp after his plane is shot down during the war against Greece. He falls in love with a doctor's daughter and manages to escape during a bombardment. He reaches home, wounded, just as news arrives of the Greek surrender.

Assistant Director

The City Stands Trial

The City Stands Trial · 1952

The City Stands Trial

MovieDramaHistory

Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.

Production Manager

The Woman Who Came from the Sea

The Woman Who Came from the Sea · 1954

The Woman Who Came from the Sea

Production Manager

The Lady in White

The Lady in White · 1938

The Lady in White

The lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia.

Assistant Director

Man from Canyon City

Man from Canyon City · 1965

Man from Canyon City

Red and Carraucho, after escaping from jail, reach the border to Mexico and are hired by Morgan, a rich silvermine owner. Disgusted by the latter's cruelty, especially against the local peones, the two support a revolt organized with the aid of Mrs. Vivian, wife of the ruthless tyrant.

Executive Producer

Sunday in August

Sunday in August · 1950

Sunday in August

MovieComedyDrama

The plot weaves several episodes with several groups of people, Roman families, youth gangs and young love couples, who spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia.

Production Manager

The Island Princess

The Island Princess · 1954

The Island Princess

MovieAdventureRomance

1470. The Canary Islands try to resist the Spanish invaders. Their inhabitants are divided, their chief and his daughter Guayarmina (for whom a Spanish officer has fallen in love) wanting the peace, while the priest and resistance leader are for war. After several battles the islanders are chased to Tirma mountain by the Spanish army.

Screenplay

The Vanquished

The Vanquished · 1953

MovieDramaCrime

Three tales of privileged youth entangled in murder: French students kill for money, an Italian student smuggles cigarettes, and an English poet exploits a grim discovery.

Production Manager

Lo vedi come sei...lo vedi come sei?

Lo vedi come sei...lo vedi come sei? · 1939

Lo vedi come sei...lo vedi come sei?

Cousins Michele and Tommaso are told by a notary that a distant uncle has left a large sum of money for them.

Second Assistant Director