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Pino Donaggio

Born November 24, 1941 · Burano, Veneto, Italy (age 84)

Giuseppe "Pino" Donaggio (born 24 November 1941) is an Italian musician, singer, and composer of film and television scores. A classically-trained violinist, Donaggio is known for his collaborations with director Brian De Palma, and for his work in both European and American genre cinema. He has won two Italian Golden Globe Awards, and has been nominated for two David di Donatello, four Golden Cia…

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Her Private Hell

Her Private Hell · 2026

Her Private Hell

MovieScience FictionHorror

When a mysterious mist engulfs a futuristic metropolis, unleashing a deadly and elusive entity, a troubled young woman searches for her father. Her quest collides with an American GI on a harrowing odyssey to rescue his daughter from Hell.

Blow Out

Blow Out · 1981

MovieCrimeMystery

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

Carrie

MovieHorrorThriller

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

Cheeky

MovieComedyDrama

While scouting out apartments in London for her Venetian boyfriend, Carla rents an apartment overlooking the Thames. There, she meets a real estate agent by the name of Moira.

Seed of Chucky

Seed of Chucky · 2004

MovieHorrorComedy

This time around, Chucky and his homicidal honey, Tiffany, are brought back to life by their orphan offspring, Glen. Then the horror goes Hollywood as Chucky unleashes his own brand of murderous mayhem!

All Ladies Do It

All Ladies Do It · 1992

All Ladies Do It

MovieComedyDrama

After five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her failing relationship through betrayal.

Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill · 1980

Dressed to Kill

MovieThrillerMystery

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.

Body Double

Body Double · 1984

MovieCrimeMystery

After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

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Her Private Hell

Her Private Hell · 2026

Her Private Hell

MovieScience FictionHorror

When a mysterious mist engulfs a futuristic metropolis, unleashing a deadly and elusive entity, a troubled young woman searches for her father. Her quest collides with an American GI on a harrowing odyssey to rescue his daughter from Hell.

Original Music Composer

Blow Out

Blow Out · 1981

MovieCrimeMystery

While recording sound effects for a slasher flick, Jack Terry stumbles upon a real-life horror: a car careening off a bridge and into a river. Jack jumps into the water and fishes out Sally from the car, but the other passenger is already dead — a governor intending to run for president. As Jack does some investigating of his tapes, and starts a perilous romance with Sally, he enters a tangled web of conspiracy that might leave him dead.

Original Music Composer

Carrie

MovieHorrorThriller

Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

Original Music Composer

Cheeky

MovieComedyDrama

While scouting out apartments in London for her Venetian boyfriend, Carla rents an apartment overlooking the Thames. There, she meets a real estate agent by the name of Moira.

Original Music Composer

Seed of Chucky

Seed of Chucky · 2004

MovieHorrorComedy

This time around, Chucky and his homicidal honey, Tiffany, are brought back to life by their orphan offspring, Glen. Then the horror goes Hollywood as Chucky unleashes his own brand of murderous mayhem!

Original Music Composer

All Ladies Do It

All Ladies Do It · 1992

All Ladies Do It

MovieComedyDrama

After five years of marriage, Diana discovers the joys of adultery, claiming that she can save her failing relationship through betrayal.

Original Music Composer

Dressed to Kill

Dressed to Kill · 1980

Dressed to Kill

MovieThrillerMystery

After witnessing a mysterious woman brutally slay a homemaker, prostitute Liz Blake finds herself trapped in a dangerous situation. While the police thinks she is the murderer, the real killer is intent on silencing her only witness.

Original Music Composer

Body Double

Body Double · 1984

MovieCrimeMystery

After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous woman dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers—with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.

Original Music Composer

Appointment with Death

Appointment with Death · 1988

Appointment with Death

MovieThrillerCrime

Emily Boynton, the stepmother to three children, blackmails the family lawyer into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from her dominating influence. She takes herself, the children, and her daughter-in-law on holiday to Europe and the Holy Land. At a dig, Emily is found dead and Hercule Poirot investigates.

Original Music Composer

Piranha

Piranha · 1978

MovieHorrorScience Fiction

When flesh-eating piranhas are accidentally released into a summer resort's rivers, the guests become their next meal.

Original Music Composer

The Howling

The Howling · 1981

After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.

Original Music Composer

The Order

The Order · 2001

MovieAdventureAction

When Rudy, an artifacts smuggler, goes to Jerusalem to rescue his kidnapped archeologist father, he faces deportation by a scheming police chief. Now, to find his dad and recover a sacred scroll, he'll have to outwit officials and a ruthless sect. With the help of a beautiful Israeli cop, Rudy battles a faction of religious zealots determined to see a holy war at all costs.

Original Music Composer

Don't Look Now

Don't Look Now · 1973

MovieThrillerDrama

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

Original Music Composer

Frivolous Lola

Frivolous Lola · 1998

MovieComedyRomance

In 1950s northern Italy, a woman tests her fiancé's love and passion by trying to break his commitment to premarital chastity.

Original Music Composer

Two Evil Eyes

Two Evil Eyes · 1990

A duo of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations about a greedy wife's attempt to embezzle her dying husband's fortune, and a sleazy reporter's adoption of a strange black cat.

Original Music Composer

Passion

Passion · 2013

MovieThrillerDrama

The rivalry between the manipulative boss of an advertising agency and her talented protégée escalates from stealing credit to public humiliation to murder.

Original Music Composer

The Barbarians

The Barbarians · 1987

MovieAdventureFantasy

Orphaned brothers Kutchek and Gore are adopted by a tribe led by Canary the owner of a powerful jewel. The evil Kadar wants both Canary and the jewel. Attacking the tribe he kidnaps Canary but the stone eludes him. The brothers are taken to be trained as gladiators and years later have grown to be VERY big. They escape and set off on a quest to find the jewel and rescue Canary.

Original Music Composer

Domino

MovieCrimeThriller

Seeking justice for his partner’s murder by an ISIS member, a Copenhagen police officer finds himself caught in a cat and mouse game with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using the killer as a pawn to trap other ISIS members.

Original Music Composer

Ordeal by Innocence

Ordeal by Innocence · 1984

Ordeal by Innocence

MovieMysteryThriller

Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed for the murder of his mother. Calgary can prove that Jack was innocent. In spite of opposition from a hostile family, he is determined to solve the crime.

Original Music Composer

Troublemakers

Troublemakers · 1994

MovieWesternComedy

Two brothers who hate themselves are going to spend Christmas with their mother. She tries to get them together.

Original Music Composer

Spin Me Round

Spin Me Round · 2022

MovieRomanceComedy

When the manager of an Italian restaurant chain wins the opportunity to attend the franchise’s educational immersion program in Italy, what she thought would be a romantic getaway devolves into chaos and catastrophe.

Original Music Composer

Never Talk to Strangers

Never Talk to Strangers · 1995

Never Talk to Strangers

MovieThrillerRomance

Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.

Original Music Composer

Raising Cain

Raising Cain · 1992

MovieHorrorThriller

Child psychologist Carter Nix is a loving and caring family man, but under this appearance lies a dark and troubled past. Grappling with the consequences of this past on his own psyche and the influence of his returning father and violent brother Cain, Carter becomes involved in a series of murders and kidnappings. Meanwhile, his wife Jenny rekindles an old love affair, placing herself in the crosshairs of her increasingly unstable husband.

Original Music Composer

Sahara Heat

Sahara Heat · 1987

A photographer and her lover travel to Morocco for photo shoots. While traveling there she has erotic adventures with residents of the area. But she ends up having an affair with someone who ends up betraying her and she murders the man.

Music

One Step from Heaven

One Step from Heaven · 2011

One Step from Heaven

SeriesMysteryAction & Adventure

The investigations and adventures of the Forestry Corps of San Candido.

Music

Lo zio d'America

Lo zio d'America · 2002

Lo zio d'America

Lo zio d'America is an Italian television series.

Music

Racket

SeriesCrimeDrama

Music

Rivoglio i miei figli

Rivoglio i miei figli · 2004

Rivoglio i miei figli

The struggle of a woman against her ex-husband to have custody of their children. The first attempt to incapacitate ex husband to his wife and, when the ploy did not produce the desired effect, with the complicity of his children's nanny, kidnaps and takes them to Moldova. But the protagonist is not will give up and hire a detective for help in the search.

Original Music Composer

Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna

Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna · 1998

Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna

Original Music Composer

Colpo di coda

Colpo di coda · 1993

Music

Madre, aiutami

Madre, aiutami · 2014

Music

Mission of Love

Mission of Love · 1993

Mission of Love

After the death of her boyfriend, Stella travels to India and decides to become a nun and help the poor.

Music