Acting

Mimmo Palmara

Born July 25, 1928 · Cagliari, Italy

Died June 10, 2016 · aged 87

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Born in Cagliari, Palmara made his film debut in 1952 as character actor in drama films by eminent directors such as Luchino Visconti, Mario Monicelli and Antonio Pietrangeli, then obtained main roles in a great number of genre films, especially adventure films and peplum films., When the sword and sandals genre declined, he took part at a number of spaghetti…

Known For

That Malicious Age

That Malicious Age · 1975

That Malicious Age

MovieDramaRomance

Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.

White Nights

White Nights · 1957

MovieDramaRomance

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

The Crook

The Crook · 1970

MovieActionThriller

A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.

Sodom and Gomorrah

Sodom and Gomorrah · 1962

Sodom and Gomorrah

MovieAdventureDrama

Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.

The Arena

The Arena · 1974

MovieActionAdventure

Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus, follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who, upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring, mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom.

FantastiCozzi

FantastiCozzi · 2016

MovieDocumentary

A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.

The Colossus of Rhodes

The Colossus of Rhodes · 1961

The Colossus of Rhodes

MovieAdventureDrama

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.

The Stranger

The Stranger · 1967

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.

Movies

That Malicious Age

That Malicious Age · 1975

That Malicious Age

MovieDramaRomance

Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.

White Nights

White Nights · 1957

MovieDramaRomance

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

The Crook

The Crook · 1970

MovieActionThriller

A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.

Sodom and Gomorrah

Sodom and Gomorrah · 1962

Sodom and Gomorrah

MovieAdventureDrama

Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.

The Arena

The Arena · 1974

MovieActionAdventure

Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus, follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who, upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring, mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom.

FantastiCozzi

FantastiCozzi · 2016

MovieDocumentary

A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.

The Colossus of Rhodes

The Colossus of Rhodes · 1961

The Colossus of Rhodes

MovieAdventureDrama

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.

The Stranger

The Stranger · 1967

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.

The Pirates of Malaysia

The Pirates of Malaysia · 1964

The Pirates of Malaysia

Filmed in Singapore it tells the story of Sandokan who is a Malaysian rebel who, with a group of renegades, goes up against a British General who is trying to force the King to resign.

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 Odyssey

The Odyssey · 1969

MovieAdventureDrama

After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka. [Theatrical version of the 1968 mini-series.]

Two Sons of Ringo

Two Sons of Ringo · 1966

Two Sons of Ringo

MovieComedyWestern

Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam pretending to be bounty hunters, are 'persuaded' to help a real bounty hunter discover a treasure by claiming to be the heirs of a deceased lawman.

Senso

MovieRomanceDrama

A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.

The Trojan Horse

The Trojan Horse · 1961

The Trojan Horse

MovieHistoryAdventure

Trojan hero Aeneas battles to save his city from the Greeks, but once Troy falls, he leads the 600 survivors to Italy and founds the city of Rome.

Hercules and the Captive Women

Hercules and the Captive Women · 1961

Hercules and the Captive Women

MovieAdventureFantasy

King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the strongman falls overboard in a thick fog. Washed ashore, he saves a young Ismene from Proteus, an evil, shape-shifting creature. Ismene takes Hercules to Atlantis, where he discovers that her mother, Queen Antinea, has captured Androcles. Hercules schemes to rescue him and thwart Antinea's dream of world conquest.

Sign of the Gladiator

Sign of the Gladiator · 1959

Sign of the Gladiator

MovieAdventureDrama

Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.

Hercules

Hercules · 1958

MovieFantasyAdventure

In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.

Hercules Unchained

Hercules Unchained · 1959

Hercules Unchained

MovieFantasyAction

En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.

Attila

Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.

Italian Kings Of B

Italian Kings Of B · 2003

Italian Kings Of B

MovieDocumentary

Documentary on Italian genre cinema.

Bullets Don't Argue

Bullets Don't Argue · 1964

Bullets Don't Argue

On his own wedding day, sheriff Pat Garrett must leave and try to arrest two bank robbers.

Isabella, Duchess of the Devils

Isabella, Duchess of the Devils · 1969

Isabella, Duchess of the Devils

An Alsacian Baron massacres the family of a French Duke, and takes his lands and his title. Isabella, the Duke's baby child, escapes the massacre, is raised by gypsies, and comes back twenty years later to exact revenge.

Uomini forti

Uomini forti · 2006

MovieDocumentary

The epic of Hercules and Maciste to the live voices of witnesses and through the images of the Italian film journals. And through interviews with Carlo Lizzani, Enrico Lucherini, Citto Maselli, Rosalba Neri, Mimmo Palmara, Carlo Verdone.

Panhandle 38

Panhandle 38 · 1972

The son of an aging gunfighter returns home with a shipment of confederate gold.

TV Shows

The Odyssey

The Odyssey · 1968

Odysseus' journey, told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.

Door Into Darkness

Door Into Darkness · 1973

Door Into Darkness

SeriesMysteryDrama

"The Door to Darkness" is an anthology miniseries of four hour-long thrillers. The series' curator and producer is Dario Argento, the undisputed master of suspense cinema, who directs one of the four films under the pseudonym Sirio Bernadotte.