Directing

Sergio Sollima

Born April 17, 1921 · Rome, Italy

Died July 1, 2015 · aged 94

Sergio Sollima (April 17, 1921 – July 1, 2015) was an Italian film director and script writer. Like many Italian cult directors, Sollima started his career by directing mostly sword and sandal movies that were very popular in the early 1960s. After the genre's popularity quickly died out, Sollima was among the first ones to move to spaghetti westerns. The Big Gundown (starring Lee Van Cleef and T…

Known For

Il mondo dei miracoli

Il mondo dei miracoli · 1959

Il mondo dei miracoli

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.

Face to Face

Face to Face · 1967

History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Solomon Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.

The Big Gundown

The Big Gundown · 1967

The Big Gundown

Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

Violent City

Violent City · 1970

MovieActionCrime

A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.

Run, Man, Run

Run, Man, Run · 1968

MovieWesternComedy

The legendary Tomas Milian stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandits, sadistic American agents, his hot-blooded fiancée and a sheriff turned bounty hunter, all of whom are gunning for a hidden fortune in gold that could finance the Mexican Revolution.

Madri pericolose

Madri pericolose · 1960

Madri pericolose

MovieRomanceComedy

A great Party is given by the rich family of Improta. Every kind of intrigue gets around this party. The purpose of every plan is to find a husband or a wife with a quality: wealth.

The Secret of the Black Falcon

The Secret of the Black Falcon · 1961

The Secret of the Black Falcon

A secret document has fallen into the hands of pirates. Spain and England are both interested. The English commissioned a notorious pirate and the Spaniards procure their best officer, Carlos de Herrera, to retrieve the document for them.

Knight of 100 Faces

Knight of 100 Faces · 1960

Knight of 100 Faces

Two knights, the honorful Riccardo and the sinister Fosco, are rivalling for damsel Zuela.

Filmography

Sort

Il mondo dei miracoli

Il mondo dei miracoli · 1959

Il mondo dei miracoli

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.

Dialogue

Face to Face

Face to Face · 1967

History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Solomon Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.

Screenplay

The Big Gundown

The Big Gundown · 1967

The Big Gundown

Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

Screenplay

Violent City

Violent City · 1970

MovieActionCrime

A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.

Screenplay

Run, Man, Run

Run, Man, Run · 1968

MovieWesternComedy

The legendary Tomas Milian stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandits, sadistic American agents, his hot-blooded fiancée and a sheriff turned bounty hunter, all of whom are gunning for a hidden fortune in gold that could finance the Mexican Revolution.

Story

Madri pericolose

Madri pericolose · 1960

Madri pericolose

MovieRomanceComedy

A great Party is given by the rich family of Improta. Every kind of intrigue gets around this party. The purpose of every plan is to find a husband or a wife with a quality: wealth.

Screenplay

The Secret of the Black Falcon

The Secret of the Black Falcon · 1961

The Secret of the Black Falcon

A secret document has fallen into the hands of pirates. Spain and England are both interested. The English commissioned a notorious pirate and the Spaniards procure their best officer, Carlos de Herrera, to retrieve the document for them.

Writer

Knight of 100 Faces

Knight of 100 Faces · 1960

Knight of 100 Faces

Two knights, the honorful Riccardo and the sinister Fosco, are rivalling for damsel Zuela.

Story

The Black Corsair

The Black Corsair · 1976

The Black Corsair

MovieActionAdventure

The story circulates around the classical Black Pirate and his battle against arch enemy Prins van Gould. The Black Pirate is out for revenge on his brothers' killers. He has a blood-planned way to go, and he trusts only to his own rap sword.

Director

Revolver

Revolver · 1973

MovieCrimeDrama

An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.

Screenplay

Goliath Against the Giants

Goliath Against the Giants · 1961

Goliath Against the Giants

MovieFantasyAction

Muscleman fights sea monsters and Amazon warriors, then returns home to find a race of giants living in a valley, into which fellow countrymen are being thrown as punishment for opposing a usurper king and his consort.

Screenplay

Love Steps

Love Steps · 1990

MovieDramaTV Movie

The story revolves around Elisa, a young talented ballet dancer. After an unjust accusation at her school, she has to stop her studies. The events take her away from ballet but only for a short period of time.

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.

Story

Sword in the Shadows

Sword in the Shadows · 1961

Sword in the Shadows

Sword in the Shadows (Italian: Una spada nell'ombra) is a 1961 Italian swashbuckler film directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Tamara Lees and Livio Lorenzon.

Writer

Foreign Earth

Foreign Earth · 1954

A group of illegal immigrants find a job in a French mine and organizes strikes to improve their working condition.

Assistant Director

Samson Against the Sheik

Samson Against the Sheik · 1962

Samson Against the Sheik

In the late 1500s, forces of the Duke of Malaga topple the Sacred Obelisk in the North African city of Melida before they're defeated by the local Sheik. The Shiek's men then sail to Spain and kidnap the Duke's daughter, Isabella.

Story

Sex Can Be Difficult

Sex Can Be Difficult · 1962

Sex Can Be Difficult

A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.

Director

Behind Closed Shutters

Behind Closed Shutters · 1951

Behind Closed Shutters

Middle class Sandra, engaged to be married and living in Turin, searches for her missing sister that is estranged from her family. For this, she enters the morally degraded back allies of the port city of Genoa and is exposed to the world of sex trafficking.

Story

Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell

Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell · 1965

Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell

A 1965 Italian adventure-Eurospy film directed by Sergio Sollima (credited as Simon Sterling). This is the first chapter in the Sollima's spy film trilogy with Agent 3S3. Here the intelligence agent from the U.S. is tasked with uncovering the leader of the Black Scorpion.

Director

The Ten Gladiators

The Ten Gladiators · 1963

The Ten Gladiators

MovieActionAdventure

Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross.

Writer

Requiem for a Secret Agent

Requiem for a Secret Agent · 1966

Requiem for a Secret Agent

MovieThrillerAction

A veteran US Secret Service agent must thwart the covert conspiracy of an enemy spy network that threatens the world's safety.

Director

Solo per Dirti Addio

Solo per Dirti Addio · 1992

Solo per Dirti Addio

MovieThrillerTV Movie

Stefano is found dead in his car, killed by exhaust fumes that he himself had channeled into the cabin through a hose. Everyone believes it to be a suicide, and even the magistrate handling the case closes the investigation. But his mother doesn’t agree and, with the help of two friends, sets out to uncover the truth.

Director

Ursus

Ursus returns from war to find his fiancée, Attea, has been kidnapped by a mysterious sect which sacrifices virgins to its patron goddess. Ursus faces much treachery and is forced to display much courage and strength as he and the blind girl Doreide embark upon a quest to retrieve Attea.

Screenplay

Berlin '39

Berlin '39 · 1993

A German officer is forced to marry Louise, daughter of a general, hero of the First World War. But Louise maintains lesbian relationships with Margo.

Director

Sandokan

Sandokan · 1976

SeriesAction & Adventure

In this mini-series in six parts from 1976 the Indian actor Kabir Bedi plays the lead role. Carol Andre plays Lady Marianna Guillonk and as Sandokans best friend Yanez de Gomera we see Phillipe Leroy. The noble prince Sandokan is a fighter of the first rank who are cruel to their enemies, but always loyal to his friends.

Director