Directing

Fernando Di Leo

Born January 11, 1932 · San Ferdinando di Puglia, Italy

Died December 1, 2003 · aged 71

Fernando Di Leo (11 January 1932 – 2 December 2003) was an Italian film director and script writer. He made 17 films as a director and about 50 scripts from 1964 to 1985. Fernando Di Leo was born on 11 January 1932 in San Ferdinando di Puglia. After briefly working in Rome's film school Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, di Leo made his debut as a director as part of the omnibus comedy "Gli e…

Known For

For a Few Dollars More

For a Few Dollars More · 1965

For a Few Dollars More

Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.

A Fistful of Dollars

A Fistful of Dollars · 1964

A Fistful of Dollars

The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.

Madness

Madness · 1980

MovieThrillerAction

An escaped convicted murderer invades the cottage of a man, his wife and the wife's sister, whereupon he proceeds to torment this already dysfunctional trio with rape and violence.

Django

MovieActionWestern

A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.

Navajo Joe

Navajo Joe · 1966

The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.

Rulers of the City

Rulers of the City · 1976

Rulers of the City

MovieCrimeAction

Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan. Together, they will con mob boss Manzari out of a fortune, after which they can retire and live in luxury. Manzari, however, is not about to let them go so easily.

Beyond the Law

Beyond the Law · 1968

A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.

Kidnap Syndicate

Kidnap Syndicate · 1975

Kidnap Syndicate

MovieCrimeAction

After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic.

Filmography

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For a Few Dollars More

For a Few Dollars More · 1965

For a Few Dollars More

Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.

Additional Writing

A Fistful of Dollars

A Fistful of Dollars · 1964

A Fistful of Dollars

The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.

Screenplay

Madness

Madness · 1980

MovieThrillerAction

An escaped convicted murderer invades the cottage of a man, his wife and the wife's sister, whereupon he proceeds to torment this already dysfunctional trio with rape and violence.

Director

Django

MovieActionWestern

A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.

Additional Writing

Navajo Joe

Navajo Joe · 1966

The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.

Screenplay

Rulers of the City

Rulers of the City · 1976

Rulers of the City

MovieCrimeAction

Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan. Together, they will con mob boss Manzari out of a fortune, after which they can retire and live in luxury. Manzari, however, is not about to let them go so easily.

Director

Beyond the Law

Beyond the Law · 1968

A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.

Screenplay

Kidnap Syndicate

Kidnap Syndicate · 1975

Kidnap Syndicate

MovieCrimeAction

After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic.

Director

Seduction

Seduction · 1973

MovieDramaRomance

After returning to Catania after a long period of time, Giuseppe reunites with his old lover, Caterina. Her 15 year-old daughter, Graziella begins to seduce her mother's lover and he soon breaks down and begins an affair with her. As time passes Caterina begins having sneaking suspicions about Giuseppe's & Graziella's relationship.

Writer

To Be Twenty

To Be Twenty · 1978

Lia and Tina are two beautiful girls who meet and realize that they have a lot in common. They are both young, beautiful and pissed off, so they decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to find Nazariota's commune, a place to stay for free and have all the sex they want... or so they think. Things don't go as they have planned though, and soon they become involved in prostitution, the police and an aggressive gang.

Director

The Italian Connection

The Italian Connection · 1972

The Italian Connection

MovieCrimeAction

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.

Director

Caliber 9

Caliber 9 · 1972

MovieCrimeThriller

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

Director

Seven Guns for the MacGregors

Seven Guns for the MacGregors · 1966

Seven Guns for the MacGregors

Ranch owner MacGregor has seven sons and oldest Gregor leads his brothers to Las Mesas, a small town where they want to sell horses. They get into trouble with local people who are related with evil Santillana. After getting imprisoned and losing their horses they decide to go after Santillana's gang.

Screenplay

Loaded Guns

Loaded Guns · 1975

MovieActionComedy

An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.

Director

The Return of Ringo

The Return of Ringo · 1965

The Return of Ringo

Once again billed as Montgomery Wood, Giuliano Gemma plays a civil war soldier who returns to his family land to find his family decimated, his property taken over by a family of Mexican bandits and his fiancee about to marry the Mexican gangster behind all this. Bent on revenge, he goes undercover disguised as a Mexican and discovers he has a daughter!

Screenplay

Slaughter Hotel

Slaughter Hotel · 1971

Slaughter Hotel

MovieHorrorMystery

A masked killer stalks an institution for mentally disturbed rich women.

Director

Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man

Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man · 1976

Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man

MovieActionCrime

Fred and Tony are members of an elite “special squad” of police in Rome who are undercover, licensed to kill, and love to live dangerously.

Story

Up the MacGregors

Up the MacGregors · 1967

Up the MacGregors

Seven brothers team up to rescue their gold and their women from a ruthless bandit.

Screenplay

The Ruthless Four

The Ruthless Four · 1968

The Ruthless Four

After years of hard work, old Sam Cooper has finally found a gold mine. Since he cannot take everything he has found with him, he blows up the entrance. To help him exploit his discovery, he calls on his godson Manolo Sanchez. But Manolo is accompanied by "the blond," a strange man who seems to dominate him. Sam has no choice but to accept his company. He persuades his old friend Mason to travel with them as well. Greed and paranoia will eventually completely destroy the small band.

Writer

A Bunch of Bastards

A Bunch of Bastards · 2021

A Bunch of Bastards

MovieCrimeAction

An isolated villa, a family just like the others. Michele has remarried beautiful Damiana, and lives with her and her daughter Fiore, a seductive teen with whom he has an intricate relationship. In the middle of the night, Sergio, an ex-con, bursts in the villa and abducts the family. his mission: retrieve and bring back to Caligola, the man who hired him, some important documents, now seeminlgy buried somewhere in the greenhouse near the house.

Original Film Writer

The Boss

The Boss · 1973

MovieCrimeAction

A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.

Director

Long Days of Vengeance

Long Days of Vengeance · 1967

Long Days of Vengeance

MovieDramaWestern

After suffering three years of hard labor in a prison camp, former sheriff Ted Barnett escapes. Now he seeks revenge.

Screenplay

Italian Sex

Italian Sex · 1974

A sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it reveals that she has just posed as a prostitute for several months to do sociological research for her thesis. She relates various stories of her experiences to her salivating thesis committee and a large audience of curious on-lookers.

Director

Massacre Time

Massacre Time · 1966

MovieWesternDrama

In 1866, prospector Tom Corbett returns to his hometown of Laramie, Texas, now under the brutal control of gangster Jason Scott and his violent son, Junior. With his brother Jeff, a struggling drunk cared for by their maid Mercedes, Tom seeks to overthrow the Scotts' tyrannical rule and restore peace to the town.

Screenplay