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Mino Guerrini

Born December 16, 1927 · Rome, Italy

Died January 10, 1990 · aged 62

Mino Guerrini was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor active from the 1950s to the 1980s. Born in Rome, he began his career as a screenwriter, contributing to films such as The Counterfeiters (1953) and The White Angel (1955). Guerrini made his directorial debut with Omicidio per appuntamento (1966), a giallo film that showcased his ability to blend suspense with stylistic elements.…

Known For

The Girl Who Knew Too MuchThe Girl Who Knew Too Much · 1963
The Girl Who Knew Too Much
★ 6.91963
MovieHorrorThriller
A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.
Three Tigers Against Three TigersThree Tigers Against Three Tigers · 1977
Three Tigers Against Three Tigers
★ 5.11977
MovieComedy
Don Cimbolano - a priest in a small town. Oscar - a offender escaped from prison. Philip - attorney loser. They don't lose heart and find ways out of the most incredible situations.
The ReunionThe Reunion · 1963
The Reunion
★ 5.91963
MovieComedyDrama
Two members of a former group of friends find themselves after many years by chance through the streets of Milan; after a moment, memories of the past resurface.
Decameron IIDecameron II · 1972
Decameron II
★ 3.71972
MovieComedy
During a banquet, the diners begin to tell various stories to be happy. All the novels speak of betrayals and erotic adventures
The Mines of KilimanjaroThe Mines of Kilimanjaro · 1986
The Mines of Kilimanjaro
★ 4.51986
MovieActionAdventure
A World War II-era college student must journey to Africa both to find his missing archaeology professor and search for the treasured mines of Kilimanjaro. He is followed by natives as well as scheming Chinese and Nazis
CommandoCommando · 1962
Commando
★ 6.21962
MovieWar
A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
The AtticThe Attic · 1963
The Attic
★ 7.51963
MovieComedy
In the 1960s, Silvana, a beautiful girl from the countryside, decides to spend the night in Rome after missing the last bus home. Without a place to stay, she seeks refuge in an under-construction attic. There, she meets a young man, leading to a short-lived romance. He opens her eyes to the wonders of the economic boom shaping the capital in those years. Despite the chaos of buses, protests, and big stores, Silvana chooses to make Rome her home.
Sweet Kisses and Languid CaressesSweet Kisses and Languid Caresses · 1970
Sweet Kisses and Languid Caresses
★ 4.01970
MovieComedy
A bourgeois family man falls in love with an uninhibited hippie girl who just wants to have fun and enjoy a libertine lifestyle. She makes him suffer and gives herself to everybody but him. He is so madly in love with her that he even gets in trouble with the police.

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The Third EyeThe Third Eye · 1966
The Third Eye
★ 5.91966
MovieHorrorThriller
Young nobleman Mino lives with his mother and Marta, the housekeeper, in an old, decaying castle. He is infantile and morbidly attached to the weird duo; his only hobby is taxidermy. Laura, Mino's fiancee, is met with jealousy and hatred by the two women, and decides to leave the castle; but Marta sabotages her car brakes and she is killed. Mino takes her body back to the castle. Meanwhile, his mother is violently arguing with Marta, who throws her down the stairs and repeatedly bashes her head on the floor. The distraught Mino descends into madness: he picks up a stripper at a nightclub and brings her home, then strangles her while having sex next to Laura's dead body. He does the same with a prostitute. Marta discovers these murders and offers to help dispose of bodies. A year later, Daniela (Laura's twin sister) arrives at the castle...

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Love in Four DimensionsLove in Four Dimensions · 1964
Love in Four Dimensions
★ 6.51964
MovieComedy
Young Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love. "Love and Language," the first tale, centers on the difficulties of a Sicilian immigrant who is unable to master proper Italian. the second tale "Love and Life" centers on a jealous and unhappy wife who becomes so desperate to be free of her constantly philandering husband she takes on a lover of her own. "Love and Art" a nearly exhausted screenwriter hires a secretary to help manage his typing. She's a pretty lass and this makes his insecure wife crazy until he fires the female and hires a male secretary. "Love and Death," the final episode centers on the love affair between a middle-aged widower and the grieving young widow he meets at the cemetery. Unfortuantely for his bank statement, the young, impoverished beauty isn't as bereaved as she seems.

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