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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

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 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.
Date for a MurderDate for a Murder · 1967
Date for a Murder
6.81967
MovieThrillerAction
Two friends from America come together by chance in the Italian countryside. They decide to meet in Rome after both have done private deals. When one then not show up in Rome starts the other one become suspicious and fearful that something has happened to him. He begins to investigate the case himself and ends up in a spiral of industrial espionage, blackmail, and cold-blooded murder ...
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.
Su e giùSu e giù · 1965
Su e giù
9.01965
MovieComedy
A movie divided in four episodes: the arrival of the husband makes the loves of his wife to hide in the next room; an husband invites a friend while his wife is not at home; a poor man dreams about having an adventure with a beautiful girl; an impoverished nobleman wins at gambling after taking the earring of the wife of a factory owner.
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.
How Colonel Buttiglione Became a GeneralHow Colonel Buttiglione Became a General · 1974
How Colonel Buttiglione Became a General
6.51974
MovieComedy
Il trafficoneIl trafficone · 1974
Il trafficone
4.61974
MovieComedy
Neapolitan Vincenzo LoRusso lives of expedients in Rome, as he tries to sell at an intersection a faux suede jacket, accidentally meets Laura, a beautiful woman who invites him to her house.

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The Third EyeThe Third Eye · 1966
The Third Eye
5.81966
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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