Sandro Continenza

Sandro Continenza
Country: Italy
Total Credits at Criticker: 69 (Writer)
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Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
A cop chases two hippies suspected of a series of Manson family-like murders; unbeknownst to him, the real culprits are the living dead, brought to life with a thirst for human flesh by chemical pesticides being used by area farmers. (imdb)
Hercules in the Haunted World
Hercules must journey in Hades itself to retrieve the magic stone that will free his love from the powers of darkness. (imdb)
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Les Choses de la vie
Pierre, a successful expert in building highways has a traffic accident. Being seriously wounded, he is lying waiting for death and remembering his past in flashbacks. (imdb)
Inglorious Bastards
Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers are in the process of being shipped off to military prison for a variety of infractions, ranging from desertion to murder. While they're being transported, a German artillery attack hits the convoy, killing the MPs and enabling four of the prisoners to escape... (imdb)
The Loves of Hercules
While Hercules is away, his people and the woman he loves are killed by the king of Ecalia. Hercules goes to Ecalia to revenge his dead. When he arrives in Ecalia he finds that the king is dead and queen Dianira reigns. He saves her and falls for her, but Dianira has been promised to Acheloo. His deed became more and more hard among Licos's conspiracy, the Amazons, the Hydra and other monsters... (imdb)
Ercole, Sansone, Maciste e Ursus gli invincibili
Four muscular heroes fight the evil ruler of an oppressed people. (imdb)
Hercules and the Captive Women
The ever intrepid world-trotting hunk of a man Herc (Hercules to those who are not his friends) saves a beautiful maiden from the hands of an evil creature. She takes him to her home, Atlantis. Herc kicks some butt and saves her from her mother who wants to kill her and from some scary looking blond guys but unfortunately the rest of the inhabitants are destroyed. Do not worry because Herc escapes along with his son, the maiden and an annoying midget. (imdb)
The Two Marshals
An Italian tragicomedy in which a carabiniere and a thief exchange roles in nazi-occupied Italy under allied raids
The Shortest Day
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle. (imdb)
Il Mattatore
A retired con artist tells the story of how he went from being an actor to becoming a thief and of how he had to give it all up for love.
La Controfigura
Frank is an architect living off his father's allowance and he's also a jealous lover. He doesn't like his girlfriend seeing an American holidaymaker, also staying in Morocco - but he also can't resist the lure of his girlfriend's sexy mother... (imdb)
Donatella
In a case of mistaken identity, the secretary for a well-to-do household is taken to be an heiress to the fortune by a handsome young lawyer. (Yahoo!)
The Legend of Blood Castle
The aging Countess discovers that the blood of a maid can temporarily restore her youth and great beauty. She falls in love with a dashing young soldier but is compelled to kill again and again to maintain her attractiveness and prevent the secret getting out. (imdb)
La morte viene dallo spazio
Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collision course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed. (imdb)
Crimes of the Black Cat
A mysterious killer is murdering fashion models by using a black cat whose claws are dipped in curare. A composer, whose girlfriend was the first one to be killed, overhears a conversation by someone he believes may be the killer, but there's one complication--the composer is blind and couldn't see the suspected murderer. (imdb)
Totò, Peppino e... la malafemmina
Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl). (imdb)
Due mafiosi contro Goldginger
An evil genius named Goldginger hatches a plot to turn all government employees into mindless drones. (imdb)
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
In Dublin, a young woman is brutally murdered in her home by a maniac that throws acid in her face and then slits her throat with a razor. Her mangled body is later discovered in the boot of a limousine owned by the Swiss Ambassador Sobiesky. (imdb)
Hannibal
Hannibal tells the story of the famous general's battles and his ill-advised march across the snowy Alps. To make life that much more interesting, violence, gore, sex, love, and personal issues are thrown in for good measure. (Answers.com)
The Eroticist
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help. (imdb)
Sugar Colt
In order to avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Rocco has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. He therefore puts on the disguise of a doctor and starts investigating in a somewhat uncomfortable town. (imdb)
Gladiators 7
Framed for the escape of five gladiators from the arena, the son of one of Sparta's leading citizens is sentenced to the arena as gladiator himself and forced to fight for his life in the Roman Colosseum. Years later he manages to escape and return to Sparta, only to find out that his father has been murdered--even though it was ruled a "suicide"--and the woman he loves is about to marry the evil king who has usurped the throne... (imdb)
Lo scapolo
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time? (imdb)
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Two Italian friends emigrate to Berlin, but find themselves divided by Soviet and American tensions.
La marcia su Roma
The history of Italian fascism from 1919 to 1922 and the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts.
Il più comico spettacolo del mondo
Totò stars in this spoof of Cecil B. De Mille's "The Greatest Show on Earth"
Un americano a Roma
Nando is a young italian in the 1950s who loves the american way of life so much that he's willing to do anything to go to the USA.
White Fang to the Rescue
Italian director Tonino Ricci helmed this 1974 snowbound adventure film about a young boy in danger and the courageous wolf who comes to his rescue. Originally called Zanna Bianca Alla Riscossa and later retitled White Fang to the Rescue, the film is the sequel to Lucio Fulci's Zanna Bianca, a 1972 adaptation Jack London's classic novel White Fang. Maurizio Merli stars along with Henry Silva and Gisella Hahn. (allrovi.com)
The Cop
A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds the harried inspector battling his colleagues as much as the criminal element targeted for extermination. (FilmAffinity)
Letto a tre piazze
Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returned. Amalia has to choose between two husbands. Written by EndriX (imdb)
Totò cerca moglie
This comedy shows how people shouldn't hurry to make serious things, (like getting married, for instance). In this movie, the "odyssey" of a rich-becoming man to find a wife who "helps" him to inherit a fortune is showed with great efficiency. The lots of problems that appear in an apparently simple task like searching for a wife to become rich shows this is not as easy as it may seem, and you can see there that money doesn't always bring happiness, until it's come. (Mr-JAFO)
Neapolitan Turk
Totò, one of Italy's all-time great comedians, stars as a Neopolitan petty criminal named Don Felice... (imdb)
Bella, ricca, lieve difetto fisico, cerca anima gemella
Michael Fiore, a Neapolitan married to Rosaria, with the help of matrimonial advertisements in newspapers, lures wealthy widows. But one day paola know, a woman a bit 'strange and falls in love.
Prickly Pears
The movie is about a province Latin Lover, Arrigo, who, among many others, chases Pozzetto's wife. For a series of unlikely events, Arrigo ends up completely paralyzed in Pozzetto's bed. Pozzetto has to take care of him and his tortured by the jealousy. Pozzetto must keep secret the presence of Arrigo in his house. The funny part is when in the village people start to realize that something strange is going on... (imdb)
Il gatto mammone
Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida)... (imdb)
Love in 4 Easy Lessons
A film with four separate sketches. In the first , a private investigator tasked to oversee for an entire night a woman was suspected of treason; in the second, La Squadra di Calcio ("The Football Team"), a female soccer team's best player goes down with a serious injury. The coach hires a male football star to pose as a woman to replace her.... (tg-films.info)
Where Are You Going on Holiday?
In this anthology made up of three shorter comedies, Ugo Tognazzi, Paolo Villaggio and Alberto Sordi each bring their own special brand of humor to the screen.
Mazzabubù... Quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Comedy, farce. A presenter introduces some characters and illustrates a series of situations which deal with infidelity. (ftvdb.bfi)
Il ficcanaso
A delivery boy (Pippo Franco) gets a surprise parcel of his own when a dead body appears in his apartment. Wracked by fear, the young messenger seeks the aid of Lino (Sergio Leonardi), an overworked police chief who refuses to spend time tending to the timid young man... (mrskin)
Five Thousand Dollars on One Ace
One of the first paella/spaghetti westerns, and the first one produced by the Balcázar Studios. Woods is a gunman who wins 5000 $ in a poker game and also becomes co-owner of a ranch. A corrupt landowner tries to chase all small farmers from the valley. This early euro western is a modest production, saved only by some nice location work and a flamboyant performance by the great Fernando Sancho as a rascal with a heart of gold, but still as trustworthy as a rattlesnake. (spaghetti-western.net)
Fuller Report
One of the most unexpected things about the "Fuller Report" is that its central hero is NOT a secret agent, but a race car driver who gets caught up in the espionage business purely by chance. So he has to survive more on his wits and instincts rather than his skills. The plot itself is quite intriguing, though a little rushed near the end, with a couple of twists you probably won't see coming. (imdb)
Un mostro e mezzo
A surgeon convinces a young thief to get a plastic surgery to resemble a rich man... with the intention of taking possession of his great wealth. The young man accepts, but the operation makes him look like a popular bandit! Problems and misadventures give way to dangerous misunderstandings until... the doctor and the thief find a perfect hiding place: a rich lady hires them... (movie-time)
Due mafiosi contro Al Capone
Franco and Ciccio, two inept police officers from New York, are sent to Chicago to infiltrate in Al Capone's gang. Thanks to the help of a local policeman and a lot of luck they manage to do just fine but when they are trying to arrest the gang, no reinforcements come... (imdb)
Nero\
Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show. (imdb)
Totò nella luna
"An Italian man is discovered to have the same elements in his blood as a monkey. American scientists believe this will make him the perfect candidate to be sent into space. However there are complications with German spies and aliens from another planet"--Container. (worldcat)
Totò le Moko
The mobster Pep le Mok dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi, a street musician. (imdb)
La schiava io ce l\
Comedy about the unhappy husband of a domineering modern woman, who becomes the hapless victim of an insatiable mistress and the happy (for a time) patron of an Amazon slave... (bfi)
Guardia, ladro e cameriera
Otello, an amateur thief, tries a burglary on New Year Eve but he finds the maid Adalgisa in the supposedly empty house. Adalgisa likes Otello who, all things considered, is a good guy, unlike Amerigo the night watchman who tries to profit from the situation. (imdb)
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Eros on the rampage in three delightful sketches concerning love and sex...or sex and love? (imdb)
I cuori infranti
Two studies of unusual relationships between two couple , one married, and one unmarried. (bfi)
Soldati e caporali
The army challenges the navy in a singing contest. (imdb)
Noi siamo le colonne
The adventures of three university students who live in the same boarding house. Ugo, the most serious one, is in love with Lea, daughter of the lodger. Aldo is a practical joker, Bartolozzi is the shiest. Ugo and Lea's love story becomes stormy because of Aldo. (imdb)
Amo un assassino
Crime melodrama of police inspector who suspects his daughter of the murder he is investigating. (imdb)
O.K. Nerone
Two American sailers in Rome get beaten up near the Colosseum. Unconscious, they dream that they are in Ancient Rome, in the time of Nero, first as slaves, then gladiators and finally as the Emperor's favourites. When they come round, they find the Military Police waiting for them. (bfi)
Il corazziere
Man's ambition to follow in his father's footsteps to become a cuirassier. (bfi)
Tempi nostri - Zibaldone n. 2
Five episodes,each illustrating an aspect of post-war Italian life: 1. Mara 2. Il pupo 3. Scena all'aperto 4. Casa d'altri 5. Don Corradino (bfi)
The Mighty Crusaders
Medieval spectacle telling how the Crusaders defeated the Saracens in the Holy Land. (bfi)
La spada e la croce
Biblical epic of the Crucifixion from the viewpoint of a Roman centurion. (bfi)
El colegio de la muerte
Behind the walls of a school lies a perverse criminal mind.
Where Are You Going All Naked?
Milian is living in a home that's in the heart of Roman Governmental Power (making him all the more vulnerable). The servants are all homosexuals. (Invisionfree.com)
Il domestico
A butler for wealthy clients has a problem--he can't seem to stop getting sexually involved with the wives and daughters of his bosses. (imdb)
La Bella Mugnaia
A rich man's attempts to steal away a poor man's wife set the stage for this comic farce, set in Naples in 1860. (AllMovie)
Special Mission Lady Chaplin
Lady Chaplin is a beautiful woman, she is a fashion stylist and she owns an atelier in Paris. Zoltan is a rich American specialized in submarine researches. Dick Malloy is an American secret agent. What have the three in common? Perhaps a sunk American atomic submarine with sixteen missiles still on board? And why every other scene one, two, ten or more men are trying to kill Malloy in every conceivable way? (imdb)
Uncle Was a Vampire
Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi is forced to sell his ancestral castle; when it's converted into a hotel, he stays on as a bellboy. His mysterious uncle arrives and turns out to be a vampire. When his uncle vampirizes Osvaldo, the newly-minted blood-sucker gallops about the castle sipping from the necks of dozens of beautiful female guests. (imdb)
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Cerasella
Two people struggle between marriage for love instead of marriage of convenience. (imdb)
Giovanni dalle Bande Nere
It is loosely based on real life events of the Italian condottiero Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (Wikipedia)
Anonima Cocottes
Robotti, a bank employee, discovers someone has been embezzling money at his branch, and when he refuses to take a bribe to stay quiet, he is fired. After he falls in love, he abandons his moral code to make a fortune in the stock market.
La vendetta di Aquila Nera
When a soldier returns home from the wars, he finds that a local landowner has been terrorizing his family. He disguises himself as a bandit known as "The Black Eagle" and begins taking revenge on the landowner by ravaging his "empire". However, things take a different turn when he falls for the landowner's beautiful daughter.
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A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way, especially the women, now. (imdb)