Silvio Amadio
Silvio Amadio (8 August 1926 – 19 August 1995) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 24 films between 1957 and 1981. His film Wolves of the Deep was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. He is known to horror film fans for directing Amuck! (1972), a giallo film starring Rosalba Neri and Barbara Bouchet, an... more
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Amuck!
(1972)
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Greta Franklin, a beautiful American blonde, arrives on an island near Venice and rings the door-bell of Richard Stuart, a famous novelist who lives in a beautiful house with his wife Elonora. She manages to be hired as Richard's new secretary, the former one having disappeared without a trace. What Richard and Eleonora do not know - y...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Silvio Amadio
Cast:
Farley Granger, Barbara Bouchet, Rosalba Neri, Petar Martinovitch, Dino Mele
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Smile Before Death
(1972)
Crime, Horror, Mystery
Teenaged Nancy Thompson arrives unexpectedly at her mothers county villa. She discovers that her mom has died a violent death.The police investigate and believe the she killed herself by cutting her throat with a piece of broken of glass.Nancy meets and becomes friends with Gina who was her mothers best friend and who has a special rel...
Runtime:
85 min
Director:
Silvio Amadio
Cast:
Jenny Tamburi, Silvano Tranquilli, Rosalba Neri, Hiram Keller, Dana Ghia
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The Underage Girl
(1974)
Comedy, Romance
Suffocated from the strict atmosphere of her high school, Valeria has been experiencing erotic dreams with sadistic motorcyclist rapists, a doctor who decides more than an exam is in order and a torturous priest whipping her in pure delight. After leaving school she finds out that the her bourgeois family setting has something to do wi...
Runtime:
84 min
Director:
Silvio Amadio
Cast:
Gloria Guida, Rosemary Dexter, Marco Guglielmi, Luciano Roffi, Corrado Pani
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The Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete
(1960)
Fantasy
King Minos sacrifices the 'required' virgins to the Minotaur. As his wife lies dying, she confesses that her daughter has a twin she has secreted to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur. The daughter raised by Minos tries to have her twin killed, but failing in her first attempt, continues to try to have her given to the Minot...
Runtime:
105 min
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Assassination in Rome
(1965)
Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate search for him.
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Silvio Amadio
Cast:
Hugh O'Brian, Cyd Charisse, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Alberto Closas, Memmo Carotenuto
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That Malicious Age
(1975)
Drama
Gardener Nino Castellano takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Gloria Guida and Anita Sanders which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem!
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Silvio Amadio
Cast:
Gloria Guida
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War Gods of Babylon
(1962)
Noble, wise King Sardanapolo and his more soft and naive younger brother Prince Sammash get into a bitter feud over the affections of sweet and alluring innocent peasant girl Mirra. Meanwhile, the treacherous and ruthlessly ambitious General Arbace plots against both siblings.
Runtime:
88 min
Director:
Silvio Amadio
Cast:
Howard Duff, Jocelyn Lane, Luciano Marin
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Wolves in the Abyss
(1959)
War
At some point, somewhere in the relentless events of the Second World War: A submarine returns from a long, successful patrol. Shortly before their native coast, however, they are bombarded by enemy aircraft. The submarine sinks and for the men begins a fight for survival at 110 meters depth.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Silvio Amadio
Cast:
Massimo Girotti, Folco Lulli, Jean-Marc Bory, Alberto Lupo, Horst Frank
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L'isola delle svedesi
(1969)
Drama
After an argument with her fiancé Maurizio, Manuela breaks off with him and decides to go to a Mediterranean island where her friend Eleonora now lives a solitary life. The friendship between the two girls gradually turns into sexual attraction and they become lovers. When Maurizio lands on the island with a view to reconquering Manuel...
Runtime:
84 min
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White Slave Ship
(1961)
Adventure
The Albatross travels from England to the New World in 1675, with a number of passengers, a couple of political prisoners along with a dozen other women convicts, these to be sold into slavery on arrival. The woman activist frees the dozen of low-cast women, and they take over the ship. After a storm, the captain takes back control of ...
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Silvio Amadio
Cast:
Pier Angeli, Edmund Purdom, Armand Mestral, Ivan Desny, Renato Speziali
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For One Thousand Dollars Per Day
(1968)
Hud's parents were murdered, their land stolen and now Hud will dish out justice to the guilty - the three Clark brothers know they are in danger but they don't know from where the blow will come.
Runtime:
81 min
Director:
Silvio Amadio
Cast:
Zachary Hatcher, Mimmo Palmara, Rubén Rojo, Mirko Ellis
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The Medium
(1980)
Horror, Thriller
A man has psychic premonitions of bad things happening to both a young boy and a young lady in a flaming vehicle.
Runtime:
91 min
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Chains
(1974)
Catene is a 1974 Italian melodramatic film directed by Silvio Amadio. The film is the re-make of the 1949 top grossing film with the same title by Raffaello Matarazzo. It was a commercial failure, grossing about 60 million lire.
Runtime:
96 min
Director:
Silvio Amadio
Cast:
Maurizio Merli, Rosemary Dexter, Mimmo Palmara, Marco Liofredi
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The Doctor...the Schoolgirl
(1976)
Comedy
Claudia, a perky eighteen year-old girl, is crushed when her step mother prevents her from going on a vacation to London. She discovers her step mother is having an affair with a doctor and so, with the help of her friends, sets about getting her revenge.
Runtime:
92 min