The Best of Riz Ortolani
by PimpinAinttEasy | created - 22 Apr 2017 | updated - 10 Sep 2020 | PublicA composer as prolific and nearly as consistent as the great Morricone. I have heard only a small portion of his work, so this list will be updated when I discover more gems by Ortolani.
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1. Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Unrated | 95 min | Adventure, Horror
During a rescue mission into the Amazon rainforest, a professor stumbles across lost film shot by a missing documentary crew.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: Robert Kerman, Francesca Ciardi, Perry Pirkanen, Luca Barbareschi
Votes: 61,165
2. Don't Torture a Duckling (1972)
Not Rated | 105 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a southern Italian town is rocked by a string of child murders, the police and two urban outcasts search for the culprit amid scapegoating within the superstitious community.
Director: Lucio Fulci | Stars: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara Bouchet, Tomas Milian, Irene Papas
Votes: 10,699
3. The 7th Dawn (1964)
Not Rated | 123 min | Adventure, Drama, War
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Director: Lewis Gilbert | Stars: William Holden, Susannah York, Capucine, Tetsurô Tanba
Votes: 1,141
4. Fantasma d'amore (1981)
96 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Over two decades after their affair ended, a married man is haunted by the presence of his former lover.
Director: Dino Risi | Stars: Marcello Mastroianni, Romy Schneider, Eva Maria Meineke, Wolfgang Preiss
Votes: 820
5. A Dog's Life (1962)
Approved | 108 min | Documentary, Horror
A "shockumentary" consisting of a collection of mostly real archive footage displaying mankind at its most depraved and perverse, displaying bizarre rites, cruel behavior and bestial violence.
Directors: Paolo Cavara, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Rossano Brazzi, Yves Klein, Henning Skaarup
Votes: 4,409
6. The Last Minute (1987)
Not Rated | 100 min | Drama
Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo.
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Ugo Tognazzi, Diego Abatantuono, Massimo Bonetti, Elena Sofia Ricci
Votes: 195
7. Una gita scolastica (1983)
90 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama
Italy, 1914. Two teachers (Delle Piane and Pini) take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence.
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Carlo Delle Piane, Tiziana Pini, Rossana Casale, Cesare Barbetti
Votes: 303
8. Teresa the Thief (1973)
111 min | Comedy
Teresa Numa in Nardecchia, motherless daughter of a heartless Lazio peasant, becomes a war widow and single mother constantly looking for new jobs--and often forced to steal in order to live.
Director: Carlo Di Palma | Stars: Monica Vitti, Stefano Satta Flores, Isa Danieli, Carlo Delle Piane
Votes: 172
9. Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome (1972)
98 min | Crime, Drama, History
In Mussolini's Rome a murderer is targeting young girls. The movie explores how the fascist mind works, how it plays its values off the sentiment of the masses and explores the role of the press in creating a unified narrative.
Director: Damiano Damiani | Stars: Nino Manfredi, Gabriele Lavia, Guido Leontini, Orso Maria Guerrini
Votes: 308
10. Night of the Serpent (1969)
108 min | Western
Hernandez, commander of the garrison in a small village, joins a group of townsmen with the intention of robbing orphan Manuel of his inheritance. Luke, suffering from a traumatic past and ... See full summary »
Director: Giulio Petroni | Stars: Luke Askew, Luigi Pistilli, Magda Konopka, Chelo Alonso
Votes: 248
11. A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die (1972)
PG | 92 min | Drama, Western
Branded a coward for surrendering his New Mexico fort to the Confederates without firing a shot, a Union colonel attempts to redeem himself by leading a band of condemned prisoners on a suicide mission to recapture it.
Director: Tonino Valerii | Stars: James Coburn, Bud Spencer, Telly Savalas, Reinhard Kolldehoff
Votes: 2,198
12. Goodbye Uncle Tom (1971)
Unrated | 123 min | Drama
Two documentary filmmakers go back in time to the pre-Civil War American South, to film the slave trade.
Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Stefano Sibaldi, Susan Hampshire, Dick Gregory, Gualtiero Jacopetti
Votes: 1,754
13. The Glory Guys (1965)
Not Rated | 112 min | Drama, Romance, Western
What could be worse for two cavalry officers than to battle with native tribes? To battle each other for the same woman.
Director: Arnold Laven | Stars: Tom Tryon, Harve Presnell, Senta Berger, James Caan
Votes: 1,015
14. Day of Anger (1967)
M | 111 min | Action, Drama, Western
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of a famed gunfighter, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
Director: Tonino Valerii | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Giuliano Gemma, Walter Rilla, Christa Linder
Votes: 5,562
15. Beyond the Law (1968)
PG | 90 min | Western
A trio of thieves plot to steal a town's silver shipment but a turn of events makes them the town's heroes.
Director: Giorgio Stegani | Stars: Lee Van Cleef, Antonio Sabato, Lionel Stander, Graziella Granata
Votes: 1,460
16. Submission (1976)
R | 116 min | Drama, War
In wartime France, pharmacist Eliane begins an affair with her shop assistant Armand, but she soon becomes dominated by him. He demands more and more from her, humiliating her and putting her family at risk.
Director: Salvatore Samperi | Stars: Franco Nero, Lisa Gastoni, Raymond Pellegrin, Andréa Ferréol
Votes: 579
17. The Valachi Papers (1972)
PG | 125 min | Crime, Drama
Gangster Joe Valachi is a marked man in the same joint where mob boss Don Vito Genovese is imprisoned and he's forced to co-operate with the DA in exchange for protection.
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Walter Chiari
Votes: 4,446 | Gross: $20.27M
18. Africa: Blood and Guts (1966)
R | 122 min | Documentary, Horror
The cruel acts of animal poaching and violence, executions, and tribal slaughtering, all taking place on the African continent.
Directors: Gualtiero Jacopetti, Franco Prosperi | Stars: Sergio Rossi, Gualtiero Jacopetti, Jomo Kenyatta, Julius Nyerere
Votes: 1,877
19. Le guerriere dal seno nudo (1973)
R | 89 min | Adventure, Action, Drama
A story of a tribe of Amazons in the age of swords and chariots. The film opens with the tribe holding physical contests to select a new queen. Since there are no men in the tribe, they ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Alena Johnston, Sabine Sun, Rosanna Yanni, Malisa Longo
Votes: 415
20. Old Shatterhand (1964)
89 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
Renegades trying to get the army to abandon their fort get the Indians addicted to whiskey, then convince them to attack and drive out the soldiers.
Director: Hugo Fregonese | Stars: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Daliah Lavi, Guy Madison
Votes: 1,805
21. The Spy with a Cold Nose (1966)
Not Rated | 93 min | Comedy
A dog with a spying device under its skin is sent to the Russian government as a present. When the Russians send the dog to a veterinary, British spy must get to the dog first and retrieve the spying device.
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Laurence Harvey, Daliah Lavi, Lionel Jeffries, Eric Sykes
Votes: 177
22. So Sweet... So Perverse (1969)
92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A bored, married Parisian socialite is pulled into a web of lust and deception after he seemingly rescues a woman from her abusive boyfriend.
Director: Umberto Lenzi | Stars: Carroll Baker, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Erika Blanc, Horst Frank
Votes: 1,238
23. Le guerriere dal seno nudo (1973)
R | 89 min | Adventure, Action, Drama
A story of a tribe of Amazons in the age of swords and chariots. The film opens with the tribe holding physical contests to select a new queen. Since there are no men in the tribe, they ... See full summary »
Director: Terence Young | Stars: Alena Johnston, Sabine Sun, Rosanna Yanni, Malisa Longo
Votes: 415
24. House on the Edge of the Park (1980)
91 min | Horror, Thriller
Two low-life punks invite themselves to a party at a posh villa and after being taunted by their snobbish hosts, hold everyone hostage and subject them to various forms of torture and mayhem.
Director: Ruggero Deodato | Stars: David Hess, Annie Belle, Christian Borromeo, Giovanni Lombardo Radice
Votes: 5,941
25. Madron (1970)
GP | 90 min | Drama, Western
A nun, the only survivor of an Indian massacre of a wagon train, is taken in by a cantankerous old gunfighter.
Director: Jerry Hopper | Stars: Richard Boone, Leslie Caron, Gabi Amrani, Mosko Alkalai
Votes: 349
26. Revenge of the Dead (1983)
R | 89 min | Horror, Mystery
Stefano, a young journalist, buys a used typewriter and accidentally sees that some text is still readable on the ribbon. He manages to reconstruct the story of a scientist, Paolo Zeder, ... See full summary »
Director: Pupi Avati | Stars: Gabriele Lavia, Anne Canovas, Paola Tanziani, Cesare Barbetti
Votes: 2,480
27. Ecco (1963)
100 min | Documentary, Musical
A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long ... See full summary »
Director: Gianni Proia | Stars: George Sanders, Alexander, Maria Ansaldi, Laura Betti
Votes: 133
28. Paolo Barca, maestro elementare, praticamente nudista (1975)
110 min | Comedy
The Milanese nudist professor Paolo Barca moved to the province of Catania; there he will succeed in changing something both in the school and in his character.
Director: Flavio Mogherini | Stars: Renato Pozzetto, Janet Agren, Stefano Satta Flores, Paola Borboni
Votes: 133
29. Madhouse (1981)
Not Rated | 92 min | Horror
A woman is pursued by her murderous, psychopathic twin sister in the days leading up to their birthday.
Director: Ovidio G. Assonitis | Stars: Patricia Mickey, Michael MacRae, Dennis Robertson, Morgan Most
Votes: 2,524
30. Web of the Spider (1971)
R | 93 min | Horror
The journalist Alan Foster makes a bet than he can spend one night at the haunted Blackwood Castle. As he learns, the rumors of ghosts at the castle are indeed true. On All Soul's Eve the ... See full summary »
Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Anthony Franciosa, Michèle Mercier, Klaus Kinski, Peter Carsten
Votes: 835
31. Secrets of a Nurse (1973)
Not Rated | 103 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Portraits of a pushy surgeon and a nurse with many secrets, in a big city hospital.
Director: Luigi Zampa | Stars: Enrico Maria Salerno, Gabriele Ferzetti, Senta Berger, Luciano Salce
Votes: 213
32. Sequestro di persona (1968)
95 min | Crime, Thriller
While holidaying in Sardinia, a young Englishwoman attempts to save her university friend from land-grabbing kidnappers with the help of his childhood playmate.
Director: Gianfranco Mingozzi | Stars: Franco Nero, Charlotte Rampling, Frank Wolff, Ennio Balbo
Votes: 279
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