Giovanni Simonelli

Nascimento : 1926-12-01, Roma, Italy

Morte : 2007-11-17

Filmes

A Cat in the Brain
Screenplay
The master of Italian horror, Lucio Fulci, stars as... Lucio Fulci, a filmmaker with a reputation for gruesome horror films. His body of work has started to plague his mental state, and he is haunted by the grotesque set-pieces his mind has conjured up during his career. His psychiatrist, Egon Schwarz, uses a hypnotised Fulci as an avatar to carry out his own disturbed fantasies, in hopes of ruining the master’s reputation once and for all.
A Cat in the Brain
Story
The master of Italian horror, Lucio Fulci, stars as... Lucio Fulci, a filmmaker with a reputation for gruesome horror films. His body of work has started to plague his mental state, and he is haunted by the grotesque set-pieces his mind has conjured up during his career. His psychiatrist, Egon Schwarz, uses a hypnotised Fulci as an avatar to carry out his own disturbed fantasies, in hopes of ruining the master’s reputation once and for all.
Hansel and Gretel
Screenplay
A farming community make their money through kidnapping children and selling their vital organs on the black market.
Hansel and Gretel
Director
A farming community make their money through kidnapping children and selling their vital organs on the black market.
Bloody Psycho
Writer
This is one of the five films legendary director Lucio Fulci supervised in 1989 to re-use some of the gory bits for his 1990 gorefest "A Cat in the Brain". "Bloody Psycho" features a haunted castle plus wimpy doctor Vogler,who is performing some sort of a psychic therapy on lesbian owner of the place.
Blood Moon
Screenplay
Anne is convinced she has found her husband's corpse, but Dr. Mark can only find out that the man has gone home. When he comes back, his wife does not trust Mark, who believes she suffers from schizophrenia.
Jungle Raiders
Story
An expedition enters an unexplored jungle to search for a legendary ruby.
Jungle Raiders
Screenplay
An expedition enters an unexplored jungle to search for a legendary ruby.
The Ark of the Sun God
Writer
A safecracker takes a job where he must go to Istanbul and steal a scepter that once belonged to the god Gilgamesh but is now in the temple of a secret cult.
C'è un fantasma nel mio letto
Writer
A couple (Carati and Cricotti) have to rent a hotel room which is really a haunted house. Well haunted is overstating it. Just old Renzo as a horny ghost who wants to get it on with Carati. Sexual frolics abound, Carati takes baths and has sex and hubby fulfills his role as cuckold.
Sexual Doublecross
Writer
Hans and Gretel are two young people who work as employees in the branch of an important Bank. Both plan to make a robbery in the bank's headquarters to get enough money to allow them to perform a surgical operation that changes their respective sexes, since he feels "she" and she feels "he".
La parte più appetitosa del maschio
Writer
John Travolto: The Face with Two Left Feet
Writer
Also known as THE LONELY DESTINY OF JOHN TRAVOLTO, it's the first and only Travoltasploitation movie. It's about a hotel cook named Gianni who can't dance but is frustratingly in love with the sexy blonde DJ (Cicciolina) at the nightclub "John's Fever". When one of the cook's coworkers draws a mustache and beard on a poster of John Travolta everyone somehow finally notices that Gianni looks exactly like Travolta and the game is on.
O Assalto
Story
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
O Assalto
Screenplay
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
Flatfoot in Africa
Screenplay
Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the south African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his little son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.
Virility
Writer
A Sicilian (Turi Ferro) feels his masculinity threatened when his son returns with an androgynous girlfriend whom everyone else assumes to be male.
Whisky and Ghosts
Writer
A snake-oil salesman is chased across the desert by a gang of Mexican bandits. He finds out, however, that he is being protected by the spirits of Davey Crockett, Pecos Bill and Johnny Appleseed.
Manone il ladrone
Screenplay
White Fang to the Rescue
Writer
Set at the end of the 19th century in Canada's gold rush Klondike area, wolf-dog White Fang teams up with a prospector when his master is killed. Together they try to avenge his death.
Mr. Hercules Against Karate
Adaptation
A skinny troublemaker and his good-natured, bemuscled sidekick find trouble in Hong Kong.
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye
Screenplay
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye
Story
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.
The Uncertain Death
Writer
A man living in a remote area of India has an affair with a local woman who he leaves in order to marry another. His lover commits suicide after cursing him and his family. Upon returning from London with his new wife he begins to experience strange hallucinations.
Now They Call Him Sacramento
Screenplay
After stealing money transported in a train, Sacramento, Big Jim and Tequila arribe to "La Paz" town. They rent a room there in order to hide the money but Sacramento and Big Jim, while Tequila is sleeping, run away with the money. Tequila follow them...
O Retorno de Clint, O Estranho
Screenplay
"O Retorno de Clint, O Estranho" de Alfonso Balcazar, é um Espaguete Western em seus melhores detalhes, mas com uma história normalmente encontrada nos Westerns americanos, onde o mocinho representando o bem luta contra o personagem que representa o mal. O filme trás o grande Klaus Kinski, em uma performance excepcional, além de músicas compostas por Ennio Morriconi. No filme, Clint, George Martin é o típico mocinho que tenta retornar ao convívio familiar após passar cinco anos vivendo a margem da lei. Cinco anos, após matar o assassino de seu irmão, Clint retorna para sua cidade, a qual encontra aterrorizada por uma gangue de criminosos inescrupulosos que querem roubar as terras dos pequenos e pobres fazendeiros. Além disso, um misterioso caçador de recompensa chamado Scott (Kisnki), tem seguido Clint em busca da recompensa por sua cabeça, e nesse cenário perfeito muitas balas vão voar...
Father Jackleg
Screenplay
A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the mine is worthless, and teams up with a partner in a scheme to unload it on some unsuspecting chumps. However, the other members of his family discover that the gold mine is actually worth a lot of money, and they set out to take it from him before he realizes what he has.
Father Jackleg
Story
A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the mine is worthless, and teams up with a partner in a scheme to unload it on some unsuspecting chumps. However, the other members of his family discover that the gold mine is actually worth a lot of money, and they set out to take it from him before he realizes what he has.
The Crimes of the Black Cat
Writer
A blind pianist tries to figure out who is responsible for a string of murders using a black cat with its claws dipped in curare.
Night of the Scorpion
Writer
This Spanish-Italian co-production tells the story of a man who feels deep guilt for the death of his wife: he, an alcoholic, is convinced that he accidentally caused her fatal fall in their house while he was drunk. He finds a new wife, but he is unable to cope with his first wife's death. Furthermore, it appears the maid and his sister do not accept the new woman in the household. After a while, suddenly begins bodies turn up ... and the grave of the man's first wife is empty!
The Great Swindle
Author
A seductive woman gets involved in relationships with several people. All of the characters play games of deceit with one and other and things get more and more dangerous.
Bom Funeral, Amigo... Paga Sartana
Screenplay
After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind the killings. The sheriff himself is not above suspicion, so Sartana must uncover the culprit all on his own.
Bom Funeral, Amigo... Paga Sartana
Story
After witnessing a brutal massacre, the legendary hero Sartana is ready to do some investigating. Almost everyone in the tiny town of Indian Creek seems eager to buy up the property left behind by the murder victims, and one of them could well be behind the killings. The sheriff himself is not above suspicion, so Sartana must uncover the culprit all on his own.
Playgirl 70
Writer
Italian comedy.
Raped On The Beach
Writer
A young girl witnesses a violent and ultimately fatal act between her mother and another man and it emotionally scars her for years to come. As a young woman, she takes a vacation with a more worldly girlfriend to Sardinia, and in doing so, attracts the attention of a young man in the village. Despite her interest in the man her haunted past prevents her from developing a normal relationship with him.
Day After Tomorrow
Screenplay
Bespectacled pistolero Stan Ross comes to Canyon City and becomes involved with two feuding factions, after a clerk has been killed by the banker Jefferson during a botched holdup, while robbing his own bank.
Sartana Does Not Forgive
Writer
Jorge Martin is relentlessly stalking a gang of outlaws led by the ruthless Slim (Jack Elam) who raped and murdered his bride.
Vendo Caro Minha Pele
Screenplay
Algum cara quer algo tanto que literalmente vende sua pele para consegui-lo. Metaforicamente, é claro, todos nós sabemos que ele está vendendo sua alma para realizar o desejo de seu coração. Seguem-se hilaridade e caos, além de um final feliz de Hollywood, porque todos nós sabemos que o diabo é realmente um cara bom no fundo.
Eu Não Perdôo... Mato!
Story
Don Ramon, a wealthy patron, receives his son back after he has sent him away to medical school, only to have him fall in love with his new young wife.
Kill, Panther, Kill!
Screenplay
In the opening moments of Kill, Panther, Kill! we see the daring escape, during a prison transfer, of master criminal Arthur Tracy. Tracy has been in stir for four years after thieving a fortune in jewels worth three million dollars. Now his loyal henchmen, Anthony and Smokey, lie in wait beside a desolate hillside road that’s apparently intended to be overlooking Malibu — but is actually some anonymous European location — as the LAPD van baring Arthur approaches. After dispensing with Arthur’s guards in a hail of machinegun fire, the three pile into a getaway car, at which point Anthony says he knows of an ideal place for them to hold up. “They’re holding a rodeo this week in Calgary”, he says. “Nobody will look for us there.” And truer words were never spoken. The only thing that I’d be looking for at a rodeo in Calgary would be a thorough ass-kicking.
The Young, the Evil and the Savage
Story
A woman is strangled in the bath by a black-gloved killer who disposes of her body in a large trunk. The trunk is delivered to St. Hilda College, an exclusive finishing school. Betty-Anne, one of the female students, is strangled in the school cellar. The police, led by Inspector Durand, are called in to investigate. Suspects include La Floret, the voyeuristic gardener; Di Brazzi, the new swimming instructor; Mrs. Clay, the summer school French mistress; an old professor who collects birds; and a philandering young teacher called Richard. The murders continue but Jill, a keen amateur detective, helps the police identify the unlikely killer...
Destino: Estambul 68
Story
A flood of counterfeit dollars flooded the global market and is creating alarm in governments around the world. Jeff, a dynamic young journalist is commissioned by the director of his newspaper, to investigate a very strange case: find out the whereabouts of his friend, Professor Norton, who’s mysteriously disappeared.
Any Gun Can Play
Writer
A gang robs a gold shipment from a train. A so called bounty hunter is sent to track down the robbers and decides to let them lead him to the gold.
Kill Me Gently
Screenplay
One of Tony and Brad's best with the boys on the hunt for a treasure of missing LSD that has been stolen by a criminal organization. Their quest eventually leads the boys to far-off desert oil ruins where much of the film's best action occurs.
Every Man Is My Enemy
Screenplay
The Big Hit of Surcouf
Screenplay
The continuation of the adventures of Captain Robert Surcouf and his crew.
Django Atira Primeiro
Screenplay
O pai de Django é enquadrado por seu parceiro de negócios Clusker e baleado por um assassino de recompensa. Django herda a parte de seus pais no negócio e uma pontuação para acertar com Clusker.
Countdown to Doomsday
Writer
NY private eye Jeff Milton is investigating a case of kidnapping in Caracas.
Special Mission Lady Chaplin
Original Music Composer
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?
Special Mission Lady Chaplin
Writer
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?
Johnny Yuma - O Vingador
Screenplay
Samantha Felton era uma bela mulher que não mediria conseqüências para conquistar o que queria, até mesmo encomendar a morte de seu marido para apoderar-se de sua fortuna, mas para isso ela necessitaria fazer um pacto com seu amante e cúmplice Pedro. Ambos teriam mais tarde que enfrentar Johnny Yuma um cavaleiro sem rédeas que possuía o segredo do cofre que continha tal fortuna. Para matá-lo e ficarem livres, Samantha tenta contratar Carradine, com sua irresistível sensualidade e 5.000 dólares, porém além de não aceitar a proposta ele se junta a Johnny Yuma para fazer justiça. Um filme maravilhoso que tem todos os elementos do melhor do Western. Seqüências emocionantes de muita ação com borda de um agradável romance, formidáveis interpretações e um belíssimo cenário. Um final literalmente surpreendente no melhor estilo do Faroeste.
Knives of the Avenger
Writer
A mysterious knife-throwing viking warrior protects a young peasant woman and her young son from the clutches of a evil regent bent on claiming the title of king and the woman for himself.
Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun
Screenplay
The island paradise of San Felipe has undergone a revolution! The charismatic General Siqueiros has assumed control! Those assisting him though have an agenda far beyond a simple dictatorship of a inconsequential banana republic! They’re scheming to put the entire world at their mercy through the mad scientist Karlesten’s efforts to develop a deadly missile-carried gas! And only one man can stop him! Walter Ross, Agent 3S3! And he not only has a license to kill, but also a license to spank!
Seven Guns for Timothy
Screenplay
The greenhorn Timothy Benson is the heir of a mine, in which also the bandit Rodriguez is interested. Timothy's foreman Corky and his 5 friends are his only hope and they teach him the lessons of self-reliance. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
Tony and Brad investigate the murders of politicians and scientists. They soon face off against a team of super hit women with their usual flair.
Kiss Kiss, Kill Kill
Screenplay
Tony and Brad investigate the murders of politicians and scientists. They soon face off against a team of super hit women with their usual flair.
Balearic Caper
Writer
A scepter is stolen, and it's hunted for by various groups of international robbers and spies, for various reasons - in a parody of 007 movies.
The Sea Pirate
Screenplay
A young naval officer becomes a corsair to make enough money to marry a pretty girl, and fights injustice and snobbery to reach home safely.
Cem Mil Dólares para Ringo
Screenplay
A stranger rides into Rainbow Valley where he's mistaken for a former resident who was believed killed in the Civil War and soon finds himself in opposition to local boss Tom Cherry, who seeks to find $100,000 stashed away by a Mexican general.
That Man in Istanbul
Story
An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, but ultimately becomes self on the search for the disappeared and gets a striving for world domination secret organization.
Assassinato em Roma
Story
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.
Assassinato em Roma
Screenplay
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.
Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell
Writer
A 1965 Italian adventure-Eurospy film directed by Sergio Sollima (credited as Simon Sterling). This is the first chapter in the Sollima's spy film trilogy with Agent 3S3. Here the intelligence agent from the U.S. is tasked with uncovering the leader of the Black Scorpion.
The Ten Gladiators
Screenplay
Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross.
The Old Testament
First Assistant Director
The Jews of Jerusalem are driven out by their Syrian rulers. They gather their forces, and return to drive out their oppressors.
The Old Testament
Screenplay
The Jews of Jerusalem are driven out by their Syrian rulers. They gather their forces, and return to drive out their oppressors.
Revenge of the Black Knight
Writer
La Cieca Di Sorrento (also known as Revenge of the Black Knight is a 1963 cloak and dagger film directed by Nick Nostro and based on the novel of the same name by Francesco Mastriani. Masked knights fight the cruel Tyrant Amedeo, tutor of the beautiful, rich and blind orphan Isabella. The knights are led by a young doctor who in the end will defeat Isabella's evil oppressor, give her her sight and marry her.
79 A.D.
Writer
Intrigue at the Roman Emperor's court prior to its destruction by Vesuvius.
Samson
First Assistant Director
While traveling through the kingdom of Sulom, Samson is arrested and finds that the queen no longer reigns and that a power-mad warlord and his army of mercenaries now controls the kingdom. Samson teams up with some of his one-time adversaries to battle the usurper and restore the rightful queen to power.
Samson
Screenplay
While traveling through the kingdom of Sulom, Samson is arrested and finds that the queen no longer reigns and that a power-mad warlord and his army of mercenaries now controls the kingdom. Samson teams up with some of his one-time adversaries to battle the usurper and restore the rightful queen to power.
Samson
Story
While traveling through the kingdom of Sulom, Samson is arrested and finds that the queen no longer reigns and that a power-mad warlord and his army of mercenaries now controls the kingdom. Samson teams up with some of his one-time adversaries to battle the usurper and restore the rightful queen to power.
Goliath Against the Giants
Screenplay
Muscleman fights sea monsters and Amazon warriors, then returns home to find a race of giants living in a valley, into which fellow countrymen are being thrown as punishment for opposing a usurper king and his consort.
Conqueror of Maracaibo
Assistant Director
Alan Braves, captain of a pirate ship, is, by the treachery of a comrade, accused of a crime of which he is innocent. He decides to go to America, but during his trip, he finds a Spanish galleon that saved from attack by pirates, and escorting the galleon to Maracaibo. Braves is first received with full honors for saving a Spanish ship but after that is reported to the Governor, Braseeur, the pirate traitor. It is, therefore, arrested and sentenced to death from the visualization of torture ...
Conqueror of Maracaibo
Writer
Alan Braves, captain of a pirate ship, is, by the treachery of a comrade, accused of a crime of which he is innocent. He decides to go to America, but during his trip, he finds a Spanish galleon that saved from attack by pirates, and escorting the galleon to Maracaibo. Braves is first received with full honors for saving a Spanish ship but after that is reported to the Governor, Braseeur, the pirate traitor. It is, therefore, arrested and sentenced to death from the visualization of torture ...
Quanto sei bella Roma
Screenplay
Claudio and Maurizio, two young and reckless taxi drivers in a Roman gas station meet two American tourists, daughters of a Spanish man that has oil wells in America. Maurizio and Claudio walk the tourists to the Eternal City and forget their girlfriends Patricia and Lorella. The brides, aware of their wanderings,begin to pay them with the same currency.
Quanto sei bella Roma
Story
Claudio and Maurizio, two young and reckless taxi drivers in a Roman gas station meet two American tourists, daughters of a Spanish man that has oil wells in America. Maurizio and Claudio walk the tourists to the Eternal City and forget their girlfriends Patricia and Lorella. The brides, aware of their wanderings,begin to pay them with the same currency.
The Warrior and the Slave Girl
Screenplay
Marcus Numidius (Ettore Manni), a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius (Georges Marchal). Princess Amira (Gianna Maria Canale), with ambitions of being Queen and jealous of Asclepius' popularity, plans his death in the arena by substituting a lion for his human opponent