Known for Camera
Sebastiano Celeste was born on 15 November 1940 in Italy. He is a cinematographer and assistant director, known for La piovra, The Dirty Seven and Alien Interferenze.
Born
November 15, 1940 (age 85)
Birthplace
Santa Croce di Magliano, Campobasso, Molise, Italy
Filmography
90 films, 4 shows


Il Cioccolatino
2023
country: Italy


Bocche inutili
2022
country: Italy
Having escaped the roundup of the Rome ghetto, Ester, a 40-year-old Jewish woman, is sent to the Fossoli camp where she befriends Ada. Having avoided the transport to Auschwitz, Ester is left with one last, difficult mission: to save the child she has discovered she is expecting.


Burraco fatale
2020 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
Irma, Eugenia, Miranda and Rina are four different women, each with their own character, their own weaknesses and their own eccentricities, but linked by a deep and lasting knowledge over time, united and marked by their essential card games. When they decide to participate in a national buraco tournament and get out of their everyday life, they will suddenly find themselves with their cards exposed. Life always offers a second chance and love can go back to upsetting at any age. After all, it is the game of burraco that has taught him that a game must be played completely, to the end, and that no result is ever taken for granted.


Il ritratto incompiuto
2019
country: Unknown


The Cat & the Moon
2019 · 1h 15m
country: Italy


La settima onda
2018
country: Unknown


Il mondo di mezzo
2017
country: Unknown


The Tailor's Wife
2014
country: Italy


The Last Wish
2014 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
Mentor Hasa, a senior officer of the State Security, finds himself from a "spy" into a tapped man and his life takes a dramatic turn. His last wish to his son, Martin, is that his story is told to the whole world.


La mia mamma suona il rock
2013 · 1h 23m
country: Italy
Cristiano and Franco are the owners of a fashion house and a couple. Cristiano is obsessed with the idea of having a child, to make him happy Franco think of kidnapping Massimo and treating him like a son


Us and Lenin
2008 · 1h 30m
country: Albania
In a nursing home the elderly deal with their past.


Mao Tse Tung
2007 · 1h 31m
country: Albania
The film unfolds the reality in a communist country in the 1970s through the eyes and wise ways of an ordinary gypsy. The events take place in a small town in Albania. Besides the well-organized civilized life, a strange Gypsy community is settled in the town. The calm flow of their life is troubled by the birth of a child. The son, who is the ninth child in this Gypsy family, will bring joy not only to his family, but to the entire gypsy community. What could possibly trouble the strong communist establishment of the time? A child is born but not an ordinary one. His name is Mao Tse Tung. A gypsy Mao Tse Tung in the 1970s.


Tornare indietro
2002
country: Italy
A painter from Turin, Stefano Faenza, arrives in Reggio Calabria on the occasion of a personal exhibition organized in his honor in Locride. Behind this initiative there is a schoolmate of his, Gino Jacona, today councillor to the culture. During the trip, on the 106 state road, that takes him from the airport to the town, Stefano remembers the period he spent in this region in the early 70s...


La vita cambia
2000 · 1h 35m
country: Italy


La Donna del Treno
1999 · 3h
country: Unknown
A woman travels in a compartment of a train and a young man sits next to her with whom, almost immediately, sparks strike: once they arrive at their destination the boy realizes that the young lady has forgotten a book and so follows her to to return it. When the two are alone at home, without having even introduced themselves, they soon end up in each other's arms and spend an intense night of love. At dawn the man leaves. Also at dawn that same morning, a man is killed in his garage and it is soon discovered that he is the brother of the young man on the train.


Panarea
1997 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
During a summer weekend in the island of Panarea, a series of stories of love between the vacationers are intertwined.


Gli Inaffidabili
1997
country: Italy


Classe mista 3ª A
1996 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
Three teenagers are preparing for their final exams, but their main interest is certainly not their studies. Stefano dumps his girlfriend for the beautiful Caterina, but her boyfriend Gianluca forces him to disguise himself as a Jim Morrison fan to win over another classmate. Annalisa, the girl Stefano dumped, will find the man of her dreams.


Scratch and Win
1996 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
Andrea, Maurizio and Sergio are professional idlers, lazy, indolent and full of inventiveness. Maurizio is engaged to the policewoman Anna, of whom he is extremely jealous, Sergio still lives with his mother and Andrea is tyrannized by his wife and his brother-in-law, a former boxer. When a crew arrives in town to shoot a commercial, Andrea and Sergio meet two actresses; in the meantime, Maurizio is dumped by Anna. The three spend a large sum of money on a scratch card to travel to Sardinia in search of the actresses in the commercial.


Keys in Hand
1996 · 1h 31m
country: Italy
The brave Baccello, at the time departed as a young crusader for the Holy Land, returns to Sarnano where he is anxious to find his beautiful wife Ubalda to whom on the day of departure he had a sturdy chastity belt worn ...


Uomini senza donne
1996 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Alex and Max are two "bachelors" who share the same house: Alex, advertising copywriter, is boxing, is an impenitent dongiovanni and does not hesitate to betray his colleague and girlfriend Paola; Max, saxophonist, neglects his ulcer and is attracted, yes, but also scared, by women.
Rome, November 12, 1994
Rome, November 12, 1994
1995 · 33m
country: Italy
Francesco Maselli pitched this documentary to the CGIL, CISL, and UIL trade unions as part of the 1.5 million-strong protest march on November 12, 1994 against Silvio Berlusconi's projects on social security and the reform of the pension system. A large number of directors, cinematographers, camera operators and technicians from all over the country worked for free in 22 different crews, chronicling one of largest political gatherings ever held in Italy.


L'Enfant tombée du ciel
1995 · 1h 40m
country: France
An Italian family welcomes a little girl fleeing the Sarajevo war.


Una bambina di troppo
1995
country: Unknown


Once a Year, Every Year
1994 · 1h 28m
country: Italy
A man enters a restaurant in Trastevere, in the suburbs of Rome, and asks the owner to cook him the superb bass he has just been given. He wants it served at the dinner gathering like every year the group of inseparable friends he is a member of. The others join him. The last to come is a lawyer who has just liquidated the succession of the one that will be missing tonight. The deceased leaves them an estate in Umbria provided they live there in community. What will the friends decide during this dinner like no other?


Uomini sull'orlo di una crisi di nervi
1994 · 1h 46m
country: Italy
"Men on the edge of a nervous breakdown" - Vincenzo, Gianni, Nicola and Pino are four friends who for years have been seeing every Monday to play poker. But this time Nicola is in crisis with his wife. The evening is ruined, but Pino has an idea. Why not invite a "ring"?


The Angel with the Gun
1992 · 1h 51m
country: Italy
The revenge of a young woman who sees her family brutally shot to death.


In camera mia
1992
country: Unknown


The Dark Sun
1990 · 1h 47m
country: Italy
After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to participate in various crimes commited by the mafia.


The House of Clocks
1989 · 1h 24m
country: Italy
A gang of ruthless thugs intent on robbery prey upon a seemingly harmless elderly couple, Vittorio and Sara. The simple plan turns into a terrifying nightmare, as Vittorio's antique clock collection mysteriously turns back time. Now the hunters become the hunted and the old couple becomes a vengeful, malevolent force.


The Sweet House of Horrors
1989 · 1h 22m
country: Italy
A murdered couple return from the beyond to care for their two young children, as well as seek revenge against their killer, accept their children's step parents, and try to prevent their house from being sold.


Lenin: The Train
1988 · 3h 18m
country: Austria
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations....


The Spider Labyrinth
1988 · 1h 26m
country: Italy
A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.


Skipper
1987
country: Italy
Skipper Alex Grimaldi has two weaknesses: his daughter, born from a previous relationship, and, obviously, his boat. Always with a Tuscan cigar in his mouth, Fabio Testi’s sailor embarks on real seaside adventures because of his clients who are often dangerous criminals.


Puro cashmere
1986 · 1h 29m
country: Italy
Giuliano, kindergarten teacher, goes to his ex's birthday, meets Liliana and falls in love with her.


Department Store
1986 · 1h 50m
country: Italy
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.


Separati in casa
1986 · 1h 39m
country: Italy
The housing shortage means that two spouses have to continue living under the same roof despite the ongoing legal separation. Incidents and misunderstandings to no end, but the couple's son will take care of fixing everything.


Pizza Connection
1985 · 1h 56m
country: Italy
An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals clash with the task, the only way to save him is through a sacrifice that appeases the mafia.


Il Mistero di Bellavista
1985 · 1h 42m
country: Italy
A doorman and a street cleaner, intrigued by the passage of Halley's Comet, ask Professor Bellavista if they can observe the sky through his telescope. The two, instead of observing the comet, end up framing a window of the apartment opposite and believe they have discovered a crime. So they set out in search of the body.


College
1984 · 1h 36m
country: Italy
A romance between a student of a college of high class and a cadet of the nearby Naval Academy.


Stato d'emergenza - Il caso Dozier
1984
country: Unknown


Difendimi dalla notte
1982 · 1h 37m
country: Italy
Late at night, Angelo returns from a mission in Africa and slips behind the wheel of a taxi, navigating a city he barely recognizes. Shrouded in darkness, its streets pulse with a strange, unsettling energy. But the true nightmare begins when he finally reaches home. Confronted by sudden eruptions of senseless violence and drawn into a web of increasingly twisted personal entanglements, Angelo is forced down a harrowing path. As he ventures ever deeper into the abyss of the night, he finds himself changed in ways he never could have imagined.
Venezia, carnevale, un amore
Venezia, carnevale, un amore
1982
country: Italy


Emanuelle: Queen of the Desert
1982 · 1h 36m
country: Italy
Armed soldiers, thirsty and lost, run into the mysterious Sheila, who claims to be able to guide them to safety.


My Wife Goes Back to School
1981 · 1h 22m
country: Italy
Aristide Buratti is a wealthy grocer married to attractive Valentina. Although they seem to have a happy marriage, Valentina feels herself culturally inferior because she is a high school dropout. Despite her husband's objections, she enrolls at a private boarding school.


L'amante tutta da scoprire
1981 · 1h 31m
country: Italy
Erika and George are two crooks hired by a rich lady to get rid of her philandering husband.


Lend Me Your Wife
1980
country: Italy
Alex Fortini, a transplant to Milan, lives behind his lover who owns an advertising agency. When his wife, who had left five years ago, reappears, fearing that she will want to ask him for a divorce and alimony, he unwittingly gets into a lot of trouble.


Off Season
1980 · 1h 45m
country: Italy
A couple arrive in an off-season Cesenatico but they quickly split up after a bad argument. The girl then settles in an uninhabited flat with a photographer she met before and with whom she has an affair. His ex gets kidnapped by three amateur robbers. Both stories end with a dramatic and grotesque epilogue.


Improvviso
1979
country: Unknown


School Teacher Dances... with Her Class
1979 · 1h 23m
country: Italy
Girls' dance instructor Claudia Gambetti takes over the boy's gym class after gym teacher Martorelli breaks both his legs owing to one of his student's pranks. Soon both teachers and students are interested in learning more of Claudia's athletic dance moves. Director Fiorontori has made some debts betting on horses and wants Claudia to win a disco competition to balance the school budget, too. When the boys team are invited to face off against their superior Russian counterparts, Claudia calls in her dancing girls to be used as a secret weapon.


Escape from Women's Prison
1978 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of young female tennis players. They drive the bus to the house of the judge who originally sent them to prison, where--since this is after all a women-in-prison picture--the hostages undergo various forms of physical and sexual abuse in various degrees of nudity.


Laboratorio teatrale di Luca Ronconi
1977 · 1h 17m
country: Unknown
A documentary about director Luca Ronconi. He is asked about his life and his choice to devote himself to theater and in particular, at that precise moment in his career, to undertake the production of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Calderon as part of the Prato theater workshop.


Carioca Tigre
1976
country: Brazil


Free Hand for a Tough Cop
1976 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.


Violent Naples
1976 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and organized crime, and tries to force the syndicate out of town with any means necessary.


The Cop in Blue Jeans
1976 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
A top undercover cop finds and arrests a series of purse snatchers until he discovers an American at the top of an evil ring of thieves.


The Diamond Peddlers
1976 · 1h 45m
country: Unknown
Bumbling crooks Butch and Toby pose as priests in order to elude being arrested by the authorities in Africa. Butch and Toby deliver a statue of the Virgin Mary from Africa to Amsterdam. Unbenownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling diamonds. A group of equally inept mobsters give chase.


The Walls of Sana'a
1974 · 16m
country: Italy
The capital of Yemen, the city of Sana'a, holds an important part of history within its walls filled with medieval architecture and culture. But that same culture was about to disappear with the country's modernization which came after the civil war in the 1960's. To impeach such modern invasion, director Pasolini pledges to UNESCO for the recognition of Sana'a as a World Heritage Site.


December 12th
1972 · 42m
country: Italy
On December 12th, 1969 a bomb went off at the Piazza Fontana in Milan that killed 16 people and injured 84. Railway worker and anarchist activist Giuseppe Pinelli was picked up, along with other anarchists, for questioning regarding the attack. He was held and interrogated for three days, longer than Italian law specified that people could be held without seeing a judge. Just before midnight on December 15, 1969 Pinelli was seen to fall to his death from a fourth floor window of the Milan police station. Although officially deemed a suicide, the reporter who watched the fall from the street maintained that he was pushed. Three police officers interrogating Pinelli were put under investigation in 1971 for murder but charges were dropped because of lack of evidence.


Jungle Erotic
1970 · 1h 30m
country: France
Young women have an adventure in the African jungle