Known for Directing
Sergio Corbucci (December 6, 1927 - December 1, 1990) was an Italian film director. He is best known for his very violent yet intelligent spaghetti westerns. He was for a long time considered an exploitation director, but has now attained a vast following and is easily compared to Sam Peckinpah or Sergio Leone. He is the older brother of screenwriter and film director Bruno Corbucci.
Born
December 6, 1926
Died
December 1, 1990 (age 63)
Birthplace
Rome, Italy
Filmography
149 films, 3 shows


NightClub
1989 · 1h 31m · IT
The nightlife of young carefree friends in a wonderful 60s Rome.


Days of Inspector Ambrosio
1988 · 1h 36m · IT
A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house.


Stuff for the Rich
1987 · 1h 46m · IT
3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an insurance man. In the third, a man has to deal with his wife's suicidal attempts.


Rimini Rimini
1987 · 1h 54m · IT
Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.


I Am an ESP
1985 · 1h 52m · IT
Roberto Razzi, skeptical and convinced atheist, is the conductor of the Futuro program, in which he unmasks the most common tricks and deceptions that make the miracle cry out to everyone.


Tit for Tat
1984 · 1h 42m · IT
Fun adventures of a taxi driver and his passenger, a broken financial genius.


This and That
1983 · 1h 59m · IT
Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso' (the one with the red beret). Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance. In fact she always remember her mother having sex with a man wearing a red beret. She discovers that man is Sandro, makes love with him and soon recovers from her obsession.


Sing Sing
1983 · 1h 50m · IT
Eduardo accidentally discovers that he is adopted. His real father is dying, but before his death he said that his mother was the "Queen of England", failing to clarify that this is the nickname of Italian prostitute. But Eduardo is already rushing to the capital of England...


Count Tacchia
1982 · 1h 57m · IT
In 1900 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized component of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows the cynical and ruthless Prince Torquato Terenzi, disappointed by life and progress, and also falls in love with the beautiful Duchess Elisa. When Prince Terenzi dies, Francesco realizes that he's not enriched for nothing with the inheritance, because the noble family is broke; so he enlistes himself for the war in Libya, but quickly returnes to Italy, disgusted by the atrocities of the fighting. His dream is to be a singer, and so he goes to America with the Duchess Elisa.


My Darling, My Dearest
1982 · 2h · IT
Gennarino Laganà is a poor Sicilian who struggles with menial jobs to support his family, while his parents pressure him to seek his fortune in the North. Gennarino would never leave his beloved island if he had not stumbled into a love affair with Donna Egeria, wife of the Mafia boss Don Mimì. To escape certain revenge, he boards a goods train. In a dream, Saint Totino appears to him and promises him protection in exchange for a regulated life. He thus arrives in Milan, where he meets Armida, a woman of the streets, who takes him into her home and makes him her protector and lover. But San Totino appears again to Gennarino and reproaches him for being a kept man: he must work and Armida must change her life.


Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
1981 · 1h 42m · IT
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He manipulates the ship's compass so that Charlie is not aware that he is sailing to the treasure island. But when they step on the island, they discover that it is not as abandoned as they believed: there are some natives - and a Japanese soldier still defending the treasure


I'm Getting a Yacht
1980 · 1h 44m · IT
A dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His ex-wife stows away to keep an eye on the children and the inevitable happens.


I Don't Understand You Anymore
1980 · 1h 42m · IT
On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is Paolo, Luisa's husband. Alberto offers to help Paolo, but when the two men arrive at his home, Paolo still in his bathrobe, Luisa hugs Alberto and calls him Paolo. The two men try everything they think of to help Luisa regain her memory until the last (but not too unexpected) surprise.


Super Fuzz
1980 · 1h 44m · ES
While delivering a parking ticket to a small village in the Florida everglades, Officer Dave Speed finds himself in the middle of a radiation experiment conducted by the American government and NASA, where a detonated nuclear missile gives him a multitude of superpowers.


Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
1979 · 1h 55m · IT
Raphael, a restaurant mandolin player with a limp, a father to support, and a lot of debt, accepts a job offered by his friend, Giardino, to play a serenade under an apartment window at the behest of a mysterious blonde. As he’s playing, a man high up on a balcony is pushed to his death. Raffaele is compelled to conduct his own investigation and becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a macabre secret...


Odds and Evens
1978 · 1h 55m · IT
A bumbling government agent recruits a trucker whose gambling knowledge can help crack an illegal Florida operation.


The Payoff
1978 · 1h 50m · IT
Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.


Three Tigers Against Three Tigers
1977 · 1h 46m · IT
Don Cimbolano - a priest in a small town. Oscar - a offender escaped from prison. Philip - attorney loser. They don't lose heart and find ways out of the most incredible situations.


Here We for Example...
1977 · 1h 49m · IT
Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the culprit, a photographer nicknamed 'Click' and takes up residence with him until he either gets his money back or his poetry published.


Mr. Robinson
1976 · 1h 47m · IT
A shipwreck strands a modern Italian businessman on a desert island. Like Robinson Crusoe he must find a way to return to civilization; unlike him--he's a 20th-century man, a totally different case.


The Con Artists
1976 · 1h 45m · IT
Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organizes his jail break. But instead of Philip, it is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, who escapes. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He succeeds and the two join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicated when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.


What's Your Sign?
1975 · 2h 10m · IT
Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles.


The White, The Yellow, and The Black
1975 · 1h 48m · IT
The White, the Yellow, and the Black (Italian: Il bianco, il giallo, il nero, also known as Shoot First… Ask Questions Later) is a 1975 Spaghetti Western comedy film. It is the last spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci. Differently from his previous western films, this is openly parodic.


The Beast
1974 · 1h 35m · IT
An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.


What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
1972 · 1h 43m · ES
In the beginning of the 20th. century Italian actor Guido Guidi, more enthusiastic than talented, and his ensemble tour Texas. The mysterious and obviously rich Peppino Garibaldi gives them an offer, they can’t deny: For a large amount of dough they should play “Richard III.” in the Mexican town Vera Cruz. But Peppino is not really interested in cultural affairs: He supports “La Revolución” and “General” Carasco, who utilizes the feastful premiere of “Richard III.” to raid Vera Cruz for Comandante Zapata. But shortly after the Mexican Army shows up with some canons in tow to sort things out. Guidi and Padre Albino, Italian like him, succeed to flee and save Carasco accidentially from the firing squad. Whereas the latter coninues his revolutionary fight, Guidi and Albino start an odyssey through the struggling Mexico, which lets them fall one time in the hands of Carasco the other time in those of Herrera or even in the clutches of “hand-taking” bandidos.


Sonny and Jed
1972 · 1h 34m · ES
As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, Joe nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When beautiful Sonny decides he should be her man and teach her how to be a proper outlaw, sparks fly.


The Story of Romance and Knife
1971 · 1h 41m · IT
The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.


Compañeros
1970 · 2h · IT
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.


The Specialists
1969 · 1h 44m · DE
Hud Dixon returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob.


The Mercenary
1968 · 1h 41m · IT
While a Mexican revolutionary lies low as a U.S. rodeo clown, the cynical Polish mercenary who tutored the idealistic peasant tells how he and a dedicated female radical fought for the soul of the guerrilla general Paco, as Mexicans threw off repressive government and all-powerful landowners in the 1910s. Tracked by the vengeful Curly, Paco liberates villages, but is tempted by social banditry's treasures, which Kowalski revels in.


The Great Silence
1968 · 1h 47m · IT
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.


Death on the Run
1967 · 1h 32m · IT
On the run from the police in Athens, a man named Jason has in his possession a microfilm eagerly sought by both criminal gangs and government agencies.


The Hellbenders
1967 · 1h 30m · IT
A Southern Colonel, his three sons, and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest carrying a coffin full of stolen money with which the Colonel plans to revive the Confederacy.


Navajo Joe
1966 · 1h 33m · ES
The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.


The Man Who Laughs
1966 · 1h 37m · FR
This loose adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic shifts the story to Italy and back in time, with the deformed protagonist meeting Lucrezia Borgia instead of Queen Anne. Also, Gwynplaine is renamed Angelo (Jean Sorel) with his disfigurement represented by a single broad slash across his mouth, crude yet convincing. The story (not credited to Hugo) is a swashbuckler pitting the disfigured acrobat against the henchmen of the Borgias.


Ringo and His Golden Pistol
1966 · 1h 27m · IT
A Mexican bandit teams up with a band of renegade Native Americans to avenge his older brothers when they are killed by a prankster, gold-obsessed bounty hunter.


Django
1966 · 1h 32m · IT
A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.


The Sons of the Leopard
1965 · 1h 30m · IT
Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and marries a rich woman. The mistress tries to have her rights established with the help of her sons.


Minnesota Clay
1964 · 1h 33m · IT
Wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit, Minnesota Clay seeks revenge on the man who withheld evidence at his trial. There is a problem however, he is going blind.


Massacre At Grand Canyon
1964 · 1h 29m · IT
After a search for his father's killers, Wes Evans returns home only to find himself involved in a bloody land dispute.


Gli onorevoli
1963 · 1h 38m · IT
Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.


The Monk of Monza
1963 · 1h 41m · IT
Pasquale takes all of his 12 children and runs away from Monza, looking for a house of a wealthy and generous awning. Having met on the way impoverished peasant, Pasquale takes him also, having granted the rank of "Half-Monk" and thus having gained rustic, but a reliable friend.


The Shortest Day
1963 · 1h 27m · IT
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.


Lo smemorato di Collegno
1962 · 1h 24m · IT
A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is her husband and brings him home; then Mrs. Polacich recognizes him as her husband.


The Slave
1962 · 1h 40m · IT
The decurion Randus holds himself so well in the command of his troops, that Caesar promotes him to centurion. He is subsequently sent to Egypt, to keep Cesar informed on the actions and intentions of co-triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus - a man too rich, and ambitious, for Caesar's comfort. A fateful sea trip from Egypt to Rome forces Randus in captivity by mercenary troops, and leads a revolt by which he gets freedom for himself, and all the other slaves. Through an amulet he received from his late mother, a man who had fought by Spartacus' side, identifies the young man as Spartacus' and Varinia's son. At first reluctant to accept this story about his origins, Randus will be forced by the circumstances to repeat the feat of his father, twenty years later.


The Two Marshals
1961 · 1h 30m · IT
September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.


Romulus and Remus
1961 · 1h 48m · IT
Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome.


Goliath and the Vampires
1961 · 1h 32m · IT
Maciste's village is attacked by pirates. The women, including Maciste's fiancee Guja, are carried off to Salmanak, where dwells the lair of the blood drinking Kobrak. Maciste vows to rescue them.


Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
1961 · 1h 27m · IT
Antonio goes to Rome to represent his fellow peasants, to request a highway that will be built in their region. But the guy is mastered by 'la dolce vita' and wastes the money entrusted to him for his mission. When Peppino is sent to to find out what happened, he lets himself be trapped by the gentle grip of 'la dolce vita'


He Who Hesitates Is Lost
1960 · 1h 37m · IT
After their boss' death, two clerks eagerly await the arrival of the next one, each one of them hoping to become the apple of his eye. They compete in every possible way to impress him, which causes lots of trouble and many misunderstandings.


I ragazzi dei Parioli
1959 · 1h 17m · IT
A tale on the Italian upper class of the '60s and their ways to kill time.


Gioventù disperata
1957 · 1h 33m · IT
A doctor whose wife has been accidentally killed by a young man who lives in an impoverished zone of Madrid, goes there with the intention of taking revenge, but after meeting the man's little sister, he goes through a change of heart and decides to stay and help the people that live there, supported by the benevolent local priest.


Supreme Confession
1956 · 1h 31m · DE
The wife of a conductor with a stormy past agrees to meet a blackmailer in a small hotel.


Suonno d'ammore
1955 · 1h 30m · IT
Alberto loves Maria, daughter of Arturo, a rich owner of boats, his love is reciprocated by the girl and has the approval of her father.


Caravan of songs
1955 · 1h 25m · IT
In a luxury hotel in Miramare, a competition is organized between pop music singers. Famous celebrities and famous singers are invited.


Bitter Waters
1954 · 1h 21m · IT
Valerio, a blind man of war, and his little sister Fiorella live with Uncle Mario, who has a shop on the coast.


Shack and puppets
1954 · 1h 20m · IT
An inhabitant of the Moon, crashed on the Earth due to the violent shock caused by an atomic experiment, remains amazed by the discovery of this planet and gives life to a puppet, begging him to introduce him into the world of men.


Foreign Earth
1954 · 1h 26m · IT
A group of illegal immigrants find a job in a French mine and organizes strikes to improve their working condition.


La peccatrice dell'isola
1952 · 1h 34m · IT


Salvate mia figlia
1952 · 1h 31m · IT
A farmer steals some jewelry, desperately looking for money to allow his sick daughter to be operated by a famous surgeon.