The best Ivano Staccioli’s drama movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Ivano Staccioli’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Ivano Staccioli.
Private House of the SS
4.2/10
Top Nazi officials, intent on rooting out traitors and those in the military who may be plotting to overthrow Adolf Hitler, recruit and train a group of beautiful prostitutes whose mission is to use any means necessary to uncover plots against the Fuhrer.
Lipstick
6.8/10
A prostitute is robbed and murdered. A fourteen-year-old girl (Laura Vivaldi) sees a suave gigolo come out of the hotel where the murder occurred. She has a schoolgirl crush on the handsome man though, so instead of reporting the crime she befriends him.
So Sweet, So Dead
6/10
A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
Road to Salina
6.7/10
Jonas is on the road to Salina. He stops at a gas station/restaurant and its owner, Mara, is struck by his resemblance to her dead son, Rocky. He decides to stay on and meets Mara's friend Warren and Rocky's sister Billie, but dark facts are to be revealed about the death of Rocky.
Afrika
5/10
A violent examination of male homosexuality in a time when it was considered taboo, where Ivano Staccioli and his lover engage in a self-destructive relationship against the background of Africa.
Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
4.7/10
Young racing driver Dustin Rich falls under the wing of former champion John Lee Scott who takes it upon himself to coach the young man.
Ursus and the Tartar Princess
4.5/10
Peplum movie from 1961
A Girl Called Jules
5.3/10
After his Western triumphs, Valerii stepped out of the shadow of Sergio Leone with this distinctly Bergmanesque sexual melodrama.Dionisio is perfect in the title role and this remains her best film, Valerii turns up along the way too. Just when the film hits a period of auto pilot John Steiner turns up in the final reel for a climax that is quite unforgettable. A bit difficult to trace but well worth the effort.
Rome Against Rome
4.7/10
A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!
Pia de' Tolomei
4.8/10
The Sewer Rats
6.2/10
A crippled loner's car breaks down near an isolated town inhabitated by several killers.
Sword Without a Country
In Renaissance Italy, the young and beautiful Gigliola resists her adopted father's effort to marry her off to a wealthy older suitor. Instead, Gigliola loves Cino, a humble troubador. When Cino kills the suitor in a moment of impulsive anger, he's condemned to death, but Cino's friends rescue him. Gigliola persuades Cino to take her with him. Together they join the rebels seeking to free the land from tyranny.
