The best Roberto Messina’s action movies

Roberto Messina

Roberto Messina

02/01/1934 (90 años)
Today we present the best Roberto Messina’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Roberto Messina’s movies.

Popeye

Popeye
5.4/10
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.

Crime Busters

Crime Busters
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 01/04/1977
  • Character: Fred's Henchman
An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.

Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure

Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
7.1/10
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

Bandidos

Bandidos
6.6/10
Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooting his hands. Years later, Martin meets an escaped convict, wrongly convicted for the train robbery. Martin trains his new student and both men seek out Billy Kane.

Squadra antifurto

Squadra antifurto
6.3/10
  • Genre: ActionComedy
  • Release: 29/10/1976
  • Character: Commissario Tozzi
A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die..

The Cop in Blue Jeans

The Cop in Blue Jeans
6/10
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.

Loaded Guns

Loaded Guns
4.7/10
  • Genre: ActionComedyCrime
  • Release: 18/01/1975
  • Character: Don Calò Henchman (uncredited)
An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.

The Big Bust Out

The Big Bust Out
4.4/10
Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.

Oil

Oil
6.1/10
When a huge fire erupts at an oil field in the wilds of the Sahara Desert, an American who specializes in fighting oil-field fires and his team are called in to put it out. As the fire rages out of control, the expert finds that he not only has to battle the fire but greed and political corruption as well.

Colossus of the Arena

Colossus of the Arena
5.2/10
A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor.

Triumph of the Ten Gladiators

Triumph of the Ten Gladiators
4.7/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 26/11/1964
  • Character: Soldier (uncredited)
The ten gladiators are hired to travel to Arbela, a small country on the outskirts of the Roman Empire to learn if Parthia is planning to war with Rome. Upon arriving, the heroes decide to kidnap the beautiful Parthian queen and spirit her to Syria to serve as a hostage.

Operation Poker

Operation Poker
4.7/10
The invention everyone is after is definitely of the science fiction type. It's a special tie-clip that when used with a pair of infra-red contact lenses enables the user to see through walls! The guy that stole them from the professor is putting it to good use by wearing it while playing poker and cleaning up! He should think bigger. The first thing Roger does when he discovers this little novelty is use it to spy on his girlfriend getting dressed! That's more like it. This film really gets around. We travel from the Riviera to Geneva to Paris to Casablanca (the Casbah no less), and to Copenhagen. We even get a tour of the Tuborg brewery. There's a prolonged gun battle amongst the giant beer tanks. Talk about product placement!

Convoy Busters

Convoy Busters
6.3/10
In Rome, a vagrant finds the body of a teen girl, her throat professional slashed. Police inspector Olmi uses his brutal and violent methods to follow a trail that leads him toward high government officials. When his methods leave an innocent bystander dead, the corrupt officials have an excuse to get Olmi transferred to a coastal town where the pace is slow and he has time for a romantic dalliance. Soon, Olmi discovers that fishing isn't the only local occupation, and out comes his gun and his ruthless tactics of investigation.

The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond

The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond
5.7/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 23/08/1977
  • Character: Man at the Alicorno
Returning from Switzerland to Rome, the boss prof. Salviati, called 'The Prince', finds his business compromised by Rudy, a small local bandit full of presumption, audacity and men ready to kill. Commissioner Baldi a young and brave employee, will fight against them with the help of an ex-employee Rampelli.

The Tiger Gang

The Tiger Gang
5.5/10
Captain Tom Rowland and Commissioner X are sent to Pakistan to destroy the Red Tigers gang, responsible for smuggling drugs from Afghanistan into the United States.

Don't Shoot on Children

Don't Shoot on Children
6.2/10
Dino and Marco are two brothers who live alone with their sick father. Marco is on drugs, and Dino becomes involved with a gang of dangerous criminals and is roped into pulling a bank heist with them.

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