Directing

Mario Gariazzo

Born — Died

1930-06-04 — 2002-03-18

Place of birth

Biella, Piedmont, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

38 titles

Mario Gariazzo was an Italian film director and screenwriter known for his work in various genres, including horror, westerns, and science fiction. Born in Biella, Piedmont, he began his career in the 1960s. Gariazzo directed films such as Acquasanta Joe (1971), The Eerie Midnight Horror Show (1974), and White Slave (1985). His work is characterized by its engagement with popular cinematic trends and exploration of controversial themes. Gariazzo's films have gained a cult following for their unique style and storytelling.

Known for

Sister Emanuelle poster
5.4

Sister Emanuelle and Sister Nanà go to meet Mr. Cazzabriga, who has a problem: his wild-child daughter, Monica, who he wants to send to a Catholic school to remove her from temptations around the house.

Sister Emanuelle

1977

Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story poster
6.0

A young woman seeks vengeance and finds love when her parents are killed in the Amazon and she is taken prisoner by an indigenous tribe of headhunters.

Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story

1985

Intrigo d'amore poster
3.8

Billy - young photographer engaged spicy photo shoot. Its main customers - women who want to revive the feelings and desires in their husbands. Three girlfriends are asked to photograph them: first - Janet, the wife of a police officer, the second - Lauren, a banker's wife, and the third - Evelyn is married to a lawyer. During operation Billy seduces three women, and one begins to blackmail them. Photographer Janet asks her husband to investigate. As a result, the blackmailers are, but Evelyn's husband kills her and Billy. I do not know if you can not satisfy a woman, give her love, kindness, warm heat - shot himself, IMHO, and his wife let him be happy

Intrigo d'amore

1988

Play Motel poster
5.9

The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.

Play Motel

1979

Ultimi fuochi d'estate poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ultimi fuochi d'estate

1992

Very Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind poster
4.6

Three nerdy students who have the hots for their sexy astronomy teacher hit upon the idea of pretending to be outer-space aliens, in the hopes of tricking her into going to bed with them.

Very Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind

1978

Behind the camera

Sister Emanuelle poster
5.4

Sister Emanuelle and Sister Nanà go to meet Mr. Cazzabriga, who has a problem: his wild-child daughter, Monica, who he wants to send to a Catholic school to remove her from temptations around the house.

Sister Emanuelle

1977

Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story poster
6.0

A young woman seeks vengeance and finds love when her parents are killed in the Amazon and she is taken prisoner by an indigenous tribe of headhunters.

Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story

1985

Intrigo d'amore poster
3.8

Billy - young photographer engaged spicy photo shoot. Its main customers - women who want to revive the feelings and desires in their husbands. Three girlfriends are asked to photograph them: first - Janet, the wife of a police officer, the second - Lauren, a banker's wife, and the third - Evelyn is married to a lawyer. During operation Billy seduces three women, and one begins to blackmail them. Photographer Janet asks her husband to investigate. As a result, the blackmailers are, but Evelyn's husband kills her and Billy. I do not know if you can not satisfy a woman, give her love, kindness, warm heat - shot himself, IMHO, and his wife let him be happy

Intrigo d'amore

1988

Play Motel poster
5.9

The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.

Play Motel

1979

Play Motel poster
5.9

The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.

Play Motel

1979

Ultimi fuochi d'estate poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ultimi fuochi d'estate

1992

Ultimi fuochi d'estate poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ultimi fuochi d'estate

1992

Very Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind poster
4.6

Three nerdy students who have the hots for their sexy astronomy teacher hit upon the idea of pretending to be outer-space aliens, in the hopes of tricking her into going to bed with them.

Very Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind

1978

Very Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind poster
4.6

Three nerdy students who have the hots for their sexy astronomy teacher hit upon the idea of pretending to be outer-space aliens, in the hopes of tricking her into going to bed with them.

Very Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind

1978

Day of Judgment poster
5.7

Hardin is out for revenge after his wife and child are killed and his home burned. He hunts down the gang using his son's toy drummer to signal the shootout while also in search for their leader.

Day of Judgment

1971

Day of Judgment poster
5.7

Hardin is out for revenge after his wife and child are killed and his home burned. He hunts down the gang using his son's toy drummer to signal the shootout while also in search for their leader.

Day of Judgment

1971

The Balloon Vendor poster
7.0

A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.

The Balloon Vendor

1974

Top Model poster
4.2

Nadine is a breathtaking and astonishingly sensual fashion photographer who gets lured into accepting a lingerie photo-shoot in the villa of the mysterious Victor Schneider. After the models and the crew leave the villa, only Nadine and Victor stay behind. As the night shrouds the villa with its thick shadows, Victor offers Nadine a weird proposal. Would she dare to put her own life at stake in a chess game? If he wins, she loses every right over her body and life. If Nadine does, Victor will kill himself. Thus begins a long night of sex, lust, desire, fear and. death.

Top Model

1987

Top Model poster
4.2

Nadine is a breathtaking and astonishingly sensual fashion photographer who gets lured into accepting a lingerie photo-shoot in the villa of the mysterious Victor Schneider. After the models and the crew leave the villa, only Nadine and Victor stay behind. As the night shrouds the villa with its thick shadows, Victor offers Nadine a weird proposal. Would she dare to put her own life at stake in a chess game? If he wins, she loses every right over her body and life. If Nadine does, Victor will kill himself. Thus begins a long night of sex, lust, desire, fear and. death.

Top Model

1987

God Will Forgive My Pistol poster
5.7

Johnny Texas is asked to inquire about the death of Prescott, a rich landowner accused of having robbed a postal wagon. His investigation upsets Prescott's neighbor, Martin, who will use all possible means to stop him.

God Will Forgive My Pistol

1969

God Will Forgive My Pistol poster
5.7

Johnny Texas is asked to inquire about the death of Prescott, a rich landowner accused of having robbed a postal wagon. His investigation upsets Prescott's neighbor, Martin, who will use all possible means to stop him.

God Will Forgive My Pistol

1969

The Masked Thief poster
7.5

Bill Nolan, Sheriff of Ockland, receives a telegram informing him of the arrival of a stagecoach with federal bank securities. Together with Judge Finley he organizes the custody of the stagecoach but it is attacked anyway and suspicion falls on the sheriff by his strange actions alone. The confidence of his assistants is weakened and everything gets complicated when he is accused of rape and one of his assistants is found dead. His only hope is to discover the masked bandit.

The Masked Thief

1971

Eyes Behind the Stars poster
4.7

A photographer and his model are on a photo shoot in a forest when they get the feeling they are being watched. The feeling becomes so strong that they decide to cut their session short and leave. Later, when they develop the photos they took, they discover what looks like alien creatures in the background.

Eyes Behind the Stars

1978

Eyes Behind the Stars poster
4.7

A photographer and his model are on a photo shoot in a forest when they get the feeling they are being watched. The feeling becomes so strong that they decide to cut their session short and leave. Later, when they develop the photos they took, they discover what looks like alien creatures in the background.

Eyes Behind the Stars

1978

The Long Day of the Massacre poster
5.2

When sheriff Joe Williams is unjustly accused of the murder of a young couple, which was in reality committed by the Mexican "La Muerte", Joe becomes a wanted man. Joe manages to steal and hide the loot from a bank robbery committed by the Mexican gang, but then is captured by them, but the new sheriff, Joe's friend, is on their trail.

The Long Day of the Massacre

1968

The Bloody Hands of the Law poster
7.2

When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the consequences. Unfortunately the murderers realize that they have been seen, and kill both women. Catching the killers proves difficult as anyone who knows anything dies in unexplained circumstances. It becomes evident that a large and powerful criminal organization is behind the murders, and that they have links within the police force. It is up to Lt. Carmine to see that justice prevails, using any means necessary.

The Bloody Hands of the Law

1973

The Bloody Hands of the Law poster
7.2

When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the consequences. Unfortunately the murderers realize that they have been seen, and kill both women. Catching the killers proves difficult as anyone who knows anything dies in unexplained circumstances. It becomes evident that a large and powerful criminal organization is behind the murders, and that they have links within the police force. It is up to Lt. Carmine to see that justice prevails, using any means necessary.

The Bloody Hands of the Law

1973

Enter the Devil poster
5.0

After a female art student purchases a life-size wooden sculpture of a crucifixion from an abandoned church, she has a vision of herself being nailed to a cross and soon becomes sexually tormented by the sculpture when it comes to life.

Enter the Devil

1974

The Brother from Space poster
4.0

A spaceship lands in a small town in Arizona, leaving behind mysterious capsules from which a strange creature emerges and turns out to be the only survivor. Jenny, a blind girl who works as a singing teacher and has paranormal powers, senses the presence of the alien, who is lost and in need of help.

The Brother from Space

1988

The Brother from Space poster
4.0

A spaceship lands in a small town in Arizona, leaving behind mysterious capsules from which a strange creature emerges and turns out to be the only survivor. Jenny, a blind girl who works as a singing teacher and has paranormal powers, senses the presence of the alien, who is lost and in need of help.

The Brother from Space

1988

Threesome Wild poster
4.7

Perry moved to Miami to study in medical school, where his uncle is a teacher. He decides to rent a room from a friend of his mother, who owns the house. There he begins to dream about a beautiful girl Sheila, daughter of the owner of the house. They soon became very good friends, but Perry did not know that Sheila secretly serves as a model in adult magazines. The director of Sapore di donna, Mario Gariazzo has also directed another movie, called Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story, made in 1985.

Threesome Wild

1990

Threesome Wild poster
4.7

Perry moved to Miami to study in medical school, where his uncle is a teacher. He decides to rent a room from a friend of his mother, who owns the house. There he begins to dream about a beautiful girl Sheila, daughter of the owner of the house. They soon became very good friends, but Perry did not know that Sheila secretly serves as a model in adult magazines. The director of Sapore di donna, Mario Gariazzo has also directed another movie, called Amazonia: The Catherine Miles Story, made in 1985.

Threesome Wild

1990

Holy Water Joe poster
4.0

A gang of robbers armed with a union army cannon rob the bank holding bounty Killer Acquasanta Joe's earnings to date. He pursues, crossing and double crossing along the way.

Holy Water Joe

1971

Holy Water Joe poster
4.0

A gang of robbers armed with a union army cannon rob the bank holding bounty Killer Acquasanta Joe's earnings to date. He pursues, crossing and double crossing along the way.

Holy Water Joe

1971

Holy Water Joe poster
4.0

A gang of robbers armed with a union army cannon rob the bank holding bounty Killer Acquasanta Joe's earnings to date. He pursues, crossing and double crossing along the way.

Holy Water Joe

1971

Taxi Killer poster
4.3

Catherine Hickland plays a taxi driver who is robbed and gang raped. She is then stalked by her attackers who also kill her father played by Chuck Connors. She finally snaps and seeks revenge. This film was produced by Fred Williamson and directed by Stelvio Massi but was never officailly finished or released.

Taxi Killer

1988

Macrò poster
6.5

The story is about a young hippy called Salvatore who sparks up a relationship with a high class prostitute, Maddalena. The two fall in love and try to start a new life together but things turn ugly when Maddalena is kidnapped by his old hippy pals and Maddalena's dangerous pimp...

Macrò

1974

A Gun for a Cop poster
7.0

A family of farmers wage war against a group of unscrupulous, corrupt speculators who are trying to get their hands on their land.

A Gun for a Cop

1981

Che meraviglia, amici! poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Che meraviglia, amici!

1992

Che meraviglia, amici! poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Che meraviglia, amici!

1992

Passport for a Corpse poster
7.7

When a robbery goes wrong the only survivor tries to smuggle himself across the border by hiding in a coffin. When he gets out of the coffin he finds himself locked in a morgue freezer with three dead bodies. While trying to escape the morgue and his isolation he slowly starts going mad and hallucinating. Throughout the film he is haunted or menaced by a woman who may or may not be real. Unique and strange film that gets more and more weird as it goes along.

Passport for a Corpse

1962

Passport for a Corpse poster
7.7

When a robbery goes wrong the only survivor tries to smuggle himself across the border by hiding in a coffin. When he gets out of the coffin he finds himself locked in a morgue freezer with three dead bodies. While trying to escape the morgue and his isolation he slowly starts going mad and hallucinating. Throughout the film he is haunted or menaced by a woman who may or may not be real. Unique and strange film that gets more and more weird as it goes along.

Passport for a Corpse

1962

No artwork available
8.0

A gang of saboteurs is trying to stop NATO's Zodiac missile project.

Beware of Those Two Neapolitans

1980