Directing

Luigi Scattini

Born — Died

1927-05-17 — 2010-07-12

Place of birth

Turin - Piedmont - Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

23 titles

Luigi Scattini (1927–2010) was an Italian film director and screenwriter, best known for his work in the mondo film genre—a type of documentary featuring sensational topics. His notable films include Sweden: Heaven and Hell (1968), which examined Swedish sexual mores, and Sexy Magico (1971). Scattini's films are characterized by their provocative content and exploration of global cultures.

Known for

This Wonderful Dirty World poster
4.3

Taking a detour from the usual settings of Africa and South America, this mondo film focuses on Japan and Sweden, exploring strange and unusual scenes like the effects of pollution in a Japanese fishing village, esoteric psychotherapy methods, assisted fertilization, heatt surgery, sex education for blind children in sweden, military training for young Palestinians in Lebanon, a female priest celebrating mass and a school for children with phocomelia.

This Wonderful Dirty World

1971

The Divine Nymph poster
5.4

In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.

The Divine Nymph

1975

Witchcraft '70 poster
5.4

Witness devilish rituals from around the globe. Satanism! Voodoo! Majicks Black and White! Shocking Truths, etc.!

Witchcraft '70

1969

Blue Nude poster
4.3

Rocco Spinone, a young Italian living in America, takes on any job to make ends meet, including acting in porn films, a job his friend Lilly does with whom he soon falls in love. Persecuted by a police officer, an anti-immigrant, who accuses him of having sex with an underage girl, the young man is forced to pay a large sum to him and the girl's father. Meanwhile, his friend dies on set during a scene that was too violent.

Blue Nude

1978

The Girl with the Moon Skin poster
4.3

Also known as The Sinner on UK VHS, this one could almost be mistaken for a D'Amato Black Emanuelle film (as well as Jess Franco who also had a film with the same video title). The Italian title translates as The Moon-Skinned Girl, a reference to the amazingly attractive Zeudi Araya, who made two other films with the same director. As a film it really typifies the 'eurotika' of the 1970s - the story concerns a couple with marital problems who escape to the Seychelles and the husband meets - and has an affair with - the title character. The wife meanwhile meets an ex-pat living there (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart!) with whom she has a fling. The couple realise their love for each other and return home stronger for it.

The Girl with the Moon Skin

1972

Sweden: Heaven and Hell poster
5.7

Nine scenes about sexuality and morals in Sweden in the late sixties.

Sweden: Heaven and Hell

1968

Behind the camera

This Wonderful Dirty World poster
4.3

Taking a detour from the usual settings of Africa and South America, this mondo film focuses on Japan and Sweden, exploring strange and unusual scenes like the effects of pollution in a Japanese fishing village, esoteric psychotherapy methods, assisted fertilization, heatt surgery, sex education for blind children in sweden, military training for young Palestinians in Lebanon, a female priest celebrating mass and a school for children with phocomelia.

This Wonderful Dirty World

1971

The Divine Nymph poster
5.4

In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.

The Divine Nymph

1975

Witchcraft '70 poster
5.4

Witness devilish rituals from around the globe. Satanism! Voodoo! Majicks Black and White! Shocking Truths, etc.!

Witchcraft '70

1969

Blue Nude poster
4.3

Rocco Spinone, a young Italian living in America, takes on any job to make ends meet, including acting in porn films, a job his friend Lilly does with whom he soon falls in love. Persecuted by a police officer, an anti-immigrant, who accuses him of having sex with an underage girl, the young man is forced to pay a large sum to him and the girl's father. Meanwhile, his friend dies on set during a scene that was too violent.

Blue Nude

1978

Blue Nude poster
4.3

Rocco Spinone, a young Italian living in America, takes on any job to make ends meet, including acting in porn films, a job his friend Lilly does with whom he soon falls in love. Persecuted by a police officer, an anti-immigrant, who accuses him of having sex with an underage girl, the young man is forced to pay a large sum to him and the girl's father. Meanwhile, his friend dies on set during a scene that was too violent.

Blue Nude

1978

Blue Nude poster
4.3

Rocco Spinone, a young Italian living in America, takes on any job to make ends meet, including acting in porn films, a job his friend Lilly does with whom he soon falls in love. Persecuted by a police officer, an anti-immigrant, who accuses him of having sex with an underage girl, the young man is forced to pay a large sum to him and the girl's father. Meanwhile, his friend dies on set during a scene that was too violent.

Blue Nude

1978

The Girl with the Moon Skin poster
4.3

Also known as The Sinner on UK VHS, this one could almost be mistaken for a D'Amato Black Emanuelle film (as well as Jess Franco who also had a film with the same video title). The Italian title translates as The Moon-Skinned Girl, a reference to the amazingly attractive Zeudi Araya, who made two other films with the same director. As a film it really typifies the 'eurotika' of the 1970s - the story concerns a couple with marital problems who escape to the Seychelles and the husband meets - and has an affair with - the title character. The wife meanwhile meets an ex-pat living there (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart!) with whom she has a fling. The couple realise their love for each other and return home stronger for it.

The Girl with the Moon Skin

1972

The Girl with the Moon Skin poster
4.3

Also known as The Sinner on UK VHS, this one could almost be mistaken for a D'Amato Black Emanuelle film (as well as Jess Franco who also had a film with the same video title). The Italian title translates as The Moon-Skinned Girl, a reference to the amazingly attractive Zeudi Araya, who made two other films with the same director. As a film it really typifies the 'eurotika' of the 1970s - the story concerns a couple with marital problems who escape to the Seychelles and the husband meets - and has an affair with - the title character. The wife meanwhile meets an ex-pat living there (Giacomo Rossi-Stuart!) with whom she has a fling. The couple realise their love for each other and return home stronger for it.

The Girl with the Moon Skin

1972

Sweden: Heaven and Hell poster
5.7

Nine scenes about sexuality and morals in Sweden in the late sixties.

Sweden: Heaven and Hell

1968

Sweden: Heaven and Hell poster
5.7

Nine scenes about sexuality and morals in Sweden in the late sixties.

Sweden: Heaven and Hell

1968

The Body poster
4.8

A beautiful woman who lives on an island with her abusive husband, entices a young man into a murder-for-money plot.

The Body

1974

The Body poster
4.8

A beautiful woman who lives on an island with her abusive husband, entices a young man into a murder-for-money plot.

The Body

1974

War Italian Style poster
5.0

It's May 1943, and two Italian American soldiers, Joe and Frank, are searching the North African desert for a Nazi general called Von Kassler. Von Kassler's aide captures them, and arranges for them to escape with fake war plans. But, things don't go exactly as planned for either side.

War Italian Style

1965

The Glass Sphinx poster
7.0

An archaeologist is in danger because of his discoveries.

The Glass Sphinx

1967

The Murri Affair poster
6.6

Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's socialist politics and the activities of his father, a well known liberal social reformer, than the actual crime itself.

The Murri Affair

1974

Sexy Magico poster
8.0

Scenes showing sexual rites and dances around the world are contrasted with cabaret shows at places like the Crazy Horse Saloon.

Sexy Magico

1963

Sexy Magico poster
8.0

Scenes showing sexual rites and dances around the world are contrasted with cabaret shows at places like the Crazy Horse Saloon.

Sexy Magico

1963

Ring Around the World poster
6.2

Investigator Fred Lester uncovers a killer using an air pistol firing chemical bullets in the swinging '60s spy thriller RING AROUND THE WORLD, a globe-hopping escapade featuring a plane-and-parachute stunt later repeated in the James Bond film Moonraker.

Ring Around the World

1966

Twilight of Love poster
4.2

Richard Butler is the director of a Montreal advertising agency. When he meets Dyanne, a young beautiful model, he falls in love.

Twilight of Love

1977

The Off-Road Girl poster
6.7

A successful advertising journalist, embarks on a journey to Egypt where he encounters Maryam, a striking Eritrean woman whose beauty is matched only by her enigmatic presence. What begins as a chance meeting gradually evolves into a layered emotional connection that challenges Giorgio’s worldview and highlights cultural and racial divides.

The Off-Road Girl

1973

The Off-Road Girl poster
6.7

A successful advertising journalist, embarks on a journey to Egypt where he encounters Maryam, a striking Eritrean woman whose beauty is matched only by her enigmatic presence. What begins as a chance meeting gradually evolves into a layered emotional connection that challenges Giorgio’s worldview and highlights cultural and racial divides.

The Off-Road Girl

1973

Primitive Love poster
4.3

"Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from around the world while at the same time having to deal with two bellhops who have an idea or two about mating with Jayne.

Primitive Love

1964

Primitive Love poster
4.3

"Doctor" Jayne Mansfield is in Italy to show a peer her documentary about mating customs from around the world while at the same time having to deal with two bellhops who have an idea or two about mating with Jayne.

Primitive Love

1964