Ernesto Colli

Acting

Ernesto Colli

Born — Died

1940-05-16 — 1982-11-19

Place of birth

Biella, Piedmont, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Ernesto Colli was an Italian film, television and stage actor.

Known for

Spirits of the Dead poster
6.2

Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.

Spirits of the Dead

1968

Torso poster
6.6

A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.

Torso

1973

Caliber 9 poster
7.5

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

Caliber 9

1972

Hospitals: The White Mafia poster
6.8

A famous surgeon earns enormous amounts of money by speculating on patients, although he is generally considered a great man and an excellent doctor. Only one of his colleagues rebels against the situation and tries to reveal the truth. But during a dramatic operation, the famous surgeon forces him to turn accomplice and the doctor must keep quiet. Not for long, however.

Hospitals: The White Mafia

1973

The Story of Romance and Knife poster
5.7

The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.

The Story of Romance and Knife

1971

Illustrious Corpses poster
6.8

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

Illustrious Corpses

1976

Film credits

1970s · 35 titles

Torso poster
6.6

A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.

Torso

1973

Caliber 9 poster
7.5

Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.

Caliber 9

1972

Hospitals: The White Mafia poster
6.8

A famous surgeon earns enormous amounts of money by speculating on patients, although he is generally considered a great man and an excellent doctor. Only one of his colleagues rebels against the situation and tries to reveal the truth. But during a dramatic operation, the famous surgeon forces him to turn accomplice and the doctor must keep quiet. Not for long, however.

Hospitals: The White Mafia

1973

The Story of Romance and Knife poster
5.7

The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.

The Story of Romance and Knife

1971

Illustrious Corpses poster
6.8

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

Illustrious Corpses

1976

The Antichrist poster
6.1

An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.

The Antichrist

1974

Lady Caliph poster
5.5

La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.

Lady Caliph

1970

Rugantino poster
5.9

A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice.

Rugantino

1973

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte poster
5.9

Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which happens to have been designed by Manteghin.

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte

1971

Free Hand for a Tough Cop poster
6.8

A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.

Free Hand for a Tough Cop

1976

Touch and Go poster
5.2

North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat.

Touch and Go

1971

Go Gorilla, Go! poster
7.2

Fabio Testi is an undercover cop doubling as the bodyguard (hence, “Gorilla”) of a cantankerous middle-aged industrialist targeted for extortion.

Go Gorilla, Go!

1975

7 Hours of Violence poster
10.0

A former hitman is blackmailed into doing one more job. But the hit doesn't go as planned and he winds up with the police and a gang of Chinese hitmen hunting him down. A beautiful young woman helps to hide him until he can figure out a way to elude his pursuers.

7 Hours of Violence

1973

Buona parte di Paolina poster
4.7

Paulina, sister of Napoleon I, is married to Camillo Borghese, presented as a helpless coward. She is eager to offer herself to all the young people that propose to her, and performs naked in front of the Roman people flocking to the walls of Villa Borghese, which she turned into a private residence. She also poses half naked for the famous statue of Canova, who is also presented as a effeminate and scoundrel. When her reputation as a depraved spreads, on the advice of the Pope, she is segregated away from all the men. when the French troops deport from Rome the Pope and the cardinals as well, Paulina sees prostitution as the only way to find herself some "fresh meat". Finally after seven years villa Borghese is reopened to the public, as Paulina goes back to Paris, to the great relief of the Roman people and the clerical circles.

Buona parte di Paolina

1973

Niente meno di più poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Niente meno di più

1971

Meet Him and Die poster
5.7

Ray Lovelock stars as Massimo, a young undercover cop with a taste for violence and a thirst for revenge! Massimo gets himself arrested and quickly infiltrates the ranks of the underworld figure serving a sentence. Eventually a breakout is planned and Massimo is to be included. Just about as soon as they hit the street an attempt is made on the boss' (Martin Balsam) life. Massimo acts quickly in helping to save him and that's the in he has been waiting for

Meet Him and Die

1976

Autopsy poster
6.0

A series of random suicides in Rome, Italy are attributed to a heatwave, but a young pathologist named Simona—who is working on a thesis about murders disguised as suicides—suspects otherwise. When a young girl associated with Simona's playboy father ends up dead in another supposed suicide, Simona teams up with the girl's priest brother to prove she was murdered and track down the unknown serial killer.

Autopsy

1975

Maddalena poster
5.2

The love story between a free-spirited girl and a priest.

Maddalena

1971

Quella chiara notte d'ottobre poster
8.0

A unhappily married woman tries to find happiness with a former lover, but when they witnesses crime, it leads them down a path of self-destruction

Quella chiara notte d'ottobre

1970

The Handsome Devil poster
4.2

Deep South Italian seventies. The performing and penniless sales representative "Tano" Avallone, fell in love with the beautiful Mariangela, sixteen-year-old daughter of the widowed lawyer "Totonno" Fortis Pantaleo. In order to approach the girl, he enters the graces of the professional, posing as his childhood friend and saying he is willing to eliminate the elderly Donna Mercedes, mother of these, so that he can inherit the substances. Guest of the family, Tano finds himself involved in a whirlwind of feminine attentions, including the free-range governess Immaculate, unnecessarily coveted by the lawyer, and the servant Sisina, desired by the parish priest.

The Handsome Devil

1974

Creeping Death poster
5.8

A man comes to a western town willing to discover the perpetrators of the robbery of a bank, where a significant amount of gold disappeared and witnesses were cruelly murdered. One of the thieves is now getting rid of the accomplices, using some deadly snakes that only seem to obey him.

Creeping Death

1972

The Last Decameron: Adultery in 7 Easy Lessons poster
3.8

Seven novels of Boccaccio featuring dirty jokes.

The Last Decameron: Adultery in 7 Easy Lessons

1972

Un bail pour l'éternité poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Un bail pour l'éternité

1976

Per amore o per forza poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Per amore o per forza

1971

Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia? poster
5.5

Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a genius idea: to make a play on the love story of Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci.

Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?

1974

Red Coat poster
6.3

Cormack, the lawman most feared by the rugged pioneers at the turn of the century, has a mysterious bond with "Caribou," an outlaw whom he has jailed. When Caribou escapes from prison, he returns to seek revenge.

Red Coat

1975

Puttana galera! poster
4.3

The presence of mafia boss Vangelli's yacht in front of the island of Ventotene brings a group of prisoners of the penitentiary close.

Puttana galera!

1977

The Man with Mirrored Glasses poster
NR

Italian crime / mystery TV movie.

The Man with Mirrored Glasses

1975

La colonna infame poster
7.0

Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.

La colonna infame

1973

The Suspect poster
6.6

Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers.

The Suspect

1975

The City of the Sun poster
5.7

1600, Southern Italy is under the Spanish Government. A few years before an attempt at rebellion, inspired by the preaching of the philosopher and monk Tommaso Campanella, is severely quelled by the Government. Campanella, under the charge of the plot, is put into a prison in Naples and waits for the conclusion of an endless process. Throughout the Calabrian countries his name is wrapped up in legend, he becomes almost a myth. Someone believes he has escaped from prison and wanders about under a false name.

The City of the Sun

1973

Winged Devils poster
3.5

The real-life courage and audacity of aeronautic acrobats whose ground life is often as exciting as flight maneuvers.

Winged Devils

1972

No artwork available
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Un caso clinico

1972

No artwork available
NR

The story of Karl, a Spartacist revolutionary who, upon his release after eight years in a psychiatric hospital, finds himself in an inhumane and corrupt society, with his former comrades now assimilated into the system.

Oplà, noi viviamo

1972

Pleasure Shop on 7th Ave. poster
5.4

Two thieves rod a drug store and decide to hide out in a porn shop. Soon after when the coast is clear, the thieves take the shop worker with them as hostage. On there way to freedom they decide to break into a mansion and discover that they are not the only ones hiding as well. They find a group of students. The movie soon turns into a Last House on the Left meets a Joe D'Amato style film full of sleazy sex.

Pleasure Shop on 7th Ave.

1979

1960s · 9 titles

Spirits of the Dead poster
6.2

Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.

Spirits of the Dead

1968

The Conspiracy of Torture poster
6.3

In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci who keeps her locked up in the dungeon of his castle where he sexually abuses her. Beatrice plots with her stepmother, her besotted servant Olimpio, as well as a local bandit, named Catalano to plan Francesco’s murder.

The Conspiracy of Torture

1969

The Devil in Love poster
5.8

Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478.

The Devil in Love

1966

Toby Dammit poster
6.5

During a trip to Rome, a debauched Shakespearian actor is tormented by the Italian film industry, fans, the press and the Devil, who appears as a little girl seeking to collect his head. This short is part of the anthology film Spirits of the Dead (1968).

Toby Dammit

1968

Pleasant Nights poster
6.6

A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.

Pleasant Nights

1966

Deadly Inheritance poster
5.3

There are a number of inheritors to a fortune who are getting killed by a mysterious somebody whom we do not see. Each death is novel, but not terribly graphic. Who did it?

Deadly Inheritance

1968

Lucrezia poster
3.7

Fabrizio finds refuge from thugs in a convent, and passion in the arms of Lucrezia Borgia.

Lucrezia

1968

Faustina poster
6.0

Faustina, the offspring of a black G.I. and a Roman woman who met during the conflict of World War II, must choose between two Italian men who desperately vie for her attention.

Faustina

1968

La strada più lunga poster
6.0

Michele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he returns home in 1943, but is now tired and refuses to join the Republic of Salò. His comrades still want him with them, but this Social Republic, imposed by the SS arms, does not convince him. The war continues and the situation does not allow one to remain neutral.

La strada più lunga

1965

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