
Directing
Renato Polselli
Born — Died
1922-02-24 — 2006-10-01
Place of birth
Arce, Italy
Known for
Directing
Credits
44 titles
Renato Polselli (1922–2006) was an Italian film director and writer. Born in Arce, Lazio on 26 February 1922, Polselli began directing films in Italy in the early 1950s. He is best known for directing and writing the film The Vampire and the Ballerina. Polselli's film work since the 1970s was sporadic, and included work on horror film productions that remained unfinished. His later film works were often pornography made with his frequent collaborator Bruno Vanni. Polselli died in Italy on 1 October 2006. In his book on Italian horror film directors, Louis Paul described Polselli as being "a bit of a mystery" due to the rarity of films surrounding his work and that his work in horror films w…
Known for
8.0Eurotika is a Channel 4 documentary film on European exploitation cinema. The documentary is similarly themed to Pete Tombs's book Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Movies 1956-1984. During the 1960s and 1970s, European low-budget films went kinky, emerging as a new type of cinema that blended eroticism, surrealism, horror, and over-the-top atmospherics.
Eurotika!
1999
7.2A group of people come up with provocative or downright nasty sexual scenarios like rape, bestiality, tree branch masturbation, candle masturbation, corncob masturbation, whipping, lesbian orgies, toe masturbation, and bathtub assault.
Oscenità
1980
6.2Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
Psychout for Murder
1969
4.3Isabel is a dead vampire and witch whose body is hanging in a basement while the owner tries to kidnap virgins for a sacrifice that could mean Isabel’s resurrection. But doing this won’t be easy as the women aren’t gonna give in very easily.
Black Magic Rites
1973
5.8A troupe of beautiful dancers find themselves stranded in a sinister castle, not knowing it is home to a group of vampires.
The Vampire and the Ballerina
1960
7.0A perverse woman "works" on the corruption of a young girl who serves as her maid.
Marina and Her Beast 2
1985
Film credits
2010s · 1 titles
Series credits
Behind the camera
7.2A group of people come up with provocative or downright nasty sexual scenarios like rape, bestiality, tree branch masturbation, candle masturbation, corncob masturbation, whipping, lesbian orgies, toe masturbation, and bathtub assault.
Oscenità
1980
7.2A group of people come up with provocative or downright nasty sexual scenarios like rape, bestiality, tree branch masturbation, candle masturbation, corncob masturbation, whipping, lesbian orgies, toe masturbation, and bathtub assault.
Oscenità
1980
7.2A group of people come up with provocative or downright nasty sexual scenarios like rape, bestiality, tree branch masturbation, candle masturbation, corncob masturbation, whipping, lesbian orgies, toe masturbation, and bathtub assault.
Oscenità
1980
6.2Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.
Psychout for Murder
1969
4.3Isabel is a dead vampire and witch whose body is hanging in a basement while the owner tries to kidnap virgins for a sacrifice that could mean Isabel’s resurrection. But doing this won’t be easy as the women aren’t gonna give in very easily.
Black Magic Rites
1973
4.3Isabel is a dead vampire and witch whose body is hanging in a basement while the owner tries to kidnap virgins for a sacrifice that could mean Isabel’s resurrection. But doing this won’t be easy as the women aren’t gonna give in very easily.
Black Magic Rites
1973
5.8A troupe of beautiful dancers find themselves stranded in a sinister castle, not knowing it is home to a group of vampires.
The Vampire and the Ballerina
1960
5.8A troupe of beautiful dancers find themselves stranded in a sinister castle, not knowing it is home to a group of vampires.
The Vampire and the Ballerina
1960
7.0A perverse woman "works" on the corruption of a young girl who serves as her maid.
Marina and Her Beast 2
1985
10.0A sheriff is reluctant to take on a murderous gang because his brother is the gang's head.
The Sheriff Won't Shoot
1965
4.4A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the woman who he once loved.
The Monster of the Opera
1964
4.4A theater troupe's young, energetic leader has secured an old theater in which to produce his new production. The theater's elderly caretaker urges the group to leave at once. A vampire is awakened and discovers that one of the troupe is the reincarnation of the woman who he once loved.
The Monster of the Opera
1964
4.8A man wants to commit suicide due the coldheartness and egoism of his fiancee. After he plays russian roulette a few times without the intentioned effect, he calls his wife and tells her he wants to kill himself. She visits him without knowing what awaits her.
The Truth According to Satan
1972
4.8A man wants to commit suicide due the coldheartness and egoism of his fiancee. After he plays russian roulette a few times without the intentioned effect, he calls his wife and tells her he wants to kill himself. She visits him without knowing what awaits her.
The Truth According to Satan
1972
4.8A man wants to commit suicide due the coldheartness and egoism of his fiancee. After he plays russian roulette a few times without the intentioned effect, he calls his wife and tells her he wants to kill himself. She visits him without knowing what awaits her.
The Truth According to Satan
1972
4.8A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.
Delirium
1972
4.8A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.
Delirium
1972
4.8A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.
Delirium
1972
5.0Professor Ricardo Rossi is an uncompromising moralist and a paladin of Catholic morals. He is understandably baffled when he finds his wife Elisa in bed with another woman (whom Rossi mistakens for a man). Furious, he poisons his wife and throws her body into a lake, then brings home a prostitute, Eva, to replace her. He also begins an affair with his niece Barbara. But Elisa is not dead, as Rossi soon finds and she is plotting with Eva to get rid of him. Rossi is more precise this time and shoots the two women dead. However, there is a complication and more deaths ensue...
Erotic Games of a Respectable Family
1975
6.5During an air trip, Prince Tancredi, a well-known abstract artist, gets to know air hostess Judy and is charmed by the young woman. When he asks her to pose for him Judy accepts. Following a few negative remarks on her part about his work Tancredi is driven to question himself artistically. Now, Judy has to leave but she promises to see Tancredi again, which they do. Their mutual attraction soon turns into a burning passion.
I Love You
1968
2.0Frida gets married, but is very busy with her job as an engineer, and doesn't have time for her new husband. He then runs away with the flower girl which causes Frida to lose it.
Frida Professione Menager
2000
2.0Frida gets married, but is very busy with her job as an engineer, and doesn't have time for her new husband. He then runs away with the flower girl which causes Frida to lose it.
Frida Professione Menager
2000
4.3A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary.
Adventure at the Motel
1963
8.0A group of young musicians organize a show that will turn out to be a hodgepodge, yet still manage to entertain the audience with their cheerful lighthearted songs.
Crazy World... Crazy People!
1966
8.0A group of young musicians organize a show that will turn out to be a hodgepodge, yet still manage to entertain the audience with their cheerful lighthearted songs.
Crazy World... Crazy People!
1966
8.5A teenage girl begins a career as a prostitute.
The Eyes
1969
6.5Lorenzo is an industrialist married in Argentina to a cruel woman who manages to have all her husband's assets seized, to throw him out of the house and to be awarded the two children born of the unhappy marriage. The desperate industrialist repairs in Italy, where he takes with him the children he has kidnapped and the affectionate secretary. But even in Italy the law is against him.
The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband)
1964
6.5Lorenzo is an industrialist married in Argentina to a cruel woman who manages to have all her husband's assets seized, to throw him out of the house and to be awarded the two children born of the unhappy marriage. The desperate industrialist repairs in Italy, where he takes with him the children he has kidnapped and the affectionate secretary. But even in Italy the law is against him.
The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband)
1964
2.9A sexually adventurous couple finds their sordid affairs may ultimately be their undoing in director Jones Brown’s lurid thriller. Emotionally starved and desperate to experience new thrills, a bored housewife gets what she asked for when her bored husband begins pimping her out to the wealthy and powerful. But when the seeds of deceit are planted, paranoia takes hold and plunges their fantasy world of pleasure into a bottomless pit of darkness.
Lust
1979
2.9A sexually adventurous couple finds their sordid affairs may ultimately be their undoing in director Jones Brown’s lurid thriller. Emotionally starved and desperate to experience new thrills, a bored housewife gets what she asked for when her bored husband begins pimping her out to the wealthy and powerful. But when the seeds of deceit are planted, paranoia takes hold and plunges their fantasy world of pleasure into a bottomless pit of darkness.
Lust
1979
5.3Professor Brecht, a renowned scientist, is obsessively experimenting in his isolated villa. The object of his studies is "apparent death", with the intention that the human body in a cataleptic state can be cured more easily. He lives with his wife Lisa and several other people: his twin brother Germano; Katia, the waitress; Lailo, his assistant and young student Erina. Having discovered his brother's affair with Lisa, Brecht sets up a plan to kill Germano and take his place. The shock makes Erina dumb. Bercht's persecution of Lisa soon turns the woman mad, while Lailo, wandering in the villa's surroundings, vainly tries to find the key to the mystery. A psychiatrist, Louis, firmly believes Lailo's madness is caused by her inner anguish and seems confident in her recovery. But he's wrong: the demented woman kills Katia and then throws herself out of a window. Brecht takes back his own identity, but his actions will have further tragic consequences...
Mania
1974
5.3Professor Brecht, a renowned scientist, is obsessively experimenting in his isolated villa. The object of his studies is "apparent death", with the intention that the human body in a cataleptic state can be cured more easily. He lives with his wife Lisa and several other people: his twin brother Germano; Katia, the waitress; Lailo, his assistant and young student Erina. Having discovered his brother's affair with Lisa, Brecht sets up a plan to kill Germano and take his place. The shock makes Erina dumb. Bercht's persecution of Lisa soon turns the woman mad, while Lailo, wandering in the villa's surroundings, vainly tries to find the key to the mystery. A psychiatrist, Louis, firmly believes Lailo's madness is caused by her inner anguish and seems confident in her recovery. But he's wrong: the demented woman kills Katia and then throws herself out of a window. Brecht takes back his own identity, but his actions will have further tragic consequences...
Mania
1974
5.3Professor Brecht, a renowned scientist, is obsessively experimenting in his isolated villa. The object of his studies is "apparent death", with the intention that the human body in a cataleptic state can be cured more easily. He lives with his wife Lisa and several other people: his twin brother Germano; Katia, the waitress; Lailo, his assistant and young student Erina. Having discovered his brother's affair with Lisa, Brecht sets up a plan to kill Germano and take his place. The shock makes Erina dumb. Bercht's persecution of Lisa soon turns the woman mad, while Lailo, wandering in the villa's surroundings, vainly tries to find the key to the mystery. A psychiatrist, Louis, firmly believes Lailo's madness is caused by her inner anguish and seems confident in her recovery. But he's wrong: the demented woman kills Katia and then throws herself out of a window. Brecht takes back his own identity, but his actions will have further tragic consequences...
Mania
1974
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Solo Dio mi fermerà
1957
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Intimità proibita di una giovane sposa
1970
4.0A writer attempts to blackmail a publisher into printing his latest book
This Freedom to Have... Wet Wings
1971
4.0Three young hobby archeologists witness a satanic ritual in a secluded villa. Instead of helping poor female victims they decide to secretly document the events.
Police Intervene in the House of Love
1978
8.0Women held in prison by the Nazi's in Italy during WW2.
Last Chance for Life
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Solitudine
1961
9.0An Italian woman has a son with an African American soldier after World War II ends.
Big Farewell
1954


