Renato Polselli

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

Film credits

Series credits

Behind the camera

Oscenità poster
7.2

A 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

Oscenità poster
7.2

A 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

Oscenità poster
7.2

A 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

Psychout for Murder poster
6.2

Mario 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

Black Magic Rites poster
4.3

Isabel 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

Black Magic Rites poster
4.3

Isabel 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

The Vampire and the Ballerina poster
5.8

A 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

The Vampire and the Ballerina poster
5.8

A 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

Marina and Her Beast 2 poster
7.0

A perverse woman "works" on the corruption of a young girl who serves as her maid.

Marina and Her Beast 2

1985

The Sheriff Won't Shoot poster
10.0

A sheriff is reluctant to take on a murderous gang because his brother is the gang's head.

The Sheriff Won't Shoot

1965

The Monster of the Opera poster
4.4

A 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

The Monster of the Opera poster
4.4

A 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

The Truth According to Satan poster
4.8

A 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

The Truth According to Satan poster
4.8

A 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

The Truth According to Satan poster
4.8

A 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

Delirium poster
4.8

A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.

Delirium

1972

Delirium poster
4.8

A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.

Delirium

1972

Delirium poster
4.8

A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.

Delirium

1972

Erotic Games of a Respectable Family poster
5.0

Professor 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

I Love You poster
6.5

During 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

Frida Professione Menager poster
2.0

Frida 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

Frida Professione Menager poster
2.0

Frida 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

Adventure at the Motel poster
4.3

A 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

Crazy World... Crazy People! poster
8.0

A 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

Crazy World... Crazy People! poster
8.0

A 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

The Eyes poster
8.5

A teenage girl begins a career as a prostitute.

The Eyes

1969

The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband) poster
6.5

Lorenzo 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

The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband) poster
6.5

Lorenzo 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

Lust poster
2.9

A 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

Lust poster
2.9

A 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

Mania poster
5.3

Professor 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

Mania poster
5.3

Professor 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

Mania poster
5.3

Professor 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

Solo Dio mi fermerà poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Solo Dio mi fermerà

1957

Intimità proibita di una giovane sposa poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Intimità proibita di una giovane sposa

1970

This Freedom to Have... Wet Wings poster
4.0

A writer attempts to blackmail a publisher into printing his latest book

This Freedom to Have... Wet Wings

1971

Police Intervene in the House of Love poster
4.0

Three 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

Last Chance for Life poster
8.0

Women held in prison by the Nazi's in Italy during WW2.

Last Chance for Life

1962

Solitudine poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Solitudine

1961

Big Farewell poster
9.0

An Italian woman has a son with an African American soldier after World War II ends.

Big Farewell

1954