Directing

Giuseppe Bennati

Born — Died

1921-01-04 — 2006-09-27

Place of birth

Pitigliano, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

16 titles

Giuseppe Bennati was an Italian film director and screenwriter, active primarily during the 1950s and 1960s. He began his career directing documentaries and made his feature film debut with Il microfono è vostro (The Microphone Is Yours, 1951). Bennati is perhaps best known for the giallo film L'assassino ha riservato nove poltrone (The Killer Reserved Nine Seats, 1974), a thriller set in a haunted theater where guests are mysteriously murdered. His work often explored suspense and psychological themes, contributing to the Italian genre cinema of his time.

Known for

Behind the camera

The Killer Reserved Nine Seats poster
5.5

A rich man gathers together friends and relatives at the abandoned theatre he owns, but the party isn't fun for long since apparently one of them is a murderer.

The Killer Reserved Nine Seats

1974

The Killer Reserved Nine Seats poster
5.5

A rich man gathers together friends and relatives at the abandoned theatre he owns, but the party isn't fun for long since apparently one of them is a murderer.

The Killer Reserved Nine Seats

1974

L'amico del giaguaro poster
6.5

A grown man named Augusto escapes from an orphanage and after several unsuccessful attempts at holding down a job, decides to start a gang and make a living by stealing from the rich.

L'amico del giaguaro

1959

Non scherzare con le donne poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Non scherzare con le donne

1955

Non scherzare con le donne poster
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Non scherzare con le donne

1955

The Hunt poster
9.0

A young poacher is wrongly accused of killing the father of the woman he loves.

The Hunt

1953

The Hunt poster
9.0

A young poacher is wrongly accused of killing the father of the woman he loves.

The Hunt

1953

The Suitcase of Dreams poster
6.7

A former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an accidental fire and the risk of prison, he meets a rich producer who helps him to build a film museum.

The Suitcase of Dreams

1953

Eruption poster
7.0

In Congo during the revolution, an Italian journalist is in love with the wife of a Belgian businessman.

Eruption

1962

Operazione notte poster
10.0

An unemployed young man has a relationship with the mistress of a rich industrialist. In order to escape her protector, he decides to commit a robbery in the company of a friend...

Operazione notte

1955

Operazione notte poster
10.0

An unemployed young man has a relationship with the mistress of a rich industrialist. In order to escape her protector, he decides to commit a robbery in the company of a friend...

Operazione notte

1955

The Mine poster
3.7

Elsa Martinelli plays a resident of a seaside village who falls in love with rootless stranger Antonio Ciffariello. The stranger soon learns that he'll have to fight over Elsa's affections with hotheaded villager Luis Pena. Meanwhile, a fisherman who illegally uses dynamite nearly causes tragedy to the entire community.

The Mine

1958

The Mine poster
3.7

Elsa Martinelli plays a resident of a seaside village who falls in love with rootless stranger Antonio Ciffariello. The stranger soon learns that he'll have to fight over Elsa's affections with hotheaded villager Luis Pena. Meanwhile, a fisherman who illegally uses dynamite nearly causes tragedy to the entire community.

The Mine

1958

Red Lips poster
10.0

A lawyer heads out on the road in an attempt to find his daughter who has been missing for quite some time. To help him navigate the secret world his daughter lived within that he knows nothing about, he recruits the help of Irene a close friend of his daughter's. But Irene has plans of her own.

Red Lips

1960

Red Lips poster
10.0

A lawyer heads out on the road in an attempt to find his daughter who has been missing for quite some time. To help him navigate the secret world his daughter lived within that he knows nothing about, he recruits the help of Irene a close friend of his daughter's. But Irene has plans of her own.

Red Lips

1960

Il microfono è vostro poster
10.0

Bored with her bourgeois life, the young Maria Variani, daughter of a professor, meets Bruno, who is part of an amateur jazz group, and allows herself to be persuaded to join the band that plays during the radio program "The microphone is yours".

Il microfono è vostro

1951