Renato Terra

Acting

Renato Terra

Born — Died

1922-07-26 — 2010-11-28

Place of birth

Naples, Campania, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

Rocco and His Brothers poster
8.0

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Rocco and His Brothers

1960

Jesus of Nazareth poster
7.8

Dramatizes the Birth, Life, Ministry, Crucifixion, and Resurrection of Jesus Christ, largely according to the Holy Bible's New Testament Gospels.

Jesus of Nazareth

1977

The Gospel According to St. Matthew poster
7.4

Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. His parables often take on the powers that be, so he and his teachings come to the attention of the Pharisees, the chief priests, and elders. They conspire to have him arrested, beaten, tried, and crucified, just as he prophesied to his followers.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

1965

White Nights poster
7.4

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

White Nights

1957

Big Deal on Madonna Street poster
8.1

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958

Black Sunday poster
7.4

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.

Black Sunday

1960

Film credits

1960s · 45 titles

Rocco and His Brothers poster
8.0

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Rocco and His Brothers

1960

The Gospel According to St. Matthew poster
7.4

Along a rocky, barren coastline, Jesus begins teaching, primarily using parables. He attracts disciples; he's stern, brusque, and demanding. His parables often take on the powers that be, so he and his teachings come to the attention of the Pharisees, the chief priests, and elders. They conspire to have him arrested, beaten, tried, and crucified, just as he prophesied to his followers.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

1965

Black Sunday poster
7.4

A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.

Black Sunday

1960

Sodom and Gomorrah poster
5.3

Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.

Sodom and Gomorrah

1962

The Tartars poster
6.0

The Tartars and the Vikings maintain a fragile peace in the harsh landscape of the Russian Steppe. When the leader of the Vikings, Oleg, declines to accompany the Tartars on a campaign against the Slavs, there is an explosion of violence. After Oleg kills the Tartar leader and kidnaps his daughter, the dead man's brother, Burandai, retaliates by holding Oleg's wife, Helga, hostage. The stalemate can be resolved only on the battlefield.

The Tartars

1961

The Dirty Game poster
6.0

A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.

The Dirty Game

1965

I Knew Her Well poster
7.5

A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.

I Knew Her Well

1965

Seven Golden Men poster
6.8

After bungling a job in London, Albert, an international thief, masterminds a plan to rob a Geneva bank of 7 tons of gold. Assisted by the seductive Giorgia, who works from within the bank, and six other accomplices, Albert sets himself up in an expensive hotel with a battery of electronic devices to supervise the operation.

Seven Golden Men

1965

Hands Over the City poster
7.4

Prior to a city council election, the collapse of a building leaves a land developer and his political backers defending themselves against a scandal.

Hands Over the City

1963

The Castle of the Living Dead poster
6.1

Count Drago invites over entertainers to his castle, but what the people don't know is that Drago mummifies animals and humans!

The Castle of the Living Dead

1964

Me, Me, Me... and the Others poster
6.2

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

1966

The Angel Wore Red poster
5.0

A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.

The Angel Wore Red

1960

Accattone poster
7.7

A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.

Accattone

1961

Constantine and the Cross poster
5.3

Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.

Constantine and the Cross

1961

Complexes poster
7.0

In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.

Complexes

1965

Seven Golden Men Strike Again poster
6.1

Armed with gadgets and an atomic sub, a crook (Philippe Leroy) and his gang target a Latin dictator and Soviet gold.

Seven Golden Men Strike Again

1966

Massacre At Grand Canyon poster
6.0

After a search for his father's killers, Wes Evans returns home only to find himself involved in a bloody land dispute.

Massacre At Grand Canyon

1964

David and Goliath poster
3.7

When the Philistines attack, the Israelites are hopeless against the fierce giant Goliath and don't know what to do. King Saul takes the advice of the prophets and sends an adolescent shepherd, David, into battle to conquer the oversized Philistine. David is victorious and becomes the King of Israel.

David and Goliath

1960

Seduction Of The South poster
5.3

Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.

Seduction Of The South

1961

Goliath and the Vampires poster
6.3

Maciste's village is attacked by pirates. The women, including Maciste's fiancee Guja, are carried off to Salmanak, where dwells the lair of the blood drinking Kobrak. Maciste vows to rescue them.

Goliath and the Vampires

1961

The Revenge of Ivanhoe poster
6.0

Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to free the Saxons from oppression in 12th century England. He claims the hand of a beautiful lady and fights to rescue her from danger.

The Revenge of Ivanhoe

1965

Three Dollars of Lead poster
5.9

Rudy Wallace arrives home to take over the family ranch as his father was killed by cattle baron Morrison. Morrison wants no competition and instructs all other ranchers not to sell Rudy any cattle. A sheriff has followed Rudy to arrest him as an accomplice in a series of holdups but eventually finds out that Rudy is innocent and helps him defeat the crooked Morrison. Filmed back-to-back with Damned Pistols of Dallas

Three Dollars of Lead

1964

Black City poster
7.7

A charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police inspector.

Black City

1961

Madame poster
5.8

Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.

Madame

1961

Made in Italy poster
6.1

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

Made in Italy

1965

The Revenge of Hercules poster
5.3

A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the machinations of an evil ruler.

The Revenge of Hercules

1960

Two Escape from Sing Sing poster
5.9

Two attendants in a public toilet in New York save the life of the Mafia boss Attanasia. Attanasia turns one of them into a successful boxer by setting up his matches and makes the other into his right hand. When a gang war starts the two are accused of the murders and are sentenced to death. When the execution day comes they refuse to leave their cell, even when they are proved innocent.

Two Escape from Sing Sing

1964

The Brigand poster
8.5

Inspired by a real-life event that took place in Calabria at the end of World War 2, the film is the story of a young farmer who led peasants to revolt, after being falsely accused of murder.

The Brigand

1961

Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa poster
4.0

A whimsical commedia all'italiana divided into four episodes.

Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa

1964

Wake Up and Die poster
6.3

A petty hoodlum pulls jewellery store heists in broad daylight. The cop on his tail knows he has accomplices and focuses on the gangster's girl friend is his attempt to catch him.

Wake Up and Die

1966

Kill and Pray poster
6.4

A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a preacher. Years later, the boy is now a soft-spoken, devout young man with perfect shooting skills (despite being a pacifist). On his journey to help his half-sister out of a complicated situation, he crosses paths with the men who killed his family, unbeknownst to him.

Kill and Pray

1967

The Strange Type poster
5.8

Peppino, a slow-witted local villager of the Italian resort town of Amalfi, is bribed to impersonate famed rock and roll star Adriano Celentano for autographs and personal appearances. While Celentano tries to romance Emanuela Mazzolani, the daughter of a well-to-do resident who dissaproves of the union between his daughter and the man he thinks of as a "punk", Peppino, unaware of the true nature of his job to impersonate Celentano, tries to deal with his girlfriend's newborn baby which gets switched around between him and Celentano.

The Strange Type

1963

Knives of the Avenger poster
6.3

A mysterious knife-throwing viking warrior protects a young peasant woman and her young son from the clutches of a evil regent bent on claiming the title of king and the woman for himself.

Knives of the Avenger

1966

Hercules Against the Barbarians poster
5.0

The eternal Hercules in this film has gone way beyond his usual time and place in ancient Greece and is now helping Poland free itself of Mongol invaders in the 12th century. Mark Forest is the star of this peplum epic, Hercules Against The Barbarians.

Hercules Against the Barbarians

1964

Weekend, Italian Style poster
6.5

Manager Marletti goes to the sea to meet his wife Giuliana to spend the weekend with her and many friends. After three days Marletti comes back driving his car to Rome. So he can sleep, alone and happy, with silence around him.

Weekend, Italian Style

1965

The Cavern poster
6.4

Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?

The Cavern

1964

Seven Dollars on Red poster
4.9

A little boy is abducted by ruthless bandit gang leader El Cachal after Cachal and his men butcher the boy's family with the exception of his father. Johnny Ashley, the gunslinger father of the boy, goes searching for his son. Alas, the boy has grown up to be a mean and vicious criminal.

Seven Dollars on Red

1966

Disorder poster
6.1

Study of 1960s Milanese social life and its glamorous depravity, as seen through the story of the working class Mario who dreams of social climbing.

Disorder

1962

Thrilling poster
6.7

A black comedy anthology about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes: a teacher, obsessed with the idea that his wife is unfaithful, goes to a shrink; a wife has her husband dress himself with a comic character costume; and a man has to spend the night in a mysterious hotel after his car breaks down.

Thrilling

1965

The Monk of Monza poster
7.0

Pasquale takes all of his 12 children and runs away from Monza, looking for a house of a wealthy and generous awning. Having met on the way impoverished peasant, Pasquale takes him also, having granted the rank of "Half-Monk" and thus having gained rustic, but a reliable friend.

The Monk of Monza

1963

The Seven Revenges poster
6.8

The leaders of Circassians and Kyrgyz face off in a tournament divided into seven challenges: only one will gain the supremacy.

The Seven Revenges

1961

Operation Atlantis poster
5.0

An American agent discovers that the Red Chinese have built a secret atomic city from which they will attempt to invade America.

Operation Atlantis

1965

It's a Hard Life poster
6.6

Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in the small town of Guastalla. As an intellectual and bibliophile, he works as head of cultural initiatives at a mining plant.

It's a Hard Life

1964

The Two Marshals poster
7.2

September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.

The Two Marshals

1961

F.B.I. chiama Istanbul poster
10.0

The members of a gang of drug dealers are killed one by one. Clues lead to an elegant villa on the Bosporus. The Turkish police knows almost everything, but only the FBI man from the USA takes action.

F.B.I. chiama Istanbul

1964

1950s · 14 titles

White Nights poster
7.4

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return.

White Nights

1957

Big Deal on Madonna Street poster
8.1

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958

Senso poster
7.2

A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.

Senso

1954

The Bachelor poster
6.4

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?

The Bachelor

1955

The Facts of Murder poster
7.2

A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation.

The Facts of Murder

1959

Legions of the Nile poster
5.3

Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the city, he meets Berenice, a mysterious and beautiful dancer who falls in love. Actually, the dancer is the queen Cleopatra who leads a double life using this name.

Legions of the Nile

1959

Nero's Mistress poster
5.9

On seaside holiday, Nero, Poppea, Seneca and their friends and family prepare a great show where Nero will star. When his mother Agrippina arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she's asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.

Nero's Mistress

1956

Goliath and the Barbarians poster
4.7

When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.

Goliath and the Barbarians

1959

Piece of the Sky poster
6.5

As he does every year, Severino, a young hawker who goes around the festivals of the various villages in the Po Delta, returns to Migliarino to sell his knick-knacks and tell far-fetched stories about the future and progress. Besides the beautiful Marina, three gullible old friends live here, pensioners who live off poverty, to whom he proposes the sale of a hectare of sky.

Piece of the Sky

1958

The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo poster
6.4

In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom.

The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo

1952

A Husband for Anna poster
5.7

Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.

A Husband for Anna

1953

The Law Is the Law poster
7.2

Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.

The Law Is the Law

1958

Peppino, le modelle e... chella llà poster
8.5

Young painter Teddy is successful with women but not very clever about selling pictures. He is in love with Elisabetta but cannot marry her because he is penniless. The couple asks for help from Peppino, a retired clerk who often uses Teddy's painting, pretending that they are his so he can impress the women he likes.

Peppino, le modelle e... chella llà

1957

The Path of Hope poster
7.5

The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families decide to illegally cross the border to France and their hardships.

The Path of Hope

1950

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