Directing

Mario Costa

Born — Died

1910-05-31 — 1995-10-22

Place of birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West poster
5.4

Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a gang of white swindlers and the Indian, Yellow Hand. So he goes to the chief of Yellow Hand's tribe, Wise Fox, and tries to convince him to sign a peace treaty with the Federal troops. In order to avoid this, Yellow Hand abducts Wise Fox's daughter, pretending that the soldiers have done it.

Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West

1964

The Queen of the Pirates poster
5.5

In 16th century Italy, on the Adriatic coast, the duchy of Doruzza is governed by a tyrannical duke, Zulian, and his haughty daughter, Isabella. When they commit a great injustice, a ship's captain and his daughter turn pirate to fight back for the people.

The Queen of the Pirates

1960

The Centurion poster
5.5

A Roman soldier falls in love with the daughter of a Greek city's anti-Roman leader.

The Centurion

1961

Revelation poster
7.7

A young communist discovers the power of faith.

Revelation

1955

Rage of the Buccaneers poster
5.7

Gordon, The Black Pirate, battles the slavery trade.

Rage of the Buccaneers

1961

Mad About Opera poster
8.3

This story took place during World War II. A group of Italians living in London are raising funds to rebuild a Catholic cathedral that was bombed by the Nazis. To this end, they organized a concert, the proceeds of which would go toward the construction. The project was led by journalist Carlo Scala. He faced and overcame many difficulties in organizing the event, but he handled them with honor, and the performance by leading Italian singers took place. He was assisted in this by the incomparable Dora Scala.

Mad About Opera

1948

Behind the camera

Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West poster
5.4

Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a gang of white swindlers and the Indian, Yellow Hand. So he goes to the chief of Yellow Hand's tribe, Wise Fox, and tries to convince him to sign a peace treaty with the Federal troops. In order to avoid this, Yellow Hand abducts Wise Fox's daughter, pretending that the soldiers have done it.

Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West

1964

The Queen of the Pirates poster
5.5

In 16th century Italy, on the Adriatic coast, the duchy of Doruzza is governed by a tyrannical duke, Zulian, and his haughty daughter, Isabella. When they commit a great injustice, a ship's captain and his daughter turn pirate to fight back for the people.

The Queen of the Pirates

1960

The Centurion poster
5.5

A Roman soldier falls in love with the daughter of a Greek city's anti-Roman leader.

The Centurion

1961

Revelation poster
7.7

A young communist discovers the power of faith.

Revelation

1955

Revelation poster
7.7

A young communist discovers the power of faith.

Revelation

1955

Rage of the Buccaneers poster
5.7

Gordon, The Black Pirate, battles the slavery trade.

Rage of the Buccaneers

1961

Mad About Opera poster
8.3

This story took place during World War II. A group of Italians living in London are raising funds to rebuild a Catholic cathedral that was bombed by the Nazis. To this end, they organized a concert, the proceeds of which would go toward the construction. The project was led by journalist Carlo Scala. He faced and overcame many difficulties in organizing the event, but he handled them with honor, and the performance by leading Italian singers took place. He was assisted in this by the incomparable Dora Scala.

Mad About Opera

1948

Mad About Opera poster
8.3

This story took place during World War II. A group of Italians living in London are raising funds to rebuild a Catholic cathedral that was bombed by the Nazis. To this end, they organized a concert, the proceeds of which would go toward the construction. The project was led by journalist Carlo Scala. He faced and overcame many difficulties in organizing the event, but he handled them with honor, and the performance by leading Italian singers took place. He was assisted in this by the incomparable Dora Scala.

Mad About Opera

1948

Trieste mia! poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Trieste mia!

1951

Kerim, Son of the Sheik poster
6.0

In the Middle East, circa 1860s, the evil Omar seeks to become Khadive by killing off his adversaries and by marrying the reluctant Fawzia, favorite niece of the current Khadive. Omar's brutal policies result in the death of a young woman named Laila. Laila's brother, Kerim, then becomes Omar's sworn enemy.

Kerim, Son of the Sheik

1962

Melody of Love poster
9.0

A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can't elope because her father has an heart ailment and uses it to hold Maria. Giacomo misunderstands and takes off on a global singing tour.

Melody of Love

1952

Melody of Love poster
9.0

A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can't elope because her father has an heart ailment and uses it to hold Maria. Giacomo misunderstands and takes off on a global singing tour.

Melody of Love

1952

Gladiator of Rome poster
5.7

A warrior protecting a slave girl, who is really a princess, winds up as a gladiator in the Roman arenas.

Gladiator of Rome

1962

Cavalcata d'eroi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cavalcata d'eroi

1950

Cavalcata d'eroi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Cavalcata d'eroi

1950

La sua strada poster
10.0

Giovanni Ferretti leaves his wife and son and sets off in search of fortune abroad. His brother manages to turn around the company's fortunes and secure a future for his nephew Riccardo, who falls in love with Elisabetta, a divorced Hungarian woman who threatens to jeopardize the family unit, but an unexpected encounter with his father, who has returned in miserable condition, convinces him to give up eloping with the woman.

La sua strada

1946

Cavalier in Devil's Castle poster
9.0

A mysterious horseman, called the Dark Knight, sets himself up as a masked vigilante and decides to free the duchet of Valgrado from the grip of a terrible tyrant.

Cavalier in Devil's Castle

1959

Le belle dell'aria poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le belle dell'aria

1957

Pagliacci poster
NR

Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or pagliaccio in Italian) in a commedia dell'arte troupe, his wife Nedda, and her lover, Silvio. When Nedda spurns the advances of Tonio, another player in the troupe, he tells Canio about Nedda's betrayal. In a jealous rage Canio murders both Nedda and Silvio. The only actor in the cast who also sang his role was the celebrated Italian baritone, Tito Gobbi, but the film is largely very faithful to its source material, presenting the opera nearly complete.

Pagliacci

1948

Pagliacci poster
NR

Based on Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci. The film recounts the tragedy of Canio, the lead clown (or pagliaccio in Italian) in a commedia dell'arte troupe, his wife Nedda, and her lover, Silvio. When Nedda spurns the advances of Tonio, another player in the troupe, he tells Canio about Nedda's betrayal. In a jealous rage Canio murders both Nedda and Silvio. The only actor in the cast who also sang his role was the celebrated Italian baritone, Tito Gobbi, but the film is largely very faithful to its source material, presenting the opera nearly complete.

Pagliacci

1948

Attack of the Moors poster
9.0

Rik Battaglia is sent by the king of France to the border with Spain, where the heirs to the throne are staying in a castle-fortress. The Spaniards and Arabs struggle to control the border, while the Moorish Princess (Chelo Alonso) discovers she is not who she thought she was.

Attack of the Moors

1959

Latin Lovers poster
6.1

The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.

Latin Lovers

1965

I Always Loved You poster
7.0

A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune. This she will be able to temporarily make the two young men go away but the man makes his girlfriend understand that her is true love; he realizes that he has been the victim of a scam and will bring the woman he has always loved to the altar.

I Always Loved You

1953

This Wine of Love poster
5.7

Nemorino is hopelessly in love with Adina but she is attracted to a dashing captain.

This Wine of Love

1947

Goodbye Forever poster
9.0

A man discovers his wife's infidelity and kills her lover.

Goodbye Forever

1957

The Dollars Are Coming! poster
6.8

A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance...

The Dollars Are Coming!

1957

Pietà per chi cade poster
7.0

Carlo Savelli, gone missing after the war, returns to Italia after many years. His wife Anna, believing him dead, has established a romance with Andrea, and in order to keep him happy, she follows him to Venice.

Pietà per chi cade

1954

Pietà per chi cade poster
7.0

Carlo Savelli, gone missing after the war, returns to Italia after many years. His wife Anna, believing him dead, has established a romance with Andrea, and in order to keep him happy, she follows him to Venice.

Pietà per chi cade

1954

Perdonami! poster
5.5

The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother.

Perdonami!

1953

Perdonami! poster
5.5

The story of a woman who marries the brother of a guardian who was killed by her brother.

Perdonami!

1953

Via col para... vento poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Via col para... vento

1958

Il terrore dei mantelli rossi poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Il terrore dei mantelli rossi

1963

Per salvarti ho peccato poster
8.0

Little Luigi, the son of Guido and Elena, has a strange illness. To save him, they must inject his blood into a healthy person with his same blood type in order to create antibodies the fight off the infection.

Per salvarti ho peccato

1953

The Barber of Seville poster
7.0

A crafty barber acts as a go-between for a count in disguise and rescues Rosina from marriage with her guardian. An operatic comedy.

The Barber of Seville

1947

The Beast poster
5.6

Foul, twitchy, and deranged sex maniac Johnny Laster comes up with a plan to abduct a lovely young heiress in order to obtain her considerable inheritance.

The Beast

1970

The Beast poster
5.6

Foul, twitchy, and deranged sex maniac Johnny Laster comes up with a plan to abduct a lovely young heiress in order to obtain her considerable inheritance.

The Beast

1970

Spring song poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Spring song

1951

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'ospite di una notte

1939

The Lovers of Manon Lescaut poster
4.5

In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil.

The Lovers of Manon Lescaut

1954

The Lovers of Manon Lescaut poster
4.5

In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil.

The Lovers of Manon Lescaut

1954