Piero Regnoli

Writing

Piero Regnoli

Born 1921-07-17 · Roma, Italy

Born in 1921 in Rome, Italy, Piero Regnoli was a prolific screenwriter and film director. Over his career, he wrote more than 110 screenplays and directed 11 films, spanning genres such as sword-and-sandal, westerns, horror, and sexy comedies. Notable works include I Vampiri (1957), recognized as the first Italian horror film of the sound era, and The Playgirls and the Vampire (1960), which he directed. Regnoli's versatility and extensive contributions significantly impacted Italian genre cinema.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Una storia ambigua poster
4.4

Countess Anna Guerrieri, a rich and provocative noblewoman, marries Romano, an important fascist who is very loyal to the party. Sadly his sexual performance is found very lacking by the Countess, and so frustrated, she decides to look elsewhere for satisfaction and ends up setting her sights on Stefano, a naive and inexperienced young nephew undergraduate who has recently arrived from the provinces.

Una storia ambigua

1986

Senza vergogna poster
4.8

A partially paralyzed teenager is failing to have sex for the first time. He's eager but clumsy and sickly, so the local country girls reject him. He starts to realize that the only affectionate person in his life is his beautiful mother.

Senza vergogna

1986

That Malicious Age poster
6.4

Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.

That Malicious Age

1975

Lola's Secret poster
7.0

A young man's dreams come true when the sexy new maid seduces him. But she has a secret that leads to trouble.

Lola's Secret

1984

The Smile of the Fox poster
5.1

Mark, a hitman haunted by his past as a corrupt Miami cop and the death of his wife and son, prepares for his next killing. Gradually he becomes fascinated by the beautiful prostitute who lives in the next apartment and they embark on a passionate affair. Their dreams of a life together are complicated by her pimp being a drugs baron; before they can escape he must die, but things are never that simple...

The Smile of the Fox

1992

A Bull for Mounts poster
4.4

An impotent husband is inspired by the bull that he inherited from his father and finds the lost virility.

A Bull for Mounts

1976

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

La collegiale poster
4.6

The sexually naive Daniela returns home from boarding school only to realize that her family is involved in an excess of bed-hopping and sexual perversion.

La collegiale

1975

Nightmare City poster
5.7

A reporter and his doctor wife try to escape from the hordes of bloodthirsty, undead people exposed to nuclear radioactivity as military leaders fight a losing war of attrition against the relentless attacks.

Nightmare City

1980

Patrick Still Lives poster
5.4

A group of strangers are summoned to the secluded home of Patrick, a young man rendered comatose after a freak accident, but soon find themselves falling victim to Patrick's mysterious psychic powers and murderous rage.

Patrick Still Lives

1980

Navajo Joe poster
6.2

The sole survivor of a bloody massacre vows revenge on his attackers and on the men who killed his wife.

Navajo Joe

1966

La figliastra - Storia di corna e di passioni poster
4.7

A long time ago in Sicilia, there was a common, unwritten law that linked the hereditary rights to unequivocal demonstrations of virility. Because of that traditional law, a middle-age widower whose wife died without begetting him a child, is about to lose an inheritance of a large sum of money. The man marries again, with Nadia, an attractive woman with a daughter from her first marriage, Daniela. But time passes, and Nadia is not getting pregnant, either. Eventually, his beautiful stepdaughter will help him solve his problem.

La figliastra - Storia di corna e di passioni

1976

White Fang poster
6.4

The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime lord in 1896 Yukon, Canada.

White Fang

1973

Burial Ground poster
5.4

A cursed country estate is besieged by horny houseguests, undead Etruscans, and the unusual relationship between a mother and her young son.

Burial Ground

1981

The Sweet Aunts poster
5.1

An anarchist grandfather has custody of his nephew Free, but three aunts, two of which still handsome, they get the help of a priest and the police. So take possession of the child and cover it with lust

The Sweet Aunts

1975

Lo scugnizzo poster
6.8

Gennarino is a Neapolitan orphan boy. He lives with Angela, his adoptive mother, a former famous singer now fallen on hard times. She has a serious illness, and they together try to get the money, necessary for her right care, by singing around. But one day Angela is obliged by the illness to stop her activity, and Gennarino decides to join a pilferers gang.

Lo scugnizzo

1979

Maladonna poster
4.6

In late XIX century, rich and bored Maria (Paola Senatore) is after a more sexually interesting life and gets involved with Alessio who shows her other kinds of love. She soon becomes his sex slave but some unexpected consequences will arise from her desperate search for sexual fulfillment.

Maladonna

1984

Nightmare City poster
NR

When a mysterious virus spreads from Haiti to Miami turning people into terrifying, bloodthirsty creatures, a small group of survivors tries to escape from the City of the Walking Dead. Remake of the 1980 horror movie "Incubo Sulla Città Contaminata" aka Nightmare City from director Umberto Lenzi.

Nightmare City

The New Godfathers poster
6.9

A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on getting it to the US. They decide to run the drug through an unsuspecting network of good-natured, local smugglers in Naples, while an international anti-narcotics agent rushes to shut their operation down. Betrayals and divided loyalties lead to a final, bloody confrontation in America.

The New Godfathers

1979

Malombra poster
5.3

Gothic and erotic mystery about a young man called Marco, who goes to stay with his strange uncle, whose wife (Marco's beautiful aunt) died some time ago. His uncle's sister-in-law is the only other person living there. Marco spies on rituals of self-gratification performed every night by a red-headed woman who looks just like his dead aunt! Marco begins to wonder if the woman is actually the sister-in-law made up to look like her dead sister, or the dead aunt haunting the place

Malombra

1984

The Hills Run Red poster
5.9

After the Civil War ends, two soldiers return home with a cache of stolen money. They are caught by Union troops. One escapes, but the other is sent to prison for five years. When he gets out and goes home, he finds that his wife has died in poverty because his partner kept all the money, and is now a major power in the area with an army of deadly gunmen to back him up.

The Hills Run Red

1966

The Playgirls and the Vampire poster
5.1

Sexy nightclub dancers get trapped in a dark, creepy castle for the night.

The Playgirls and the Vampire

1960

The Playgirls and the Vampire poster
5.1

Sexy nightclub dancers get trapped in a dark, creepy castle for the night.

The Playgirls and the Vampire

1960

Lo stallone poster
4.5

Daniela Branco, a lively girl in love with her father Guido, intends to get rid of her mother. He wants her to relate with Valerio, a penniless painter. On the contrary, Francesca's adventure rekindles marital relations.

Lo stallone

1975