Piero Regnoli

Writing

Piero Regnoli

Born — Died

1921-07-17 — 2001-04-25

Place of birth

Roma, Italy

Known for

Writing

Credits

42 titles

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.

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Satan's Baby Doll poster
5.2

In the crypt of the remote castle of the Aguilars lies the recently-deceased body of Maria. Her husband Antonio is a jealous bully, his mute brother Ignazio is in a wheelchair peeping on his caretaker Sol, a novice. Also present are Miria, the couple's virginal daughter, and Isidro, a factotum who fears Satan's power. A frequent visitor is Juan Suarez, a doctor who wants Miria in a sanatorium for a month. She doesn't want to go. Isidro tries to exorcize the castle's evil spirits. Bodies pile up. Is Miria's mother truly dead, and who is Satan's tool?

Satan's Baby Doll

1982

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 Sword of the Barbarians poster
4.6

A swordsman's wife is murdered by followers of the evil Goddess Rani. He vows vengeance upon the cult and journeys to the Ark of the Templars to get a magic crossbow that will help him accomplish his mission.

The Sword of the Barbarians

1982

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

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

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

Patrick Still Lives poster
5.5

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

Campagnola bella poster
5.1

In a small village in central Italy all the notables, instead of dedicating themselves to contingent problems, try to have fun with the available women on duty, one of whom is the prostitute Felicetta, another the young Letizia. The two, initially at the mercy of their lecherous fellow villagers, later take revenge by binding themselves to two young and handsome soldiers camped near the town.

Campagnola bella

1976

Lust of the Vampire poster
6.3

A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess.

Lust of the Vampire

1957

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

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

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

Caligula's Hot Nights poster
4.0

In Augusta the emperor Caligula has a serious problem: he must demonstrate his manliness "coram populo" on the occasion of the feast of Priapus. But the Imperial young man is powerless and threatens a fool in front of the people who arrive in droves to watch the battle. To avoid this conflict, he goes to the professor Barnardus and attempts to hide out in his clinic.

Caligula's Hot Nights

1977

Death Walks in Laredo poster
7.2

Whitaker Selby, Lester Kato, and Etienne Devereaux, three eccentric gunmen, discover they are brothers. Their father left them all a mine located in Laredo, Texas. But they discover that Julius Caesar Fuller, the town's greedy landowner (who fancies himself Caesar) has taken control of their mine. They band together to fight Caesar and his black clad gunmen to repossess their mine and avenge their father.

Death Walks in Laredo

1967

Cry of a Prostitute poster
5.8

The gangster Tony Aniante in the middle of a feud between two mafia families. He manipulates both families into believing he is on their side and are just waiting for the right moment to take the initiative...

Cry of a Prostitute

1974

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

Blue Jeans poster
4.8

Tells the story of young Daniela ‘Blue Jeans’ Anselmi, a free-spirited drifter who makes her way in life by selling sexual favors and practicing petty-crime. After Daniela is arrested, the man who might be her long-lost father is called into her life to look after her.

Blue Jeans

1975

Penombra poster
5.2

Maria is a rich woman married to Osvaldo, a noble landowner. Her life is totally focused on sexual passion and eroticism so much that, after years of sadness with her husband, she finds her passion with her old lover Alessio.

Penombra

1987

A Black Ribbon for Deborah poster
5.6

A young woman with psychic powers is obsessed with having a child. Even though she is unable to conceive, her desire to do so creates a supernatural force determined to fulfill her wishes

A Black Ribbon for Deborah

1974

Ski Mistress poster
4.6

Celia Berni is facing the possibility of receiving an inheritance and is forced pretend to be a virtue. But unfortunately her plans may be thwarted by zealous performer, who tries to expose her in any way.

Ski Mistress

1981

Sweet Teen poster
4.2

A middle-age businessman marries a much younger woman, but is still carrying on with his sexy secretary. He somehow has the energy, however, to lust after his wife's visiting young niece.

Sweet Teen

1976

Neapolitan Boy in New York poster
5.0

The story of Nino, a street boy from Naples, and his friend Matumba, a boy from New York who wants to emigrate to Naples.

Neapolitan Boy in New York

1984

Popcorn e patatine poster
5.0

In love with the beautiful Anna, Nino follows her on vacation to Taormina and, to impress her, pretends to stay in a luxurious hotel. The misunderstandings follow each other. Neapolitan scenary, revised in a comic-seaside key, to the extent of the symbolic face of the genus Nino D'Ange.

Popcorn e patatine

1985

Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? poster
5.6

An eccentric bounty hunter named Providence captures and sets free a criminal in order to collect the same bounty over and over again in different states, until they discover that a local sheriff is up to something crooked.

Life Is Tough, Eh Providence?

1972

The Last Round poster
6.2

Stelvio Massi's crime thriller centers on a drifter who sets out to help blue-collar workers rise up against the two powerful families who are exploiting them. After settling in an industrial town and witnessing the cruelty of the factory owners, ex-mercenary Marco (Carlos Monzón) assumes the role of union agitator. When a violent confrontation erupts, the labor leader is driven to bring down the corrupt clans.

The Last Round

1976

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

Charity and the Strange Smell of Money poster
4.0

Charity is in charge of delivering the railroad payroll, but some locals and a Mexican gang have their own plans for the money.

Charity and the Strange Smell of Money

1973

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

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Naples... Serenade Caliber 9 poster
6.7

Don Salvatore Savastano, a boss involved in the smuggling of contraband cigarettes, is forced to watch four masked robbers kill his wife and his only son in a restaurant where he and his family are celebrating the young boy's first Holy Communion. From that moment on Don Salvatore has no other purpose in life but to get his revenge on the four assassins.

Naples... Serenade Caliber 9

1978

Quella peste di Pierina poster
3.9

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Quella peste di Pierina

1982

Obscene Desire poster
5.4

A young American woman moves to a large countryside villa with her newlywed Italian husband. Soon enough, strange and seemingly supernatural events begin to befall the property, as a black-gloved killer simultaneously picks up and murders prostitutes.

Obscene Desire

1978

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