Writing

Sabatino Ciuffini

Born — Died

1920-10-21 — 2003-01-01

Place of birth

L'Aquila, Italy

Known for

Writing

Credits

20 titles

Sabatino Ciuffini was an Italian screenwriter and assistant director known for his work in various film genres, including comedy, drama, and action. Born in L'Aquila, Abruzzo, he began his career in the film industry in the early 1950s. Ciuffini contributed to films such as The Tartars (1961) and Gold for the Caesars (1963). He is perhaps best known for his work on Super Fuzz (1980), a comedy about a police officer who gains superpowers. Throughout his career, Ciuffini demonstrated versatility, working across different genres and contributing to the Italian film industry until his death in 2003.

Known for

Behind the camera

Super Fuzz poster
6.5

While delivering a parking ticket to a small village in the Florida everglades, Officer Dave Speed finds himself in the middle of a radiation experiment conducted by the American government and NASA, where a detonated nuclear missile gives him a multitude of superpowers.

Super Fuzz

1980

The Specialists poster
5.8

Hud Dixon returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob.

The Specialists

1969

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 Story of Romance and Knife poster
5.7

The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.

The Story of Romance and Knife

1971

Little Funny Guy poster
5.3

Movie starts with a small boy watching his father boarding a ship to America. Years later, all grown up and in colour, Pippolo Cavallo (Adriano Celentano) takes the same route (dressed as a woman) to search for his father and begin a new life.

Little Funny Guy

1973

Gold for the Caesars poster
5.1

A gladiator gets caught up in a slave revolt and the invasion of England.

Gold for the Caesars

1963

Here We for Example... poster
5.4

Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the culprit, a photographer nicknamed 'Click' and takes up residence with him until he either gets his money back or his poetry published.

Here We for Example...

1977

Lo sgarro poster
10.0

A young man joins a band of brigands, but, faced with their exactions, rebels against them.

Lo sgarro

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

Sonny and Jed poster
5.8

As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, Joe nonetheless robs from the rich and gives to the poor. Not only is he a murderous, ill-tempered sort, he is bad-mannered, too. When beautiful Sonny decides he should be her man and teach her how to be a proper outlaw, sparks fly.

Sonny and Jed

1972

The Fourth Victim poster
6.0

A wealthy Englishman finds his third wife dead. After the police discover that his first two wives had also died suddenly, an investigation is launched. Meanwhile, a new neighbor moves in and becomes very interested in him.

The Fourth Victim

1971

The Giant of Metropolis poster
4.7

Obro the muscleman goes to Atlantis and sinks a death-ray king who knows the secret of immortality.

The Giant of Metropolis

1961

What's Your Sign? poster
5.4

Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles.

What's Your Sign?

1975

Don Juan in Sicily poster
5.2

Giovanni Percolla lives in Catania surrounded by the attentive cares of his three sisters. He permanently acts like a Don Giovanni to hide his real poor "knowledge" of women. With his friend he moves also to Rome but women still continues to remain part of his fantasies. But Giovanni succeeded to build anyway a fame of "tombeur de femmes". One day he meets the real love of Maria Antonietta and decides to marry. Will things change?

Don Juan in Sicily

1967

What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution? poster
5.5

In the beginning of the 20th. century Italian actor Guido Guidi, more enthusiastic than talented, and his ensemble tour Texas. The mysterious and obviously rich Peppino Garibaldi gives them an offer, they can’t deny: For a large amount of dough they should play “Richard III.” in the Mexican town Vera Cruz. But Peppino is not really interested in cultural affairs: He supports “La Revolución” and “General” Carasco, who utilizes the feastful premiere of “Richard III.” to raid Vera Cruz for Comandante Zapata. But shortly after the Mexican Army shows up with some canons in tow to sort things out. Guidi and Padre Albino, Italian like him, succeed to flee and save Carasco accidentially from the firing squad. Whereas the latter coninues his revolutionary fight, Guidi and Albino start an odyssey through the struggling Mexico, which lets them fall one time in the hands of Carasco the other time in those of Herrera or even in the clutches of “hand-taking” bandidos.

What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?

1972

Atrocious Tales of Love and Death poster
6.4

Raphael, a restaurant mandolin player with a limp, a father to support, and a lot of debt, accepts a job offered by his friend, Giardino, to play a serenade under an apartment window at the behest of a mysterious blonde. As he’s playing, a man high up on a balcony is pushed to his death. Raffaele is compelled to conduct his own investigation and becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a macabre secret...

Atrocious Tales of Love and Death

1979

I Don't Understand You Anymore poster
6.5

On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is Paolo, Luisa's husband. Alberto offers to help Paolo, but when the two men arrive at his home, Paolo still in his bathrobe, Luisa hugs Alberto and calls him Paolo. The two men try everything they think of to help Luisa regain her memory until the last (but not too unexpected) surprise.

I Don't Understand You Anymore

1980

Violenza sul lago poster
8.0

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Violenza sul lago

1954

La vedovella poster
9.0

Susy, a call girl from Milan, receives a castle as a gift from one of her old clients, Baron Colletta di Sant'Omero. When she arrives, she is mistaken for the widow of the deceased squire and is immediately surrounded by the mayor, members of the town council, and other people who all aspire to take over the dilapidated property for little money, whose future is guaranteed by the industrial expansion of the Calabrian village. Susy realizes the situation and astutely takes advantage of it. She manages to obtain the unanimous vote of the city council against the expropriation of her land, and, having duped all her suitors, she devotes herself to Corrado, a technician at some important factories in the area.

La vedovella

1965

Odds and Evens poster
7.0

A bumbling government agent recruits a trucker whose gambling knowledge can help crack an illegal Florida operation.

Odds and Evens

1978