Directing

Lionello De Felice

Born — Died

1916-09-09 — 1989-12-14

Place of birth

Naples, Campania, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

22 titles

Lionello De Felice was an Italian film director and screenwriter active from the early 1950s to the mid-1960s. Born in Naples, he began his career as an assistant director before making his directorial debut with Senza bandiera (1951). De Felice directed several films across various genres, including Too Young for Love (1953), Cento anni d'amore (1954), and Constantine and the Cross (1961). His work is noted for its narrative depth and exploration of complex characters, contributing to the richness of Italian cinema during his era.

Known for

Behind the camera

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

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

100 Years of Love poster
7.5

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.

100 Years of Love

1954

100 Years of Love poster
7.5

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.

100 Years of Love

1954

Goliath and the Sins of Babylon poster
5.5

Goliath battles for the freedom of the Babylonian people.

Goliath and the Sins of Babylon

1963

The Three Thieves poster
6.5

Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.

The Three Thieves

1954

The Three Thieves poster
6.5

Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.

The Three Thieves

1954

The Murder Clinic poster
6.5

Patients and those working in an isolated mental hospitals are murdered, one by one, by a madman lurking in the corridors

The Murder Clinic

1966

The Age of Indiscretion poster
8.5

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.

The Age of Indiscretion

1953

The Age of Indiscretion poster
8.5

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.

The Age of Indiscretion

1953

Colossus of the Arena poster
5.3

A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor.

Colossus of the Arena

1962

Sunday Heroes poster
6.4

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.

Sunday Heroes

1952

Countdown to Doomsday poster
7.5

NY private eye Jeff Milton is investigating a case of kidnapping in Caracas.

Countdown to Doomsday

1966

Il romanzo della mia vita poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il romanzo della mia vita

1952

Il romanzo della mia vita poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il romanzo della mia vita

1952

The Revenge of the Gladiators poster
7.0

Friends of Spartacus achieve revenge on the plotter who tries to make political capital out of the rumor that he is still alive. It was shot back to back with Seven Slaves Against the World.

The Revenge of the Gladiators

1964

3 Avengers poster
6.8

Ursus and his sword-wielding companions run head-on against a usurper of a throne.

3 Avengers

1964

Seven Rebel Gladiators poster
6.5

The ruthless Roman tribune, Vadio, joins forces with the evil Morakeb to take over the throne of Aristea, usurping King Krontal and stealing away his lovely daughter in the process. Meanwhile, Marco Aulo, now a Roman centurion, comes to Aristea to learn where his legions war funds have gone. Vadio has him framed for treason and is thrown into the arena to fight a group of six formidable gladiators. During the fights, Marco refuses to kill those he defeats until finally, he himself loses after exhaustion takes its toll. Admiring this man, the six warriors join him and together they escape Vadio's clutches and plot to free the kingdom from the two conspiring killers. Edited from Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules

Seven Rebel Gladiators

1965

El pasado te acusa poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

El pasado te acusa

1958

El pasado te acusa poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

El pasado te acusa

1958

Disperato addio poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Disperato addio

1955

Disperato addio poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Disperato addio

1955