Luigi Cozzi

Directing

Luigi Cozzi

Born

1947-09-07 (79)

Place of birth

Busto Arsizio, Italy

Known for

Directing

Credits

86 titles

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Luigi Cozzi (born September 7, 1947) is an Italian movie director and screenwriter who directed mainly science fiction and horror films in the mid-1970s and throughout the 1980s. He was born in 1947 in Busto Arsizio, Italy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luigi Cozzi, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Hercules poster
5.0

Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help of a benevolent sorceress, Circe, Hercules tries to save his beloved Cassiopeia from being sacrificed by Minos, and struggles against laser-breathing creatures and an evil sorceress.

Hercules

1983

The Adventures of Hercules poster
4.8

Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.

The Adventures of Hercules

1985

Eurotika! poster
8.0

Eurotika is a Channel 4 documentary film on European exploitation cinema. The documentary is similarly themed to Pete Tombs's book Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Movies 1956-1984. During the 1960s and 1970s, European low-budget films went kinky, emerging as a new type of cinema that blended eroticism, surrealism, horror, and over-the-top atmospherics.

Eurotika!

1999

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films poster
7.2

A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014

Starcrash poster
4.2

A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing.

Starcrash

1978

Four Flies on Grey Velvet poster
6.5

Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders.

Four Flies on Grey Velvet

1971

Film credits

2020s · 7 titles

Dream Time poster
6.0

Spaghetti westerns, giallo, mondo... are the legacy of a golden age in Italian genre filmmaking, which began in the sixties and came to an end in the eighties, but not without leaving behind a few final masterpieces. This film explores, a few decades later, what became of those filmmakers and their films. A number of the most famous survivors of Italian horror movies will help to shed light on what happened.

Dream Time

2023

Dario Argento: Panico poster
6.8

This documentary about the great master of European horror and fantastic films offers an immersive exploration into the life and legacy of the director of Suspiria. Using the writing process of his next film as a starting point, Dario Argento Panico immerses us in the mind of the Italian genius, and offers testimonials from other filmmakers who love his work, all key names in today's world of cinema including Gaspar Noé and Guillermo Del Toro.

Dario Argento: Panico

2024

Tales of the Uncanny poster
7.0

A detailed look at the history of horror anthology films.

Tales of the Uncanny

2020

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento poster
3.0

Newly edited version of Luigi Cozzi's 1997 documentary "Il mondo di Dario Argento 3: Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento" focusing on the museum-part of the "Profondo Rosso" shop.

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

2022

Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs poster
NR

Feature length documentary including interviews with Sergio Martino, Alberto de Martino, Ovidio G. Assonitis and more.

Italy Possessed: A Brief History of Exorcist Rip-Offs

2020

Aquel último tiburón poster
NR

There was a time when the Italian film industry copied American models and reaped huge profits. In 1981, a transalpine production company dared to make an exploitation version of Jaws and Jaws 2, while Universal was preparing the third official installment. The Last Shark was successfully released in several countries with the title Jaws 3 or The Last Jaws, making a huge impact, but in the United States it instantly got sued, sparking an epic conflict between Jaws.

Aquel último tiburón

2025

The Golden Years of Dario Argento poster
NR

An in-depth interview with the master of giallo, Dario Argento, about his career and his masterpieces: from The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) to Insomnia (2001).

The Golden Years of Dario Argento

2026

2010s · 24 titles

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films poster
7.2

A documentary about the rise and fall of the Cannon Film Group, the legendary independent film company helmed by Israeli cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus.

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

2014

FantastiCozzi poster
6.0

A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.

FantastiCozzi

2016

C'era una volta il prossimamente poster
NR

A passionate cavalcade through decades of "coming attractions"

C'era una volta il prossimamente

2014

George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring poster
NR

The life of one of the most famous leading-men of Italian popular cinema.

George Hilton - The World Belongs to the Daring

2019

Survival of the Film Freaks poster
5.3

Survival of the Film Freaks is a documentary exploring the phenomenon of cult film in America and how it survives in the 21st Century. Through interviews and fan events, the documentary will trace decades of film fanaticism up to the present, where the 'digital age' has transformed the way we experience movies.

Survival of the Film Freaks

2018

Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film poster
7.6

Documentary on the short-lived craze of Italian cannibal films in the '70s and '80s, featuring interviews with Umberto Lenzi, Ruggero Deodato, Sergio Martino, Giovanni Lombardo Radice, and Robert Kerman.

Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film

2015

Cult of Terror poster
6.8

A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and rock-spirited immersion into the universe of cinephilia, in search of genre specialists, fans and filmmakers who speak of their shared passion for fantastic cinema; a whole international spiritual community united under the cathartic shadow of horror.

Cult of Terror

2017

The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti poster
6.0

Documentary on the life and films of Antonio Margheriti.

The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti

2013

From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie Movie poster
5.9

The history of Italian zombie cinema, beginning with the breakout worldwide influence and success of George Romero's Night of the Living Dead and continuing through to Lucio Fulci's trend-setting Zombie Flesh-Eaters (Zombi 2) and its many imitators.

From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie Movie

2012

Bava Puzzle poster
NR

Through the anecdotes and stories of actors, directors, critics and experts, this documentary traces the career of Lamberto Bava, from his first steps in cinema with his father Mario to his 1980 debut with "Macabro" to his collaborations with Dario Argento to the big TV series successes of "Fantaghirò," "Desideria" and "Sorellina."

Bava Puzzle

2018

Blood on Méliès' Moon poster
4.7

France, 1890. Inventor Louis Le Prince vanishes under mysterious circumstances right after he created a device that, five years later, the Lumière Brothers will call The Cinematographer. What if they had stolen Le Prince’s idea and wacked him afterwards? The mystery remains for more than a century, until Luigi Cozzi picks up a strange book called “The Roaming Universe” in the horror museum of his pal Dario Argento. The origin of this enigmatic book troubles him. This particular science-fiction novel would have materialized during a spiritual session in modern day Rome. At the session, an old woman revealed that the key to all these mysteries comes from 1895, a time during which the Lumière Brothers had denied lending their camera to Georges Méliès for an obscure movie called "A Trip to the moon". Not only does this film actually exist, but it raises a more intriguing question. Is our world the only one, or are there parallel universes ?

Blood on Méliès' Moon

2016

Violent Shit: The Movie poster
3.3

Rome is shattered by a series of gruesome murders that paint the Eternal City deep red. The suspicion grows that these atrocious crimes are connected with the return of one of the most heinous serial killers of our time - Karl the Butcher.

Violent Shit: The Movie

2015

No artwork available
6.0

Documentary about Mario Bava's film "The Girl Who Knew Too Much" and its impact on the Giallo genre.

All About the Girl: Memories of a Giallo Gem

2014

No artwork available
NR

Short documentary about the making of Luigi Cozzi's 1989 film "The Black Cat".

The Other Mother: Making 'The Black Cat'

2010

No artwork available
7.0

Five of the main players behind Dario Argento's classic horror shocker Phenomena (1985) sit down to take viewers through this exclusive, epic-sized, 52 minute making of feature documentary. This was compiled and created for the nationwide Arrow UK DVD and Blu Ray release of the film, which hit all British home video stores on March 7th 2011.

Dario Argento's Monkey Business: The Making of Phenomena

2011

Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo poster
6.6

Feature-length in-depth documentary by High Rising Productions chronicling the Giallo film genre from its beginnings as early 20th century crime fiction, to its later influences on the modern slasher film genre. Featuring interviews with Dario Argento, Umberto Lenzi, Luigi Cozzi, Richard Stanley, and more.

Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo

2016

Splatter – La rivista proibita poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Splatter – La rivista proibita

2017

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Roma Fantástica

2011

Of Flies and Maggots poster
6.0

Feature-length documentary including interviews with co-writer/producer/director Dario Argento, and many of the cast and crew members.

Of Flies and Maggots

2017

No artwork available
6.5

Luigi Cozzi's memories about the production of Dario Argento's "4 mosche di velluto grigio".

Der Fall der vier Fliegen

2012

Rebobinando poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

Rebobinando

2017

No artwork available
NR

Various crew members talk about the making of Dario Argento's Inferno.

Of Fire And Darkness

2012

Bring Me the Head of Antonio Mayans poster
4.0

Veteran Spanish actor Antonio Mayans is kidnapped by a director with whom he made a terrible film in the past, and whose career was destroyed by the failure of it. He seeks revenge and wants Mayans to act on his new project: a snuff movie.

Bring Me the Head of Antonio Mayans

2017

I Miei Sogni in Pellicola poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I Miei Sogni in Pellicola

2019

2000s · 9 titles

Mario Bava: Operazione paura poster
6.5

Mario Bava Operazione Paura", hosted by Joe Dante, is an hommage of the Master of the Terror, the italian director Mario Bava

Mario Bava: Operazione paura

2004

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 poster
6.0

This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

2008

Un monde mort au fond de leurs regards de pierre poster
7.0

Testimonials from various film professionals about Lucio Fulci.

Un monde mort au fond de leurs regards de pierre

2004

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror poster
6.8

Documentary that explores Argento's film career.

Dario Argento: An Eye for Horror

2001

No artwork available
NR

Offers a critical appreciation of Italian horror cinema, pioneered by directors such as Dario Argento and Mario Bava, a genre that influenced filmmakers from Quentin Tarantino to Takashi Miike.

Hanging Shadows

2007

No artwork available
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Non risponde più

2004

No artwork available
NR

Assistant director Luigi Cozzi recalls his first encounter with Dario Argento and discusses his contribution to The Stendhal Syndrome. There are additional very interesting observations about the director's stylistic preferences and how they impacted the evolution of his work.

Assistant Director: Luigi Cozzi

2007

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tempus fugit

2006

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mario Bava Speaks

2006

Series credits

Behind the camera

Hercules poster
5.0

Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help of a benevolent sorceress, Circe, Hercules tries to save his beloved Cassiopeia from being sacrificed by Minos, and struggles against laser-breathing creatures and an evil sorceress.

Hercules

1983

Hercules poster
5.0

Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help of a benevolent sorceress, Circe, Hercules tries to save his beloved Cassiopeia from being sacrificed by Minos, and struggles against laser-breathing creatures and an evil sorceress.

Hercules

1983

The Adventures of Hercules poster
4.8

Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.

The Adventures of Hercules

1985

The Adventures of Hercules poster
4.8

Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.

The Adventures of Hercules

1985

Starcrash poster
4.2

A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing.

Starcrash

1978

Starcrash poster
4.2

A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing.

Starcrash

1978

Contamination poster
5.2

A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

Contamination

1980

Contamination poster
5.2

A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

Contamination

1980

Godzilla poster
6.8

A re-edited Italian-language dubbed version of the original Godzilla, using as a basis the U.S. version, "Godzilla, King of the Monsters!" (1956), plus WWII newsreel footage and clips from other science fiction films. The re-edited film was then colorized via a process called "Spectrorama 70" consisting of applying various colored gels to the black and white footage. The film's opening and ending also features new music composed by musicians Fabio Frizzi, Franco Bixio, and Vince Tempera (under the pseudonym Magnetic System).

Godzilla

1977

Paganini Horror poster
4.4

A female rock band acquires an infamous composition by Niccolò Paganini that was used in satanic rituals. When the band decides to record the song and film a video in Paganini's old mansion, the spirit of the deceased composer is summoned and the band unlocks a portal to Hell.

Paganini Horror

1989

Paganini Horror poster
4.4

A female rock band acquires an infamous composition by Niccolò Paganini that was used in satanic rituals. When the band decides to record the song and film a video in Paganini's old mansion, the spirit of the deceased composer is summoned and the band unlocks a portal to Hell.

Paganini Horror

1989

Sinbad of the Seven Seas poster
4.2

Sinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers.

Sinbad of the Seven Seas

1989

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors poster
7.5

Documentary about Dario Argento, "Profondo Rosso" shop in Rome, and most important works throughout his career.

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

1997

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors poster
7.5

Documentary about Dario Argento, "Profondo Rosso" shop in Rome, and most important works throughout his career.

The World of Dario Argento 3: Museum of Horrors

1997

The Last Concert poster
7.0

Love story of a young woman Stella who is dying of leukemia. A man is mistaken for a family member at the hospital and is informed by a doctor the diagnosis of Stella. Stella cheerfully follows the man. He is reluctant at first but after some shaky moments the two develop a relationship. The two fall in love in the short period of time left to experience.

The Last Concert

1976

The Last Concert poster
7.0

Love story of a young woman Stella who is dying of leukemia. A man is mistaken for a family member at the hospital and is informed by a doctor the diagnosis of Stella. Stella cheerfully follows the man. He is reluctant at first but after some shaky moments the two develop a relationship. The two fall in love in the short period of time left to experience.

The Last Concert

1976

The Black Cat poster
4.8

When a horror film based on the same source material as Suspiria and Inferno goes into production, the evil witch the story is based upon manifests herself and not only begins to terrorise the actress set to portray her on screen, but reveals plans to wreck havoc and bloodshed throughout the world.

The Black Cat

1989

The Black Cat poster
4.8

When a horror film based on the same source material as Suspiria and Inferno goes into production, the evil witch the story is based upon manifests herself and not only begins to terrorise the actress set to portray her on screen, but reveals plans to wreck havoc and bloodshed throughout the world.

The Black Cat

1989

The Killer Must Kill Again poster
6.3

Giorgio is a greedy adulterer who makes a deal with a serial killer to dispose of his wealthy wife, Nora. Unfortunately, a thrill-seeking young couple steal the killer's car with Nora's corpse in the trunk, ending up at a run-down seaside villa.

The Killer Must Kill Again

1975

The Killer Must Kill Again poster
6.3

Giorgio is a greedy adulterer who makes a deal with a serial killer to dispose of his wealthy wife, Nora. Unfortunately, a thrill-seeking young couple steal the killer's car with Nora's corpse in the trunk, ending up at a run-down seaside villa.

The Killer Must Kill Again

1975

Florence poster
NR

Florence journeys into her own psyche and Dante's circles of Hell while a masked killer circles closer, pushing her to the brink of sanity.

Florence

2024

The Naked Doorwoman poster
3.9

A young girl comes to Italy to work as a concierge in a Roman apartment building, where she promptly falls into the amorous clutches of various tenants and shop workers, regardless of their age or sex.

The Naked Doorwoman

1976

The Naked Doorwoman poster
3.9

A young girl comes to Italy to work as a concierge in a Roman apartment building, where she promptly falls into the amorous clutches of various tenants and shop workers, regardless of their age or sex.

The Naked Doorwoman

1976

Dario Argento: My Cinema poster
6.0

Documentary on the films of Dario Argento from his debut "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" up until "The Phantom of the Opera".

Dario Argento: My Cinema

1999

Dario Argento: My Cinema poster
6.0

Documentary on the films of Dario Argento from his debut "The Bird with the Crystal Plumage" up until "The Phantom of the Opera".

Dario Argento: My Cinema

1999

Blood on Méliès' Moon poster
4.7

France, 1890. Inventor Louis Le Prince vanishes under mysterious circumstances right after he created a device that, five years later, the Lumière Brothers will call The Cinematographer. What if they had stolen Le Prince’s idea and wacked him afterwards? The mystery remains for more than a century, until Luigi Cozzi picks up a strange book called “The Roaming Universe” in the horror museum of his pal Dario Argento. The origin of this enigmatic book troubles him. This particular science-fiction novel would have materialized during a spiritual session in modern day Rome. At the session, an old woman revealed that the key to all these mysteries comes from 1895, a time during which the Lumière Brothers had denied lending their camera to Georges Méliès for an obscure movie called "A Trip to the moon". Not only does this film actually exist, but it raises a more intriguing question. Is our world the only one, or are there parallel universes ?

Blood on Méliès' Moon

2016

Blood on Méliès' Moon poster
4.7

France, 1890. Inventor Louis Le Prince vanishes under mysterious circumstances right after he created a device that, five years later, the Lumière Brothers will call The Cinematographer. What if they had stolen Le Prince’s idea and wacked him afterwards? The mystery remains for more than a century, until Luigi Cozzi picks up a strange book called “The Roaming Universe” in the horror museum of his pal Dario Argento. The origin of this enigmatic book troubles him. This particular science-fiction novel would have materialized during a spiritual session in modern day Rome. At the session, an old woman revealed that the key to all these mysteries comes from 1895, a time during which the Lumière Brothers had denied lending their camera to Georges Méliès for an obscure movie called "A Trip to the moon". Not only does this film actually exist, but it raises a more intriguing question. Is our world the only one, or are there parallel universes ?

Blood on Méliès' Moon

2016

The Little Wizards of Oz poster
1.0

At an elementary school in Rome, a young substitute teacher begins to read chapters from the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to her new and very young pupils. Soon afterwards, bizarre things start to occur, as reality and dreams merge and the children themselves become characters in a new version of L. Frank Baum's original OZ fairy tale…

The Little Wizards of Oz

2018

The Little Wizards of Oz poster
1.0

At an elementary school in Rome, a young substitute teacher begins to read chapters from the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz to her new and very young pupils. Soon afterwards, bizarre things start to occur, as reality and dreams merge and the children themselves become characters in a new version of L. Frank Baum's original OZ fairy tale…

The Little Wizards of Oz

2018

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento poster
3.0

Newly edited version of Luigi Cozzi's 1997 documentary "Il mondo di Dario Argento 3: Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento" focusing on the museum-part of the "Profondo Rosso" shop.

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

2022

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento poster
3.0

Newly edited version of Luigi Cozzi's 1997 documentary "Il mondo di Dario Argento 3: Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento" focusing on the museum-part of the "Profondo Rosso" shop.

Il museo degli orrori di Dario Argento

2022

Dario Argento: Master of Horror poster
7.1

A documentary about the films of Italian horror director Dario Argento. Included are clips from many of his films and interviews with friends, actors and colleagues.

Dario Argento: Master of Horror

1991

Dario Argento: Master of Horror poster
7.1

A documentary about the films of Italian horror director Dario Argento. Included are clips from many of his films and interviews with friends, actors and colleagues.

Dario Argento: Master of Horror

1991

Tunnel Under the World poster
6.0

An ordinary man in a small town one day realizes that he is living the same day over and over again.

Tunnel Under the World

1969

Blue Paradise poster
5.0

Another imitation of "The Blue Lagoon", starring Don Monahan (from the "Porky"-movies) and Ingmar Bergman's daughter Anna as the young lovers.

Blue Paradise

1980

The Black Hand poster
4.8

Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.

The Black Hand

1973

No artwork available
7.0

After the death of his indepted father, young Massimo has to accept a post as administrator for the estate of a wealthy family, the daughter of which he soon becomes infatuated with.

The Story of a Poor Young Man

1974

The Golden Years of Dario Argento poster
NR

An in-depth interview with the master of giallo, Dario Argento, about his career and his masterpieces: from The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970) to Insomnia (2001).

The Golden Years of Dario Argento

2026

Noccioline a colazione poster
8.0

A young teacher tries to reform a gorilla.

Noccioline a colazione

1978