Claudio Cassinelli

Acting

Claudio Cassinelli

Born 1938-09-13 · Bologna, Italy

Acting credits

Slave of the Cannibal God poster
5.2

A woman and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.

Slave of the Cannibal God

1978

Allonsanfan poster
6.9

After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.

Allonsanfan

1974

Unguided Tour poster
10.0

Also known as “Letter from Venice,” Susan Sontag’s fourth and final film tells of a relationship that is fragmenting as the partners tour the decaying ruins of a hallucinatory Venice.

Unguided Tour

1983

Hands of Steel poster
5.3

A story about a cyborg who is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands.

Hands of Steel

1986

The Great Alligator poster
4.5

Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them.

The Great Alligator

1979

Island of the Fishmen poster
5.7

After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really doing, and why the prisoners keep disappearing mysteriously.

Island of the Fishmen

1979

Hercules poster
4.9

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

Avalanche Express poster
4.8

CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.

Avalanche Express

1979

Warriors of the Year 2072 poster
5.1

In the future, two television networks compete for ratings by producing violent game shows. One network produces a modern day version of the Roman gladiators, only on motorcycles instead of chariots, and uses convicted murderers as the participants, The network decides it needs a champion for this sport, so they frame a constant winner from another game for murder, and place him on the show.

Warriors of the Year 2072

1984

Flavia the Heretic poster
5.9

Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts.

Flavia the Heretic

1974

What Have They Done to Your Daughters? poster
7.1

An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. Conspiracies and horrors pile up, as do the body parts.

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

1974

The Long Night poster
5.0

Two Milanese girls meet in a toilet where a distracted bourgeois forgets a valuable ring. They take it and go in search of someone to sell it to, helped by a southern taxi driver.

The Long Night

1975

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

Murder-Rock: Dancing Death poster
5.6

The world of dance can be brutal. The rehearsals are grueling. The competition is fierce. At the Arts for Living Centre in New York City, the best of the best are dying for a part in a major production. But only a select few will be chosen. The selection process seems to be at the hands of mysterious killer who pierces women's bare breasts with a hatpin, puncturing their hearts. Ambition and jealousy appear to be the motive, which makes everybody a suspect!

Murder-Rock: Dancing Death

1984

The Suspicious Death of a Minor poster
6.0

Police detective Paolo Germi and the mysterious Marisa meet each other at a dance hall. Germi is unsuspecting of the secret Marisa is carrying with her: adverse conditions forced her into prostitution. As Germi finds the young girl brutally murdered, he decides to go after her killers. During his investigation, he enters a world of intrigue and obfuscation that leave an endless trail of blood.

The Suspicious Death of a Minor

1975

Free Hand for a Tough Cop poster
6.8

A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.

Free Hand for a Tough Cop

1976

Grog poster
9.0

Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy.

Grog

1982

Killer Cop poster
6.4

In a crowded hotel in the center of Milan a bomb has been planted. The time device on its detonator has only minutes to run. A young detective discovers the bomb by accident and is drawn into a terrifying nightmare of intrigue, brutality and ruthless killing. This is a world where human life is sold or sacrificed for twisted ideals. A world of international terrorism. The time is now.

Killer Cop

1975

Scorpion with Two Tails poster
4.7

An archeologist's wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating a lost temple. After a phone call where she is forced to listen to him being murdered, she travels to the excavation site to solve the mystery of his death.

Scorpion with Two Tails

1982

The Tempter poster
5.3

A young writer is invited to stay in a religious hostel run by a sinister, manipulative nun who plays deadly psychological games with the inhabitants.

The Tempter

1974

Galileo poster
6.3

A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.

Galileo

1968

The Good Thief poster
6.3

Caleb, "son of nobody" (Enrico Montesano) lives in Galilee in Jesus' day and struggles as a thief and con-man, pretending to be a magician. When he witnesses Jesus turning water into wine, he thinks he's found a competitor. So Caleb goes on, convinced that Jesus is a fake just as he is, always trying to figure out his tricks. In the meantime, he gets involved with a prostitute (played by Edwige Fenech), but also with the wife of a Roman patrician (played by the equally alluring Bernadette Lafont), he steals a few goats and cons a few people, he befriends a lovable dog and gets in trouble with some Roman soldiers.

The Good Thief

1980

Roma dalla finestra poster
6.5

It is the story of a man and two women. Carlo, is a photojournalist from Rome. His wife Olga is a model in Paris (and in the first sequence of the film we see her being raped by an Indian in a fountain; but she laughs and says to the attacker: "It's the first time you have violated someone , right? " Then there is O, a Japanese fawn that Carlo meets at Idroscalo, on the places of the Pasolinian martyrdom, and immediately falls in love with it, He sees her pee, follows her and in a very short time throws the faith to the sea (literally) and ends up in bed with her.

Roma dalla finestra

1982

Love Under the Elms poster
5.5

An adolescent boy and girl meet at a rural, turn-of-the-century Austrian resort where they are vacationing with their respective liberal-minded, single parents. Their budding love affair hits a serious snag when their two parents fall in love as well.

Love Under the Elms

1975