Biography
Sergio Sollima (April 17, 1921 – July 1, 2015) was an Italian film director and script writer. Like many Italian cult directors, Sollima started his career by directing mostly sword and sandal movies that were very popular in the early 1960s. After the genre's popularity quickly died out, Sollima was among the first ones to move to spaghetti westerns. The Big Gundown (starring Lee Van Cleef and Tomas Milian) was released in 1966 with big success, despite the fact that it had to compete with Ser...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Ennio
2022
as Self
A portrait of Ennio Morricone, the most popular and prolific film composer of the 20th century, the one most loved by the international public, a two-...
Spaghetti Western Memories
2016
as Himself
Documentary featuring interviews with Sergio Sollima and Tomas Milian. An extra on the Explosive Media Blu-ray release of “Face to Face".

Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
2014
as Lui-même
French documentary on the Spaghetti Western genre, with numerous interviews.

Sodankylä Forever
2010
as Self
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by ...

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
2006
as Self
The beginnings, development and decline of so-called spaghetti-western genre; with clips, interviews and opinions of producers, actors and directors. ...

The Spaghetti West
2005
as Self
A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s.
Sergio Sollima: Face to Face
2005
as Himself
Western all'italiana
2004
"Western all'italiana" is a documentary produced and broadcast by the satellite broadcaster Studio Universal in 2004, on the occasion of the broadcast...
Run Man Run: 35 Years Running
2003
A documentary about Run Man Runi.

Berlin '39
1993
Director, Screenplay
A German officer is forced to marry Louise, daughter of a general, hero of the First World War. But Louise maintains lesbian relationships with Margo.

Solo per Dirti Addio
1992
Director
Stefano is found dead in his car, killed by exhaust fumes that he himself had channeled into the cabin through a hose. Everyone believes it to be a su...

Love Steps
1990
Director
The story revolves around Elisa, a young talented ballet dancer. After an unjust accusation at her school, she has to stop her studies. The events tak...

The Tiger Is Still Alive: Sandokan to the Rescue
1977
Director
The pirate Sandokan, the Bengal tiger and the East India Company's terror, fighting the British Empire and the ondeskefulla James Brooke, rahjan of Sa...

The Black Corsair
1976
Director, Screenplay
The story circulates around the classical Black Pirate and his battle against arch enemy Prins van Gould. The Black Pirate is out for revenge on his b...

Revolver
1973
Director, Screenplay, Story
An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife b...

Devil in the Brain
1972
Director, Screenplay, Story
Oscar is trying to re-establish an affair with Sandra, a disturbed young woman. Having found her husband Fabrizio shot dead and her young son Ricky s...

Violent City
1970
Director, Screenplay
A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss ...

Run, Man, Run
1968
Director, Story, Screenplay
The legendary Tomas Milian stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandits, sadistic American agents, his hot-blooded fian...

Western, Italian Style
1968
as Self
A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that p...

Face to Face
1967
Director, Screenplay, Story
History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher ...

The Big Gundown
1967
Director, Screenplay
Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

Requiem for a Secret Agent
1966
Director, Story, Screenplay
A veteran US Secret Service agent must thwart the covert conspiracy of an enemy spy network that threatens the world's safety.

Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun
1966
Screenplay, Director
The island paradise of San Felipe has undergone a revolution! The charismatic General Siqueiros has assumed control! Those assisting him though have a...

Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell
1965
Director, Writer
A 1965 Italian adventure-Eurospy film directed by Sergio Sollima (credited as Simon Sterling). This is the first chapter in the Sollima's spy film tri...

Triumph of the Ten Gladiators
1964
Story
The ten gladiators are hired to travel to Arbela, a small country on the outskirts of the Roman Empire to learn if Parthia is planning to war with Rom...

The Ten Gladiators
1963
Writer
Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a...

Sex Can Be Difficult
1962
Director
A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldie...

The Rebel Gladiators
1962
Writer
In order to persuade the Emperor to spare his village, the mighty Ursus is forced to fight the greatest gladiator in Rome in the Roman Arena.

Samson Against the Sheik
1962
Story, Screenplay
In the late 1500s, forces of the Duke of Malaga topple the Sacred Obelisk in the North African city of Melida before they're defeated by the local She...

Ursus
1961
Screenplay
Ursus returns from war to find his fiancée, Attea, has been kidnapped by a mysterious sect which sacrifices virgins to its patron goddess. Ursus faces...

The Secret of the Black Falcon
1961
Writer
A secret document has fallen into the hands of pirates. Spain and England are both interested. The English commissioned a notorious pirate and the Spa...

Goliath Against the Giants
1961
Screenplay
Muscleman fights sea monsters and Amazon warriors, then returns home to find a race of giants living in a valley, into which fellow countrymen are bei...

Sword in the Shadows
1961
Writer
Sword in the Shadows (Italian: Una spada nell'ombra) is a 1961 Italian swashbuckler film directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Tamara Lees and Livio ...

Knight of 100 Faces
1960
Story, Screenplay
Two knights, the honorful Riccardo and the sinister Fosco, are rivalling for damsel Zuela.

Madri pericolose
1960
Screenplay
A great Party is given by the rich family of Improta. Every kind of intrigue gets around this party. The purpose of every plan is to find a husband or...

I teddy boys della canzone
1960
Screenplay

Il mondo dei miracoli
1959
Dialogue
An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.

Carousel of songs
1958
Story, Screenplay

Ricordati di Napoli
1958
Screenplay

Shack and puppets
1954
First Assistant Director
An inhabitant of the Moon, crashed on the Earth due to the violent shock caused by an atomic experiment, remains amazed by the discovery of this plane...

Tripoli, bel suol d'amore
1954
Screenplay
The young Alberto Ruotolo leave the country cottage to go for the sharpshooter. But the command does not pull good air, three riflemen arrogant and un...

Foreign Earth
1954
Assistant Director
A group of illegal immigrants find a job in a French mine and organizes strikes to improve their working condition.

Solo per te Lucia
1952
Assistant Director
A young mother tries to hide her son from the man who is in love with her.

Behind Closed Shutters
1951
Story, Screenplay
Sandra searches her missing sister. For this, she enters the morally degraded seaside of Genoa.