Sergio Donati

Sergio Donati

1933-04-13 Rome, Italy 64 Credits

Biography

Sergio Donati (born 13 April 1933) is an Italian screenwriter. He has written for more than 70 films since 1952. He was born in Rome, Italy. He started as a writer and had some of his books optioned for film. He is well known for his collaboration with Italian director Sergio Leone, who encouraged him to take up screenwriting as a full-time career, and with Italian producer Dino de Laurentis.

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Ennio

Ennio

2022

as Self

8.3
Acting

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-...

The Sicilian Girl

The Sicilian Girl

2008

Writer

6.2
Writing

Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to deno...

Il falso bugiardo

Il falso bugiardo

2008

as Self

Acting

Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became b...

The Spaghetti West

The Spaghetti West

2005

as Self

6.0
Acting

A visual history of Italian western cinema in the 60s and 70s.

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

Sergio Leone: cinema, cinema

2001

as Self - Screenwriter

5.8
Acting

The life and work of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Sergio Leone (1929-89); a rich and fascinating portrait through unpublished testimoni...

Almost Blue

Almost Blue

2000

Screenplay

6.0
Writing

A police inspector suspects a serial killer is afoot in the university city of Bologna, luring in his victims through online video chats before murder...

Il ritorno del piccolo Lord

Il ritorno del piccolo Lord

2000

Screenplay

5.0
Writing

As every year, German brewery tycoon Karl Schneibel spends the summer holiday on an Italian island with his beloved grandson Christian, near the child...

Ombre

Ombre

1999

Writer

Writing

Elena Serpieri is an Italian neurologist who is in the United States, because she obtained a scholarship in a New York hospital. There she works toget...

Senza Movente

Senza Movente

1999

Writer

7.5
Writing

Giallo based on the true crime of Rita Squeglia, who killed her lover and hid the body in a suitcase.

The Little Lord

The Little Lord

1996

Writer

6.1
Writing

11-year-old Christian lives with his Italian mother Gioia in poverty on the island of Ischia. His German father died in a rescue mission before Christ...

North Star

North Star

1996

Writer

4.8
Writing

Set during the Alaskan gold rush of the late 1800s. In his efforts to gain control of a small mining town, Sean McLennon is buying up every claim that...

Beyond Justice

Beyond Justice

1992

Writer

3.5
Writing

A woman's ex-husband, who is the son of an Arab chieftain, kidnaps their teenage son and brings him back to Morocco, where the boy is to be made the l...

Desert Law

Desert Law

1991

Writer

5.4
Writing

Seul face au crime

1991

Writer

Writing
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

1990

Writer

5.5
Writing

The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.

Blowing Hot and Cold

Blowing Hot and Cold

1989

Screenplay

Writing

The story of two men from opposite backgrounds and social structures who become friends. Jack Phillips is a laid-back, wry service station proprietor ...

Too Beautiful to Die

Too Beautiful to Die

1988

Screenplay

4.6
Writing

A group of high fashion models have been invited to an isolated house to attend a party. As the night wears on, one of the models falls victim to a de...

They Call Me Renegade

They Call Me Renegade

1987

Story

6.1
Writing

While on his travel across the Southwestern United States, with his Jeep CJ Renegade and his chestnut colt named Joe Brown, Luke meets Matt, son of a ...

Man on Fire

Man on Fire

1987

Screenplay

5.7
Writing

Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swank...

Raw Deal

Raw Deal

1986

Story

5.8
Writing

Mark Kaminsky is kicked out of the FBI for his rough treatment of a suspect. He winds up as the sheriff of a small town in North Carolina. FBI Chief H...

Casablanca, Casablanca

Casablanca, Casablanca

1985

Screenplay, Story

6.2
Writing

Francesco forgot billiards because now he lives with Chiara. She is a musician and she would like to become famous. Francesco is different: he found i...

Tit for Tat

Tit for Tat

1984

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

Fun adventures of a taxi driver and his passenger, a broken financial genius.

Hearts and Armour

Hearts and Armour

1983

Screenplay, Story

5.0
Writing

Love during wartime blossoms between crusader Bradamante—a female knight wearing an invincible suit of armor—and Moorish prince Ruggero. A sorceress p...

Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style

Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style

1983

Story, Screenplay

5.0
Writing

Two stupid lowlifes are "forced" into a life of violent crime on the streets of Italy. What follows is a mocking takeoff of the American crime classic...

Count Tacchia

Count Tacchia

1982

Screenplay, Story

6.1
Writing

In 1900 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized component of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows ...

Buddy Goes West

Buddy Goes West

1981

Screenplay, Story

6.2
Writing

Trinity series star Bud Spencer returns to the Wild West in director Michele Lupo's comic tale of an outlaw drifter, Buddy, who is mistaken for a doct...

Tough to Kill

Tough to Kill

1979

Writer

5.0
Writing

A group of mercenaries escort a man with a million dollar bounty on his head across the African terrain. Double crosses, back stabbing, and gunfire fo...

A Dangerous Toy

A Dangerous Toy

1979

Story, Screenplay

7.0
Writing

A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he...

Island of the Fishmen

Island of the Fishmen

1979

Screenplay

5.6
Writing

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 str...

Holocaust 2000

Holocaust 2000

1977

Screenstory, Screenplay

5.9
Writing

An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.

Orca

Orca

1977

Screenplay

6.2
Writing

After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at the hands of a reckless Irish captain, a vengeful killer whale rampages through the fisherma...

The Fiend

The Fiend

1977

Story, Screenplay

6.2
Writing

A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.

Italy is Rotten

Italy is Rotten

1976

Screenplay, Story

4.0
Writing

Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to...

The Boss and the Worker

The Boss and the Worker

1975

Screenplay, Story

4.6
Writing

Social/sexual farce focusing on a boss and his workers in a faucet factory.

Cry, Onion!

Cry, Onion!

1975

Screenplay, Story

5.2
Writing

Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted ...

Policewoman

Policewoman

1974

Screenplay, Story

5.7
Writing

A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.

The Beast

The Beast

1974

Story, Screenplay

7.2
Writing

An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their gro...

Shoot First, Die Later

Shoot First, Die Later

1974

Story

6.8
Writing

When mobsters try to put an honest policeman on the payroll, he seeks revenge on the mob. But, he soon learns that his actions, however honest, have d...

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

1973

Story, Screenplay

4.4
Writing

There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of busine...

Mr. Hercules Against Karate

Mr. Hercules Against Karate

1973

Story, Screenplay

6.2
Writing

A skinny troublemaker and his good-natured, bemuscled sidekick find trouble in Hong Kong.

Il maschio ruspante

Il maschio ruspante

1973

Writer

5.0
Writing

Romulus, a rough but genuine country man, finds, on the occasion of a religious festival, a girl, Rema, already his kindergarten companion. In love wi...

The Heroes

The Heroes

1973

Screenplay

4.5
Writing

Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in b...

Slap the Monster on Page One

Slap the Monster on Page One

1972

Screenplay, Story

7.6
Writing

Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid trie...

Too Much Gold for One Gringo

Too Much Gold for One Gringo

1972

Story

5.5
Writing

A bunch of outlaws awaits the release from prison of an old goldminer, believed to have hidden 28 sacks of gold 20 years before... They all want the o...

Ben & Charlie

Ben & Charlie

1972

Screenplay

5.1
Writing

Also known as Ben & Charlie. When Ben Bellow is released from prison, Charlie Logan is there waiting for him. Not to welcome him, but to tell him that...

Duck, You Sucker

Duck, You Sucker

1971

Screenplay, Story

7.7
Writing

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert o...

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte

1971

Writer

5.5
Writing

Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of ...

The Weekend Murders

The Weekend Murders

1970

Screenplay, Story

6.0
Writing

An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are dismayed to find that everything has been left to Barbar...

Once Upon a Time in the West

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968

Screenplay

8.3
Writing

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the ...

Appointment in Beirut

Appointment in Beirut

1968

Screenplay

5.5
Writing

When an international casino crime ring is planning a big score at a fixed roulette game, the casino police enlists the help of Jeff Miller, an alcoho...

Persecución hasta Valencia

Persecución hasta Valencia

1968

Screenplay

Writing
Seven Times Seven

Seven Times Seven

1968

Writer

6.8
Writing

A gang of prison inmates escape and rob the Royal Mint. They then sneak back to prison.

Face to Face

Face to Face

1967

Screenplay

7.0
Writing

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 ...

Deadly Sweet

Deadly Sweet

1967

Novel

5.3

Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but Jane thinks he has been killed because h...

Eine Handvoll Helden

Eine Handvoll Helden

1967

Writer

5.7
Writing

An episode from the war in 1806 when a small troop of Prussian soldiers digs in at a mill in order to defend itself against the overwhelming advance o...

Mission Stardust

Mission Stardust

1967

Screenplay

4.5
Writing

A team of astronauts is sent to the moon to rescue an alien who is seeking help to save her dying race. They are attacked by a force of bandit robots ...

The Big Gundown

The Big Gundown

1967

Screenplay

7.3
Writing

Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

1966

Additional Dialogue

8.5

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the Amer...

Requiem for a Secret Agent

Requiem for a Secret Agent

1966

Screenplay

6.8
Writing

A veteran US Secret Service agent must thwart the covert conspiracy of an enemy spy network that threatens the world's safety.

Web of Violence

Web of Violence

1966

Novel

A journalist goes in search of his missing fiance.

Dollars for a Fast Gun

Dollars for a Fast Gun

1966

Story, Screenplay

5.0
Writing

In a desert region, Martin, bound to a wheelchair, is served by a gang of desperados to collect rents and kill anybody who resists. Then Lassiter arri...

For a Few Dollars More

For a Few Dollars More

1965

Additional Writing

8.0

Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.

Shack and puppets

Shack and puppets

1954

Acting

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...

La nemica

La nemica

1952

Screenplay

Writing