Ruggero Deodato
Birthday: 1939-05-07
Place of Birth: Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
Biography: Ruggero Deodato (7 May 1939 - 29 December 2022) was an Italian film director. He has worked in a wide variety of genres, but is best known for his horror and exploitation films, and particularly for directing the controversial cult classic "Cannibal Holocaust" (1980).
Movies
Hostel: Part II
Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the gr...
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Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Ta...
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Cult of Terror
A journey of years through many countries and film festivals; a nostalgic, adrenaline-fueled and roc...
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Chimères
A young couple, Alexander and Livia, take off on holiday to Romania. Hospitalized after being hit by...
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Raiders of Atlantis
A team of scientists working to raise a sunken Russian nuclear submarine on an ocean platform off th...
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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through...
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Hostel Part II: The Next Level
Behind the scenes of Eli Roth's horror sequel Hostel 2 (2007)....
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Hostel Part II: A Legacy of Torture
Documentary about Hostel Part II and tools of torture....
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Faenza: La Pantalla Oculta
Short documentary about the old Cinema theatre "Faenza", located in the center of Bogotá....
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Mom I Can Do It
A young boy is forced to join a group of street urchins after his mother is wrongfully arrested for ...
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Hanging Shadows
Offers a critical appreciation of Italian horror cinema, pioneered by directors such as Dario Argent...
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From Romero to Rome: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Zombie Movie
The history of Italian zombie cinema, beginning with the breakout worldwide influence and success of...
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Cannibal Holocaust
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the foot...
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I Tarantiniani
Tarantino reveres them, and for good reason. Welcome to the world of the kings of the Italian B-Movi...
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The Long Road Back from Hell: Reclaiming Cannibal Holocaust
In this fascinating and well executed documentary film theorist and cult expert Xavier Mendik places...
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Dead Bones
The Wild West. A bounty hunter is tracking down a criminal. He catches up with him in a small half-a...
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Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
Documentary in which Lucio Fulci's friends and collaborators remember him in a wide range of aspects...
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In the Jungle: The Making Of Cannibal Holocaust
An Italian documentary that gives an inside look at the making of Ruggero Deodato's controversial ho...
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Ballad in Blood
Jacopo, Duke, and Lenka wake up in the apartment Lenka shares with her roommate Elizabeth to find El...
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Concorde Affair
A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their b...
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Macho Man 2
Two unscrupulous organ mafiosi get stranded in the middle of Nuremberg. Their million-dollar organ s...
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Omega Rising: Remembering Joe D'Amato
Delves into the career of the notorious Italian filmmaker, Aristide Massaccesi aka Joe D'Amato, the ...
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Dial: Help
A psychic finds herself tapping into the "energy" of a deceased phone operator. She also finds that ...
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Banned Alive! The Rise and Fall of Italian Cannibal Movies
2 1/2 hour-documentary on the rise and fall of one of the most controversial Italian genres every cr...
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The Last Supper: The Final Days of the Italian Cannibal Film
Follow-up to "Eaten Alive: The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film", this documentary was pro...
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Ban the Sadist Videos!
An in-depth analysis of the "Video Nasty" scandal of the early 1980s in Britain....
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The Dark Side of Porn: Does Snuff Exist?
BBC look at whether or not Snuff films really exist. Snuff as defined by the FBI and the film is a f...
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Lilith's Hell
A pair of filmmakers work with Ruggero Deodato, to pull off a horror film based on realism. The prod...
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Yellow Fever: The Rise and Fall of the Giallo
Feature-length in-depth documentary by High Rising Productions chronicling the Giallo film genre fro...
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Deodato Holocaust
From the makers of "FantastiCozzi", a new documentary about the life and career of controversial Ita...
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Me Me Lai Bites Back
Documentary on actress Me Me Lai, who's best known for playing native girls in several controversial...
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Cinema of Death
Both macabre and lyrical, these five experimental short films focus on the darkness and decay of dea...
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The Washing Machine
Three sisters - voluptuous Vida, Maria (nicknamed "Sissy"), and Ludmilla - live together in a run-do...
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Hostel: Part II
Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the gr...
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H.P. Lovecraft: Two Left Arms
Carter, an art conservator, arrives in Italy to restore a fresco in an old church. He discovers that...
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The Museum Of Wonders
When the beautiful dancer Salome learns that the dwarf circus owner Marcel has just received an inhe...
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Bloody Sin: Abonimations of the Third Reich
A team of researchers investigates a European castle that was used for sadistic tortures during the ...
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The Found Footage Phenomenon
The documentary tracks the origins of the found footage technique and how it transformed with techno...
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Searching for Cannibal Holocaust
Italian horror fan and academic Calum Waddell speaks with some of the original makers of the controv...
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Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess
Who was Joe D'Amato aka. Aristide Massaccesi? A genius of horror in the USA, a master of eroticism i...
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Masters of Mayhem
For decades Italian genre cinema dominated the world and before changing beyond recognition it went ...
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Django: The One and Only
The making of the film Django (1966) is described by its star, Franco Nero, and assistant director R...
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The Last of Us
A documentary recounting the stories that have characterized the personal and artistic lives of Serg...
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Eaten Alive! The Rise and Fall of the Italian Cannibal Film
A High Rising Productions documentary on the short-lived craze of Italian cannibal films in the '70s...
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Deodato vs Lenzi
An interview with the Italian directors Ruggero Deodato and Umberto Lenzi at the the "Joe D'Amato Ho...
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Phantom of Death
Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a...
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