Enzo G. Castellari
Italian B-movie king Enzo G. Castellari is most often associated with his outrageously violent Spaghetti Westerns 1960s and '70s, including "One Dollar Too Many," "Go Kill Everybody and Come Back Alone," and "Keoma," dubbed the quintessential film of the genre. Born into a filmmaking family--his father is director Marino Girolami, and his brother, actor Enio Girolami--Castellari entered the business as an assistant director on several of his father's films before directing his first project, "Renegade Riders," in 1967. His early film, "High Crime," is considered by many critics as the original Italian crime film that would be imitated for years to come. Among his countless works in the 1970s, Castellari directed "The Inglorious Bastards," which served as the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's 2009 hit "Inglourious Basterds," in which Castellari made a cameo appearance as a German general. After the wave of Spaghetti Westerns ended, the director helmed a series of B-movies, and his shark thriller "Great White" fell victim to a plagiarism lawsuit from Universal, who claimed that the film was too similar to their mega-hit "Jaws" and removed it from theaters. Castellari turned his talents to education in the 2000s, teaching film studies at Spanish and Italian schools. Throughout his career of pitting heroes against villains in bloody showdowns, the filmmaker stuck by one principle: "The target for me is to do a movie for the spectator."
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Enzo G. Castellari
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Glance of Music | Self | $79.1K | 2022 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Goodbye Ringo | Self | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Road to Hell | Zingarelli (Character) | - | 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Violent S...: The Movie | Chief Inspector (Character) | - | 2015 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti | Self | - | 2013 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | El último truco | Self | - | 2008 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Jonathan of the Bears | Director | - | 1993 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | ExtraLarge: Miami Killer | Director | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | ExtraLarge: Cannonball | Director | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zwei Supertypen in Miami: Der Kleine mit der großen Klappe | Director | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | ExtraLarge: Black Magic | Director | - | 1991 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Zwei Supertypen in Miami - Die Schöne mit dem kleinen Tick | Director | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | ExtraLarge: Moving Target |
Director, Writer |
- | 1990 |
No Score Yet |
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Sinbad of the Seven Seas |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 1989 |
No Score Yet |
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Striker | Director | - | 1988 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Light Blast |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1985 |
No Score Yet |
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Tuareg: The Desert Warrior | Director | - | 1984 |
No Score Yet |
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Escape 2000 |
Director, Writer |
- | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
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1990: The Bronx Warriors |
Vice President (Character), Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
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Warriors of the Wasteland | Director | - | 1983 |
No Score Yet |
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The Last Shark | Director | - | 1981 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Shark Hunter |
The Killer (Character), Director |
- | 1980 |
No Score Yet |
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The Day of the Cobra | Director | - | 1980 |
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The Inglorious Bastards | Director | - | 1978 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Drug Street | Director | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Heroin Busters | Director | - | 1977 |
No Score Yet |
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The Big Racket |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1976 |
No Score Yet |
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Keoma | Director | - | 1976 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cry Onion | Director | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Loves and Times of Scaramouche | Director | - | 1975 |
No Score Yet |
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Street Law | Director | - | 1974 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | High Crime | Director | - | 1973 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Father Jack-Leg |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1972 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Hector the Mighty |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1971 |
No Score Yet |
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Cold Eyes of Fear |
Director, Writer |
- | 1971 |
No Score Yet |
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Eagles Over London |
Director, Writer |
- | 1969 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Crosses Not to Die | Director | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Winchester for Hire | Director | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Johnny Hamlet |
Director, Writer |
- | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Came, I Saw, I Shot | Director | - | 1968 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Renegade Riders |
Director, Writer |
- | 1967 |
No Score Yet |
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Kill Them All and Come Back Alone |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1967 |
No Score Yet |
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For a Few Bullets More |
Director, Writer |
- | 1967 |