Mino Guerrini

Director

December 16, 1927 (62 years)

† January 10, 1990

Rome, Italy

Biography

Mino Guerrini was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor active from the 1950s to the 1980s. Born in Rome, he began his career as a screenwriter, contributing to films such as The Counterfeiters (1953) and The White Angel (1955). Guerrini made his directorial debut with Omicidio per appuntamento (1966), a giallo film that showcased his ability to blend suspense with stylistic elements. He directed several films across various genres, including The Beast Kills in Cold Blood (1971) and…

Filmography

4.0

The Best

An au pair girl comes to work for a greedy couple who make money by renting her out to all the other tenants in their building.

7.6

Killer 77, Alive or Dead

At the request of the CIA, British secret agent Lester follows the ominous scientist George King, who, after successfully sabotaging an American rocket launch, has announced to the world's powerful that he can disable any nuclear weapon...

6.5

How Colonel Buttiglione Became a General

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4.0

Sweet Kisses and Languid Caresses

A bourgeois family man falls in love with an uninhibited hippie girl who just wants to have fun and enjoy a libertine lifestyle. She makes him suffer and gives herself to everybody but him. He is so madly in love with her that he even gets in trouble with the police.

5.6

Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras?

A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition depends on the lawyer's ploys to get his clients acquitted.

7.3

Gangsters '70

An elderly gangster just released from prison plans one last job, and gathers a small crew to do the job, but the plan goes sour when one of the crew betrays the details of the operation to a rival gangster.

6.5

Love in Four Dimensions

Young Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love. "Love and Language," the first tale, centers on the difficulties of a Sicilian immigrant who is unable to master proper Italian. the second tale "Love and Life" centers on a jealous and unhappy wife who becomes so desperate to be free of her constantly philandering husband she takes on a lover of her own. "Love and Art" a nearly exhausted screenwriter hires a secretary to help manage his typing. She's a pretty lass and this makes his insecure wife crazy until he fires the female and hires a male secretary. "Love and Death," the final episode centers on the love affair between a middle-aged widower and the grieving young widow he meets at the cemetery. Unfortuantely for his bank statement, the young, impoverished beauty isn't as bereaved as she seems.

7.0

Extraconiugale

Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.

5.8

The Third Eye

Young nobleman Mino lives with his mother and Marta, the housekeeper, in an old, decaying castle. He is infantile and morbidly attached to the weird duo; his only hobby is taxidermy. Laura, Mino's fiancee, is met with jealousy and hatred by the two women, and decides to leave the castle; but Marta sabotages her car brakes and she is killed. Mino takes her body back to the castle. Meanwhile, his mother is violently arguing with Marta, who throws her down the stairs and repeatedly bashes her head on the floor. The distraught Mino descends into madness: he picks up a stripper at a nightclub and brings her home, then strangles her while having sex next to Laura's dead body. He does the same with a prostitute. Marta discovers these murders and offers to help dispose of bodies. A year later, Daniela (Laura's twin sister) arrives at the castle...

3.7

Decameron II

During a banquet, the diners begin to tell various stories to be happy. All the novels speak of betrayals and erotic adventures

10.0

Sunstroke

One Sunday in summer a mixed crowd pours on to a beach near Rome. A few tourists who had hoped to spend a relaxing day, find themselves involved in a series of unpleasant experiences instead.

4.7

The Other Canterbury Tales

Four stories about unfaithful wives and jealous husbands.

5.3

Love and Marriage

An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.

7.0

Cuando calienta el sol... vamos a la playa

Stefano is a young mechanic who would like to become a discreet boxer by faithfully following the advice of his wise uncle: but in his life Giulia appears, a good girl who happens to be present at a meeting of our hero who immediately falls in love with her

6.8

Date for a Murder

Two friends from America come together by chance in the Italian countryside. They decide to meet in Rome after both have done private deals. When one then not show up in Rome starts the other one become suspicious and fearful that something has happened to him. He begins to investigate the case himself and ends up in a spiral of industrial espionage, blackmail, and cold-blooded murder ...

4.5

The Mines of Kilimanjaro

A World War II-era college student must journey to Africa both to find his missing archaeology professor and search for the treasured mines of Kilimanjaro. He is followed by natives as well as scheming Chinese and Nazis

4.3

...Excuse Me, Do You Pay Taxes?

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7.0

Vinella e Don Pezzotta

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9.0

Su e giù

A movie divided in four episodes: the arrival of the husband makes the loves of his wife to hide in the next room; an husband invites a friend while his wife is not at home; a poor man dreams about having an adventure with a beautiful girl; an impoverished nobleman wins at gambling after taking the earring of the wife of a factory owner.

6.5

Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer

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