Lionello De Felice

Directing

Biography

Lionello De Felice was an Italian film director and screenwriter active from the early 1950s to the mid-1960s. Born in Naples, he began his career as an assistant director before making his directorial debut with Senza bandiera (1951). De Felice directed several films across various genres, including Too Young for Love (1953), Cento anni d'amore (1954), and Constantine and the Cross (1961). His work is noted for its narrative depth and exploration of complex characters, contributing to the richness of Italian cinema during his era.

Known For

7.0

From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European countries.

the famous escapes

1972Series

6.5

Patients and those working in an isolated mental hospitals are murdered, one by one, by a madman lurking in the corridors

The Murder Clinic

1966Movie

5.5

Goliath battles for the freedom of the Babylonian people.

Goliath and the Sins of Babylon

1963Movie

7.4

Travelling family man Paolo agrees to pose as husband to an unwed pregnant girl he meets on a train. However, once faced with her father, things do not go as planned.

Four Steps in the Clouds

1942Movie

5.3

Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.

Constantine and the Cross

1961Movie

5.1

Simon Bolivar is the true-life story of the leader of the 1817 Venezuelan revolution.

Simón Bolívar

1969Movie

7.5

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.

100 Years of Love

1954Movie

5.3

A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor.

Colossus of the Arena

1962Movie

6.5

Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.

The Three Thieves

1954Movie

7.0

Friends of Spartacus achieve revenge on the plotter who tries to make political capital out of the rumor that he is still alive. It was shot back to back with Seven Slaves Against the World.

The Revenge of the Gladiators

1964Movie

7.3

One of the most famous movie stars of the moment has a problem with his car. The actor is obliged to stop in a provincial hotel, where he finds himself surrounded by his admirers.

Apparizione

1943Movie

6.5

The ruthless Roman tribune, Vadio, joins forces with the evil Morakeb to take over the throne of Aristea, usurping King Krontal and stealing away his lovely daughter in the process. Meanwhile, Marco Aulo, now a Roman centurion, comes to Aristea to learn where his legions war funds have gone. Vadio has him framed for treason and is thrown into the arena to fight a group of six formidable gladiators. During the fights, Marco refuses to kill those he defeats until finally, he himself loses after exhaustion takes its toll. Admiring this man, the six warriors join him and together they escape Vadio's clutches and plot to free the kingdom from the two conspiring killers. Edited from Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules

Seven Rebel Gladiators

1965Movie

6.4

Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.