
Joe D'Amato
Biography
Joe D'Amato, (birth name: Aristide Massaccesi) (December 15, 1936 in Rome - January 23, 1999 in Rome) was a prolific Italian filmmaker who directed roughly 200 films, usually at the same time acting as producer and cinematographer, and sometimes providing the script as well. While D'Amato contributed to many different genres (such as the spaghetti western, the war movie, the swashbuckler, the peplum, and the fantasy film), the majority of his films are exploitation-themed pornography, both soft- and hardcore. He is perhaps most well known for his horror film efforts, many of which went on to become cult movies (such as Anthropophagous and Beyond the Darkness), and for his hastily-produced remakes of popular American films (such as the Ator series, based upon the Conan the Barbarian films), some of which were featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000. The poor production value of many of his films, combined with his expressed lack of concern for the production quality of his films as long as they proved profitable, have led him to be labeled as "The Evil Ed Wood," despite D'Amato's apparently amiable nature.
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Acting (19 movies)

Emanuelle Around the World
1977

Sick-o-pathics
1995

Inferno Rosso: Joe D'Amato on the Road of Excess
2021

More Sexy Canterbury Tales
1972

Make the Sign of the Cross, Stranger!
1968

Hamlet: For the Love of Ophelia
1995

Sexy Night Report
1977

Sono Positivo
1999

Happy Porno? Das Ende der Scham
2015

FantastiCozzi
2016

Endgame
1983

Porno Holocaust
1981

Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut - The Erotic Experience
1999

Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut: The Horror Experience
2001

What Have You Done to Solange?
1972

Old Shatterhand
1964

Anthropophagous
1980

Anima mia
1974

Robbery Under Arms
1985
Directing (201 movies)

Erotic Nights of the Living Dead
1980

Beyond the Darkness
1979

Death Smiles on a Murderer
1973

Return from Death: Frankenstein 2000
1991

Greedy Mouth
1981

Images in a Convent
1979

Top Model
1988

Quest for the Mighty Sword
1990

The Blade Master
1982

Eleven Days, Eleven Nights 2
1991

Ator, the Fighting Eagle
1982

Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade
1978

Porno Holocaust
1981

Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals
1977

Emanuelle Around the World
1977

Exotic Malice
1980

Hard Sensation
1980

Emanuelle in America
1977

Convent of Sinners
1986

Endgame
1983

Black Cobra
1976

Killing Birds
1988

More Sexy Canterbury Tales
1972

Emanuelle in Bangkok
1976

The Alcove
1985

Emanuelle and Françoise
1975

Red Coat
1975

The Devil's Wedding Night
1973

Juliet & Romeo
1995

Aphrodite: Goddess of Love
1997

2020 Texas Gladiators
1983

Papaya: Love Goddess of the Cannibals
1978

Porno Esotic Love
1980

Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst
1983

Eternal Desire
1998

Chinese Kamasutra
1993

Eleven Days, Eleven Nights
1987

Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado
1972

Passion's Flower
1991

Caligula: The Untold Story
1982

Emanuelle and the Porno Nights of the World N. 2
1978
Calamity Jane 2
1998

Prague Exposed
1998

All the President's Women
1997

Homo Erectus
1995

Goya and the Naked Maja
1997

Anthony and Cleopatra
1996

High Finance Woman
1990

Nero: Orgy of Fire
1997

Showgirl
1998

Anal Strippers X-posed
1997

Forbidden Diary of the two Princesses
1997

Sea, Sex, and Fun
1995

The Joy Club
1995

Sexy Pirates
1999

Sex and Black Magic
1980

The Venexiana
1998

Some Like It Hard
1995

The Erotic Adventures of Aladdin X
1994

Dangerous Obsession
1991

The Thousand and One Nights of Boccaccio in Canterbury
1973

Tough to Kill
1979

Rosa...Caldi rapporti anali
1993

Francesca's Castle
1992

Le stagioni di Bel
1997

Pugni, pirati e karatè
1972

House of Anal Perversions
1997

The Gym Club
1995

Peep Show
1986

Blue Paradise
1980

Il laureato
1998

Malizia Italiana
1995

Top Girl
1996

The Erotic Adventures of Marco Polo
1994

The Pleasure
1985

Pleasure Shop on 7th Ave.
1979

Ladies' Doctor
1977

Dreams of a Country Girl
1999

Caldo profumo di vergine
1981

Carmen
1996

Dreams of a Gigolo
1996

Flamenco Ecstasy
1996

Rudy: The Valentino Story
1997

Sexy Night Report n. 2
1978

Barone Von Masoch
1994

Tales of Canterbury
1973

Paprika
1995

Marquis de Sade
1994

The Hyena
1997

All Grown Up
1995

11 Days, 11 Nights Part 3
1989

Messalina
1996

Robin Hood: Thief of Wives
1996

Provocation
1995

Heroes in Hell
1974
Lunch Party
1996
Romanza
1999
Prima e dopo la cura
1998
Cop Sucker II
1997
Donna Flor and Her Three Husbands
1996