JTB Italian War Action Movies (Action/War/Drama/Thriller/Comedy)
A list of Italian Spaghetti/Macaroni Combat films. Many genre directors like Umberto Lenzi, Antonio Margheriti, Bruno Mattei and Claudio Fragrasso appears multiple times on this list.
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- DirectorDuilio ColettiStarsVan HeflinCharles LaughtonMylène DemongeotGerman raider, using various disguises, forces British ship to surrender. Story told from German point of view.
- DirectorFrank WisbarStarsStewart GrangerDorian GrayLeo AnchórizA French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
- DirectorLeopoldo SavonaGeorge GonneauStarsJack PalanceGiovanna RalliSerge ReggianiIn German-occupied Italy during World War II, an American paratrooper on a mission to blow up a bridge enlists the help of five Italians just released from a military prison, and a sexy Italian girl who joined up with them along the road.
- DirectorSergio CorbucciStarsCiccio IngrassiaFranco FranchiGino CerviTwo jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
- DirectorCharles FrendBruno VailatiStarsLilli PalmerJames MasonGabriele FerzettiAn Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters whilst being stalked by a British commander (James Mason). The Italian sub manages to make it into the neutral port of Tangiers, followed by the British commander.
- DirectorLuigi ScattiniStarsFranco FranchiCiccio IngrassiaBuster KeatonIn May 1943, two American soldiers, Joe and Frank, of Italian descent are searching the North African desert for a German general called Von Kassler, when they are captured by Von Kassler aide Inge Schultze who lets them escape with fake war plans, only Joe and Frank steal the real war plans which pave way for the Allied victory. Months later, the duo once again come up against Von Kassler when they are captured at Anzio and try to outwit the Nazis a second time.
- DirectorCamillo BazzoniStarsAldo RayTano CimarosaUgo FangareggiWorld War 2 - a British commando squad is tasked with attacking the "secret" German airfield from which German fighters have been attacking bombers which are trying to stop German tanks from reinforcing the D Day defences.
- DirectorArmando CrispinoStarsLee Van CleefJack KellyGiampiero AlbertiniDuring World War II, an Italian-American commando outfit disguised as an Italian Army unit is parachuted behind Axis lines in North Africa.
- DirectorFernando Di LeoStarsJames DalyPier AngeliNino CastelnuovoDuring the Second World War, a major American seeks to recover, with the help of some partisans, a valuable memorandum from the hands of the Nazis.
- DirectorAlfonso BresciaStarsGuy MadisonPeter Lee LawrenceErika BlancThe movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation on Omaha Beach.
- DirectorRoberto Bianchi MonteroStarsRichard HarrisonPamela TudorAlain GerardA rag tag bunch of US marines are sent in to the Pacific Island of Rabaul to clear any remaining Japanese forces after heavy bombing. They meet fierce resistance.
- DirectorJosé Luis MerinoStarsGuy MadisonRaffaella CarràStelvio RosiAn American major trains a group of elite soldiers for a dangerous covert mission behind enemy lines during WW2.
- DirectorGianfranco ParoliniStarsGianni GarkoMargaret LeeKlaus KinskiFive oddball American commandos infiltrate a well-guarded villa to steal the documents for "Plan K", which the Nazis intend to use to drive the Allies out of Italy.
- DirectorRoberto Bianchi MonteroStarsDale CummingsMaurice PoliHerb AndressAfter landing in North Africa in World War II, a group of soldiers led by Capt. Bruce Clay is assigned to attack an enemy position in order to destroy a large oil storage cellar in the desert.
- DirectorUmberto LenziStarsJack PalanceThomas HunterRobert HundarIrish Colonel Charlie McPhearson has just had his platoon of 28 slaughtered by German troops. Angered at his superiors for this suicide mission, he takes convicts on his next one, along with fornicating American explosives technician Major Burke, to defuse underwater mines so that a commando squad can prepare for a June 10 invasion to destroy a tank gun. Because Colonel Ackerman, whose troops killed his last platoon, is the leader of the platoon in charge of the gun, McPhearson insists on trying to complete the commandos' mission.
- DirectorGiorgio FerroniStarsFrederick StaffordGeorge HiltonMichael RennieWorld war two drama about the 1942 North Africa battle at El Alamein between the Allies and the Axis forces.
- DirectorLeón KlimovskyStarsTab HunterHoward RossErika WallnerSix U.S. soldiers are sent to destroy a bridge that spans the Elbe, which will somehow prevent the Soviets from occupying Germany in this fictional vehicle.
- DirectorEnzo G. CastellariStarsFrederick StaffordVan JohnsonFrancisco RabalIn World War II, a German undercover unit infiltrates British lines during the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940. The film revolves around their successes and failures in disrupting Royal Air Force operations during the Battle of Britain.
- DirectorTonino RicciStarsKlaus KinskiGeorge HiltonRai SandersAn inexperienced American lieutenant and two American prisoners are the only force standing between advancing German troops and an Italian town that was "freed" by the trio.
- DirectorMario SicilianoStarsIvan RassimovSieghardt RuppKirk MorrisSeven mercenaries on a mission into Simba controlled Congo territory requisite with typical sterotypes.
- DirectorMaurizio PradeauxStarsRichard HarrisonPilar VelázquezGiacomo Rossi StuartThe mission: The British have to carry out a plan hatched by Churchill himself to blow up a French dam, by bringing in commandos led by the twin brother of the German commander.
- DirectorPhil KarlsonFranco CirinoStarsRock HudsonSylva KoscinaSergio FantoniIn 1944, during a sabotage mission, the sole surviving U.S. paratrooper is saved by a group of Italian orphans who later aid him in blowing up a vital enemy dam.
- DirectorAlfredo RizzoStarsJeff CameronIsarco RavaioliLemmy CarsonA desert patrol is persuaded by 3 prisoners to follow them in their quest for the tomb of a Pharoah and its treasure.
- DirectorDuccio TessariStarsRod SteigerRosanna SchiaffinoRod TaylorFour soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."
- DirectorJoe D'AmatoStarsLars BlochGeorge ManesRosemarie LindtIn World War II, guerrillas kidnap a German general.