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Euro War

Index Euro War

Euro War, also known as Macaroni Combat, Macaroni War, Spaghetti Combat, or Spaghetti War, is a broad subgenre of war film that emerged in the mid-1960s, so named because most were produced and directed by European co-productions, and most notably by Italians. [1]

70 relations: Antonio Margheriti, Anzio (film), Attack and Retreat, Battle of the Commandos, Battle of the Last Panzer, Bo Svenson, Casablanca Express, Churchill's Leopards, Cinema of Italy, Cinema of the United States, Co-production (media), Code Name: Wild Geese, Commando (1962 film), Commando Leopard, Commandos (film), Dark of the Sun, David Warbeck, Delta Force Commando, Desert Commandos, Dirty Heroes, Eagles Over London, Enzo G. Castellari, Five for Hell, Fred Williamson, Frederick Stafford, From Hell to Victory, Genre, George Hilton (actor), Guy Madison, Hell in Normandy, Hell River, Heroes in Hell (film), Hornets' Nest, Inglourious Basterds, Jack Palance, Klaus Kinski, Last Blood (film), Lee Van Cleef, Lewis Collins, Movie star, Partisan film, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Harrison (actor), Roberto Bianchi Montero, Salt in the Wound, Scorticateli vivi, Spaghetti Western, Strike Commando, Strike Commando 2, The Battle of El Alamein (film), ..., The Best of Enemies, The Deer Hunter, The Dirty Dozen, The Greatest Battle, The Inglorious Bastards, The Last Hunter, The Seven Red Berets, The Shortest Day, The Two Colonels, The Wild Geese, Torpedo Bay, Umberto Lenzi, Under Ten Flags, Vietnam War, War film, War Italian Style, Warriors Five, Where Eagles Dare, World War II, 36 ore all'inferno. Expand index (20 more) »

Antonio Margheriti

Antonio Margheriti (19 September 1930 – 4 November 2002), also known under the pseudonym Anthony M. Dawson, was an Italian filmmaker.

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Anzio (film)

Anzio (US title), also known as Lo sbarco di Anzio (original Italian title) or The Battle for Anzio (UK title), is a 1968 Technicolor war film in Panavision, an Italian and American co-production, about Operation Shingle, the 1944 Allied seaborne assault on the Italian port of Anzio in World War II.

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Attack and Retreat

Attack and Retreat (Italiani brava gente, Oni shli na Vostok) is a Soviet-Italian war drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis and Dmitri Vasilyev in 1964.

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Battle of the Commandos

Battle of the Commandos (also known as Legion of the Damned) is a European Macaroni-War film directed in 1969 by Umberto Lenzi.

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Battle of the Last Panzer

Battle of the Last Panzer (La batalla del último Panzer, La battaglia dell'ultimo panzer,also known as The Last Panzer Battalion) is a 1969 Spanish-Italian war film directed by José Luis Merino and distributed in America by Troma Entertainment.

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Bo Svenson

Bo Svenson (born 13 February 1941) is a Swedish-American actor, known for his roles in American genre films of the 1970s and 1980s.

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Casablanca Express

Casablanca Express is a 1989 Italian action war film starring Jason Connery and Francisco Quinn that was filmed in Morocco.

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Churchill's Leopards

Churchill's Leopards (I leopardi di Churchill, Los Leopardos de Churchill) is a 1970 Italian-Spanish "macaroni combat" war film directed by Maurizio Pradeaux and starring Richard Harrison and Klaus Kinski.

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Cinema of Italy

The Cinema of Italy comprises the films made within Italy or by Italian directors.

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Cinema of the United States

The cinema of the United States, often metonymously referred to as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on the film industry in general since the early 20th century.

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Co-production (media)

A co-production is a joint venture between two or more different production companies for the purpose of film production, television production, video game development, and so on.

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Code Name: Wild Geese

Code Name: Wild Geese (Arcobaleno selvaggio, Geheimcode: Wildgänse) is a 1984 West German-Italian Euro War film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Lewis Collins in the first of their three mercenary war films.

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Commando (1962 film)

Marcia o Crepa (March or Die) known as The Legion's Last Patrol in the UK and Commando in the US is a 1962 European (Italian, German, Spanish) co-production war film about the Algerian War of Independence.

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Commando Leopard

Commando Leopard (Kommando Leopard) is a 1985 West German-Italian war film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Lewis Collins.

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Commandos (film)

Commandos is an Italian "macaroni combat" war film starring Lee Van Cleef and Jack Kelly and directed by Armando Crispino.

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Dark of the Sun

Dark of the Sun (also known as The Mercenaries in the UK) is a 1968 adventure-war film starring Rod Taylor, Yvette Mimieux, Jim Brown, and Peter Carsten.

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David Warbeck

David Warbeck (born David Mitchell; 17 November 1941 – 23 July 1997) was a New Zealand-born English actor and model best known for his film roles in Europe.

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Delta Force Commando

Delta Force Commando, is a 1988 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Pierluigi Ciriaci as Frank Valenti and starring Fred Williamson and Bo Svenson.

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Desert Commandos

Desert Commandos (Italian: Attentato ai tre grandi) is a 1967 war film set during World War II in Morocco where it was filmed.

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Dirty Heroes

Dirty Heroes, also known as From Hell to Victory and Heroes Five (Dalle Ardenne all'inferno), is a 1967 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Alberto De Martino and starring Frederick Stafford.

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Eagles Over London

Eagles Over London (La battaglia d'Inghilterra), is a 1969 "macaroni combat" war film directed by Enzo G. Castellari.

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Enzo G. Castellari

Enzo Girolami Castellari (born Rome, 29 July 1938) is an Italian director, screenwriter and actor.

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Five for Hell

Five for Hell (Cinque per l'inferno, also known as Five Into Hell) is a 1969 Italian "macaroni combat" war film starring John Garko, Margaret Lee and Klaus Kinski.

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Fred Williamson

Frederick Robert Williamson Sr. (born March 5, 1938), is an American actor and former professional American football defensive back who played mainly in the American Football League during the 1960s.

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Frederick Stafford

Frederick Stafford (11 March 1928 – 28 July 1979) was a Czech-born actor.

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From Hell to Victory

From Hell to Victory is a European Macaroni-War film directed in 1979 by Umberto Lenzi.

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Genre

Genre is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.

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George Hilton (actor)

George Hilton (born 16 July 1934, sometimes credited as Jorge Hilton) is an actor well known for his many spaghetti western performances.

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Guy Madison

Guy Madison (born Robert Ozell Moseley, January 19, 1922 – February 6, 1996) was an American film and television actor.

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Hell in Normandy

Hell in Normandy (Italian title: Testa di sbarco per otto implacabili, French title: Tête de pont pour huit implacables) is a 1968 French/Italian international co-production World War II film directed by Alfonso Brescia.

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Hell River

Hell River, also known as Partisans (Партизани/Partizani) and The Last Guerilla is a 1974 Yugoslavian partisan film starring Rod Taylor as a Yugoslav raised in America who returns home to fight the Germans as a Partisan in World War II.

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Heroes in Hell (film)

Heroes in Hell (Eroi all'inferno) is a 1973 Italian Macaroni War film that was written and directed by Joe D'Amato, produced by Walter Brandi and starring Klaus Kinski, Luciano Rossi and Franco Garofalo.

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Hornets' Nest

Hornets’ Nest is a 1970 Italian-American war film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Rock Hudson, Sylva Koscina, and Sergio Fantoni.

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Inglourious Basterds

Inglourious Basterds is a 2009 war film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, Christoph Waltz, Michael Fassbender, Eli Roth, Diane Kruger, Til Schweiger, and Mélanie Laurent.

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Jack Palance

Jack Palance (born Volodymyr Palahniuk (Володимир Палагню́к); February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American actor and singer.

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Klaus Kinski

Klaus Kinski (born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski; 18 October 1926 – 23 November 1991) was a German actor.

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Last Blood (film)

Last Blood, also known as Tornado: The Last Blood, is a 1983 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring Giancarlo Prete.

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Lee Van Cleef

Clarence Leroy Van Cleef Jr. (January 9, 1925 – December 16, 1989), was an American actor best known for his roles in Spaghetti Westerns such as For A Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

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Lewis Collins

Lewis Collins (27 May 1946 – 27 November 2013)"Happy Birthday Richard Hastilow, 65", The Times, 26 May 2010 was an English film and theatre actor.

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Movie star

A movie star (also known as a film star and cinema star) is an actor who is famous for their starring, or leading, roles in motion pictures.

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Partisan film

Partisan film (Partizanski film) is the name for a subgenre of war films, made in FPR/SFR Yugoslavia during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.

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Quentin Tarantino

Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American director, writer, and actor.

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Richard Harrison (actor)

Richard Harrison (born May 26, 1936) is an American actor and occasionally a writer, director and producer.

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Roberto Bianchi Montero

Roberto Bianchi Montero (7 December 1907 - 7 December 1986) was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.

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Salt in the Wound

Salt in the Wound (Il dito nella piaga) is a 1969 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Tonino Ricci and starring Klaus Kinski and George Hilton.

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Scorticateli vivi

Scorticateli vivi also known as Skin 'em Alive and The Wild Geese Attack Again is a 1978 Italian Macaroni combat film about a fictional group of mercenaries in Africa.

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Spaghetti Western

Spaghetti Western, also known as Italian Western or Macaroni Western (primarily in Japan), is a broad subgenre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success.

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Strike Commando

Strike Commando is a 1987 Italian-Filipino Vietnam war action film directed by Bruno Mattei and starring Reb Brown, Christopher Connelly and Alex Vitale.

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Strike Commando 2

Strike Commando 2 (also known as Trappola diabolica) is a 1988 Italian English-language action film, starring Brent Huff, Richard Harris and Mary Stavin.

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The Battle of El Alamein (film)

The Battle of El Alamein (also known as Desert Tanks) is a European Macaroni-War film directed in 1969 by Giorgio Ferroni.

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The Best of Enemies

The Best of Enemies (I due nemici) is a 1961 Italian film directed by Guy Hamilton and Alessandro Blasetti set during the World War II East African Campaign but filmed in Israel.

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The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American epic war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian American steelworkers whose lives are changed forever after they fought in the Vietnam War.

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The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen is a 1967 American war film directed by Robert Aldrich, released by MGM, and starring Lee Marvin.

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The Greatest Battle

The Greatest Battle (lit, also titled The Biggest Battle) is a 1978 Euro War film co-written and directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring an ensemble cast, including Helmut Berger, Stacy Keach, Samantha Eggar, Henry Fonda, Giuliano Gemma, John Huston, Ray Lovelock, and Guy Doleman, with a voiceover narration provided by Orson Welles.

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The Inglorious Bastards

The Inglorious Bastards (Quel maledetto treno blindato, literally: "That damned armored train") is a 1978 Italian action/war film directed by Enzo G. Castellari, written by Sandro Continenza, Sergio Grieco, Franco Marotta, Romano Migliorini, and Laura Toscano, and starring Bo Svenson, Peter Hooten, Fred Williamson, Michael Pergolani, and Jackie Basehart.

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The Last Hunter

The Last Hunter (L'ultimo cacciatore) is a 1980 Italian "macaroni combat" war film directed by Antonio Margheriti and starring David Warbeck and Tony King.

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The Seven Red Berets

Sette baschi rossi also known as The Red Berets, Seven Red Berets and Congo Hell is a 1969 Italian/West German co-production about a fictional group of mercenaries filmed in Ethiopia produced and directed by screenwriter Mario Siciliano (often credited as "Marlon Sirko") in his debut as a director.

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The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day (Il giorno più corto) is a 1962 Italian comedy film.

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The Two Colonels

I due colonnelli (internationally released as The Two Colonels) is a 1963 Italian comedy film directed by Steno.

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The Wild Geese

The Wild Geese is a 1978 British adventure film directed by Andrew V. McLaglen about a group of mercenaries in Africa.

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Torpedo Bay

Torpedo Bay is a 1963 war film directed by Charles Frend and Bruno Vailati and starring James Mason.

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Umberto Lenzi

Umberto Lenzi (6 August 1931 – 19 October 2017) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.

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Under Ten Flags

Under Ten Flags (Sotto dieci bandiere) is a 1960 Italian-American war film directed by Duilio Coletti.

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Vietnam War

The Vietnam War (Chiến tranh Việt Nam), also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America (Kháng chiến chống Mỹ) or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.

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War film

War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about naval, air, or land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama.

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War Italian Style

Due marines e un generale (translated: Two Marines and a General, internationally released as War Italian Style) is a 1965 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Scattini.

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Warriors Five

Warriors Five (La guerra continua, La dernière attaque) is a 1960 Black and White Italian-French-Yugoslavian international co-production war film set during World War II.

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Where Eagles Dare

Where Eagles Dare is a 1968 British World War II action film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer that stars Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood and Mary Ure.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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36 ore all'inferno

36 ore all'inferno or 36 Hours to Hell is an Italian war action film released in 1969.

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Redirects here:

Eurowar, Macaroni Combat, Macaroni combat, Macaroni war, Spaghetti combat, Spaghetti war.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euro_War

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