Franco Diogene
Biography: Franco Diogene was born on October 20, 1947 in Catania, Sicily, Italy as Concetto Francesco Diogene. He was an actor, known for Midnight Express (1978), The Big Blue (1988) and The Name of the Rose (1986). He was married to Mariella Denari. He died on May 28, 2005 in Genova, Italy.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 20, 1947
Deathday: May 28, 2005
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Known For
Strip Nude for Your Killer
1975-08-24
Strip Nude for Your Killer
Overview: After a fashion model dies during a botched abortion, the doctor stages her death to exonerate himself but is murdered by a mysterious assailant who soon begins hunting down her agency colleagues.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-24
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Madly in Love
1981-12-18
Madly in Love
Overview: Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble intentions get derailed when Barnaba, a zany bus driver enters their lives and falls madly in love with the gorgeous Cristina. He is nuts enough to succeed in this romantic chase after royalty, as love seems to fuel his determination to rid Cristina of her elitism and to make her see his own irrepressible attractions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-12-18
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The Soup
1981-02-20
The Soup
Overview: Rome, 1960. Four different people meet each other at the Olympics. They follow the games and become friends, talking about their sad lifes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-02-20
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The Mines of Kilimanjaro
1986-07-31
The Mines of Kilimanjaro
Overview: 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
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-07-31
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7 Kilos in 7 Days
1986-12-18
7 Kilos in 7 Days
Overview: Two not very clever young doctors open a fitness center and promise to let people lose seven kilos in seven days. When the enterprise fails they open a gourmet restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-12-18
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Esercizi di stile
1996-01-01
Esercizi di stile
Overview: The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-01-01
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The Sweet House of Horrors
1989-01-01
The Sweet House of Horrors
Overview: A murdered couple return from the beyond to care for their two young children, as well as seek revenge against their killer, accept their children's step parents, and try to prevent their house from being sold.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Madman at War
1985-05-21
Madman at War
Overview: A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the Lybian desert during World War II.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-05-21
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The Bachelor
1990-03-29
The Bachelor
Overview: In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-29
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The Teasers
1975-10-31
The Teasers
Overview: Loredana is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes there are more important things to life than teasing men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-31
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School Teacher on the Sea with Her Class
1980-02-07
School Teacher on the Sea with Her Class
Overview: It's summer. Lisa goes every day in a holiday hotel to give French lessons to Mario, the owner's son. the beauty and personality of Lisa quickly raise the attraction of tourists, but also jealousy of mothers who see their husbands and son prowling around the lovely young woman ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-07
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La madama
1976-01-16
La madama
Overview: In the slang of the underworld or "mala" there is a special term for cop: "Madama". But if word were to get around that the "Madama" is Vito (Christian De Sica) they might even start to like the guy. Vito is a funny sort of a cop. For a start he doesn't like the uniform (he never wears it). Things might even go smoothly for him, if it weren't for an incredible number of beautiful girls who always manage to get in his way. Especially one girl Angelo (shouldn't that have been Angela? No, the girl's name really is Angelo). Problems arise too, with his direct supervisor, who also happens to be a relative. But Vito puts up with it all and manages to stay his usual calm and polite self, even when he risks getting killed.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-16
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Kidnap
1974-08-13
Kidnap
Overview: This crime drama follows an Italian police commissioner as he races to rescue the 6-year-old daughter of an important businessman. Also hoping to save her is Frank Salvatore, the old-school Mafia don accused of the crime. Caprile leans on a low-level thug for information and is led to Salvatore, who considers children to be off-limits as targets and hopes to restore his reputation
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-13
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Attenti a quei P2
1982-03-19
Attenti a quei P2
Overview: Attenti a quei P2 (Beware of those P2s) is a satirical parody of the judicial affair concerning the P2 Masonic lodge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-03-19
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Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
1975-03-20
Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
Overview: Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work. He decides to take justice into his own hands and get rough with the world. He soon gets his family's respect back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-20
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Teresa the Thief
1973-10-11
Teresa the Thief
Overview: Teresa gets her first taste of crime -- and its consequences -- when, during World War II, she is nabbed for robbing an apartment. But being poor and perpetually starving, the pretty petty thief doesn't give up her quest for ill-gotten gains and soon turns to pick-pocketing. Despite her questionable thieving skills, the bumbling crook tries scheme after scheme, pilfering from strangers and dodging the law as she searches for a way to fund an adequate meal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-11
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Arizona Road
1991-05-24
Arizona Road
Overview: The head of a gang of criminals in Arizona tries to kidnap a girl, but is hindered in his intentions by a handsome mining engineer and a federal sheriff.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-05-24
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Don Camillo
1984-02-08
Don Camillo
Overview: A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-02-08
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Con rabbia e con amore
1997-04-24
Con rabbia e con amore
Overview: At a bus stop they meet Francesca, an eighteen year old who is collaborating in a veterinary office, and Claudio, a university student. The two begin to walk together and talk about many things.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-24
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Il ragazzo di campagna
1984-12-20
Il ragazzo di campagna
Overview: A man is forced to completely change his habits when he decides to move from the country to the city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-12-20
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Grand Hotel Excelsior
1982-10-07
Grand Hotel Excelsior
Overview: Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-10-07
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La collegiale
1975-01-01
La collegiale
Overview: The sexually naive Daniela returns home from boarding school only to realize that her family is involved in an excess of bed-hopping and sexual perversion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Tentacles
1977-02-25
Tentacles
Overview: Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. The scientists have no idea which animal could do such things. Dr. Turner begins to suspect that the company which builds a tunnel beneath the bay might have poisoned the environment and caused an octopus to mutate to giant dimensions...
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
1976-10-28
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Overview: An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-28
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Rack Up
1997-05-09
Rack Up
Overview: In Spain, the billiard champion Jesus participates in a tournament to help his old friend Paco, owner of a bar and fallen into the grip of loan sharks, with his winnings. The betting boss Scalesi invites Jesus to lose, but he doesn't give in, he wins and yet he witnesses Paco being killed.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-05-09
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Trauma
1980-01-01
Trauma
Overview: A couple invites some friends to spend a weekend together in an isolated cabin surrounded by woods and fields. But... there's a killer lurking around.... And... someone is monitoring him.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Paramedic
1982-02-07
The Paramedic
Overview: At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-02-07
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Same Sea, Same Beach
1983-05-04
Same Sea, Same Beach
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-05-04
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The Haunted House
1982-03-04
The Haunted House
Overview: George and Lucia are newlyweds and have also been lucky enough to find a home at a low price , very low . Maybe too low . In fact the house is haunted by two lovers who, a thousand years ago, were surprised by the girl's mother who subsequently turned them into pillars of salt . But there is a way to break the magic and free the two lovers caught in the curse and it is all in the hands of the newlyweds on their wedding night . Will they succeed ?
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-03-04
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Love Sacrifice
1976-05-19
Love Sacrifice
Overview: Leonidas, of noble lineage but poor, serves in the house of Count Aristide Of the Fava Dongo, waiting patiently for his death to arrive. He dies at last, but rumors reveal that, on his deathbed, the Count has decided to leave everything to Marco (Claudio Ercoli), his illegitimate and retarded son who secretly grew up in a boarding school. In the meantime, the whole family of Leonida moves to the luxurious estate as for certainly no one wants to miss out on this wealth opportunity...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-19
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Il piatto piange
1974-11-11
Il piatto piange
Overview: In Luino, on Lake Maggiore, during the fascist twenty years, a group of friends belonging to the bourgeoisie spend the nights in the underground gambling den of the Metropolitan Hotel between poker games, gossip, manly goliards and escapades to the house of tolerance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-11
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A Policewoman on the Porno Squad
1979-08-10
A Policewoman on the Porno Squad
Overview: The adventures of Gianna, a sexy policewoman who wants to help a child in search of his mother.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-10
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Blazing Flowers
1978-02-05
Blazing Flowers
Overview: Pino Scalise discharged from the prison he was in for robbery, take refuge in Milan at the home of his uncle. Pino falls in love with one of the uncle's two daughters, who has become a prostitute because of Don Ciccio, head of a gang that traffics in drugs. Pino, now an informer to Police Commissioner Morani, makes plans to take the boss down.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-05
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Rome, the Other Face of Violence
1976-07-27
Rome, the Other Face of Violence
Overview: Four bandits commit a robbery in a villa. The maid calls the police and Commissioner Carli immediately orders patrols to chase them.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-07-27
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Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto
1975-08-10
Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-10
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Sex with a Smile
1976-01-09
Sex with a Smile
Overview: Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-09
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Watch Out for Perestroika
1990-10-05
Watch Out for Perestroika
Overview: Three friends, Fulvio, Marco and Filippo who are employed in a company that sells agricultural machinery are working under contract in socialist Bulgaria. Seeking entertainment, they are introduced to three Bulgarian beauties...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-10-05
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Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
1982-08-31
Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
Overview: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who got a bad name as a "whore" in the town because of them and was forced to leave is now dead. Furthermore, she had amassed a great fortune abroad and decided to bequeath it to the three. However, she has a strange condition: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina should cheat on their husbands within three days and provide photographic evidence or else the inheritance will be donated to the retirement home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-08-31
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Un uomo perbene
1999-10-01
Un uomo perbene
Overview: In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
Genres: Drama Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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Taxi Girl
1977-04-15
Taxi Girl
Overview: Marcella inherits a taxi business from her father and now sets out on the job of her life. With each new fare she becomes involved with sex and crime, all done up 70's Italian comedy style.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-04-15
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Saturday, Sunday and Friday
1979-06-06
Saturday, Sunday and Friday
Overview: SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-06-06
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Poliziotti
1995-02-10
Poliziotti
Overview: When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-02-10
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The Name of the Rose
1986-09-24
The Name of the Rose
Overview: 14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence – which is considerable.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-24
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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
1982-12-26
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Overview: Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-12-26
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The New Godfathers
1979-08-24
The New Godfathers
Overview: A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on getting it to the US. They decide to run the drug through an unsuspecting network of good-natured, local smugglers in Naples, while an international anti-narcotics agent rushes to shut their operation down. Betrayals and divided loyalties lead to a final, bloody confrontation in America.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-24
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Gardenia
1979-05-05
Gardenia
Overview: A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold through his restaurant.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-05-05
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What the Chambermaid Saw
1973-05-07
What the Chambermaid Saw
Overview: Country bumpkin Maria Rosa becomes the new maid in a second-rate Roman hotel. A hole in the wall behind the mirror in her room turns her and a horny bellboy into voyeurs
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-05-07
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Crime at Porta Romana
1980-10-29
Crime at Porta Romana
Overview: A police inspector is called to Milan to investigate a murder case since he grew up in the same ghetto as the suspect.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-10-29
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La classe non è acqua
1997-03-14
La classe non è acqua
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-03-14
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The Grumpy
1986-12-20
The Grumpy
Overview: Traveling from New York to Italia, pretty Mary rushes into moody macho lawyer Tito. The girl immediately falls for the guy with the gruffy manners and in an very impertinent way, she leans on him as she gets in trouble: Not only that she gets tied up in her suite by some Gangsters, but also, her new husband is found dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
1990-01-01
There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
2002-03-07
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Overview: A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-03-07
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Killer vs Killers
1985-01-01
Killer vs Killers
Overview: A businessman recruits some thieves to steal a valuable chemical formula kept in an well guarded industrial site. The raid is successful, but once he has the formula, the man tries to get rid of those who worked for him.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Caino e Caino
1993-02-12
Caino e Caino
Overview: After the death of their industrialist father leaves them each with 49% of his company shares, two quarrelling brothers go to war for the remaining 2%.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-02-12
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Il lupo di mare
1987-02-21
Il lupo di mare
Overview: A waiter on a cruise ship tries to seduce the models that are aboard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-02-21
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City of Women
1980-03-28
City of Women
Overview: The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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The Third Solution
1988-04-08
The Third Solution
Overview: The Roman Catholic Pope is planning a reconciliatory meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an event awaited for many generations. But suddenly, right while the Pope is addressing the crowds gathered in the Piazza Navone, a nun is assassinated by a Ukrainian, placing the upcoming talks between the two leaders in jeopardy. And the head of the American diplomatic corps (the nun was an American) assigns the investigation of the killing to one of his underlings, which leads the young man to investigate the Russicum, a center for the study of Russia within the Vatican city. And from there he finds himself caught up in an intrigue of international proportions, filled with agents and double agents, and ending with a revelation most unexpected.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-04-08
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How Colonel Buttiglione Became a General
1974-07-14
How Colonel Buttiglione Became a General
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-07-14
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Midnight Express
1978-08-31
Midnight Express
Overview: Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-31
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Interzone
1987-01-01
Interzone
Overview: Humans fight mutants in a post-holocaust world.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Indiscretion of an American Wife
1998-03-09
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Overview: An American diplomat's wife meets an Italian vintner at an embassy soirée. He sees her as more than just her "husband's hostess". Her husband has been so focused on advancing his career that he has forgotten how to see her as a woman, which the Italian reminds her that she is.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-03-09
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The Three Graces
1979-09-21
The Three Graces
Overview: A busty girl gets naked in the shopping centers to attract attention and thus allow her accomplice to perform some small theft.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-09-21
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The Big Blue
1988-05-10
The Big Blue
Overview: Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, and who share a passion for the dangerous sport of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy; to the bewilderment of scientists, Jacques harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing pattern in the water, so that his vital signs more closely resemble that of dolphins than men. As Enzo persuades a reluctant Jacques to compete against him in a free diving contest -- determining who can dive deeper and longer without scuba gear -- Jacques meets Johana, a beautiful insurance investigator from America, and he finds that he must choose between his love for her and his love of the sea.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-10
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Ci hai rotto papà
1993-09-03
Ci hai rotto papà
Overview: Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing pranks on them to expose their weaknesses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-09-03
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Pretty Princess
1993-12-03
Pretty Princess
Overview: A princess from a Nordic European country is obligated to marry the boy her family chose. She escapes and discovers love in the arms of a beautiful swimming teacher.
Genres: Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-12-03
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The Stendhal Syndrome
1996-01-26
The Stendhal Syndrome
Overview: A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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Maria Goretti
2003-02-23
Maria Goretti
Overview: The life of the virgin and martyr Santa Maria Goretti
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-02-23
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Attila Scourge of God
1982-12-22
Attila Scourge of God
Overview: The misadventures of Attila and his band of barbarians as they take up arms against the Roman Empire in their native Milano
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-12-22
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