Gian Maria Volonté
Biography: Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (credited in the USA as "Johnny Wels") and For a Few Dollars More. In Italy and much of Europe, he was notable for his roles in high-profile social dramas depicting the political and social stirrings of Italian and European society in the 1960s and 1970s, including four films directed by Elio Petri - We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1971), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Todo modo (1976). He is also recognized for his performances in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (1970) and Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco & Vanzetti (1971). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gian Maria Volonté, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 09, 1933
Deathday: December 06, 1994
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For a Few Dollars More
1965-12-18
For a Few Dollars More
Overview: Two bounty hunters both pursue a brutal and sadistic bandit El Indio who has a massive bounty on his head.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-18
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Journey Beneath the Desert
1961-05-05
Journey Beneath the Desert
Overview: A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-05-05
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Le Cercle Rouge
1970-10-19
Le Cercle Rouge
Overview: When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-19
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1970-10-16
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Overview: Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-16
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Rosi About Eboli
2022-11-16
Rosi About Eboli
Overview: An exceptional documentary filmed in 1978 by Swedish directors Björn Blixt and Peter Englesson showing the behind-the-scenes of the film Christ Stopped at Eboli (1979) by Francesco Rosi.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-11-16
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
1979-02-23
Christ Stopped at Eboli
Overview: In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-02-23
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Hercules and the Captive Women
1961-08-19
Hercules and the Captive Women
Overview: King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the strongman falls overboard in a thick fog. Washed ashore, he saves a young Ismene from Proteus, an evil, shape-shifting creature. Ismene takes Hercules to Atlantis, where he discovers that her mother, Queen Antinea, has captured Androcles. Hercules schemes to rescue him and thwart Antinea's dream of world conquest.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-19
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Open Doors
1990-03-29
Open Doors
Overview: Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he kills his superior who sacked him, the man who replaced him and his wife. He wants a quick trial and an early execution, but an earnest, principled assistant judge looks for a way to save the murderer from being shot, because he does not belive in capital punishment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-29
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A Bullet for the General
1967-01-13
A Bullet for the General
Overview: El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware of his true intentions.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-13
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The Witch
1966-09-16
The Witch
Overview: A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-16
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The Mattei Affair
1972-01-26
The Mattei Affair
Overview: Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-26
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Il caso Moro
1986-11-20
Il caso Moro
Overview: On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual account of what happened in between.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-11-20
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Face to Face
1967-11-23
Face to Face
Overview: History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-11-23
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The Abyss
1988-05-13
The Abyss
Overview: The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe under an assumed name for twenty years. But he remains a non-conformist. He returns to his native Bruges, where he thinks he has been forgotten. In this silent labyrinth where the faces of the past resurface, he rediscovers his identity and thus signs his death warrant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-13
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Operation Ogre
1979-09-28
Operation Ogre
Overview: Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the weakened regime is in danger. Admiral Carrero Blanco is his natural successor. The Basque terrorist gang ETA decides that he must die to prevent the dictatorship from continuing.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-09-28
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Giordano Bruno
1973-11-29
Giordano Bruno
Overview: Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to bring him on trial for 'heresy'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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The Four Days of Naples
1962-11-16
The Four Days of Naples
Overview: September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in control — and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, civilians rise up en masse against the invaders — and overwhelming odds.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-11-16
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Sacco & Vanzetti
1971-03-16
Sacco & Vanzetti
Overview: Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-16
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Slap the Monster on Page One
1972-10-19
Slap the Monster on Page One
Overview: Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-19
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One Way or Another
1976-04-30
One Way or Another
Overview: Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-30
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Lady of the Camelias
1981-02-26
Lady of the Camelias
Overview: A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beauty and charm.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-02-26
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Girl with a Suitcase
1961-02-09
Girl with a Suitcase
Overview: Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-09
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We Still Kill the Old Way
1967-02-24
We Still Kill the Old Way
Overview: A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-24
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The Working Class Goes to Heaven
1971-09-17
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Overview: After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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The Violent Four
1968-03-29
The Violent Four
Overview: A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-29
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I Am Afraid
1977-10-06
I Am Afraid
Overview: During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally upright judge. He feels increasingly fearful as the links of the upper echelons of police and government to the violence become clear.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-06
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A Boy from Calabria
1987-09-11
A Boy from Calabria
Overview: Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who understands his ambitions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-09-11
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Many Wars Ago
1970-09-17
Many Wars Ago
Overview: Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-17
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Lucky Luciano
1973-10-19
Lucky Luciano
Overview: Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-19
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On the Tiger's Back
1961-12-20
On the Tiger's Back
Overview: Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-20
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A Simple Story
1991-09-12
A Simple Story
Overview: After many years, a retired diplomat returns to his native Sicily to visit an abandoned property and delve into family correspondence. But is it worth bringing up the past? A difficult Sicilian history against the backdrop of the mafia and drugs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-09-12
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The Suspect
1975-02-21
The Suspect
Overview: Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-21
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Wake Up and Die
1966-04-06
Wake Up and Die
Overview: A petty hoodlum pulls jewellery store heists in broad daylight. The cop on his tail knows he has accomplices and focuses on the gangster's girl friend is his attempt to catch him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-04-06
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Seasons of Our Love
1966-03-25
Seasons of Our Love
Overview: Vittorio is a 40-year-old journalist who reaches a mid-life crisis. His wife nags him constantly for ignoring her and their child. After his mistress dumps him, Vittorio returns to the town where he spent his childhood to reflect on the state of his life. Flashbacks are used to tell of Vittorio’s relationship with his parents as a child and the effects World War II had on his development.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-25
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The Assassination
1972-10-04
The Assassination
Overview: Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World. Sadiel, the exiled leader of a North African state, is being hunted by the ruthless Colonel Kassar, who will stop at nothing to capture his political rival. Once Sadiel arrives in Paris, Darien realizes he has been manipulated. He tries to turn back the clock, not realizing what or who he’s truly dealing with.
Genres: Thriller History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-04
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The Death of Mario Ricci
1983-05-25
The Death of Mario Ricci
Overview: A TV reporter and his assisstant go to a small Swiss village to do a programme with a reclusive scientist, an expert on world food shortages. During this time, an Italian immigrant worker is killed in a road crash and the reporter becomes involved in uncovering the truth about his death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-25
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The Bandit
1969-01-29
The Bandit
Overview: Sicily, 1865. Two peasants, Gramigna and his father are tricked by Baron Nardò and robbed of their field, which then the baron lets to Assunta, her daughter Gemma and her fiancé Ramarro. Determined to take revenge, Gramigna begins to hunt down Nardò's complicit mediators. Unbeknownst to Gramigna, Gemma, to escape her arranged marriage, goes after him. Love and violence will follow all till their desperate ends.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-29
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Chronicle of a Death Foretold
1987-05-08
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
Overview: This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year absence to investigate the murder that occurred just before he left.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-05-08
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The Magnificent Cuckold
1964-10-19
The Magnificent Cuckold
Overview: Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he starts to become obsessed with his wife's fidelity. Since she is one of the most desired women in town, he worries that it would be very easy for her to cheat on him. Now every time a man looks at his wife, Andrea goes crazy. Meanwhile, Maria finds out about her husband's affair and decides to plan her revenge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-19
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The Seven Cervi Brothers
1968-02-16
The Seven Cervi Brothers
Overview: The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World War 2.
Genres: War History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-16
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The Terrorist
1963-10-25
The Terrorist
Overview: In Venice in 1943, a group of partisans led by Renato Braschi organize a series of autonomous terrorist attacks against the fascists while the National Liberation Committee urges caution. Renato is determined to carry out his ideas, risking his own life, and not only that...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-25
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Banderas, the Tyrant
1993-11-19
Banderas, the Tyrant
Overview: In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels trying to seize power by force while some liberals try a change of government legally.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-11-19
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A Man for Burning
1962-10-26
A Man for Burning
Overview: Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the right to plough their own fields. The peasants refuse to help him, and Salvatore is marked by the Mafia as a troublemaker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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Pestalozzi's Mountain
1989-03-17
Pestalozzi's Mountain
Overview: In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he sacrificed himself for his pedagogical theories. Five years later, the project of the idealistic educator failed after bloody attacks of the French. In retrospect, the disappointed Pestalozzi experiences the last few months with "his" children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-03-17
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Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
1969-04-20
Apollon: una fabbrica occupata
Overview: The film documents the trade union battle of the workers of the Apollon printing house in Rome, occupied for a few months after the management decided to fire all the personnel and sell the land on which the factory was standing. In the form of a docu-fiction, the events of the long occupation are reconstructed, which began on June 4, 1967 and ended in December 1968. The workers play themselves and various other roles, but they are also co-authors of the film, which is not a simple chronicle of events, but an analytical reading of the reality of the factory, the story of the conquest of instruments of struggle and democracy, with the indication of strategies of attack on the bosses' power. The narrative voice of Gian Maria Volonté gives continuity to the story and comments on the events.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-20
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La tenda in piazza
1972-02-19
La tenda in piazza
Overview: The film recounts the struggle of the factory workers of five Italian factories, Cagli, Coca Cola, Filodont, Luciani and Metalfer. A montage of interviews in which the workers denounce the hardships and difficulties of living without wages and put forward their proposals for getting out of the crisis and for change. The workers of the occupied factories decide to put up a tent in Piazza di Spagna to propagandise their struggle, but permission is denied by the Commissariat of Public Security. There are clashes with the police, who charge and use batons every time the workers try to set up the tent. Despite being injured and bruised, the workers do not give up until they get what they ask for: 'A tent in the square of Rome to remind the citizens - especially the wealthier classes - that there are workers in Rome without pay during the Christmas holidays'. In the end, the workers get what they ask for and the tent is finally raised amid applause and general satisfaction.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-19
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Summit
1968-10-16
Summit
Overview: Paolo, a special guest of an Italian newspaper, leaves for Paris to attend an international conference, a summit meeting, the 'summit' of hope. He subordinates all his interests - work, the newspaper, friends - to the urgent task of winning back Annie, with whom he had previously had an affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-16
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Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli
1970-01-01
Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli
Overview: The film examines the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell from the fourth floor of the police headquarters in Milan December 15, 1969, after being stopped following the Piazza Fontana bombing.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Stark System
1980-03-14
Stark System
Overview: Armenia Balducci's film, featuring Gian Maria Volontè as Stark, a cop-movie actor that falls prey to paranoia because he fears his latest movie will be a failure.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-14
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The Felling of the Forest
1963-09-18
The Felling of the Forest
Overview: In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an ample profit. Amongst them, a recently widowed father struggles to overcome the pain of his wife’s death, whilst juggling the fresh financial pressures of raising two motherless children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-18
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Phaedra
1957-02-26
Phaedra
Overview: Theatre play adaptation of Jean Racine's Phaedra filmed for TV.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-02-26
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Summer Night
1963-06-03
Summer Night
Overview: Barcelona in the early sixties: black and white chronicle of the ups and downs in the relationship of several young couples of the Catalan bourgeoisie during the time between two Saint John's eve festivals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-03
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Wind from the East
1970-08-19
Wind from the East
Overview: A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a debate on the nature and possibility of revolutionary cinema.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-08-19
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Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
2005-09-03
Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Overview: A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-09-03
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Gangster Girl
1966-10-13
Gangster Girl
Overview: A successful young writer is in search of his true destiny. Is it the life with his wife and typewriter in Amsterdam or the offers to go to the dreamworld of the Italian film city Cinecittà which is luring him? Trying to find this out he goes into retreat in the house of a befriended gay couple in the south of France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1966-10-13
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Letters from Marusia
1975-12-26
Letters from Marusia
Overview: Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most essential rights. A reflection of the historic union struggles in the northern Chile that ended with terrible repressive acts.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-12-26
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We Are Cinema
2021-12-16
We Are Cinema
Overview: An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-12-16
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Tre colonne in cronaca
1990-03-09
Tre colonne in cronaca
Overview: Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a stockbroker, which triggers a series of blackmail and deception. A deputy commissioner and a journalist intend to shed light on all these murky matters, but the politician has no scruples and also knows how to move with extraordinary skill.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-09
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Forgotten Activism
2017-01-01
Forgotten Activism
Overview: Volonté, the militant. How many people know this singular and important aspect of the great Milanese actor's life? "Forgotten Activism" attempts to reconstruct a particular profile of the actor Gian Maria Volonté, the one concerning his political commitment, an aspect that is often neglected and ignored. A life spent on acting, but at the same time on politics, with the fixed idea of always wanting to change things and have his say, denouncing the abuses of power - as in the case of the anarchist Pinelli - and social inequalities. A character that can be defined to all intents and purposes as a fighter, a 'revolutionary in an actor's uniform', who exposed himself without trying to mediate his positions, sometimes extreme and as a true outsider.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-01-01
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Under the Sign of Scorpio
1969-04-04
Under the Sign of Scorpio
Overview: An island has been decimated by a volcanic eruption and the few survivors escape to a nearby island. Led by Rutolo, they know that their new home is equally susceptible to such a catastrophe via its own volcano, but they are unable to convince the current inhabitants of Island #2 to flee with them to a mainland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-04
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Funes, a Great Love
1993-04-01
Funes, a Great Love
Overview: A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1993-04-01
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Under Ten Flags
1960-09-15
Under Ten Flags
Overview: "Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and her Captain Bernhard Rogge. Atlantis, camouflaged as a merchant ship, cruised the South Seas ( Atlantic, Indian & Pacific) and sank or captured 22 merchant ships from May 1940 through November 22, 1941 when she was sunk by the British Cruiser HMS Devonshire. Rogge was one of the few German officers of flag rank who were not arrested by the Allies after the war ended. This was due to the very proper and ethical way he exercised his command of Atlantis. After the war he advanced to Rear Admiral in the West German Navy and became a high-ranking NATO commander.
Genres: History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-15
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Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
2004-01-12
Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté
Overview: Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-01-12
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Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
2005-10-29
Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté
Overview: A portrait of the famous italian actor and political activist Gian Maria Volonté.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-10-29
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Caravaggio
1967-10-15
Caravaggio
Overview: A miniseries about Caravaggio's life.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-10-15
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A Fistful of Dollars
1964-09-12
A Fistful of Dollars
Overview: The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-12
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For Love and Gold
1966-04-07
For Love and Gold
Overview: A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-04-07
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Zénon the Rebel
2019-12-11
Zénon the Rebel
Overview: Zénon is the hero of “The Abyss”, the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He is also the main character in André Delvaux’s film, played by Gian Maria Volonte, for the movie adaptation of the same book in 1988. But what does Zénon represent for us today, and what has become of him? How can this entirely fictional philosopher, doctor, alchemist and inventor from the Renaissance help us understand the era in which he lived as well as our own in these uncertain times? This is what this documentary sets out to do.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-12-11
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La strada più lunga
1965-11-24
La strada più lunga
Overview: Michele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he returns home in 1943, but is now tired and refuses to join the Republic of Salò. His comrades still want him with them, but this Social Republic, imposed by the SS arms, does not convince him. The war continues and the situation does not allow one to remain neutral.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-24
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Spanish Western
2015-05-04
Spanish Western
Overview: A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it possible to recreate in Spain, mainly in the desert of Almería, hundreds of adventures set in the remote American Far West.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2015-05-04
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Reflections on a Political Cinema
1978-07-05
Reflections on a Political Cinema
Overview: This documentary addresses the challenges facing the Italian film industry in 1978 by focusing on the television productions of Francesco Rosi's CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI (1979) and Elio Petri's LE MANI SPORCHE (1978)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-07-05
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Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli
1970-01-01
Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli
Overview: After a wave of arrests in 1969, Italian anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli allegedly falls out of a police building window while being interrogated. The circumstances leading to his death are re-enacted in three hypothetical versions in this attempt at counter-investigation. Released together with Nelo Risi's 'Giuseppe Pinelli', as 'Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli'.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
2024-09-23
Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces
Overview: A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and never-before-seen footage, highlighting his artistic journey and political activism.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-09-23
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Saul
1959-11-06
Saul
Overview: Television play adaptation of Vittorio Alfieri's tragedy Saul (1782).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-06
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