Piero Vida
Biography: Piero Vida (5 August 1938 – 25 January 1987) was an Italian actor.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 05, 1938
Deathday: January 25, 1987
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Head Down, Feet Up
1972-01-01
Head Down, Feet Up
Overview: A serial killer who specialises in killing teachers is on the loose and Andrea becomes accidentally involved when he decides to lend a hand to one of the victims and catches a glimpse of the nocturnal predator.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Catch As Catch Can
1967-10-26
Catch As Catch Can
Overview: Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-10-26
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A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
1975-12-16
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Overview: Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-16
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Galileo
1968-09-07
Galileo
Overview: A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-09-07
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In the Name of the Father
1971-10-12
In the Name of the Father
Overview: In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.
Genres: History Drama Mystery Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-12
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1900
1976-08-28
1900
Overview: The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-28
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Who Works Is Lost
1963-12-05
Who Works Is Lost
Overview: Bonifacio is 27 years old and he is roaming about Venice. He is trying to decide whether to accept a job or not. In so doing, he recalls all his past life: his love story with Gabriella, his old friend Claudio, who had always regarded working as a worthwhile thing, the war, the partisans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-05
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Theft in the Evening, a Big Coup Hopefully
1973-12-18
Theft in the Evening, a Big Coup Hopefully
Overview: A comedy about two friends attempting a heist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-18
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Dead for a Dollar
1968-08-17
Dead for a Dollar
Overview: When the lead robber in their gang steals the money from his two companions, a cat and mouse/back and forth game plays out as the men try to get the money for themselves. But another player, the heir of the sneaky gang leader, is also on the hunt...
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-17
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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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Execution
1968-08-14
Execution
Overview: Clips, a bounty killer, is after one John Coler, who has fooled him, keeping all of a loot he should have shared with him. He finally catches his prey only to discover that the man is a Coler all right but not the expected one.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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Charity and the Strange Smell of Money
1973-05-04
Charity and the Strange Smell of Money
Overview: Charity is in charge of delivering the railroad payroll, but some locals and a Mexican gang have their own plans for the money.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-05-04
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Year One
1974-11-15
Year One
Overview: Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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What Did Stalin Do to Women?
1969-10-03
What Did Stalin Do to Women?
Overview: Two young intellectuals of the PCI, former partisans, enter into a deep ideological crisis after the fall of Stalin. One will volunteer for Vietnam. the other will find in Ho Chi Minh a new myth to be inspired.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-03
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Challenge the Devil
1963-05-28
Challenge the Devil
Overview: A group of young people happen upon an old man in a castle who turns out to be the devil.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-05-28
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Massimamente folle
1983-03-03
Massimamente folle
Overview: The film presents a series of unrelated "pictures": a police commissioner who, faced with four friars stripped by two women, must decide whether they are real or false friars (but he can't); a professor who, suffering from acute dysentery, is dismissed for unworthiness by the Institute Council; a football referee trying to escape the ire of angry fans; an endless marathon in Piazza Navona; a true but crazy producer, a not crazy but fake producer and a group of actors who want to take revenge on one and the other; a "club of toasts" that spends its time toasting to this and that, to elect new members and honorary members; finally, a censorship commission that, aboard an old and very battered car, fails to reach his workplace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-03-03
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Patroclooo!... e il soldato Camillone, grande grosso e frescone
1973-12-30
Patroclooo!... e il soldato Camillone, grande grosso e frescone
Overview: The thief Bruno Camillone would like to escape abroad, but he needs a false passport and identity, which are obtained by a friend. Unfortunately, under his real name, Salvatore Bruschetta, he receives the postcard for military service, which he will have to perform in Puglia. In a barracks that is practically a madhouse...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-30
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Giovannino
1976-05-04
Giovannino
Overview: Giovannino grows up and seeks his way, exemplary in his total and definitive absence of character. He lets himself be guided a little by everyone, without ever making a decision of his own free will. He first seduces the family servant, then runs away to Rome and tries to marry her unserious daughter to a boarding house owner. But her father arrives from Catania who distrusts her and arranges for him to marry a rich and lame girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-04
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StageFright
1987-02-08
StageFright
Overview: While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-02-08
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Fatty Girl Goes to New York
1982-11-28
Fatty Girl Goes to New York
Overview: An overweight high school student is relentlessly bullied due to weight. Out of the blue, she wins a trip to New York, where she sheds 80+ pounds and then returns home to take revenge on her tormentors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-11-28
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Grog
1982-09-03
Grog
Overview: Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-03
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Snow Job
1965-09-24
Snow Job
Overview: Lucio sees his holiday on the Italian Alps interrupted when he is suddenly and unwillingly involved in an International plot involving fake dollar bills.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-24
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The Professor
1986-09-12
The Professor
Overview: An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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The Union
1972-08-29
The Union
Overview: A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-29
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Hate for Hate
1967-08-18
Hate for Hate
Overview: After being captured during a bank robbery, a cowboy is sent to a prison located in a swamp, where he contracts malaria. He soon escapes and, with the help of a Mexican, sets out to track down his partner, who escaped from the bank robbery with all the money.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-18
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Man on Fire
1987-09-04
Man on Fire
Overview: Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-04
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Fiorina the Cow
1972-09-10
Fiorina the Cow
Overview: Plenty of fun erotic stories in the spirit of the "Decameron", united by one constant hero - unlucky cow Fiorina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-10
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Short Night of Glass Dolls
1971-10-28
Short Night of Glass Dolls
Overview: An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-28
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Tough to Kill
1979-03-15
Tough to Kill
Overview: A group of mercenaries escort a man with a million dollar bounty on his head across the African terrain. Double crosses, back stabbing, and gunfire follows.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-15
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Capricci
1969-11-15
Capricci
Overview: After a fight in their apartment, the story of a writer and a painter are divided. The writer is dedicated with his partner Manon to provoke continuous accidents in a field in which car carcasses abound. The painter is recruited to kill, through a poisoned picture, the old Arden to allow the latter's wife, Alice to live with her lover Mosbie.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-15
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Nostalgia
1983-06-02
Nostalgia
Overview: A Russian poet, Andrei and his interpreter, Eugenia travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1983-06-02
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Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino
1972-08-04
Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-04
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Blessed Are the Rich
1972-08-30
Blessed Are the Rich
Overview: Two brothers-in-law, a smuggler and the other traffic policeman, get hold of a large sum of money, destined for illegal exportation to Switzerland, after the courier is killed in a fire fight with the border police. The owners of the money, which occupy an important social position, try in every way to recover it, also leveraging the weakness of the policeman. After the petty betrayal of his brother-in-law, the smuggler decides to keep all the money and flee to Switzerland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-30
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Leonor
1975-09-01
Leonor
Overview: Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But when she returns, she is a murderous vampire.
Genres: Horror Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-09-01
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John the Bastard
1967-11-16
John the Bastard
Overview: Johnny Donald, a cynical seducer of women, discovers he is actually the son of Don Diego Tenorio, a wealthy Mexican landowner. Accompanied by his trusty servant Morenillo, he travels south in search of vengeance and riches, but manages to deflower and make enemies all along the way until he finally meets his match in the person of a Mormon assassin and a stone statue.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-11-16
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The Night Porter
1974-04-03
The Night Porter
Overview: A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-03
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The Return of Casanova
1980-01-06
The Return of Casanova
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-01-06
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Deep Red
1975-03-07
Deep Red
Overview: An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his neighbor, a psychic. With the help of a tenacious young reporter he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods, and the two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-07
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The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
1974-01-01
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
Overview: A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Who Saw Her Die?
1972-05-12
Who Saw Her Die?
Overview: Between a four-year gap in the murder of a young girl, the daughter of a well-known sculptor is discovered dead, and her parents conduct an investigation, only to discover they are in over their heads as the body-count keeps rising.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-05-12
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Lost in the City of Sarzana
1980-01-09
Lost in the City of Sarzana
Overview: The film is set in the period of fascism and is represented through the story of the general inspector Vincenzo Trani.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-01-09
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The Knight, Death and the Devil
1983-01-01
The Knight, Death and the Devil
Overview: A family of the three fall into a dark and disturbing nightmare after meeting the mysterious Orlok and the seductive punk girl Patty. Adapted from the 1926 novella Dream Story by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Cronache del '22
1961-11-23
Cronache del '22
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-23
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Buona parte di Paolina
1973-04-01
Buona parte di Paolina
Overview: Paulina, sister of Napoleon I, is married to Camillo Borghese, presented as a helpless coward. She is eager to offer herself to all the young people that propose to her, and performs naked in front of the Roman people flocking to the walls of Villa Borghese, which she turned into a private residence. She also poses half naked for the famous statue of Canova, who is also presented as a effeminate and scoundrel. When her reputation as a depraved spreads, on the advice of the Pope, she is segregated away from all the men. when the French troops deport from Rome the Pope and the cardinals as well, Paulina sees prostitution as the only way to find herself some "fresh meat". Finally after seven years villa Borghese is reopened to the public, as Paulina goes back to Paris, to the great relief of the Roman people and the clerical circles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-01
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Payment in Blood
1967-04-14
Payment in Blood
Overview: Chamaco finds himself on the wrong end of a firing squad after tracking an ex-Confederate to interrogate him about General Beauregard's missing gold. He's saved by a stranger who calls himself Stuart Byrnes. Stuart claims to know the location of Beauregard's strongbox, and so Chamaco takes him to Blake's camp. After a sort of initiation by the gang, Stuart leads Blake's men back across the border to Durango to retrieve the gold.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-14
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