Lina Franchi
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Assault on the State Treasure
1967-08-04
Assault on the State Treasure
Overview: Twenty million dollars are going to be transferred from an Arab central bank to a British oil company. Four among the biggest criminal of the world are in charge to rob it. An undefined intelligence agency tries to stop them. An infiltrator is not sure for who is working. A complicate twist is waiting beyond the corner and will include a love affair too.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-04
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La Cage aux Folles II
1980-12-10
La Cage aux Folles II
Overview: In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm. Now on the run from ruthless agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm, with Albin posing as Renato's wife. Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these relentless spies or does he have to sustain this charade - as a woman - forever?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-10
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The Italian Connection
1972-09-02
The Italian Connection
Overview: When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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Romulus and Remus: The Story of Two Sons of a Wolf
1976-01-29
Romulus and Remus: The Story of Two Sons of a Wolf
Overview: The history of Rome revisited by the group of Bagaglino (Franco, Montesano, Castellacci and Pingitore). Romulus kills Remus, but also manages to get rid of him. The sister continues to bother him in the ghost robes. When Romulus founded Rome and abducted the Sabine, dies, hell, he is received, needless to say, the petulantissimo Remo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-29
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The Cop in Blue Jeans
1976-03-11
The Cop in Blue Jeans
Overview: A top undercover cop finds and arrests a series of purse snatchers until he discovers an American at the top of an evil ring of thieves.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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Twice a Judas
1968-08-30
Twice a Judas
Overview: Luke Barrett, having lost his memory due to an accident, does not realize that Dingus had killed his wife and brother to take possession of the Barretts' land and money. At first Luke trusts him, but while looking for his forgotten identity he discovers the truth.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-30
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Quintana: Dead or Alive
1969-06-13
Quintana: Dead or Alive
Overview: Don Juan, the governor of a Mexican province, arrests Manuel, the fiancé of the beautiful heiress, Virginia. When Quintana frees Manuel, Don Juan kidnaps Virginia to force her hand in marriage. The ceremony is interrupted in a violent battle.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-06-13
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The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine
1974-03-26
The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine
Overview: Lucita has been locked away in a convent by her family in order to keep her away from her lover, Esteban. The pair make plans to elope, but Esteban is accused of heresy before Lucita can escape. Hiding in the convent, Esteban discovers the horrifying depravity of the covent's abbess, Sister Incarnation. Can Esteban rescue his love from this madhouse before the inquisitor discovers what is going on and has everyone executed?
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-26
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And His Name Was Holy Ghost
1971-11-26
And His Name Was Holy Ghost
Overview: After gaining his freedom with the help of an old friend of his father, Spirito Santo/Holy Ghost recovers in an abandoned mine the gold fruit of a previous robbery and makes preparations for a new job recruiting a strange sacristan armed with a machine-gun. Meanwhile a Native American sheriff is on his trail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-26
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Trinity Plus the Clown and a Guitar
1975-04-04
Trinity Plus the Clown and a Guitar
Overview: A town awaits the arrival of a gunslinger to help defeat a gang of bandits, but a trio of misfits is mistaken for the anticipated relief.
Genres: Western Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-04-04
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I'm Photogenic
1980-03-21
I'm Photogenic
Overview: Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to further their own careers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-21
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Horse Fever
1976-10-29
Horse Fever
Overview: Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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Long Live the Seal
1982-03-28
Long Live the Seal
Overview: Andrea, a nice girl, move from Veneto (north of Italy) to Roma. She is employed as a nurse in a medical practice. She soon is involved in a never-ending game of misunderstanding, couples exchange, sexual seductions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-03-28
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Cafè Express
1980-02-16
Cafè Express
Overview: An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-16
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The Novice
1975-01-01
The Novice
Overview: A young man comes back to his provincial home town to visit his dying uncle who is being attended to by a night nurse and novice nun. Before long, the young man develops a deep longing for the young, beautiful nun.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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My Father's Nurse
1976-01-28
My Father's Nurse
Overview: An old man's spirits are lifted greatly when he finds that his new personal nurse is a spectacularly beautiful, volcanically sexy young woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-28
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Talcum Powder
1982-01-22
Talcum Powder
Overview: Sergio Benvenuti is a shy seller of contracts for a Roman company of music, but because of his character he cannot find even a customer, so he asks for help from a fellow named Nadia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-01-22
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L'assistente sociale tutta pepe e tutta sale
1981-03-18
L'assistente sociale tutta pepe e tutta sale
Overview: Nadia is a social worker who is trying to keep the residents of a local slum in line. Unfortunately she keeps neglecting her work and fantasizing about a life as a pop-star. When she falls for one of the residents in question, a small time crook called Bel Ami, she ends up an accomplice in a convoluted heist involving a holy Catholic relic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-03-18
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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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Italian Sex
1974-06-11
Italian Sex
Overview: A sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it reveals that she has just posed as a prostitute for several months to do sociological research for her thesis. She relates various stories of her experiences to her salivating thesis committee and a large audience of curious on-lookers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-11
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Concorde Affair
1979-03-23
Concorde Affair
Overview: A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-23
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Where Can You Go Without the Little Vice?
1979-08-04
Where Can You Go Without the Little Vice?
Overview: Two detectives are hired to discover if a rich industrialist is having an affair. The detectives pose as a gay butler and as a female cook in order to spy on all of the happenings within the house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-04
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Soap and Water
1983-10-27
Soap and Water
Overview: A school janitor pretends to be a priest in order to give private lessons to a young top model.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-27
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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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The Heroin Busters
1977-08-13
The Heroin Busters
Overview: Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport security, and Interpol's main man, Mike Hamilton, is at his wits' end. Fed up to the back teeth with the local police force's incompetence, his only hope is to rely on one of his own men, Fabio, an officer so deep undercover that no-one but Hamilton knows who he really is. Even as Fabio gains the trust of cartel leader Gianni, however, the dealers are edging ever closer to the truth, and when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted as Fabio finds himself alone in a desperate fight to survive.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-13
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Tepepa
1969-01-31
Tepepa
Overview: The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-31
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Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?
1968-12-31
Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?
Overview: Using interviews and filmed reconstructions, the director analyzes eroticism from the period of breastfeeding, in which the newborn feels pleasure from contact with the mother's breast until reaching adulthood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-31
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Blood and Diamonds
1978-03-17
Blood and Diamonds
Overview: A man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were to blame for his arrest. The prize for this deadly fight is a large cache of diamonds.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-03-17
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The Last Desperate Hours
1974-11-28
The Last Desperate Hours
Overview: Paolo Mancuso is a gang boss whose rivals want dead. During a failed assassination attempt, he is bitten by an infected lab rat. In the short time he has left to live, he tracks down his enemies and kills them one by one.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-28
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A Man on His Knees
1979-04-13
A Man on His Knees
Overview: Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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Like Rabid Dogs
1976-08-02
Like Rabid Dogs
Overview: Two police officers attempt to hunt down and arrest a trio of rich kids who rob, assault and kill for fun.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-02
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Counselor at Crime
1973-08-30
Counselor at Crime
Overview: When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the strong support of his family connections in Sicily that Don Antonio is able to survive the mêlée and come out on top. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson becomes his leader's "consigliere," or Counselor at Crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-30
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Tutti a squola
1979-09-01
Tutti a squola
Overview: The upright prof. Filippo Bottini Said Pippo is an "old-fashioned" teacher in a Roman school. He would like a Heart book-style school but clashes with the harsh reality of modern teaching and in particular with the turmoil of the seventies: strikes, occupations, armed students, feminist colleagues. Overwhelmed by events, he will find himself more and more in the maelstrom of the post-1968 protest until he becomes a drug courier. He will be arrested and incarcerated, but thanks to the release on bail provided by his colleague Lalla, with whom he had in the meantime started a relationship, he will be able to redeem himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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A Policewoman in New York
1981-11-21
A Policewoman in New York
Overview: A Texan travels to Rome to hire two police officers to impersonate a mobster's girlfriend and his most ruthless hitman.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-11-21
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Confessions of a Lady Cop
1976-02-12
Confessions of a Lady Cop
Overview: Gianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy with a kickback from him. She is a beautiful woman (she generously sheds clothes during the film) and has to overcome her male colleagues prejudices, but she gains their respect through a series of brilliant operations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-12
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Sing Sing
1983-10-15
Sing Sing
Overview: Eduardo accidentally discovers that he is adopted. His real father is dying, but before his death he said that his mother was the "Queen of England", failing to clarify that this is the nickname of Italian prostitute. But Eduardo is already rushing to the capital of England...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-15
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The Other Canterbury Tales
1972-09-08
The Other Canterbury Tales
Overview: Four stories about unfaithful wives and jealous husbands.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-08
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Deadly Chase
1978-12-08
Deadly Chase
Overview: Police Commissioner Verrazzano (Luc Merenda) is visited by charming Giulia Medici (Janet Agren) who claims that her brother, banker Valter Medici didn't commit suicide but was murdered. The investigation leads Verrazzano to dark secrets of loan sharks.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-08
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Shotgun
1968-03-01
Shotgun
Overview: In a small western town our hero Durango delivers his prisoner to the jailhouse and then goes to the local saloon where the lady saloon owner Joanne has eyes only for him. But Durango only has eyes for his bride-to-be Lucy. Four masked men attack Lucy's father's farm and steal Lucy's dowry. They kill Lucy and her parents after the father strips the face mask from one of the bandits. A pocket watch is stripped from one of the bandits by Lucy's father and this is the only clue that Durango will have to revenge his love... With Joanne's help can Durango avenge himself?
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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Shoot, Gringo... Shoot!
1968-08-31
Shoot, Gringo... Shoot!
Overview: Chad Stark is offered his life and a nice ammount of dollars if he is to bring back the runaway son of mexican land-owner Gutierrez . This son, Fidel, teams up with an outlaw band lead by a former military man going by the name The Major. When Stark finds Fidel he is reintroduced to an old acquaintance which makes his job of returning the son a lot more difficult.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-31
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Colt in the Hand of the Devil
1967-11-24
Colt in the Hand of the Devil
Overview: Pat Scotty is hired to eliminate a gang of Mexican bandits led by El Condor. Scotty craftily earns the trust of the bandits, enabling him to trap them all, but in the meantime, genuine friendship and respect have developed between him and El Condor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-11-24
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Mother Ebe
1985-04-08
Mother Ebe
Overview: Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-04-08
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Naked Fists
1974-04-25
Naked Fists
Overview: A young man comes out of a reform school properly reformed, but life outside will bring him to the underworld again. His second reform will be short-lived.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-25
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Who's Afraid of Zorro
1975-07-02
Who's Afraid of Zorro
Overview: Spain, occupied by the French. Zorro, the intrepid swordsman, has an accident. As a result, his friend, Father Donato, is forced by oath to find a temporary replacement for him.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-07-02
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Hit Squad
1976-10-29
Hit Squad
Overview: A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
1968-03-28
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
Overview: A man, released after a jail term for a crime he did not commit, raises a gang to go after the man who framed him.
Genres: Western Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-28
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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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Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
1972-02-24
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
Overview: A maniac on the loose is committing savage acts of slaughter, and one survivor may be the only key to unmasking the serial slayer known as the Half-Moon Killer. The mysterious half-moon lockets he leaves with his victims could be the only key to unraveling his sinister motives, but will that be enough before he completes his ice-cold plot to claim his intended seven victims?
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-24
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Slaughter Hotel
1971-08-02
Slaughter Hotel
Overview: A masked killer stalks an institution for mentally disturbed rich women.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-02
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The 5-Man Army
1969-10-16
The 5-Man Army
Overview: At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-16
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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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His Name Was Holy Ghost
1972-03-30
His Name Was Holy Ghost
Overview: The Holy Ghost is a supernatural gunfighter dressed in white and with a dove sitting on his shoulder. With his sidekick, the Holy Ghost rescues some farmers from the fortified prison of the evil General Ubarte, then raids the castle again for gold treasure aided by some local prostitutes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-30
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