Orazio Orlando
Biography: Orazio Orlando (14 June 1933 – 18 December 1990) was an Italian film, stage and television actor. He is best remembered for his film roles in Elio Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) and Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973), Pupi Avati's Help Me Dream (1981) and Alberto Bevilacqua's Woman of Wonders, or La donna delle meraviglie (original title) (1985). At 57 years old, he died of a heart attack on the Teatro Flaiano stage in Rome during the rehearsal of the play Ad Eva aggiungi Eva.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 14, 1937
Deathday: December 18, 1990
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The Trojan Women
1967-02-17
The Trojan Women
Overview: In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the ancient theater. He does not use costume or set design, but is based only on the simple performance of the actors, highlighted by the shooting technique. The absolute sense of tragedy is perceived by the public through emotional engagement and imagination. So, the Trojan war is all the wars and the pain of the Trojan women is the pain of all the victims of any war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-17
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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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The Conjugal Debt
1970-09-28
The Conjugal Debt
Overview: Romolo, a man lazy and devoid of any interest, has been married for ten years with Ines, the owner of a small service station. Tired of supporting his despotic and demanding wife, Romolo searches for a way out and finds it when Orazio, a former fellow soldier, who lives by his wits, invites him to roam freely with him around the world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-28
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black
1974-03-29
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Overview: Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.
Genres: Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-29
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Lovers and Other Relatives
1974-06-06
Lovers and Other Relatives
Overview: Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same time he's caring for a large number of sexually unsatisfied women who are coming for the weekend without their husbands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-06
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Traffic Jam
1979-01-12
Traffic Jam
Overview: A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-12
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The Fiend
1977-01-10
The Fiend
Overview: A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-10
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Waterloo
1970-10-26
Waterloo
Overview: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-26
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Un'ombra su Maigret
1964-12-27
Un'ombra su Maigret
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-27
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Policewoman
1974-10-24
Policewoman
Overview: A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-24
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The Handsome Devil
1974-06-04
The Handsome Devil
Overview: Deep South Italian seventies. The performing and penniless sales representative "Tano" Avallone, fell in love with the beautiful Mariangela, sixteen-year-old daughter of the widowed lawyer "Totonno" Fortis Pantaleo. In order to approach the girl, he enters the graces of the professional, posing as his childhood friend and saying he is willing to eliminate the elderly Donna Mercedes, mother of these, so that he can inherit the substances. Guest of the family, Tano finds himself involved in a whirlwind of feminine attentions, including the free-range governess Immaculate, unnecessarily coveted by the lawyer, and the servant Sisina, desired by the parish priest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-04
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Italy is Rotten
1976-04-13
Italy is Rotten
Overview: Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-13
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Speed Driver
1980-12-04
Speed Driver
Overview: Rudi is forced into racing for a kingpin drug dealer, but after the murder of his brother he swears revenge.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-12-04
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Mia famiglia
1964-04-15
Mia famiglia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-04-15
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Orders are Orders
1972-04-13
Orders are Orders
Overview: Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that orders her to perform actions out of the ordinary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-13
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The Boxer
1972-02-02
The Boxer
Overview: Boxer Teddy Wilcox leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox's first fight, Nick receives a threat-- Wilcox loses, or Nick will die.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-02
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The Superwitness
1971-03-16
The Superwitness
Overview: A pimp is suspected of murdering his lover. He is convicted based on the testimony of a single witness. The woman begins doubting her memory of the event and then, her feelings towards the convict...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-16
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Amore mio, uccidimi!
1973-08-20
Amore mio, uccidimi!
Overview: Manny Baxter is furious: his wife has run away with her lover Guido. Manny is rich and jealous and will use all the power of his money to prevent his wife Laureen and Guido from being happy together. And, first things first, he will keep them from leaving Manila where they are now for Bangkok as they are planning.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-20
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Unfaithfully Yours
1982-05-04
Unfaithfully Yours
Overview: An omnibus of two different stories: In the first a divorced couple (actress wife and director husband) refresh their old passions via their common flat. In the second a well-to-do dentist-wife is attacked by her petty bourgeois family when she writes a sex novel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-05-04
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Latin Male Wanted
1977-02-28
Latin Male Wanted
Overview: A film in 5 segments. The first is about a trafficker who takes a German tourist to an illegal sex market in a working-class neighborhood. The second involves an elderly man courting a young adult film star. The third, a thief seduces a man's wife. The fourth involves an Italian immigrant in Germany who is fired and subsequently offered work as a porn actor. Finally the last segment involves a baron who convinces his wife into a swinging.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-28
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Woman of Wonders
1985-09-06
Woman of Wonders
Overview: In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not yet over it, director Alberto Bevilacqua has used his own experiences to fashion a conventional tale about a search for the "perfect woman." His mettlesome neighbor Luisa (Lina Sastri) just will not leave him alone; she was the reason why he ended his marriage to Maura (Claudia Cardinale), but Alberto considers their affair dead and buried. Recently, an anonymous "dream woman" has been calling him for some seductive phone exchanges. As he searches out the identity of the mystery caller he is also distracted by Luisa who starts to insinuate herself back into his affections. Sooner or later, Alberto will just have to decide how to handle his love life, which in the end may only be mesmerizing to himself alone.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-09-06
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Tigers in Lipstick
1979-03-16
Tigers in Lipstick
Overview: 8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-16
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The Shatterer
1987-06-13
The Shatterer
Overview: Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by Sicilian mobsters. This was a co-production between Italy and Japan's Toho Studios.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-13
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Evil Thoughts
1976-10-26
Evil Thoughts
Overview: Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milan, with a wonderful wife and a high social life. But Mario has a problem: every time he sees his wife talking to one of their friends he immediately visualises them in a hot affair. His jealousy spirals out of control, until a young man who hides inside their flat crosses his path.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-26
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Property Is No Longer a Theft
1973-10-03
Property Is No Longer a Theft
Overview: A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business unscrupulously.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-03
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Help Me Dream
1981-03-26
Help Me Dream
Overview: In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-03-26
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The Flower in His Mouth
1975-10-30
The Flower in His Mouth
Overview: A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the town is hiding some very sinister secrets.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-30
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It Was I
1973-03-15
It Was I
Overview: A humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder of a soprano from La Scala.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-15
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Highway Racer
1977-10-19
Highway Racer
Overview: Maurizio Merli stars as a hot-shot police driver who has more guts than brains, often landing him in hot water with his middle-aged mentor, who was once a legendary police interceptor responsible for numerous large scale arrests.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-19
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Corleone
1978-11-10
Corleone
Overview: Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-11-10
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The Dolls
1965-01-27
The Dolls
Overview: This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-01-27
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Stream Line
1976-05-06
Stream Line
Overview: Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is entrusted by a priest, Don Luigi.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-06
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Anima mia
1974-01-24
Anima mia
Overview: Insatiable playboy Marco Donati decides to marry his latest flame, the beautiful Francesca. When the news gets into local newspapers, many of his former lovers are annoyed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-24
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La paura numero uno
1964-03-18
La paura numero uno
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-18
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