Salvatore Billa
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 31, 1943
Deathday: May 22, 2006
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Known For
The Second Wedding Night
2005-11-11
The Second Wedding Night
Overview: When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance scattered across the countryside finds a new purpose in his lonely life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-11-11
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Shoot First, Die Later
1974-07-12
Shoot First, Die Later
Overview: When mobsters try to put an honest policeman on the payroll, he seeks revenge on the mob. But, he soon learns that his actions, however honest, have dire consequences.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-07-12
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Ginger and Fred
1986-01-13
Ginger and Fred
Overview: Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety show.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-01-13
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24 Hours... Not a Minute More
1973-08-01
24 Hours... Not a Minute More
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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Rulers of the City
1976-12-03
Rulers of the City
Overview: Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan. Together, they will con mob boss Manzari out of a fortune, after which they can retire and live in luxury. Manzari, however, is not about to let them go so easily.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-12-03
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The Big Racket
1976-08-12
The Big Racket
Overview: Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the threat of violence, no one dares to act, except for a restaurant owner who is forced by Palmieri to tell the truth.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-12
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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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Adiós, Sabata
1970-09-30
Adiós, Sabata
Overview: Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find it is not full of gold but of sand, and that the gold was taken by Austrian Colonel Skimmel. So Sabata plans to steal back the gold.
Genres: Action Western War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-30
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The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist
1977-02-03
The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist
Overview: A vengeful criminal targets the inspector who put him away, but the inspector survives and fakes his death. Ignoring orders to flee, he sets out to bring the fugitive back to justice.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-03
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Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold
1971-08-13
Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold
Overview: After witnessing the brutal murder of his entire family by Native Americans as a child, Jeremiah Bridger becomes a merciless Indian-killer and scalp hunter. After saving the life of a beautiful Native American girl named Tune, however, the lone and silent gunman slowly reconsiders his hatred. He starts to doubt his former persuasion, that it was really Indians, who killed his family, and soon has to find out that a greedy and unscrupulous landowner usually blames Native Americans for his own crimes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-13
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The Unholy Four
1970-03-11
The Unholy Four
Overview: A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arrive at a village where two warring families recognize him. Apparently he has a reputation for being a fast gun, and he has been paid to kill a man - who says he is his father. His younger brother is jealous of the attention the prodigal son receives, and things come to a dramatic end.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-11
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The Girl in Room 2A
1974-07-01
The Girl in Room 2A
Overview: A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the cult's next victim.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-07-01
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From Corleone to Brooklyn
1979-04-13
From Corleone to Brooklyn
Overview: Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his prisoner face a series of traps set up by the Mafia.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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Manhunt in the City
1975-05-08
Manhunt in the City
Overview: A man's daughter is killed by thieves during a bank robbery. Due to the incompetence of the corrupt authorities, he decides to take to law into his own hands and track down the killers.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-05-08
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A Man Called Magnum
1977-08-07
A Man Called Magnum
Overview: A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives from Milan to help clean-up Naples. His mission – find the drugs and stop the killing.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-07
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The Invisible Ones
1988-06-06
The Invisible Ones
Overview: At the beginning of the eighties, Sirio, a young worker of the Terni steelworks with a past in student protesting, decides to abandon his job to join an extreme left-wing group. Although he declares himself contrary to the armed struggle following the decision by some elements of the group to carry out terrorist actions, he is arrested upon being caught with his best friend Apache.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-06-06
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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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Gunmen and the Holy Ghost
1972-05-06
Gunmen and the Holy Ghost
Overview: The authorities of Springfield ask Spirito Santo/Holy Ghost, which in turn will require the help of Diego of Habsburg and his colourful gang, to eliminate the threat constituted by an elusive masked bandit – and arms dealer – known as Solitario.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-05-06
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Contraband
1980-08-08
Contraband
Overview: Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-08-08
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Django Challenges Sartana
1970-04-03
Django Challenges Sartana
Overview: Django comes to town to discover that his brother Steve, accused of robbing a bank, has been lynched. Django believes the real culprit is Sartana and challenges him to a duel. Just in time he discovers that the author of the crime is an important local figure and Django and Sartana join forces to punish him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-04-03
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The Son of the Sheik
1978-02-25
The Son of the Sheik
Overview: The old Emir of the Qudmar discovers he has a natural son in Italy. Secret agents and oil companies involve the man, an aspiring gas station, in the fight for the succession to the emirate.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-25
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The Gun
1978-09-07
The Gun
Overview: Luigi, a middle-aged engineer who, getting increasingly worried about the rising crime rate in his surroundings, follows the advice and example of his sleazy drinking cronies to arm himself with the titular weapon; the problem is that he starts carrying – and, occasionally, brandishing – it with him everywhere.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-09-07
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Circle of Fear
1992-08-27
Circle of Fear
Overview: Michael Woods stars as Tony Giordani, a narcotics agent who learns that his wife has been murdered while he is recuperating from an attack by a mysterious stranger. His boss thinks it's a Mafia vendetta, but Tony follows the clues to an empty house which his wife had been photographing on the day of her murder. There, he finds a burned corpse and several clues leading to the Full Moon Killer, who has been decapitating prostitutes around the city. The owner of the house is an insane countess, whose escape from an asylum leads to yet another murder. Before long, Tony and his partner, Lisa, with whom he is engaged in a passionate affair, find themselves targeted for murder unless they can solve the case.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-08-27
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The Persian Lamb Coat
1980-03-28
The Persian Lamb Coat
Overview: Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the famous place Ramazzini and has so many incidents that culminated with his arrest and the confiscation by the commissioner Juvet. Released, find randomly hospitality at the madame Lenormand and know the great painter Valentine. Both women are tied up, as a wife and lover, Maurice, in prison for robbery. A day Piero wears a mistake and the coat of astrakhan, Maurice, and then...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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Return of the Holy Ghost
1972-05-07
Return of the Holy Ghost
Overview: A crook masquerading as an Army Colonel in charge of gold shipments, replaces gold ingots with fakes. Spirito Santo is recruited to solve the case and make sure the gold gets through.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-05-07
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Count Tacchia
1982-12-23
Count Tacchia
Overview: In 1900 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized component of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows the cynical and ruthless Prince Torquato Terenzi, disappointed by life and progress, and also falls in love with the beautiful Duchess Elisa. When Prince Terenzi dies, Francesco realizes that he's not enriched for nothing with the inheritance, because the noble family is broke; so he enlistes himself for the war in Libya, but quickly returnes to Italy, disgusted by the atrocities of the fighting. His dream is to be a singer, and so he goes to America with the Duchess Elisa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-12-23
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The Bible: In the Beginning...
1966-09-28
The Bible: In the Beginning...
Overview: Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.
Genres: Adventure History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-28
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The Repenter
1985-11-15
The Repenter
Overview: A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-11-15
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Trastevere
1971-11-13
Trastevere
Overview: A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-13
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Grand Prix
1966-12-21
Grand Prix
Overview: The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate's wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant who has previously won two world titles.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Werewolf Woman
1976-03-18
Werewolf Woman
Overview: A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but then she is raped and her lover is murdered so she goes out for revenge.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-18
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Romeo and Juliet
1968-04-02
Romeo and Juliet
Overview: Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-02
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Beyond the Law
1968-04-10
Beyond the Law
Overview: A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-10
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Kidnap Syndicate
1975-08-27
Kidnap Syndicate
Overview: After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-27
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The Black Hand
1973-03-16
The Black Hand
Overview: Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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Gegè Bellavita
1979-04-13
Gegè Bellavita
Overview: Pregnant with their 10th child, Agata discovers that her lazy husband Gennaro betrays her cheerfully.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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Young, Violent, Dangerous
1976-09-02
Young, Violent, Dangerous
Overview: Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of paul’s girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). the group starts by robbing a gas station where paul guns down three innocent bystanders. When they later decide to rob a bank and a grocery store, paul ends up killing more people. It isn’t long before the entire police force is looking for the three criminals, who pick up the girl and hightail it to the Swiss border, killing everyone in their path.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-02
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Blindman
1971-11-15
Blindman
Overview: A blind, but deadly, gunman, is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands. His business partners double cross him, selling the women to bandit Domingo. Blindman heads into Mexico in pursuit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-15
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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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Street People
1976-03-30
Street People
Overview: A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-30
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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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Il bambino e il poliziotto
1989-12-20
Il bambino e il poliziotto
Overview: Carlo, a police officer, after intercepting a call conducts a drug bust at a private party at the upper class apartment of Rosanna Clerici and she is arrested. Just as the police and party guests are leaving, Giulio, Rosanna's six-year-old son, comes out of his room and asks Carlo where his mother is. Seeing that Carlo is the person responsible for his mother's arrest, Giulio tags along with him until his mother is freed. Carlo does everything possible to have Social Services or somebody look after the kid but is told by the Courts that he is the best candidate for his custody until a better one is found. Even though Giulio manages to turn Carlo's life inside out he ends up getting to like the kid and falling for the kid's mother, Rosanna, while she is in prison. It ends with Rosanna being released from prison and the three of them going out for dinner.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-12-20
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The Star Maker
1995-09-21
The Star Maker
Overview: The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-09-21
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Excellent Cadavers
1999-10-16
Excellent Cadavers
Overview: Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.
Genres: Drama Thriller History TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-10-16
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The Voice of the Moon
1990-03-05
The Voice of the Moon
Overview: A parable on the whisperings of the soul that only madmen and vagabonds are capable of hearing. Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a mental asylum, and former prefect Gonnella wander through the countryside and discover a dystopia made of television commercials, beauty pageants, rock music, Catholicism, and pagan rituals.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-05
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Li chiamarono... briganti!
1999-05-28
Li chiamarono... briganti!
Overview: The story of a group of brigands who fought against Victor Emmanuel II during Italian unification.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-05-28
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Once Upon a Time in America
1984-05-23
Once Upon a Time in America
Overview: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-23
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Gangs of New York
2002-12-14
Gangs of New York
Overview: In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.
Genres: Drama History Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-14
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Ironmaster
1983-03-10
Ironmaster
Overview: A tale that takes place at the dawn of history. The movie tells the story of a tribe that discovers how to fashion weapons out of iron and use them for their own survival. However, the creation of iron also causes the tribe to battle for possession of the new weapons.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-03-10
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop
1976-08-27
Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Overview: A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-27
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The Godfather Part III
1990-12-25
The Godfather Part III
Overview: In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-25
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My Darling, My Dearest
1982-04-03
My Darling, My Dearest
Overview: Gennarino Laganà is a poor Sicilian who struggles with menial jobs to support his family, while his parents pressure him to seek his fortune in the North. Gennarino would never leave his beloved island if he had not stumbled into a love affair with Donna Egeria, wife of the Mafia boss Don Mimì. To escape certain revenge, he boards a goods train. In a dream, Saint Totino appears to him and promises him protection in exchange for a regulated life. He thus arrives in Milan, where he meets Armida, a woman of the streets, who takes him into her home and makes him her protector and lover. But San Totino appears again to Gennarino and reproaches him for being a kept man: he must work and Armida must change her life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-04-03
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La prova d'amore
1974-01-01
La prova d'amore
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Destruction Force
1977-10-01
Destruction Force
Overview: A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes in search of a suspect, Lanza, to avenge the death of his boss. Ghini's search leads him to Belli, a Sicilian gangster and 'Trashy', the dirty leader of a gang of killers. The action is violent as both police and criminals track down Belli who still finds some time to attempt a couple of robberies...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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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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Fear in the City
1976-09-14
Fear in the City
Overview: The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-14
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Sotto a chi tocca!
1972-10-24
Sotto a chi tocca!
Overview: Straccio, a young acrobat, wants to free his beloved Julia, held prisoner in the tyrant's castle. He designs a good plan, and develops it with the help of his three friends, Pietro, Bitonto, and Gatto Mammone. When he thinks he achieved both his ends - overthrowing Fregonese from power, and winning Julia's love - he finds that his countrymen cupidity for the tyrant's gold is more difficult to deal with.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-24
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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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The Miser
1990-04-06
The Miser
Overview: Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-04-06
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Io e Dio
1970-07-01
Io e Dio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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Blood Brothers
1974-02-23
Blood Brothers
Overview: Set in Naples at the end of the 19th century, I Guappi tells the story of a strange friendship between the powerful and charismatic Camorra boss, Don Gaetano (Fabio Testi), and one of the many scugnizzi who grew up on the streets, Nicola Bellizzi (Franco Nero). Nicola, thanks to Don Gaetano's protection, becomes first an honoured picciotto of the Camorra and then a lawyer. He tries to break away from his 'family', but falls back into a life of crime and violence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-23
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The Hawk and the Dove
1981-03-21
The Hawk and the Dove
Overview: Fabio Testi is the politician who finds himself descending into a world of drugs and crime when he encounters Lara Wendel. A mixture of crime and old-fashioned melodrama all set to songs from Neil Diamond!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-03-21
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Loaded Guns
1975-01-18
Loaded Guns
Overview: An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-18
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Magnum Cop
1978-02-03
Magnum Cop
Overview: A low-rent private investigator and former cop is sent to Austria on a job, and while there sees a number of seemingly unrelated coincidences that lead him into a strange web of corruption and decadence.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-03
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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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Calling All Police Cars
1975-08-28
Calling All Police Cars
Overview: Story about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his class status and wealth.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-28
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I Am the Law
1977-09-23
I Am the Law
Overview: Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-09-23
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Year of the Gun
1991-09-10
Year of the Gun
Overview: American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill David, he and his photojournalist friend must struggle to stay alive.
Genres: Action Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-10
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Fantozzi to the Rescue
1990-12-21
Fantozzi to the Rescue
Overview: Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Magnificat
1993-04-09
Magnificat
Overview: During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-04-09
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The Boss
1973-02-01
The Boss
Overview: A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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Fear in the City
1981-11-01
Fear in the City
Overview: Gianni Manera writes, directs and stars in this violent U.S. based story of Mafia members and Black gangsters fighting for turf.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-11-01
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Savage Three
1975-09-20
Savage Three
Overview: By day, Ovidio (Joe Dallesandro) and his two friends work at a data center. After work, they blow off steam by committing random acts of savage violence, swiftly graduating from sparking a riot at a football game to vehicle theft, rape, and murder. The police are convinced this recent spate of crimes is politically motivated, but world-weary veteran Commissario Santaga (Enrico Maria Salerno) suspects a far more terrifying explanation: that these young men are motivated by nothing more than boredom and disaffection at civilized society. As Ovidio's behavior escalates, a psychological game of cat-and-mouse ensues between the two adversaries, building towards a shocking final confrontation.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-20
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Brothers Till We Die
1977-08-18
Brothers Till We Die
Overview: Vincenzo 'hunchback' plans a robbery on a armored police van with his gang. Once the job is done, his gang try to kill him and absconds with the loot. Vincenzo hides in the sewers before looking up his friend Monezza who the police later interrogate for his involvement with vincenzo. Meanwhile, Vincenzo is getting revenge on his gang by killing them off one at the time in his various brutal ways.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-18
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