Giuseppe Castellano
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Deathday: March 01, 2010
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Special Killers
1973-08-11
Special Killers
Overview: Sandro, a detective, finds his wife strangled. His girl-friend Tiffany, who works as photographer, makes a "Blow up" from a photo, what Sandro finds beside the victim. Sandro and Tiffany are looking for the woman on the photo, Laura. They finds her in a Night Club in Rome...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-11
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
1970-02-27
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Overview: An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-02-27
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Caliber 9
1972-02-15
Caliber 9
Overview: Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-15
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The Last Traitor
1971-03-12
The Last Traitor
Overview: Wedding guests awaiting the arrival of the bride suddenly become nervous when they notice that the table has been laid for 13... an ominous number. Their worries are confirmed when the bridal carriage pulls up outside bearing the lifeless bride and the corpses of three other guests. The suspicions rise between the thirteen guests, and the identity of the murderer is a shocking surprise.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-12
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The Taming of the Shrew
1967-03-08
The Taming of the Shrew
Overview: Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-08
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Death Rides a Horse
1967-08-31
Death Rides a Horse
Overview: Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-31
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Almost Human
1974-08-08
Almost Human
Overview: A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-08
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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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Emergency Squad
1974-04-24
Emergency Squad
Overview: A ruthless Interpol agent goes after the man who killed his wife in Stelvio Massi's crime thriller. A gutsy robber named Marseilles pulls off a tricky heist, but he's no match for agent Ravelli, a maverick who can't control his bloodlust. And this time, it's personal: Years earlier, the daring thief murdered the operative's wife in cold blood.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-24
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Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
1970-12-24
Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming
Overview: Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a million dollars in gold and two million dollars in counterfeit money. Naturally, a bunch of other treacherous folks who include conniving widow Senora Manassas, shrewd fellow gunslinger Grand Full, and the vicious and unhinged General Monk are also looking to get their greedy hands on said fortune.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-24
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Kill Rommel!
1969-09-06
Kill Rommel!
Overview: During WWII, US Lieutenant Morris and British captain Hull are assigned in a mission to kill Rommel.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-06
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Day of Judgment
1971-09-09
Day of Judgment
Overview: Hardin is out for revenge after his wife and child are killed and his home burned. He hunts down the gang using his son's toy drummer to signal the shootout while also in search for their leader.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-09
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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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Macho Killers
1977-05-12
Macho Killers
Overview: El Macho is forced to impersonate a dead outlaw killed while stealing a gold shipment. With the help of Kelly he’s able to locate Hidalgo and his outlaw gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-05-12
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Pecos Cleans Up
1967-03-23
Pecos Cleans Up
Overview: Three musicians arrive in a Mexican village destroyed by El Supremo and learn, from the only survivor, of the lost treasure of Montezuma hidden in an Aztec temple. Along comes Pecos and the search is on. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-03-23
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Il vostro superagente Flit
1966-09-10
Il vostro superagente Flit
Overview: Eurospy movie.
Genres: Action Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-10
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The Dirty Outlaws
1967-09-30
The Dirty Outlaws
Overview: An outlaw masquerades as a blind man's son in order to trick him into a cache of Gold. After a while he grows attached to the family and all goes well until the outlaws gang comes through town...
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-30
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No Graves on Boot Hill
1968-11-23
No Graves on Boot Hill
Overview: Three men meet in the same prison and in their cell they find a Mexican boy condemned to death for murder. One night the three convicts are mysteriously released by a priest and the father of the Mexican boy who promises them a reward of $30,000 if they can find the real murderer within ten days. Certain that the Mexican boy is not guilty, Reno and the others organize a plan which leads to the unmasking of the real killers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-23
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The War Devils
1969-12-19
The War Devils
Overview: A German Captain and an American Captain help each other survive the North African desert during WWII. They meet again a year later during combat operations in France.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-19
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Gun Shy Piluk
1968-03-07
Gun Shy Piluk
Overview: A sheriff is killed by the leader of the local bad guys, and the father of the sheriff is not to pleased. The father, Mr. Piluk, is the local undertaker and also plays a mean violin when he is in a bad mood.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-07
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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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The Battle of El Alamein
1969-01-01
The Battle of El Alamein
Overview: June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Dove Must Not Fly
1970-03-11
The Dove Must Not Fly
Overview: An undercover Nazi in Libya aims to steal fuel and deliver it to a specific location in the desert where an Italian bomber would refuel on its way to Allied target.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-11
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Hole in the Forehead
1968-05-25
Hole in the Forehead
Overview: A stranger and a bandit seek out a trio of playing cards that will lead them to hidden treasure.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-05-25
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Ciccio Forgives, I Don't
1968-09-26
Ciccio Forgives, I Don't
Overview: Franco and Ciccio are small time horse thieves who get involved with the bandit, El Diablo, and two former members of his gang who are after his gold. Fortunately two pretty, sharp shooting saloon girls come to the bumbling duo's rescue.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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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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Son of Django
1967-05-26
Son of Django
Overview: The son of Django searches for the murderer of his father and is thereby involved in a war between two factions headed by former acquaintances of his famous parent.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-26
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The Last Killer
1967-08-10
The Last Killer
Overview: Ramon's parents are killed by men of landowner John Barrett. While trying to get revenge, Ramon is wounded but has saved the life of Rezza, an old disillusioned killer. While nursing his wounds, the men become reluctanfriends and Rezza teaches Ramon the art of shooting, surviving and the loneliness a killer has to bear. Ramon becomes threat for Barrett, the landowner engages Rezza to kill Ramon.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-10
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Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera
1969-09-19
Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera
Overview: Franco and Ciccio embark on a journey to find Pirate Flint's lost treasure, hunted by the fearsome Pirate Blackbeard.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-19
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When The Bell Tolls
1970-05-26
When The Bell Tolls
Overview: Italian World War II flick direted by Luigi Batzella.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-05-26
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The Killers Are Our Guests
1974-01-01
The Killers Are Our Guests
Overview: After a bungled diamond heist a trio of killers take refuge at the home of a country doctor and force him at gunpoint to attend to their mortally wounded colleague. They abuse the doctor and take sexual advantage of his wife. But everything is not as it seems.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Hell in Normandy
1968-08-13
Hell in Normandy
Overview: The movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation on Omaha Beach.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-13
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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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The Beast in Heat
1977-07-19
The Beast in Heat
Overview: In a remote village in occupied Europe, the SS pursue their inhuman treatment of captured partisans in efforts to force them to betray their comrades.... while Fraulein Krast, a sadistic biologist, concentrates her efforts on the womenfolk with refined tortures and humiliation, leaving them to the mercy of a sex-crazed half-man, half-beast she has created with experimental injections.... And as advancing Allied forces approach the village, Krast herself becomes a victim of her own fiendish rituals....
Genres: Horror Thriller War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-07-19
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Loggerheads
1978-09-28
Loggerheads
Overview: A comedy styled as a documentary about the rise of Adolf Hitler as well as the story of two brothers, one a magician and Nazi, the other an anarchist anti Nazi...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-09-28
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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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Overrun!
1970-01-03
Overrun!
Overview: When the German Afrika Korps smashes through the allied lines in North Africa in 1942 during World War Two; a group of British soldiers are determined to get back to their own lines. Picking up more allied survivors along the way, their journey is fraught with danger and Germans at every turn.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-03
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We Want the Colonels
1973-03-02
We Want the Colonels
Overview: Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-02
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The Biggest Battle
1978-02-07
The Biggest Battle
Overview: A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-07
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Charleston
1974-09-10
Charleston
Overview: Sonny, a New York wise guy, dreams of becoming a feared gangster. He runs errands for the mob and is rewarded by being given the control over Mulberry Street, which is a street that faces a boxing gym.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-10
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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 Price of Death
1971-09-17
The Price of Death
Overview: Four people are killed in a saloon hold-up. The townspeople pin the murders on local no-count black sheep Chester Conway. Lawyer Jeff Plummer and prostitute Polly Winters don't believe that Chester is guilty of these crimes, so they hire smooth and suave gunman Silver to prove Chester's innocence and find the real killers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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Syndicate Sadists
1975-08-16
Syndicate Sadists
Overview: A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-16
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Island of the Fishmen
1979-01-18
Island of the Fishmen
Overview: After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really doing, and why the prisoners keep disappearing mysteriously.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-18
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Skin 'em Alive
1978-05-25
Skin 'em Alive
Overview: This rare Italian action adventure tells the story of a broke man called Rudy, who goes into the African jungle to join his half-brother Franz. Franz is leader of a mercenary group that fights against native rebels, but Rudy only wants some money from his next of kin (on one occasion, he says: "You know I can't stand violence"). But Franz, a racist who sees Africans merely as animals, just wants him to leave again immediately. Then, Franz gets abducted and imprisoned by the rebels. Rudy joins forces with the other mercenaries, who are as fascist as Franz and like to kill Africans and rape their wives. He does so to make a deal with Franz as soon as they have freed him, but the mercenaries get attacked on more than one occasion by the natives.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-05-25
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The Sicilian Connection
1972-12-21
The Sicilian Connection
Overview: A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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Buckaroo: The Winchester Does Not Forgive
1967-10-28
Buckaroo: The Winchester Does Not Forgive
Overview: Al arrives in town which is ruled by Lash who has taken possession of one gold mine and is now aiming to get the other which is owned by old Johnny. Al is the only one to support Johnny but still the old man is ambushed and killed.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-10-28
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