Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Paolo Bonacelli (born February 28, 1939) is an Italian actor. He is best known for his performance as The Duke de Blangis in Pasolini's notorious Salò (1975). He can also be seen in Midnight Express (1978) and Caligula (1979), in which he plays the role of Cassius Chaerea. He also co-starred with Roberto Benigni in the films Johnny Stecchino and Night on Earth, both from 1991. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paolo Bonacelli, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 28, 1939
Deathday: N/A
Popularity:
1991-12-12
Overview: An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-12-12
Popularity:
1991-01-01
Overview: Martin Sheen stars as an American newsman in Rome who begins to investigate the appearance of several corpses found throughout Europe with their hands cut off. He soon uncovers not only plots of plutonium theft, but also of nuclear arms deals and dark political schemes.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
Popularity:
1993-12-12
Overview: Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind... A man of great faith, Abraham continues to believe in God even when He seems to have abandoned him.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-12-12
Popularity:
1990-04-30
Overview: March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and Sweden to Sint-Petersburg. The outlaws stand under the guidance of Vladimir J. Lenin. Two senior officers support the revolutionary bomb "to ensure that everything runs smoothly. Yet there are some unpleasant clashes between Socialists and enthusiastic workers who are worried about the war. During train travel there comes an end to Lenin's affair with the gracious Inessa, and his wife Nadja is prepared take back him. The triumphant entrance in St. Petersburg will exceed all expectations....
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-30
Popularity:
1994-10-13
Overview: A man enters a restaurant in Trastevere, in the suburbs of Rome, and asks the owner to cook him the superb bass he has just been given. He wants it served at the dinner gathering like every year the group of inseparable friends he is a member of. The others join him. The last to come is a lawyer who has just liquidated the succession of the one that will be missing tonight. The deceased leaves them an estate in Umbria provided they live there in community. What will the friends decide during this dinner like no other?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-10-13
Popularity:
1992-10-09
Overview: A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-10-09
Popularity:
1980-03-26
Overview: After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane, a stranger asks him to look after his briefcase until after they have landed. Alexandre agrees, but the stranger is shot dead soon after and Alexandre himself becomes the target of enemy agents who are keen to recover the briefcase...
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-26
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1979-08-14
Overview: After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-14
Popularity:
1991-10-24
Overview: Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-10-24
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2023-01-05
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-01-05
Popularity:
2010-08-31
Overview: Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-31
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1984-12-20
Overview: Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-12-20
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1982-09-16
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-16
Popularity:
1979-02-23
Overview: In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and wisdom of the peasants, and to overcome his isolation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-02-23
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1976-02-12
Overview: A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-12
Popularity:
1974-05-21
Overview: After a car accident, a professor, trapped and awaiting help, hears a student recount the life of Milarepa. The tale unfolds in three parts: dark vengeance, spiritual discipline, and ultimate transcendence, reflecting a journey of inner transformation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-05-21
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1985-04-08
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
Popularity:
2004-11-12
Overview: Giulio, a divorced middle-aged man, returns to the family villa in Tuscany where he spent his childhood holidays with his entire family, to arrange, with his brothers and cousins, for its sale. The house brings back memories of his youth and of the beautiful Anna, whom all her brothers pursued--but he was the one who ultimately won her over. Overcome with emotions, and now aware of the significance of the property, Giulio decides to buy all his relatives' shares and move back to the villa with his family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-11-12
Popularity:
1976-10-26
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
Popularity:
1989-03-22
Overview: The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a privileged and virile youth, a prisoner of war, an heir who turns away from his father and gives all to the poor, a beggar for others, and an inspiration to friends who accept the Gospels' life of poverty.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-03-22
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1986-01-24
Overview: After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow), she is saved from being raped by a Camorra boss as the gangster is suddenly killed. The killer escapes before Annunziata is able to see who it was. Following this murder are several others, and always with the same “signature” — a syringe in one of the testicles of the victims. As the gangsters continue to be killed off, the identity of the killer – or killers – slowly becomes obvious.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-01-24
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1968-04-25
Overview: A gang of prison inmates escape and rob the Royal Mint. They then sneak back to prison.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-25
Popularity:
1981-09-03
Overview: A man, mirroring the assassinated King, infiltrates a castle to kill the Queen but hesitates, leading to a deadly dare and revelation of shared history.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-09-03
Popularity:
1984-05-24
Overview: Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-05-24
Popularity:
2003-06-14
Overview: Achille, nine years old, intelligent, sympathetic, and stutterer. The parents decide to treat him and entrust him to Dr. Aglieri, who begins the therapy. Meanwhile the child knows other patients
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-06-14
Popularity:
1975-01-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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1966-09-23
Overview: A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-23
Popularity:
2023-10-31
Overview: One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At that moment, its commander Salvatore Todaro makes a decision that was destined to go down in history: to save the 26 shipwrecked Belgians who otherwise would have drowned in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean and disembark them at the nearest safe harbor. To make room for them on board his submarine, he is forced to navigate on the surface of the water for three days, visible to the enemy forces and endangering his life and that of his men.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-10-31
Popularity:
1984-10-30
Overview: An Italian businessman travels to Brazil looking for a new job. When things don't go his way, he becomes despondent until he meets a beautiful woman who reveals Rio de Janeiro's most magical, secret locales.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-10-30
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Overview: A documentary which explores the life and the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the greatest Italian directors, through archival footage and interviews.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date:
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1975-09-23
Overview: A group of outlaws takes a man's wife and child hostage. He must walk a fine line between working with the police to rescue his family and not angering the kidnappers to the point where they might hurt or kill them.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-09-23
Popularity:
1987-01-30
Overview: A biographical feature on the Italian literary giant, Gabriele D'Annunzio. Set in late 19th century Italy and France when the artistic style, Decadentismo, was beginning to take shape, the film focuses on D'Annunzio's life when he was already an established poet and journalist in Rome. A staunch opponent of democracy and commoners, he searches for passion and pleasure among the wealthy and noble. One such noblewoman Elvira Fraternali Leoni, serves as the muse for his first novel - The Pleasure (Il Piacere).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-01-30
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Overview:
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date:
Popularity:
1978-03-03
Overview: A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend Renato, and then with his young colleague, Elena.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-03-03
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Overview: When the original manuscript of The Divine Comedy emerges in the clutches of a black-market smuggling ring in New York City's dangerous underbelly, the mob calls weary scholar Nick to authenticate it. Overwhelmed by temptation, Nick defies the mafia and steals the manuscript. As he follows a dark and violent path from a metaphorical Hell into Paradise with his love Giulietta, a parallel tale unfolds: the odyssey of Dante himself, a man who, trapped in a loveless marriage with Gemma and bolstered only by his mentorship under an austere intellectual, escapes to Sicily and creates his masterpiece.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date:
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1980-03-28
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
Popularity:
1992-03-01
Overview:
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-03-01
Popularity:
1999-01-29
Overview: The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-01-29
Popularity:
1978-08-31
Overview: Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-31
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1982-01-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-01-01
Popularity:
1979-11-24
Overview: A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in him he is being threatened by mysterious assassins.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-11-24
Popularity:
1997-10-03
Overview: Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-10-03
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1988-02-19
Overview: A pacifist pest controller tries to catch the rat infesting a nuclear power plant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-02-19
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1972-03-03
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-03
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1981-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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1986-10-25
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-10-25
Popularity:
1976-04-02
Overview: Lago Maggiore, 1949: a failed bank manager, to revive his economic situation, tries to combine a marriage of interest for his daughter. Failing to do so, he then tries a robbery in his own bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-02
Popularity:
2016-03-24
Overview: In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate plan that will bring the great poet to his violent death.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-03-24
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1996-01-26
Overview: A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-01-26
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1971-01-22
Overview: A hooker, mother of two, leaves her abusing husband for a young boxer. On the street she gets assaulted and beaten by pimps.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-01-22
Popularity:
1990-01-01
Overview: In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two teenagers were living in an artificial paradise, maintained by electronic means, and once decide to leave that shelter and escape using that same medal - a mini video-disc - in search of outer-space freedom.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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2003-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-01
Popularity:
1987-02-27
Overview: Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-02-27
Popularity:
1995-12-14
Overview: Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wants to meet him at all costs. The second one wants to win back his wife who has left him because of his gambling problem.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-12-14
Popularity:
1973-11-29
Overview: Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to bring him on trial for 'heresy'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-29
Popularity:
1976-08-11
Overview: In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her brothers-in-law to prevent their father's remarriage, securing her inheritance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-11
Popularity:
1971-11-19
Overview: The love story between a free-spirited girl and a priest.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-19
Popularity:
1993-01-01
Overview: The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is awaiting for a total eclipse of the sun, that really happened during summer of '61, and it was was fully visible from Italy. He sees his family life, a young girl who is about to marry a man she doesn't love, an old man who has just died and whose relatives fight for his inheritance, a blind trumpet player who hopes to recover, his little friends...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-01-01
Popularity:
1974-09-28
Overview: Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's socialist politics and the activities of his father, a well known liberal social reformer, than the actual crime itself.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-28
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1982-04-14
Overview: Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson's remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story through the narratives of those who knew him best.
Genres: History TV Movie Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-04-14
Popularity:
1964-08-19
Overview: Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amount requested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-19
Popularity:
1965-12-30
Overview: Super 7 looks for a piece of a new metal hidden in a camera.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-30
Popularity:
2018-11-08
Overview: Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-11-08
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1994-08-10
Overview: Doctors at a rejuvenation clinic discover a formula that will prevent aging.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-08-10
Popularity:
1989-04-17
Overview: A thief caught red-handed tells the landlord a very strange fact that happened to him looking through the keyhole of another apartment where he was stealing.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-04-17
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2019-05-23
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-05-23
Popularity:
1970-08-07
Overview: An English singer thinks his Italian wife has cheated on him and goes back to England. He is then involved in drug trafficking and ends up in jail. Luckily enough after a while the real culprit is revealed and he can go back to Italy and his wife.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-07
Popularity:
2019-09-23
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-09-23
Popularity:
1976-01-10
Overview: Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Genres: Horror Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-10
Popularity:
2006-04-25
Overview: Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, an international broker of arms and information, who's as cunning as he is ruthless. Davian emerges to threaten Hunt and all that he holds dear – including the woman Hunt loves.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-04-25
Popularity:
1974-11-15
Overview: Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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1983-01-01
Overview: A family of the three fall into a dark and disturbing nightmare after meeting the mysterious Orlok and the seductive punk girl Patty. Adapted from the 1926 novella Dream Story by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
Popularity:
2020-08-13
Overview: While reporting on the election of the Pope in Rome, the completely atheistic journalist Gregory falls in love with Maria of all people, who is about to become a nun and is therefore actually promised to God. Gregory faces an accumulation of mysterious obstacles as he tries to get closer to Maria. He has to find out that he is dealing with a supernatural competitor. However, Gregory is determined to take up the fight against the big enemy.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-08-13
Popularity:
1966-12-21
Overview: Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-21
Popularity:
1973-09-19
Overview: Rico is a not too successful screen-player. He is also a repressed sex addict. His life changes when he starts to talk to his own penis, which incredibly answers him! All his relationships and views about reality are seriously impacted by his new "friend", his penis! The "two" in fact, often have different opinions, and sometimes the personality of "it" is stronger than its owner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-19
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1977-04-10
Overview: Directed by Carlo Di Carlo
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-10
Popularity:
1964-12-29
Overview: Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl he has met that is accompanying him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He has some plans for hanky-panky on their various stops along the route, but Jane has other plans as she is only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection. The car clears customs as does the stolen million dollars she is smuggling. Sandro, her former boyfriend is following and plans to hi-jack the loot, leaving Jane empty handed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-29
Popularity:
1990-10-27
Overview: Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-10-27
Popularity:
2024-10-08
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-08
Popularity:
2023-05-17
Overview: Follows Caligula as he kills his devious adoptive grandfather and takes control of the decadent Roman Empire, spiraling into depravity, devastation, and madness.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-05-17
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