Luigi Pistilli
Biography: Luigi Pistilli (19 July 1929 – 21 April 1996) was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 19, 1929
Deathday: April 21, 1996
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Number One
1973-05-28
Number One
Overview: This raw Italian political melodrama investigates the underbelly of Rome in the early '70s, exposing drugs, crime, and sexual scandals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-05-28
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A Bay of Blood
1971-09-08
A Bay of Blood
Overview: An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-08
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Texas, Adios
1966-08-28
Texas, Adios
Overview: A Texan sheriff and his younger brother travel across the border into Mexico to confront the man who killed their father.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-28
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Eagles Over London
1969-09-20
Eagles Over London
Overview: The British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they have long been infiltrated by spies from a German intelligence group. This all happens during the preliminary stages of the Battle of Britain.
Genres: Drama Action History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-20
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The Great Silence
1968-11-22
The Great Silence
Overview: A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-22
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The Suspects
1974-11-27
The Suspects
Overview: When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police inspector re-creates the girl's journeys through France until the murder is solved. Suspicions are narrowed down to four possible perpetrators early on, and flashbacks illuminate the roles each one played in the girl's vacation.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-11-27
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L'avaro
1957-11-22
L'avaro
Overview: An adaptation of Molière's play.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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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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Cold Sweat
1970-12-18
Cold Sweat
Overview: During the Korean War, Joe Moran, is convicted for striking a colonel. Imprisoned in Germany he encounters his former company commander Captain Ross, jailed for black marketeering. Together with Ross' cohorts Joe agrees to escape with them, but things go wrong and a policeman is killed. An appalled Joe escapes by himself, abandoning the others, who are recaptured. Years later Joe has a boat rental business where he is found by Ross. Now a wanted drug smuggler he wants the use of Joe's boats and to ensure his cooperation, they kidnap his wife and daughter.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-18
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Machine Gun McCain
1969-04-01
Machine Gun McCain
Overview: After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new employer, he retaliates with a high stakes Las Vegas casino heist that erupts into all-out war on the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Neither blood, nor lust, nor wedding vows can come between McCain and his money ... or his machine gun.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-01
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Summer Affair
1971-04-09
Summer Affair
Overview: A very young Ornella Muti plays a rich girl who falls for an older hippie boy. Her parents don't approve and try to stop her from seeing him so they run away to a villa (Her parents') by the sea. Later they are shipwrecked on a deserted island. The plot focuses on the efforts of the police to figure out where the girl is, which is set against the developing relationship between the two young people.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-04-09
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The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
1971-08-16
The Case of the Scorpion's Tail
Overview: After her husband dies in a freak plane accident, a woman leaves London for Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy. She soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money - and are willing to kill for it. Meanwhile, a private investigator arrives to investigate irregularities in the claim, teaming up with a beautiful reporter.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-16
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Mother Ebe
1985-04-08
Mother Ebe
Overview: Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-04-08
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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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Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
1972-08-04
Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Overview: Oliviero is a drunk, burned-out writer who amuses himself by hosting orgies at his grand country manor and humiliating his wife Irina. When a number of women are murdered in grisly fashion, Oliviero becomes a prime suspect.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-04
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The Libertine
1968-12-23
The Libertine
Overview: A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-23
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Tragic Ceremony
1972-12-20
Tragic Ceremony
Overview: After a peaceful sailboat ride, four young people, including rich kid Bill, Joe, Fred and Jane, knock on the door of a secluded villa after their dune buggy runs out of gas. Earlier in the day, Bill had given the lovely Jane a pearl necklace with a supposedly paranormal history, and this later opens up a can of worms. They are invited to spend the night at the mansion, owned by Lord Alexander and Lady Alexander, who happen to be hosting a strange ceremony that night attended by a group of eccentrics in black robes. During the evening, Jane exits her sleep chamber, seemingly in some kind of trance, and is lured to a sacrificial alter where the robed houseguests are hovering over her. As a knife is about to be plunged into the young lady, her three friends come to the rescue, but they are also witness to a chaotic mass murder catastrophe in which they flee with feelings of guilt and uncertainty.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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A White Dress for Marialé
1972-11-30
A White Dress for Marialé
Overview: When Marialé is a little girl, she sees her father murder the two lovers and then shoot himself in the head. About 30 years later, she lives in a mansion and has mental problems. She invites a number of friends and one by one they become murdered.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-11-30
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Peccato senza malizia
1975-08-22
Peccato senza malizia
Overview: The young Stefania leaves the orphanage near Ascoli Piceno where she was raised and goes to live with her stepfather, a modest fisherman who lives in a shack near the sea.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-22
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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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The Lady of Monza
1969-02-26
The Lady of Monza
Overview: A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," a 17th century nun accused of and tried by the church for breaking celibacy and plotting murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-02-26
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Dollars for a Fast Gun
1966-03-10
Dollars for a Fast Gun
Overview: In a desert region, Martin, bound to a wheelchair, is served by a gang of desperados to collect rents and kill anybody who resists. Then Lassiter arrives, telling Martin that he knows where Frank is, the man who made him a cripple. A reward is promised for his head. Then Frank smells danger... Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-03-10
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The Bandit
1969-01-29
The Bandit
Overview: Sicily, 1865. Two peasants, Gramigna and his father are tricked by Baron Nardò and robbed of their field, which then the baron lets to Assunta, her daughter Gemma and her fiancé Ramarro. Determined to take revenge, Gramigna begins to hunt down Nardò's complicit mediators. Unbeknownst to Gramigna, Gemma, to escape her arranged marriage, goes after him. Love and violence will follow all till their desperate ends.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-29
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Night of the Serpent
1969-12-23
Night of the Serpent
Overview: Hernandez, the sheriff of a small Mexican village, joins a group of townsmen with the intention of killing young orphan Manuel and robbing him of his inheritance. Killer Luke, now an alcoholic for having murdered his own son by mistake, who is chosen for the task, instead decides to take the defence of the poor child.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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La lunga sfida
1967-12-21
La lunga sfida
Overview: A child is kidnapped by a secret organization to force his father to be part of a drug-smuggling ring.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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The Nude Princess
1976-02-05
The Nude Princess
Overview: Ajita Wilson plays an African diplomat who comes to Milan to head a trade delegation. At the delegation she feels haunted by her past in which she appeared in a pornographic magazine. In a series of psychedelic scenes, we learn the sordid secrets of her racy past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-05
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Ipotesi sulla scomparsa di un fisico atomico
1972-04-24
Ipotesi sulla scomparsa di un fisico atomico
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-24
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Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
1976-08-04
Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife
Overview: A wealthy man suffers from impotence whenever he tries to make love to his wife. Since Viagara hadn't been invented yet, his swinging liberal doctor instead recommends a strong dose of infidelity. Before long he is rolling in the hay with a young lovely and needless to say his impotence problem is cured (it's amazing that he doesn't have a heart attack though). His wife is a little bitter, however, and decides to embark on her own affair. And if you're wondering with whom, well, just look at the title.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-04
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Dead of Summer
1970-04-01
Dead of Summer
Overview: A woman left alone in Morocco by her architect husband begins to lose her mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-04-01
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Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
1977-02-06
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Overview: Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-06
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We Still Kill the Old Way
1967-02-24
We Still Kill the Old Way
Overview: A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-24
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Veruschka - Poetry of a Woman
1971-04-02
Veruschka - Poetry of a Woman
Overview: Fashion photographer Franco Rubartelli's visually lush and moody head film about European supermodel Veruschka.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-04-02
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Two .38 Magnums for a City of Carrion
1975-10-02
Two .38 Magnums for a City of Carrion
Overview: Franco decides to kill his girlfriend’s pimp, and from there things go bad and he gets beaten up by the henchmen of Gordon Mitchell, who also kidnaps and murders his girlfriend. So Franco buys two Magnum .38’s from a guy called “The Gypsy” and . . . it’s time for revenge.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-02
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Silence the Witness
1974-05-15
Silence the Witness
Overview: De Luca is killed by Marchetti's chauffeur. Marchetti ordered the murder because he was to be accused by De Luca. The two have a car accident while going home to get an alibi. There is a witness, Sironi, who calls the police. But when the police arrive the car has gone and so have the two men. Inspector Santi and young judge Novelli look into the strange case. Marchetti, however, is a powerful man and Sironi and his family begin to be obsessed first by threats then by assaults.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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The Protagonists
1968-06-07
The Protagonists
Overview: An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in hiding. Under intermittent gunfire, they make their way to the mountain hideout of the bandit. After a leisurely conversation and photo session, the encampment comes under fire from a group of armed citizens acting as police. Bullets fly and violence overtakes the criminal's two henchman, as the thrill-seeking group and the wanted criminal find themselves under attack.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-06-07
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966-12-22
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Overview: While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-22
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Doppia Indagine
1978-06-04
Doppia Indagine
Overview: Franco Riva, a geologist who works in Ivory Coast, suddenly returns to Italy, to Genoa, to see his girlfriend, Claudia Fiori, of whom he has not heard for some time. Riva gathers various information about his fate. The concierge of her apartment, which she left two months ago, claims that Claudia has rented a house on the Riviera and got married. Instead, Claudia's sister, Laura, excludes that she might have gotten married without telling her anything and shows the man a postcard that Claudia sent her from Stockholm, where she told her that she was moving for the company where she worked. But the owner of the company, Piero Ricci, denies even the existence of a branch in Stockholm. So Franco turns to the police...
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-06-04
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The Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective
1973-01-04
The Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-04
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One Way
1973-09-22
One Way
Overview: Italian crime drama
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-09-22
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Beyond Kilimanjaro, Across the River of Blood
1990-12-17
Beyond Kilimanjaro, Across the River of Blood
Overview: Tony La Palma lives in Kenya, where he helps Dr. Sean in his work to protect animals. His love affair with Giulia brings the past from which he is running away, and that haunts him thousands of miles from New York, where he is wanted for murder.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-12-17
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Bandits in Rome
1968-11-20
Bandits in Rome
Overview: After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-20
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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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Walter e i Suoi Cugini
1961-04-26
Walter e i Suoi Cugini
Overview: Walter Chiari as a Pugliese who lives in Milan. He has two cousins identical to him. The two arrive in the city to find work and twist their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-04-26
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For a Few Dollars More
1965-12-18
For a Few Dollars More
Overview: Two bounty hunters both pursue a brutal and sadistic bandit El Indio who has a massive bounty on his head.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-18
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Enter the Devil
1974-11-06
Enter the Devil
Overview: After a female art student purchases a life-size wooden sculpture of a crucifixion from an abandoned church, she has a vision of herself being nailed to a cross and soon becomes sexually tormented by the sculpture when it comes to life.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-06
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The Sweet Body of Deborah
1968-03-20
The Sweet Body of Deborah
Overview: A newlywed couple visits the husband's hometown of Geneva, where they are subjected to threats stemming from the death of his former fiancée.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-20
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The Author's Crime
1974-01-01
The Author's Crime
Overview: Against the wishes of her Aunt Valeria, attractive Milena travels to Milan in order to secretly marry Marco Giraldi. Three years later, Milena returns to her hometown Fermo, where her husband's shoe business is in financial difficulties. Shortly afterwards, she is abducted, a valuable painting is stolen and Aunt Valeriais murdered. Two young villains, who carried out the dirty work, are then killed...
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Cagliostro
1975-02-21
Cagliostro
Overview: After attending esoterical studies with a wise man, Cagliostro, a mysterious Italian count, received the gift of supernatural powers. He started to travel all over Europe to heal the poor. But he is also a member of a pre-revolutionary lodge the aim of which is to give freedom to the populations of Europe. This cannot be tolerated by the 18th century's establishment and bought the Pope and the regal house of France try to eliminate him. So Cagliostro is locked up in a castle, while his wife is killed. But when in 1795 the door of his cell is opened there is nothing inside but a sword...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-21
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The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
1971-08-24
The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
Overview: In Dublin, the acid-scarred, razor-slashed corpse of a young woman is discovered in the boot of the Swiss Ambassador's limousine. The Ambassador, his family and employees all become immediate suspects. Faced with the problem of diplomatic immunity, the police officer in charge of the case brings in John Norton, an ex-Inspector known for his brutal methods, to carry out an "unoffical" investigation. While Norton develops a relationship with the Ambassdor's attractive daughter, several more gruesome murders occur...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-24
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Illustrious Corpses
1976-02-12
Illustrious Corpses
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
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Tottering in the Dark
1987-01-31
Tottering in the Dark
Overview: An elderly trio tries to adjust to each other when they all move into an apartment in Rome. When Giovanni (Ricardo Cucciolla) inherits the unit, he invites the Russian immigrant Maria (Marina Vlady) and his shy friend from college Teo (Luigi Pistilli) to live with him. Maria tries to get Teo to marry her friend so she can receive Italian citizenship. The three do their best to live in harmony in this bittersweet drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-01-31
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