Vanni Materassi
Also Known As: Giovanni Materassi
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: November 02, 1932
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 16, 2011
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The Blancheville Monster
Overview: The beautiful young daughter of a crazed count fears that she will fall victim to the family curse - to be sacrificed to fulfill an ancient family legend.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-06-06
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The Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete
Overview: King Minos sacrifices the 'required' virgins to the Minotaur. As his wife lies dying, she confesses that her daughter has a twin she has secreted to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur. The daughter raised by Minos tries to have her twin killed, but failing in her first attempt, continues to try to have her given to the Minotaur. Theseus, the Greek hero, tries to prevent it.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-25
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The Sister of Ursula
Overview: While searching for their estranged mother, two beautiful sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, arrive at a luxurious seaside hotel. At the same time, a mysterious killer starts murdering promiscuous women in the area.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-10-18
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L'uomo privato
Overview: Between Turin and Pisa unfolds the life of a socially and professionally successful university professor of law. Endowed with great intelligence and an elusive charm, the man and the professor lead a “withdrawn” existence that occasionally borders on the beds of casual lovers. Determined to control reality and keep it carefully at arm's length, he becomes involved despite himself in the suicide death of a student. The boy, obsessed with the professor's life, has painstakingly recorded his lectures, his behavior, his habits...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-02-21
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The Hands of a Single Woman
Overview: A lesbian and vicious countess seduces the wife of an English writer in a creative crisis, during the couple's stay at her luxurious villa.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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Giovanni Falcone - L'uomo che sfidò Cosa Nostra
Overview: TV-Movie on the life and accomplishments of Giovanni Falcone, the legendary Sicilian judge who boldly opposed the Mafia
Genres: Crime History TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-10-01
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Gentlemen of the Night
Overview: Massimo returns to Venice after years of fighting against the Turks. He finds his beloved Elena, who in the meantime has married the doge who is tyrannizing the city.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-05-10
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The Strange Desire
Overview: Two aliens on the planet "Alpha 4" win in competition of the local television "Cripto-Tivvu", a prize travel on Earth. They arrive in Bari, where they enter the bodies of two poor accountants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-26
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A Woman in the Night
Overview: Aldo Muratti, is a man, separated from his wife, who to pay for food and be able keep his daughter writes porn novels.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-07-10
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18 anni tra una settimana
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-11-01
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The Fantastic Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Overview: Four Edgar Allan Poe adaptations running an hour apiece, including "Night in the House of Usher," "Ligeia Forever," "The Delusion of William Wilson" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Originally made for Italian TV.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy Horror TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-11
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Killing of the Flesh
Overview: A group of decadent and filthy rich people arrive at the empty hotel where a deceased rich man lived. Soon they are copulating like crazy and the murders begin...
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-04-05
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Cheers... Cyanide!
Overview: French / Italian espionage thriller.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-04
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Al cuore si comanda
Overview: Lorenza is 30 years old and has not yet found the man of her life. Not wanting to be alone, she decides to take the penniless Riccardo as her husband "for rent".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-11-21
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All for the Moral Majority!
Overview: The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-12-19
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The Leopard
Overview: As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-27
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Tiffany Memorandum
Overview: A journalist and secretary get involved in espionage.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-12
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The Yellow Panther
Overview: Pasquale Bellachioma, the unfortunate Police Commissioner, creates a "master stroke" that can finally put it to light before their superiors, but the results is continuous failure.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-11-19
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Prisoner of the Iron Mask
Overview: The action takes place in 1703 and Colbert wants to buy the duchy of Pignero ,unbeknowst to the old Duke. A sadistic villain (a count) is slowly poisoning the lord, besides he covets her daughter. The iron mask is here the duke's son, but the hangman's daughter takes pity on the unfortunate prisoner. The nasty traitor oppresses the poor, but André and his men (complete with priest) do their Robin Hood act.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-24
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