Maria Pia Conte
Also Known As: Mary Count, Mary P. Count, Maria Pia Conti, Maria Pia Gian
Biography: Born Maria Pia Vaccarezza in Genoa, the daughter of a carpenter, Conte spent her youth in Sestri Levante before moving to Genoa to study classical ballet. After a few experiences as a child actress, she was first noted as a fotoromanzi model, then she decided to pursue an acting career and enrolled the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, graduating in 1962. Conte made her acting debut in 1961, in the Marco Bellocchio's short film La colpa e la pena, then she appeared in a number of films and TV-series, often in secondary roles, being sometimes credited as Mary P. Count. She was also occasionally active as a voice actress and a dubber. She retired in the late 1970s. She was married to actor Giuseppe Rinaldi (1919-2007) and is the mother of actress Francesca Rinaldi.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lavagna, Liguria, Italy
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Birthday: March 10, 1944
Age: 81 years old
Gender: Female
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Head Down, Feet Up
Overview: A serial killer who specialises in killing teachers is on the loose and Andrea becomes accidentally involved when he decides to lend a hand to one of the victims and catches a glimpse of the nocturnal predator.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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War Between the Planets
Overview: Scientists try to prevent a collision between Earth and a planet that is heading for it.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-07-29
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The Arena
Overview: Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus, follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who, upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring, mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-13
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Blueprint for a Massacre
Overview: A series of incidents involving aircrafts belonging to NATO nations indicates a systematic sabotage.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-12
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If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Overview: After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks and murderous double-crosses, leaves the coach's strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track down the missing money and determine just who is ultimately behind the grisly robberies and killings.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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The Sergeant Rompiglioni Becomes... Corporal
Overview: An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so stupid he is demoted and becomes a corporal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-27
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And the Crows Will Dig Your Grave
Overview: Wells Fargo hires bounty hunters to protect its gold transports from the notorious outlaw Glenn Kovacs. Jeff Sullivan, one of the hired gunmen, buys the freedom of Dan Barker, a prisoner who may lead him to Kovacs. When Barker escapes from Sullivan, the other bounty hunters pursue him also, leading to the ultimate showdown between all parties.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-08-11
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Riot in a Women's Prison
Overview: This film traces the prison life of a group of women who-rather than being prepared to reenter society-are brought to the limits of depravity. Martine, wrongly imprisoned will bear the scars of a prison system wrongly based on punishment rather than rehabilitation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-13
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Five Dollars for Ringo
Overview: Sheriff Lester Sands travels to Lindsborg in the hope of finding a gang of outlaws operating in the region. He suspects that they hide there because recently they raided the bank of a neighboring village. And during the robbery, the director was wounded. His daughter Miriam, accompanied by five bank guards has followed the trail of the assailants there. With this event and the attitude of the village mayor, the sheriff and his suspicions are confirmed and he expects that sooner or later he will face these gunmen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-07-23
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God in Heaven... Arizona on Earth
Overview: A bounty hunter named Arizona helps a group of beleaguered farmers in their fight against a large landowner named Austin Styles and his gang of outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-06-26
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Dynamite Jim
Overview: During the Civil War, a Union officer tries to move a gold shipment out of Mexico despite the threat of raiders.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-12-31
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Twenty Paces to Death
Overview: At the end of the Civil War, Aleck Kellaway, a fighter for the South, is tricked by the brothers Clegg and Elliot into helping them to carry out the robbery of a gold cargo belonging to the Northern Army.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-04-09
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Tony Arzenta
Overview: A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-23
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Hero of Rome
Overview: In ancient Rome, the people finally oust their despised king, Tarquinius, and declare the city a republic. Tarquinius makes an alliance with the Etruscan king, Porsenna, to take back power in Rome, but a Roman general, the heroic Mucius, sets out to stop him.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-04-22
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Peggio per me... meglio per te
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-03
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Zorro's Latest Adventure
Overview: Colonel Cordero implements new taxes among the population in Monterrey without the governor's knowledge. Antonio Sandoval, who has returned from his studies to his hometown, becomes aware of the hustle and bustle of the colonel and makes life difficult as a masked Zorro for the tyrannical alcalde at every opportunity and time of day.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-09-01
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At the Battle of Crete
Overview: The picture is set during Battle of Greece and Crete Battle in 1941, after the fall of the mainland when the Germans entered Athens.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Day of Violence
Overview: Two thugs take 15 people hostage and demand a ransom from the authorities million dollars in gold, a car and a plane to get out of the country.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-06-22
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Defeat of the Mafia
Overview: At the Rome airport two men are taken into custody. Inspector Scott Luce thinks their two suit-cases are full of drugs, but the suit-cases contains only white powder. Afterwards the corpse of Susan Palmer is found. She was a drug runner for the Cosa Nostra boss Frankie Agostino. Susan's friend, Jenny Ryan, meets a mysterious man from America, Arthur Ardigan, supposedly her cousin. In the meantime Inspector Luce is investigating.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-20
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The Hanging Woman
Overview: Upon his uncle's death, Serge Chekov journeys to a spooky Scottish village for the reading of the will. But when he inherits the estate, Serge runs afoul of his uncle's jealous wife , his business partner , his maid and others. It's not long before zombies join the fun in this Italian supernatural thriller, also starring Paul Naschy as a nutso gravedigger.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-09-03
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Love Is a Funny Thing
Overview: A composer and a French film star, both of whom are married to others, meet and fall in love while shooting a film in the United States.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-12
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Juliette de Sade
Overview: Sade adaptation set in the late 1960s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-26
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Three Giants of the Roman Empire
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-13
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My Father's Nurse
Overview: An old man's spirits are lifted greatly when he finds that his new personal nurse is a spectacularly beautiful, volcanically sexy young woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-28
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Che dottoressa ragazzi!
Overview: A small Italian village eagerly awaits the long-overdue arrival of a doctor. Everyone expects a male, so when the sexy female doctor Sigrun S. steps out of the bus, it quickly leads to a series of slapstick events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-12
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And Now My Love
Overview: The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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Pirates of Blood Island
Overview: Former pirate chief MacDonald has gone to England and won amnesty for his band of buccaneers, promising to reform them into peaceful colonial ways. But what follows is an engaging and ruthless tale of deceit and treachery as MacDonald faces ruin due to traitors who plot to overthrow him and seize Blood Island whose waters contain a valuable treasure.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-05-13
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Moglie nuda e siciliana
Overview: Erotic comedy classic 70’s where a Sicilian chaste and naive moving to Milan lost many of her inhibitions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-03-03
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The Novice
Overview: A young man comes back to his provincial home town to visit his dying uncle who is being attended to by a night nurse and novice nun. Before long, the young man develops a deep longing for the young, beautiful nun.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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L'appuntamento
Overview: Adelmo Bartelesi has a colleague desired by all, this Adelaide Picchioni. And Adelmo unable to get an appointment with her. But get home Adelaide begins to present some difficulties: a transition to an old woman who leads him astray, intense traffic, the fortuitous meeting with his wife and family and then an attack of colitis and the meeting with his head, the car that is taken away by police, the meeting with another colleague ... will Adelmo reaching the desired appointment?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-20
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Madame Bovary
Overview: Emma Bovary is bored by her country doctor husband and gives in to the affections of several rich suitors as well as the temptation of living beyond her husband's means.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-10-10
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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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Spasmo
Overview: While walking along the beach, Christian and his girlfriend discover a mysterious woman washed ashore. The following day, Christian meets the woman again at a yacht party and soon finds himself entangled in a web of lust, intrigue and murder.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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Snow Devils
Overview: A heroic expedition braves snow-whipped precipices and discovers the dreaded humanoids. But wait – these are extraterrestrial yetis who zipped in from outer space to conquer Earth by melting the polar ice caps with high-energy proton fields. Will mankind be global-warmed into surrender?
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-18
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La svergognata
Overview: In this movie a writer comes to stay at an island resort and gets involved with a teenage lolita who is there with her parents and rather malicious best friend. She teases the older man mercilessly--going to a hotel and dancing with him naked and then suddenly getting dressed and running off to a party with a young American guy. But it's not so much because she is malicious, but because she is really an insecure virgin. Finally, he gives up on her after his beautiful wife (Barbara Bouchet) shows up. But the younger woman becomes jealous and is not going to give up so easily. . .
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-17
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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Overview: During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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Culpability and Punishment
Overview: For trying to seduce the boss's wife, a young delinquent is punished by gangsters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Death on the Fourposter
Overview: A group of friends decide to spend a weekend in a castle belonging to Riccardo, a moody and hyper-sensitive young artist. The only other inhabitants of the castle are a mysterious housekeeper, Caterina, and the demented Aldo. The group are joined by two friends: Serena and a young American medium, Anthony. During a seance Anthony predicts a tragedy, then leaves the castle, shocked by his own visions. An hour later, Serena is found strangled to death in bed. The others become gradually more and more diffident and suspicious, especially when another girl is murdered...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-17
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Night of Violence
Overview: Carla Pratesi, a prostitute, is killed. Her death is followed by a number of attempted murders. Carla's sister undertakes her own investigation. Police enquiries uncover a drugs trade connected to a call-girls organization but the murderer remains at large. Finally, a witness identifies the killer as a well-known actor. However, he has a strong alibi (he was shooting a film). The following night, a girl who manages to escape from the maniac's clutches swears he is a different famous actor but he turns out to have a strong alibi too! Eventually the police set a trap in the park and, with the help of Carla, kill the madman. It emerges he had been disfigured by the atomic blast at Hiroshima and went crazy because his disformed features revolted women and but them off having sex with him. He created masks reproducing the features of handsome actors just to approach prostitutes!
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-29
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Vento, vento, portali via con te
Overview: Two policemen of the Narcotics Brigade, Nicola and Roberto, end up in all kinds of crazy adventures while trying to do their job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-04
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The Labyrinth of Sex
Overview: Take a trip into The Labyrinth of Sex with an insatiable nymphomaniac, a lovely lesbian and fetishists of every stripe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-19
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