Barbara Cupisti
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Biography: Barbara Cupisti is an Italian award-winning documentary director with a long career as film actress. As an actress, she is well known outside of her native country by horror fans, who will most likely recognize her from her films with director Michele Soavi and Dario Argento. As a director, she is considered one of the most talented female directors of documentaries in the world. Mostly focused on human rights, she said that her goal is to give voice to the people who don't have the opportunity to speak.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Viareggio, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
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Birthday: January 24, 1962
Age: 63 years old
Gender: Female
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Stage Fright
Overview: While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-02-08
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Cemetery Man
Overview: Cemetery watchman, Francesco Dellamorte, is tasked with dispatching the recently deceased when they rise from their graves.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-03-25
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The New York Ripper
Overview: A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Genres: Horror Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-03-04
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The Church
Overview: In a Gothic cathedral built on the mass grave of a Teutonic purge, an ancient discovery by the new librarian will release an unholy maelstrom of madness, violence, and demonic vengeance.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-03-10
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The Hell's Gate
Overview: As part of a science experiment, a man has spent a record-breaking length of time alone down a hole, but an hour before he's due to re-emerge, something goes wrong and his colleagues have to go in to rescue him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-12-14
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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Overview: This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-06
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Teeth
Overview: Antonio is a man born with unusually large incisors; his freakishly huge teeth made him an outcast as a child and as man he has become obsessive and controlling in his relationships with women. Convinced that his girlfriend cheated on him (with her dentist, ça va sans dire), Antonio insults her in a fit of anger and in the fight she breaks off one of his teeth. Antonio now must travel across the country, going from dentist to dentist in search of someone who can make a crown that will suit his extra-large smile.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-10-13
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Strong Arms
Overview: This tense thriller begins in the office of Claudia, a psychoanalyst whose sister was killed in a terrorist attack. Her newest client is Tancredi. He says that he is a journalist and that he suffers from having witnessed numerous atrocities in Bosnia. The events he describes sound just like those of Brescia, and Claudia, who still grieves for her sister, begins to wonder if Tancredi is telling the truth. Her investigation proves that he is lying, but it leads her to wonder why he has chosen her as his psychoanalyst. After talking to her husband, Claudia visits her old mentor who suggests she continue working with Tancredi but warns her not to call in the police. After that the story frequently jumps to 1998. By then Claudia and her newborn baby have become part of the witness protection program and she is preparing to testify against those involved in covering up government-sponsored terrorist activity.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-04-09
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Il mistero della cattedrale
Overview: A retrospective look at the making of Michele Soavi's "The Church" including interviews with cast and crew.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-10-02
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Il volo di Teo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Dark Bar
Overview: Anna, a young saxophone player, investigates her sister's disappearance with the help of a friend.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-12-12
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Dream Time
Overview: Spaghetti westerns, giallo, mondo... are the legacy of a golden age in Italian genre filmmaking, which began in the sixties and came to an end in the eighties, but not without leaving behind a few final masterpieces. This film explores, a few decades later, what became of those filmmakers and their films. A number of the most famous survivors of Italian horror movies will help to shed light on what happened.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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The Key
Overview: Art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him - setting off a chain of unexpected events and emotional complications...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-19
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The Flesh and the Devil
Overview: Colombia 1662: In the Spanish colonies there the Inquisition: apostates are tortured, burned witches. The indigenous people are demonized and in the middle are two friends into enemies. The doctor Alfonso should marry the eldest daughter of the wealthy Don Ramon, but her other two sisters hedges of deadly intrigue. Father Guzman plays a spy of the church is a dangerous game that will be fatal for him and the mysterious Esmeralda turned all men's head.
Genres: Drama Action TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Eyewitness
Overview: Elisa and Karl are in a department store at closing time planning to steal a shirt, but Karl has to run to retrieve the car. And in the dark, after closing, Elisa witnesses a murder. Only problem is, she's blind. And when a police officer who was protecting the witness is killed it becomes more difficult for the Commissioner. And even more complicated when his relationship with Elisa starts to become a love-hate relationship.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-04
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Sotto gli occhi di tutti
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-11-10
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Flight from Paradise
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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Il bambino e il poliziotto
Overview: Carlo, a police officer, after intercepting a call conducts a drug bust at a private party at the upper class apartment of Rosanna Clerici and she is arrested. Just as the police and party guests are leaving, Giulio, Rosanna's six-year-old son, comes out of his room and asks Carlo where his mother is. Seeing that Carlo is the person responsible for his mother's arrest, Giulio tags along with him until his mother is freed. Carlo does everything possible to have Social Services or somebody look after the kid but is told by the Courts that he is the best candidate for his custody until a better one is found. Even though Giulio manages to turn Carlo's life inside out he ends up getting to like the kid and falling for the kid's mother, Rosanna, while she is in prison. It ends with Rosanna being released from prison and the three of them going out for dinner.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-12-20
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Scandalous Crimes
Overview: In Parma, conversing with a CSM judge from Rome, the judge Bocchi tells what intrigues are hidden behind the beautiful and charming facade of the city, referring in detail to the latest and most 'chatted episode. It begins when Bocchi interrogates Giulio, a handsome and unassuming young man, for reasons of strangling, and invites him to collaborate with justice.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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L'anno prossimo... vado a letto alle dieci
Overview: This rollicking Italian black comedy follows the hellish, bizarre New Year's Eve night of two average guys who find themselves stumbling from one outlandish situation to the next. After being dumped by his girlfriend, a man tags along to the party his friend is attending, leading to a series of misadventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-08-18
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Eleven Days, Eleven Nights
Overview: In eleven days time, Michael is due to wed his fiancée Helen. However, a chance meeting with Sarah, a total stranger, threatens to destroy all his plans as he is seduced on the spot and finds himself unable to resist her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-03-27
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Only You
Overview: Two childhood paranormal incidents have convinced schoolteacher Faith Corvatch that her true love is a guy named "Damon Bradley," but she has yet to meet him. Preparing to marry podiatrist Dwayne in 10 days, Faith receives a phone call from Dwayne's old classmate named Damon Bradley who is on his way to Venice. Faith tries to catch him at the airport but just misses him so she impulsively decides to fly to Venice hoping to finally encounter the man of her dreams; accompanying her on the trip is her sister-in-law and childhood best friend, Kate, who has just left her husband, Faith's brother Larry.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-03-04
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Opera
Overview: A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-12-19
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Consigli per gli acquisti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-09-12
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Vietato sognare
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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