Ines Pellegrini
Also Known As: Macia Pellegrini, Macha Erit
Biography: Though born in Milan, Pelligrini grew to adolescence in Eritrea, attending Italian schools, before returning to Italy with her adoptive father in the 1970s.[1] She made her film debut in 1973 in Il brigadiere Pasquale Zagaria ama la mamma e la polizia but her career was launched by Pier Paolo Pasolini, who chose her for the role of Zumurrud in Arabian Nights (1974); she also appeared in Pasolini's last film, Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975).[1] About her Pasolini wrote: "When I noticed a half-caste Eritrean-Italian, I almost cried looking at her small, somewhat irregular features, perfect as those of a metal statue, hearing her chirpy, interrogatory Italian, and seeing those eyes, lost in a pleading uncertainty."[2] Later Pellegrini became a minor starlet in Italian genre films including Eyeball (1975), La madama (1976), Blue Belle (1976), Una bella governante di colore (1978) and War of the Robots (1978), appearing in 16 films between 1974 and 1981. In the mid-1980s she left showbusiness and moved to Los Angeles, where she opened a downtown antiques shop and promoted volunteering.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Milan, Italy
Birthday: November 07, 1954
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Jailbirds
Overview: Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of young female tennis players. They drive the bus to the house of the judge who originally sent them to prison, where--since this is after all a women-in-prison picture--the hostages undergo various forms of physical and sexual abuse in various degrees of nudity.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-08-18
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Annie
Overview: Annie, the mistress of a middle-aged financier, accompanies him on a trip to Hong Kong. When his business interests collapse Annie ends up destitute. She is befriended by a group of socialites and begins her rite of passage in their world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-19
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Eyeball
Overview: A group of American tourists is traveling through Spain when two of them are murdered by a mysterious serial killer who removes an eyeball from every one of his victims. The tour presses on as the murders continue, with the travelers and the police trying to deduce which one of them is the killer.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-24
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Arabian Nights
Overview: The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Mysterious and liberating, this is an exquisitely dreamlike and adult interpretation of the original folk tales.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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Family Scandal
Overview: A wife tries to deal with the recent death of husband and her rebellious daughter who is at constant odds with her. One day a friend of her deceased husband enters her life. The wife and her husband’s friend quickly form a bound which further puts her at odds with her daughter who sets her sights on seducing her father’s friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-05-22
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La madama
Overview: In the slang of the underworld or "mala" there is a special term for cop: "Madama". But if word were to get around that the "Madama" is Vito (Christian De Sica) they might even start to like the guy. Vito is a funny sort of a cop. For a start he doesn't like the uniform (he never wears it). Things might even go smoothly for him, if it weren't for an incredible number of beautiful girls who always manage to get in his way. Especially one girl Angelo (shouldn't that have been Angela? No, the girl's name really is Angelo). Problems arise too, with his direct supervisor, who also happens to be a relative. But Vito puts up with it all and manages to stay his usual calm and polite self, even when he risks getting killed.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-16
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Una bella governante di colore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Scandal In the Family
Overview: A rich older man dies during a massage (you see, uh--never mind). His young widow (Lucrezia Love) decides she needs some male help in managing her deceased husband's estate (for some reason she doesn't ask the family lawyer who she spends all her time rolling around in the hay with), so she summons her younger step-brother to come stay with her and her "little stepdaughter" (Gloria Guida). Of course, Guida's character ends up being attracted to her new "uncle" and plots to get "his bird in her bush" by, among other things, arranging for him to witness a steamy lesbian encounter between her and a friend in a, uh, steam room. To resist this temptation, the "uncle" marries Guida off to another guy while he in turn marries her friend, but they still can't resist each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-26
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Noa Noa
Overview: The Survivors of the Bounty
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-24
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The Kiss of Death
Overview: Adaptation of a novel by Carolina Invernizio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-22
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The War of the Robots
Overview: An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-04-26
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Orazi e Curiazi 3 - 2
Overview: Predictable parody of the legendary chapter of history of ancient Rome. The Orazi champions of the Central-South indolent clash with the Curiazi of Alba Longobarda, a hard-working northern city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-01
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Could It Happen Here?
Overview: Three terrorists—a rebel girl from an upper-class family, a teacher who despises capitalism, and an ex-con with a taste for violence—come together to kill the Minister of the Interior and destabilise the government.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-24
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I Am an ESP
Overview: Roberto Razzi, skeptical and convinced atheist, is the conductor of the Futuro program, in which he unmasks the most common tricks and deceptions that make the miracle cry out to everyone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-12-24
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
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
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Il brigadiere Pasquale Zagaria ama la mamma e la polizia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-12
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Provaci anche tu Lionel
Overview: Anna Tredicesimo, wife of Luigi Tredicesimo of Santa Ninfa (Trapani), introduces herself to the private investigator Lionel Lionelli and instructs him to recover some red briefs, purchased by her jealous husband in Paris, and lost by her during a loving meeting with the heartthrob fetishist Gianni Agazzi. Lionel, recommended by his friend ten. Sheridan, begins the research and chases the panties from Agazzi to Lola Lola Bis, a stripper, and from this to Iolanda, Ennio's girlfriend, member of Hell's Angels. Lionelli, a bungler by nature, finds the path difficult and also dangerous because, as he will learn very late, a microfilm with a secret chemical formula is hidden in the briefs and, consequently, his steps are constantly followed by men of the boss Goran , master of Titan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro
Overview: Yet another adventure of the famous musketeers engaged as usual to help the needy. Cardinal Richelieu is always hindering their task.
Genres: Comedy Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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