Lisa Gastoni
Also Known As: Elisabetta Gastone
Biography: Lisa Gastoni is an Italian film actress.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Alassio, Liguria, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: July 28, 1935
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Female
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The Wild, Wild Planet
Overview: A rogue cop must stop a scientist from taking over the world with his deadly female robots, who are shrinking the world leaders.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-07-15
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Tutte le donne della mia vita
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-04-13
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The Last Four Days
Overview: In 1945, the dictator of fascist Italy and Hitler's close ally Benito Mussolini faces defeat. In a desperate attempt to avoid capture, he tries to flee the country with his lover Claretta Petacci, but Italian partisans are on their tail.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-27
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Sacred Heart
Overview: Irene, a workaholic, is forced to re-evaluate her priorities after the suicide of her two best friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-02-25
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Il pollo ruspante
Overview: Gregoretti's Il pollo ruspante ("Free Range Chicken") shows an Italian middle-class family with two children traveling via an autostrada (highway) to the site of a real-estate project where they could be interested in buying a detached house.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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Three Swords for Rome
Overview: 222 AD in the Roman Empire. A teenage Emperor, Elagabalus, is technically on the throne but manipulated by a conniving mother, who is the real power.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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Come Play With Me
Overview: Young Alvise's body is paralyzed, or at least he thinks so. He is infatuated by his beautiful aunt Lea. What starts as innocent therapy and care soon develops into strange erotic and psychological battle between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-30
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Seduction
Overview: After returning to Catania after a long period of time, Giuseppe reunites with his old lover, Caterina. Her 15 year-old daughter, Graziella begins to seduce her mother's lover and he soon breaks down and begins an affair with her. As time passes Caterina begins having sneaking suspicions about Giuseppe's & Graziella's relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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L'immoralità
Overview: Federico is a child-killer running from the law. Wounded, he is taken in by an 11 year old girl named Simona. Their strange love affair is interrupted by Simona's depressed, oversexed mother Vera, who concocts a plan with Federico to kill her wheelchair-bound, reclusive husband. Simona does not take kindly to this new relationship between Federico and Vera.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-11-20
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Menace In The Night
Overview: A woman (Lisa Gastoni) witnesses the theft of soiled banknotes from a mail delivery truck, then is threatened by the perpetrators of the crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-01
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Intent to Kill
Overview: While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on a Latin American president. They don't suspect that a trio of assassins is also waiting, for their chance to carry out a political assassination on the operating table.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-16
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War of the Planets
Overview: In the 21st century, aliens with mind-control powers attempt to take over the earth.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-07-21
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The Strange Awakening
Overview: Peter Chance suffers a blow to the head and wakes up with amnesia in a luxurious home, where a doctor and several women tell him he's a missing heir who's inherited millions. But Peter soon suspects something is not quite right with their story. He sets out to learn the truth before he's forced to sign a document that purportedly finalizes the transfer of the estate. This drama is based on Hugh Wheeler's novel Puzzle for Fiends.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-16
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Wake Up and Die
Overview: A petty hoodlum pulls jewellery store heists in broad daylight. The cop on his tail knows he has accomplices and focuses on the gangster's girl friend is his attempt to catch him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-04-06
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Messalina Against the Son of Hercules
Overview: While fighting in Britain, Roman forces commanded by Caligula capture the noble warrior, Glaucus. Seeing in him gladiator material, Caligula takes Glaucus back to Rome along with other hostages including Glaucus's girlfriend, Ena. A man seeking to restore the Roman Republic then assassinates Caligula after which Claudius is proclaimed emperor. Messalina -- Claudius's beautiful but evil wife -- then maneuvers to replace Claudius with her lover, Silio. She forces Glaucus to help her in this quest by threatening to harm the enslaved Ena. Written by dinky-4 of Minneapolis
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-06-27
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Submission
Overview: In wartime France, Pharmacist Eliane begins a torrid affair with her shop assistant Armand, but she soon becomes dominated by him. He demands more and more from her, humiliating her and putting her family at risk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-26
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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 Seven Cervi Brothers
Overview: The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World War 2.
Genres: War History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-16
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L'amica
Overview: The beautiful but neglected wife of a brilliant architect from Milan, betrayed by her husband and mocked by her friend who manages the amorous adventures that she dreams of having, decides to take vengeance of the two, seducing her friend's husband and her young son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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Man from Tangier
Overview: International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a barber's shop with film actor Chuck Collins, setting off a train of events.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-25
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Eighteen in the Sun
Overview: An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak) and Nicola Molino (Gianni Garko) are not related to one another. In fact, they don’t even know each other until both are inadvertently assigned the same hotel room on the island of Ischia. Nicole isn’t interested in any hanky-panky, so Nicola reluctantly promises to keep his hands to himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-08-11
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Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini
Overview: The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of her theories. She was the first Italian Doctor, a famous feminist, a scientist. Her private life was hit by having an illegitimate son and by the Fascism that didn't want to accept completely her theories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-05-28
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Visa to Canton
Overview: A former World War II pilot, now the owner of a travel agency in Hong Kong, gets involved in espionage trying to help a Chinese woman locate her son.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-26
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The Man Who Laughs
Overview: Spectacular adventures of twin brothers, one with a scar which gives him a permanent smile, and their meetings with the Borgias.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-20
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Violence and Love
Overview: The nature of love and marriage is studied in two episodes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-26
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I 4 moschettieri
Overview: 4 con men take the place of the real musketeers and manage to steal the Queen's necklace but then give it back to her, moved by her tears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-31
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La provinciale
Overview: In 1950s Italy, a young woman from a poor background strives for a better life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-04-25
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Duel of Fire
Overview: Antonio Franco's sister is been murdered by a gang of bandits. He swear vengeance and manage to infiltrate the gang to find the murders.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-21
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Maddalena
Overview: The love story between a free-spirited girl and a priest.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-19
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Cocapop
Overview: An apartment on one of Rome's seven hills turns into a film studio for shooting three different stories about cocaine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-10-31
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The Seven Vipers (The Latin Husband)
Overview: Lorenzo is an industrialist married in Argentina to a cruel woman who manages to have all her husband's assets seized, to throw him out of the house and to be awarded the two children born of the unhappy marriage. The desperate industrialist repairs in Italy, where he takes with him the children he has kidnapped and the affectionate secretary. But even in Italy the law is against him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-11
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The Breaking Point
Overview: A young man's gambling losses cause him to become embroiled in a currency heist.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Black Sheep
Overview: Mario and Filippo are two twin brothers, the honorable one want to bring morality back into Italian political life, as president of the Commission for the investigation of corruption. The other brother is a cynical trickster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-09
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The Baby and the Battleship
Overview: After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, Able Seaman Knocker White finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding and gradually the whole crew is drawn into helping keep it fed and washed - and undiscovered. Even so, the officers above deck start to puzzle over the increasingly strange happenings on board.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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Lips of Lurid Blue
Overview: Elli and Marco are an unquestionably unusual wedded couple. Due to a damage as a kid, Marco harbors homosexual drives that he represses inside his married life and Elli is a barely surpressed nymphomaniac. The marriage is useful for both of them as it allows them to blend in within the confines of their regular social life in a sanctimonious provincial town. But then a strange woman bursts into their world and Marco's deviant behavior come to light again but now he has a thirst for murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-29
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Rx Murder
Overview: An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-18
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Le roi du village
Overview: Moïse, a foundling, is raised by the inhabitants of a village and grows good and strong, well-liked by everyone, loved in silence by Agnese, a girl in the same conditions. One day, however, four graceful Parisians come to the village for a short vacation, and with their light-hearted behavior, they upset Moses and the villagers, who are quick to make the unwelcome guests return to the capital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-06-22
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Queen of the Seas
Overview: Redhead Mary is a girl who dresses like a man to better approach, and rob the jewels worn by the pretty ladies of her time.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Second Fiddle
Overview: Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as the most brilliant TV executive in the country, while Charles is regarded as 'thoroughly reliable'. But there is one hard-and-fast rule at the agency: the board of directors will not allow any married women on their staff; as soon as a girl marries, she must resign!
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-10
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Colussus and the Huns
Overview: King Bohlem, brother of the late Attila, reconquers former Hun territory. To secure this territory, he sends his son, Otto, and his nephew, Tharus, to forge an alliance with King Haadem, strongest of the neighboring rulers. Haadem, however, is just concluding an alliance with Kudrum, the ambitious son of a king hostile to Hun interests. To cement this alliance, Haadem has agreed to marry his daughter, Tamall, to Kudrun, but Tamall dislikes Kudrum. She quickly falls in love with the newly-arrived Tharus. Kudrum inflames Haadem's feelings against Tharus and arranges to have Tharus publicly flogged. Not satisfied, Kudrum then murders Haadem and has the crime blamed on Tharus. Tamall's love for Tharus is tested but then she comes to believe Tharus's claims of innocence and works on behalf of Tharus as Kudrum's forces arrive for a decisive battle.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-29
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Chain of Events
Overview: When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-30
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The Truth About Women
Overview: A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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Wrong Number
Overview: Because she dials the wrong number, an old lady hears information which enables the police to solve a robbery and murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-11
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They Who Dare
Overview: In Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied forces in Egypt. The island is crawling with troops, and even moving by night the men soon run into trouble.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-02
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Voice from the Stone
Overview: Verena is a nurse who arrives at an old mansion in Italy to help a young boy who has fallen silent since the sudden passing of his mother.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-28
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Three Men in a Boat
Overview: Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-23
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Eva
Overview: Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier. He falls for her instantly, despite already having wedding plans with Francesca Ferrara. Winning Eva's affection proves elusive; she's more interested in money than in love. But Tyvian remain steadfast in his obsession, going after Eva with a fervor that threatens to destroy his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-03
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Beautiful Stranger
Overview: An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-13
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The Monk of Monza
Overview: Pasquale takes all of his 12 children and runs away from Monza, looking for a house of a wealthy and generous awning. Having met on the way impoverished peasant, Pasquale takes him also, having granted the rank of "Half-Monk" and thus having gained rustic, but a reliable friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-29
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Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Overview: Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-19
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Gidget Goes to Rome
Overview: Francis, now 17, is still in love with Moondoggy. She can persuade her parents to allow them a journey to Rome, together with two of her and two of his friends. However they have to take an adult with them, so they choose Peter's eccentric aunt. In Rome they get the beautiful guide Daniela, who's fascinating the guys and making especially Gidget jealous. She starts looking elsewhere herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-07
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Amore amaro
Overview: drama from italy
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-23
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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
Overview: With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find themselves under the protection of the army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through means fair or foul, the army discover this is one battle they can't win. Let loose in Europe, it is not long before St Trinian's have succeeded in endangering European relations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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Josephine and Men
Overview: The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-09
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Invasion
Overview: A professor and his wife suffer humiliation at the hands of an invading college dissidents protest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-23
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3 Avengers
Overview: Ursus and his sword-wielding companions run head-on against a usurper of a throne.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-11-26
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A Game of Crime
Overview: In an isolated villa, Davide Lugani lives with his wife, Carlo, his brother, and their secretary Paolo. Wheelchair-bound Carlo is blind and mute, but his abnormal sensitivity allows him to predict events before they happen. Davide dies of a suspected heart attack and Carlo's nurse is shot dead. The police suspect Davide's widow as well as Paolo, who seems to be her lover. Just as the pair are about to be arrested, there is a twist...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-27
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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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The Runaway Bus
Overview: When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-28
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The Maniacs
Overview: An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-28
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Italian Kings Of B
Overview: Documentary on Italian genre cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Dance Little Lady
Overview: When a ballerina's career is ended after she's injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young daughter into a ballet star. Drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-13
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