Angelo Ragusa
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Biography: Angelo Ragusa was an actor, stuntman, and stunt coordinator who resided in Rome, Italy. He was active since the late 1970's and eventually came to own his own stunt academy. He died in 2018.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roma, Lazio, Italia
Adult: No
Birthday: September 10, 1952
Age: 72 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 14, 2018
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The Big Racket
Overview: Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the threat of violence, no one dares to act, except for a restaurant owner who is forced by Palmieri to tell the truth.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-12
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Hitch Hike
Overview: A bickering couple driving cross-country pick up a murderous hitchhiker who threatens to kill them unless they take him to a sanctuary. In return he agrees to split some bank loot he has on him.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-04-30
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The Godfather Part III
Overview: In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-25
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Thor the Conqueror
Overview: After both his parents are brutally murdered by his fathers rival Gnut and his men the new born Thor is placed in hiding by the physical embodiment of the god Teisha. Raised in secret under the guidance of Teisha, Thor comes to maturity and goes on a quest to avenge the death of his parents and return peace to his lands, in the process he discovers a woman to take as his wife, finds and uncovers his fathers sword and masters the art of combat, all under the ever watchful eye of the amorphous Teisha.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-02-05
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Rent-a-Cop
Overview: Detective Tony Church is forced to retire and become a store rent-a-cop when his drug sting operation comes to a tragic end by a masked killer. He joins forces with a prostitute, the only one able to identify the killer, to bring him to justice.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-11-28
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Altri uomini
Overview: In 1985 in Milan Michele Croce is now in prison and decides to answer the magistrate's questions, telling how in the seventies he became the ruler of the Milanese underworld.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-08-29
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Rome, the Other Face of Violence
Overview: Four bandits commit a robbery in a villa. The maid calls the police and Commissioner Carli immediately orders patrols to chase them.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-07-27
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The Barbarians
Overview: Orphaned brothers Kutchek and Gore are adopted by a tribe led by Canary the owner of a powerful jewel. The evil Kadar wants both Canary and the jewel. Attacking the tribe he kidnaps Canary but the stone eludes him. The brothers are taken to be trained as gladiators and years later have grown to be VERY big. They escape and set off on a quest to find the jewel and rescue Canary.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-20
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Lightning Strike
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-12-13
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The Inglorious Bastards
Overview: Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers on their way to military prison are beset upon by a German artillery attack, escaping with Switzerland in their sights. Before making it any farther, they volunteer to steal a V2 warhead for the French Underground - taking them deep into the heart of German territory.
Genres: Action War Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-08
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Raiders of Atlantis
Overview: A team of scientists working to raise a sunken Russian nuclear submarine on an ocean platform off the coast of Miami, Florida, unearth an ancient Atlantean relic from the sea floor and bring in an expert to make some sense of it. But while attempting to raise the sub, radioactive leakage from its missles triggers the re-emergence of Atlantis, and the resulting tidal wave destroys the platform and leaves only a small group of survivors. Rescued by two Vietnamvets-turned-heavies who are out relaxing after their latest job, their boat eventually runs aground on a Carribean island nearby where, upon going ashore, it is discovered that everything has been destroyed and everybody killed. The culprits, a vicious group of well-armed raiders, and their leader, Crystal Skull, are descendants of Atlantis' original race who set about reclaiming the world and adding the survivors to the list of victims as they struggle to stay alive and defeat the raiders and send Atlantis back to the ocean floor.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-11-25
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2019: After the Fall of New York
Overview: After a nuclear war society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks, and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile woman left on Earth.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-07-22
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Double Team
Overview: A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and sets out to find the terrorist and rescue the agent's family. Together they're a two-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-04
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The Heroin Busters
Overview: Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport security, and Interpol's main man, Mike Hamilton, is at his wits' end. Fed up to the back teeth with the local police force's incompetence, his only hope is to rely on one of his own men, Fabio, an officer so deep undercover that no-one but Hamilton knows who he really is. Even as Fabio gains the trust of cartel leader Gianni, however, the dealers are edging ever closer to the truth, and when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted as Fabio finds himself alone in a desperate fight to survive.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-13
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Lion of the Desert
Overview: This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya during the second Italo-Senussi War. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-17
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Day of the Cobra
Overview: An American narcotics agent is murdered in Italy. The head of the department decides to hire Larry Stanziani, 'The Cobra'. Larry, a former agent and now a third-rate private detective, uses the opportunity to get even with an old enemy, but soon he finds out he's facing a relentless organization
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-08-12
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Contamination
Overview: A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-02
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Doctor Butcher M.D.
Overview: After Malukan immigrants engage in a string of corpse mutilations at various New York City hospitals, a doctor and a morgue assistant travel to the Maluku Islands to investigate.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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1990: The Bronx Warriors
Overview: In post-apocalyptic New York City a policeman infiltrates the Bronx which has become a battleground for several murderous street gangs.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-08-22
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Mr. Mean
Overview: With Fred Williamson as director and star of Mr. Mean, is there any question as to the identity of the title character? Williamson plays a former Cosa Nostra henchman who seeks greener pastures. Hiring himself out as a hit man, he immediately lands a job. His mission: wipe out his old boss. Filmed in Italy, Mr. Mean certainly fulfills audience expectations
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-01
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Crime on the Highway
Overview: Undercover cop Nico Giraldi is once again transformed, now as a trucker in a criminal gang.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-30
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Attila Scourge of God
Overview: The misadventures of Attila and his band of barbarians as they take up arms against the Roman Empire in their native Milano
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-12-22
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Keoma
Overview: Half-breed Keoma returns to his border hometown after service in the Civil War and finds it under the control of Caldwell, an ex-Confederate raider, and his vicious gang of thugs. To make matters worse, Keoma's three half-brothers have joined forces with Caldwell, and make it painfully clear that his return is an unwelcome one. Determined to break Caldwell and his brothers' grip on the town, Keoma partners with his father's former ranch hand to exact violent revenge.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-11-25
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The Professor
Overview: An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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