Ernesto Colli
Also Known As: Ernest Arold
Biography: Ernesto Colli was an Italian film, television and stage actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Biella, Piedmont, Italy
Birthday: May 16, 1940
Deathday: November 19, 1982
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Torso
Overview: A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-04
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The Devil in Love
Overview: Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Deadly Inheritance
Overview: There are a number of inheritors to a fortune who are getting killed by a mysterious somebody whom we do not see. Each death is novel, but not terribly graphic. Who did it?
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Hospitals: The White Mafia
Overview: A famous surgeon earns enormous amounts of money by speculating on patients, although he is generally considered a great man and an excellent doctor. Only one of his colleagues rebels against the situation and tries to reveal the truth. But during a dramatic operation, the famous surgeon forces him to turn accomplice and the doctor must keep quiet. Not for long, however.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-25
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Caliber 9
Overview: Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-15
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The Handsome Devil
Overview: Deep South Italian seventies. The performing and penniless sales representative "Tano" Avallone, fell in love with the beautiful Mariangela, sixteen-year-old daughter of the widowed lawyer "Totonno" Fortis Pantaleo. In order to approach the girl, he enters the graces of the professional, posing as his childhood friend and saying he is willing to eliminate the elderly Donna Mercedes, mother of these, so that he can inherit the substances. Guest of the family, Tano finds himself involved in a whirlwind of feminine attentions, including the free-range governess Immaculate, unnecessarily coveted by the lawyer, and the servant Sisina, desired by the parish priest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-04
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Faustina
Overview: Faustina, the offspring of a black G.I. and a Roman woman who met during the conflict of World War II, must choose between two Italian men who desperately vie for her attention.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-10
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Oplà, noi viviamo
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-31
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7 Hours of Violence
Overview: A former hitman is blackmailed into doing one more job. But the hit doesn't go as planned and he winds up with the police and a gang of Chinese hitmen hunting him down. A beautiful young woman helps to hide him until he can figure out a way to elude his pursuers.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-15
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Rugantino
Overview: A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-25
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Pleasure Shop on the Avenue
Overview: Two thieves rod a drug store and decide to hide out in a porn shop. Soon after when the coast is clear, the thieves take the shop worker with them as hostage. On there way to freedom they decide to break into a mansion and discover that they are not the only ones hiding as well. They find a group of students. The movie soon turns into a Last House on the Left meets a Joe D'Amato style film full of sleazy sex.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-02-20
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Lady Caliph
Overview: La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-31
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Puttana galera!
Overview: The presence of mafia boss Vangelli's yacht in front of the island of Ventotene brings a group of prisoners of the penitentiary close.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-12
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Un caso clinico
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Red Coat
Overview: Cormack, the lawman most feared by the rugged pioneers at the turn of the century, has a mysterious bond with "Caribou," an outlaw whom he has jailed. When Caribou escapes from prison, he returns to seek revenge.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-04-23
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Pierino the Pest to the Rescue
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-01-09
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The Suspect
Overview: Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-21
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The Story of Romance and Knife
Overview: The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-18
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Lucrezia
Overview: Fabrizio finds refuge from thugs in a convent, and passion in the arms of Lucrezia Borgia.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-07-07
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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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The Man with Mirrored Glasses
Overview: Italian crime / mystery TV movie.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-04-05
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Overview: A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-27
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Per amore o per forza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Spirits of the Dead
Overview: Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
Genres: Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-05-16
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Meet Him and Die
Overview: Ray Lovelock stars as Massimo, a young undercover cop with a taste for violence and a thirst for revenge! Massimo gets himself arrested and quickly infiltrates the ranks of the underworld figure serving a sentence. Eventually a breakout is planned and Massimo is to be included. Just about as soon as they hit the street an attempt is made on the boss' (Martin Balsam) life. Massimo acts quickly in helping to save him and that's the in he has been waiting for
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-08
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Quella chiara notte d'ottobre
Overview: A unhappily married woman tries to find happiness with a former lover, but when they witnesses crime, it leads them down a path of self-destruction
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Touch and Go
Overview: North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Overview: Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which happens to have been designed by Manteghin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-07-05
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The Last Decameron: Adultery in 7 Easy Lessons
Overview: Seven novels of Boccaccio featuring dirty jokes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-06-08
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Pleasant Nights
Overview: A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-23
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Winged Devils
Overview: The real-life courage and audacity of aeronautic acrobats whose ground life is often as exciting as flight maneuvers.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-04
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La colonna infame
Overview: Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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La strada più lunga
Overview: Michele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he returns home in 1943, but is now tired and refuses to join the Republic of Salò. His comrades still want him with them, but this Social Republic, imposed by the SS arms, does not convince him. The war continues and the situation does not allow one to remain neutral.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-24
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Autopsy
Overview: A series of random suicides in Rome, Italy are attributed to a heatwave, but a young pathologist named Simona—who is working on a thesis about murders disguised as suicides—suspects otherwise. When a young girl associated with Simona's playboy father ends up dead in another apparent suicide, Simona teams up with the girl's priest brother to prove she was murdered and track down the unknown serial killer.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-18
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Creeping Death
Overview: A man comes to a western town willing to discover the perpetrators of the robbery of a bank, where a significant amount of gold disappeared and witnesses were cruelly murdered. One of the thieves is now getting rid of the accomplices, using some deadly snakes that only seem to obey him.
Genres: Western Mystery Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-09
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Lost in the City of Sarzana
Overview: The film is set in the period of fascism and is represented through the story of the general inspector Vincenzo Trani.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-01-09
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Illustrious Corpses
Overview: A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-12
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The Antichrist
Overview: An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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Holy Cow
Overview: When a stage artist is send to fight he met a lovely girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-23
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Buona parte di Paolina
Overview: Paulina, sister of Napoleon I, is married to Camillo Borghese, presented as a helpless coward. She is eager to offer herself to all the young people that propose to her, and performs naked in front of the Roman people flocking to the walls of Villa Borghese, which she turned into a private residence. She also poses half naked for the famous statue of Canova, who is also presented as a effeminate and scoundrel. When her reputation as a depraved spreads, on the advice of the Pope, she is segregated away from all the men. when the French troops deport from Rome the Pope and the cardinals as well, Paulina sees prostitution as the only way to find herself some "fresh meat". Finally after seven years villa Borghese is reopened to the public, as Paulina goes back to Paris, to the great relief of the Roman people and the clerical circles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-01
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The Conspiracy of Torture
Overview: In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci who keeps her locked up in the dungeon of his castle where he sexually abuses her. Beatrice plots with her stepmother, her besotted servant Olimpio, as well as a local bandit, named Catalano to plan Francesco’s murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-14
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Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
Overview: Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a genius idea: to make a play on the love story of Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-13
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Gioco di morte
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-13
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