Ennio Balbo
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Naples, Italy
Birthday: April 18, 1922
Deathday: June 18, 1989
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment
Overview: A beautiful but poor young girl finds all the money and material goods she never had when she becomes the girlfriend of a crime boss, but soon learns that there is a price to be paid for that kind of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-27
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The Appointment
Overview: Lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one of Rome's highest paid call-girls.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-22
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Saremo felici
Overview: Ensemble comedy about four friends in their 40s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-09-07
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Terror-Creatures from the Grave
Overview: An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the castle at that very moment. Soon occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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Day of Anger
Overview: A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-19
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The Police Commissioner
Overview: Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the unlikely name of Dante Lombardozzi, in this entertaining comedy-murder mystery by director Luigi Comencini.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-21
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Spy Pit
Overview: Julien Saint Dominique, an agent of the French counter-espionage service in Berlin, investigates the kidnapping of a functionary taken by German communists into East Germany.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-11-22
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Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move
Overview: Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, actress/singer who caused a scandal with her raunchy dancing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-20
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Seven Golden Men Strike Again
Overview: The Professor and his men are captured by U.S. agents during an attempted train robbery. To avoid jail, they must kidnap a Latin dictator.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-01
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Seven Golden Men
Overview: After bungling a job in London, Albert, an international thief, masterminds a plan to rob a Geneva bank of 7 tons of gold. Assisted by the seductive Giorgia, who works from within the bank, and six other accomplices, Albert sets himself up in an expensive hotel with a battery of electronic devices to supervise the operation.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-21
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Catherine of Russia
Overview: Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-01-12
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Pascariello surdato cungedato
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-07-11
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Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Overview: Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy.
Genres: Romance Drama History Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-30
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Pinocchio
Overview: The film was directed by Giuliano Cenci with assistance from his brother Renzo. During production, Carlo Collodis grandchildren Mario and Antonio Lorenzini were consulted. The subtle movements made by fidgeting children whilst speaking or under scrutiny were incorporated into Pinocchios movements, particularly when he lies to the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair over the fate of his gold coins. For the design of the Fairy, Italian portrayals of the Blessed Virgin Mary in art were used as starting points.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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Sardinia Kidnapped
Overview: Christina Fisher arrives in Sardinia to spend a holiday with her university friend, Francesco. As they are touring the island, they are trapped by mountain terrorists. Francesco is kidnapped, but Christina is permitted to leave. She is determined to contact the police, but is persuaded not to by Francesco's best friend, Gambino. Together they try to find the kidnappers, but she becomes suspicious of everyone including Gambino. Confused and paranoid, she sets out alone to contact the police.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-14
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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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Gunman Sent by God
Overview: Anthony Steffen, as a young gunman who works as a circus performer, witnesses the killing of some outlaws, carried out by their leader and is credited with the deed. Steffen suffers from a complex which blocks him in front of any violence and makes him appear cowardly, so when a young boy is kidnapped he must find a way to regain his composure.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-29
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Il caso Fuchs
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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L'incoronazione di Carlo Magno
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Star Odyssey
Overview: Earth is attacked by an intergalactic villain and his army of robotic androids.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-10-26
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How to Kill a Judge
Overview: A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-05
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The Night of the Assassin
Overview: During the civil war in Cyprus, an island nation split between the Greeks and the Turks, a British peacekeeping officer is trying to prevent a Greek guerrilla fighter from escalating the violent situation even further.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-06
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Dog Lay Afternoon
Overview: A young girl witnesses her mother having sex with the family dog. When her father finds out, he burns the dog alive. She is so traumatized by these incidents that she later turns into a nymphomaniac. She moves to an island and lives there with her own dog, having sex with various guests who visit her.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-11-15
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Il fidanzamento
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-28
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Django the Bastard
Overview: A Confederate soldier returns from the dead to take revenge on three officers who betrayed his unit in battle.
Genres: Western Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-08
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Hallucination Strip
Overview: The story is about a youth named Massimo Monaldi, who, living in Rome, is a part-time college student who has some involvement in the protests that occur at his university. Massimo is also involved with drugs and he sometimes steals to make a living and support his habit (the theft of a tobacco box is very important to the story). Among his associates are his girlfriend, Cinzia, who comes from a wealthy family, and he has a wealthy male friend named Rudy who is very naive as well as strangely pampered by his overly-doting mother. Both families don't approve of their relationship with Massimo.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-18
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Street People
Overview: A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-30
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Casanova '70
Overview: The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-06-15
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Antigone
Overview: Faithful TV adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-05
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The Day of the Owl
Overview: Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-17
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The Left Hand of the Law
Overview: After a couple of 'special squad' cops are gunned down while chasing some kidnappers, the head of the squad takes it really personally! His violent path to find the kidnappers leads him to the upper echelons of the government. Now, the powers-that-be don't want to be found out and decide it's time to kill one more cop...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-03
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Spies Kill Silently
Overview: Professor Freeman is an important English scientist that is investigating a method to treat cancer. His daughter is killed in the swimming pool of a hotel in Beirut. The case is confidential so that the mission is entrusted to the Special Agent Mikel Brown.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-04-04
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The Great Kidnapping
Overview: In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a northern industrial town devastated by a recent wave of violence and kidnappings..
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-16
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From the Orient with Fury
Overview: A scientist who has invented a weapon capable of disintegrating solid matter is kidnapped by a criminal gang, which intends to sell the scientist and his weapon to the highest bidder. A secret agent and the scientist's daughter set out to track down the kidnappers and rescue the scientist.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-24
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The Man with the Balloons
Overview: Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-08
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Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Overview: A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a frenetic life divided between numerous lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-23
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Corruption
Overview: Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-11-22
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Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Overview: A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Every Man Is My Enemy
Overview: When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Possessed
Overview: While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-07-24
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Year One
Overview: Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-15
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Kiss the Other Sheik
Overview: Italian comedy film in three segments
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-28
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A Queen for Caesar
Overview: Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-22
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Orestiade - Agamennone
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Original Language: it
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La sconfitta di Trotsky
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-10-06
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