Mike Monty
Also Known As: Mike Monte, Mike Monti, Michael Monty, Michael O'Donahue, Mike Monty-Bruce
Biography: An expatriate American actor (born Michael O'Donahue in Chattanooga, Tennessee), Monty settled in Italy in the mid-sixties and had a low-key career as a supporting player in many B-movies, including spaghetti westerns and horror movies. His appearances were often uncredited. During the 1970s, he appeared in several soft-porn exploitation movies. In the early eighties, he fell in love with the Philippines and relocated there, where he significantly boosted his career by appearing in many movies shot in the Archipel. Most of his film were B or Z-grade actioners, sometimes locally produced for export.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Birthday: October 23, 1936
Deathday: August 04, 2006
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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No Dead Heroes
Overview: Left for dead in Vietnam, Lieutenant Cotter became a guinea pig for KGB baddie Mitovitch. Implanted with a mind control microchip, he is turned into a mindless killer. His colleague Lieutenant Sanders goes looking for him in Cambodia, then in El Salvador, where they kill pretty much everyone they meet.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Erotic Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Trident Force
Overview: An outbreak of bombings, assassinations, and massacres by an extremist, Marxist terrorist group, alarms the international community who calls for help - the ultimate solution - the Trident Force.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-10
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Double Target
Overview: After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by the Vietnam government. To uncover the truth, the U.S. army calls upon a former commando who is looking for his long-lost son in Vietnam. While his military commanders want to see the commando succeed in his mission, his political overseers have a different set of plans.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-06-11
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The Last Blood
Overview: A soldier attacks his corrupt superior officer and is court marshalled but before he can be sent to a firing squad he escapes...
Genres: War Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Mannigan's Force
Overview: An ex-GI gathers together some of his army friends to travel to a Central American dictatorship to free some American POWs being held there.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-13
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Blood Chase
Overview: A wife drags her husband on a dangerous cross-continental journey to find the truth about her father's death.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-01
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Pleasure Island
Overview: Imagine a tropical paradise where beneath the sun's warm glow inhabitants indulge in sexual pleasures of all kinds. Such a place really exists, and it's called Pleasure Island.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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His Colt, Himself, His Revenge
Overview: An ex-sheriff sets out to find the bandits who beat and murdered his sister.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-19
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Blood Debts
Overview: It started with the rape of his daughter then the killing of her boyfriend. He takes the law "Death Wish" style into his own hands and has his revenge. Branded as a vicious killer by the underworld, the syndicate blackmails him into becoming their hitman. As he gets more and more tied up in the world of drugs, prostitution and death he decides he wants out. No one gets out of the syndicate alive. It then becomes a battle for survival, him against them in a desperate act of street warfare. His life is he prize.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-30
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Ninja's Force
Overview: After a dangerous top-secret formula is stolen, a government agent traces the thieves back to a mysterious island and a secret-society of Ninjas.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-07
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Emmanuelle Goes to Cannes
Overview: A beautiful young stripper dreams of becoming a famous film star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-01
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Traveling Companions
Overview: The Story of Oddyseus and the Sirens placed in the countryside of France. Oddyseus is a trucker and his Penelope runs a café.
Genres: Adventure Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-02-14
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The Commander
Overview: Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey (Cop Game), Romano Puppo (Robowar), Mike Monty (Raiders of Atlantis), Bobby Rhodes (The Great Alligator), etc. Anyway, Van Cleef has Collins go on some random mission to locate a disc with all sorts of valuable crazy intelligence data on it. It just happens that Donald Pleasence, a random government official, hires another mercenary-for-hire Manfred Lehman to tag along and make sure the data ends up in the right hands. Van Cleef isn't taking any chances, and since he is crooked and murders Collins's other bosses quickly, he places Romano Puppo in the group as well to make sure the operation runs smoothly. Collins may not be too expressive but at least he seems to figure out quickly who's out to get him, so the mission continues with lots of double-crosses, twists and turns, and of course lots of explosions!
Genres: Action War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1988-04-28
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Emmanuelle 3
Overview: A fashion photographer and his French models travel to Bangkok.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-07-09
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Forbidden Erotica
Overview: Mondo style fake documentary, revolving around the antics of comedian and voyeur Domenico.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Dog Tags
Overview: POW's rescued from tiger cages in Vietnam are brought into a secret mission by an Army Captain. However when the group finds a cache of gold, greed sets in and the mission goes awry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-11
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Fireback
Overview: Jack Kaplan is a US Army Soldier and Weapons Expert liberated by a "rescue team", he returns home to the United States only to find out that his wife Diane has been captured by infatuated gangster Duffy Collins. Kaplan embarks on a mission to find his wife, running into characters like Digger, Man With The Golden Hand, and the treacherous femme fatale Eve. He is a man on a mission.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-01
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Slash
Overview: Peter Harris and Major Scott team up together to save the country form a communist uprising.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Cannibal World
Overview: The network where the famous anchorwoman Grace Forsyte works, is collapsing and she would do everything to regain the favour of the audience, therefore she convinces her professional team to go to the Amazon jungle for a sensational scoop about the cannibals
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-03-16
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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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Phantom Raiders
Overview: Deep within the steaming tropical jungles of Vietnam is a Viet Cong terrorist training camp, run by an ex-Green Beret, William Marshall. A roving photographer stumbles upon the hidden camp and starts to take pictures. He is caught and summarily executed but the photos make it back to Washington. The CIA decide to send in an elite team of jungle warfare commandos, the Phantom Raiders, to establish whether Marshall is a POW or has gone bad. But another element has been added to this dangerous game. One of the Phantom Raiders is Marshall's son. Now he must come face to face with the enigma that was his father. The Phantom Raiders is a non-stop film of explosive action, with enough mayhem to leave you breathless.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-07-25
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Achtung! The Desert Tigers
Overview: During World War II, an American major is captured by the Germans and thrown into a POW camp run by a sadistic Nazi officer, whose main pleasures are whipping the local female population and torturing prisoners. The major organizes an escape attempt using the camp's nubile female doctor as a hostage.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-15
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Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
Overview: Mad Dr Frankenstein recruits an evil dwarf, a Neanderthal man, and others to help him put a brain in the body of a brute.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-19
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The Jail: The Women's Hell
Overview: Three women are sent by steamboat to an undisclosed jungle prison called "The Home of Lost Souls". Here they experience the usual beatings, whippings, cat fights and humiliations. The butch warden has a deal on the side with a local pimp who forces them to dance in bikinis at a nightclub and sexually service the patrons. Tired of cages, rape, torture and rats, the girls kill the resident snitch and escape into the jungle.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-05-01
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The Island of the Bloody Plantation
Overview: A women's prison on a tropical island is a hellhole where the inmates are raped, tortured and otherwise abused by the evil commandant and brutal guards. However, one of the guards falls in love with a beautiful inmate, and decides to help her and all the other prisoners escape.
Genres: Thriller Crime Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-01-27
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Spiando Simona
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Black Cobra II
Overview: Chicago cop Robert Malone finds himself in The Philippines, ostensibly to learn the techniques of Interpol. Before he exits the Manila airport, his wallet is stolen by a pickpocket. Malone endures a testy relationship with his new colleague Kevin McCall while evidence surrounding the stolen wallet pulls both of them deeper and deeper into a web of intrigue.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-12-16
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Above the War
Overview: Somewhere in North Vietnam, an American base is overrun by V.C. and a golden Buddha statue is stolen. The American high command won't have this and sends in an elite force of goof-offs to recover the item. The team (the B-TEAM!!) is to be led by Rom Kristoff and feature two white guys and two Asian guys in order to (hysterically!) trade-off who is keeping who prisoner among them in order to infiltrate enemy lines.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Sudden Thunder
Overview: A Miami cop learns that her father, who was the sheriff of her small hometown, has been murdered by an armed gang that has taken over the town. She brings four of her Miami cop friends to help clean out the town.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-23
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The 13th Mission
Overview: Trained as soldiers with a sequence of medals, however nothing in their knowledge prepared them for The Mission of their lifestyles. Can they be successful within this seemingly impossible assignment and go back to the USA alive or, after many years in the jungles of Southeast Asia, will they die without ever before seeing their homeland once again?
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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The Labyrinth of Love
Overview: Valerie, a maid of French descent (Monica Seller), comes to work for a family in Saigon of the 1930s/40s. One by one, she seduces the members of the family: the dame de la maison, the widower, young gay sonny with his friend from university, and grandpa.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-12-09
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Heroes for Hire
Overview: Miami 1980, a doctor transplants a metal object into a patients arm. He tells him to go home and relax, but soon the patient kills the doctor. One year later, Prof. Arlington is kidnapped by thugs and taken to a secret location. Awesome action ensues.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Eye of the Eagle
Overview: "The Lost Command," a bunch of notorious renegades, terrorize South Vietnam, forcing Sgt. Zack Skinner, HQ's best man to hunt down the Command to stop its killing spree.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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A Very Special Woman
Overview: Yasmine, a beautiful young newlywed, has a serious drug problem. Her low-life husband uses this addiction to manipulate her, forcing her to smuggle narcotics for him and even sleep with his gangster cronies to settle his drug debts.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-04-01
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The Black Cobra 3
Overview: Shipment of American weapons is stolen in the Philippines. An American named Hawkins tries to find the weapons. Hawkins ends up dead. Chicago policeman Bob Malone is called in to investigate. Along with Interpol agent Greg Duncan, Malone travels the streets of Manila, tracking down leads. Criminals always seem to know where Duncan and Malone will be, which leads them to suspect a traitor in their midst.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-06-01
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Jungle Raiders
Overview: An expedition enters an unexplored jungle to search for a legendary ruby.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-08-01
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The Last American Soldier
Overview: Commander and his small band of freedom fighters make life difficult for the VC after the Vietnam War is over. They free Vietnamese prisoners, and destroy enemy convoys every chance they can get. This severely upsets the evil Russian Vlasov, who is working with the VC in various nefarious enterprises. An ultra-violent, Rambo style movie filmed in the Philippines.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-06-05
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Strike Commando
Overview: The sole survivor of a Vietnam mission is ordered by his commanding officer to photograph Soviets.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-08-26
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Last Flight To Hell
Overview: Reb Brown stars as a highly trained DEA agent who goes to Southeast Asia on a high-risk mission to free a drug dealer (Mike Monty) from nasty terrorists so that he can face trial back in the U.S.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-02-15
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Cop Game
Overview: In the final days of the Vietnam War, someone is killing the officers of the elite Cobra Force. Two undercover M.P.'s are assigned to the case. The trail leads from the streets of Saigon to the war zone.
Genres: Action Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Firing Line
Overview: An American military advisor becomes disillusioned by the brutality and corruption of the Central American government which hired him. When his shift in sympathies becomes known, he's arrested and tortured but soon escapes, along with a beautiful American woman, in order to join the rebels.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-04
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Commando Leopard
Overview: A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present every day. A few people begin to organise resistance. Under the leader "El Leopardo" a small group of guerillas fights against the violent government.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-10-24
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Phantom Soldiers
Overview: Texas Ranger Daniel Custer leaves for Vietnam to find his brother Michael, a Green Beret Lieutenant who has been reported missing in action. Michael's squad was searching for a mysterious group of 'phantom soldiers' that had been using US-made arms for massacring villages and killing unarmed civilians. Daniel goes out on his own into the jungles of Vietnam to find his brother and stop these killers.
Genres: Action Crime War Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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The Bloodsucker Leads the Dance
Overview: A rich count invites a theatre troupe to his home on an isolated island... but soon people start getting murdered. Has the family curse struck again?
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-05-25
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The French Sex Murders
Overview: After a French prostitute is found dead, one of her regular clients is tried and convicted for her murder. He is eventually sentenced to death but dies in a high speed pursuit after attempting to escape custody. Soon, the witnesses that testified against him end up being systematically murdered by a mysterious killer wearing black gloves.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-06-15
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Ninja Warriors
Overview: Steve is a Ninja. He's been called in by the police to help them in their investigations. He's to work with Kevin, a police lieutentant. They are investigating the break-in at the Federal Research Institute, where despite heavy security, 7 Ninja warriors manage to steal a vital document. Well pleased with their night's work, they return to their master, Kurodo, who finds they only have a half of the information they need. The police capatain wants results. Kevin suspects that a Japanese Garden he visited once with Steve could be the headquarters of Kurodo and his Ninja's and goes in search of proof. He's caught spying and is tortured and killed. After the disappearance of Kevin, Steve opens his Ninja box. He breaks the seal of his Katana and starts the Mantra. He attacks the Japanese Garden, eliminates the Ninja warriors and after recovering the documents and blowing up the laboratory, finally meets Kurodo, there can only be one victor...
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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Blowback: Love & Death
Overview: A betrayed gangster seeks to avenge his dead partner, with the help of a beautiful restaurant owner and a mysterious bounty hunter.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1991-01-02
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Zombie Flesh Eaters 2
Overview: When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing a virus and bacteria into the atmosphere over a small island.
Genres: Horror Action Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-06-01
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Deadringer
Overview: A story of mistaken identity... A story of love, lust and power... A story of guns, and men who use them...
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-01
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Tough Cops
Overview: Vietnam War vet turned police detective on the edge Nick Carpenter partners up with slick police detective with cat skills Pete Logan to take down the local druglord Fatcat by any means necessary.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-03-13
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Rescue Team
Overview: Richard Harrison stars as a super tough CIA agent in this over-the-top action-packed Filipino jungle action flick. Bloody violence, a jungle full of bamboo death traps and some double crossing keeps things more than interesting and a definite must for fans of Filipino exploitation action.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Fighting Spirit
Overview: Billy is a young fighter whose sister Judith was hurt after a near gang rape. When he learns she must have surgery, crime boss Russell has Billy compete in illegal street fights. When Billy learns he may get killed, he quits but is later killed by Russell and his men, who were the ones responsible for Judith's accident. After his death, Billy must rely on one man to seek revenge for him: his best friend David. However, David must train in the martial arts before he can seek revenge. Davidy seeks guidance from the ghost of Billy as well as Billy's trainer and ally, Murphy.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-12-27
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Eternal Fist
Overview: In a post-apocalyptic world, a man helps a beautiful young girl get revenge against a roving gang of renegades that destroyed her village.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-25
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