Liana Del Balzo
Also Known As: Eliana Del Balzo
Biography: Liana Del Balzo was born on March 4, 1899 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was an actress, known for Profondo rosso (1975), Il sogno di Butterfly (1939) and La Cage aux folles (1978). She died on March 26, 1982 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Birthday: March 04, 1899
Deathday: March 26, 1982
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Gender: Female
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A Hundred Thousand Dollars
Overview: On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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Shango
Overview: Shango is a Texas Ranger who finds himself up against a former Confederate officer and his gang of thugs who have been terrorizing a local border town in search of gold.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-21
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Knights of the Queen
Overview: A new adventure for the Dumas musketeers who this time must save the Infanta of Spain from the intrigues of the Prince of Condé who wants to take the throne at any cost. (This film is a compendium edit made from episodes of the television series "I tre moschettieri")
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-24
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Casta diva
Overview: As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-27
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Scandalo per bene
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Overview: Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-04
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Noi siamo le colonne
Overview: The adventures of three university students who live in the same boarding house. Ugo, the most serious one, is in love with Lea, daughter of the lodger. Aldo is a practical joker, Bartolozzi is the shiest. Ugo and Lea's love story becomes stormy because of Aldo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-29
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The Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-04
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Una donna prega
Overview: Gianna, a young radio singer, marries Giulio, director of a travel agency. Soon after, they welcome a child. The tranquility of their family life is deeply disturbed by the arrival in Rome of a French tourist, Giselle, who falls madly in love with Giulio. He reciprocates her feelings and becomes her lover. Gianna separates from her husband and devotes her attention to the child, while Giulio begins to live with Giselle. But the thought of his family leads Giulio to ponder severing ties with his lover. Unexpectedly, Giselle's lifeless body is found in Giulio's apartment. Evidence points to Giulio's guilt, so he attempts to escape abroad. Giulio is involved in a car accident close to the border, nearly killing him. In the hospital, it is revealed that Giselle was killed by her former Parisian lover. Healed of his serious wounds, Giulio returns to the affection of his wife and little daughter.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-07-22
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Il diavolo va in collegio
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-01-12
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Come September
Overview: Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Quo Vadis
Overview: After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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Luna
Overview: While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-29
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Ben-Hur
Overview: In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
Genres: History Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-18
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Cab Number 13
Overview: To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is adopted by a coachman, and later, as secretary to the Minister of Justice, discovers the truth, punishes the bad guys, rewards the good ones and marries the daughter of another innocent man, unjustly accused by Claudia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-28
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Wife for a Night
Overview: A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-07-12
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Cross Current
Overview: A speed-boat racer suffers amnesia after an boating accident and goes to his isolated villa to recuperate. His relationship with his wife is troubled, so he starts an affair (sort of) with the another woman, which results in one of the three of them being shot. But there are several more twists--and more murders--to come.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-20
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Mr. Superinvisible
Overview: A superhero becomes invisible after he swallows an Indian potion.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-17
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Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
Overview: A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-18
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The King's Jester
Overview: Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-04-01
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The Flying Saucer
Overview: An exasperated police inspector receives different eyewitness accounts surrounding a downed saucer and its female occupant.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-23
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It Started in Naples
Overview: Mike Hamilton, a Philadelphia lawyer, comes to Naples to settle the estate of his long estranged "black sheep" brother. Once there, he discovers that the deceased has left an 8 year old boy who is being raised by Michael's sister-in-law Lucia Curcio. To make matters worse, Lucia happens to be a sexy nightclub dancer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-06
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Escapade in Florence
Overview: American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they accidentally discover an art forgery ring in Florence, Italy.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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The Moralist
Overview: The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-30
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La fanciulla di Portici
Overview: During the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him with a Spanish patrician against his wishes.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-10-27
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Indian Summer
Overview: In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-18
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Twins from Texas
Overview: A pair of twins survive an Indian raid on a caravan. While one of them will be raised by an army captain, the other will be raised by a bandit.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-08
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Gli assi della risata
Overview: An anthology of several segments about everyday Italian life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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Novelle galeotte d'amore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-28
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City of Violence
Overview: Amore e sangue (released in the U.S. as "City of Violence"), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as "John Wolff") West German/Italian romantic action adventure war thriller.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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Deep Red
Overview: An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his neighbor, a psychic. With the help of a tenacious young reporter he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods, and the two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-07
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Giuseppe Verdi
Overview: The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-22
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The Big Deal
Overview: Three clumsy thieves come up with a robbery scheme against the "Grandi Magazzini Romani". They call to their aid a skilled "only by reputation" French burglar, Pierre Le Compte.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-31
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The Dream of Butterfly
Overview: Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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Una bruna indiavolata!
Overview: Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-21
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Rome, 1585
Overview: The leader of a gang of Spanish mercenaries falls for a beautiful princess. Thing get dicey, however, when an imprisoned leader is freed and comes calling.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-09
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The Brothers Karamazov
Overview: When a tragedy strikes father Fyodor Karamazov, the wretched relation with his three sons reveals itself surrounded by intrigue, envy and deceit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-12-04
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