Claudio Nicastro
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Taranto, Puglia, Italy
Birthday: June 07, 1913
Deathday: November 13, 1977
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Rome, Armed to the Teeth
Overview: A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-10
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The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist
Overview: A vengeful criminal targets the inspector who put him away, but the inspector survives and fakes his death. Ignoring orders to flee, he sets out to bring the fugitive back to justice.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-03
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The Boss
Overview: A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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Fear in the City
Overview: The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-14
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Manhunt in the City
Overview: A man's daughter is killed by thieves during a bank robbery. Due to the incompetence of the corrupt authorities, he decides to take to law into his own hands and track down the killers.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-05-08
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A Man Called Magnum
Overview: A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives from Milan to help clean-up Naples. His mission – find the drugs and stop the killing.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-07
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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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Two hearts, a Chapel
Overview: Aristide receives a big inheritance from his mother, but when he meets a beautiful redhead at the cemetery, his life changes unexpectedly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-02
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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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The Police Serve the Citizens?
Overview: In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that controls the port activities. But the law restrains his action.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-06
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Silence the Witness
Overview: De Luca is killed by Marchetti's chauffeur. Marchetti ordered the murder because he was to be accused by De Luca. The two have a car accident while going home to get an alibi. There is a witness, Sironi, who calls the police. But when the police arrive the car has gone and so have the two men. Inspector Santi and young judge Novelli look into the strange case. Marchetti, however, is a powerful man and Sironi and his family begin to be obsessed first by threats then by assaults.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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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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Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome
Overview: In Mussolini's Rome a murderer is targeting young girls. The movie explores how the fascist mind works, how it plays its values off the sentiment of the masses and explores the role of the press in creating a unified narrative.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-18
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Savage Three
Overview: By day, Ovidio (Joe Dallesandro) and his two friends work at a data center. After work, they blow off steam by committing random acts of savage violence, swiftly graduating from sparking a riot at a football game to vehicle theft, rape, and murder. The police are convinced this recent spate of crimes is politically motivated, but world-weary veteran Commissario Santaga (Enrico Maria Salerno) suspects a far more terrifying explanation: that these young men are motivated by nothing more than boredom and disaffection at civilized society. As Ovidio's behavior escalates, a psychological game of cat-and-mouse ensues between the two adversaries, building towards a shocking final confrontation.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-20
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High School Girl
Overview: A shy schoolboy's life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-08
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No, the Case Is Happily Resolved
Overview: When the eyewitness to a brutal murder decides not to testify, the actual murderer chooses to finger him as the murderer and claim eyewitness status for himself.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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The Eroticist
Overview: Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-16
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The Case Is Closed, Forget It
Overview: Arrested on suspicion of a hit and run, a succesful architect is put in prison awaiting trial or release. Whilst there he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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Silent Action
Overview: A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begins to unravel.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-04-05
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Dirty Weekend
Overview: A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.
Genres: Thriller Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-08
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Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-07
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Crimebusters
Overview: Major Paolo Altieri of the Paratroopers Corps foils the kidnapping of child, but becomes the victim himself of a violent assault by the bandits. He realises that the criminals have used an experimental machine gun that's used only in his own Corps. Altieri begins to take part in police raids on criminal activities, and ultimately discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the democratic government.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-06-17
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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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