Franca Sciutto
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: January 14, 1939
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Female
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Studio legale per una rapina
Overview: Maurice Poitier, a disbarred lawyer, is dumped in prison. In prison, he learns of a plan of robbery worth millions from a dying inmate: once released, will begin to put together a group of bandits to pull this off. But not everything goes as hoped.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-27
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Unknown Woman
Overview: When an old lady dies two hours before her life insurance expires, the insurance lawyer suspects something dubious. He begins to investigate and he becomes the lover of the old lady's daughter...
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-18
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The Italian Connection
Overview: When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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The Invisible Woman
Overview: Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Alberto Moravia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-04
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La Tosca
Overview: Rome, 1800. Napoleon threatens the power of the Church and executions of Jacobins are constant. Angelotti, the most famous of them all has escaped from prison and the chief of police is on his tail. Angelotti is being helped by a painter, lover of "La Tosca", a famous singer. The police chief suspects the truth and tries to arouse the jealousy of "La Tosca" to catch the escapee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-23
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Il sasso in bocca
Overview: The "stone in the mouth" is the scar that the mafia makes on betrayal's corpse. The modern mafia has the historical and sociological roots into the birth of the american capitalism at the time of Roosevelt. The American "Cosa Nostra" applies the similar methods as the sicilian mafia: same apparatus, same "omertà", same power and same terror. Giuseppe Ferrara, journalist and writer, uses fragments footage, film clips, and current news to make this film.
Genres: Documentary Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-22
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A Woman on Fire
Overview: Clara, the sexually frustrated wife of a businessman goes on vacation with her husband, daughter and best friend. While there, she finally learns that sex can be passionate and wonderful, something she was never able to discover with the help of her husband. Unfortunately, she learns this with a handsome lifeguard, who finally makes her succumb to his psycho-sexual games.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-02-05
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The Canterbury Tales
Overview: Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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Arabian Nights
Overview: The final part of Pasolini's Trilogy of Life series is rich with exotic tales of slaves and kings, potions, betrayals, demons and, most of all, love and lovemaking in all its myriad forms. Mysterious and liberating, this is an exquisitely dreamlike and adult interpretation of the original folk tales.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras?
Overview: A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition depends on the lawyer's ploys to get his clients acquitted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-19
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Transplant
Overview: To satisfy his wife, an elderly man has to have a penis transplant and is willing to pay a lot to do so. Three men are selected, who, for different reasons, are forced to accept; but giving up one's manhood can be more complicated than expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-05
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When Women Were Called Virgins
Overview: When women were called Madonna is a film of 1972 directed by Aldo Grimaldi . The film is one of the first Italian erotic comedies in which a licentious bursting Edwige Fenech struggles with the nagging demands of three suitors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-23
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Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
Overview: After many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his father (who he suspects was actually murdered). He attempts to untangle that mystery while still carrying an unhealthy obsession toward his mother, who committed suicide ten years ago. This obsession then draws in his attractive cousin and takes a sexual turn.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-02-02
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Overview: In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spending hours in taverns, he meditates on the beauty of God's creatures, soon renouncing his riches and his family with plans to rebuild an abandoned church and his life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-03
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Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate
Overview: Michele, married to Rosaria, is a distinguished Neapolitan who "by profession" contacts only wealthy women, making her believe she wants to marry her to get money to disappear with. With this method he feeds his family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-08
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Tabula rasa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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...Excuse Me, Do You Pay Taxes?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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Medicine Italian Style
Overview: Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-19
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He and She
Overview: Mysterious romance involving an uninhibited woman and a photographer, shot in strange modernist interiors and abstract sports car-on-a-highway to nowhere exteriors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-28
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The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire
Overview: After having challenged the German Ottone to single combat for the hand of Leonza, the bishop's niece, the valiant knight Anselmo da Montebello, leaves for Rome where he must deliver a precious relic to the Pope and obtain a sum of twenty-thousand crowns in order to participate in the third crusade in the Holy Land. He is accompanied by Gian Puccio, his sluggish squire, drawn by the money and by the charm of ... Leonzia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-30
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Pensiero d'amore
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Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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Short Night of Glass Dolls
Overview: An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-28
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Dirty Angels
Overview: An old pornographic photo and anonymous letters are sent to two men and a woman, who now enjoy a respectable social status, accusing them and questioning things they have done in their lives. Unique and amazing Morricone score
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-02-28
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The Funny Face of the Godfather
Overview: The Godfather Don Vito Monreale knows, by chance, the Italian-American singer Nick Bouillon. Since the two are alike, Don Vito decided to exploit this similarity in his favour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-05-03
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Tales of Canterbury
Overview: Father of English literature, the poet Geoffrey Chaucer, involved in storytelling a rainy night at an inn.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-26
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Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
Overview: In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find the treasure, each one for himself/herself. What's worse - the only information they have is that the treasure is under a lion - and it's in Leningrad, a city known by its numerous statues of lions. The story gets even more interesting when the soviet militia (police) learns about the whole thing and send an undercover agent...
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-31
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Many Wars Ago...
Overview: Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-17
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