Filippo De Gara
Also Known As: Filippo Degara
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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Head Down, Feet Up
Overview: A serial killer who specialises in killing teachers is on the loose and Andrea becomes accidentally involved when he decides to lend a hand to one of the victims and catches a glimpse of the nocturnal predator.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Elective Affinities
Overview: Adaptation of Goethe's novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-10-03
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Who Is Afraid of Dracula?
Overview: Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house with at least five bathrooms within three days or his boss will fire him. Incredibly, he and his pal Filini manage to find the perfect house, a castle in Transylvania owned by some count Vlad... things get even worse when they meet the Count and his sister, who has a crush on Fracchia and decides to marry him!
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-12-20
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La resa dei conti: dal Gran Consiglio al processo di Verona
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-08
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Amore mio non farmi male
Overview: Anna and Marcello, two wealthy high school students. they would like to consume their Platonic love so far, going against the directives of their parents ... who get in the way to prevent their sexual initiation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-07-13
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A Tender Sunset
Overview: Franz Bollenstein is a thug. One day, jealous of his stepdaughter Nicoletta's rich inheritance, he instructs his trusted man, Antonio Olivieri, to track down the girl who in the meantime has run away from home and to lock her up in a Swiss clinic. But Antonio falls in love with Nicoletta.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-03-24
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Ladies & Gentlemen
Overview: Catello Coppola is a journalist dreaming a scoop to revive his career. Unexpected help comes following the death of a friend, who appears to him in a dream, promising to give him advance notice of the next day's news.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-09-06
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Joan Lui
Overview: In a world ravaged by violence, and other serious social problems, Joan - a character that alludes to Christ (which represents the return to Earth) arrives to Italy by train and preaching for the salvation of mankind, condemning the hypocrisy and hedonism.
Genres: Music Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-12-25
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The Superwitness
Overview: A pimp is suspected of murdering his lover. He is convicted based on the testimony of a single witness. The woman begins doubting her memory of the event and then, her feelings towards the convict...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-16
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Be Sick… It's Free
Overview: Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-24
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Jailbirds
Overview: Four female convicts break out of prison, and during their escape they take hostage a bus full of young female tennis players. They drive the bus to the house of the judge who originally sent them to prison, where--since this is after all a women-in-prison picture--the hostages undergo various forms of physical and sexual abuse in various degrees of nudity.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-08-18
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Swept Away by Family Affection
Overview: This is an Italian sex comedy that, like the earlier sex comedy "Il Gatto Mammone", combines the comic stylings of Lando Buzzanca ("The Eroticist", "Il Domestico") with gorgeous, oft-nude body of Gloria Guida (Miss Teen Italy of 1974). Actually, Guida gets to demonstrate a few comic styling of her own as a bohemian theater "actress" who lives in cramped apartment with a whole bunch of other clothing-averse bohemian types. She is very devoted to her older beau Buzzanca, but his life is very complicated due to his own devotion to his very big and very old dog, the ironically named "Piccolo" (basically "Tiny"), and his even older grandmother. In order to take care of these two dependents, he forsakes his loyal girlfriend for a rich female pharmacist (Andrea Ferriola) and moves in with her and her haughty bourgeois mother and aunts--with disastrous results for all involved.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-22
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Petomaniac
Overview: The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-28
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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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La svergognata
Overview: In this movie a writer comes to stay at an island resort and gets involved with a teenage lolita who is there with her parents and rather malicious best friend. She teases the older man mercilessly--going to a hotel and dancing with him naked and then suddenly getting dressed and running off to a party with a young American guy. But it's not so much because she is malicious, but because she is really an insecure virgin. Finally, he gives up on her after his beautiful wife (Barbara Bouchet) shows up. But the younger woman becomes jealous and is not going to give up so easily. . .
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-17
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Lion of the Desert
Overview: This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-17
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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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The Lady Has Been Raped
Overview: Good bourgeois damage unintentionally life of a drug-party, during which the mistress of the house is raped without recognizing the aggressor. Both she and her husband come into crisis and try to figure out who it was. The truth comes to the surface slowly, and it is unexpected.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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Nella misura in cui...
Overview: A left-wing intellectual of middle age, with a past in the Italian Social Republic , after the end of the second marriage with a black woman, falls in love with a very young, girlfriend of his son, and with her he flees to the Caribbean. Once the vacation is over, love also ends. In some ways the film is an autobiography of the director.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-09-22
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The Last Snows of Spring
Overview: A 10-year-old boy starts to die of neglect when his widowed father spends too much time forsaking his parental duties in favour of playboy activities and a jet-set life-style.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-20
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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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La vita in gioco
Overview: A filmmaker of committed films, together with his lover, plans to commit suicide within a few days.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-22
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Una donna di seconda mano
Overview: The young Luca grew up with his uncle Augusto, owner of a shoe store. The latter, determined to "start" the clumsy nephew sexually, takes him to a brothel in Florence and throws him into the arms of the stupendous prostitute Nerina, of whom Luca falls hopelessly in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-03
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Decameron II
Overview: During a banquet, the diners begin to tell various stories to be happy. All the novels speak of betrayals and erotic adventures
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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La colonna infame
Overview: Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Overview: Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-16
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Good News
Overview: A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in him he is being threatened by mysterious assassins.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-11-24
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Confessions of a Police Captain
Overview: A police captain arranges the release of a criminally insane prisoner, who soon winds up dead. When the District Attorney takes on the case, he uncovers corruption in the department and vows to take down the man who's responsible.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-26
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How Wonderful to Die Assassinated
Overview: How Sweet it is to Die Murdered (Quanto è bello lu murire acciso) is an Italian historical film written and directed by Ennio Lorenzini and released in 1975. The original title of the film is that of a popular song reworked by Roberto De Simone, who is considered the precursor of the Neapolitan folk revival of the 1970s. The film depicts the failed expedition organized by Carlo Pisacane in 1857 to provoke an uprising in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-12
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