Alfredo Rizzo
Also Known As: Alfred Rice, Fred Ritz
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Birthday: January 02, 1902
Deathday: September 06, 1991
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Roman Holiday
Overview: Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-26
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Caravan Petrol
Overview: A simple barberman from Naples travel to Arabia for search a big fortune that could make him rich.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-05
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Bloody Pit of Horror
Overview: A photographer and his models go to an old, abandoned castle for a photo shoot. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is inhabited by a lunatic who believes himself to be the reincarnated spirit of a 17th-century executioner whose job it is to protect the castle against intruders.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-28
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I milanesi a Napoli
Overview: Some Neapolitans help a firm from Milan to establish two factories in Naples: one produces TV dinner pizzas the other manufactures lace. The owner of a pizza joint and a woman who makes lace at home are against the project.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-15
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La vedovella
Overview: Italian comedy starring Margaret Lee.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-17
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Boccaccio '70
Overview: An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-23
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When The Bell Tolls
Overview: Italian World War II flick direted by Luigi Batzella.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-05-26
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Il segno del vendicatore
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-16
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The Playgirls and the Vampire
Overview: Sexy nightclub dancers get trapped in a dark, creepy castle for the night.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-28
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Terror-Creatures from the Grave
Overview: An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the castle at that very moment. Soon occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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I cadetti di Guascogna
Overview: Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in the staging of a show in the military barracks.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-27
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I 2 deputati
Overview: Francesco and Franco are brothers in law but, since their respective wives can't stand each other, are always arguing. When Francesco decides to run for Parliament, Franco is kidnapped by his opposing party and forced to run as well. The clashes between the two in-laws will continue in Parliament.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Paid in Blood
Overview: Luigi Batzella directed this spaghetti western under the pseudonym "Paolo Solvay." Gioffredo Scarciofolo stars (using his standard alias, "Jeff Cameron") as Tom Carter, whose brother was murdered and robbed by the evil Ringo Brown (William Mayor) shortly after taking all his money out of the bank to marry Cora (Krista Nell), a local saloon girl. Tom is suspicious of Cora, but she helps him unmask the real killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-14
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Holy Water Joe
Overview: A gang of robbers armed with a union army cannon rob the bank holding bounty Killer Acquasanta Joe's earnings to date. He pursues, crossing and double crossing along the way.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-11
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Go with God, Gringo
Overview: The Cris brothers kill Gringo's brother and frame Gringo and his friend, Mexico, for a murder. They are taken to jail and along with the four bandits who are the real killers, escape and reach a village in which a fair is being held. Someone recognizes them and they must leave taking a dancer, Carmen, as a hostage. Gringo tries to protect her and is left in the desert all alone. Meanwhile the bandits rob a mail-coach and kill the escorts with Gringo hot on their trail. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-12
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Three
Overview: Two college friends, traveling in Europe, find themselves rivals for the attentions of a mysterious woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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Aces to the fore
Overview: The director of a detective agency discovers a jewellery thief likes to attends the theatre. So he hires two clumsy and bumbling detectives to guard all the theatres in the area. The two investigators now go from one venue to another attending various Italian magazine shows.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-08-14
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Don't Wait, Django… Shoot!
Overview: Django returns home to find out that his father has been killed, by local bandits, in a business deal gone wrong . He swears revenge and a mixture of lone gun men, gang members and bandits get involved with the search for a pouch of money, missing from the ill-fated deal.
Genres: Western Drama Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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Amici più di prima
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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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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Terror of Oklahoma
Overview: Italian Western comedy in black-and-white. The movie intended to be a parody of the American western as even the title shows, being a hybrid between the original title of the movie The Oklahoma Kid and its rendering for the Italian audience, "Il terrore dell'Ovest".
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-30
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Cuore matto... matto da legare
Overview: Tony is in love with Carla, a young student of architecture, but his parents want him to marry Erminia, a rich but ugly girl.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-07-29
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Come scopersi l'America
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-01-18
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Due bianchi nell'Africa nera
Overview: To follow the beautiful Frida, Franco and Ciccio leave for Africa, where the adventurer Berrendero enlists them in a band of mercenaries. Franchi and Ingrassia in a daring parody of "Tarzan".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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Heroic Charge
Overview: In 1941 an Italian regiment known as the Savoy Cavalry is sent by Mussolini to Russia to assist the German invasion. After crossing an extensive area of Soviet territory the men arrive at a village that seems deserted. A patrol sent on reconnaissance comes under machine-gun fire from the top of a bell-tower.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-25
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La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna
Overview: To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-07
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Dad Becomes Mom
Overview: The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-26
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Le sette vipere (Il marito latino)
Overview: Lorenzo is an industrialist married in Argentina to a cruel woman who manages to have all her husband's assets seized, to throw him out of the house and to be awarded the two children born of the unhappy marriage. The desperate industrialist repairs in Italy, where he takes with him the children he has kidnapped and the affectionate secretary. But even in Italy the law is against him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-11
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Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
Overview: A noble family assigns their younger son to the convent. The youngster has an affair with a novice, who becomes pregnant. The brothers, exasperated by his arrogance, denounce him to the Inquisition. As a punishment, the boy is walled up alive and released after fifty years. Due to a mysterious miracle, however, he remained as he is, just like the novice he impaled.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-06
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Seven Slaves Against the World
Overview: Tribune Marcus Aulus, out of favor in Rome because of his alleged sympathy for Christians, arrives to take charge of an aqueduct project on the hot, arid fringes of the Empire. Centurion Gaius, cruel and corrupt, resents being replaced by Marcus. He instigates a revolt by his slave-workers, then blames the situation on Marcus. During the revolt, five muscular slaves escape. They meet up with fellow escapee Balisten, a farmer unjustly condemned to the aqueduct project. Balisten, impressed by Marcus's enlightened attitudes, has rescued the Tribune from the revolt. The six slaves, with Marcus's advice, plan to gain their freedom using their prowess as gladiators. Marcus plans to clear his name and to re-unite with his fiancée, Claudia, recently arrived from Rome. Gaius plans to kill Marcus and thus hide the truth about the slave revolt. Brawls and fights both inside and outside the arena come thick and fast.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-28
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Sistemo l'America e torno
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-16
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A qualcuna piace calvo
Overview: Two girls (a secretary and a musician) disguise themselves as men in order to work for a famous bald actor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-30
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Agguato sul Bosforo
Overview: After finding a very precious and huge diamond, the famous geologist Hutton mysteriously disappears. The discovery of this jewel sparked a battle between the international underworld.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-21
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Jacob: The Man Who Fought with God
Overview: Biblical figure Jacob is forced to flee for his life when an enraged Esau vows to kill him.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-04-05
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Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-10
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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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Un caso di coscienza
Overview: Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-04
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La paura fa 90
Overview: A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good bloke and when he gets the occasion he helps a youth wrongly accused of murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-23
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Hot Frustrations
Overview: Seduced by a Don Juan working for a gang of pimps, a young girl ends up in a brothel.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-06-02
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Easy Years
Overview: A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-12
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Two Gangsters in the Wild West
Overview: In the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two mules, when they are helped to escape by an American who says he is a friend of their grandfathers, who were killed in Texas by a gang of bandits who wanted to take over their gold mine. The two friends travel to America to take posses of the gold mine, but they soon discover that they are not the only ones who want it.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-06-30
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Heroes Without Glory
Overview: Major Briggs, one stiff upper-lipped Brit, receives a hand-to-head treatment in a North African bar. Impressed, he recruits the most skilled American specialists to help him blow up Rommel's most treasured ammo depot. Perilous desert journey awaits them, especially given an inevitable rendezvous with one immoral priest, a German nurse right beside him.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-07-28
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Lost in the Dark
Overview: Naples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries to blackmail the father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-09
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The Beast in Heat
Overview: In a remote village in occupied Europe, the SS pursue their inhuman treatment of captured partisans in efforts to force them to betray their comrades.... while Fraulein Krast, a sadistic biologist, concentrates her efforts on the womenfolk with refined tortures and humiliation, leaving them to the mercy of a sex-crazed half-man, half-beast she has created with experimental injections.... And as advancing Allied forces approach the village, Krast herself becomes a victim of her own fiendish rituals....
Genres: Horror Thriller War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-07-19
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Blood for a Silver Dollar
Overview: Two brothers part company only to be reunited when one is hired to stop a thief who turns out to be his sibling.
Genres: Western Action Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-08
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Colorado Charlie
Overview: When Sheriff Bill marries, he moves to another village to lead a more peaceful life. His replacement is killed by Colorado Charlie and his gang. The town sends for Bill, who returns unarmed because his wife has hidden his gun. When Colorado Charlie demands a shoot-out, Bill's wife relents and gives him back his weapon After Bill kills the bandit, his wife agrees to his return as sheriff.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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Secret Confessions in a Cloistered Convent
Overview: A young libertine after a series of love affairs, to escape the wrath of the betrayed husband disguises himself as a monk and hides in a convent where one immediately realizes how much his presence is very welcome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Devil and Holy Water
Overview: Bruno Marangoni, former center-forward of Rome, has fallen into disgrace due to a series of injuries, and now lives with gimmicks and small scams. At the height of despair he decides to commit suicide but is saved by the parish priest of a village, so he decides to move to the rectory
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-09-23
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Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici
Overview: A Milanese industrialist goes to Rome to bribe a politician but he loses money. A thief helps him recover them. Milan and Rome in comparison in the duets of the couple Pozzetto-Milian.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-03-26
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Carmen di Trastevere
Overview: Carmen, wife of a certain Vincenzo detained for theft, chooses Antonio as a friend. When the husband is released from prison, he accepts the relationship in progress and continues to use the woman in his shady businesses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-11-22
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Crime at the Chinese Restaurant
Overview: The officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnappeded by the murderer in the course of the inquiry. In the end the case is worked out.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-11-19
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The Lovemakers
Overview: Carlo Danieli, an industrialist of Sicilian origins, manages a French fries company. The man marries Elena, his girlfriend for years, who has decided to remain a virgin until the wedding day. The man is a great womanizer and is surprised by the revelation, so much so that on the first night he is unable to consummate the relationship. The word soon spread and the mother of the bride, Donna Virginia, urged her son-in-law to apply. Carlo then tries to find a solution before it's too late and his mother-in-law thinks that throwing him into the arms of a professional is the ideal ploy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-19
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The Price of Death
Overview: Four people are killed in a saloon hold-up. The townspeople pin the murders on local no-count black sheep Chester Conway. Lawyer Jeff Plummer and prostitute Polly Winters don't believe that Chester is guilty of these crimes, so they hire smooth and suave gunman Silver to prove Chester's innocence and find the real killers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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Spirits of the Dead
Overview: Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
Genres: Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-05-16
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Paths of War
Overview: Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's republican troops. They end up in the Far West with the army fighting the Indians and with their ineptitude they contribute to the army's defeat.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-26
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Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera
Overview: A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl is only interested in his title and plans a divorce, but after a while she also grows fond of him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-29
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Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
Overview: Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-24
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Brutti di notte
Overview: Franco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The doctor prescribes a very special treatment for the patient: an intense love life. The man's wife, aware that she is part of the problem, decides to get a facial and to meet her husband in disguise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-14
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Roaring Years
Overview: In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-21
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Shotgun
Overview: In a small western town our hero Durango delivers his prisoner to the jailhouse and then goes to the local saloon where the lady saloon owner Joanne has eyes only for him. But Durango only has eyes for his bride-to-be Lucy. Four masked men attack Lucy's father's farm and steal Lucy's dowry. They kill Lucy and her parents after the father strips the face mask from one of the bandits. A pocket watch is stripped from one of the bandits by Lucy's father and this is the only clue that Durango will have to revenge his love... With Joanne's help can Durango avenge himself?
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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It's a Woman's War
Overview: A girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her boy-friend, whom she believes to be a womanizer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-12
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God Is My Colt
Overview: A gang of landgrabbers, led by Mexican bandit Manuel, terrorizes the small town of Landford City. The sheriff asks the army for help, which orders Captain Mike Jackson to see what is going on in his old home town and also search for a government agent who has disappeared in that area. Jackson immediately finds himself in the middle of fistfights and shoot-outs with the bandits, who not only have a tight grip on the local farmers but also force Mary, the woman Jackson once intended to marry, to work as a saloon girl.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-11-18
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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Overview: During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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The Slaughter of the Vampires
Overview: On their wedding night, a newlywed couple find themselves menaced by a bloodthirsty vampire.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-06
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La Dolce Vita
Overview: Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-05
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Interpol
Overview: Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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Bread, Love and Dreams
Overview: When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-22
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Fiamme sul mare
Overview: A former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-04-28
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Sign of Zorro
Overview: General Gutierrez, the evil governor of Mexico, terrorizes the people and demands high taxes. The young Ramon Martiney, after discovering that his father was murdered by Gutierrez, dons the mask of Zorro and starts fighting against the injustice.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-04-05
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The Firemen of Viggiù
Overview: In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-04-16
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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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Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest
Overview: Italy's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and San Antonio. Did Franco crash his bike through Ciccio's new stained glass window on purpose or was he just in town for their mutual confession? Their main beef with each other concerns their opposing football teams and this feud takes up a great deal of the picture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-04-16
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Crazy, Crazy Love
Overview: Ninetto De Terenzi is a Roman who lives for the day, helping a lawyer in his intrigues and acting as a stunt double for a cheating engineer; he disapproves of the relationship his widowed mother has with a married man and is engaged to a good worker, whom she tries to betray.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-11
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The Temptation of Dr. Antonio
Overview: Dr. Antonio Mazzuolo obsessively fights against what he perceives as immorality in Rome, only to be driven mad by a seductive billboard of Anita Ekberg that haunts him with hallucinations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-23
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Attendimi - Sono io l'assassino
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-09-15
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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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