Franco Castellano
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Biography: Franco Castellano was born June 20, 1925 in Rome Italy, and died December 28, 1999, was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He wrote for 94 films between 1958 and 1997, He also directed 21 films between 1964 and 1992. His 1984 film Il ragazzo di campagna was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. About - Franco Castellano was born on 20 June 1925 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980), Madly in Love (1981) and The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars (1964). He died on 28 December 1999 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. Relatives - Noah D'castellano (grandson) Lorenzo Castellano (Children)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: San Vito al Tagliamento, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
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Il caso Fenaroli
Overview: Based on the true crime known as Mystery of Via Monaci or The Fenaroli case.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Riconciliati
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-03-15
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Intolerance
Overview: A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-11-11
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La donna della domenica
Overview: Based on a crime book by Italian authors Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini, first published in 1972. The story is set in the city of Turin, and deals with the investigation of commissioner Santamaria about the murder of an architect of dubious fame, Garrone. Among the protagonists are Anna Carla Dosio, a beautiful and rich woman, and her friend Massimo Campi, a rich homosexual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-04-11
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Puccini
Overview: Giacomo Puccini, the son of a Tuscan organist, achieves world-wide recognition as a composer of operas and dies from throat cancer in the middle of an artistic crisis, at the age of just sixty-six.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-03-01
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Cine Tempestose
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-10-04
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Luisa Spagnoli
Overview: This is a true story of Luisa Spagnoli who was an Italian businesswoman, famous for creating a women's fashion store and the chocolate brand, Perugia. The show is a romantic telling of her life. Considering that women were not involved in business, it is an amazing story of someone way ahead of her time.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-02-01
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Rita Levi-Montalcini
Overview: In 1986, Rita Levi-Montalcini receives the Nobel Prize, but something is missing. After meeting a young violinist, the scientist faces a difficult choice: take refuge in fame or get back in the game.
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-11-26
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Il sangue e la rosa
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-09-02
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Il mistero del cortile
Overview: Rome. Paola Angeli, a young psychiatrist, following her recent separation from her husband Alberto Salvi, a crime reporter, moved to an apartment overlooking a large courtyard, overlooked by a series of other buildings. It is Christmas. The city is becoming depopulated. Even the courtyard that Paola sees from her windows during long sleepless nights seems uninhabited apart from the few remaining tenants. One morning, not far from Paola's condominium, the body of an unidentified blonde girl is found in a dumpster. Alberto investigates the mysterious crime on behalf of his newspaper. Paola has the impression of having seen a blonde girl with a pair of very showy earrings enter building C the previous night. but Romolo, the building's doorman, excludes him because the tenants are all away on holiday.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-10-31
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L'ultimo Dei Corleonesi
Overview: The rise and fall of sicilian most important mafia bosses after WWII: Luciano Liggio, Totò Riina and Bernardo Provenzano, all from Corleone. Their friendship and struggle against italian state.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-02-14
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La Donna del Treno
Overview: A woman travels in a compartment of a train and a young man sits next to her with whom, almost immediately, sparks strike: once they arrive at their destination the boy realizes that the young lady has forgotten a book and so follows her to to return it. When the two are alone at home, without having even introduced themselves, they soon end up in each other's arms and spend an intense night of love. At dawn the man leaves. Also at dawn that same morning, a man is killed in his garage and it is soon discovered that he is the brother of the young man on the train.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-03-02
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La voce - Il talento può uccidere
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Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-05-07
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Un'isola d'inverno
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Barabbas
Overview: Barabbas or Jesus Barabbas (literally "son of the father" or "Jesus, son of the father" respectively) is a figure in the account of the Passion of Christ, in which he is the insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover feast in Jerusalem, instead of Jesus Christ.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-28
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Vorrei vederti ballare
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-12-06
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Mafalda of Savoy
Overview: The story of Mafalda is like the one of Cinderella, just the other way round. The dramatic real story of a Italian princess, born and raised in the comforts of a golden court, who will be forced by war to share the fate of ordinary people in a concentration camp. Mafalda di Savoia was chosen to represent the decline of nobility and the errors of war, which separate and destroy even noble families. Mafalda is a victim of political strategies that overlook her, and her tragic death shows the levelling power of war, that forces poor and rich alike to share the same destiny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-11-28
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Bartali: The Iron Man
Overview: TV Miniseries (2 episodes) about life and rivalry of italian bikers Gino Bartali and Fausto Coppi.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-03-26
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Enrico Mattei
Overview: Giorgio Capitani reconstructs in the Rai TV film the parable of the famous entrepreneur, in a product that in technical terms does not escape the logic of television, but still manages to offer an interesting picture of a key figure of postwar Italy.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-05-03
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Rose's Songs
Overview: Autumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapest, await the tragic fulfilment of their fate with helpless resignation. However, above one of the city's villas, once a week in the evening the stars of hope sparkle, if only for a few minutes. This short time gives fresh heart to those hiding here and kindles hope in their tortured souls to live for another day. This mysterious power is none other than a beautiful song that can be heard at such times from the villa's tower room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2003-03-19
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Un uomo perbene
Overview: In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
Genres: Drama Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-10-01
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Hannover
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-12-10
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Jeremiah
Overview: The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-14
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Solo per Dirti Addio
Overview: Stefano is found dead in his car, killed by exhaust fumes that he himself had channeled into the cabin through a hose. Everyone believes it to be a suicide, and even the magistrate handling the case closes the investigation. But his mother doesn’t agree and, with the help of two friends, sets out to uncover the truth.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-03-08
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Tra due risvegli
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-05-04
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