Clelia Matania
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: September 18, 1918
Age: 106 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 13, 1981
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Don't Look Now
Overview: While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-11
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Stasera sciopero
Overview: A scientist combines two brains during an operation to create one perfect mind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-14
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Italy is Rotten
Overview: Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-13
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Dappled Mare
Overview: Ruggero Pascoli, the father of poet Giovanni Pascoli, is killed by a corrupt officer. His body is brought back home by a mare that will, several years later, reveal the one responsible for the murder.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-23
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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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Turcaret
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-11-14
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A che servono questi quattrini?
Overview: Marquis Eduardo Parascandolo, after having squandered all his possessions for not having cared about his finances, spends his time professing to some young people his philosophy of life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-04-06
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Toto and the Women
Overview: Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-20
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The Rape of the Sabine
Overview: Ernesto is the teacher of the village, he is married and he is dominated by his wife. He has the passion of the theatre and he has written a drama in verse named "Il ratto delle Sabine". Unfortunately he has only an admirer and she is their servant Rosina. When the touring company of Prof. Tromboni arrives in the village, Ernesto decides to let them perform his play, though anonymously. So the day arrives and the theatre is sadly empty. But when the news that the author is the teacher spreads far and wide...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-11-21
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Napoli che non muore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-01-18
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100 Little Mothers
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-01-11
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Campane a martello
Overview: Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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Seven Hills of Rome
Overview: After having a fight with his girl friend, Marc follows her to Rome to try and win her back. On the train he meets a girl who is on her way to stay with her uncle. He gives her a lift to her uncle's, but they discover he has gone to South America. So as she has nowhere else to go, she stays with Marc and his cousin, which inevitably leads to romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-21
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Casanova farebbe così!
Overview: A country braggart bets that he can spend a night with a local beauty. When he is surprised by her husband, he is not only forced to pay his friends money but also challenged to come up with a new identity other than Casanova or Don Juan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-12-05
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Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
Overview: Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-20
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The Monte Carlo Story
Overview: Stylish, sophisticated and absolutely broke, Dino and Maria pursue a romance until they realize neither of them has any money, which forces the gold diggers to turn their attention to a wealthy widower and his daughter. A compulsive gambler who owes several anxious investors a small fortune, Dino has trouble cutting his losses, no matter how bad the losing streak.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-19
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Seven Hours of Troubles
Overview: Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart and rents Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are awaiting for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-17
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Napoli sole mio
Overview: Lorella must marry Dr. Matteini, but when she goes to Naples to meet him, she meets Michele, who sings in restaurants. The fateful spark is ignited, and although Michele is poor, Lorella decides to marry him against his mother's wishes.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-18
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Man, Beast and Virtue
Overview: Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-05-09
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Roland the Mighty
Overview: In this sword-and-sandal saga set on the steppes of Asia, Roland, leader of the Paladin troops, who must proves his mettle against the dreaded Saracen invaders, and withstand their evil plots
Genres: War History Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-06
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Follies of the Century
Overview: An aging count courts a beautiful singer who is also wooed by his son-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-09-10
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I figli del marchese Lucera
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Notte di fiamme
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Il medico dei pazzi
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-15
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La fortuna con l'effe maiuscola
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-17
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Il socio invisibile
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Conquered City
Overview: Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed in Italy and filmed in Greece. An Athens hotel, full of refugees and expatriates of all nationalities, is captured by Allied troops in the closing days of the War. British Major David Niven has been ordered to prevent a cache of weapons hidden in the hotel from falling into the hands of renegade troops. He cannot allow himself to trust anyone--not even the most innocent-looking (or attractive) of guests. Originally titled La Citta Prigioniera. Conquered City was released in English-speaking countries outside the U.S. as Captive City.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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If I Was Honest
Overview: The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-02-12
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Cantando sotto le stelle
Overview: A man finds out that he won the lottery and travels to Rome to retrieve the other half of his winning ticket.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Moglie e buoi...
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Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-10-23
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Neapolitan Carousel
Overview: Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-14
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Perdono
Overview: Federico, his girlfriend Laura and her cousin, Caterina, are three young people full of hope, united by a great friendship that seems indissoluble. The three work in a department store but, when Caterina decides to attempt a musical career, given her vocal skills, everything changes. Caterina becomes a successful singer and Federico falls in love with her. Caterina, who however does not want to make her cousin Laura suffer, pretends not to reciprocate the young man by making him put his head in order. Meanwhile, the plots of various secondary characters evolve, in particular the fresh marriage between the security guard Antonio and the secretary of the department stores Adelina.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-06
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No One Can Judge Me
Overview: Two youths who work together in a department store love each other but also their supervisor has his eyes on the young girl.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-05-27
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Night Ride
Overview: Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of business, from sending his pretty daughter to seduce them to having his henchmen sabotage their trucks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-28
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I giorni più belli
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-08-13
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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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Inventiamo l'amore
Overview: A young man from the provinces who inherited a certain sum, decides to go to Rome to devote himself to the cinematographic activity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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La fuggitiva
Overview: In the absence of the biological mother, too busy pursuing her theatrical career, we see the glorification of the maternal surrogate, a woman who is a paragon of sacrifice and self-abnegation. La Fuggitiva is also a film in which a child actress takes a prominent role. In this sentimental drama, the little girl suffers for and rebels against the loneliness and neglect stemming from the lack of a mother and a loving family setting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-11-02
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Fast and Sexy
Overview: A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-04-18
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The Confession
Overview: What is the mystery behind the murder of an apparently innocent man? Who was so afraid of the secrets he knew that they would kill him?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-04
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The Apartment
Overview: A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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The Policeman on Horseback
Overview: A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-07-29
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A Virgin Named Mary
Overview: A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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Defend My Love
Overview: As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-12
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Just Before Nightfall
Overview: A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-31
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The Baby Sitter
Overview: Michelle, a French sculptor living in Rome, is told of a job babysitting a rich man's son by her new friend Ann, an actress. When she arrives at the boy's house, she discovers that he in fact has been kidnapped...
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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The Tough and the Mighty
Overview: Based on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-23
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Papà per una notte
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-08-07
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Escapade in Florence
Overview: American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they accidentally discover an art forgery ring in Florence, Italy.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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I morti non pagano tasse
Overview: The accountant Marco Vecchietti, a modest civil servant, leads a miserable life amidst the ferocious jokes of his colleagues, the reproaches of his mother-in-law, taxes, debts and citations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-17
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Guai ai vinti
Overview: A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman discover they are pregnant. After a suicide attempt, one has an abortion the other keeps her child - and both faces struggles with friends and family as they return to their homes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-09-15
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The Boarder
Overview: A prostitute goes on vacation to a beach resort with her young daughter (who's being schooled by nuns). Everything is cheerful and pleasant at the seashore; the customers at the hotel think she's a poor widow - she always wears black - and treat her like a lady. But when one of her former clients arrives, her carefree days on the beach are numbered.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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Primo amore
Overview: An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-10-05
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Sempre più difficile
Overview: Sicily, early 1900s. An impoverished prince settles into the house of a rich shipowner and becomes his counselor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-05-01
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11 men and a ball
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-10-24
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City of Violence
Overview: Amore e sangue (released in the U.S. as "City of Violence"), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as "John Wolff") West German/Italian romantic action adventure war thriller.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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The Hussars
Overview: Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in search of their mounts. But when they are mistaken for deserters, their regiment gives chase.
Genres: War Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-14
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Indiscretion of an American Wife
Overview: While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-02
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Bequest to the Nation
Overview: Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-18
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Farewell, My Beautiful Naples
Overview: In Naples, a local composer falls in love with an American tourist.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Pecado de amor
Overview: Nun Belen works as a spiritual guide in a women's prison. Is a very understanding woman, possibly due to her past. At the past she was Magda, the star of the cabaret "The Mill of Twenty." She was attractive, young and admired by the public, she had it all, but three very different men end up marking her destination. A fate that is inexorably opposed to her happiness.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-12-14
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Giudicatemi!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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La compagnia della teppa
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-05-06
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La bisarca
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-04
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Five Golden Hours
Overview: A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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The Wastrel
Overview: A wealthy and self-serving man, sets out on a perilous ocean voyage with his son. An unexpected incident with the vessel causes him to reflect on his not so perfect life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-24
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Roland the Mighty
Overview: In this sword-and-sandal saga set on the steppes of Asia, Roland, leader of the Paladin troops, who must proves his mettle against the dreaded Saracen invaders, and withstand their evil plots
Genres: War History Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-06
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Rapina al Quartiere Ovest
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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SuperTotò
Overview: Directed by Brando Giordani and Emilio Ravel
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-04-18
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