Sylva Koscina
Also Known As: Сильва Кошина, S. Koscina, Silva Koscina, Silvia Koscina, Sylvia Koscina, سیلوا کوشچینا
Biography: Sylva Koscina (Italian pronunciation: [ˈsilva ˈkɔʃʃina]; born Silvija Košćina, pronounced [sǐlʋija kǒʃtɕina]; 22 August 1933 – 26 December 1994) was a Yugoslav-born Italian actress, maybe best remembered for her role as Iole, the bride of Hercules (Steve Reeves) in Hercules (1958) and Hercules Unchained (1960). She also played Paul Newman's romantic interest in The Secret War of Harry Frigg (1968). Description above from the Wikipedia article Sylva Koscina, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Zagreb, Croatia, Yugoslavia (now Zagreb, Croatia)
Adult: No
Birthday: August 22, 1933
Age: 91 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: December 26, 1994
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Hot Enough for June
Overview: A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Great Swindle
Overview: A seductive woman gets involved in relationships with several people. All of the characters play games of deceit with one and other and things get more and more dangerous.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-03-06
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Casanova & Co.
Overview: While hiding from the royal authorities, Giacomo Casanova, the famous romancer, encounters his look-alike: Giacomino, a fugitive petty con man. Meanwhile, the Arabian Caliph and his wife are arriving in Venice for a state visit, and she insists on a night with the legendary lover. Through a series of erotic encounters and mistaken-identity comedies, Giacomo and Giacomino make their way back to Venice for their appointment with the Caliph's wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-01
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Lisa and the Devil
Overview: Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon she is sucked into a vortex of deception, debauchery and evil presided over by housekeeper Leandre.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-05-08
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Deadlier Than the Male
Overview: British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-12
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That Man in Istanbul
Overview: An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, but ultimately becomes self on the search for the disappeared and gets a striving for world domination secret organization.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-08-11
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The Secret War of Harry Frigg
Overview: When 5 allied generals are captured in Italy in WWII, it is a propaganda nightmare for the allies. The generals are all 1 star and refuse to take orders from each other in order to plan an escape. Harry Frigg is a private who has escaped from the guard house dozens of times. He is promoted to Major General and ordered to get the generals out once he is captured. Harry is willing to escape, but then he meets the countess...
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-29
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Three Bites of the Apple
Overview: A tour guide wins a large sum of money at a casino and a beautiful woman schemes at have it, but love complicates her plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-24
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The Swordsman of Siena
Overview: A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-19
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The Crimes of the Black Cat
Overview: In Copenhagen, a blind pianist hunts the culprit in string of murders, each linked by the presence of a yellow shawl and a black cat.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-12
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The Traffic Policeman
Overview: An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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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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Ace
Overview: Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the "final" game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-04-09
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Oh! Sabella
Overview: Raffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He immediately goes to Pollena to be beside her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-08-29
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La nipote Sabella
Overview: Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-20
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Una storia di notte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Toto in Paris
Overview: Duclos's son, a worldly gangster, is compromised in a case of which he is innocent. The proof of this innocence is in the hands of a "competitor", the Marquis de Chemantel de Beauvoiron, a misguided aristocrat. He asked for $ 10 million to cede the document. Duclos will then imagine Chemantel contracting $ 10 million in life insurance for his son. As he discovered in Rome a tramp, a look-alike of the marquis, he will bring this man to Paris and arrange for him to die accidentally.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-10-23
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Made in Italy
Overview: A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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Hercules Unchained
Overview: En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
Genres: Fantasy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-14
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Hercules
Overview: In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-02-20
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I See Naked
Overview: Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-17
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He Thief, She Thief
Overview: Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-12
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Love on the Riviera
Overview: It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-27
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Cinderella '80
Overview: A feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility. There's a fairy stand-in in the form of a spaced-out astrologer, a dance, and she even loses a shoe at one point. Care to venture a guess how it all turns out?
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-02-16
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Totò in the Moon
Overview: Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-28
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Magic Touch
Overview: Andrea, a forty-year old engineer, suddenly becomes unemployed while his wife France gets a promotion. He is very down hearted and since he does not want to be a burden to his family he takes the place of the house maid.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-27
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Let's Talk About Women
Overview: Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-28
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Judex
Overview: Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name, about an adventurer named Judex whose revenge against the corrupt banker Favraux unleashes a complicated series of schemes.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-04
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Witness to Murder
Overview: The director of a school is surprised by a student when murdering someone. He must kill the only eyewitness too, but his only clue is a number 32 shoeprint.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-04-20
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La cambiale
Overview: The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred thousand lire from the famous financier Bruscatelli, who ends up in prison immediately afterwards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-19
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The Dictator's Guns
Overview: An experienced skipper is hired to buy a boat from an American heiress in the Caribbean, but when the boat vanishes and bodies surface, he realizes he’s been framed for arms trafficking.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-06-18
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The Railroad Man
Overview: Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes. A check up by a doctor reveals that he's at the brink of becoming an alcoholic. Due to this evaluation he is degraded and must accept a salary cut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-11-21
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The Iron Mask
Overview: The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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This and That
Overview: Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso' (the one with the red beret). Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance. In fact she always remember her mother having sex with a man wearing a red beret. She discovers that man is Sandro, makes love with him and soon recovers from her obsession.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-12-21
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Michael Strogoff
Overview: When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, Czar Alexander II of Russia entrusts the brave officer Michael Strogoff with a dangerous mission.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-12-14
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A Lovely Way to Die
Overview: A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system. He becomes a bodyguard of a rich recent widow. She is on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name... and get over her husband.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-19
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Hornets' Nest
Overview: An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-08
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The Woman's Confidant
Overview: A veterinarian in Figarolo, Giuliano Goberti has also been providing care to the villagers since the death of Dr. Lofal, but the arrival of a luscious replacement for the vacant doctor precipitates events. While she prescribes drugs, Giuliano orders the bedridden Countess to eat well and exercise. A Roman journalist reports on the miraculous results. Soon the quiet little Italian town is invaded by a motley crew of imaginary patients, who have to bring an animal with them to save the vet from trouble for practicing medicine illegally. In the end, the brave Giuliano marries the lovely doctoress, thus curing their celibacy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-06-20
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Female Three Times
Overview: The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in Rome. Upon arriving at the 'Eternal City', the Russian athletes find ways to evade the strict surveillance and meet some Italian guys. After many persecutions, the Russians are confined by their guardians under the promise that, if they win, they can stay and live in Italy. But as they conquer the championship, their guards forget the promises and put them on a plane to Moscow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-10-25
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The Masseuses
Overview: Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-20
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So Sweet, So Dead
Overview: A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-07-18
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Girl's Apartment
Overview: Tibere is a small-time hood who tries to get one of three airline hostesses to help him in his gold-smuggling operation in this light comedy. One woman is a snob, the second is adventurous, and Melanie is sentimental about love. When Melanie and Tibere fall for each other, he is inspired to give up his life of crime for the woman he loves.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-04
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Siege of Syracuse
Overview: Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle for power. The fate of Syracuse lies in the hands of its leader, the famed inventor and scientist Archimedes.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-17
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Love in Four Dimensions
Overview: Young Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love. "Love and Language," the first tale, centers on the difficulties of a Sicilian immigrant who is unable to master proper Italian. the second tale "Love and Life" centers on a jealous and unhappy wife who becomes so desperate to be free of her constantly philandering husband she takes on a lover of her own. "Love and Art" a nearly exhausted screenwriter hires a secretary to help manage his typing. She's a pretty lass and this makes his insecure wife crazy until he fires the female and hires a male secretary. "Love and Death," the final episode centers on the love affair between a middle-aged widower and the grieving young widow he meets at the cemetery. Unfortuantely for his bank statement, the young, impoverished beauty isn't as bereaved as she seems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-21
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...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Overview: Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-13
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Trapped by Fear
Overview: Two French paras who had lived through deadly situations in Algeria, meet again in civil life. Frapier is a newspaper reporter, and one day finds his friend Porte - surrounded by the police after a car theft, and an accidental killing of a police officer. He helps him escape, and provides shelter with the complicity of his girlfriend Vera. Later, Frapier will have doubts about Vera's love, and lives a passionate night with beautiful Arabelle. However, he finds himself playing a game of life and death both with Vera, and Porte. It will end in sadness for one, and death for another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-04
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Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Overview: Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-22
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Uncle Was a Vampire
Overview: Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi is forced to sell his ancestral castle, staying on as a bellboy when it's converted into a hotel. However he becomes vampirized when his mysterious uncle comes to stay.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-28
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The Four Truths
Overview: "Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-21
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The Dove Must Not Fly
Overview: An undercover Nazi in Libya aims to steal fuel and deliver it to a specific location in the desert where an Italian bomber would refuel on its way to Allied target.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-11
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Dangerous Women
Overview: Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny instead is married to a ugly woman. Ornella is Bruno's wife, she is very jealous and maintains that all men are deceitful, granted the opportunity, while Claudine, Federico's wife, maintains the contrary point of view. So they bet that Tosca, a former dancer, will succeed in seducing Federico.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-26
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Blessed Are the Rich
Overview: Two brothers-in-law, a smuggler and the other traffic policeman, get hold of a large sum of money, destined for illegal exportation to Switzerland, after the courier is killed in a fire fight with the border police. The owners of the money, which occupy an important social position, try in every way to recover it, also leveraging the weakness of the policeman. After the petty betrayal of his brother-in-law, the smuggler decides to keep all the money and flee to Switzerland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-30
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Funny Money
Overview: Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-09
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Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move
Overview: Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, actress/singer who caused a scandal with her raunchy dancing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-20
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Guendalina
Overview: Wealthy teenager Guendalina is a child of divorce. Oberdan, likewise a teenager, is a boy from a blue-collar family. Escaping from the tribulations of her home life, Guendalina creates a dream world of her own, casting Oberdan as her personal Prince Charming. Despite parental objections, girl and boy fall in love. Interestingly enough, the relationship between Guendalina and Oberdan remains pure and chaste throughout their film, which is more than can be said for their parents. their respective parents behave with marked laciviousness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-03-14
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The Fight for Rome
Overview: A Roman noble, Cethegus, tries to start a war, setting the Ostrogoths and their Queen, Amalasuntha, against the Byzantine Emperor Justinian; Cethegus wants to swoop in after they have destroyed each other and create a new Roman Empire from their combined kingdoms; however, he does not factor into his plans the vagaries of love and the personal integrity of the people in both kingdoms.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-12-17
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Le pillole di Ercole
Overview: A doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an acquaintance's wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-10
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Corpse for the Lady
Overview: Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amount requested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-19
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The Battle of Neretva
Overview: In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-10-07
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Blood Feud
Overview: An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in person, he hired his former employee who needs money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-11
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Marquis de Sade: Justine
Overview: Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cope with an endless parade of villains, perverts and degenerates who will claim not only her treasured virtue but also her life.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-03
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The House of Exorcism
Overview: A re-edited version of Mario Bava's "Lisa and the Devil" for the U.S. market, including newly filmed scenes involving a possessed Lisa.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-02
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Sex of the Devil
Overview: After a relaxing anniversary cruise, Andrea and his wife Barbara are dropped off in Istanbul, Turkey. There, they meet Andrea’s reserved assistant Silvia and his Turkish colleague Omar, who hasn’t been back to his home country in fifteen years. Andrea’s secretary has arranged a luxurious seafront villa for them to stay in while they’re in the country. Upon arriving at the villa, Omar experiences an unsettling feeling of déjà vu, as though he has been in the house before, while the married couple can’t stop bickering. However, the vacation soon turns into a nightmare when mysterious and deadly events begin to unfold.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-01-26
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Vertigo For A Killer
Overview: Jean-Pierre Desagnat's Vertige pour un tueur involves Marc as a hood hunted down by his boss when he fails to execute a man who happens to be his friend. He is hidden by a woman whose husband has murdered his business associate and wants Marc to take the rap for the crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-08-05
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Homo Eroticus
Overview: Michele is a three-testicle, sexually insatiable man who goes around bedding all women in town (regardless of age), until one day things goes terribly wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-14
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Four Queens for an Ace
Overview: Hakim Gregory escapes from prison by killing a number of guards, and returns to his hide-out abroad, to lead again his gang of drug trafficking and contract murders. Layton of the Secret Service must discover, and arrest him. The difficult mission almost becomes impossible with the rivalry of Layton's partner, Petula, the jealousy of his bride, Marion, the possible treachery of a Spanish woman, Dolores Arrabal, and yet a mysterious and sexy informant, Rosario... Too many women for Layton.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-05
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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 Crusaders
Overview: The Mighty Crusaders (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata) is a 1957 film about the First Crusade, based on the 16th-century Italian poem Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso. This film was directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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The Little Nuns
Overview: Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-08-29
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African Story
Overview: African set action thriller
Genres: Adventure Thriller Mystery Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-21
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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 Scapegoat
Overview: Il Fornaretto di Venezia (US TV title: The Scapegoat) is a 1963 Italian film directed by Duccio Tessari who co-wrote screenplay with Marcello Fondato, based on novel by Francesco Dall'Ongaro. It tells the story of 16th century's Venice where a young worker is sentenced to death on the suspicion of attacking a noble.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-08-23
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You Shall Not Covet Your Neighbor's Wife
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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Poor Millionaires
Overview: After a series of misunderstandings and other unfortunate incidents, the honeymoon of two young couples ends sooner than planned. Back at their starting point, the ensuing conflict leads to one of the couples separating. Salvatore, who moves away, is hit in the street by a car and loses his memory: he has lost his memories of his friends and family - until he meets his wife Marisa, in which he falls in love again ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-05-02
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The Protagonists
Overview: An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in hiding. Under intermittent gunfire, they make their way to the mountain hideout of the bandit. After a leisurely conversation and photo session, the encampment comes under fire from a group of armed citizens acting as police. Bullets fly and violence overtakes the criminal's two henchman, as the thrill-seeking group and the wanted criminal find themselves under attack.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-06-07
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The Circular Triangle
Overview: Business tycoon dies in plane crash. Suspected, Georg, his main partner, Alain, a young Turkish finance, and Anna Maria, the group's proxy, are all seeking his succession.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-17
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Johnny Banco
Overview: A hustler of humble origins steals $200,000 from a gangster and heads to Monte Carlo.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-10
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Die Nacht der vier Monde
Overview: Psychological romance about a burglar and a paralyzed artist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-03-04
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Mariti in pericolo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-24
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Sunday Lovers
Overview: A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy"
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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Agent X-77 Orders to Kill
Overview: A government agent tries to prevent foreign spies from obtaining a scientist's formula for a solid-rocket-fuel.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Overview: Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-16
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Ricky & Barabba
Overview: A wealthy millionaire decided to commit suicide but meets a homeless with whom he experiences a lot of funny adventures until finally makes order in his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-12-19
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To Kill in Silence
Overview: Valeria and Gianni are students and soon begin a love affair. When she becomes pregnant, they have to face the decision to have the child or an abortion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza
Overview: A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head. But after the superticous Nicosia has an encounter with an elderly gypsy aunt, and a business trip to Romania results in another encounter with a suave vampire, named Count Dragalescu, Nicosia returns with blood-sucking like qualities which makes him re-examine his life and existence.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-21
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Quando gli angeli piangono
Overview: After the end of World War II, a man comes back to his former fiancée and finds out that she is married to an older man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-08
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Love, the Italian Way
Overview: A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-22
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The Modification
Overview: While on a train to Rome, Léon muses about his love life after leaving his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-07-31
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La salamandre d'or
Overview: In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon on their side. His mother, regent of the kingdom, commissioned the king's loyal equerry, Antoine de Montpezat, to raise a ransom of two million ecus and send it to Madrid. Despite the treachery of Vandoeuvre, governor of Languedoc and supporter of the connétable de Bourbon, who has his eye on the French throne, Montpezat accomplishes his mission and is reunited with his fiancée, who had almost married the traitor Vandoeuvre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-31
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Copacabana Palace
Overview: For three days at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, amorous cross-fertilizations are intertwined with petty tricks against the backdrop of the famous carnival festivities. Three (sympathetic) accomplices are beaten to a punch in the hotel vault; three charming stewardesses are looking for entertainment, but their three Carioca host, musicians Tom Jobim, Luiz Bonfá, and João Gilberto, are married; a man, separated from his wife, wants to catch her in the act of adultery.
Genres: Crime Comedy Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-11-03
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Juliet of the Spirits
Overview: Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-22
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Love and Marriage
Overview: An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-16
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Les jambes en l'air
Overview: Story of a marginal couple, César and Favouille, who set out to find their youngest daughter, who run away from home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-05-13
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My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure
Overview: In '500 a noble Tuscan gives a banquet in which they are told bawdy stories: a cardinal tells dirty stories during a banquet that turns into a purge; a marquise is induced into temptation by an abbot; a tintora has carnal relations with a brother, and the two have a son; prisoner of Charles V , Francis I of France has a relationship with two Spanish and get an acquittal advance by the Pope; a group of cardinals contain a prostitute during a council; the Marquis Cavalcanti, rejected by the bride, vents his cravings with a syphilitic prostitute.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-14
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Jessica
Overview: When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-19
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Money
Overview: On the theme "money is the driving force that drives man to commit follies to conquer them", this film presents a series of episodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-25
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Il morbidone
Overview: Study of a man whose basic sense of inferiority leads him from worse to worse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-30
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I piaceri dello scapolo
Overview: Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-30
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Nights of Boccaccio
Overview: Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron, and it is part of a series of derivative comedies based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-28
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Rimini Rimini
Overview: Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-02-27
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Thrilling
Overview: An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-21
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The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
Overview: The devious general Cethegus plays the Byzantine and Gothic forces against each other for his own gain.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-02-21
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Young Husbands
Overview: In a small Italian town, the local youngsters realize that their youth is coming to an end and marriage will soon follow. They gather together for one last time in an attempt to revive their younger days, but this comes to a dismal conclusion. Gradually it dawns on the group that childhood is over and the next stage in human growth must be faced.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-13
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The Innocent with Forty Children
Overview: Jean-François Robignac, a teacher, arrives at a provincial college to teach literature to ninth-graders. He quickly wins over the children with his youthful way with words. But his parents want to have him expelled when they learn that Jean-François uses slang words to rejuvenate writers' texts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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The Odyssey
Overview: An Italian made for television musical comedy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-12-13
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Engaged to Death
Overview: A tale of love, rivalry and passion set in the 50s, in the madcap world of motorcycle speed races, shot on the occasion of the main competitions of that time, such as Monza’s Moto GP and the last edition of the legendary Milano-Taranto race. With also very rare footage of the Moto Guzzi wind tunnel and factories. The film features, alongside popular actors Rik Battaglia and Sylva Koscina, many of the most important champions of those years: Geoffrey Duke, Libero Liberati, Bill Lomas, Enrico Lorenzetti, Reg Armstrong, Stanley Woods, Ken Cavanagh, Dickie Dale, Thomas Campbell, Pierre Monneret, Albino Milani, Walter Zeller, Bruno Francisci, all of them riding amazing Moto Guzzi, Gilera, Mondial and Norton bikes with the so charming and dangerous dustbin fairings that were going to be banned in 1958.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-04-13
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The Double Bed
Overview: Various sketches centered on alcove stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-08-06
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Ravishing
Overview: A womanizing pilot who is asked by a friend to intervene in one of the friend's romantic tangles. The pilot is quite willing to help out but then a confusion about the woman who is the target of the intervention causes a series of unexpected circumstances.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-12-14
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Destination Fury
Overview: Lemmy Caution has been assigned by Interpol to work as a double agent. Little does he know how many spies are on to this deception and how dangerous his assignment has become.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-07-23
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Las correrías del Vizconde Arnau
Overview: The actual Viscount Arnau wants to acquire the power and fame that had their ancestors. For this reason decided to hav many children, preferably males, to revive the Empire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-08-26
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Non sono più guaglione
Overview: A mechanic falls in love with a girl who aspires to become a diva.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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Are We Men or Corporals?
Overview: These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, suffering the harassment of Colonel Hammler, a Nazi cruel and despotic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-08-26
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Rampage
Overview: In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals and over Abbot's mistress, Anna.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-09
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The Author's Crime
Overview: Against the wishes of her Aunt Valeria, attractive Milena travels to Milan in order to secretly marry Marco Giraldi. Three years later, Milena returns to her hometown Fermo, where her husband's shoe business is in financial difficulties. Shortly afterwards, she is abducted, a valuable painting is stolen and Aunt Valeriais murdered. Two young villains, who carried out the dirty work, are then killed...
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Genitori in blue-jeans
Overview: Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-10
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Italy's in Season
Overview: This short film presents a look at Italy's popular tourist spots.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Surprises of Love
Overview: This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers. The script includes witty dialogue and humorous situations; most of all on display is the ridiculousness of the human compulsion to pair up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-02
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The Shortest Day
Overview: Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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