Venantino Venantini
Also Known As: Vernon Vernons, Van Tenney, Enrico Venantino Venantini
Biography: Venantino Venantini (17 April 1930 – 9 October 2018) was an Italian film actor. He was the father of Victoria Venantini and Luca Venantini and appeared in more than 140 films between 1954 and 2018. He made his debut in the cinema with an appearance in Un giorno in pretura under the direction of Steno and he had his first important role in Odissea Nuda (1961), directed by Franco Rossi. Among the almost 150 films he performed in, some became cult favorites such as Les Tontons flingueurs, Amore libero - Free Love, Black Emanuelle and City of the Living Dead. He acted with actors such as Lino Ventura, Yves Montand, Alain Delon and Gérard Depardieu and for directors such as Ettore Scola, Luciano Salce and Dino Risi and for French film directors such as Georges Lautner, Gérard Oury and Claude Lelouch. Source: Article "Venantino Venantini" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fabriano, Marche, Italy
Birthday: April 17, 1930
Deathday: October 09, 2018
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Could This Be Love?
Overview: Lucas, a wealthy, 43 year-old divorced businessman, is irresistibly attracted to Elsa, a 38 year old renowned sculptor from whom he has commissioned a piece to decorate the reception at his office.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-02-08
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Number One
Overview: This raw Italian political melodrama investigates the underbelly of Rome in the early '70s, exposing drugs, crime, and sexual scandals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-05-28
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La Cage aux Folles
Overview: Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-25
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Madame, nuda è arrivata la straniera
Overview: In order to correct inaccuracies that appeared after her tragic experience in New York, fashion designer Madame Fisher tells her life story to a journalist. A life made of terrible loss, love, debauchery and rise in the world of fashion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-09-07
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City of the Living Dead
Overview: A woman seemingly dies of fright after participating in a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns that the priest's suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell and must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-08-11
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I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Overview: Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-03-26
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Cannibal Apocalypse
Overview: Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.
Genres: Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-08-04
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Cannibal Ferox
Overview: Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-04-24
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Crooks in Clover
Overview: An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-27
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The Return of James Battle
Overview: James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it goes sour, he ends up in prison with a 133-year sentence. Bataille escapes from behind bars to make an appointment to fix the car of music biz tycoon, as well as watch the love of his life take part in the town's annual talent show.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-07-21
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The Sucker
Overview: In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-03-24
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Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman
Overview: Emmanuelle returns to her husband in Hong Kong and proceeds to have several extramarital affairs -- with his knowledge, of course. Her husband's lover and American guest are both very puzzled by their openness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-15
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Black Emanuelle
Overview: Internationally-renowned photographer Mae Jordan, professionally known as 'Emanuelle', is hired by a wealthy British expat to go to Nairobi to shoot the ruins and wildlife. While there, she explores sexual situations with her hosts and their friends.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-11-27
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Flying Sex
Overview: An ice queen takes a plane ride and discovers that flying is her g-spot, or least the gateway to sexual inhibition.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-07
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The Red Headed Corpse
Overview: An alcoholic artist, who may in fact have been driven to murder, seeks inspiration from a mannequin.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-10
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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Overview: This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-06
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
Overview: During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-16
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Emma Hamilton
Overview: The Making of a Lady: The Story of Lady Hamilton is a 1968 historical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Michèle Mercier, Richard Johnson and John Mills.[1] It was based on the novel La San-Felice by Alexandre Dumas and depicts the love affair between Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson. It was a co-production between Italy, West Germany, France and the United States.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-28
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Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-14
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The Biggest Battle
Overview: A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-07
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Concorde Affair
Overview: A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-23
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First Love
Overview: Ugo is an old actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the rules of the other old people so he escapes with a young girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-11-10
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There Once Was a Cop
Overview: Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-02-11
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The Big Grasshopper
Overview: While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets lost on his way, falling in love with Salène, a.k.a. "La grande sauterelle"...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-11
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Free Love
Overview: An engineer named Francesco arrives on Emerald Island in the Seychelles and is instantly smitten with the local girl Jeanine, whose sister ran off with the previous engineer -- neither of them to be seen again.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-14
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Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes
Overview: In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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From Corleone to Brooklyn
Overview: Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his prisoner face a series of traps set up by the Mafia.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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Galia
Overview: Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening, whilst walking along the banks of the River Seine, she saves a young woman from drowning. The woman, Nicole, tells Galia that she intended to drown herself, having left a suicide note for her husband, Greg. Having settled Nicole in her apartment, Galia sets out to recover the suicide note, but waits so that she can observe Greg’s reaction. When Greg appears unmoved by the note, Galia decides to wait for him at the art gallery where he works...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-26
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Giggi il bullo
Overview: Giggi is a city boy convinced that "in life you must always hit first". And, good or bad, he gains a certain popularity between beatings, dates and blows taken.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-08-20
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The Fuhrer Runs Amok
Overview: France and Germany are at war. Adolf Hitler challenges the Allies to seal the fate of the war by playing a football match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-12
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The War Devils
Overview: A German Captain and an American Captain help each other survive the North African desert during WWII. They meet again a year later during combat operations in France.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-19
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Exterminators of the Year 3000
Overview: It's the year 3000 and a nuclear war has turned the earth into a desert wasteland. A group of survivors living in a cave run out of water and desperately need to locate a new supply. The last guy they sent out to find water never returned, and now his 10 year old son Timmy wants to join the next search team. They think they know where there's an untapped well of water, but to get there they have to travel through dangerous terrain controlled by a savage gang of motorcyclists under the bloodthirsty reign of 'Crazy Bull'. On their mission, Timmy and his team run into a lonesome stranger named Alien (Robert Iannucci) who may be able to help them against the marauding motorcyclists. Can the struggling survivors looking for water in this barren world defeat Crazy Bull and his exterminating minions? Hang on tight - the battle has just begun!
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-08-13
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A Day in Court
Overview: A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-28
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The Priest's Wife
Overview: After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman attempts suicide but survives and falls for the priest who took her call, leading to complications with his vow of celibacy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-22
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Vanille fraise
Overview: Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-11-29
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Erotissimo
Overview: Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy advertising on the streets, sexy intimate clothing in ladies' shops, and even talks about sex and marital infidelity with her mother and female friends, Annie starts feeling left aside by her husband, and trying to attract in a number of ways - and failing. It's not the all-purpose secretary at the office that is keeping him late, it's a tax expert that, asking the most innocent questions, is finding out how Philippe can manage a company without profits, and still manage a home, may be two... with high quality levels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-06-07
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
Overview: During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-16
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The Very Private Life of Mister Sim
Overview: Mister Sim is of no concern whatsoever. At least, this is what he thinks about himself. His wife has left him, his job has left him, and when goes to see his father in a remote part of Italy, not even Dad has the time to have lunch with him. He then receives an unexpected offer: to travel through France selling toothbrushes that will "revolutionize oral-dental hygiene." He takes advantage of the job to catch up with people from his childhood, to meet the first big love of his life, along with his daughter, and to make amazing discoveries and, in so doing, rediscover himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-16
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Balearic Caper
Overview: A scepter is stolen, and it's hunted for by various groups of international robbers and spies, for various reasons - in a parody of 007 movies.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-03-10
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The Restaurant
Overview: A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-09-09
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The Police Serve the Citizens?
Overview: In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that controls the port activities. But the law restrains his action.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-06
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Anzio
Overview: American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-07-24
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Delusions of Grandeur
Overview: Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-08
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Odissea nuda
Overview: A director arrives in Tahiti to make a film, but soon he lets himself be captured by the exotic charm of the local places and beauties. with E. Salerno.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-04-20
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Playgirl 70
Overview: Italian comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-27
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Rene the Cane
Overview: "René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming after "Le Trio Infernal" (1974) and before "La Banquière" (1980). His film is an adaptation of a story by Roger Borniche about the gangster René Girier and relates the fantastic adventures of a flamboyant mobster (René/Gérard Depardieu) and a maverick police inspector (Fernand la Sournoise/Michel Piccoli), through the 1940s.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-02-16
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Lady Dynamite
Overview: Donna Costanza is married to a New Jersey mafia boss. During their 10 year wedding anniversary party he is shot and killed. His dying words to her are "Giarratana from Palermo". Costanza takes a trip to Palermo in order to avenge the death of her husband. Her target is Don Giarratana, a dangerous and influential Italian politician.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-23
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L'amico di Wang
Overview: Paolo invites his American friend Sam to Rome with the promise of a film to direct, but it takes a lot of money to make it, and they plan to steal a Modigliani painting from a wealthy producer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-06-01
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Troubleshooters
Overview: The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! —Guy Bellinger
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-07
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Emanuelle in Bangkok
Overview: A reporter travels the world's hot spots, looking for lurid stories that usually involve her sexual participation in gaining those behind-the-scenes exclusives.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-07
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Hot Dogs On Ibiza
Overview: Bored with life in Paris, Christian takes off for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to sunny Ibiza. Once there he is rejuvenated by the beautiful bronzed topless bodies of sexy Eurostars Ursula Buchfellner, Sandra Barry, Olivia Dutton and Valentino Venantini. A series of sexy shenanigans and high jinks ensue ensuring everybody has a great time. Director Max Pécas has succeeded in casting the most beautiful array of bodies ever assembled in one single motion picture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-09-26
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Longshot
Overview: When one of the foosball team members is injured, a 14-year-old girl takes the champion's place.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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The Humanoid
Overview: Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help of the insane Dr. Kraspin, who has invented a chemical capable of turning an ordinary person into a perfect soldier. They test this chemical on the pilot Golob, turning the unsuspecting victim into a mindless but indestructible automaton possessing superhuman strength. The people of Metropolis must somehow outwit Graal before he can create an army of these soldiers, or their planet will be destroyed.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-11
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Test of Memory
Overview: Fifteen years after being the cause of an alleged love suicide there, writer Paul Herzog returns to Prague where he meets Clarissa, the sister of the deceased woman. When a couple of mysterious deaths occur amongst people who were close to Clarissa and her sister, Paul becomes the prime suspect...
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-10-07
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Warriors Five
Overview: World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American soldier is imprisoned by the enemy. He escapes with four Italian prisoners, enlisting their aid in exploding a bridge.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Conquest
Overview: La Araucana is a Chilean film based on an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, by Alonso de Ercilla; it is also known in English as The Araucaniad. It is considered the national epic of the Kingdom of Chile and one of the most important works of the Spanish Golden Age
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-08-02
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The Adventures of Hercules
Overview: Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-26
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Dandelions by the Roots
Overview: Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-05-06
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The Repenter
Overview: A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-11-15
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A Way of Being a Woman
Overview: Italian drama
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-12
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Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?
Overview: Roger Blanchard has a busy life. On the family side, he is married and has two children, aged ten and fifteen. On the work side, he holds an important position at the Ministry of Culture. To bolster his social status, he has a mistress to liven up his Saturdays. But nothing is going right. His wife Marion exasperates him, his children irritate him, his job gives him no real satisfaction, his mistress neglects him and his superior, Monsieur Gambaud, gets on his nerves. But when he meets a beautiful young secretary, his life and habits are turned upside down: Blanchard amuses him and gets his way. In revenge, Gambaud warns Blanchard's wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-15
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The Beguines
Overview: Hélène, a fragile and romantic teenager, discovers that her father, a rich business man, has a mistress. Curious, she decides to go and meet this woman who is described as strange. At the first chance she has she goes to her house in the Ramparts of Béguines... from then on she goes back often, discovering a new world of artists and nightowls where she also experiences love in the arms of Tamara.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-19
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The Erotic Dreams of Cleopatra
Overview: Caesar brings the Egyptian queen Cleopatra to Rome, but their intense passion for each other has started to cool. As others prepare seek to bring about a conspiracy against Caesar and Cleopatra, every night Cleopatra begins to dream the same dream: her former lover is killed by his close associates. Her high priest states that the dream is one of prophecy, and no action can stop the march of events. Despite this, the Egyptian queen sends her messengers to Caesar, seeking to warn him that the fatal wounds will be inflicted by Brutus.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-07-24
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Marseille
Overview: Faced with the insistence of his brother Joseph, whom he has not seen for 25 years, Paolo resolves to give up his calm and harmonious life in Canada, to return to Marseilles at the bedside of his rugged father. He left, therefore, with his son under his arm, determined not to linger in that city which he had fled years before, after a tragedy. He does not imagine that the affection of his newfound family, his love affair with a young woman and the joyful and simple solidarity of the Marseillais will reconcile him with this city he would never have wanted to leave...Marseillle.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-16
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L'altra metà del cielo
Overview: Don Vincenzo, a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-03-04
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Love in the Night
Overview: Bourgoin uses Philippe to attract customers from another establishment to the nightclub he wants to open in Pigalle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-06-10
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À deux c'est plus facile
Overview: In order not to be thrown from his big Parisian apartment by his sister, the idiosyncratic pensioner Joseph takes the 20-year-old farmer's daughter Marilyn with him. She wants to complete an apprenticeship as a make-up artist in the capital, preferably for horror films. An unequal pair, which soon finds attraction as well as rejection.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-12
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Sesso e volentieri
Overview: Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-10-14
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22 Bullets
Overview: A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-23
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Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade
Overview: Emanuelle returns to Kenya, trying to get an interview with a foreign gangster who's taken refuge in the African countryside while still operating an international criminal network.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-04-20
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Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
Overview: Jeanne Poisson, the headstrong, ambitious, witty and erudite, catches the eye and heart of French King Louis XV at a costumed ball. She masters the art of seduction well enough to become accepted even by the Queen, corpulent mother of ten. As a sensibly chosen Royal 'favorite' mistress she is soon ennobled Marquise of Pompadour to facilitate her introduction at court. The immature dauphin (crown prince) proves a bitter and unrelenting enemy, joined by his imposed Saxon bride, and his sister at her deathbed. Although friends at court help Pompadour return, her health gives way.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-16
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Contraband
Overview: Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-08-08
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Love & Passion
Overview: After the renewed flings with their former lovers prove to be disastrously unlike the romantic memories, an unfaithful couple returns to each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-02-25
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Terror Express
Overview: Three thugs commandeer a couple of cars on a moving train and spread terror among the passengers.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-01-10
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The Eighteenth Angel
Overview: Mythology and religious dogma are slowly revealed when an attractive young woman is approached by a modeling agency that pulls her into an underworld of priests that are not Christian but rather want to resurrect Satan by collecting the souls of 18 beautiful children.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Magnificent Dare Devil
Overview: A race-car driver must elude the police and two rival criminal organizations as he tries to locate a suitcase full of heroin and absolve himself of murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-20
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Young, Violent, Dangerous
Overview: Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of paul’s girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). the group starts by robbing a gas station where paul guns down three innocent bystanders. When they later decide to rob a bank and a grocery store, paul ends up killing more people. It isn’t long before the entire police force is looking for the three criminals, who pick up the girl and hightail it to the Swiss border, killing everyone in their path.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-02
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La Celestina P… R…
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-03-17
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Flatfoot in Egypt
Overview: Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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Fantasmagorie
Overview: In 1743, in the French countryside, a strange epidemic deserted the region. 200 years later, a young woman wakes curiously languid after a restless night. Her husband received a letter a few hours later asking him to go to a remote place for business, where he would have to spend the night. If he succeeds in reassuring his young wife, who has a presentiment of being separated for the first time from him, the first night spent in his host's house will topple everything.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-15
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Fair Game
Overview: It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a student is torn between canvassing for the Labour party, watching the World Cup or going on a walking holiday with his girlfriend Ellie. Their paths cross in Preston library and the three take an epic journey across the Pennines.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-11
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Le faremo tanto male
Overview: Two brothers kidnap a has-been actress who makes a living doing TV commercials for a fur-clothing company and demands that all animals be freed and businesses be closed. The problem is that everyone thinks the kidnapping is only a publicity-stunt set up by the attention-hungry actress...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-04-30
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Gardenia
Overview: A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold through his restaurant.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-05-05
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Un + une
Overview: A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-09
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The War of the Robots
Overview: An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-04-26
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Vive la crise !
Overview: In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-10
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Ladyhawke
Overview: Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-27
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Hate Is My God
Overview: A young man returns to his village, and with the help of a black-clad stranger, seeks revenge for the murder of his brother against three men who are now notable men of the town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-05-23
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Riavanti… Marsch!
Overview: Five forty-year-old boys, who had been soldiers together, find themselves, once again in uniform, for a forty-day update period, during which they should learn the use of a new NATO-supplied missile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-11-26
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Sex Diary
Overview: The Don Juan of a small provincial town saves from suicide a young American girl who falls in love with him. The citizens, after having discovered that the girl is very rich, will do everything to organize the marriage between them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-07-27
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The Terrace
Overview: Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-to-gather. They discuss about their past, present and future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-08
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The Dinner
Overview: An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life. The camera, just like the people, moves constantly from table to table, into the kitchen and the back room to observe the staff's petty jealousies and frustrations -- until two hours later it's time for everybody to go home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-09-03
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Dio li fa poi li accoppia
Overview: At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to abort and drag her to court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-11-25
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Crazy Underwear
Overview: Four ambitious women are ready to do anything to make a name in show business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-02-04
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Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-11
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Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst
Overview: Investigative journalist Emanuelle breaks into a home to find a microfilm, which leads her to an "international expedition" in Hong Kong. This film was made entirely of footage from Joe D'Amato films released between 1976 and 1980, quickly becoming popular within the bootleg video market.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-07-20
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Phantasmagoria
Overview: Three shocking tales of horror that will get you beyond fear. From the mind of the filmmaker Domiziano Cristopharo (House of Flesh Mannequins, Bloody Sin of Horror, Poe: Poetry of Eerie) and Mickael Abbate (Festival Director of "Samain du cinéma fantastique"), Phantasmagoria is a Franco-Italian co production.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-10-31
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The Assisi Underground
Overview: This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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Aladdin
Overview: A teenager in modern-day Miami finds a magic lantern and out pops a genie, who's been asleep for 200 years and in his gratitude grants the boy several wishes.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-12-23
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Pastasciutta nel deserto
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Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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All You Ever Wished For
Overview: A young New York fashion executive's trip to Milan takes a bad turn when he is kidnapped and whisked off to an Alpine village to be held for ransom money. Little does he (or his three abductors) know that the small, rustic cottage they end up spending the night in is under a gypsy love spell. Or that when they awaken, they will be Smitten! by the first living soul that meets their eyes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-08-03
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Macédoine
Overview: The tale of a young pretty girl's rise to a top model and her finding of emptiness in her life after success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Per amore o per forza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Death Has A Bad Reputation
Overview: A British agent is chasing after famous terrorist Carlos when he resurfaces in Europe.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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The Rip-Off
Overview: Crime Comedy starring Walter Chiari, Maurizio Arena and Ettore Manni. Directed by Luciano Ercoli in 1977, but shelved when producer Niccolo De Nora was kidnapped... ironically the theme of the movie. A band of criminals plan one final heist, to kidnap a wealthy French businessman.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-05-19
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Master of Love
Overview: The wise and experienced maestro in the arts of love imparting his knowledge and techniques to a younger man before he dies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-30
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Quella chiara notte d'ottobre
Overview: A unhappily married woman tries to find happiness with a former lover, but when they witnesses crime, it leads them down a path of self-destruction
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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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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The Libertine
Overview: A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-23
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Ho visto le stelle
Overview: The young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-12-19
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The Hideout
Overview: A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier. She decides to investigate and finds a secret plot.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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Profession: Adventurers
Overview: Henry, a rich Londoner bored, shipwrecked in the Atlantic and ends up in San Francisco. The adventure has just begun. From the novel "Naufrage en eaux troubles" by François Ponthier.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-24
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My Other Husband
Overview: A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-09-21
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C'è una spia nel mio letto
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-06-05
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Three Under the Sheets
Overview: Film in three episodes, entitled Sabato mattina, L'omaggio and No, non è per gelosia, which see as protagonists Andrea, Giorgio and Mr. Sgarbozzi, married men who cheat on their respective wives for escapades and one-night stands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-06-09
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Giovani e belli
Overview: Luca, a young man from a rich family, travels to Rome. Here he encounters Gino, who makes a living with petty theft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-06-23
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No Sun in Venice
Overview: Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-31
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The New Barbarians
Overview: Two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-06-10
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Heat in the Suburbs
Overview: Ciccio Zannone, a insignificant little man, but who is very successful with women, wants to join the "family" of Don Calogero Lentini, the mafia "boss" of a small Sicilian town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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The Kisser
Overview: Raffaele is a man who decides to change his life: he manages to get noticed by a beautiful girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Cop or Hood
Overview: When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-28
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Beast in Space
Overview: In the future the struggle for space superiority has forced humanity to search the cosmos for a rare element called Antallum that is the key ingredient for the construction of neutron bombs. Starship captain Larry Madison and his crew are assigned to retrieve Antallum from the remote planet Lorigon. However, Madison and crew find themselves under the control of a powerful computer on Lorigon that incites everyone to have sex. Some versions feature brief adult scenes shot with body doubles.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-05-13
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Nine Guests for a Crime
Overview: Nine members of an extremely rich and hateful family have decided to have a reunion on a remote island in the Mediterranean. No sooner than their arrival, old grudges, resentments, and feuds make themselves known, along with allusions to some more macabre events in their past. But when their boats are sabotaged, thus stranding them without any connection to the mainland, it becomes clear that someone is not willing to let old wounds heal, a fact made all the more clear as bodies start to pile up...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-12
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Fallait pas buter mémé!
Overview: On one side, the last representatives of a gangster family. On the other side, Choubert, the new pope of high tech grocery. They have decided to eliminate Choubert who is responsible, according to them, for granny's death, shot during her Sunday robbery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-08-20
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Bandidos
Overview: Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooting his hands. Years later, Martin meets an escaped convict, wrongly convicted for the train robbery. Martin trains his new student and both men seek out Billy Kane.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-10-15
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Bloody Sin: Abonimations of the Third Reich
Overview: A team of researchers investigates a European castle that was used for sadistic tortures during the inquisition, as well as horrifying and abominable Nazi experiments on innocent people. Riddled with history, the demonically possessed castle overtakes the crew turning their nightmares into a terrifying reality.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-11-10
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The Museum Of Wonders
Overview: When the beautiful dancer Salome learns that the dwarf circus owner Marcel has just received an inheritance, she marries the lovesick, diminutive performer, all the while planning to steal his fortune and run off with her lover, strong man Sansone. When Marcel and fellow performers discover her evil plan, they band together to carry out a brutal revenge.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-04-01
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P.O.E. Pieces of Eldritch (P.O.E. 3)
Overview: In this award-winning anthology, several international directors take on the most macabre stories of all, from the master of horror, Edgar Allen Poe.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-07-18
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Hyde's Secret Nightmare
Overview: An erotic horror movie dedicated to Joe D Amato, Hyde's Secret Nightmare combines the two genres and mixes them in equal parts. Cross-cut erotic and horror scenes are kept together by a thread of dramatic force bordering on obsession, paranoia, phobia, perversion, and lack of self-acceptance. Everything unfolds in an extreme world where sex seems the only way to attain a state of well-being.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-01-13
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Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Overview: A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-30
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School's Out
Overview: A few days before the baccalaureate, a high school student decides to settle accounts with the most cowardly teacher in the school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-07-16
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Windsurf - Il vento nelle mani
Overview: A romantic comedy about teen surfers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-09-20
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Un momento muy largo
Overview: The romance between a nuclear physicist and a translator for the United Nations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-03-05
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Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
Overview: The true story of Bill Johnson, the first US men's skiing gold medal winner, whose Olympics dreams were threatened by his rebellious attitude.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-08
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Sesso profondo
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Toni
Overview: Toni is a mob movie combined with an urban love story and reflections about one's roots. The protagonist, Toni, is a young man from a small village in the south of Italy who arrives at the station Gare de Lyon in Paris. He never questions the education he receives from his mob family or the rules to which he is always chained. He contacts a man called "The Old Man," a strange character discarded by the family who is of help from time to time. This man is supposed to communicate to Toni all necessary information for him to accomplish his mission. Toni plans to execute it in perfect calm. But things do not go according to plan. He meets Marie, a vulnerable journalist whose best friend has just committed suicide. Two doomed characters enter a mysterious relationship.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-20
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The Lion's Share
Overview: An Italian cop returns to his birthplace of South Africa to investigate his father's death
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-30
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Final Justice
Overview: Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III has been transferred to a rural outpost. When two thugs kill the sheriff, Geronimo shoots one of them, and the other vows revenge. Unfortunately for Geronimo, that thug turns out to be a mob boss, and the court orders Geronimo to extradite him back to his home in Sicily. When their plane is hijacked, the adversaries find their roles reversed.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-28
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