Anna Orso
Also Known As: Giuliana Orso
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: December 11, 1938
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 14, 2012
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The Bible: In the Beginning...
Overview: Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.
Genres: Adventure History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-28
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Open Letter to the Evening News
Overview: Hoping to shake up the complacent Italian Communist Party, a group of leftist radicals sends an incendiary letter to a major evening newspaper declaring their intention to volunteer to fight American troops in Vietnam as a political statement against the war.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-13
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
Overview: Renowned oceanographer Steve Zissou has sworn vengeance upon the rare shark that devoured a member of his crew. In addition to his regular team, he is joined on his boat by Ned, a man who believes Zissou to be his father, and Jane, a journalist pregnant by a married man. They travel the sea, all too often running into pirates and, perhaps more traumatically, various figures from Zissou's past, including his estranged wife, Eleanor.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-12-10
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My House in Umbria
Overview: Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-25
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Agguato sul Bosforo
Overview: After finding a very precious and huge diamond, the famous geologist Hutton mysteriously disappears. The discovery of this jewel sparked a battle between the international underworld.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-21
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Day of Anger
Overview: A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-19
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The Inheritor
Overview: After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-22
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A Leap in the Dark
Overview: Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal thoughts. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. However, Mauro becomes unconsciously jealous of their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-14
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Submission of a Woman
Overview: Giallo tinged home invasion movie full of tension. Luisa's home is invaded one night by a crazed admirer who thinks he has the right to take sexual advantage of her because of her occupation as a nude model. Directed by experienced film editor Alessandro Lucidi.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-03-06
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At a Glance
Overview: Adrian is a talented young sculptor eager to assert himself in the art world. His first exhibition in the Capital catches Gloria's eye. She's an art student looking for "her" artist. Between the two something's born and soon she becomes Adrian's lover and muse, as well as his agent. But someone else also falls in love with Adrian's work: Lulli, an internationally-renowned art critic – and also Gloria's guardian and lover before Adrian's arrival.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-03-20
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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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Young Lucrezia
Overview: In the early 16th century Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by Cesare Borgia and his sister Lucrezia. In a ruthless power play, Cesare plots to have his sister’s husband murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-23
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L'Anno Mille
Overview: In a story that follows some lives and their respective reincarnations over time, Valerio is a prince in the year one thousand and a doctor of the S.e.r.t. in the year two thousand. Altea on the other hand is a princess, who after a thousand years was reincarnated as a university student who volunteers as a mission and it also operates in the same S.e.r.t.. Their antagonist, in the past as in the present, is a man who was an alchemist and who today is the evil director of the same hospital where the S.e.r.t. is located. of Valerio and Altea. A rather anomalous director, given that he takes advantage of the cover offered by his position to traffic drugs in a big way. A fourth character is added to the three, Herrmugnen, who in the story embodies the mythological figure of the giant hero.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-04-23
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L'ultima volta insieme
Overview: Paul, the son of a senior magistrate Neapolitan, was hired at the law firm of a friend's parent. The young man thinks he lost his mother, but the woman, who has long left the family, is now the mistress of the boss racket shops. Fleeing from prison, blackmail, murder, trials, recognition in extremis between mother and son more than a melodrama with strong colors, a real fumettone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-10-21
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La traversata
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-01
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Io e il re
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Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-09-01
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Night Ripper
Overview: A string of sex murders has been plaguing Florence for almost 15 years, in which a serial killer brutally murders couples who are sneaking "a quickie" in public areas. A writer who is doing research for a book about the crimes sets out to uncover the identity of the killer, aided by his beautiful girlfriend. Based on a true story.
Genres: Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-04-09
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Limite valicabile
Overview: Italian horror short from 1992.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Devil in the Flesh
Overview: An Italian high school student becomes infatuated with a woman he sees outside his class window. Her fiancée is in jail for being involved in a radical movement, and she spends much time in court providing moral support. At first she resists the student's advances, but eventually begins an affair with him. Their situation is condemned by her family and his father, who is the woman's psychologist.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-04-22
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The Good Thief
Overview: Caleb, "son of nobody" (Enrico Montesano) lives in Galilee in Jesus' day and struggles as a thief and con-man, pretending to be a magician. When he witnesses Jesus turning water into wine, he thinks he's found a competitor. So Caleb goes on, convinced that Jesus is a fake just as he is, always trying to figure out his tricks. In the meantime, he gets involved with a prostitute (played by Edwige Fenech), but also with the wife of a Roman patrician (played by the equally alluring Bernadette Lafont), he steals a few goats and cons a few people, he befriends a lovable dog and gets in trouble with some Roman soldiers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-01
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The Manual of Love
Overview: Four intertwined stories on the joys and sorrows of love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-03-18
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Family Killer
Overview: Stefano, son of the Mafia Don Angelino Ferrante, is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone (John Saxon) for refusing to sell some valuable land. The old don sends for Ferrante Santino Billeci from America, in the hope that he'll be able to help in getting revenge. But Gaspar, meanwhile, is becoming the most powerful and ruthless boss of the area...
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-23
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Le vie del Signore sono finite
Overview: Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-12-19
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Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
Overview: Misadventures of a sacristan with three eager tourists, a commendatore with a sheikh, a worker who is passionate about hunting with a wife too good and an appearance mistaken for a priest with a patrician family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-25
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A Second Spring
Overview: An aging gossip columnist, tired of the social life of the Roman Dolce-vita set, goes to New York with hopes of a literary career. He marries a nurse, but succumbs to his former mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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Cominciò tutto per caso
Overview: A middle class couple crisis. A love story between a young blue collar guy an a Philippine girl. The lives of four people get closer in nowadays Rome.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-03-11
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Palermo Shooting
Overview: After the wild lifestyle of a famous young German photographer almost gets him killed, he goes to Palermo, Sicily to take a break. Can the beautiful city and a beautiful local woman calm him down?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2008-11-20
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Darkside Witches
Overview: In 1589, six innocent women were accused from the inquisition of witchery in the small ligurian mountain.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-04-07
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La profanazione
Overview: Dr. Massimo Banti, a surgeon in a hospital, falls in love with Sister Angela, a nun nurse .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-05
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24 Hours... Not a Minute More
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-01
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Io e Dio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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Cagliostro
Overview: After attending esoterical studies with a wise man, Cagliostro, a mysterious Italian count, received the gift of supernatural powers. He started to travel all over Europe to heal the poor. But he is also a member of a pre-revolutionary lodge the aim of which is to give freedom to the populations of Europe. This cannot be tolerated by the 18th century's establishment and bought the Pope and the regal house of France try to eliminate him. So Cagliostro is locked up in a castle, while his wife is killed. But when in 1795 the door of his cell is opened there is nothing inside but a sword...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-21
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Adelaide
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-05-26
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My Way
Overview: A biopic of French pop star Claude Francois, most famous for co-writing the song 'My Way'. Tracing his life from his childhood in Egypt through his success in France to his untimely death in Paris in 1978.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-03-14
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Segretario Particolare
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-02-09
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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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