Edmund Purdom
Also Known As: Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom, Edmond Purdom, Edmund Purdon
Biography: Edmund Anthony Cutlar Purdom (19 December 1924 – 1 January 2009) was an English actor, voice artist, and director. He worked first on stage in Britain, performing various works by Shakespeare, then later in America on Broadway, until making his way to Hollywood, and eventually spent the remainder of his life appearing in Italian cinema. He is perhaps best known for his starring role in 1954's historical epic The Egyptian. By taking over important roles exited by Mario Lanza and Marlon Brando, Purdom was known by the mid-1950s as "The Replacement Star". Between the 1970s and 90s, he was a regular in European genre cinema, working with directors like Juan Piquer Simón, Joe D'Amato, Sergio Martino, Ruggero Deodato.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: December 20, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 01, 2009
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Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
Overview: Mad Dr Frankenstein recruits an evil dwarf, a Neanderthal man, and others to help him put a brain in the body of a brute.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-19
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The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
Overview: A former sheriff begins to persecute the gang led by Pedro Ortiz, after his wife is taken away.
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-03-28
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Overview: The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced into hiding in an attic in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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Naked and Violent
Overview: Cult director Sergio Martino, during the most glorious mondo years, delivered Naked and Violent, a documentary which unveils the brutality of the USA. Hidden behind a mask of perfection and justice, Naked and Violent traces the problems of American society in the 70s: from racial persecutions to the depraved sexual habits of the middle class, from the drug market to illegal gambling.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-07-29
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Julius Caesar
Overview: The assassination of the would-be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and for the republic.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-04
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Who's Afraid of Dracula?
Overview: Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house with at least five bathrooms within three days or his boss will fire him. Incredibly, he and his pal Filini manage to find the perfect house, a castle in Transylvania owned by some count Vlad... things get even worse when they meet the Count and his sister, who has a crush on Fracchia and decides to marry him!
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-12-20
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2019: After the Fall of New York
Overview: After a nuclear war society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks, and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile woman left on Earth.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-07-22
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The Egyptian
Overview: In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-25
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The Night Child
Overview: The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child who was a murderess.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-04-22
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Ator, the Fighting Eagle
Overview: The son of Torren learns of his heritage, goes to avenge the deaths of his fellow villagers, and rescue his sister/love interest from the evil Dakkar and his spider cult.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-10-07
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The Rift
Overview: An experimental submarine with a very experienced crew, the "Siren II" is sent to find out what happened to the "Siren I" after it mysteriously disappeared in a submarine rift. Things go awry when they begin to find things that shouldn't be there...
Genres: Action Horror Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-03-09
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The Fifth Cord
Overview: A journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him, while the police are considering him a suspect in their investigation.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-17
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Rulers of the City
Overview: Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan. Together, they will con mob boss Manzari out of a fortune, after which they can retire and live in luxury. Manzari, however, is not about to let them go so easily.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-12-03
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Pieces
Overview: A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1982-08-23
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Overview: One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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The Student Prince
Overview: A prince has a romance with a barmaid before he must give up personal happiness for duty.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-15
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Blackie the Pirate
Overview: Rivaling Pirates and Spanish gold are the ingredients for this story. Blackie the pirate is the one who first hears from this shipment of gold when he encounters "Don" Pedro. He thinks of a plan to find this ship and its gold. His counter player is the vice roy of the Spanish kolony. When they visit one of the pirate settlements, they find three other pirate captains over there. One of them sells goods and prisoners from his latest capture. Don Pedro recognizes the wife of the vice roy, and Blackie buys her. However, one of the pirate captains, Skull, knows also who she is, and tries to make a deal. Blackie refuses, and Skull makes a deal with the other two pirate captains to plot against Blackie.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-12
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The Last of the Vikings
Overview: In this historical drama, a Viking prince returns to his homeland only to learn that his father has been murdered by King Sven of Norway. Sven is forcing his sister to marry in order to create an alliance with the Danes. The prince must defeat Sven and save his sister.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-08
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Invaders of the Lost Gold
Overview: Japanese soldiers battle a tribe of cannibals while protecting a gold shipment.
Genres: Adventure Action Horror War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-20
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Don't Open Till Christmas
Overview: It's just days before Christmas in London, but not everyone is full of good cheer - as a maniac with a pathological hatred of Santa Claus stalks the streets, butchering any man that’s unlucky enough to be wandering around dressed as Old Saint Nick.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-07
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Nefertiti, Queen of the Nile
Overview: Chronicles the rise and fall of the woman who eventually became known as Queen Nefertiti.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-20
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The King's Thief
Overview: An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II.
Genres: Adventure History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-05
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Titanic
Overview: Unhappily married, Julia Sturges decides to go to America with her two children on the Titanic. Her husband, Richard also arranges passage on the luxury liner so as to have custody of their two children. All this fades to insignificance once the ship hits an iceberg.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-11
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Athena
Overview: A stuffy young lawyer's outlook on life drastically changes when he meets a perky health food enthusiast and her wacky family.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-04
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Strange Intruder
Overview: A Korean War veteran must find his buddy's widow and children to keep a bizarre promise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-02
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Assault on Fort Texan
Overview: During the War of Independence, a group of Southern soldiers form an alliance with the Apache Indians for the purpose of hunting down and killing the Northern soldiers stationed at Fort Worth.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Chrysanthemums for a Bunch of Swine
Overview: A bandit kidnaps the belle of a village and hides with her and his gang in a monastery. The priest refuses to marry them, and then chases the gang after they have left.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Gun Shy Piluk
Overview: A sheriff is killed by the leader of the local bad guys, and the father of the sheriff is not to pleased. The father, Mr. Piluk, is the local undertaker and also plays a mean violin when he is in a bad mood.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-07
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The Prodigal
Overview: A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the High Priest as well.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-06
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Sweden: Heaven and Hell
Overview: Nine scenes about sexuality and morals in Sweden in the late sixties.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-09-04
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Excuse Me, Do You Like Sex?
Overview: Using interviews and filmed reconstructions, the director analyzes eroticism from the period of breastfeeding, in which the newborn feels pleasure from contact with the mother's breast until reaching adulthood.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-31
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Moment of Danger
Overview: Having been coerced unto helping a criminal pull off a jewellery theft, a locksmith is double crossed by the crook and heads off to Spain with an eye to getting even.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-26
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The Man Who Laughs
Overview: Spectacular adventures of twin brothers, one with a scar which gives him a permanent smile, and their meetings with the Borgias.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-20
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Texas Jim
Overview: A band of fierce rustlers is ravaging the region of Las Cruces. Appears an outsider who saves the ranch owner "The Spur" of being kidnapped by members of the band. Thankfully, he was appointed foreman, and his daughter is in love with him. But things are not what they seem and there are murky intrigues in the background.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-05-24
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Fury of the Pagans
Overview: In an imaginary northern European country during the High Middle Ages, two leaders of a barbarian village fight to gain power: one is good and right and the other is an evil selfish. Who will have it?
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-26
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Champagne in paradiso
Overview: Musical, in the style of GREASE, with dance numbers and entertainment. Set in a high school, about the ups and downs in the love affair between Paola, the class mischief maker, and Marco, a substitute teacher.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-07-28
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Herod the Great
Overview: Angry at his wife and defeated in battle, the king of Judea is taken prisoner. After being spared by the Romans, King Herod comes to believe he's been a victim of court plotting.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Don Bosco
Overview: This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-01-31
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The Beauty Jungle
Overview: A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-25
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Suleiman the Conqueror
Overview: Historical film, telling the story of Turkish Sultan Suleiman's attempts to conquer Vienna. The advance of his army was checked on Yugoslav territory.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-07
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The New Godfathers
Overview: A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on getting it to the US. They decide to run the drug through an unsuspecting network of good-natured, local smugglers in Naples, while an international anti-narcotics agent rushes to shut their operation down. Betrayals and divided loyalties lead to a final, bloody confrontation in America.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-24
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The Big Family
Overview: Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-03
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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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White Slave Ship
Overview: The Albatross travels from England to the New World in 1675, with a number of passengers, a couple of political prisoners along with a dozen other women convicts, these to be sold into slavery on arrival. The woman activist frees the dozen of low-cast women, and they take over the ship. After a storm, the captain takes back control of his ship. Since mutiny is punishable by death in the New World, the mutineers try to reroute the course, tossing Desny and Purdom in the brig. A practical male mutineer wants to throw the women overboard to save rations, but the women free Purdom and the captain to battle the mutineers. A British warship comes to the rescue, and the captain pardons Angeli and Purdom for having saved his life.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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The Cossacks
Overview: Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this drama and adventure film focuses on the strife between the Circassian Muslims, led by Shamil and Czar Alexander.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-04
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The Making of a Horror Film
Overview: Documentary/promotional film on the making of the horror film Don't Open Til Christmas.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-09-01
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The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
Overview: Amid the craggy, dusty hills of southern France, a woman screams in the night. Gorgeous Melissa Comfort, a wealthy heiress confined to a wheelchair since birth, cries out in her nightmares, terrified of a dream that comes night after night. In this night terror, she's 10-years-old. Running from a man who may or may not be her father.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Naked England
Overview: "Mondo" sort of documentary around English customs.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-05
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Ambush in Tangier
Overview: An American police detective's investigation into a series of murders leads him to drug smugglers in North Africa.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Wages of Sin
Overview: Documentary that analyzes sexuality during it's so-called "revolution", the late sixties. The film shows some sexual "oddities" brought on by the fall of sexual taboos: a German woman who founded an billion dollar industry by selling erotic material; young and beautiful girls who are rented by large complexes to entertain and "persuade" customers; women young and old going to school to learn the art of awakening the interest of their husbands; couples in unscrupulous act as models to abstract painters; single women looking for a mate for the weekend, taking advantage of the "pink train" set up by the German Federal Railways.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-07
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Amok
Overview: A rural teacher discovers the harsh realities of his South Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-01
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The Night They Killed Rasputin
Overview: Rasputin was a lusty steppes peasant, a god revealed, a cunning patriot, all that, or a mystifier? An intriguing biography.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-11
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A Bear Called Arthur
Overview: A composer rushing to meet a deadline meets a beautiful woman who says she is his biggest fan. However, it turns out that not only is she not a fan, she is a secret agent who has her own reasons for wanting to meet him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-02-14
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Thomas
Overview: A modest theatrical company, soon to debut, organizes a superstitious spiritual session. During the evening the spirit of little Thomas is evoked.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-28
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Witchcraft '70
Overview: Witness devilish rituals from around the globe. Satanism! Voodoo! Majicks Black and White! Shocking Truths, etc.!
Genres: Documentary Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-02-07
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The Queer ... The Erotic
Overview: The documentary shows in succession a ritual of male initiation in an African tribe, a lesson in sexual education in an European country; a travelling through the rooms of a museum of erotism in Germany, the window shopping of prostitutes in Amsterdams red district, a public bath for both sexes in an unhinibited Scandinavian country, the headquarters of an association that is against keeping ones virginity, a marriage ceremony of two homosexuals, and the effects of drugs on addict people.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-06
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Das große Wunschkonzert
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Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-12-19
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Deep Thoughts
Overview: An inventive Euro sex film, set in Paris and Rome.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Overview: This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom, her marriage to Carlo Ponti following a romantic fling with Cary Grant, and the birth of her first child, and is tied together with actual clips from some of her movies.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-26
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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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Knights of the Quest
Overview: In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal family.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-04-06
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Fifteen Year Old Captain
Overview: Dick Sand travels aboard the "Pilgrim" when, following dramatic events, the ship becomes without a captain. Fate has it so that, to keep all sailors in peace, he shall command the ship. All accept this arrangement, even Negoro - whose resentment will add treachery to circumstances already difficult to take the ship to safe harbour. To a point the task may prove impossible...
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-07-07
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Big Pot
Overview: A gang of robbers takes possession of a load of diamonds.. Only one of them, Mark Lemmon, is arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. But before being captured, the gangster had managed to hide the loot in a sewer. Five years later, Mackenzie, an insurer, pretending to be a mafia boss, assigns three petty criminals to arrange his escape. Once free, Lemmon finds the booty but now he has to deal with his new 'partners'.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-06-15
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From the Archives of the Criminal Police
Overview: A corrupt cop steals evidence of a Mafia drug ring with plans to sell it to their rivals, but is hunted by the mafia and government agents.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-18
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Lafayette
Overview: The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-02-16
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Killer vs Killers
Overview: A businessman recruits some thieves to steal a valuable chemical formula kept in an well guarded industrial site. The raid is successful, but once he has the formula, the man tries to get rid of those who worked for him.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Povero Cristo
Overview: A provincial young man with aspirations of becoming a private investigator is approached by a stranger that promises 100 million lire if he provides evidence of the existence of Jesus Christ.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-03
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L'altra donna
Overview: Wealthy woman and her Ethiopian maid form a friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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7 Signs of Christ's Return
Overview: He promised to return. The scriptures foretell of seven events that will herald the second coming of Jesus Christ. Two are already part of history. Some are in the making now. The rest are in the near future. "The Seven Sign"s explains the prophetic visions of the Prophet David of the Old Testament, and the Apostle John of the New. What they saw was alarming. These biblical visions could be indications of where our civilization is headed in the future. As mankind peers into the troubled future, some see the new millennium as the beginning of the end.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-09-08
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The Comedy Man
Overview: A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-03
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The Loves of Salammbo
Overview: During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to fight against the Roman empire, but when the city's ruler is unable to fulfill the promised payment made to the mercenaries, they attack the African settlement, where Salammbô --the king's daughter and high priestess of goddess Tanit- tries to settle the matter when the Barbarian leader who has fallen for her steals the sacred veil of Carthage from the temple, without taking into account the evil schemes of a powerful member of the council of wise men.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-24
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Lo scoiattolo
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Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-10-01
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Karzan, Jungle Lord
Overview: Financed by Lord Carter and led by Captain Fox, an expedition is mounted to find and capture a jungle-man who lives in Africa.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-19
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The Devil's Lover
Overview: When a trio of free-spirited young women insists on spending the night in a castle rumored to be owned by the Devil himself, their cobweb-and-candelabra lark triggers a nightmare of lust, violence, vampirism, and Satanic seduction.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-26
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Absurd
Overview: A priest-doctor chasing a man with supernatural regenerative abilities, who has recently escaped from a medical lab, reaches a small town where the mutant goes on a killing spree.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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The Scarlet and the Black
Overview: Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His activities become so large that the Nazis decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-02
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The Suspects
Overview: When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police inspector re-creates the girl's journeys through France until the murder is solved. Suspicions are narrowed down to four possible perpetrators early on, and flashbacks illuminate the roles each one played in the girl's vacation.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-11-27
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Great Lady Has an Interview
Overview: A brunette Lana Turner stars in this live song and dance performance of "A Great Lady Has An Interview" to celebrate MGM's 30th anniversary on "The Ed Sullivan Show". The song was previously performed by Judy Garland in the 1945 musical film "Ziegfeld Follies".
Genres: TV Movie Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-14
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