Alberto Farnese
Also Known As: Alberto Quaglini, Albert Farley
Biography: Alberto Farnese (3 June 1926 – 2 June 1996) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1951 and 1989. He starred in the film Whom God Forgives, which won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury award at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival. Source: Article "Alberto Farnese" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Palombara Sabina, Lazio, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: June 03, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 02, 1996
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The Gold of Naples
Overview: A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-03
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The White Angel
Overview: In this sequel to Nobody's Children, Guido still longs for Luisa, who has become a nun. Then he meets Lina, a chorus dancer who is a dead ringer for his former lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-04-06
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Colossus and the Amazon Queen
Overview: Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-08
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Nobody's Children
Overview: The tragic love story between Guido, the owner of a marble quarry and Luisa, the humble daughter of one of his employees, ends up in her giving birth to their baby boy. Giulio's mother is against them: first she sends her son abroad and then has the baby kidnapped, making Luisa think the boy died in a fire.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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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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Un giglio infranto
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Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-05-27
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Vite perdute
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-02-20
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Five Dollars for Ringo
Overview: Sheriff Lester Sands travels to Lindsborg in the hope of finding a gang of outlaws operating in the region. He suspects that they hide there because recently they raided the bank of a neighboring village. And during the robbery, the director was wounded. His daughter Miriam, accompanied by five bank guards has followed the trail of the assailants there. With this event and the attitude of the village mayor, the sheriff and his suspicions are confirmed and he expects that sooner or later he will face these gunmen.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-07-23
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Dollar of Fire
Overview: A sheriff fights against a band of thugs led by a rich banker.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Un palco all'opera
Overview: A pianist recounts the love stories of three famous composers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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The Giants of Thessaly
Overview: In order to placate the angry gods, who have allowed Thessaly to be overrun with barbarian invaders and beset with natural disasters, King Jason takes his Argonauts on a search for the fabled Golden Fleece. Meanwhile, back at home, his scheming regent is plotting to get his hands on the kingdom--and the queen.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-06
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Gladiator of Rome
Overview: A warrior protecting a slave girl, who is really a princess, winds up as a gladiator in the Roman arenas.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-13
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Twenty Paces to Death
Overview: At the end of the Civil War, Aleck Kellaway, a fighter for the South, is tricked by the brothers Clegg and Elliot into helping them to carry out the robbery of a gold cargo belonging to the Northern Army.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-04-09
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Rome 11:00
Overview: The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-02-27
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Ripudiata
Overview: A young countess is wrongly accused of adultery and shunned by her husband. She leaves and becomes a successful opera singer and when war comes returns to face her accusers, see her son and clear her name.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-06-01
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Due lacrime
Overview: Italian made romanic drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Return of Sandokan
Overview: Samoa is kidnapped and held captive hypnotized in caves by her cousin Charles Druk, whose father has been murdered by her future husband Sandokan, lord of Malaya. Assisted by his European friend Iannis, he wants to rescue her.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-18
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Blood of the Executioner
Overview: Set in medieval Venice, this swashbuckler chronicles the courage of an executioner and his godson as they attempt to show that the Grand Inquisitor is in league with murderous pirates.
Genres: Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-19
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Terror of Oklahoma
Overview: Italian Western comedy in black-and-white. The movie intended to be a parody of the American western as even the title shows, being a hybrid between the original title of the movie The Oklahoma Kid and its rendering for the Italian audience, "Il terrore dell'Ovest".
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-30
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Kerim, Son of the Sheik
Overview: In the Middle East, circa 1860s, the evil Omar seeks to become Khadive by killing off his adversaries and by marrying the reluctant Fawzia, favorite niece of the current Khadive. Omar's brutal policies result in the death of a young woman named Laila. Laila's brother, Kerim, then becomes Omar's sworn enemy.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-06-29
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White Horses of Summer
Overview: The marital problems of an American couple come to a head while visiting southern Italy with their impressionable young son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-04-17
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Fighters from Ave Maria
Overview: Three acrobats help to rid a small Californian border town of a local tyrant in the times of the Gold Rush.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-15
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Kill or Be Killed
Overview: A violin-playing gunslinger accidently gets caught in a feud between two families. One of them forces him into a showdown and he kills him. He then must escape from the wrathful family and is accused wrongly for killing 2 deputies. He is saved by an old man, who helps him to get revenge and to prevent the girl he loves from marrying a murderer. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-11-01
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Beach Casanova
Overview: Mr. Edmond is a middle-aged playboy, living by his wits on the Riviera. Among the women with whom Edmond dallies are three gorgeous ladies.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-22
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The Lion of St. Mark
Overview: In 1620 pirates are terrorizing the Adriatic coast. Our hero sets out to defeat them.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-11-21
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Pirate of the Half Moon
Overview: Gianna Maria Canale as the Duchess who is offered a banquet and requests for a hard-boiled egg. The stingy Spanish lord, who used his last gunpowder to fire a salute to the noble lady and thus has no more when a bunch of pirates, led by Nadir, launches an attack against his castle. Nadir is the dashing fiery hero.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-04
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Revenge of the Black Knight
Overview: La Cieca Di Sorrento (also known as Revenge of the Black Knight is a 1963 cloak and dagger film directed by Nick Nostro and based on the novel of the same name by Francesco Mastriani. Masked knights fight the cruel Tyrant Amedeo, tutor of the beautiful, rich and blind orphan Isabella. The knights are led by a young doctor who in the end will defeat Isabella's evil oppressor, give her her sight and marry her.
Genres: Western History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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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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Whom God Forgives
Overview: Set in rural South of Spain in the 19th century, tells the story of group of outlaws, from very different origins, trying to survive, hiding from the law enforcement officers in caves in a hilly area, and their struggle against the evil mining company that exploits the poor people of their home village.
Genres: Western History Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-05-05
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The Warrior Empress
Overview: The poetess Sappho led an uprising against the corrupt government of the island of Lesbos.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-24
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The Magnificent Tony Carrera
Overview: Tony Carrera is a successful race car driver who was also a great safe-cracker. He gets roped into doing one more big job but finds out too late he's been double-crossed by the big Boss and his beautiful assistant. Meanwhile, his ditsy fiance follows him to Holland where she's constantly in trouble.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Hercules of the Desert
Overview: A fabulous land of green pastures is protected from invasion by the mysterious Valley of the Thundering Echo. Queen Farida draws together the desert tribes to conquer the land, even though a prophecy has promised the land to the Gameli tribe. The Gameli journey to the Silver Temple, where the High Priest summons the legendary Maciste from the mountain rock to defeat their enemies and guide them to their promised land.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-08
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The Noon Vigilante
Overview: Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work. He decides to take justice into his own hands and get rough with the world. He soon gets his family's respect back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-20
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Scalps
Overview: The commander of a Texan fort in the Civil War refuses to surrender to the Northerners, and tries to buy the local Indian tribe chief's daughter. The sage man refuses, and the Southerners massacre the tribe and abduct the young squaw anyway. The noble squaw manages to escape, and hides out with a rough rancher, who dislikes Indians, but hates the Southerners more. The odd couple joins forces, and tactics, to exert ultimate vengeance on the men at the fort.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-10-14
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Vendicata!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-03-07
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Sign of the Gladiator
Overview: Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1959-03-05
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Three Giants of the Roman Empire
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-13
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Supermen Against the Orient
Overview: Robert Wallace travels to Hong Kong to bust a gang of drug trafficker's. There he finds help from Tang and Suzy, as well as his fellow Supermen Max & Jerry.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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Three Faces of Sin
Overview: Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her. Before they can leave town on a weekend getaway together, Renee's teenage daughter Daniele quits school and unexpectedly shows up. Laurent and Daniele fall for each other immediately and end up getting married. The film follows the disastrous situation created by the jealous mother and her daughter's immature husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-12
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Love Me Strangely
Overview: Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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L'angelo delle Alpi
Overview: After the death of her adoptive mother, a shy and innocent girl becomes the maid of a rich family and her arrival disrupts the lives of the people she meets.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-28
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Disonorata - Senza colpa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-08-27
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The Corsican Brothers
Overview: The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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Seven Pistols for a Gringo
Overview: Aided by a traveling dentist a man clears his name after being framed for killing a gambler.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-06-06
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Menzogna
Overview: A young widow flees from her small town and moves to the seaside, where she falls for a fisherman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-27
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Angels of Darkness
Overview: When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their livelihood. The girls must now find honest work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-27
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Mamma sconosciuta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-07-20
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Assassination on the Tiber
Overview: A black-out occurs during the meeting of a gang of criminals. When the light is back one of them is found killed with a stab on his back and all the clues point to a penniless man who had an argument with the victim a short time before the murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-10-12
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The Swindle
Overview: A rude Roman policeman Nico Giraldi and an English detective team up in search of a gang that has carried out an enormous fraud against the Lloyd's of London.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-11-18
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Siege of Syracuse
Overview: Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle for power. The fate of Syracuse lies in the hands of its leader, the famed inventor and scientist Archimedes.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-17
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Sandokan Fights Back
Overview: When Sandokan learns he is the rightful heir to the throne of Malaysia, he immediately sets off to claim his land back.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-13
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Detective School Dropouts
Overview: Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves in the middle of a mob war when it turns out that the missing person is somebody the mob wants to stay missing.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-07
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White Apache
Overview: This film is based on a true story of an Irish baby brought up by the Colorado Apaches. When a group of outlaws attack and destroy a wagon train, the only survivor gives birth to a baby, whom the Indian chief, White Bear brings up as his son and calls him Shining Sky. Shining Sky grows up with the chief's son Black Wolf and by a stroke of fate kills his best friend and brother. Overcome by grief he leaves and goes to live in the world of white men but decides to go back to the world of his youth, leaving an enemy, Redeath, behind him whom he is destined to meet again and again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-08-26
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Cream, Chocolate and... Paprika
Overview: Professor Bonifazi runs a luxury clinic owned by his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-08-15
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Tony Arzenta
Overview: A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-23
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Vino, whisky e acqua salata
Overview: An Italian submarine commander manages to sink an English warship and take its very British commander as prisoner. The film is based on the relationship which develops between the two characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-07
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Addio, mamma!
Overview: A nightclub singer starts a relationship with a construction engineer.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-06-30
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The Dominici Affair
Overview: In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his sons. Under police interrogation, Dominici confesses to have killed the family and it looks certain that he will be charged, tried and sentenced to death. But then the case begins to collapse. The old man retracts his confession and the lack of evidence against him becomes apparent…
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-07
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La canzone del cuore
Overview: A widow is unjustly imprisoned for theft and her daughter is sent to live with her grandmother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-20
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The Wonders of Aladdin
Overview: Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-31
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Fear Runs Deep
Overview: An engineer has discovered a new special alloy for the construction of submarines and is about to launch it on the world market. To force him to give up the formula, his opponents kidnap his son.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-29
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The Two Gladiators
Overview: The twins of the recently departed Marcus Aurelius fight it out to see who will become emperor of Rome.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-07-10
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Viaggio di nozze all'italiana
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-08
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Camorra
Overview: The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-30
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The Shortest Day
Overview: Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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Trouble for the Legion
Overview: Alberto Gherardi, a sailor is wrongly suspected of murder, flied and enroll into the Foreign Legion. His unfaithful fiancee Irene goes to look for him with his young brother Enrico, but the latter is killed. Will she still manage to free her lover?
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-08-27
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Porta un bacione a Firenze
Overview: After a difficult eye operation, Simonetta, an Italian-American girl, returns for a vacation in Florence, the home town of her family. Here he meets Alberto, a sculptor.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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Story of Fear and a Knife
Overview: A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-14
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Knight Without a Country
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-14
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La congiura dei Borgia
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-01-23
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Supermen Against the Orient
Overview: Robert Wallace travels to Hong Kong to bust a gang of drug trafficker's. There he finds help from Tang and Suzy, as well as his fellow Supermen Max & Jerry.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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Manhunt
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal
Overview: A documentary on the controversial 1960s Italian photo novels known as Killing, aka Satanik in France and Sadistik in America. Also the basis for the Turkish cult film series shot as Kilink. Includes interviews with the original actors who were familiar faces from spaghetti westerns, splatter films and historical dramas from the 1960s and 70s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-11-01
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Caterina Sforza, the lioness of Romagna
Overview: Giovanni Medici, the future leader of the Black Bands, has a last meeting in a convent with his dying mother Caterina Sforza, listening to the re-enactment of her life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-20
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