Howard Ross
Also Known As: Red Ross, Renato Rossini
Biography: Howard Ross (born Renato Rossini; 10 January 1941) is an Italian film actor. Born in Rome, Rossini got his first major roles in peplum films. In the mid-1960s he eventually adopted the stage name Howard Ross. He was mainly active in genre films, specializing in adventure films, giallo films and poliziotteschi. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Birthday: January 10, 1941
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Marta
Overview: A wealthy landowner haunted by the spectre of his dead mother has a fling with a beautiful fugitive who bears a striking resemblance to his missing wife, who may have been murdered.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-04-10
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The Great Swindle
Overview: A seductive woman gets involved in relationships with several people. All of the characters play games of deceit with one and other and things get more and more dangerous.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-03-06
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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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The New York Ripper
Overview: A burned-out New York police detective teams up with a college psychoanalyst to track down a vicious serial killer randomly stalking and killing various young women around the city.
Genres: Horror Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-03-04
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Five Dolls for an August Moon
Overview: A wealthy playboy gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated beach house for a weekend of relaxation. When bodies start pilling up, they realize they’re trapped with a killer in their midst, sending them in a frenzy to figure out who amongst them is killing the others before they are killed next.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-14
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Warriors of the Year 2072
Overview: In the future, two television networks compete for ratings by producing violent game shows. One network produces a modern day version of the Roman gladiators, only on motorcycles instead of chariots, and uses convicted murderers as the participants, The network decides it needs a champion for this sport, so they frame a constant winner from another game for murder, and place him on the show.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-01-28
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The Pyjama Girl Case
Overview: Two seemingly separate stories in New South Wales: a burned, murdered body of a young woman is found on the beach, and a retired inspector makes inquiries; also, Linda, a waitress and ferry attendant, has several lovers and marries one, but continues seeing the others. The police have a suspect in the murder, but the retired inspector is convinced they're wrong; he continues a methodical investigation. Linda and her husband separate, and there are complications. Will the stories cross or are they already twisted together?
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-31
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Samson and His Mighty Challenge
Overview: Four muscular heroes fight the evil ruler of an oppressed people.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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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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L'immoralità
Overview: Federico is a child-killer running from the law. Wounded, he is taken in by an 11 year old girl named Simona. Their strange love affair is interrupted by Simona's depressed, oversexed mother Vera, who concocts a plan with Federico to kill her wheelchair-bound, reclusive husband. Simona does not take kindly to this new relationship between Federico and Vera.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-11-20
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When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
Overview: Prehistoric cave-stud Ari wins lovely virgin Listra in a pig-catching contest, but their attempts at "Ding-Dong" keep getting interrupted by idiot battles between his tribe, The Cave Dwellers, and their neighbors, The Lake Dwellers. Annoyed that hubby would rather make war than Ding-Dong, Listra organizes the women of both tribes to go on strike and "abstain Ding-Dong" until the men stop fighting. It all happens back in the days when men carried clubs and women played ding-dong, an Italian stone-age sex comedy based on the Greek classic "Lysistrata" and filled with shapely cavewomen sporting '70s hairstyles, a gay caveman with the hots for the hero, a title tune that will follow you forever and, of course, plenty of old-fashioned Ding-Dong!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-28
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Hercules Against the Mongols
Overview: Though Genghis Khan eventually sought peace with the West, his death in 1227 AD puts into power his three war-like sons: Sayan, Susdal, and Kin Khan. These sons quickly overrun the city of Tuleda and take prisoner Princess Bianca, though young Prince Alessio escapes. Hercules comes to the rescue of Bianca, winning her freedom in a tournament in exchange for becoming a slave himself. Forces from the West soon come to re-take Tuleda and Hercules -- freed from his bonds -- helps to dispatch Genghis Khan's three sons while again saving Bianca and reuniting her with her young brother.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-11-29
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Werewolf Woman
Overview: A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but then she is raped and her lover is murdered so she goes out for revenge.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-18
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La magnifica sfida
Overview: After years of absence, Kadir returns to his hometown Semares in the center of the Arabian desert. He finds out that the new ruler Atatur is a tyrant who leads wars merely to expand his territory. After saving the life of Atatur's general Kames in an ambush, Kadir receives the opportunity to rise to high ranks in Atatur's army. But Atatur is planning a cruel war of retribution against the desert tribes of King Hussein...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-10
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Fifteen Scaffolds for the Killer
Overview: Unjustly accused of the murder of three women, the members of two rival gangs are joined to survive to the hunting that the whole town is making. Running away, they reach an abandoned fort in which the attempt to fend off attacks from the group that pursues them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-15
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Those Dirty Dogs!
Overview: Captain Chadwell, Lieutenant Junger and Sergeant Smith are sent by Washington to help their colleagues of Fort Apache to recover stolen arms. A bounty hunter accompanies them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Merciless Man
Overview: The city suffers and succumbs unarmed, but an ex secret agent succeeds in winning the struggle against the gangsterism. Intrigue and violence grip a society victim of the crime.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-12-04
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Gunman Called Nebraska
Overview: A drifter helps a ranch couple fend off the approaches of a ruthless landowner.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1966-03-18
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Wrath of God
Overview: Mike returns home in order to leave his gunfighting days behind him and settle down on a farm with his old sweetheart but things do not go as planned. Finding Jane murdered, Mike is set upon and left for dead by her 7 killers who also steal his life savings of $10,000; all in $50 dollar bills. They leave only seven dollars and Mike vows to track down every man, paying him back with a solitary dollar and death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-24
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Viva Cangaceiro
Overview: Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a young farmer called Espedito; he is nursed back to health by a hermit who thinks he has been sent by God and therefore baptizes him the Redeemer. Espedito/The Redeemer forms his own gang of cangaceiros but doesn’t really understand what he’s doing until he befriends the proverbial European intellectual, a Dutch Oil prospector, who introduces him to important people. Espedito is hired by the Dutchman and a corrupt local governor, but then the Dutchman changes sides …
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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Desert Commandos
Overview: German commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert tasked with getting to Casablanca in an assassination attempt on allied leaders.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-01
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The Man Called Noon
Overview: Noon is a gunfighter who has become amnesiac. Helped by Rimes, an outlaw who has befriended him, he tries to figure out who he is actually. It gradually appears that his wife and kid have been murdered. As time goes by, Noon also recalls a fortune hidden somewhere. Niland, a scheming judge, and Peg Cullane, a greedy will do everything to prevent Noon and Rimes from achieving their end while Fan Davidge, a woman living in a ghost town, will support them.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-29
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Sword of the Empire
Overview: Rome, under Commodus: intrigue, fight for power, gladiators, senators, Christians, Barbarians, slaves, Pretorians, battles, wrestles, swords and muscles in by-the-numbers Italian epic.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-20
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Order to Kill
Overview: An action drama about an assassin who is ordered to kill an old friend and the repercussions when he refuses. At the same time, although it has nothing to do with the plot, there seems to be a relentless undercurrent of sadism and masochism with a homosexual aura.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-04-22
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One Man Against the Organization
Overview: An airport employee switches a pack of drugs for baking soda and absconds to Barcelona, meanwhile the drug-runners are on his trail.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-11-12
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Zorro il ribelle
Overview: California, a province of the Spanish colony Mexico. Don Ramiro, the secretary of the tyrannical governor, is charged with assuring his son, don Luis, the chief of the military police, can marry Isaballe, the daughter of don Miguel, who plans to divide his land among his tenants, a recipe for revolt. Secretly don Ramoro is Zorro, the masked leader of the popular rebels. Both parties resort to desperate means, while don Carmello, the forcefully persuasive mission priest, guards morality.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-12
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Missione sabbie roventi
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-05-31
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Dirty Heroes
Overview: Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans
Genres: War Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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Kindar the Invulnerable
Overview: An evil bandit kidnaps a sultan's son and raises him but finds the son has magic powers.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-03-05
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The Killer Reserved Nine Seats
Overview: A rich man gathers together friends and relatives at the abandoned theatre he owns, but the party isn't fun for long since apparently one of them is a murderer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-05-21
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Stateline Motel
Overview: After robbing a jewellery shop in Canada, two Americans arrange a meeting near the US borders in order to split the loot. One of them has an accident with his car on his way there and gets stuck in an isolated motel until his car is fixed. The owner of the motel, a sexy woman in her thirties, falls in love with him, but her suspicions about him begin to multiply, as the police arrive at the motel...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-14
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Sergeant Klems
Overview: A man masquerading as a dead soldier seeks to desert his post and join the enemy in their struggle.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-03
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Five Women for the Killer
Overview: Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead...
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-12-04
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Quel maledetto ponte sull'Elba
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Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-07-22
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The Mafia Triangle
Overview: A Neapolitan camorra boss has retired from business but when his wife gets killed he gets back into action, and goes to the States to get his revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-04-03
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Bloody Che Contra
Overview: The story of Che Guevara's desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Pursued by an elite ranger unit of the army led by a determined CIA agent, Che is eventually trapped and his men are killed.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Maria - Nur die Nacht war Zeuge
Overview: Lucia, a young German married to Paolo, a Neapolitan emigrant, is raped. She tells a lie to her husband, but the day he discovers the truth a tragedy begins for the woman...
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1980-02-23
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Days of Hell
Overview: This fast-paced film stars (Conrad Nichols) as the tough Captain Williams, head of a crack commando squad who goes into Afghanistan to save the U.S.S.R. -- and indirectly, the U.S. -- from some very bad publicity. A journalist and his daughter have evidence that the Russians are using biological and chemical weapons in their war in Afghanistan. The unit of five commandos smuggle themselves into Afghanistan through its neighbor Iran, bribing the leaders of that country with some spare parts for its war planes (shades of Iran-Contra!). Once inside the country they discover that the journalist has already died from exposure to nerve gas, and his daughter is already getting sick. Williams starts to guess that they are all being set up because everything is going just a little too well, and he adjusts his plans accordingly. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
Genres: War Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-04-20
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Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Overview: Ottone and Savio work hard to keep each other out of trouble with the Roman Centurions while scraping together food and drink with various scams. Emperor Nero's wife, the beautiful Poppea, takes an interest in Ottone, who after a short stint as a gladiator gets a region to manage and an army of his own to command, all the while assisted by his best friend and partner in crime Savio.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-11-21
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Hercules vs. the Giant Warriors
Overview: Hercules, having agreed to restore justice to Mycenae, confronts evil Prince Myles. The villain is invested with power over giant bronze warriors by his mother Pasiphaë, a sorceress in Hades. Myles assassinates the king and abducts his cousin, Queen Ate, through whom he plans to inherit the throne. Although Zeus temporarily removes Hercules' strength for killing Eurystheus, an innocent man framed by Myles, the god restores his powers. Hercules then saves Ate and destroys Myles, Pasiphaë, and the giant warriors.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-30
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Behind Convent Walls
Overview: A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of the institution to enforce strict rules on these unfortunate women. At the same time, a particularly disturbed nun manages to poison herself and many of the other novitiates in yet another scandal which is covered up by church authorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-25
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Viva Cangaceiro
Overview: Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a young farmer called Espedito; he is nursed back to health by a hermit who thinks he has been sent by God and therefore baptizes him the Redeemer. Espedito/The Redeemer forms his own gang of cangaceiros but doesn’t really understand what he’s doing until he befriends the proverbial European intellectual, a Dutch Oil prospector, who introduces him to important people. Espedito is hired by the Dutchman and a corrupt local governor, but then the Dutchman changes sides …
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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The Revolt of the Seven
Overview: Milo, tyrant of Sparta, has betrayed the Achea League. The evidence of betrayal is hidden by one of the rebels who is killed before he can reveal the hiding place to his friend Keros.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-28
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Christmas Vacation '95
Overview: Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wants to meet him at all costs. The second one wants to win back his wife who has left him because of his gambling problem.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-12-14
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Sergeant Klems
Overview: A man masquerading as a dead soldier seeks to desert his post and join the enemy in their struggle.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-03
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The Battle of Neretva
Overview: In January 1943 the German army, afraid of an Allied invasion of the Balkans, launched a great offensive against Yugoslav Partisans in Western Bosnia. The only way out for Partisan forces and thousands of refugees was the bridge on the river Neretva.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1969-10-07
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Poppea's Hot Nights
Overview: Poppea's Hot Nights (Italian: Le calde notti di Poppea) is a 1969 Italian comedy film set in Ancient Rome. It was written and directed by Guido Malatesta and stars Olga Schoberová (credited as Olinka Berova) and Brad Harris in the main roles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Dove Must Not Fly
Overview: An undercover Nazi in Libya aims to steal fuel and deliver it to a specific location in the desert where an Italian bomber would refuel on its way to Allied target.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-11
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I briganti
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-09
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Philemon
Overview: Set in Ancient Greece, a street clown Cockian is hired by a Roman Commander to impersonate an imprisoned Christian leader in order to learn the group's secrets, but the clown begins to take his role to heart.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-07
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Teste di quoio
Overview: A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services
Overview: Cristina turns eighteen and leaves her bourgeois family to become a call-girl. But soon, her clients start turning up dead, their throats slashed. Who is responsible?
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-07-28
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The Slave Merchants
Overview: The daughter of a noble man is sold into slavery, only to be later rescued by the film's hero. Repackaged from an original Sword-and-Sandal italian film.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-06-27
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Do You Remember Lucio Fulci?
Overview: Documentary in which Lucio Fulci's friends and collaborators remember him in a wide range of aspects, from the personal to the professional.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-10-08
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Naked Girl Killed in the Park
Overview: Johan Wallenberger, a rich financier, is killed in the House of Horrors at an amusement park in Madrid. His insurance company assign Chris Buyer, one of their best agents, to investigate because a few days prior to his death, the businessman took out a million dollar life insurance policy. Chris ingratiates himself with Catherine, Wallenberger's beautiful daughter, and it emerges that she is being plagued by a blackmailer. Chris is invited to the Wallenbergers' country house and is soon the centre of attention for several attractive women. Meanwhile, the plot thickens...
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-05-29
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Hercules Against the Barbarians
Overview: The eternal Hercules in this film has gone way beyond his usual time and place in ancient Greece and is now helping Poland free itself of Mongol invaders in the 12th century. Mark Forest is the star of this peplum epic, Hercules Against The Barbarians.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-04-16
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Champagne... e fagioli
Overview: The noble Count Cellini is grappling with a period of profound economic and personal crisis. Together with his trusted butler, he comes across a young woman of foreign origins, on whose trail there is a cruel local gangster. The count, much older than her, ends up falling in love with her and when the girl starts dating a man from the city's upper middle class, the count and her butler will organize a deception to her boss to pay her her dowry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-12-20
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Twenty Thousand Dollars for Seven
Overview: Fred Leinster, an alcoholic ex-sheriff, is paid to collect a ransom for the kidnapping of a young boy. When he finds out the particulars of the crime he turns the tables on the outlaws.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-08-07
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The Relentless Four
Overview: Terrorized townsfolk turn into a lynch mob and target a lawman.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-03
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The Boss
Overview: A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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Oh, Serafina!
Overview: Augusto Valle is a successful young industrialist who weds Palmira, the girl working in his factory, and the two have a child despite the infant's uncertain legitimacy. Scheming to control her husband's fortune, Palmira has affairs with both the mayor and the judge to have Augusto committed to a mental institution. While there, he falls in love with Serafina Vitali, a young woman who was also put away.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Johnny Colt
Overview: Starblack is a hero who dresses in black and his face is covered by a black scarf and he carries in his shirt a black star, which he always leaves at the scene of his enterprises, as a symbol of justice. Soucre: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-25
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Helen, Yes... Helen of Troy
Overview: Ottone and Savio, wanderers from Etruria, find themselves on the shores of Ancient Greece in search of bread and adventures. Pretending to be exhausted, they are rescued by Paris and Helen and taken to the palace of Menelaus. The welcome is propitious to take advantage of the lavish lunches and beautiful women, not even excluded Elena, wife of the sovereign who will be kidnapped by Paris and taken to Troy. When he reaches the palace of Ulysses, which recognizes the two vagabonds, they are driven out and, after other adventures, they reach the palace of Priam
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-16
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Wanted Johnny Texas
Overview: Johnny Texas is recruited by the U.S. Army to find a safe passage for a wagon train and impatient settlers to the West. Johnny figures his best bet is to pay off the local band of desperadoes helmed by a psychotic outlaw. When that doesn't work, Colonel Stewart orders Johnny to attack a fortress and detonate a secret stash of dynamite. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-27
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La notte dell'innominato
Overview: On the night of Lucia's kidnapping, the Unnamed revisits his life. Many years earlier a caravan of Andalusian gypsies arrived at the gates of Milan. Among these were Esteban with his mother, his fiancée Maria Dolores, and the latter's sister, Carmencita who, in love with Esteban, resorts to every means to hinder the wedding. In a scuffle she caused, her sister was killed by thugs. The gypsies' wagons are destroyed and the few survivors, including Esteban and his mother, are forced to flee. Carmencita becomes the governor's wife and Esteban a bandit who steals Spanish wheat and gold to give to the people. On Carmencita's whim, Esteban's mother, arrested and accused of witchcraft, dies. Esteban continues his life as a bandit and becomes the terrible Unnamed, who will finally reach his conversion thanks to Lucia and Cardinal Federico.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-19
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Masters of Mayhem
Overview: For decades Italian genre cinema dominated the world and before changing beyond recognition it went to unthinkable places. Giants don't die quietly however and this is the story of an industry's most absurd, extreme, blood-soaked fight for survival. Through dozens of brand new interviews, and never-before-seen archival materials, with the men and women who were there during one of the most unique moments in film history, MASTERS OF MAYHEM tells their stories of scandal, contradictions, drama and outrage.
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: en
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