Anthony Steffen
Also Known As: Antônio Luiz de Teffé, Antonio De Teffé, Antony Steffen
Biography: Anthony Steffen (July 21, 1930 – June 4, 2004), born Antônio Luiz de Teffé von Hoonholtz, was an Italian Brazilian film actor who achieved fame as a leading man in over 25 Spaghetti Western features.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: July 21, 1930
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 04, 2004
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A Diary of a Murderess
Overview: A beautiful young woman sets her sights on an aging millionaire. She seduces him, and moves into his mansion with him. She soon tires of him, though, and after she gets rid of him, she goes after his son.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1975-05-04
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The Crimes of the Black Cat
Overview: In Copenhagen, a blind pianist hunts the culprit in string of murders, each linked by the presence of a yellow shawl and a black cat.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-12
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Killer Fish
Overview: Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-12-07
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The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
Overview: A rich, mentally-unstable man—with a penchant for playing deadly S&M games with women who resemble his dead wife—sparks off a chain of bizarre events after getting remarried.
Genres: Mystery Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-18
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Gentleman Killer
Overview: In a disputed border town, the US Army waits for word from Washington as to the rightful country it belongs, while dealing with a rowdy pack of Mexican soldier/bandits. Into the mix rides seemingly mysterious stranger Anthony Steffan, who looks like a dandy but has a few deadly tricks up his sleeve.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-14
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Killer Kid
Overview: The ruthless and cruel Captain Ramirez hunts down and kills revolutionaries in his search for The Saint, the righteous leader of the Mexican insurrection against the Federales.
Genres: Western Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-30
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Tropic of Cancer
Overview: A couple on holiday in Haiti become involved in a series of savage murders linked to a doctors a new invention, a drug with extreme side effects.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-30
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Rome, the Other Face of Violence
Overview: Four bandits commit a robbery in a villa. The maid calls the police and Commissioner Carli immediately orders patrols to chase them.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-07-27
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No Room to Die
Overview: Mexican's are being smuggled over the border to work as cheap labour for wealthy land baron Fargo. His gang is made up of known criminals with bounties on their heads, this greatly interests two bounty hunters who may have to team up to achieve their goals.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Django the Bastard
Overview: A Confederate soldier returns from the dead to take revenge on three officers who betrayed his unit in battle.
Genres: Western Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-08
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Viva! Django
Overview: Django is on the trail of some renegade outlaws who raped and killed his wife. En route, he rescues a horse thief from an impromptu hanging. He discovers the man knows who committed the murder. The men team up and head west for revenge.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-29
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Man Who Cried for Revenge
Overview: A Civil War veteran is amnesic after being shot in the head. When he returns to his hometown, he finds out that he has been declared a deserter. The local judge offers him a chance to clear his name, but he only wants to send him against some dangerous outlaw and his gang.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-07-28
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Sabata the Killer
Overview: After giving a ride to a man who recently ripped-off his thieving business partner, Sabata and his buddy are unaware that a group of men have been hired to kill them and bring back the loot!
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1970-09-12
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Apocalypse Joe
Overview: Travelling actor and gunman Joe Clifford inherits a gold mine from his uncle. Returning to claim the mine, he finds town boss Berg, his uncle's murderer, controls it instead. Clifford sets about avenging his uncle, recovering the mine and freeing the town from Berg using both shooting and thespian skills.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-04
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Too Much Gold for One Gringo
Overview: A bunch of outlaws awaits the release from prison of an old goldminer, believed to have hidden 28 sacks of gold 20 years before... They all want the old man to speak, but only one of them will fulfill his dream.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-08-19
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Escape from Hell
Overview: A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is dealt with swiftly and savagely. The camp doctor is horrified at what he sees happening, and drinks heavily to push the horror away. Finally the inmates have had had enough, and they enlist the help of the doctor to try and escape.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-27
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Play Motel
Overview: The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.
Genres: Crime Thriller Romance Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Hotel Paradise
Overview: At a female prison located deep within the deadly South American jungles, a group of woman are forced to mine for valuable emeralds for the local corrupt government. A group of new prisoners on the way to the jail are ambushed and are convinced to join a group of revolutionaries seeking to overthrow the prison guards and take the treasure of jewels for themselves.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-10-25
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The Killers Are Our Guests
Overview: After a bungled diamond heist a trio of killers take refuge at the home of a country doctor and force him at gunpoint to attend to their mortally wounded colleague. They abuse the doctor and take sexual advantage of his wife. But everything is not as it seems.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Seven Dollars on Red
Overview: A little boy is abducted by ruthless bandit gang leader El Cachal after Cachal and his men butcher the boy's family with the exception of his father. Johnny Ashley, the gunslinger father of the boy, goes searching for his son. Alas, the boy has grown up to be a mean and vicious criminal.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-16
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Dead Men Don't Count
Overview: Damon and Steffen are paired up bounty hunters falsely accused of murder in a lawless town ruled by racketeering lawmen
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-11
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Ringo, the Mark of Vengeance
Overview: Story of two friends who rescue bumbling bandit Fidel from a shootout. While patching him up, they discover half of a treasure map tattooed on his back. Learning that the other half is tattooed on the back of someone else, they set about trying to put the two halves together while being joined by card sharp and all round trickster who discovers their secret and wants in on the deal.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-26
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Tequila!
Overview: Shosena, a clever bank robber, is associated with "Jaguar" to take a big hit. They think the town where the bank owned dock Koven, a man who has against all the farmers of the place. His only son, George, is in love with the daughter of Rush, his most angry enemy. And ... coincidentally, Shosena and "Jaguar" to justify their stay in the village, get to work for him.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-05-25
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Western, Italian Style
Overview: A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that particular point in time. Contains behind-the-scenes footage from the films "Il Grande Silenzio" "Vado, Vedo e Sparo" "Ammazza Tutti e Torna Solo" and "Corri, Uomo, Corri" and interviews with their directors and cast.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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A Few Dollars for Django
Overview: Django, bounty killer, hunter and repentant bandit wants to start a new life. No more bullets and blood, after years of killing and horror. Django wants to replace the sherrif and restore law and order to lawless land, but faces the history and bloodshed of his own past. Helped by the love of the daughter of a bandit Django can finally bring his life of violence to and end and spend his days in peace... If he can live that long!
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-09
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Arizona Colt Returns
Overview: Famed gunman Arizona Colt is sent by Moreno to rescue his daughter from the grips of Arizona's old enemy, Keane. But certain complications make the mission far more dangerous than expected.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-14
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A Train for Durango
Overview: Two buddy adventurers witness a train-robbery and are then hunting the robbed gold and they also robbed Helen.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-06
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Shango
Overview: Shango is a Texas Ranger who finds himself up against a former Confederate officer and his gang of thugs who have been terrorizing a local border town in search of gold.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-21
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Ten Killers from Afar
Overview: Dallas tries to regain his father's farm which he lost in a card game with Kelly. But Kelly is now dead and his daughter, Glenda, doesn't know how to play poker. There are also rumors of a hidden treasure.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-06-27
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Dead Are Countless
Overview: Johnny was mentally traumatised when he witnessed as a child the killing of his father (a deserter) by a group of soldiers. As an adult he randomly kills every soldier he gets hold of, so that the army sends out the brutish Lieutenant Garringo to stop Johnny.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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Lone and Angry Man
Overview: Shenandoah (Steffen) works his way into a band of highwaymen led by Rojo (Armando Calvo). His initiation consists of hunting down and killing a member of the gang who has 12 bullets while he is only given 2 bullets. When the bandits attempt to rob a wealthy rancher, whom Shenandoah knows, he warns him. The outlaws begin to suspect they were betrayed and commence to rough Shenandoah up. Shenandoah then reveals his true reason for joining the gang; one of them killed his wife and he is there for retribution.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-23
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The Sons of the Leopard
Overview: Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and marries a rich woman. The mistress tries to have her rights established with the help of her sons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-04-29
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A Stranger in Paso Bravo
Overview: After spending many years in prison, Gary returns to Paso Bravo, where thugs burned his ranch killing his wife and daughter. Gary seeks revenge, and also finds a people who live terrorized by a group of gunmen led by Acombar. This situation causes Gary skip to face action this gang of murderers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-23
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Eighteen Year Olds
Overview: Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
Overview: The construction of great temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, followed by new and high taxes and the arrival of a plague, create discontent in the population, and threatens the love between a sculptor and a slave.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-29
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Seven Jackals
Overview: Seven legendary outlaws face a rival gang.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Gunman Sent by God
Overview: Anthony Steffen, as a young gunman who works as a circus performer, witnesses the killing of some outlaws, carried out by their leader and is credited with the deed. Steffen suffers from a complex which blocks him in front of any violence and makes him appear cowardly, so when a young boy is kidnapped he must find a way to regain his composure.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-29
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Why Go On Killing?
Overview: A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is alone in his efforts to avenge his father's death.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-04
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$1,000 on the Black
Overview: Johnny Liston has just been released from prison where he has wrongly served twelve years for a murder. He returns to Campos, the village of his birth, where the whole town is terrorized by Johnny's brother, Sartana, who has taken Manuela, Johnny's fiancèe to be his lover. With his only friend a mute, Johnny must seize all opportunity to find out why he was framed, who was involved and why he is not welcome. source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-18
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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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Sodom and Gomorrah
Overview: Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-04
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The Killer with a Thousand Eyes
Overview: A special detective is sent to Lisbon in order to investigate a series of murders. After looking into the murders, our hero realises that they are somehow linked to an illegal drug smuggling operation and so sets about looking into that in order to solve the murders and stop the smuggling from taking place.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-25
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Latin Lovers
Overview: The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-11
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Lady Dynamite
Overview: Donna Costanza is married to a New Jersey mafia boss. During their 10 year wedding anniversary party he is shot and killed. His dying words to her are "Giarratana from Palermo". Costanza takes a trip to Palermo in order to avenge the death of her husband. Her target is Don Giarratana, a dangerous and influential Italian politician.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-23
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Charlotte
Overview: Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosophy of life where neither sex nor death are taboo, and where a lust for pushing limits meets it ultimate conclusion.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-11-26
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Savage Island
Overview: Women who have been captured and sold as slave labor to a South American emerald mine hatch a plan for revolution and revenge.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-01
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La trovatella di Pompei
Overview: Maria, is a girl raised by the loving care of a poor couple but without knowing anything about her real parents. She is in love with Giorgio, a boy from a good family, who however has also aroused the interest of the intriguing Edvige who frequents bad company including jealous Roberto.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-07-25
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Adventure at the Motel
Overview: A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-09
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Abandoned
Overview: A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them for shelter in their villa. The young and aristocratic Andrea strikes up a friendship with a peasant girl, Lucia. Then the Germans suddenly appear, looking for the real partisans, and the time comes for serious decisions.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-07
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Abatjour 2
Overview: An old farmer, who seeks the beautiful Camilla, is murdered. The young policeman, who is assigned to the mysterious death, also falls on her.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Moments of Pleasure and Agony
Overview: A small-town school teacher leads an apparently normal life, including a longtime boyfriend. But she secretly has several lesbian affairs until the women in her life start being brutally murdered.
Genres: Horror Crime Thriller
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-09-11
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Ultimatum alla vita
Overview: Women held in prison by the Nazi's in Italy during WW2.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-11
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City at Night
Overview: A young girl falls in love with an actor. She persuades her father to support his acting company, but when she discovers him with another girl she runs away. Then everybody try to find her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-06
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The Devil's Cavaliers
Overview: Captain Richard and a small band of soldiers return home to France to discover the country ruled by horrible nobility.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-26
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Sixteen
Overview: Thinly sketched portrayal of Maria, a sixteen year old girl who is resentful of her mother's decision to live with her lover. She flirts with the lover and eventually succumbs to his lust.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-19
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The Last Tomahawk
Overview: As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Unkas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Falkenauge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-04-17
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The Invincible Maciste Brothers
Overview: Peplum movie from 1964
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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The Loves of Lady Chatterley
Overview: Joelle lives on a large estate with her crippled husband, Il conte. Just as he begins to feel he can't match up to his wife's sexual needs, his wife's ex-lover, Charles, is released from prison. Her husband invites him to become a groundskeeper on the estate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Evil Eye
Overview: People around Peter Crane begin dying in mysterious fashion. How is Playboy Peter involved in this? He begins having nightmares dealing with murder...His psychiatrist has no idea of what Peter is suffering from. Even the police are in danger as they start investigating the case. What is the secret of the "Magic Circle"?
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-06
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Zoo zéro
Overview: Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to remember her singing Mozart.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-09
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Doses of Horror
Overview: "In an asylum, patients were subjected to watching horror films for psychiatric study... but they all went mad and now those films have been unearthed!" claims the product description. In reality, the "story" is told with silly title cards over random abandoned asylum shots while long scenes from eleven different 70s and 80s horror films are edited in.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-05
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I'll See You on the Balcony
Overview: Ignazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with an exceptional voice.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-13
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The Jukebox Kids
Overview: When a promising record company president is arrested, his daughter takes over his company to promote her own rock and roll music by promoting various young singers.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-13
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An Angel for Satan
Overview: At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carries an ancient malediction.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-05-04
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Castle of the Banned Lovers
Overview: The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But she has to face the jealousy of his violent and morbid father, and the hostility of his stepmother Lucrezia, who has a relationship with her other stepson, James. The stepmother and stepson-lover plan to kill Francesco. And when the latter dies accidentally, they decide to put the blame on Beatrice and Olimpio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-06
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Cavalcata selvaggia
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Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Solitudine
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-04-01
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