Renato Romano
Also Known As: Rudi Roman, Raffaele Romano, Rudy Romans, Raf Valenti
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ischia, Italy
Birthday: February 20, 1940
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Frankenstein '80
Overview: A mad scientist creates a monster called "Mosaico," who breaks out of the laboratory to hunt down and kill beautiful women.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-12
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Blue Nude
Overview: Obscure, sleazy and laid back picture about a young man being dragged down into the seedy and ruthless underbelly of 70s New York pornographers.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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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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Dorian Gray
Overview: London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterious portrait of himself gradually reveals his moral decay.
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1970-04-24
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A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
Overview: A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by the new governor of the New Mexico Territory, but a vindictive sheriff sets out to stop him from reaching the Territory.
Genres: Drama Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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Sin
Overview: When Orestes returns to his Greek island homeland after several years in London to settle his late father's estate, he begins an affair with Elena, who is married to his childhood friend Yanni. Their adultery soon leads to violence and tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Kill Rommel!
Overview: During WWII, US Lieutenant Morris and British captain Hull are assigned in a mission to kill Rommel.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-06
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Overview: An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-02-27
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Tre donne - La sciantosa
Overview: La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of Italian history through three movies, all of them with Anna Magnani. The other two are "1943: un incontro" and "L'autmobile". In this first movie, La Magnani is Flora Torres, a "sciantosa" (kind of a small stage diva) who is forgotten during the WWI, living only to remember her past glory. One day she receives a letter to present herself to the high command. There, Flora is called to go to the front and entertain the troops. Along with her maid Cristina, Flora goes to the front. There they are welcomed by the young private Tonino (Massimo Ranieri). Flora starts to act like a prima donna, making absurd demands to everyone. But when she is about to present herself, the vision of the wounded soldiers makes her change her way
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-26
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Shotgun
Overview: In a small western town our hero Durango delivers his prisoner to the jailhouse and then goes to the local saloon where the lady saloon owner Joanne has eyes only for him. But Durango only has eyes for his bride-to-be Lucy. Four masked men attack Lucy's father's farm and steal Lucy's dowry. They kill Lucy and her parents after the father strips the face mask from one of the bandits. A pocket watch is stripped from one of the bandits by Lucy's father and this is the only clue that Durango will have to revenge his love... With Joanne's help can Durango avenge himself?
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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Corbari
Overview: The real story of the partisan Silvio Corbari (Giuliano Gemma). Silvio forms a band of partisans in Northern Italy, completely independent from the Italian organized resistance (CLN). Ines (Tina Aumont), leaves her husband to join the band and becomes Silvio's lover. Silvio seems to suceed in creating a free-zone, his personal republic, independent from Nazi-occupied Italy, in a little village called Tregnano.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-25
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Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears
Overview: Two friends help Sam Houston work for Texas statehood. Johnny Ears and his deaf-mute sidekick Erastus "Deaf" Smith go after a Mexican general under orders from Germany to agitate the populace.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-29
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Holy Year
Overview: Two bank robbers, an old and a young, escape from prison to get to the hidden loot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-04-23
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The Protagonists
Overview: An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in hiding. Under intermittent gunfire, they make their way to the mountain hideout of the bandit. After a leisurely conversation and photo session, the encampment comes under fire from a group of armed citizens acting as police. Bullets fly and violence overtakes the criminal's two henchman, as the thrill-seeking group and the wanted criminal find themselves under attack.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-06-07
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The 5th Day of Peace
Overview: Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied POW camp. When a rigid and militaristic German colonel learns about their desertion, he wants them court-martialed, even if the war is over. The uninterested Allied officers oblige him, and the two men face the firing squad on "the fifth day of peace".
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-04-17
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Kidnap Syndicate
Overview: After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-27
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The French Sex Murders
Overview: After a French prostitute is found dead, one of her regular clients is tried and convicted for her murder. He is eventually sentenced to death but dies in a high speed pursuit after attempting to escape custody. Soon, the witnesses that testified against him end up being systematically murdered by a mysterious killer wearing black gloves.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-06-15
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Sex Diary
Overview: The Don Juan of a small provincial town saves from suicide a young American girl who falls in love with him. The citizens, after having discovered that the girl is very rich, will do everything to organize the marriage between them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-07-27
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Le seminariste
Overview: After being expelled from college, the daughter of an aristocratic family from Lecce is sent to a seminary in her native town
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-11
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The Italian Job
Overview: Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars, and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal a fortune in gold and escape in the chaos.
Genres: Action Crime Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-02
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Shadows Unseen
Overview: When a journalist is murdered Inspector Micheli begins to investigate. Although someone comes forward to confess to the crime, Micheli doesn't believe he acted alone and keeps investigating despite coming under pressure to close the case.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-24
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La verginella
Overview: A high school girl is lured into prostitution by a fashion photographer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-02
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The Mattei Affair
Overview: Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-26
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The Last Rebel
Overview: Set in 1865 in southwest Missouri, at the close of the Civil War the film follows the adventures of two Confederate men and a black man who they rescue from a lynching.
Genres: TV Movie Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-24
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Blindman
Overview: A blind, but deadly, gunman, is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands. His business partners double cross him, selling the women to bandit Domingo. Blindman heads into Mexico in pursuit.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-15
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The Battle of El Alamein
Overview: June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Dear Michele
Overview: Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Without Warning
Overview: A discredited police inspector is given a second chance, in the form of a dangerous assignment. Chosen because of his uncanny resemblance to a Lt. Revere, the inspector impersonates him in order to penetrate a group of mercenaries with orders to assassinate its leader.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-15
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Secret Agent Super Dragon
Overview: A series of murders in Michigan lead an American secret agent to Amsterdam, where he uncovers a plot to imperil the world with a potent new drug.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-17
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Death Laid an Egg
Overview: A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.
Genres: Thriller Horror Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-09
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The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire
Overview: In Dublin, the acid-scarred, razor-slashed corpse of a young woman is discovered in the boot of the Swiss Ambassador's limousine. The Ambassador, his family and employees all become immediate suspects. Faced with the problem of diplomatic immunity, the police officer in charge of the case brings in John Norton, an ex-Inspector known for his brutal methods, to carry out an "unoffical" investigation. While Norton develops a relationship with the Ambassdor's attractive daughter, several more gruesome murders occur...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-24
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Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
Overview: A maniac on the loose is committing savage acts of slaughter, and one survivor may be the only key to unmasking the serial slayer known as the Half-Moon Killer. The mysterious half-moon lockets he leaves with his victims could be the only key to unraveling his sinister motives, but will that be enough before he completes his ice-cold plot to claim his intended seven victims?
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-24
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