Luciano Catenacci
Also Known As: Luciano Lorcas, Luciano Catanacci
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Birthday: April 15, 1933
Deathday: October 04, 1990
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Ben & Charlie
Overview: Also known as Ben & Charlie. When Ben Bellow is released from prison, Charlie Logan is there waiting for him. Not to welcome him, but to tell him that he does not want to hear from him again. But his wish won't be granted as the the two men constantly forced to reconnect while still hating each other's guts...
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-04
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Odds and Evens
Overview: A bumbling government agent recruits a trucker whose gambling knowledge can help crack an illegal Florida operation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-10-28
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Crime Busters
Overview: An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-04-01
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Kill, Baby... Kill!
Overview: A 20th century European village is haunted by the ghost of a murderous little girl.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-07-08
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Syndicate Sadists
Overview: A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-16
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It Can Be Done Amigo
Overview: An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-31
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Almost Human
Overview: A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-08
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Rome, Armed to the Teeth
Overview: A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-10
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Brothers Till We Die
Overview: Vincenzo 'hunchback' plans a robbery on a armored police van with his gang. Once the job is done, his gang try to kill him and absconds with the loot. Vincenzo hides in the sewers before looking up his friend Monezza who the police later interrogate for his involvement with vincenzo. Meanwhile, Vincenzo is getting revenge on his gang by killing them off one at the time in his various brutal ways.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-18
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In the Folds of the Flesh
Overview: Police are in hot pursuit of a criminal who is evading capture on a speeding motorbike. He takes refuge in an overgrown castle’s grounds and sees a pale woman burying a corpse in a shallow grave. Thirteen years later, after being recaptured and serving his sentence, the man returns to the castle, intent on blackmail — and maybe a few other things.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-05-02
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The Price of Death
Overview: Four people are killed in a saloon hold-up. The townspeople pin the murders on local no-count black sheep Chester Conway. Lawyer Jeff Plummer and prostitute Polly Winters don't believe that Chester is guilty of these crimes, so they hire smooth and suave gunman Silver to prove Chester's innocence and find the real killers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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Blackie the Pirate
Overview: Rivaling Pirates and Spanish gold are the ingredients for this story. Blackie the pirate is the one who first hears from this shipment of gold when he encounters "Don" Pedro. He thinks of a plan to find this ship and its gold. His counter player is the vice roy of the Spanish kolony. When they visit one of the pirate settlements, they find three other pirate captains over there. One of them sells goods and prisoners from his latest capture. Don Pedro recognizes the wife of the vice roy, and Blackie buys her. However, one of the pirate captains, Skull, knows also who she is, and tries to make a deal. Blackie refuses, and Skull makes a deal with the other two pirate captains to plot against Blackie.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-12
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Fury of Johnny Kid
Overview: Two family clans have always been enemies; they spend their time hating and killing each other. The daughter of the Campos family and the son of the Mounter family fall in love, thus causing further hatred and deaths.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-03-02
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Manhunt in the City
Overview: A man's daughter is killed by thieves during a bank robbery. Due to the incompetence of the corrupt authorities, he decides to take to law into his own hands and track down the killers.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-05-08
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Mafia Junction
Overview: Cliff works as a narcotics investigator for the police and infiltrate a mafia gang. Soon it turns out that Cliff has bigger plans than just to bust bad guys.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-05
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Halleluja for Django
Overview: After robbing $500,000, the Jarret gang hides in a small isolated western town, where they are waiting for a scout to take them through the desert to Mexico. But the unresolved conflicts between Jarret and El Santo, the brains of the bandits, who has also an eye on Jarret's girlfriend, become a problem amongst the bandits. And there is also an underestimated scalawag named Billy Rum and his friend Mark, who are trying to help the captured citizens.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-10-28
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Confessions of a Police Captain
Overview: A police captain arranges the release of a criminally insane prisoner, who soon winds up dead. When the District Attorney takes on the case, he uncovers corruption in the department and vows to take down the man who's responsible.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-26
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Moving Out
Overview: Coming-of-age story about an Italian-Australian teenager making his way in the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-03-25
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Street Hero
Overview: Vinnie is a teenage boy who is an outcast at school, alienating teachers and students alike. He is a local courier for the local Mafia boss. He lives in welfare housing with his mother (Peta Toppano), a young brother and sister, and his Mum's lover who he can't stand. Vinnie takes out his aggression with the world practicing boxing at the local gym. He is haunted by images of his father (when just a boy he witnessed his father's murder) and his father's boxing career. His music teacher (Sandy Gore) encourages him to get involved as a drummer with the school band, and his girlfriend Gloria (Sigrid Thornton) and others influence him to stay away from the Mafia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-15
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Due bianchi nell'Africa nera
Overview: To follow the beautiful Frida, Franco and Ciccio leave for Africa, where the adventurer Berrendero enlists them in a band of mercenaries. Franchi and Ingrassia in a daring parody of "Tarzan".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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The Sicilian Connection
Overview: A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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Carambola!
Overview: Coby is an ex-soldier and billiard champion. He and his friend Len accept the sum of 50,000 dollars to investigate the trafficking of arms across the Mexican border, but the pair come across a new revolutionary revolver.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-13
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The Battle of the Damned
Overview: A small band of misfit American commandos are assigned to head across the North African desert to blow up a huge German fuel depot.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-17
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The Pariah
Overview: For more than 15 years, two Marseille friends and criminals battle the law, rival gangs, prison authorities and even mined beaches in order to survive.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-12
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L'ultimo guappo
Overview: Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1978
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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All Sons of the Saintest Mother
Overview: Two crime families battle for supremacy in 1929 Chicago in this Italian crime spoof. One group, known as the "Sons of Mammasantissima" thereby professes its (ironic) dedication to the Virgin Mother. The other family works undercover from a Salvation Army soup kitchen. Neither family seems capable of accomplishing anything of note until a wily Sicilian arrives on the scene and sorts things out.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-12
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Here We Go Again, Eh Providence?
Overview: Providence is up to his old tricks again and must find a new way to get money after the new President declares a general amnesty.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-08
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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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Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome
Overview: In Mussolini's Rome a murderer is targeting young girls. The movie explores how the fascist mind works, how it plays its values off the sentiment of the masses and explores the role of the press in creating a unified narrative.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-18
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Initiation
Overview: After the death of his mother, teenage Danny visits his father Matt Malloy on a lonesome farm in Australia, where he lives with a girlfriend and her daughter Stevie. The farm has been going bad lately, so Matt starts smuggling Marijuana for a drug connection. When Danny joins him on one of his flights, the two-seater crashes in the middle of nowhere. Since his father is wounded, he has to conquer the jungle alone in search for help.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-20
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How to Kill a Judge
Overview: A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-05
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On Asphalt at Full Speed!
Overview: Italian racing film
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-08
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36 Hours of Hell
Overview: American marines are sent to a Japanese-occupied Pacific island that has been subjected to a bombing campaign, only to encounter heavy resistance from the surviving enemy forces.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-07-25
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The Dark Sun
Overview: After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to participate in various crimes commited by the mafia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-02-04
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The Hired Gun
Overview: Fabio Testi is an undercover cop doubling as the bodyguard (hence, “Gorilla”) of a cantankerous middle-aged industrialist targeted for extortion.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-11-13
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Closed Circuit
Overview: At the local cinema, an audience watches a Spaghetti Western matinee. During the film's on-screen climactic duel, a bullet is fired into a patron. With no leads and a theater full of suspects, police investigators lock the doors, put everyone back in their seats, and run the movie again. But will this shot in the dark reveal the real killer?
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-22
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Long Lasting Days
Overview: Andrea Rispoli falls in love with Anna Andersson, a Swedish girl who has just inherited the boarding house where he's staying. When Anna is discovered to be suffering from a potentially lethal heart condition, Andrea decides to do whatever it takes to raise the money for he treatment. Even if it means risking his own life...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-28
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Goodbye & Amen
Overview: As John Dhannay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, plans the overthrow of an African government, he discovers one of his men has been in contact with agents from the other side. Before he can confront the traitor, the man seemingly goes crazy, sniping several people before taking an adulterous couple hostage in a hotel room.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-23
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Five Days in Sinai
Overview: During the Six Day War between Egypt and Israel a crack team of soldiers are sent on a dangerous mission and end up getting stranded in the desert, where they are forced to fight off numerous attacks by the enemy.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Z7 Operation Rembrandt
Overview: A German scientist takes refuge in an unnamed South American country, and finishes the development of a weapon of mass destruction. Lesky, is assistant, is paid by a Chinese spy ring to abduct the scientist, and appropriate the weapon. Super agent Z7's mission is to find them and prevent that, which he does - at a cost of a number of lives.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-03-16
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Short Night of Glass Dolls
Overview: An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-28
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Mission Phantom
Overview: A group known as Phantom are hired by an eccentric in a wheelchair to heist 4 billion dollars worth of diamonds from Russia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-31
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Lion of the Desert
Overview: This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-17
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The Biggest Battle
Overview: A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-07
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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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A Dangerous Toy
Overview: A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he seeks revenge.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-02-21
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A Man on His Knees
Overview: Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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We Want the Colonels
Overview: Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-02
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Lady Morgan's Vengeance
Overview: A young woman is psychologically manipulated and tortured by her treacherous husband while her lost fiancé is missing, presumed dead, and only the ghosts of the castle can tell the tale.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-16
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Evil Angels
Overview: Based on the true story of Lindy Chamberlain who, during a family camping trip to Ayers Rock in central Australia, claimed she witnessed a dingo take her baby daughter, Azaria, from their tent. Azaria's body was never found and, after investigations and two public inquests, she is charged with murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-03
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Colt in the Hand of the Devil
Overview: Pat Scotty is hired to eliminate a gang of Mexican bandits led by El Condor. Scotty craftily earns the trust of the bandits, enabling him to trap them all, but in the meantime, genuine friendship and respect have developed between him and El Condor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-11-24
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The Last Day of the War
Overview: The war in Europe is ending, but the American troops have to find a scientist on the run who is also chased by some surviving SS forces.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-10
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The Biggest Battle
Overview: A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-07
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I Wanted Pants
Overview: Annetta, of Sicilian origins, is annoyed by the different treatments and freedoms reserved for men and women. Because of her rebellious attitude, the girl is locked up in the house of her relatives where she suffers an attempt of violence by her uncle. After returning to her parents, she finally gets married to her beloved Nicola.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-20
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A Rather Complicated Girl
Overview: Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashamed and wants to end - at all costs. Alberto, now a slave to love, runs Greta over. But Claudia denies urging him to murder...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-02-07
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Rangers Attack at Hour X
Overview: A special forces operative is smuggled into a German POW camp with orders to blow up a nearby villa being used by the Nazis to house a secret weapons program.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-02-26
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