Franco Fantasia
Also Known As: Francesco Fantasia, Frank Fantasia, Franz Fantasia, Frank Farell, Frank Farrel, Frank Farrell, Frank Fontana
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rhodes, Italy [now Rhodes, Dodecanese, South Aegean, Greece]
Adult: No
Birthday: March 05, 1924
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 10, 2002
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The Pirate and the Slave Girl
Overview: When a ship carrying the daughter of Rhodes' governor and secret documents is captured by Mediterranean pirate Dragut, the governor tasks captain Diego with their recovery before they can be sold to Sultan Selim.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-22
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Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West
Overview: Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a gang of white swindlers and the Indian, Yellow Hand. So he goes to the chief of Yellow Hand's tribe, Wise Fox, and tries to convince him to sign a peace treaty with the Federal troops. In order to avoid this, Yellow Hand abducts Wise Fox's daughter, pretending that the soldiers have done it.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-11-19
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The Shadow of the Giant
Overview: Capt. Eugenio arrives in a remote castle to take charge of a unit guarding a nameless prisoner. No one knows much about the inmate as he is held in a forlorn tower. When the captain's wife Adele tries to shake her melancholia by playing the piano, she finds -- much to her surprise -- that she's being accompanied by violin music coming from the prison cell.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-08-06
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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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Overview: Baron Jacopo lives with his beautiful wife and spends his days playing funny pranks and worrying about not having children. His life could change when a young revolutionary, Leonardo, enters the scene, belonging to a group to which Jacopo has procured weapons for fun. Leonardo, encouraged by Jacopo himself, will actively participate in the couple's sexual activity; then he will impregnate the woman and leave the palace.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-10-04
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Knight of 100 Faces
Overview: Two knights, the honorful Riccardo and the sinister Fosco, are rivalling for damsel Zuela.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-10
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Gang War in Milan
Overview: A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-21
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Kill, Panther, Kill!
Overview: Two rivals are out to recover a cache of stolen jewels. The thief who originally stole them has just gotten out of prison, however, and he is looking for his twin brother, who knows where the jewels are hidden. Complications ensue.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-03-30
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From Hell to Victory
Overview: In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-15
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Son of the Red Corsair
Overview: Enrico di Ventimiglia, the Son of the Red Corsair, travels through the Spanish conquests of Central America in search of the stepsister he has never met.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-23
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Eaten Alive!
Overview: A woman's search for her missing sister leads her to the jungles of New Guinea, where she and an expatriate guide encounter a cult leader and flesh-hungry natives.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-19
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Assignment: Outer Space
Overview: Interplanetary News reporter Ray Peterson is assigned aboard a space station in the 21st Century.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-25
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Knife of Ice
Overview: A mute woman, traumatized by her parents' death, faces new horrors when her cousin is murdered by a suspected killer. As danger looms, the truth proves far more complex.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-24
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The Inquiry
Overview: A Roman agent is sent to Palestine to investigate rumors of the resurrection of an executed criminal.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-10-26
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Adiós, Sabata
Overview: Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find it is not full of gold but of sand, and that the gold was taken by Austrian Colonel Skimmel. So Sabata plans to steal back the gold.
Genres: Action Western War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-30
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The Desert Renegades
Overview: In the deserts of the Middle East, circa 1930s, a half-Arab-half-French adventurer named Aldar woos the Princess Yasmin while engaged in selling guns to warring factions.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-24
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Women in Cell Block 7
Overview: A woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-07-05
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Return of Sabata
Overview: Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-03
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Blood for a Silver Dollar
Overview: Two brothers part company only to be reunited when one is hired to stop a thief who turns out to be his sibling.
Genres: Western Action Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-08
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A Long Ride from Hell
Overview: Mike Sturges and his younger brother, Roy, are sentenced to Yuma Penitentiary on a trumped-up train robbery charge. Both endure cruel treatment before Mike escapes to extract revenge on their enemies.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-05
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The Nephews of Zorro
Overview: Two fellows from Sicily go to America thinking that they will find gold . For their bad luck in California they meet the brave Zorro who is protecting the helpless people. They have to help him which is followed by a lot of adventures and funny moments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-12
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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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Murder Mansion
Overview: A group of travelers, stranded at an isolated, fog-bound mansion, are beset upon by the living dead from the adjoining cemetery.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-08-05
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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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$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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Damon and Pythias
Overview: Damon is a thief who begins to question his beliefs after he meets Pythias, a liberal Athenian who believes all men are brothers.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-05
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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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Hudson River Massacre
Overview: Hudson river fur hunters rebel against their English masters in this pre-Blind Dead effort from de Ossorio. Victor, chief of the rebels, kidnaps Ann from the ruthless landowner, Sullivan, as a bartering tool. Ann and Victor, in love, fight together against Sullivan for a free life together.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1965-11-12
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The Black Duke
Overview: Cesar Borgia--a cardinal in the Catholic church, a confidant of the Pope and a member of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in 16th-century Italy--must deal with a host of political and personal crises. He is having problems with his mistress, and members of a secret society called The Black Carnation are out to assassinate him.
Genres: Drama History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Revolt of the Mercenaries
Overview: Duchess Patrizia is determined to marry, although against her will, effeminate but powerful Prince Stefano. This is the only way she has found to thwart the plans of Count Keller, her aggressive neighbor, who wants to grab her land.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-07-27
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The Long Day of the Massacre
Overview: When sheriff Joe Williams is unjustly accused of the murder of a young couple, which was in reality committed by the Mexican "La Muerte", Joe becomes a wanted man. Joe manages to steal and hide the loot from a bank robbery committed by the Mexican gang, but then is captured by them, but the new sheriff, Joe's friend, is on their trail.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-29
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Incontri proibiti
Overview: Armando Andreoli, a well-known engineer of almost 80 years, is approached by Federica, an assistant nurse who then invites him to his hotel room. In the morning, Federica's boyfriend arrives in the room, suspecting a relationship that has never existed.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-09-24
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Nights and Loves of Don Juan
Overview: Film inspired on the character from "Don Juan Tenorio".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-10
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Return of Sandokan
Overview: Samoa is kidnapped and held captive hypnotized in caves by her cousin Charles Druk, whose father has been murdered by her future husband Sandokan, lord of Malaya. Assisted by his European friend Iannis, he wants to rescue her.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-18
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Symphony of Love
Overview: Al Bano and Romina bring to the big screen the unhappy love between the composer Franz Schubert and the Hungarian Countess Anna Rostkov. Al Bano sings the immortal 'Ave Maria'.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-03
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Sword of Zorro
Overview: The masked avenger of 1830s California leads his two swashbuckling children into battle against a tyrannical governor.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-09-07
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La calandria
Overview: The luxurious Livio bets with the lord of the city to seduce a young bride in a month, at the cost of his genitals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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Rage of the Buccaneers
Overview: Gordon, The Black Pirate, battles the slavery trade.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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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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Drakut the Avenger
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-06
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The Sword and the Cross
Overview: Mary Magdalene, a notorious harlot, must choose between her lascivious lifestyle and the love and affection of her decent-minded brother.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-22
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The Centurion
Overview: A Roman soldier falls in love with the daughter of a Greek city's anti-Roman leader.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-20
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Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
Overview: Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-24
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Man with the Golden Winchester
Overview: Zorro aids an American gun-runner in his effort to supply arms to Mexican revolutionaries in their effort to overthrow Emperor Maximillian.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-30
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The Cossacks
Overview: Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this drama and adventure film focuses on the strife between the Circassian Muslims, led by Shamil and Czar Alexander.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-04
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Slave of the Cannibal God
Overview: A woman and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-07-12
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Il cocco di mamma
Overview: Aldo, Vasco and "Smilzo" (Slim) are friends. They live with their parents and are training for boxing. But their real interest is in women. When casually Aldo meets Laura and falls for her. Will he succeed in winning her love?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-05
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Il capitano nero
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-03-15
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Quo Vadis
Overview: After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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Blood of the Executioner
Overview: Set in medieval Venice, this swashbuckler chronicles the courage of an executioner and his godson as they attempt to show that the Grand Inquisitor is in league with murderous pirates.
Genres: Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-19
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Zorro and the Three Musketeers
Overview: In the first half of the 1600's, France is at war with Spain. The cousin of the king of Spain, Isabella, is held captive in the French castle, and the Count of Seville is sent to France as a diplomat. While there, he is escorted by the Three Musketeers, who discover that he has secretly made a deal with Cardinal Richelieu to disclose Spanish military secrets in exchange for Isabella's release. However, he is merely bluffing and plans to take Isabella by force. When the musketeers discover this, they come to his aid, and together the four of them work at freeing the Countess. Meanwhile, the Count doubles as Zorro to free the Spanish court from a treacherous suitor.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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Cop Target
Overview: Farley Wood is hired to escort a rich widow of a DEA agent and her kid to the tropical island of San Cristobal. The widow needs protection from a gang of international terrorists and her escort soon suspects that the deceased husband was involved in dirty drug dealings. While on the island, the daughter is kidnapped by a group of seedy South American thugs and held for ransom. The cop escort gets official orders to leave the case to the FBI, but he decides to his own investigating and finds that the crime may have had political motivations.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Hunt for the Golden Scorpion
Overview: In the deepest, most remote part of the Amazon, a treasure is hidden! A treasure so valuable that men would kill for it, women would undress for it, and entire armies would fight for it !
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-03-01
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Revenge of the Musketeers
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Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-09
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The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan
Overview: D' Artagnan and Porthos received the order of Richelieu, which protrudes as a powerful figure of the French church, a plot against the King of France Louis XIII. uncover. Disguised as a monk enters D' Artagnan the Church, in which the conspirators act. D' Artagnan, however, exposee and can only escape with the help of Porthos . Meanwhile the Duke of Montresant tried to force his ward to overwrite all their possessions to him, so that he can support the Flemish troops. The Duchess refused and is sent with her maid to Brescon. D' Artagnan and Porthos decide to follow the women…
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-08-24
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Attack of the Moors
Overview: Rik Battaglia is sent by the king of France to the border with Spain, where the heirs to the throne are staying in a castle-fortress. The Spaniards and Arabs struggle to control the border, while the Moorish Princess (Chelo Alonso) discovers she is not who she thought she was.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-11
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I Am the Law
Overview: Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and entrusts him with the arduous task of putting an end to the Mafia, a sinister criminal organization that has sown terror on the island for centuries.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-09-23
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Una questione privata
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Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-07-16
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The Black Corsair
Overview: The story circulates around the classical Black Pirate and his battle against arch enemy Prins van Gould. The Black Pirate is out for revenge on his brothers' killers. He has a blood-planned way to go, and he trusts only to his own rap sword.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-12-22
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Hero of Rome
Overview: In ancient Rome, the people finally oust their despised king, Tarquinius, and declare the city a republic. Tarquinius makes an alliance with the Etruscan king, Porsenna, to take back power in Rome, but a Roman general, the heroic Mucius, sets out to stop him.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-04-22
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Ben-Hur
Overview: In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
Genres: History Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-18
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On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
Overview: A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.
Genres: Romance Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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Terror of the Red Mask
Overview: In 16th century Italy, mercenary Marco is hired by cruel duke Astolfo whose unjust reign is threatened by the notorious outlaw the Red Mask.
Genres: Romance Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-23
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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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El Greco
Overview: Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-15
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The Lion of St. Mark
Overview: In 1620 pirates are terrorizing the Adriatic coast. Our hero sets out to defeat them.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-11-21
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The Black Archer
Overview: A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-14
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The Vengeance of Ursus
Overview: The evil King Zagro has designs on the beautiful Princess Sira. He wants to marry her so he can take over her kingdom and add it to his own. When Sira is kidnapped, Ursus leaves his farm to rescue her and to eventually lead a revolt against King Zagro.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-07
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Killer Crocodile 2
Overview: The Caribbean swamps which is to be made into a holiday resort is terrorized again by a second monstrous crocodile which is killing off anyone unfortunate to be on the water.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-01
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Cross Current
Overview: A speed-boat racer suffers amnesia after an boating accident and goes to his isolated villa to recuperate. His relationship with his wife is troubled, so he starts an affair (sort of) with the another woman, which results in one of the three of them being shot. But there are several more twists--and more murders--to come.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-20
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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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Justine de Sade
Overview: Therese, a beautiful but naive young girl, who finds herself being passed around from depraved pervert to depraved pervert, enduring just about every kind of sexual degradation there is while still believing that some kind stranger will eventually help her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-19
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Battle of the Commandos
Overview: A British Colonel is angry with his superiors after his entire platoon is slaughtered by the Germans in what he saw as a suicide mission. So for his next mission, he takes along a platoon a convicted criminals - to prepare the Normandy beaches for the D-Day landings.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-08-12
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The Egyptian
Overview: In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-25
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Zombie Flesh Eaters
Overview: On the Caribbean island of Matul, white doctor David Menard is trying to stem the tide of cannibal zombies that are returning from the dead. Arriving on the island are Anne and reporter Peter West who are looking for Anne's missing father. The pair soon find themselves under attack from the zombies.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-25
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Red Dragon
Overview: An FBI agent goes to Hong Kong to short-circuit a smuggler of electrical parts to the communists.
Genres: Adventure Action Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-07-16
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Kriminal
Overview: A master criminal is pursued by inspector Milton
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-23
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Blood Calls to Blood
Overview: In a frontier town between the USA and Mexico, Sancho and his gang assault a monastery, kill a few monks who try to oppose the invasion of the sacred building, and get away with a work of art in gold and diamonds. Andrej, a lonesome cowboy, is informed of his brother's death, one of the monks, and starts a search for the gang. Among the lawless and godless men, a fight for getting the better part of the loot is taking place and blood is flowing as much as bullets.
Genres: Western Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-06
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Street People
Overview: A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-30
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Constantine and the Cross
Overview: Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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Fire Over Rome
Overview: Marcus Valerius, a young consul, is assigned the mission to assist Menecrate, the leader of the Pretorian Guard, in the arrest and execution of as many Christians as possible. While raiding the Catacombs he has the surprise to find among the Christians the woman he loves, Giulia, who has been converted secretly to the banned religion. He helps her to escape and trouble soon follows. Stripped of his rank and arrested for defending the rebels he is condemned to fight as a gladiator...
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-03-20
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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 during the second Italo-Senussi War. 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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Hands of Steel
Overview: A story about a cyborg who is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-03-26
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The Heroin Busters
Overview: Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport security, and Interpol's main man, Mike Hamilton, is at his wits' end. Fed up to the back teeth with the local police force's incompetence, his only hope is to rely on one of his own men, Fabio, an officer so deep undercover that no-one but Hamilton knows who he really is. Even as Fabio gains the trust of cartel leader Gianni, however, the dealers are edging ever closer to the truth, and when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted as Fabio finds himself alone in a desperate fight to survive.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-13
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Wild Team
Overview: A South American rebel leader in exile in Miami is given one last chance to overthrow his successor, a brutal dictator, by a multi-national mining group out to exploit his countries' mineral resources.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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Something to Believe In
Overview: Reports of a weeping Madonna in Italy reach Las Vegas, where blackjack dealer Maggie has just learnt she has only weeks to live. With a massive leap of faith she convinces herself that seeing the Madonna with her own eyes could lead to her salvation, and travels to Europe to find it. Hitching through Italy, she meets pianist Mike, who is also en route to what he believes could be a life-changing event - a performance at the Barbarina concert in Naples.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-05-08
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Fear in the City
Overview: The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-14
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The Big Family
Overview: Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-03
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The Sicilian Checkmate
Overview: Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-03
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Man On The Spying Trapeze
Overview: An American spy travels to Beirut where he's attacked by agents seeking a valuable microfilm.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-12
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L'inquilina del piano di sopra
Overview: Exasperated by the great racket coming from Miss Aurora Trabocchetti's apartment, the neighbors give Professor Canestrari a mandate to deliver an ultimatum to the young woman. Too bad the teacher takes a liking to Aurora and agrees to give her private lessons. In fact, the girl aspires to marry the scion of a noble family and to try to crown her dream she must improve her culture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Giant of Marathon
Overview: A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
Genres: Adventure History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-03
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Zorro in the Court of Spain
Overview: The perfidious brother of the deceased Duke of Lusitania usurps the throne from its legitimate heir, the Grand Duchess; however, an enigmatic man in black known only as the Zorro is out for justice. But, who is this valiant vindicator?
Genres: Adventure Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-07-25
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El Cid
Overview: Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Genres: Action Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-24
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I leoni di Pietroburgo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-21
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Son of Cleopatra
Overview: In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that he's actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. When Petronius' daughter, Livia, newly-arrived from Rome, falls into his hands, El Kabir uses this opportunity to win her over to his side before releasing her to her father.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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The Sign of Venus
Overview: Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-12
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A caro prezzo
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Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Railroad Man
Overview: Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes. A check up by a doctor reveals that he's at the brink of becoming an alcoholic. Due to this evaluation he is degraded and must accept a salary cut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-11-21
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The Red Cloak
Overview: Cosimo de' Bardi is assassinated by a gentleman called the Flemish. Time passes and at some point a masked knight wearing a red cloak enters the scene. He is the son of the killed. These and the Flemish are also rivals in love. In the final duel the Flemish will be eliminated.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-17
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Avenger X
Overview: A retired ex-criminal, the notorious Mister X, must clear his name when an up-and-comer commits a heinous copycat crime.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-13
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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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Hate Thy Neighbor
Overview: Ken Dakota's search for the murderer of his brother, killed by bandit Gary Stevens, at the behest of land owner Chris Malone. Dakota attempts to bring the men responsible for his brothers death to justice.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-07-26
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Cavalier in Devil's Castle
Overview: A mysterious horseman, called the Dark Knight, sets himself up as a masked vigilante and decides to free the duchet of Valgrado from the grip of a terrible tyrant.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-21
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The Queen of the Pirates
Overview: In 16th century Italy, on the Adriatic coast, the duchy of Doruzza is governed by a tyrannical duke, Zulian, and his haughty daughter, Isabella. When they commit a great injustice, a ship's captain and his daughter turn pirate to fight back for the people.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-18
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Jeremiah
Overview: The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-12-14
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Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Overview: A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-30
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California
Overview: At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier is released from prison and travels with a fellow prisoner to Missouri where his travelling companion is shot and hung for horse stealing. California decides to take the dead companion's belongings to his family's ranch, where he falls in love with his friend's sister. But then the "ghosts" of the war return in an unexpected way haunting him again.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-07-16
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Hercules Against the Sons of the Sun
Overview: Hercules, after sailing global waters is eventually shipwrecked in South America. After losing his Greek shipmates, Hercules is enlisted to overthrow a tyrannical king int he land of the Incas. Featuring scenic views of the mountains of the Andes.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-07
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Tizio, Caio, Sempronio
Overview: A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-15
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Persecución hasta Valencia
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-08-01
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The Rover
Overview: A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval officer.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-27
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Knight Without a Country
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-14
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Buck at the Edge of Heaven
Overview: Loosely based upon Jack London's novels, this is a canine adventure set in the wilderness of the far North, amidst gold diggers, outlaws and children-in-distress.
Genres: Family Adventure Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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The Angel Wore Red
Overview: A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-14
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