Erno Crisa
Also Known As: Ernesto Crisa, Tino Crisa, James Parker, Erno Grisa
Biography: Erno Crisa (10 March 1914 – 4 April 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1944 and 1968. His last film was the spaghetti western Sugar Colt. Source: Article "Erno Crisa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Biserta, Tunisia
Adult: No
Birthday: March 10, 1914
Age: 111 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 05, 1968
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Purple Noon
Overview: Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick
Overview: Two Yanks are hired to protect a rich lady from a sinister underworld group. Lots of jungle thrills, martial arts, ancient temples, huge explosions, & even sci-fi elements. Watch for Harris' great karate fight inside a crumbling temple, surrounded by masked members of an ancient sect.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-05-17
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These Phantoms
Overview: A young husband is persuaded to move his new bride into an old palace that is supposedly haunted.But the so called ghost is really the bride's former lover who is stalking her on the premises.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-11-12
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The Gold of Naples
Overview: A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-03
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Sideral Cruises
Overview: Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days whereas 25 years have passed on Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-04-19
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Coup de tête
Overview: A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself thrown into unforeseen adventures, at the end of which he will discover love.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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Christine se marie
Overview: In order to engage in life experiences, Christine takes the civil status of her three sisters to marry as many times.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-06-30
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St. Val's Mystery
Overview: Désiré Le Sec has just won the "amateur policeman contest" and he is so glad he 's telling all the people around.He is an insure agent ,and his boss,his uncle,is annoyed :a man took out a big life insurance and died soon afterward.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-09-19
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The Last Judgment
Overview: In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and killed. His daughter and the son of the traitor love each other. Condemned by his comrades, the informer commits suicide in front of the young couple.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-12-08
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The Figurehead
Overview: At sea, sailors have got to make do with what they have. François is in love with.... the figurehead, the bust of a gorgeous woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-06-16
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Scandal
Overview: A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain respect.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-12-01
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Sugar Colt
Overview: In order to avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Rocco has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. He therefore puts on the disguise of a doctor and starts investigating in a somewhat uncomfortable town
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-11-29
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Jealousy
Overview: A Sicilian nobleman is very jealous of his mistress and when she gets married flies off his handle and commits a murder of which an innocent man is accused. He is however tormented by his conscience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-09-29
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Overview: Based on D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel of the same name, Lady Chatterley’s Lover stars Danielle Darrieux, Leo Genn, and Erno Crisa in this controversial tale of adultery! After her husband is paralyzed from fighting in WWI, Lady Chatterley feels a loss of intimacy between her husband and herself, and decides to have an affair with the gamekeeper, a man of a lower class.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-07
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Don Juan
Overview: Don Juan is arrested during one of his raids loving, just as he intended to seduce the daughter of the Governor, who was about to marry. His faithful servant, too accustomed to be all sticks, passed by him to save his skin, a situation that will allow you to win the love of a beautiful comic. Meanwhile, the real Don Juan is reduced to the status of servant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-09
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The White Line
Overview: Following World War II, the Allies designate that an unidentified town in the Trieste area as being partly Yugoslavian and partly Italian. A white line of demarcation splits the town in half and the townspeople are given just a short time to decides on which side of the line they will live. This leads to the dividing of homes, friends, families and the church and tensions run high.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-26
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Caesar Against the Pirates
Overview: Julius Caesar flees Rome because of a conspiration against him and takes refuge by the king of Bitinia. He finds a woman there and while he escorts her to Rhodes their ship is attacked. Caught by the pirates he asks for help to get back to Rome.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-23
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The Bacchantes
Overview: The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes. Dionysus wants to be the worshiped by the masses, but the kingdom is suffering a horrific drought and the king Pentheus wants instead to sacrifice a virgin to the God Demeter.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-02
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Cleopatra's Daughter
Overview: The beautiful young Sushila is forced into a political marriage with young Pharaoh Nemorat in order to consolidate power. However, the young Pharaoh is beset with mental illness and the marriage becomes dangerous, all the while the chief advisor Kefren and his scheming mistress plot to destroy the unstable pair.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-07
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Samson Against the Sheik
Overview: In the late 1500s, forces of the Duke of Malaga topple the Sacred Obelisk in the North African city of Melida before they're defeated by the local Sheik. The Shiek's men then sail to Spain and kidnap the Duke's daughter, Isabella.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-21
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Questi fantasmi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-01-29
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Angelique and the Sultan
Overview: Angélique is in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. She refuses to be bedded as her captors try to beat sense into her. She finally decides to escape with the help of two Christian prisoners.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-03-13
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Goliath and the Sins of Babylon
Overview: Goliath battles for the freedom of the Babylonian people.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-03
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Mata Hari's Daughter
Overview: In this espionage film, Mata Hari's daughter takes the mantle from her notorious mother and entangles her self in an Asian web of intrigue and war.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-09-22
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Sunday Heroes
Overview: Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-30
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Carthage in Flames
Overview: Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Romance War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-29
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The Last Sentence
Overview: Piero is the leader of a group of university students who lead a carefree life. Finding himself in trouble and in need of money, he turns to criminal means—receiving aid from Daniela, the daughter of a rigid magistrate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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Sexy Show
Overview: Short film made by Elio Belletti.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-04-22
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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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Plains of Battle
Overview: Despite the disagreement of their mother, the sons of old Taras Bulba are taken to the Dnieper camp on their return from a Kiev seminary, to teach them how to become real Cossacks.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-07
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Brennus, Enemy of Rome
Overview: This film features a colossal clash between a mass of invaders and the faithful Roman soldiers who must fight to defend the Roman Empire.
Genres: History Adventure War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-23
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Colossus of the Arena
Overview: A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-13
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Seven Rebel Gladiators
Overview: The ruthless Roman tribune, Vadio, joins forces with the evil Morakeb to take over the throne of Aristea, usurping King Krontal and stealing away his lovely daughter in the process. Meanwhile, Marco Aulo, now a Roman centurion, comes to Aristea to learn where his legions war funds have gone. Vadio has him framed for treason and is thrown into the arena to fight a group of six formidable gladiators. During the fights, Marco refuses to kill those he defeats until finally, he himself loses after exhaustion takes its toll. Admiring this man, the six warriors join him and together they escape Vadio's clutches and plot to free the kingdom from the two conspiring killers. Edited from Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-24
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Passport for a Corpse
Overview: When a robbery goes wrong the only survivor tries to smuggle himself across the border by hiding in a coffin. When he gets out of the coffin he finds himself locked in a morgue freezer with three dead bodies. While trying to escape the morgue and his isolation he slowly starts going mad and hallucinating. Throughout the film he is haunted or menaced by a woman who may or may not be real. Unique and strange film that gets more and more weird as it goes along.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Erik the Viking
Overview: Viking chief Thorvald dies from a mortal combat wound. He realizes his son Erloff is not a worthy successor, but his will divides his property equally between him and Erik, the valiant son of his sister, who also gets his weapons and the mission to lead a sea-faring expedition to find new land for a settlement, crucial as their Scandinavian home village won't be able to resist the might of the Danish kingdom.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-24
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Fire in the Flesh
Overview: Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after a terrible storm. They find themselves safe and sound on an exotic desert island paradise. Several years pass, the professor dies and Fern and Larry, long in love and alone in the world, are united. One day, the ship they'd been waiting for appears, but the sailors are three smugglers who, instead of representing salvation, pose a threat to the young couple.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-17
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Pecos Cleans Up
Overview: Three musicians arrive in a Mexican village destroyed by El Supremo and learn, from the only survivor, of the lost treasure of Montezuma hidden in an Aztec temple. Along comes Pecos and the search is on. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-03-23
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Hoboes in Paradise
Overview: In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and Saint Nicholas for the distribution of presents to the children on the feast of Saint Nicholas. They unfortunately get killed by a cart and find themselves in Hell where Lucifer and his demons duly torment them. They are saved by a prayer which helps them to climb the stairway to Paradise. Saint Peter, taken in by the applicants' disguise, lets them in. When the two true Saints show up, trouble follows. Luckily, thanks to the intervention of the Virgin Mary, the two friends are acquitted at their celestial trial and allowed to return to Earth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-07-15
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Reeds and Mud
Overview: Province of Valencia, Spain, 19th century. Tonet lives an intense love story with Neleta, whom he has known since childhood, but is forced to leave her to serve in the war in Cuba.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-10-02
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La Tierra del Fuego se apaga
Overview: In the faraway lands of the south of the Patagonia, in a town made up of wrongdoers and thieves, a mysterious and solitary man takes a prostitute to live with him at his ranch. However, her past follows her, and he is forced to face it head on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-08-31
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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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I mafiosi
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-30
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The Affairs of Messalina
Overview: A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-04
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Half a Century of Song
Overview: Through a series of scenes inspired by famous songs, various episodes of Italian life in the last fifty years are recalled.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Cavalcade of Song
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-09
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Two Savages at Court
Overview: Marco Venier comes back to his father's home town with his servant Kato.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-16
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Di qua, di là del Piave
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Violenza sul lago
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-07-07
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The Counterfeiters
Overview: Producers of phony currency become the object of a crackdown by law enforcement agencies.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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Le due leggi
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Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-13
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Taras Bulba
Overview: Italian adaptation of the historical novella of the same name by Nikolai Gogol.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-31
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The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal
Overview: A documentary on the controversial 1960s Italian photo novels known as Killing, aka Satanik in France and Sadistik in America. Also the basis for the Turkish cult film series shot as Kilink. Includes interviews with the original actors who were familiar faces from spaghetti westerns, splatter films and historical dramas from the 1960s and 70s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-11-01
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Caterina Sforza, the lioness of Romagna
Overview: Giovanni Medici, the future leader of the Black Bands, has a last meeting in a convent with his dying mother Caterina Sforza, listening to the re-enactment of her life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-20
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