Luciano Rossi
Also Known As: Edward G. Ross, Edwin G. Ross, Lou Kamante, Lu Kamante, Lu Kanante, Thomas Clay, Edward Ross
Biography: Luciano Rossi (28 November 1934 – 29 May 2005) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 67 films between 1966 and 1987. He was born and died in Rome, Italy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Luciano Rossi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: November 28, 1934
Age: 90 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 29, 2005
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Death Smiles on a Murderer
Overview: Greta is a beautiful young woman abused by her brother Franz and left to die in childbirth by her illicit lover, the aristocrat Dr. von Ravensbrück. Bereft with grief, Franz reanimates his dead sister using a formula engraved on an ancient Incan medallion. Greta then returns as an undead avenging angel, reaping revenge on the Ravensbrück family and her manically possessive brother.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-07-11
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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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City of the Living Dead
Overview: A woman seemingly dies of fright after participating in a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns that the priest's suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell and must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-08-11
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Forgotten Pistolero
Overview: Mann is a gunman informed by a childhood friend that his father was murdered years earlier by his mother and her lover. To make matters worse, Mann's sister, who is in love with his friend, is held under the thumb of his murderous mom. The two gunmen ride off to have a reckoning with her.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-17
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Django, Prepare a Coffin
Overview: A mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss, who wants their land. What the boss doesn't know is that Django isn't hanging the men at all, just making it look like he is, and using the men he saves from the gallows to build up his own "gang" in order to take revenge on the boss, who, with Django's former best friend, caused the death of his wife years before.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-27
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Run, Man, Run
Overview: The legendary Tomas Milian stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandits, sadistic American agents, his hot-blooded fiancée and a sheriff turned bounty hunter, all of whom are gunning for a hidden fortune in gold that could finance the Mexican Revolution.
Genres: Western Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-29
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Emanuelle and Françoise
Overview: Emanuelle is out to avenge her sister, who committed suicide after escaping from her sadistic lover Carlo. So she chains Carlo up in her basement, drugs him, and forces him to watch her having sex. As Carlo begins to hallucinate all kinds of bloody horrors and cannibalistic doings, he decides he has to break free and kill Emanuelle.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-05-17
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Overview: A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-27
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Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin
Overview: Sartana, bounty hunter and gunfighter, witnesses the robbery of a shipment of gold. He finds his way into town where he meets with a lot of suspicious stares from the locals. He also meets with Samuel Spencer, who seems to own the company in this company town. The gold shipments are being stolen, so Spencer agrees to hire Sartana to protect the next gold shipment. Numerous dull-witted villains make attempts on Sartana's life, but he survives. Eventually, Sartana's nemesis Sabbath (he of the white coat and parasol) rides into town. With a showdown inevitable, Sartana and Sabbath square off to settle the score.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-07
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Five for Hell
Overview: Lt. Glenn Hoffmann is the the fun-loving leader of a bunch of oddball, acrobatic G.I.s whose mission is to steal the German's secret attack plans from a villa behind enemy lines, where they run into a brutal Nazi commander.
Genres: War Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-18
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Death Walks at Midnight
Overview: Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-11-17
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The Unholy Four
Overview: A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arrive at a village where two warring families recognize him. Apparently he has a reputation for being a fast gun, and he has been paid to kill a man - who says he is his father. His younger brother is jealous of the attention the prodigal son receives, and things come to a dramatic end.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-11
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Django the Bastard
Overview: A Confederate soldier returns from the dead to take revenge on three officers who betrayed his unit in battle.
Genres: Western Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-08
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Gangsters
Overview: A man gets caught up in a criminal organization and finds that once in, you can't get out.
Genres: Drama Action Crime Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Death Sentence
Overview: Four men killed Django's brother a long time ago. A withdrawn rancher, a notorious card player, a despotic priest and a crazy albino with an obsession for gold. The relentless Django seeks for revenge and hunts them down without mercy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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The Red Nights of the Gestapo
Overview: An illustrious group of German industrialists plot to overthrow Hitler by negotiating a peace treaty with England. Disgraced, but dedicated Nazi officer Colonel Werner von Uhland is assigned by his superiors to ferret out these deceitful dissidents and stop them before it's too late. von Uhland recruits a bunch of beautiful women to seduce these traitors and undermine their conspiracy
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-03-31
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White Fang to the Rescue
Overview: Set at the end of the 19th century in Canada's gold rush Klondike area, wolf-dog White Fang teams up with a prospector when his master is killed. Together they try to avenge his death.
Genres: Western Family Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-09
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Date for a Murder
Overview: Two friends from America come together by chance in the Italian countryside. They decide to meet in Rome after both have done private deals. When one then not show up in Rome starts the other one become suspicious and fearful that something has happened to him. He begins to investigate the case himself and ends up in a spiral of industrial espionage, blackmail, and cold-blooded murder ...
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-17
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Hotel Paradise
Overview: At a female prison located deep within the deadly South American jungles, a group of woman are forced to mine for valuable emeralds for the local corrupt government. A group of new prisoners on the way to the jail are ambushed and are convinced to join a group of revolutionaries seeking to overthrow the prison guards and take the treasure of jewels for themselves.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-10-25
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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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Frame Up
Overview: Henry Silva is the police inspector Sterling who is devastated when a gang of robbers kill his son. He then becomes accused of having killed a police informer and is kicked out of the police department. His life seems ruined. To clear his name he will have to take the law into his own hands, and excitement will ensue!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-13
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Django Kills Softly
Overview: Django arrives in the town of Santa Anna at the behest of a man named Sanders who'd been trying to buy safe passage for his cargo from a Mexican bandit named El Santo. Django finds that Sanders has been killed and that his rival, a man named Thompson, is now trying to deal with El Santo. Django, after a brief involvement with a beautiful young widow named Linda -- who has information on a lost gold mine -- becomes entangled in this situation by agreeing to escort a shipment through El Santo's territory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-29
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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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Contraband
Overview: Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-08-08
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Hate Is My God
Overview: A young man returns to his village, and with the help of a black-clad stranger, seeks revenge for the murder of his brother against three men who are now notable men of the town.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-05-23
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Sheriff With the Gold
Overview: A gunman teams up with a small time sheriff to rob a shipment of gold.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-22
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They Call Me Trinity
Overview: The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day.
Genres: Action Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-22
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The Last Chance
Overview: Giuseppe Rosati's first production as director and only espionage film Scacco internazionale aka The Last Chance concerns an international crime syndicate threatened by certain information given to American journalist Patrick Harris (Tab Hunter) and it sets out to kill him...
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-09
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So Sweet, So Dead
Overview: A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-07-18
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Savage Island
Overview: Women who have been captured and sold as slave labor to a South American emerald mine hatch a plan for revolution and revenge.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-01
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Son of Django
Overview: The son of Django searches for the murderer of his father and is thereby involved in a war between two factions headed by former acquaintances of his famous parent.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-26
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The Sword of the Barbarians
Overview: A swordsman's wife is murdered by followers of the evil Goddess Rani. He vows vengeance upon the cult and journeys to the Ark of the Templars to get a magic crossbow that will help him accomplish his mission.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-11-27
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Long Live the Lady!
Overview: The Lady (or Signora) of the title is a mysterious matron who lives in a crumbling mansion. Six catering trainees are brought to the castle upon its conversion into a resort hotel. They are ordered to prepare a special meal for the old lady, whom none of them have ever seen for more than an instant. As the caterers grow in wisdom and sophistication, we learn that the lady may very well be an urbane ghost rather than a flesh-and-blood entity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-09-08
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Ingrid on the Road
Overview: After being raped by her father, Ingrid moves to Rome and ends up becoming a prostitute. She finds a friend in Claudia, but Claudia's protector is a sadistic thug by the name of Renato who will show her the worst of the what life in the city has to offer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-24
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Death Walks on High Heels
Overview: Exotic dancer Nicole finds herself terrorized by a black-clad assailant determined on procuring her murdered father's stolen gems. Fleeing Paris in hopes of evading her knife-wielding pursuer, Nicole arrives in England only to discover that death stalks her at every corner.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-30
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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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Violent Rome
Overview: A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the department for a "questionable" shooting of a vicious criminal. However, he is soon approached by a representative for a group of citizens who themselves are fed up with what they see as criminals going unpunished, and they make him an offer he may very well not refuse.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-13
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Kiss of a Dead Woman
Overview: The Countess Clara is in love with Andrea Valverde but agrees to marry the Count Guido when he learns that Andrew is his brother from his mother's side.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-02
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Django
Overview: A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a merciless masked clan and a band of Mexican revolutionaries.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-04-06
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Salon Kitty
Overview: Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-02
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The Violent Professionals
Overview: With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-22
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Violent Naples
Overview: Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and organized crime, and tries to force the syndicate out of town with any means necessary.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-07
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The Sewer Rats
Overview: A crippled loner's car breaks down near an isolated town inhabitated by several killers.
Genres: Crime Western Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-05
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Night Police Station
Overview: Rome police headquarters. A new commissioner, promoted by the political team at "night", has to deal with the case of a girl seriously injured at Villa Borghese.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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Love Angels
Overview: They're Italy's notorious "Ladies of the evening" catering to the strange cravings of their kinky, high-paying clients. But suddenly, the girls of the street find themselves being stalked by someone with desires even they can't satisfy. After a series of shocking crimes, the clues lead police to a pornographic film maker and his stable of lovely models and starlets. But can the authorities track down the "Hooker Maniac" before he strikes again?
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-07
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Two Brothers in Trinity
Overview: Charming, blithely amoral devil-may-care rogue Jesse Smith and peaceful, devout straight-arrow Mormon Lester O'Hara are estranged half brothers who are reunited after receiving a sizable inheritance from their deceased mother. The wildly contrasting mismatched duo get into all sorts of trouble while trying to claim said inheritance. Written by Woodyanders
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-26
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Why They Kill Themselves
Overview: The story is about a man with family problems, try to solve everything with drugs, later his girlfriend died of an overdose ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-29
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Killer 77, Alive or Dead
Overview: At the request of the CIA, British secret agent Lester follows the ominous scientist George King, who, after successfully sabotaging an American rocket launch, has announced to the world's powerful that he can disable any nuclear weapon...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-20
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Heroes in Hell
Overview: In World War II, guerrillas kidnap a German general.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-12
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Silence the Witness
Overview: De Luca is killed by Marchetti's chauffeur. Marchetti ordered the murder because he was to be accused by De Luca. The two have a car accident while going home to get an alibi. There is a witness, Sironi, who calls the police. But when the police arrive the car has gone and so have the two men. Inspector Santi and young judge Novelli look into the strange case. Marchetti, however, is a powerful man and Sironi and his family begin to be obsessed first by threats then by assaults.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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A Man Called Sledge
Overview: James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-14
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LSD Flesh of Devil
Overview: E.C.H.O., a secret organization with a strange name masterminds a bizarre plot to take over the world by dosing important `nerve centers' with super potent LSD. The only man who can stop them is Rex, a secret agent working for an undisclosed organization.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-02
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Boot Hill
Overview: Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-20
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The Terror with Cross-Eyes
Overview: To gain fame quickly - three actors - Mino, Giacinto and Mirella, stage a fake murder (Mirella is the "victim"), then plan to find the "body" at the most opportune moment. Unfortunately, a real murder takes place in Mirella's apartment when a young woman named Margaret is killed. Having left abundant clues to the fake murder, Mino and Giacinto realise the only way to save themselves from jail is to find Margaret's killer. Despite the intrusions of a stupid police inspector, the two men discover she was killed by a mysterious "organization". Although every witness they try to question is killed by a hitman, they eventually unravel the mystery...
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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I Am Afraid
Overview: During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally upright judge. He feels increasingly fearful as the links of the upper echelons of police and government to the violence become clear.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-06
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Macrò
Overview: The story is about a young hippy called Salvatore who sparks up a relationship with a high class prostitute, Maddalena. The two fall in love and try to start a new life together but things turn ugly when Maddalena is kidnapped by his old hippy pals and Maddalena's dangerous pimp...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-04
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The Conformist
Overview: A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-07-01
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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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Donne e magia con satanasso in compagnia
Overview: Episodic sexy comedy on the theme of magic told through the centuries in eight spicy episodes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-05-15
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Watch Out Gringo! Sabata Will Return
Overview: An army officer, after killing his own men, steals a chest with a hundred thousand dollars in gold.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-06-04
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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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