Philippe Hersent
Also Known As: Philiphe Hersent, Bernard Marcel Godefroy Auguste Koevoets
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Écommoy, Sarthe, France
Adult: No
Birthday: June 26, 1912
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 30, 1982
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Attack of the Normans
Overview: An evil duke kidnaps the good king and tries to make the virtuous queen his bride and the peasants take arms.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-08-23
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Silver Saddle
Overview: Young boy who sees his father gunned down kills the assassin. Years later, he has grown up to be a successful bounty hunter who is feared by many. And then one day he discovers secrets to his past...
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-04-20
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La treizième enquête de Grey
Overview: Grey, an elite detective, has the mission to investigate the assassination, in Paris, of a great Hollywood star. There is no real motive, and yet the suspects are numerous. The investigation promises to be long and difficult.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-07-28
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The White Angel
Overview: In this sequel to Nobody's Children, Guido still longs for Luisa, who has become a nun. Then he meets Lina, a chorus dancer who is a dead ringer for his former lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-04-06
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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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Rocambole
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-06
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Joli monde
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-31
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Le Secret de l'émeraude
Overview: In a small hotel on an English beach, an agent from the Intelligence Service is responsible for finding an important stolen document. At night, a theft of jewelry, including a superb emerald, complicates the investigation. The search for the double culprit proves to be difficult.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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The Tomboy
Overview: The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she does not love which her parents have forced on her. She then falls into all sorts of carnal temptations and artificial pleasures previously unknown to her. These include her being seduced into a lesbian love affair by a chanteuse.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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The Great Temptation
Overview: The son of a naval commander faces his first heartbreak when he falls for the young American woman who is destined to become his father's new wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-02
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Une de la cavalerie
Overview: The merry Vigoulette wants to escape the yoke of his wife and asks to be recalled to a barracks regiment in Nice. Every night, he and his friend Poupardin have a great time. But one evening, he is missing. Fortunately his wife, who had arrived to spy on him, takes her place in the bedroom.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-13
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Un meurtre a été commis
Overview: Inspector Doirel investigates the murder of a man whose servant was found tied up. He discovers very quickly that the servant has lied. The latter ends up denouncing his accomplice who is arrested when he was going to kill the informer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-13
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Fort Dolorès
Overview: Several men of different nationalities have decided to free themselves from the clutches of women and have vowed to help each other in case one of them might relapse. They find shelter in a hacienda on the pampas. They believe they are now safe from the evil influence of the fair sex. Unfortunately there is a farm nearby in which... a gorgeous woman is said to live. Great principles are short-lived, as they soon realize: lust, jealousy and hate set in at once.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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La Troisième Dalle
Overview: A historian seeks to clarify the mysterious death of Sire de Malvaleix and will find himself involved in the murder of the current descendant.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-23
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Destiny
Overview: This is the story of two brothers: the good one, the virtuous gent, an acclaimed singer, and the bad one who leads a wild life.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-12-18
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The Fugitive
Overview: Fred Maubert, an innocent convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes from prison and goes in search of the real culprit. He begins by looking for his former mistress, Simone, who has since married Doctor Bréville and lives in Canada.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-02-07
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Le dolmen tragique
Overview: Chatelard, one of Viscount de Kerlec's guests, has died in mysterious conditions. The police initiates an investigation and sends detective-inspector Pauc to de Kerlec's manor. Pauc decides to mingle with the viscount's guests , who are all likely to have committed the murder. Among them, there is Jacques Mauclerc, a naval officer, and a seedy character named Bartoli, in fact a spy in search of secret documents. Pauc will end up untangling the web during a dramatic séance.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-07-21
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Nous avons tous fait la même chose
Overview: Rémi sees his marriage troubled by a scandal caused by his former mistress. He takes refuge with his godmother while his wife organizes her revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-03-20
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La Danseuse de Marrakech
Overview: A little Métis girl, Kalina is saved from a massacre by Taraor, a black man from Sudan. Having become a great and beautiful dancer from the South, she meets Captain Portal, in garrison in Marrakech. This is the beginning of a great love story. But that's counting without Taraor's jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-04-19
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L'Homme aux mains d'argile
Overview: The fictionalized life, and interpreted by himself, of the popular boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. Training sessions, matches, victories, flight to the U.S.A. where the title of world champion is disputed, form the whole subject of the film.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-03
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Mammy
Overview: Mammy has a grandson she adores even though he is a good for nothing. One day Maurice disappears and Mammy becomes blind. When Maurice finally announces his return the fond old lady is overjoyed. Unfortunately, Maurice's plane crashes and catches fire. The young man is reported missing, presumably dead. Pierre, Mammy's husband, can't bring himself to announce such a shocking news. Desperate, he finds no other solution than subterfuge : he will ask a young couple to pass themselves off as Maurice and his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-28
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Le clochard milliardaire
Overview: Olivier Cabrol is an immature young reveler who lives from hand to mouth. One day he inherits a fabulous fortune from an eccentric uncle. But on the one condition to spend a certain amount of time as a tramp. Olivier accepts out of sheer greed but soon finds the experience rewarding. He finds himself as well as new friends (true ones this time) and even love in the person of Colette.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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From the Orient with Fury
Overview: A scientist who has invented a weapon capable of disintegrating solid matter is kidnapped by a criminal gang, which intends to sell the scientist and his weapon to the highest bidder. A secret agent and the scientist's daughter set out to track down the kidnappers and rescue the scientist.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-24
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Four Pistols for Trinity
Overview: Arms trafficking with the Indians on the one hand and acquiring documents concerning the ownership of a goldmine on the other are the principal interests of Quin and Gomez, the highly suspicious guests at Papa Martinez' inn. The unexpected arrival of the sheriff Thomas, and the journalist, George, upsets the plans of the two unsavoury allies and they have to try every kind of trick to win out against such adversaries.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-05-29
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Giants of Rome
Overview: An elite group of soldiers led by the courageous Claudius Marcellus are handpicked by Julius Caesar to embark on a desperate and dangerous suicide mission to destroy the Druids' secret weapon.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-10
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Ritrovarsi all'alba
Overview: Elba mine manager "Marco" meets, falls in love with, and marries "Paola" only to discover that her ex "André" is still keen.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-05-04
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79 A.D.
Overview: Intrigue at the Roman Emperor's court prior to its destruction by Vesuvius.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-23
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The Huns
Overview: An orphan, raised by a foreign tribe, becomes a warrior queen and falls in love with the leader of her enemies.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-05
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Poison Ivy
Overview: FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-05-26
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The Delinquents
Overview: Jean-Pierre, who has escaped from prison, tries to reintegrate into society with the help of workers at a construction site.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-22
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The House of Intrigue
Overview: A radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-11-30
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Marie of the Isles
Overview: In 1635, Jacques du Parquet, the nephew of the well known explorer Belain d'Esnambic, enters a tavern in Dieppe, and falls in love with the daughter of the bartender, Marie Bonnard. He knows his noble family would disapprove such a marriage; besides, he is nominated for the post of governor in Martinica. He promised never to forget Marie, but as time goes by, she will accept to marry a rich and unscrupulous man, Monsieur de Saint-André. When her husband is appointed to serve in Martinica as General Commissioner, Marie demands to go with him. At her arrival, all sorts of trouble arrive: pirates take action against travelers and goods, rotten deals set the two officers against each other, and finally jealousy settles to make things worse. ~ Written by Artemis-9
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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The Murder Clinic
Overview: Patients and those working in an isolated mental hospitals are murdered, one by one, by a madman lurking in the corridors
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-17
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The Rival
Overview: The love triangle between a Countess, a soldier and a younger woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-11-07
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Scipio the African
Overview: Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius Cato of the theft of 500 talents intended for Rome.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-03
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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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Mission Bloody Mary
Overview: An American secret agent is tasked with recovering a nuclear bomb stolen by spies.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-08-13
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Beauty and the Beast
Overview: Decameron-style collection of entertaining short stories with such diverse themes as nymphomania, bestiality, and masochism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-04-18
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The Violent Patriot
Overview: The legendary John of the Black Bands begins a romantic relationship with a beautiful girl without revealing his identity. The girl unconsciously discovers the truth and retires to a convent. She thinks that John is guilty of the death of her family, and cannot continue to love him. He remains wounded in battle.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-14
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Messalina Against the Son of Hercules
Overview: While fighting in Britain, Roman forces commanded by Caligula capture the noble warrior, Glaucus. Seeing in him gladiator material, Caligula takes Glaucus back to Rome along with other hostages including Glaucus's girlfriend, Ena. A man seeking to restore the Roman Republic then assassinates Caligula after which Claudius is proclaimed emperor. Messalina -- Claudius's beautiful but evil wife -- then maneuvers to replace Claudius with her lover, Silio. She forces Glaucus to help her in this quest by threatening to harm the enslaved Ena. Written by dinky-4 of Minneapolis
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-06-27
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Tulips of Haarlem
Overview: Two teenagers looking for love find each other in this tragic and cruel story of romance, co-dependence and psychological torment. Pierre (Frank Grimes) is the French boy who saves the British girl Sarah (Carole Andre) from suicide. Despondent over a broken affair, Sarah soon becomes fond of Pierre and agrees to stay with him. The twisted girl puts him through a series of humiliations before she intentionally blinds him so he will never leave her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-06-07
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The Beasts
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-04-25
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Children of Love
Overview: In a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert, who tries to make them aware of their new responsibilities, while Dr. Baurain stresses the importance of their moral and sexual education. They come to the aid of several young women: one who would like to give up her child to a couple applying for adoption, another who, after the death of her first baby in dramatic circumstances, is expecting a second, and many others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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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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The End of the World
Overview: The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-01-23
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La trovatella di Pompei
Overview: Maria, is a girl raised by the loving care of a poor couple but without knowing anything about her real parents. She is in love with Giorgio, a boy from a good family, who however has also aroused the interest of the intriguing Edvige who frequents bad company including jealous Roberto.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-07-25
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Goliath and the Dragon
Overview: A warrior returning home to his country must battle giant bats, three-headed dogs and a vicious dragon to save his wife, and his people, from the machinations of an evil ruler.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-12
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My Crimes After Mein Kampf
Overview: The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Hybrid composition, it alternates originals and reconstructions performed by actors (docudrama). A not-so-subtle condemnation of Hitler, Nazism and Germany by the movie's French film makers, which conveniently makes no mention of how the policies of Great Britain and France created Hitler and allowed him to go as far as he did prior to the beginning of the Second World War.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-03-09
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Hell in Normandy
Overview: The movie is set during World War II in the days just prior to the D-Day invasion. A special parachute unit is sent to destroy a German flame thrower installation on Omaha Beach.
Genres: Drama TV Movie War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-13
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The Old Testament
Overview: The Jews of Jerusalem are driven out by their Syrian rulers. They gather their forces, and return to drive out their oppressors.
Genres: Adventure History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-04-10
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They Paid with Bullets: Chicago 1929
Overview: Country bumpkin Frank runs into a gangland shooting, driving the victims to the gang's headquarters. He soon earns a place in Erik's mob. Syndicate head Big John wishes to unite the four gangs in Chicago, but Erik defies them, wishing to remain independent. An assassination attempt forces him to reconsider, and his gang isn't impressed with what they take for his cowardice. This is the point that allows the ambitious Frank to muscle in on Erik's mob, and his moll, Lucie. Frank's first move is to hire outside pros, and shoot up a casino of Big John's, challenging the entire syndicate. Erik, meanwhile, harbors feelings of revenge.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-02-05
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The Beast
Overview: An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-12
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The Dragon's Blood
Overview: Legendary hero Siegfried uses a magic sword to fight a huge, fire-breathing dragon.
Genres: Drama Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-09-26
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Les Bleus de la marine
Overview: Lafraise and Plumard, two rookies on the ship Le Victorieux, are on leave in the port of Toulon. At a time they get lost and in order to escape the Navy patrolmen, they disguise themselves and board a train. Now it happens that in the convoy a delegate of the government is on his way to Paris, with the mission to inaugurate a monument there. But the circumstances are such that our two friends are mistaken for the Minister and his secretary. Unabashed, the pair does the job, in other words, they deliver the expected speech, eat like horses, live it up - until they are recognized. Which eventually results in a prolonged stay in an unpleasant kind of hotel room named - the hold.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-09-26
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Thunder of Battle
Overview: Coriolanus leads the plebians in a revolt against Roman oppression.
Genres: History Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-19
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A Second Spring
Overview: An aging gossip columnist, tired of the social life of the Roman Dolce-vita set, goes to New York with hopes of a literary career. He marries a nurse, but succumbs to his former mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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La colonna infame
Overview: Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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The Great Kidnapping
Overview: In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a northern industrial town devastated by a recent wave of violence and kidnappings..
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-16
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Special Mission Lady Chaplin
Overview: Lady Chaplin is a beautiful woman, she is a fashion stylist and she owns an atelier in Paris. Zoltan is a rich American specialized in submarine researches. Dick Malloy is an American secret agent. What have the three in common? Perhaps a sunk American atomic submarine with sixteen missiles still on board? And why every other scene one, two, ten or more men are trying to kill Malloy in every conceivable way?
Genres: Crime Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-12
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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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The Innocent
Overview: Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-18
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C'è una spia nel mio letto
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-06-05
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Special Code: Assignment Lost Formula
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Genres: Adventure Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Mighty Crusaders
Overview: The Mighty Crusaders (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata) is a 1957 film about the First Crusade, based on the 16th-century Italian poem Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso. This film was directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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Passion de femmes
Overview: Nicole Montigny leaves her husband, surgeon Paul, to live with her lover in Canada. Anna, her husband's assistant, thinks she can take advantage of the situation to console the man she loves. She convinces Nicole to fake an accident. However, Paul starts seeing his wife's twin sister, Mireille. Anna, mad with jealousy, brings Nicole back and tries to break up the new couple by blackmail. Nicole decides to eliminate Anna.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-01-04
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Operation Thunder
Overview: The inhabitants of a small provincial town are requisitioned to take part in the French army's major maneuvers. A foreign spy takes advantage of these maneuvers to steal secret documents. The pursuit and capture of the spy and his accomplices are successfully carried out by all those taking part in the maneuvers.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-06-13
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La dernière chevauchée
Overview: A jealous wealthy landlord intercepts a letter to his wife written by her cousin. He decides to take revenge by drugging the young man's horse, but it is his own son who will be the victim of the accident.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-28
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Cry of Death
Overview: A range war between cattlemen and farmers comes to a head with the arrival of a Deputy Marshal and "Mule" a famous gunfighter in the town of Houstonville, Texas.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-21
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Guns of the Black Witch
Overview: In the 17th century, a village was the refuge of several French buccaneers. One day, the Spanish under the command of Guzmán, attacked the village and killed everybody, adults and children ...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-24
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Alert Nights
Overview: Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a Resistance fighter. Her jealous lover has her arrested first and then released. Later on, Hélène is wounded while walking in the streets. Pierre has her transported to friends with the hope of taking her to London with him. Unfortunately, owing to lack of space in the plane, Pierre has to fly alone. Hélène has to wait several weeks before being able to board a new plane. When the day comes at last, the Germans are waiting for the plane on the clandestine airfield.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-09-25
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Conversation Piece
Overview: A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-12-20
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A Matter of Time
Overview: During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-10-07
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Three Swords for Rome
Overview: 222 AD in the Roman Empire. A teenage Emperor, Elagabalus, is technically on the throne but manipulated by a conniving mother, who is the real power.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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Tre nel mille
Overview: A few days after the arrival of the year 1000, bearer of great misfortune according to the Prophets, the cavalryman Fortunato and two soldiers, Pannocchia and Carestia, travel through Italy in the midst of numerous adventures: The prophetic year is marked only by the discovery on the part of the cavalryman of his wife's betrayal
Genres: History Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-06
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Cerca di capirmi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Duel through the ages
Overview: Through film clips, news footage and reconstructions, this film traces the history of dueling
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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