Gianni Solaro
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Birthday: August 11, 1926
Deathday: August 12, 2006
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Rocco e le sorelle
Overview: A Sicilian leaves for Milan, in search of fortune, with the four sisters he supervises fiercely.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-05-05
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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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Queen of the Seas
Overview: Redhead Mary is a girl who dresses like a man to better approach, and rob the jewels worn by the pretty ladies of her time.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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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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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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Pirates of the Coast
Overview: Luis de Monterey is a ship captain who is pitted against a crafty pirates.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-30
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Studio legale per una rapina
Overview: Maurice Poitier, a disbarred lawyer, is dumped in prison. In prison, he learns of a plan of robbery worth millions from a dying inmate: once released, will begin to put together a group of bandits to pull this off. But not everything goes as hoped.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-27
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Arizona Colt
Overview: Arizona Colt heads for Blackstone City where Gordon is planning a robbery. When one of Gordon's henchmen murders a saloon girl, Arizona offers to hunt down the killer.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-27
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Il corazziere
Overview: In fascist Italy, Urbano Marangoni aspires to become Corazziere, like his late father, but it is a dream destined not to come true because of his short stature.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-21
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Noi duri
Overview: Lieutenant Bombardone is in Paris to wipe out a gang of drug traffickers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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Johnny Yuma
Overview: Infidelity, murder, and betrayal lies at the center of this violent Spaghetti western. A scheming wife does away with her husband, causing the man's heir to seek revenge. A number of double-crosses and bloody gun battles follow, eventually driving the woman to flee into the desert.
Genres: Action Drama Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-11
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Days of Violence
Overview: During the last months of the Civil War, Joe's brother is killed unjustly by Clifford, a captain in the Northen army. Joe decides to join a group of Southerners determined to resist till the end. Joe is considered an outlaw and a reward is posted for his capture. When the war ends, Joe returns to the farm where he used to work only to find Christine, the owner's daughter and his sweetheart, engaged to the hated Captain Clifford.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-10
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Untamable Angelique
Overview: Angelique goes in search of her husband Joffrey de Peyrac who did not die on the stake.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Sword of Damascus
Overview: Thieves collude against the governor of Syria and the power of Rome while robbing everyone.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-19
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La resa dei conti: dal Gran Consiglio al processo di Verona
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-08
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Oplà, noi viviamo
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-31
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Catherine of Russia
Overview: Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-01-12
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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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Ciccio Forgives, I Don't
Overview: Franco and Ciccio are small time horse thieves who get involved with the bandit, El Diablo, and two former members of his gang who are after his gold. Fortunately two pretty, sharp shooting saloon girls come to the bumbling duo's rescue.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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Il generale dorme in piedi
Overview: A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-05
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The Revenge of the Gladiators
Overview: Friends of Spartacus achieve revenge on the plotter who tries to make political capital out of the rumor that he is still alive. It was shot back to back with Seven Slaves Against the World.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-09-24
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Rome, 1585
Overview: The leader of a gang of Spanish mercenaries falls for a beautiful princess. Thing get dicey, however, when an imprisoned leader is freed and comes calling.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-09
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L'incoronazione di Carlo Magno
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Five for Revenge
Overview: Jim Latimore's ranch is a thorn in the side of the ruthless Gonzales brothers and his marriage to their cousin Rosaria rankles even more. Bandit chief El Matanza is hired to rid them of Latimore and his baby son is taken to be raised as a Gonzales. Three years later five of Latimore's friends arrive to reclaim the boy, replace Rosaria in her home and avenge their murdered compadre.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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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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M.M.M. 83
Overview: A secret agent works with a scientist to recover documents outlining a new formula to make fuel.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-25
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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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Hercules the Avenger
Overview: Reg Park returns to his antics of old as the man of iron in HERCULES THE AVENGER. The Son of Jove undertakes another journey into the nether realms battling zombies and monsters in order to rescue his son, allowing goddess Gia an opportunity to place her own slacker son in Hercules' sandals. There's something for everyone: ghouls, dragons, sweating men and girls in skimpy outfits.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-13
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Gladiator of Rome
Overview: A warrior protecting a slave girl, who is really a princess, winds up as a gladiator in the Roman arenas.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-13
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The Triumph of Robin Hood
Overview: Adventure film about the popular hero Robin Hood, and how he and his partisans take on the defence of King Richard Lion-Heart's interests against his brother John, while the former is in the Holy Land.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-14
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Erik the Conqueror
Overview: In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-07
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Rocambole
Overview: In London in 1903, during a reception at the German embassy, the legendary swindler Rocambole, thought to have died in the penal colony, helps the British secret service compromise a Prussian diplomat. His mission completed, Rocambole, under the identity of the Comte de Chamery, returns to Paris, where Baron Keller, an arms manufacturer in the service of the Kaiser, entertains the famous prima ballerina Cléo Santelli at Maxim's every evening, with whom he is madly in love. Despite her attentions, the young dancer falls in love with the false Chamery, who seems to have sworn the Baron's doom and ridicules him in the salons.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-03
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The Oldest Profession
Overview: A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-07
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Star Pilot
Overview: Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair of Oriental spies are taken hostage by the beings so they can use them to repair their spaceship's broken engine. With that done, they take off towards their home planet, taking the earthlings with them. However, the humans attempt to mutiny against their captors, inadvertently sending their tiny spaceship hurtling into the infinite beyond...
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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Ursus in the Valley of the Lions
Overview: Bodybuilder Ed Fury stars as the legendary Ursus in this above-average sword-and-sandal adventure from veteran director Carlo Campogalliani. The plot concerns Ursus' attempts to rescue his kidnapped fiancee, aided by a pretty blind slave girl. Now an evil queen, Ursus' former love throws him into a gladiatorial arena with a bull, which manages to smack the slave girl in the head and restore her eyesight before Ursus defeats it and his enemies. The bullfight is particularly well-staged, and this exciting spectacle may be the highlight of Fury's erratic screen career. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-21
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Rome, the Other Face of Violence
Overview: Four bandits commit a robbery in a villa. The maid calls the police and Commissioner Carli immediately orders patrols to chase them.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-07-27
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All on the Red
Overview: With the help of two accomplices an underhanded gambler prepares a rigged roulette wheel with which they quickly accumulate money hand over fist. But then greed forges a wall between the three and the intrusion of ruthless competitors result in a massacre.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-05-25
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Sword in the Shadows
Overview: Sword in the Shadows (Italian: Una spada nell'ombra) is a 1961 Italian swashbuckler film directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Tamara Lees and Livio Lorenzon.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Torpedo Bay
Overview: An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a British warship. They both make it to the neutral port of Tangiers where they agree a truce.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-21
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My Sister in Law
Overview: Intransigent magistrate Viola Orlando is targeted by her rivals who set her twin sister Rosa — a high-class prostitute and pornographic photo-novel star — up to impersonate Viola and demolish her reputation. To complicate things even further, Viola is torn between enforcing the law or giving up her seat on the bench to marry her childhood friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-05
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Adultery Italian Style
Overview: A betrayed wife decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson in this riotous farce. Marta (Catherine Spaak) discovers that husband Franco (Nino Manfredi) has been stepping out with her own best friend (Maria Grazia Buccella), and gets revenge by inventing an imaginary lover. Franco takes the bait, leading to improbable but hilarious complications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-25
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The Assassination of Matteotti
Overview: How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-13
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We Want the Colonels
Overview: Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-02
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Slap the Monster on Page One
Overview: Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-19
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Policewoman
Overview: A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-24
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La clinica dell'amore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Redhead
Overview: Bored with her marriage, Franziska decides to travel to Venice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-06-29
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Paths of War
Overview: Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's republican troops. They end up in the Far West with the army fighting the Indians and with their ineptitude they contribute to the army's defeat.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-26
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The Beckett Affair
Overview: Rod Cooper, an American agent of the CIA, is sent to Paris to discover if colonel Segura, head of a clandestine organization which proclaims itself anti-Castroist, is playing a double game at the expense of the United States. He first tries to make contact with Ms Beckett, who should tell him. Segura's intentíons, but the woman is found killed. Subsequently, Rogerson, another American, presents Cooper to Segura himself and so Rod can enter his organization. Here he discovers that the colonel tries to attract a certain number of Americans to use them in an attack against the president of a state of southern America and thus promote communist expansion. Segura soon discovers Rod's real identity and tries to get rid of him; but the agent manages to reverse the situation and kills Segura in a shoot-out.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-07-29
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Last Feelings
Overview: Diego is a troubled runaway who tries to make something out of himself by joining a swimming team and competing in national tryouts and champion races which takes a turn when he is struck by a terminal illness and attempts to find a way to beat it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-24
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Temptation
Overview: The young architect Guido maintains a relationship with Carla, wife of industrialist Veraldi that despite being aware of her infidelity does nothing to prevent it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-29
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The Traffic Policeman
Overview: An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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A Devil Under the Pillow
Overview: Anselmo is a young anthropologist who is tormented by jealousy, and although his wife Camilla does not give reasons, keeps a close eye on her. After consulting a psychiatrist, the doctor says the problem is him and not his wife. So he plots to verify, once and for all, if his suspicions are true. By chance he meets an old friend, Lotario, who seems the ideal person to carry out his plans. What Anselmo does not know is that his friend is a real womanizer who ends seducing his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-02-26
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Five Branded Women
Overview: Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-15
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Il divorzio
Overview: Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-04-20
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The Two Gladiators
Overview: The twins of the recently departed Marcus Aurelius fight it out to see who will become emperor of Rome.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-07-10
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Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold
Overview: Giovanna and Franco are lovers pretending to be brother and sister in order to con unsuspecting marks while staying in the most luxurious locales throughout Europe. In their travels, they come across the beautiful Christina, a girl who is being threatened by her brother, Sergio, in order to get the family fortune. But as Giovanna and Franco delve into their story, the double-crossing begins, and no one is sure who is getting tricked.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-07
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The Secret Seven
Overview: Greece is under the power of Rabirius, from which rise a few patriots led by Axel. He is taken prisoner and condemned to die of hunger and thirst. But his brother Leslio, who fears no one, makes him free. The next step Leslio takes, is to dissolve a group of mercenaries, without listening to his brother, who begs her to join the fight for freedom.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-31
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Black Box Affair
Overview: An airplane crashes in Spain. The Russian as well as the Chinese government take care of the events because on board there was a "black box" containing precious and dangerous devices for the whole world.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-07
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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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Agent X1-7
Overview: A Scientist that developed a formula to increase the world's food supply, is captured by enemies that don't want this to happen. George Collins, Agent X 1-7 is assigned to rescue him from a castle where he is held hostage.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-07
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Execution Squad
Overview: Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-25
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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: en
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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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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