Giuliana Calandra
Also Known As: Giuliana Calandre, Giuliana Colandra
Biography: Giuliana Calandra (10 February 1936 – 25 November 2018) was an Italian film, television and stage actress, journalist and television hostess. Born in Moncalieri, Giuliana Calandra debuted in 1963 Pier Paolo Pasolini's La ricotta and appearing in hundreds of films, TV-series and stage works, including works by Dario Argento, Marco Ferreri, Alberto Sordi, Lina Wertmüller, Giorgio Albertazzi, Mario Monicelli, Costa-Gavras, Dino Risi, Sergio Corbucci, Alberto Lattuada. In the 1980s she started a parallel career as journalist and TV-author/presenter, mainly focusing on fashion and entertainment. Calandra died in Aprilia on 25 November 2018, at the age of 82. Source: Article "Giuliana Calandra" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moncalieri, Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Birthday: February 10, 1936
Deathday: November 25, 2018
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Gender: Female
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The Last Woman
Overview: Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-04-20
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Tit for Tat
Overview: Funny adventures of a taxi driver and his passenger - broken financial genius.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-11-03
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Dear Michele
Overview: Michael is the younger son of a middle-class family, a strong-willed and free-thinking fellow, who is off in some distant country fighting for a revolutionary cause. Everyone in the family writes to him, describing the events of their lives, as they drift into a kind of conventionality which would perhaps have horrified them earlier. Only Michael’s girlfriend Mara, the mother of his child, retains her independence, even though it is through the help of Michael’s increasingly conventional friends and family that she survives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Adored
Overview: South of France: Riki Kandinski and his elder brother Fredrico, come back to their family castle for their father's funeral. Fredrico knows nothing about his younger brother, but he notices that he is making big money and living in luxury all for a few days work a week. By pure chance, Fredrico gets his hands on a gay porn magazine and sees his brother in it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-05-16
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Journey with Papa
Overview: Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way respect the other: Armando is an old play-boy and often he "buys" his women with his money; Cristiano is a shy guy who lives in a community with other guys like him. The movie proceeds showing us, ironically, the differences, the different ways to think, to act, to treat the women between father and son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-12-18
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Love and Anarchy
Overview: Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-23
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L'allenatore nel pallone 2
Overview: The famous Italian football coach Oronzo Canà has retired to a villa in Apulia. Now, old and tired, he is enjoying a quiet life there, cultivating his vineyard, when suddenly he is summoned to Milan, in northern Italy. There the elderly chairman of a great Lombard ("Longobarda") club is suffering from dementia and has lost his powers of judgement, and the club's manager has been fired. He has decided to bring back Oronzo Canà as trainer, remembering him from his great football team of thirty years before, tasking him with bringing the club back to its old winning ways. Oronzo puts his trust in the intervention of a Russian billionaire who has bought the club for promotion. But it is a deception.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-01-11
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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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Di che segno sei?
Overview: Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-23
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All Screwed Up
Overview: A group of workers from the south of Italy live collectively in Milan, where money isn't everything, it's the only thing, in 1974.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-22
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The Girls Who'll Do Anything
Overview: Whatever you can dream up, Angela and Susan are way ahead of you.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-28
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The Hired Gun
Overview: Fabio Testi is an undercover cop doubling as the bodyguard (hence, “Gorilla”) of a cantankerous middle-aged industrialist targeted for extortion.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-11-13
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Il... Belpaese
Overview: After many years working abroad, Guido comes back to Milan. His dream is to set up a clock-shop but Italy is much changed while he was abroad. Robbery and bombs are daily events and to go out for a walk in the evening is risky. He succeeds however in setting up his shop only to see it destroyed by gangsters. But he meets a girl who calls herself Mia and he falls for her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-17
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Jocks
Overview: One of the few films about Italo Disco, this Riccardo Sesani film follows two young males -- Tom Hooker and Russel Russel as DeeJay and Hi-Fi -- in a quest to find find a financial backer for the biggest disco party ever!
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-04
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Convoy Buddies
Overview: Toby and Butch are a couple of bumbling crooks who get a truck driving job hauling insecticide from Italy to France. Unbeknownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling guns. A group of equally inept mobsters try to steal the guns to no avail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-07-20
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The Long Night
Overview: Two Milanese girls meet in a toilet where a distracted bourgeois forgets a valuable ring. They take it and go in search of someone to sell it to, helped by a southern taxi driver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-28
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La calandria
Overview: The luxurious Livio bets with the lord of the city to seduce a young bride in a month, at the cost of his genitals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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My Father's Private Secretary
Overview: Ponziani Armando, the owner of a thriving chemical industry, lives in a beautiful villa on Lake Como with his wife and his son Franco Ersilia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-12-29
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Le voci di dentro
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-03
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The Belt
Overview: Vittorio, an American novelist teaching in Rome, meets the beautiful but damaged Bianca and they rapidly fall into an urgent, tempestuous affair. He's hesitant over their relationship since she seems to thrive on conflict and is constantly baiting him into physical altercation. Bianca gives Vittorio an exquisite leather belt as a gift; he knows immediately that she wants him to whip her with it. Driven by his craving for her, Vittorio complies to Bianca's desire. Their relationship escalates into a dark realm of S&M which becomes more and more self-destructive.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-04-22
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Giovannino
Overview: Giovannino grows up and seeks his way, exemplary in his total and definitive absence of character. He lets himself be guided a little by everyone, without ever making a decision of his own free will. He first seduces the family servant, then runs away to Rome and tries to marry her unserious daughter to a boarding house owner. But her father arrives from Catania who distrusts her and arranges for him to marry a rich and lame girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-04
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Il corpo della ragassa
Overview: Ulderico Quario hires as servant a very beautiful young woman Teresa. Ulderico decides to proceed like a new Pygmalion and he sets about teaching her the art of seductions. But Teresa together with Cecchina start using these newfound skills to persuade Ulderico to marry her in order to claim his inheritance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-09-21
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Uno scandalo perbene
Overview: Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward story is about a poorly-dressed man who is brought into the police station in Turin for stealing flower pots from the cemetery. He is rather brutally interrogated, and then because he has no idea who he is or where he belongs, he is put into an asylum for the mentally disturbed. After his photograph is published in the newspapers, a woman shows up at the institution claiming that he is Professor Canella, her missing and wealthy husband. The news obtains the release of the amnesiac, but his claim is quickly and hotly contested by another family, arguing that the man is an imposter. As a result, his case goes back to court and in the meantime, the "professor" is put in jail. As the courtroom drama continues, there are various clues that suggest whether or not the amnesiac has been accurately identified and by whom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Sesso e volentieri
Overview: Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-10-14
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The Landlords
Overview: Giorgia and her sister inherit a villa and decide to turn it into a pension. When the sister orders the advertising, the brochure, together with the name, Pension Paradise, leads people to believe it is a whore house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-07
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Il coraggio di parlare
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-05-02
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Non chiamarmi Omar
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-11-05
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Il lupo e l'agnello
Overview: Leon de Paris is a modest dog-barber in Paris. In search of more satisfaction. Thanks to the economic helps of Fanny (his terrible mother in law), he succeeds to set up in Roma a very stylish "Coiffeur pour homme". But due to this, his life with Fanny isn't funny, and more, Leon has to dissimulate homosexuality for job reasons. He decides to stop this nightmare engaging "Er Cuculo" (the cuckoo) a B-gangster to simulate a robbery. In fact the plan is to take all Fanny's money, share it among them and escape in Montecarlo. Will the strange couple succeed?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-08
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Desiring Julia
Overview: A young man falls in love with extra-liberated Giulia. Their relationship becomes very passionate, but Giulia has no limits in her sexual fantasies and games. Poor guy, will soon discover he'll have to pay a price for Giulia. He'll have to put up with all her strange and pervert desires, until of course he reaches his limits.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-09-05
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Dio li fa poi li accoppia
Overview: At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to abort and drag her to court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-11-25
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Here We for Example...
Overview: Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the culprit, a photographer nicknamed 'Click' and takes up residence with him until he either gets his money back or his poetry published.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-28
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Rimini Rimini
Overview: Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-02-27
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L'allenatore nel pallone
Overview: Oronzo Canà is called to coach Longobarda, the football team of a small town of Northern Italy, newly promoted to the First Division. His only task is not to be relegated, but Longobarda's owner plots against him, finding the team's current ranking far too expensive, and his top Brazilian striker is affected by a deep saudade.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-10-26
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Nest of Vipers
Overview: A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend Renato, and then with his young colleague, Elena.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-03-03
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Story of a Cloistered Nun
Overview: Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth, and the stern but evil Mother Superior, as both are smitten by Carmela's beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-09
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Petomaniac
Overview: The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-28
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My Darling, My Dearest
Overview: Gennarino Laganà is a poor Sicilian who struggles with menial jobs to support his family, while his parents pressure him to seek his fortune in the North. Gennarino would never leave his beloved island if he had not stumbled into a love affair with Donna Egeria, wife of the Mafia boss Don Mimì. To escape certain revenge, he boards a goods train. In a dream, Saint Totino appears to him and promises him protection in exchange for a regulated life. He thus arrives in Milan, where he meets Armida, a woman of the streets, who takes him into her home and makes him her protector and lover. But San Totino appears again to Gennarino and reproaches him for being a kept man: he must work and Armida must change her life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-04-03
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Quando c'era lui... caro lei!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-06-04
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Arrivano i miei
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-01-20
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Regina
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-05-18
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Our Tropical Island
Overview: A businessman is leaving for his family vacation in the South Pacific when he finds out that a rival has emptied his bank account. To save face he and his family lock themselves in the house, pretending to have gone on their trip, but it is not so easy to hide from the outside world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-10-12
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Hit Squad
Overview: A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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E Non Se Ne Vogliono Andare!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-05-01
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E se poi se ne vanno?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-10-29
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Deep Red
Overview: An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his neighbor, a psychic. With the help of a tenacious young reporter he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods, and the two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-07
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Womanlight
Overview: Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-29
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Un caso d'incoscienza
Overview: In Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target of a journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) who sets out to discover exactly what happened to the man and whether or not he is still alive. The biggest lead he has is the millionaire's attractive mistress (Brigitte Fossey), and the story takes off from there.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-07-10
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