Luca Barbareschi
Also Known As: Лука Барбарески, Luca Giorgio Barbareschi, Frankie Speranza
Biography: Luca Barbareschi (born 28 July 1956 in Montevideo) is an Italian-Uruguayan actor, television presenter, and former member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Barbareschi is Jewish. He was one of four actors whom the Italian police believed had been murdered in the making of the 1980 horror film Cannibal Holocaust, where he also abused and killed a young piglet. So realistic was the film that shortly after it was released its director Ruggero Deodato was arrested on suspicions of murder. The actors had signed contracts to stay out of the media for a year in order to fuel rumours that the film was a snuff movie. The court was only convinced that they were alive when the contracts were cancelled and the actors appeared on a television show as proof. In 2008, he was elected as Member of the Italian Parliament at the Chamber of Deputies with Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right party The People of Freedom. In 2010 he joined, with other 32 deputies and 10 senators, the Gianfranco Fini's new party Future and Freedom. He left parliament in 2013. On 11 June 2012 he becomes the protagonist of an attack against Filippo Roma, a journalist. He attacked the cameraman Marco Occhipinti destroying the camera and stealing his personal smartphone, with which he was filming the attack. The police rushed to the scene but without making any arrest, unable to search him for parliamentary immunity. The journalist filed a complaint for theft, but according to some witnesses the cell phone, never returned, would have been destroyed by Barbareschi. On 28 August 2012 in Filicudi a similar event is repeated which sees Barbareschi attack again with kicks and punches the journalist Filippo Roma and hit his cameraman. Source: Article "Luca Barbareschi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montevideo, Uruguay
Birthday: July 28, 1956
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Gender: Male
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The Blonde
Overview: Coming back from work by night, shy watchmaker Tommaso runs over a girl with his car, luckily without serious consequences. Next day he finds her waiting for him at his door. She asks him for help, as she can't remember anything prior to the incident.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-03-12
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An Officer and a Spy
Overview: In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
Genres: History Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-30
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Cut and Run
Overview: A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being massacred by an army of natives and a skilled white assassin.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-08-08
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Cannibal Holocaust
Overview: A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-07
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The Penitent - A Rational Man
Overview: A psychiatrist, Charles, has his career and life become derailed after he refuses to testify on behalf of a former patient who had become clinically violent and unstable, resulting in the deaths of multiple people following a tragic breakdown of his mental complications. The patient then claims that Charles will not testify in court or to the police because the patient is openly part of the LGBT community. Further, the patient claims that Charles has recently gone through a religious conversion in his own personal identity which has resulted in a fully prejudiced reassessment of the gay community as a whole. Charles claims that the basis of these accusations are false and due to a misunderstanding. The resulting recriminations put Charles's entire career at risk and threaten to end his practice permanently.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-09-04
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Obiettivo indiscreto
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-04-10
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Bye Bye Baby
Overview: Love triangles often provoke the most unpredictable behavior. Will anybody end up happily in love at the end of this amorous debacle? One outrageous scene after another leads to a series of romantic escapades that will leave viewers bewitched, bewildered, and thoroughly entertained.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-10
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Intolerance
Overview: A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-11-11
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Dream of a Summer Night
Overview: Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Genres: Music Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-11-15
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The Delegation
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Via Montenapoleone
Overview: Via Montenapoleone in Milan is the ritziest street in the city and here the destinies of several characters, playboys, models and gays cross and diverge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-03-13
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Bits & Pieces
Overview: Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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In nome del popolo sovrano
Overview: 1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Il trasformista
Overview: The Turin area is devastated by floods: the Pô River has overflown and toxic waste from a local dump is now being carried by the stream. Which is why Augusto Vigano, the co-owner of a pub and a dedicated environmentalist, blocks, in the company of a group of friends, the train on which minister Antonelli is traveling. The politician, agrees to listen to the protesters'complaints and , filmed by television cameras, follows Vigano all the way to the dump. It is on this occasion that Vigano is noticed by a politician who sees at once the interest he can derive in having him elected. Augusto, who thinks that being elected to parliament is the best way to protect the environment more effectively, accepts his offer, without realizing that the cynical politician intends to manipulate him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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Impiegati
Overview: Friendship and competion among the clerks of a bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-02-20
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La voglia matta di vivere
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-03-17
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The Son of Français
Overview: A young boy and his two grandmothers flee from headhunters and other villainous types in the Brazilian rain forest in this wacky family adventure. Benjamin, whose mom is dead and whose dad is off in the jungle searching for gold, is more cool-headed than his two grandmothers, both of whom hate one another. Upper class teacher bristles at the coarse behavior of working class Suzanne, who shoplifts and cheats at cards. Soon bad guys threaten them, and the chase begins.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-12-15
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Chi mi aiuta?
Overview: Paolo and Carlo are good friends. The first introverted, disillusioned and intellectual, while the other is happy if shallow. Despite their differences they share accommodation. Paolo runs an “alternative” kind of library; Carlo plays the violin in a little band. Their lives go on peacefully, when suddenly Paolo falls in love with one of his a customers - Lili, an amateur actress - whom he decides to take home. Carlo doesn’t react well to the fact he’s got to share with a third person, so he comes up with a weird idea - he flirts with the new girl and manages to seduce her. Paolo thinks his best friend is now guilty of a real betrayal, while Lili is undecided: she’s attracted by both the culture of Paolo and the physical attraction of Carlo. This love triangle ends when Paolo tries to commit suicide, Carlo feels guilty and Lili leaves them both, returning to her previous life and still hoping to find her one true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-09-06
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Rivoglio i miei figli
Overview: The film tells the struggle of a woman against her ex-husband to have custody of their children. The first attempt to incapacitate ex husband to his wife and, when the ploy did not produce the desired effect, with the complicity of his children's nanny, kidnaps and takes them to Moldova. But the protagonist is not will give up and hire a detective for help in the search.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-16
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Teresa
Overview: Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-11-27
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Something Good
Overview: In a small Chinese village in Yunnan, a young woman named Xiwen sees her little son Shitou die of poisoning from adulterated food. On the other side of the world, in Italy, Matteo works on behalf of Feng, a multinational based in Hong Kong that traffics counterfeit food. To avoid arrest, Matteo escapes from Italy, saving a precious shipment of Feng's food, and this begins his unscrupulous climb towards success. At a time when he is enjoying the greatest prestige within Feng, Matteo meets Xiwen by chance, who has opened a restaurant in memory of his son and is fighting for the authenticity of food. Neither of them imagines that from that moment their lives will be turned upside down.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-07
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The Palace
Overview: A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-28
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Things Change
Overview: Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status. Only friendship will see them through this dangerous adventure alive!
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-21
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Ardena
Overview: Summer 1969 is very special for Andrea a 13 year-old boy who is about to leave, with his family, for a little village on the hills surrounding a great lake in Northern Italy. There he finds, like every year, his uncles, aunts, cousins, a fascinating mother, a father always away on business trips, a grandfather who does not want to grow old and a granny who talks to trees. During this summer he makes his first discoveries about life and love and abandons the illusions and the magic of childhood.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-03-02
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La tenda nera
Overview: The new captain of the Carabinieri, Fabio Leopardi, arrives in a quiet provincial town, called to investigate the possible existence of a satanic sect which has led to the death of three people: the parish priest of the town, who died in an alleged accident, the captain of the carabinieri, apparently dead by suicide, who was investigating the death of the priest, and a young student, found dead in a ditch, who behind her 'good girl' appearance hid the use of narcotic substances and the practice of rituals satanic. Despite a series of misdirections, Leopardi will be able to shed light on the case.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-02-18
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Lucca Mortis
Overview: A writer, realising his last big adventure will very likely be death, takes a sabbatical and leaves his home in New York City’s Little Italy to travel with his family to Lucca, Italy in order to trace his ancestral roots and clean up the loose ends in his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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You Only Live Once
Overview: A man and a woman meet and decide to leave everything behind. They leave for Malta and it is great happiness, ecstasy, but the past soon resurfaces.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-08
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Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Lista dei Partenti
Overview: Walter Cherubini, reporter for the newspaper La Provincia di Parma, is transferred to crime news due to a dispute with the editor. Despite his inexperience in the field, he will soon find himself dealing with the case of an honorable man's suicide. The man, with the help of Candy, a journalist from a local broadcaster, discovers that the solution to the mystery lies behind a recent trip made by the politician and other fellow citizens to Cuba.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-03-10
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Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Donna Giusta
Overview: Walter investigates the death of a wealthy local businessman. The main suspect in the crime is his wife Clea, beneficiary of the life insurance, who asks the reporter for help. The widow's charm triggers the jealousy of her colleague Federica, in love with Walter, and puts the latter's lucidity to the test.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-03-17
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Trenta Righe per un Delitto: La Bambola Sull'Asfalto
Overview: A hit-and-run driver hits and kills a little girl in Pontevico. The latter's father, a long-time friend of Walter, asks the reporter to investigate the matter, before dying by suicide. Walter, not believing in this hypothesis, throws himself headlong into the search for the truth. Meanwhile, the return of the charming Candy provokes the jealousy of Federica who decides to resign from the newspaper and leave for Milan.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-03-24
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Buio nella Valle
Overview: The two-episode television drama tells the story of a family willing to do anything to maintain possession of their assets, even two brutal murders that will have to wait more than ten years to reach a solution.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-09-20
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In the Jungle: The Making Of Cannibal Holocaust
Overview: An Italian documentary that gives an inside look at the making of Ruggero Deodato's controversial horror film "Cannibal Holocaust".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-06-22
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Private Affairs
Overview: Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-12-29
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The International
Overview: An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama Crime Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-02-03
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We Believed
Overview: 1828. In the wake of the repression of revolutionary uprisings in the monarchist South, three young friends join Giuseppe Mazzini's patriotic cause, seeking to finally unify Italy under a republican government. Their idealism will clash with the inevitable disillusionment as they grow apart over the following fifty years.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-11-12
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From Corleone to Brooklyn
Overview: Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his prisoner face a series of traps set up by the Mafia.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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Pietro Mennea - La freccia del sud
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2015-03-29
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La bella Otero
Overview: The story tells the life, the successes, the loves and the decadence of Augustine Caroline Otéro Iglesias, called "La Bella Otéro". The history of a Spanish actor, who - despite being born poor - became a symbol of the Belle Époque and one of the first dives of silent cinema.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-05
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DolceRoma
Overview: Andrea Serrano is a young aspiring writer who, to make ends meet, is forced to wash corpses in a mortuary, while struggling to finish his first novel, a story about the Camorra. Having become discouraged by his struggling career, he is waiting for the chance of a lifetime. And finally, it arrives - a major film producer decides to adapt his novel and make it into a movie.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-04-04
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Il lungo inverno
Overview: A movie from Ivo Barnabò Micheli.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-02-22
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Romance
Overview: A father and son try to reconcile spending a few days together and confronting each other also through their own marital experiences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-10-24
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Summertime
Overview: Marco, an Italian young man in New York, hopes to find Valerie, a girl he once had a fling with.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-09-01
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Connections
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-07-08
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Hanna K.
Overview: Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. But she bears witness to some of the costs of its sovereignty when she meets Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian man facing serious criminal charges who wants the same thing as his supposed enemies: to reclaim his family home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-09-07
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Jesus
Overview: Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.
Genres: Adventure Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-12-05
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Noi c'eravamo
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-10-26
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Trenta Righe per un Delitto: Il Serial Killer dei Metronotte
Overview: A night watchman is killed and the newspaper La Provincia tries to build a scoop, pretending there is a serial killer behind it. However, someone tries to take advantage of it and within a short time the murders of other security guards follow one another. Walter, at odds with the editorial line, decides to investigate.
Genres: Crime TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-03-31
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Cronaca Nera: La Clinica dei Vip
Overview: Walter Cherubini, in the middle of the night, receives a mysterious phone call in the editorial office. This is the widow Mazzanti, admitted to a famous private clinic in Parma, who claims to be held prisoner. The next day, the opera singer Marinelli, also a guest at the facility, was found dead. The reporter, having infiltrated the clinic and aided in the investigation by a nurse, will be able to unravel the mystery.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-10-07
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Cronaca Nera: Il Portiere Distratto
Overview: The wife of the goalkeeper of the local water polo team, Tavernari, is found dead in her apartment. Walter Cherubini, who recently met them for work reasons, thinks that the husband is the culprit.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-10-14
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Cronaca Nera: Delitti al Torraccio
Overview: Walter and his father, during a trip outside the city, give a ride to Ivano, a young man passionate about birdwatching. A few hours later, the young man is found dead, and not far away, the bodies of a young couple are also discovered. In the following days, another murder occurs in the same wooded area of “Torraccio.” The journalist soon realizes that he is dealing with a dangerous serial killer, and that his father, in poor health, has seen the killer's face, thus putting himself in serious danger
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-10-21
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