Ettore Manni
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Biography: Ettore Manni (6 May 1927 – 27 July 1979) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 107 films between 1952 and 1979. He was born and died in Rome, Italy after accidentally shooting himself.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Birthday: May 06, 1927
Deathday: July 27, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Seven Guys and a Gal
Overview: Italy during the Napoleonic wars: A French General and his Adjutant are separated from their unit get beyond the enemy lines. There they meet Carlotta the resolute daughter of an Italian Count, who cannot withstand the charm of the French.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-01
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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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The Murri Affair
Overview: Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's socialist politics and the activities of his father, a well known liberal social reformer, than the actual crime itself.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-28
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City of Women
Overview: The charismatic Snaporaz encounters an alluring woman on a train and pursues her through a forest. He ends up at a hotel populated by women gathered for a feminist conference, where he is an unwanted presence. Snaporaz soon discovers he’s entered a phantasmagoric world where women have taken power.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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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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Mademoiselle
Overview: A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-06-01
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Hercules and the Captive Women
Overview: King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the strongman falls overboard in a thick fog. Washed ashore, he saves a young Ismene from Proteus, an evil, shape-shifting creature. Ismene takes Hercules to Atlantis, where he discovers that her mother, Queen Antinea, has captured Androcles. Hercules schemes to rescue him and thwart Antinea's dream of world conquest.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-19
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The Divine Nymph
Overview: In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-16
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I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Overview: Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.
Genres: Western Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-20
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The Battle of Austerlitz
Overview: Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-17
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Le Amiche
Overview: Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-11-18
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He Thief, She Thief
Overview: Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-12
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Hypochondriac
Overview: During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only waiting to see him dead to inherit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-12-20
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Chino
Overview: Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unwelcome almost everywhere he goes. One day, a young runaway named Jimmy shows up at his door looking for work and a roof over his head. Reluctantly, Chino agrees to take him in and teach him the art of raising, breaking and breeding horses, until the pair finally begin to accept each other.
Genres: Western Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-14
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Attila
Overview: Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-27
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Tony Arzenta
Overview: A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-23
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Hercules, Prisoner of Evil
Overview: Hercules battles an evil sorceress who turns men into werewolves. The mythic duo returns in Prisoner of Evil, where a sorceress seduces Herc and transforms him into a mindless beast. Italian horror master Antonio Margheriti directed this installment of the Hercules legend, a blend of sword-and-sandal fantasy and horror.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-07-31
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The Warrior and the Slave Girl
Overview: Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius. Princess Amira, with ambitions of being Queen and jealous of Asclepius' popularity, plans his death in the arena by substituting a lion for his human opponent
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-10-12
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Crimebusters
Overview: Major Paolo Altieri of the Paratroopers Corps foils the kidnapping of child, but becomes the victim himself of a violent assault by the bandits. He realises that the criminals have used an experimental machine gun that's used only in his own Corps. Altieri begins to take part in police raids on criminal activities, and ultimately discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the democratic government.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-06-17
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Mafia Junction
Overview: Cliff works as a narcotics investigator for the police and infiltrate a mafia gang. Soon it turns out that Cliff has bigger plans than just to bust bad guys.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-05
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Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment
Overview: A beautiful but poor young girl finds all the money and material goods she never had when she becomes the girlfriend of a crime boss, but soon learns that there is a price to be paid for that kind of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-27
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Karzan, Jungle Lord
Overview: Financed by Lord Carter and led by Captain Fox, an expedition is mounted to find and capture a jungle-man who lives in Africa.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-19
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The Ship of Condemned Women
Overview: After murdering her illegitimate baby, Isabella (Tania Weber) pins the blame on her innocent cousin Consuelo (May Britt). Despite the strenuous efforts of her attorney-lover DeSylva (Ettore Manni), Consuelo is found guilty and shipped to a penal colony along with several other female prisoners.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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The Iron Commissioner
Overview: Comissioneer Mariani leads investigates a group of kidnappers.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-07
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And Now... Make Your Peace with God
Overview: Two men are on their way to Denver City to settle a personal score. One is looking for the murderer of his father, the other for a former friend who stole his gold. They're joined by a third person, a mysterious pistolero.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-26
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Make the Sign of the Cross, Stranger!
Overview: A bounty hunter wants to catch the Bandit Carson because he has a lot of people in his gang who are worth a lot of money. When he comes into White City he gets his first problems with Carson's son Lucas. After this incident Carson wants this man dead. They can catch him but not for a long time because he can escape with the help of Zoppo who the bounty hunter had helped a couple of days before.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-05-16
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The Truth on the Savolta Affair
Overview: Barcelona between 1917 and 1923. Is the era of gangsterism, during which gunmen clash between anarchists and thugs paid by The Patronal showed a shocking number of deaths. The confrontation between anarchists and workers of the factory owners Savolta arms worsens when Savolta family decides to end the rebellion hiring murderers hired and plotting to hide their illegal transactions with Germany. Adapted from the novel by Eduardo Mendoza.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1980-02-04
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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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Bury Them Deep
Overview: Clive Norton is a young captain ordered by his superior to recover two shipments of stolen army payroll gold. Clive enlists the help of Ted Hunter, a condemned prisoner whom he has released. They soon discover that two different gangs are responsible for the robberies...
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-07-18
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Anything for a Friend
Overview: Two 'friends', Jonas and Mark, who live by cheating and squandering their money in saloons meet a crazy old man who tells them that gold has been discovered in the Rocky Mountains. The whole town moves, with dreams of becoming rich, but they are bitterly disappointed when on their way home they are robbed by Mulieta and his vicious gang of outlaws. Jonathan and Mark are spurred into action and decide to fight Mulieta's gang and retrive their gold.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-18
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The Valiant
Overview: Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held prisoner whist the crew try and discover the nature of their mission!
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-13
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Amazons of Rome
Overview: Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over hostages, including Clelia, the sexy leader of a clan of woman warriors. But before long, intrigue and betrayal unravel the fragile peace. Directors Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and Vittorio Cottafavi helm this vintage sword-and-sandal epic.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-24
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Young Lucrezia
Overview: In the early 16th century Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by Cesare Borgia and his sister Lucrezia. In a ruthless power play, Cesare plots to have his sister’s husband murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-23
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Legions of the Nile
Overview: Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the city, he meets Berenice, a mysterious and beautiful dancer who falls in love. Actually, the dancer is the queen Cleopatra who leads a double life using this name.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-27
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The Revolt of the Slaves
Overview: A rich man's daughter (Rhonda Fleming) sides with a Christian rebel during the fall of the Roman Empire.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-30
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Girls Marked Danger
Overview: A police officer meets a girl who is near to falling into the net of shady individuals. To prevent this, he invites her into the police station and tells her a story.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-25
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I tre corsari
Overview: The castle of the counts of Ventimiglia is conquered by the spanish Van Gould, who kills the count and sends his three sons in the Antilles. The ship is attacked by pirates and the three brothers are liberated. They decide to join the pirates to have revenge on Van Gould, who has also moved to the Antilles on the command of the viceroy.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-16
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The She-Wolf
Overview: A woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young soldier. Mother sacrifices herself for Maricchia's marriage, but ultimately falls to her own passion, leading to family disruption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-09-25
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Brothers of Italy
Overview: Capodistria, 1915. Captain Nazario Sauro, an officer in the Austrian Navy, is one of those patriots who militate for Italy to enter World War I. When he is about to be arrested by the Austrian authorities he chooses to desert. Once in Venice he enlists in the Italian Navy and becomes an officer in a submarine where his perfect knowledge of the coast of Istria proves particularly helpful. But when his submarine runs aground near the island of Munje, he is captured by the Austrians, sentenced to death for high treason and hanged in 1916.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Cleopatra's Daughter
Overview: The beautiful young Sushila is forced into a political marriage with young Pharaoh Nemorat in order to consolidate power. However, the young Pharaoh is beset with mental illness and the marriage becomes dangerous, all the while the chief advisor Kefren and his scheming mistress plot to destroy the unstable pair.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-07
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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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Angelique and the Sultan
Overview: Angélique is in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. She refuses to be bedded as her captors try to beat sense into her. She finally decides to escape with the help of two Christian prisoners.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-03-13
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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Overview: During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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La peccatrice
Overview: Debra arrives in Sicily with her boyfriend Turi. As soon as they arrive, the women of the village do not welcome her into the community, giving them to the witch, especially because of the black color of her skin and her great beauty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-07-20
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Ringo and His Golden Pistol
Overview: A Mexican bandit teams up with a band of renegade Native Americans to avenge his older brothers when they are killed by a prankster, gold-obsessed bounty hunter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-07-15
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Eye of the Cat
Overview: Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who covets another man's wife (Mariangela Melato) as his own. He gets what he wants, but Ras wants more: in this case, to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined by leaving his cat and taking his wife. He forces Marcello to seek an annulment to his marriage through the Vatican. Ras gets everything, but Marcello's wife, Giulia, and Marcello have other ideas.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-19
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La madama
Overview: In the slang of the underworld or "mala" there is a special term for cop: "Madama". But if word were to get around that the "Madama" is Vito (Christian De Sica) they might even start to like the guy. Vito is a funny sort of a cop. For a start he doesn't like the uniform (he never wears it). Things might even go smoothly for him, if it weren't for an incredible number of beautiful girls who always manage to get in his way. Especially one girl Angelo (shouldn't that have been Angela? No, the girl's name really is Angelo). Problems arise too, with his direct supervisor, who also happens to be a relative. But Vito puts up with it all and manages to stay his usual calm and polite self, even when he risks getting killed.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-16
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The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond
Overview: Returning from Switzerland to Rome, the boss prof. Salviati, called 'The Prince', finds his business compromised by Rudy, a small local bandit full of presumption, audacity and men ready to kill. Commissioner Baldi a young and brave employee, will fight against them with the help of an ex-employee Rampelli.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-23
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War of the Zombies
Overview: A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!
Genres: Fantasy Horror Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-13
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Rabid Dogs
Overview: Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-01-17
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A Woman Alone
Overview: Three women share the same apartment and the same goal, to find a wealthy husband and settle down.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Bon Voyage, Pablo
Overview: In a station bar, a business traveler meets a girl and decides to leave his fiancee and merry her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-11-23
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Two Nights with Cleopatra
Overview: Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she's the real monarch.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-04
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Il prigioniero
Overview: Italian TV movie. Based upon a novel by Anton Chekhov.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Mission to Venice
Overview: An American polo player in Paris gets roped into intrigue when he's asked to find a family friend whom has gone missing.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-23
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Human Torpedoes
Overview: A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring attack on the port of Suda.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-05-07
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Closed Circuit
Overview: At the local cinema, an audience watches a Spaghetti Western matinee. During the film's on-screen climactic duel, a bullet is fired into a patron. With no leads and a theater full of suspects, police investigators lock the doors, put everyone back in their seats, and run the movie again. But will this shot in the dark reveal the real killer?
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-22
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Divisione Folgore
Overview: In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-30
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The Stranger Returns
Overview: The Stranger happens across a murdered postal inspector and a gang of bandits set on a prize of stolen gold which should be transported in a stagecoach. The Stranger, a sharpshooter named En plein and a treacherous postal agent try to get their hands on the gold. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-17
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Susanna tutta panna
Overview: A young woman gets closely watched by her jealous fiance while she is trying to deliver cakes to customers' houses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-09-20
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A Man on His Knees
Overview: Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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Bali
Overview: The wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex patriot under the spell of a mystical death cult...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-29
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Diez fusiles esperan
Overview: During the first Carlist war in the 1830s in Spain a lieutenant falls into the enemy's hands and is arrested. When condemned, he claims he only wanted to see his newborn baby.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-15
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Tua per la vita
Overview: A humble young woman takes care of his sister's child while also hiding her feelings towards her sister's lover.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-04
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Il ricatto di un padre
Overview: A woman tries to gain control of his father's company after he dies.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-28
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That's How We Women Are
Overview: The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-28
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Street People
Overview: A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-30
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The Devil in Love
Overview: Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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The Red Sheik
Overview: For decades Sultan Hassan has been suppressing the desert tribes with violence and terror. In an oasis, the tribal prince Ajbar has been hiding with his own from Hassan's soldiers.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-08-18
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The Battle of El Alamein
Overview: June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Pirate of the Black Hawk
Overview: Manfred, backed by Saracen pirates, deposes the Duke of Montfort, takes over the throne and kidnapped the Duke's young son. Capt. Riccardo, the leader of a pirate band on the ship Black Hawk, sets out to defeat Manfred and his Saracens and restore the Duke to his rightful place on the throne.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-13
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Ursus and the Tartar Princess
Overview: Peplum movie from 1961
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-30
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Black Fury
Overview: A working-class kid is mistaken for a rich American boy and is kidnapped by two criminals.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-09
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Ambush on the Sea
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-30
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The Rip-Off
Overview: Crime Comedy starring Walter Chiari, Maurizio Arena and Ettore Manni. Directed by Luciano Ercoli in 1977, but shelved when producer Niccolo De Nora was kidnapped... ironically the theme of the movie. A band of criminals plan one final heist, to kidnap a wealthy French businessman.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-05-19
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A porte chiuse
Overview: The movie is about the celebrated trial of Olga Duvovich, very beautiful woman accused of killing her husband, a wealthy financier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-22
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Heroes in Hell
Overview: In World War II, guerrillas kidnap a German general.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-12
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Meet Him and Die
Overview: Ray Lovelock stars as Massimo, a young undercover cop with a taste for violence and a thirst for revenge! Massimo gets himself arrested and quickly infiltrates the ranks of the underworld figure serving a sentence. Eventually a breakout is planned and Massimo is to be included. Just about as soon as they hit the street an attempt is made on the boss' (Martin Balsam) life. Massimo acts quickly in helping to save him and that's the in he has been waiting for
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-08
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In the Name of the Pope King
Overview: In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular power.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-03
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Yalis, la vergine del Roncador
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-01
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Fatal Desire
Overview: In Pietro Mascagni's tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancée, only to find that she's married someone else in his absence, leading to jealousy, betrayal, and murder.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-14
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Desert War
Overview: A woman is discovered in a shelled-out truck in the Libyan Desert by a small group of soldiers.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-03
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Django and Sartana Are Coming... It's the End
Overview: A gang of vicious outlaws lead by the crazed Black Burt Keller abduct Jessica Colby and decide to flee to Mexico. Shrewd bounty hunter Django and saintly roving gunslinger Sartana join forces to rescue the poor lass from the gang's vile clutches.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-11-14
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Versatile Lovers
Overview: Isabelle (Marisa Mell) runs a nursing home for wealthy women who are trying to detox from their various obsessions. Her lover, Serge Belaiev (Robert Hossein), a petty gangster, has pulled off a big hit but his partners have denounced him to the police in order to appropriate his share of the loot. Isabelle takes him in and hides him in an attic of this strange house. In love with Isabelle, Philippe Lansac (Alberto Dalbes), the owner of the place, decides to close the castle...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-05-06
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Goodbye Forever
Overview: A man discovers his wife's infidelity and kills her lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-11-15
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Marisa
Overview: For the 17-year-old Mariza, there is no other house than the train station in Civitavecchia. Here, an orphaned girl lives early after the death of her father, a railwayman; here she earns additionally at the station buffet, selling ice cream to passengers of passing trains. Beautiful and brisk, she was accustomed to the admiration of others and perfectly mastered the art of coquetry, but Marise’s heart remains calm until the young sailor Angelo, who is in a hurry on her first voyage, leaves the train on the platform on a sunny Sunday morning.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-03-19
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Notes on City of Women
Overview: This 1980 on-set documentary features an extensive look behind the scenes of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-04-01
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A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services
Overview: Cristina turns eighteen and leaves her bourgeois family to become a call-girl. But soon, her clients start turning up dead, their throats slashed. Who is responsible?
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-07-28
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Calling All Police Cars
Overview: Story about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his class status and wealth.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-28
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Gold for the Caesars
Overview: A gladiator gets caught up in a slave revolt and the invasion of England.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-09
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Buona parte di Paolina
Overview: Paulina, sister of Napoleon I, is married to Camillo Borghese, presented as a helpless coward. She is eager to offer herself to all the young people that propose to her, and performs naked in front of the Roman people flocking to the walls of Villa Borghese, which she turned into a private residence. She also poses half naked for the famous statue of Canova, who is also presented as a effeminate and scoundrel. When her reputation as a depraved spreads, on the advice of the Pope, she is segregated away from all the men. when the French troops deport from Rome the Pope and the cardinals as well, Paulina sees prostitution as the only way to find herself some "fresh meat". Finally after seven years villa Borghese is reopened to the public, as Paulina goes back to Paris, to the great relief of the Roman people and the clerical circles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-01
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La Pupa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-19
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Fellini: I'm a Born Liar
Overview: A look at Fellini's creative process. In extensive interviews, Fellini talks a bit about his background and then discusses how he works and how he creates. Several actors, a producer, a writer, and a production manager talk about working with Fellini. Archive footage of Fellini and others on the set plus clips from his films provide commentary and illustration for the points interviewees make. Fellini is fully in charge; actors call themselves puppets. He dismisses improvisation and calls for "availability." His sets and his films create images that look like reality but are not; we see the differences and the results.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-04-02
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Poor But Beautiful
Overview: Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-01-23
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Hercules and the Masked Rider
Overview: In 16th century Spain, Don Francisco reluctantly betroths his daughter, Blanca, to the arrogant Don Ramiro in order to preserve the lands in the family estate. Then Don Juan, Don Francisco's nephew and Blanca's true love, returns from the war in Flanders. Don Juan dons a mask and joins with a gypsy band led by Estella to fight against the forces of Don Ramiro.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-11-17
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Oh, Serafina!
Overview: Augusto Valle is a successful young industrialist who weds Palmira, the girl working in his factory, and the two have a child despite the infant's uncertain legitimacy. Scheming to control her husband's fortune, Palmira has affairs with both the mayor and the judge to have Augusto committed to a mental institution. While there, he falls in love with Serafina Vitali, a young woman who was also put away.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Shortest Day
Overview: Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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Dead Men Don't Make Shadows
Overview: Lazar, a bounty killer, teams up with a young gunfighter to blackmail Barrett, a former bandit and mine owner. At the end of the day, the bounty hunter clashes with Barrett, but something goes wrong.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-11-27
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The Strange Night
Overview: Aldo, a middle class family man decides to enjoy his last night alone while his family is away on vacation. He meets a pretty girl and takes her to his home. While he is in the kitchen preparing drinks, a shot goes off.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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Goodbye dreams of glory
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-02-20
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Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro
Overview: Yet another adventure of the famous musketeers engaged as usual to help the needy. Cardinal Richelieu is always hindering their task.
Genres: Comedy Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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