Gianna Maria Canale
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Reggio Calabria, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: September 12, 1927
Age: 97 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 13, 2009
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The Shadow
Overview: A painter's wife becomes ill. A friend comes to comfort him,but he falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-26
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The Adventures of Scaramouche
Overview: Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly having love affairs and generally enjoying life. One day, a marquis visits him and asks him questions about the birth mark on his shoulder...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-09-23
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Lust of the Vampire
Overview: A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess.
Genres: Horror Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-04-05
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The Sword and the Cross
Overview: Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-13
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O Caçula do Barulho
Overview: In a workshop there are six workers, the six are brothers. Enter the mother who asks them to rescue the seventh brother, the youngest, Luis. The brothers hesitate because the youngster keeps getting into trouble, but they end up giving in to the request. Gangsters are fighting in a bar and the workers end up getting into the fray.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1949-04-06
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Madame du Barry
Overview: The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France...
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-13
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Hercules
Overview: In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-02-20
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Il coraggio
Overview: A wealthy trader saves the life of a poor suicidal man who then decides that his savior has the responsibility of taking care of him and his family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-24
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The Boom
Overview: Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body for a large sum of money. But just before the crucial operation he panics...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-24
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Totò le Mokò
Overview: Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-12-20
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Colossus and the Amazon Queen
Overview: Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-08
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Go for Broke!
Overview: A tribute to the U.S. 442nd Regimental Combat Team, formed in 1943 by Presidential permission with Japanese-American volunteers. We follow the training of a platoon under the rueful command of Lt. Mike Grayson who shares common prejudices of the time. The 442nd serve in Italy, then France, distinguishing themselves in skirmishes and battles; gradually and naturally, Grayson's prejudices evaporate with dawning realization that his men are better soldiers than he is.
Genres: Action Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-04
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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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Goliath and the Vampires
Overview: Maciste's village is attacked by pirates. The women, including Maciste's fiancee Guja, are carried off to Salmanak, where dwells the lair of the blood drinking Kobrak. Maciste vows to rescue them.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-24
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Clash of Steel
Overview: In 16th-century France, the Chevalier de Pardaillan rescues the beautiful gypsy "Violetta", in reality Isabelle, daughter of the Comte d'Entraigues and prey of his sworn enemy, the Duke Henri de Guise. Pardaillan and Isabelle fall in love, and the valiant chevalier will not rest until the advent of King Henri IV.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-10-18
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The Whole Truth
Overview: On the French Riviera, movie producer Max Poulton is on location shooting a film starring his lover, Gina Bertini. But when the rueful Max ends his fling with Gina to return to his loyal wife, Carol, the jilted actress threatens to reveal details of their affair to Carol. Later, at a party at Max's villa, investigator Carliss arrives with news that Gina has been killed and that Max is a murderer suspect.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-29
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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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The Man From Cairo
Overview: "The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds Mike Canelli, the man from Cairo, nosing around Algiers with mystery surrounding the people he meets and the things he does and has done to him, all deriving from the war-time theft of $100,000,000 in gold which lies somewhere in the adjacent desert. People representing many nationalities and reasons are also seeking the gold. It boils down to a battle between Canelli and the original looter aboard a speeding train.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-03
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The Slave
Overview: The decurion Randus holds himself so well in the command of his troops, that Caesar promotes him to centurion. He is subsequently sent to Egypt, to keep Cesar informed on the actions and intentions of co-triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus - a man too rich, and ambitious, for Caesar's comfort. A fateful sea trip from Egypt to Rome forces Randus in captivity by mercenary troops, and leads a revolt by which he gets freedom for himself, and all the other slaves. Through an amulet he received from his late mother, a man who had fought by Spartacus' side, identifies the young man as Spartacus' and Varinia's son. At first reluctant to accept this story about his origins, Randus will be forced by the circumstances to repeat the feat of his father, twenty years later.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-08-24
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Sins of Rome
Overview: 74 B.C. Somewhere in the Roman Empire, Spartacus, a young officer, is condemned to be a slave because he hit a superior. Brought back to Roma in a gladiators' school, he escapes and stirs up all the slaves in a revolt against the Roman Empire.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-28
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The Lion of St. Mark
Overview: In 1620 pirates are terrorizing the Adriatic coast. Our hero sets out to defeat them.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-11-21
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Tiger of the Seven Seas
Overview: Tigre is the skipper of the Santa Maria, a pirate-ship, but he feels tired and decides to leave the command of the ship. Unfortunately he has only a daughter, Consuelo. So he will leave the command and the ship to the winner of a challenge among his men. Unexpectedly Consuelo wins. The same night Tigre is killed, William is charged with the killing and is sentenced to death. But before the sentence could be executed the Spaniards of Grand Duke Inigo arrives. Consuelo escapes, however this is only the first move of Indigo's wife to get to the pirates treasure.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-23
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Pirate of the Half Moon
Overview: Gianna Maria Canale as the Duchess who is offered a banquet and requests for a hard-boiled egg. The stingy Spanish lord, who used his last gunpowder to fire a salute to the noble lady and thus has no more when a bunch of pirates, led by Nadir, launches an attack against his castle. Nadir is the dashing fiery hero.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-04
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The Mighty Crusaders
Overview: The Mighty Crusaders (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata) is a 1957 film about the First Crusade, based on the 16th-century Italian poem Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso. This film was directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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Theodora, Slave Empress
Overview: Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Teodora seeks justice for her people, and revolution and armed conflict erupt in both Byzantium and Rome.
Genres: History Romance Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-07-02
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The Eternal Chain
Overview: As the Legion Etrangère puts in at Napoli, legionnaire Walter escapes from the ship to meet a woman he still loves ,in spite of his five years away from home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-05-02
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The Iron Swordsman
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-11-01
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Vedi Napoli e poi muori
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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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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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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Seven in the Sun
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-05-02
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The Devil's Cavaliers
Overview: Captain Richard and a small band of soldiers return home to France to discover the country ruled by horrible nobility.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-26
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The Legend of Piave
Overview: In a castle of the Veneto lives Countess Dolfin: she is a fervent patriot, but her husband Count Riccardo intends to use the opportunity of the war (1915-18) to make illegal profits.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Night They Killed Rasputin
Overview: Rasputin was a lusty steppes peasant, a god revealed, a cunning patriot, all that, or a mystifier? An intriguing biography.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-11
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The Avenger of Venice
Overview: Rolando, who was close to marrying the daughter of the Doge, is condemned after a highly unfair judicial process and locked up in Venice. Digging a tunnel with the aid of his cellmate, Rolando succeeds to escape.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-16
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The Silent Enemy
Overview: The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
Genres: History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-04
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Revenge of the Black Eagle
Overview: When a soldier returns home from the wars, he finds that a local landowner has been terrorizing his family. He disguises himself as a bandit known as "The Black Eagle" and begins taking revenge on the landowner by ravaging his "empire". However, things take a different turn when he falls for the landowner's beautiful daughter
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-25
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Double Cross
Overview: A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-04-10
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The Lebanese Mission
Overview: In Lebanon, industrialist Hennequin, director of a French oil company, entrusts engineers Jean Domèvre, a Frenchman, and Mokhrir, a Lebanese, with the prospecting of an isolated region granted to him by Countess Athelstane Orloff. Their search remains fruitless until Mokhir reports the discovery of a uranium deposit, but disappears before Jean can identify the location. He goes to the Countess for help in finding Mokhir and surprises her when, due to financial difficulties, she is negotiating her concession with the Englishman Hobson, director of a rival company. Attracted by Jean, the Countess nevertheless gives him her preference and they set off together in search of Mokhir.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-09-12
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Rigoletto
Overview: This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Conqueror of the Orient
Overview: Centuries ago in the Orient, the fiscal exactions on the people lead to a revolt against the usurper of the throne, and the empowerment of a new leader.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-14
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Alarm in Morocco
Overview: When 1 of 2 Foreign Legion officers is killed after witnessing a secret experiment on a death ray (capable of shooting down aircraft) in southern Morocco, the other gets vengeance by infiltrating the organization responsible.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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Il treno del sabato
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-20
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Il bacio di una morta
Overview: Italy, 1848. Clara, daughter of a rich Milan trader, is in love with Enrico, a political dissident, but she is forced to marry Count Severi.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-10-19
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Napoleon
Overview: The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Overview: A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Mysterious Rider
Overview: Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-11-01
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Aquila Nera
Overview: An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-09-21
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Guarany
Overview: Based on José de Alencar's novel, directed by Riccardo Freda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-01-02
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Zwischen Glück und Krone
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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