Franco Angrisano
Also Known As: Franco Angrisani, Francesco Angrisano
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Potenza, Basilicata, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: May 10, 1926
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 20, 1996
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Gli infermieri della mutua
Overview: A comedy about the Italian National Health System based on a doctor who owns a private clinic and manages it more like a con man than a follower of the Hippocratic oath.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-25
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Once Upon a Crime
Overview: On their way to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Marilyn and her husband, Neil, meet several other married couples, including Julian and Phoebe, who are traveling with a lost dog they plan to return to its wealthy owner for a large reward. But, when the dog's mistress is murdered, the travelers become the prime suspects, and Inspector Bonnard is determined to track them all down.
Genres: Crime Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-03-06
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Chiari di luna
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-07-10
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Vanille fraise
Overview: Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.
Genres: Comedy Romance Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-11-29
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Ternosecco
Overview: On a hot summer night, Raffaele, the elderly manager of a Neapolitan counter-lot, is brutally strangled in his own accommodation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-01-16
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Passi furtivi in una notte boia
Overview: tory of a valet waitress. In order to become the owner of the bar where he works, he agrees to rob a bank. Good for the first time, not the second.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-08
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Il contratto
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-04-06
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Il sindaco del Rione Sanità
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-06-19
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'o Tuono 'e Marzo
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-03
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Naples... The Camorra Challenges, the City Hits Back
Overview: Italian crime movie from 1979 directed by Alfonso Brescia.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Quick Trial
Overview: After a terrorist attack against a train, the police arrest the young laborer Stefano Baldini, member of a group of militant leftists. Entrusted for interrogation to Sergeant Pendicò and special agents Lorusso and Spasiani, Stefano dies, after four days, in unclear circumstances. Doubting the official version of the police, the second time in which a young person died in custody, journalist Cristina Visconti tries, with the aid of the sister of Stefano, to discover the truth. They rub up against a conspiracy of silence that encircles the acts of Pendicò and his associates. Frustrated beyond reason, Cristina tries a desperate ploy: publishing a story without evidence in the newspaper, accusing the three agents of having caused the death of Stefano with their blows. Cristina is put on trial for defamation. Can she avoid going to jail and also reveal the facts surrounding Stefano's death?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-09
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My Brother Anastasia
Overview: Don Salvatore Anastasia, a priest in a seminary in Tropea, Calabria (Italy), gets a ticket to visit his brother in New York. He has never known him, because the brother emigrated illegally in the U.S.A. years before. Upon his arrival in America, he is greeted with much respect, as well as his brother, also from the Italian-American community of Little Italy. Enthusiastic of that, he decided to stay on as assistant pastor in the church of Saint Lucia and bring it to a new shine. Accompanied in New York, his last name, Anastasia, commands respect and, above all, opens the door hitherto locked: his brother, really, is the infamous mob boss Albert Anastasia.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-13
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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Overview: An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-28
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Traffico d'Armi nel Golfo
Overview: The young British archaeologist Tim Frazer is visited by an old friend: Henry Denston. At an agreed appointment, however, the man does not show up, giving rise to a mysterious investigation.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-11-12
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Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-01-22
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A Wife, Two Friends, Four Lovers
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-01
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Guardami nuda
Overview: Charles and Meg, a young couple whose relationship is currently experiencing some distress, go on vacation in Paestum hoping to mend their problems. But along the way they pick up an aggressive and unscrupulous hitchhiker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-03
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The Sex Machine
Overview: The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of award-winning scientists succeeds in harnessing energy from the world’s oldest source of reciprocating motion.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-27
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The Knock Out Cop
Overview: Inspector “Flatfoot” Rizzo investigates crime and corruption in Naples.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-25
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The Miser
Overview: Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-04-06
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Christmas Vacation '91
Overview: This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed artist honeymooning with his second wife, a gay man traveling with his son and his lover (and hiding each from the other), a snobbish couple from Milan who have been forced to share a suite with a pair of crass Romans, etc.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-12-20
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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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Detective School Dropouts
Overview: Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves in the middle of a mob war when it turns out that the missing person is somebody the mob wants to stay missing.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-07
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Cinderella '80
Overview: A feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility. There's a fairy stand-in in the form of a spaced-out astrologer, a dance, and she even loses a shoe at one point. Care to venture a guess how it all turns out?
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-02-16
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Shadows Unseen
Overview: When a journalist is murdered Inspector Micheli begins to investigate. Although someone comes forward to confess to the crime, Micheli doesn't believe he acted alone and keeps investigating despite coming under pressure to close the case.
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-24
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The Great Kidnapping
Overview: In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a northern industrial town devastated by a recent wave of violence and kidnappings..
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-16
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Counselor at Crime
Overview: When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the strong support of his family connections in Sicily that Don Antonio is able to survive the mêlée and come out on top. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson becomes his leader's "consigliere," or Counselor at Crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-30
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Stardust
Overview: The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style. Effectively, they perform up to their expectations. However, as the army men have to march northward, their moment of glory finishes heartlessly.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-15
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The Last Decameron: Adultery in 7 Easy Lessons
Overview: Seven novels of Boccaccio featuring dirty jokes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-06-08
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Canterbury proibito
Overview: Two young boys compete for the same girl - a third enjoys from a distance . Two men are abusing a girl. Three men desires a married woman. Two nuns get out in the nice weather with a bunch of monks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-27
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The Iron Hand of the Mafia
Overview: Someone's bumping off the Mafia bosses of Salerno and it's down to the newly elected leader to figure out who - and rescue his son in the process.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Benvenuta
Overview: A passionate affair set against the intense encounter between a film-maker and a novelist. The story begins with young scriptwriter François tracking down the author of a once-scandalous novel. His aim is to adapt the work for the screen but several elements of the novel he finds difficult to comprehend. The author, Jeanne, is initially cautious of relaying information, insisting the presumably autobiographical book in no way relates to her personal life. However, eventually she takes the man into confidence to tell the background of Benvenuta.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-09-07
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The Psychic
Overview: A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-10
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My Name Is Nobody
Overview: Jack Beauregard, an ageing gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe. But a young gunfighter, known as "Nobody", who idolizes Beauregard, wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-13
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Avanti!
Overview: A successful businessman goes to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon-father's body only to discover dad died with his mistress of long standing.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-17
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In the Name of the Italian People
Overview: An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-18
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Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
Overview: After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow), she is saved from being raped by a Camorra boss as the gangster is suddenly killed. The killer escapes before Annunziata is able to see who it was. Following this murder are several others, and always with the same “signature” — a syringe in one of the testicles of the victims. As the gangsters continue to be killed off, the identity of the killer – or killers – slowly becomes obvious.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-01-24
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And the Ship Sails On
Overview: In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and camaraderie abound until the ship is descended upon by an Austrian flagship. The Serbians are forced to board it, but naturally they resist, igniting a skirmish that ends in destruction.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-07
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Monsignor
Overview: The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.
Genres: Crime Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-22
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