Florinda Bolkan
Also Known As: Florinda Bulcao
Biography: Florinda Bolkan is a retired Brazilian actress and model. Bolkan acted with the Beatle Ringo Starr in her first film, "Candy". She worked in more than forty films, mainly in Italy. She was directed by Vittorio de Sica in Una Breve Vacanza. Under Elio Petri's direction, she made "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion". Enrico Maria Salerno directed her in "Anonimo Veneziano". She worked with Jean-Louis Trintignant, John Cassavetes, and Annie Girardot.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Uruburetama, Ceará, Brazil
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Birthday: February 15, 1941
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Female
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Some Girls
Overview: While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-09
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Overview: Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-16
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Bonded by Tender Friendship
Overview: A once famous actor, whose career was ruined after he was forced to undergo an operation on his vocal cords, is constantly pursued by creditors and his faithful servant Dorino where the two endure an 'impossible' friendship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-09-01
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For Women Only
Overview: 1989 film For Women Only
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Shadow of a Kiss
Overview: Albert is a distinguished art dealer living in New York City. One day by chance, he visits a photo exhibit titled "Bistrot de Paris" by Carol Labronsky. In an old photo of two young lovers kissing while seated at a Bistro, Albert recognizes his first love, Rose, the girl he fell madly in love with during his stay in Paris in 1959, and had disappeared after leaving him. In that photograph Rose is wearing a sweater which Albert gave her, proof that the photo was taken after she had met him. Tormented by memories, AIbert feels a burning need to find out whet became of her.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-08-31
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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Overview: This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-06
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The Evening Traveler
Overview: 1993 TV movie
Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-10-25
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The Shadow of the Pharaoh
Overview: Under Pharaoh Amemphis III's reign, the most powerful in the kingdom, as vizier Burkis and a fanatic and xenophobic priest, will try to overthrow the Pharaoh. They will even murder the crown prince, Aker. But his twin brother will find a way to foil those fanatical plans.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1996-01-02
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The Short Night
Overview: After twenty-five years, lawyer Lara Degli Esposti finds the son she had abandoned at birth is the main suspect in a murder case.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-05-04
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A Kiss in the Dark
Overview: Alessandra Del Giudice, a successful lawyer with a few too many problems in the family, ends up in a coma for seven years following a road accident. When she wakes up she finds her husband waiting for her, who had just given permission to pull the plug on her life support, and her sister, who arrived at the last minute just in time to discover that Alessandra had lifted a finger and was about to reopen the eyes! Upon awakening, the worst surprise for the woman, however, is to discover that her son Yanneck has recently killed himself by jumping from a balcony. Convinced by a nightmare in which she sees the boy not jumping but being pushed by someone, she decides to investigate to understand what really happened.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-05-31
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The Last Valley
Overview: People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-28
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What's This Country Called Now?
Overview: A Bosnian woman, working as a reporter during the Siege of Sarajevo, interviews a living witness to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in 1914, and his wisdom gives her a deeper understanding of the Bosnian War, and her role in it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-10-11
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If Only
Overview: Alma, Jean and Sebastiano, the children of divorced parents, arrive in Rome from Paris on a visit to their father. During a holiday, the family’s tensions come to the surface.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-03-26
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Love at the Top
Overview: A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When he shares this with his disillusioned friend, the writer helps him navigate a dazzling social ascent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-13
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Soap and Water
Overview: A school janitor pretends to be a priest in order to give private lessons to a young top model.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-27
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Overview: Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-18
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Machine Gun McCain
Overview: After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new employer, he retaliates with a high stakes Las Vegas casino heist that erupts into all-out war on the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Neither blood, nor lust, nor wedding vows can come between McCain and his money ... or his machine gun.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-01
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Flavia the Heretic
Overview: Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-06-14
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Detective Belli
Overview: A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-06
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The Master Touch
Overview: A master thief, just out of prison, concocts a risky final score that would net him over a million dollars.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-08
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Don't Torture a Duckling
Overview: A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-29
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Footprints on the Moon
Overview: Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-01
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Bad Inclination
Overview: When a bloodthirsty serial killer begins murdering women with a carpenter’s set square, the story becomes a media sensation, inspiring kooks from all over the city to attempt to cash in on the publicity.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-26
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Royal Flash
Overview: Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-10
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A Common Sense of Modesty
Overview: The film is divided into four episodes that blends sex and comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-09
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Prisoner of Rio
Overview: The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Dear Parents
Overview: An Italian woman who has not heard from her daughter for a while travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted with the young woman's world. During the brief days they spend together, the women come to acknowledge the insurmountable differences that exist between them despite the love they share.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-09
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The Last House on the Beach
Overview: Sister Cristina is a nun who takes teenage girls in her care at a remote beach house where they rehearse A Midsummer Night's Dream. When three thugs show up, brutally raping and terrorizing the girls, sister Cristina is forced to renounce her teachings and seek bloody revenge.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-04-20
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The Anonymous Venetian
Overview: Without mentioning the reason, Venetian musician Enrico invites his ex-wife Valeria to visit him, and her heart is broken again during their last days together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-30
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A Brief Vacation
Overview: Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-07-21
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Who is Florinda Bolkan?
Overview: On holiday in Venice, a young couple try in vain to recapture the spirit of their relationship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-15
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Olga O's Strange Story
Overview: When Olga Roli returns to her birthplace after a nervous breakdown, it quickly becomes much worse for her. Anonymous, threatening phone calls to deal with her as Olga O, her stage name from her time working in a local strip club, soon followed by a near miss with a murderous motorcyclist.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Love Circle
Overview: A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. She ends up taking on another man as well, and the writer has an affair with the another dinner guest. Soon the three men and two women are entangled in a confusing series of partner-swapping sex sprees where everyone's morals are challenged in the wake of the sexual revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-04-13
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The Trap
Overview: A woman becomes obsessed with a man she can't have, and carries the torch for more than 15 years.
Genres: Horror Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-09-11
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Manaos
Overview: At the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a village into one big prison. But the inhabitants have other plans...
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-10-21
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I Didn't Know Tururu
Overview: As Carmen prepares to marry for the fourth time, her three sisters find themselves juggling romantic predicaments of their own in this offbeat comedy from Brazil.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2000-08-04
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A Season in Hell
Overview: The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at thirty-seven; and his passionate relationship with Paul Verlaine, full of wanderings, storms and falling out.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-10
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Romance
Overview: Love story between a young man and a married woman. She's married to a businessman who's neglecting her. She would like to leave him but she's afraid of the age difference between her and her lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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Black Lemons
Overview: Rosario Inzulìa, a young man involved with the Mafia, was sentenced to labor camp, forced to pay also for crimes he didn't commit. After eight long years of imprisonment he's finally released. Rosario goes back to Sicily, where he learns that his wife died in an accident. He tries to rebuild his life, but when he finds out that his wife was murdered, he decides that it's time to take action: alone against the Mafia!
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-04-23
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The Right to Love
Overview: The tragedy of Helene and her husband Pierre, whose life is shattered when Pierre is kept as a political prisoner, while Helene is denied the right to visit him. A growing fear of losing her husband to tuberculosis takes over Helene, who does all she can to meet him, even for one last time.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-08-15
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The Day That Shook the World
Overview: An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1975-10-31
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Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Overview: A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-09-03
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Candy
Overview: A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-17
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Bela Donna
Overview: American couple move to the State of Ceará, Brazil, in the 1930s. The husband is looking for oil. His beautiful wife, Donna, soon falls in love with a rude but charming fisherman. The forbidden romance may destroy her marriage and upset the morals of the small village where they live.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1998-08-14
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The Devil's Bed
Overview: A young engineer is supposed to do surveyings for a projected nuclear power station in an economically under-developed region and encounters strong opposition by the population. He realizes that the inhabitants are influenced by strange parapsychological occurences released by an elderly man, who also seems to dominate Walpurga, a young woman the engineer falls in love with.
Genres: Horror Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Millions
Overview: A pack of money-grabbing relatives try to take over his ailing uncle's industrial empire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-02-01
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Crime Thief
Overview: A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-22
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The Damned
Overview: In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-30
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The Blonde in Black
Overview: In Perugia, Luca, a lawyer investigates mysterious facts that happened in the city and even got emotionally involved. The rather complicated cases are those of a jealous murderess girl, of a surgeon who kills a colleague who had helped him to face a dangerous intervention to become a woman, of a plumber who is suspected of murdering an heiress while the real guilty is the nephew who would like to take possession of a huge fortune.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-05-11
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Ombre
Overview: Elena Serpieri is an Italian neurologist who is in the United States, because she obtained a scholarship in a New York hospital. There she works together with the FBI on the profile of a dangerous serial killer.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1999-11-17
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A Rather Complicated Girl
Overview: Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashamed and wants to end - at all costs. Alberto, now a slave to love, runs Greta over. But Claudia denies urging him to murder...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-02-07
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Crime of Passion
Overview: Hungary: Callously leaving her handicapped daughter home alone, Sonya meets her lover at a hotel and is later shot to death. At her funeral, the main suspects are all present: Peter, Sonya's estranged husband; Tanya, her sister; and Julia, a business associate. The police inspector is assigned to the case discovers that Peter is sexually involved with both of the aforementioned women. Further murders ensue...
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-12-29
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Shedding the Skin
Overview: Documentary giving brief history of the giallo and the background to the film UNA LUCERTOLA CON LA PELLE DI DONNA - featuring interviews with various cast members and special effects technicians of the film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-02-18
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