Daniela Rocca
Also Known As: Даниэла Рокка
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Acireale, Italy
Birthday: September 12, 1937
Deathday: May 28, 1995
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Divorce Italian Style
Overview: Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-20
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Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
Overview: Academic researchers are chased by a nuclear-hot specimen of ancient Mayan blob.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-07
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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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The Giant of Marathon
Overview: A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
Genres: Adventure History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-03
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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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Behold a Pale Horse
Overview: Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-14
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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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La Luciana
Overview: A tale of the complicated Neapolitan lives and loves of Maria and Alberto; her smuggling father Don Gennaro and some espionage.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-11-24
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The Head of a Tyrant
Overview: A beautiful girl plans to seduce, then murder, the brutal conqueror who has taken over her city.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-26
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Conquered City
Overview: Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star World War II drama financed in Italy and filmed in Greece. An Athens hotel, full of refugees and expatriates of all nationalities, is captured by Allied troops in the closing days of the War. British Major David Niven has been ordered to prevent a cache of weapons hidden in the hotel from falling into the hands of renegade troops. He cannot allow himself to trust anyone--not even the most innocent-looking (or attractive) of guests. Originally titled La Citta Prigioniera. Conquered City was released in English-speaking countries outside the U.S. as Captive City.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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The Attic
Overview: In the 1960s, Silvana, a beautiful girl from the countryside, decides to spend the night in Rome after missing the last bus home. Without a place to stay, she seeks refuge in an under-construction attic. There, she meets a young man, leading to a short-lived romance. He opens her eyes to the wonders of the economic boom shaping the capital in those years. Despite the chaos of buses, protests, and big stores, Silvana chooses to make Rome her home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-29
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Revenge of the Barbarians
Overview: 408 AD. The Visigoths led by Alaric invade northern Italy. At Ravenna, they have to battle, and they are stopped by the power of the Roman legions and the cunning of the emperor's sister, Galla Placidia. As the Goths lose many warriors in the cruel battle, Alaric vows bloody revenge.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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Rome, 1585
Overview: The leader of a gang of Spanish mercenaries falls for a beautiful princess. Thing get dicey, however, when an imprisoned leader is freed and comes calling.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-09
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Girl Merchants
Overview: A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-13
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Il padrone sono me
Overview: In Romagna, an Italian district, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the owners of an estate are the professor Edoardo, always lost in reveries, and his wife Maria. They have a son, Robertino, who has a friend: Zvanin. Zvanin is the son of Mingòn and Marianna, two peasants. Dolly is an american cousin and every summer she comes in Romagna. The movie narrates their stories over the years until the post I World War period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-11-17
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Beach Casanova
Overview: Mr. Edmond is a middle-aged playboy, living by his wits on the Riviera. Among the women with whom Edmond dallies are three gorgeous ladies.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-22
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Non perdiamo la testa
Overview: A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-16
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The Cinema Machine
Overview: Directed by a group of avant-garde filmmakers, the film is an investigation of the less edifying aspects of film industry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-10-31
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Assicurasi vergine
Overview: Ruined by a local tyrant who also gets to marry his daughter to pay off a debt, a Sicilian ensures the girl's innocence and counts on the ardor of her lover to collect the prize and prevent her marriage to the squire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-03
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Symphony for a Massacre
Overview: A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-08-02
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The Empty Canvas
Overview: An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in the artist's section of Rome and falls in love with a beautiful model who wants an uncommitted relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-04
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Esther and the King
Overview: Recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus wants to marry the beautiful Esther. But Esther is a Jewess, and Haman, the king's evil minister, is spreading hatred against the Jews.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-18
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Peccati d'estate
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-06-26
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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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