Raffaello Degruttola
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Biography: Raffaello Degruttola is a BIFA-nominated Anglo-Italian Actor-Writer-Director and founding director of Contro Vento Films. Born in London to Italian parents from Ariano Irpino, Raff was raised in North London and Queens, New York. He won a place at the Sylvia Young Theatre School as a teenager and continued his acting training at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. Raff quickly carved a niche as a versatile character actor in American films shot in Europe, working with notable directors Ron Howard ('Rush'), Micheal Apted ('Unlocked'), Richard Attenborough ('In Love And War') and Mike Nichols ('Wit'). In 2019 he appeared in a memorable cameo with Rebel Wilson in Chris Addison's 'The Hustle'. His latest roles include playing Dr. Kagan opposite Dave Batista in action-comedy 'The Killer's Game' and playing lead antagonist Ricardo in road trip comedy 'The Monk, The Mermaid and Molise' opposite Sally Phillips and Pink Floyd's Guy Pratt. TV roles include playing Jamie's agent in 'Ted Lasso'. In 2010 Raff wrote and directed 'The Other Side of My Sleep', a 30 min short inspired by the deaths of his father and grandmother. The film opened the Boston Film Festival. He went on to direct and star in his first feature 'Flim the Movie', a biting satire of the indie film world shot in an edgy mockumentary style. 'Flim' was nominated for Best British Debut at the Moet British Independent Film Awards following its selection for Raindance. Drawn to playing complex characters with a manic edge, Raff went on to write and direct his first dramatic feature, 'Transference: A Love Story', a bipolar love story about control. The film received a special mention from the judges at SRFF 2020 and global attention for going viral on YouTube. It has now been viewed over 27M times. His latest feature, another obsessive toxic love story, 'To Love A Narcissist', starring Lyndsey Marshal alongside him, was completed in 2025.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Barnet, London, England
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The Monk, the Mermaid & Molise
Overview: The film follows Guy, down on his luck, as he accepts an invitation to spend five days playing a series of bass clinics in a remote Italian region, Molise, run by a super fan, and must face up to decisions from his past.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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Dot.Kill
Overview: Charlie Daines is a morphine-addicted detective on the trail of a psychopath who is setting up murders and broadcasting them live on the internet. As he closes in on the killer, Charlie realises that he is to be the final victim.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-03-08
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Mister Mayfair: The Spyce of Life
Overview: Max Mayfair is living the 'good life'. Having left his past as a gangster in NY, he now runs the most glamorous club in London: Rat pack style. London though is just as dangerous as Manhattan, only this time he has everything to lose.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-12-10
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The Other Side of My Sleep
Overview: This half-hour poignant drama is both touching and often funny as it explores the complexities of voluntary euthanasia.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-09-17
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Tremor Cordis
Overview: This short story of immigration and forbidden love follows Lucy as she discovers her pregnancy and decides to visit her alcoholic mother for advice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-02-02
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Citizen Verdict
Overview: A sensationalist TV producer has a novel new idea to shake up American reality TV: Citizen Verdict, a live show where accused criminals are tried and potentially convicted by the viewing public.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-06-18
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House of 9
Overview: Nine strangers wake up in a house with no recollection how they got there and no way out. The voice on the PA introduces them to a grisly game they must play. The prize is $5 million and their life.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-06-19
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Never Back Down: Revolt
Overview: An amateur fighter is lured by a trafficking syndicate specializing in elite underground fighting where her brutal captor forces her to fight or face certain death.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-11-15
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Sasquatch Mountain
Overview: A lonely tow-truck driver gets caught in a deadly struggle between a pair of bank robbers with a beautiful hostage, local cops, and a monster that has come down from the Arizona mountains to eat human flesh.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Fantasy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-09-09
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Jabberwock Dragon Siege
Overview: Alec a courageous but impetuous knight returns to his home village having been summoned by his older brother Francis to care for their ailing father. The brothers' reunion is short-lived as a traveller terrified and half-crazed arrives to warn of an imminent attack by a winged creature with the body of a dragon the head of a gruesome insect and deadly claws. As the beast descends upon the peaceful town brash Alec draws his sword and the villagers arm themselves. Now the brothers must stand together to save their home and the people they love.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-09-09
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Diana
Overview: During the last two years of her life, Princess Diana campaigns against the use of land mines and has a secret love affair with a Pakistani heart surgeon.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-19
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Earthfall
Overview: As a rogue planet roars through our solar system, it acts as an intergalactic magnet that pulls Earth in its wake. Meteors destroy major cities. Fire and ice storms engulf the land. Casualties are in the millions. And as the situation grows even worse, Steve Lannon is determined to reunite with his wife and teenage daughter. But when they stumble into a secret government installation, they'll uncover a nuclear mission that will either blast our planet back into orbit or guarantee front row seats to the end of the world.
Genres: Action Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-06-22
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Quantum of Solace
Overview: Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-10-29
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I luoghi della speranza
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-05-13
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Seeking Dolly Parton
Overview: When Charlie and her girlfriend Cerina decide to have a baby together, the idea of using Cerina's ex-boyfriend Josh as the live-in donor turns an easy on-paper idea into a much more challenging event.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-05-02
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Scoop
Overview: Inspired by real events, this fictional dramatization gives an insider account of how the women of Newsnight secured Prince Andrew's infamous interview.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-03-27
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Wit
Overview: A renowned professor is forced to reassess her life when she is diagnosed with terminal ovarian cancer.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-02-09
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The Killer's Game
Overview: When top hitman Joe Flood is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take matters into his own hands – by taking a hit out on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired also target his ex-girlfriend, he must fend off an army of assassin colleagues and win back the love of his life before it's too late.
Genres: Action Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-12
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Blood Moon
Overview: A stagecoach full of passengers and an enigmatic gunslinger are held hostage by two outlaws on the run from the law but events take an unexpected turn when the travelers are stalked by a mythical beast that only appears on the night of a blood red moon.
Genres: Western Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-08-25
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MoniKa
Overview: The film is a violent, edgy ride focusing on down and out Reagan Tyler, a man who is troubled by visions and premonitions that ultimately lead him to old school Las Vegas. It's there that Reagan meets the beautiful and mysterious Monika, a young woman who turns out to have been killed the night before he even met her. Reagan is then forced to put the puzzle together of what happened, how she is still present, and help Monika with her revenge on the killers of her younger sister.
Genres: Drama Romance Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-12-14
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Unlocked
Overview: After failing to apprehend the terrorist behind a Paris attack that claimed dozens of lives, CIA agent Alice Racine is forced to live in London as a caseworker. Her mentor unexpectedly calls her back into action when the CIA discovers that another attack is imminent. Alice soon learns that the classified information she's uncovered has been compromised...
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-27
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Saving Private Ryan
Overview: As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain John Miller and seven men are tasked with penetrating German-held territory and bringing the boy home.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-07-24
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Taken Heart
Overview: When her daughter is kidnapped in Belize and held hostage to be used for human organ trafficking, Kate Johnson goes on a crusade to infiltrate the cartel and rescue her.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-01-24
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The Hustle
Overview: Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2019-05-09
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Rush
Overview: In the 1970s, a rivalry propels race car drivers Niki Lauda and James Hunt to fame and glory — until a horrible accident threatens to end it all.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-09-02
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Transference: A Bipolar Love Story
Overview: Katarina, a Norwegian nurse in London, embarks on a passionate affair with a fellow immigrant nurse that suffers the consequences of unresolved mental health issues from the lovers' secret pasts.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-05-31
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Second in Command
Overview: Armed insurgents attempt a coup d'etat in a troubled Eastern European country, and the president flees to the U.S. embassy for protection. When the U.S. ambassador is murdered by the ruthless and gun-happy rebels, it comes down to the second-in-command of the embassy, Sam Keenan, played by Belgian kickboxer Jean-Claude Van Damme, to use his amazing martial arts technique to defend the besieged.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-05-02
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In Love and War
Overview: After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair slowly blossoms, until Hemingway boldly asks Agnes to be his wife and journey to America with him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-12-18
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Octane
Overview: After a family visit, stressed businesswoman Senga Wilson is driving with her rebellious daughter, Nat, down an ominous highway in the middle of the night. After they pick up a weird teenage hitchhiker, their journey goes awry. Nat decides to give her mom the slip and runs off with the hitchhiker at a rest stop. In a desperate search to find her daughter, Senga learns that Nat has been drawn into an evil cult.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-16
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Guns for Hire
Overview: Beatle is a quirky loner who refuses to live by society's rules. Her business cards read "Towing/Assassination," and she even has a hit man infomercial to go along with it. Her only human contact is with her psychiatrist and the stripper/hooker she employs once a week. Everything changes the night she meets Athena Klendon, a suicidal blonde with a secret. With a demented killer on their tail, courtesy of Athena's crooked former employer, the two quickly strike a bargain. Athena will change her life insurance policy to reflect Beatle as the beneficiary in exchange for her own execution. And while they wait for the paperwork to come through, Beatle will provide room and board and get some extra help on her infomercial. The two have no idea that Detective Holt has been on their case reviewing their every move. Just when he thinks he's got Beatle pinned beyond a shadow of a doubt, this comedic mystery takes a wild and unexpected turn.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-10-20
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Bring Me the Head of Lance Henriksen
Overview: When '80s B-movie icon Tim Thomerson wakes up one day to realize the acting roles are not coming his way any more, he sets out on a quest to find his former co-star Lance Henriksen to discover his secret of Hollywood longevity and gets more than he bargained for in the process.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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To Love a Narcissist
Overview: Trust is weaponised in this obsessive love story that blurs the line between love and deceit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-16
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Sam's Circus
Overview: Director: Robert Singer
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-01
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Mystery Island: Winner Takes All
Overview: Mystery Island hosts contest winners vying to solve a fake murder for a grand prize, but the event goes awry when an employee is murdered, and secrets are uncovered.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2025-03-13
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