Claudio Cassinelli
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bologna, Italy
Birthday: September 13, 1938
Deathday: July 13, 1985
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Adventures of Hercules
Overview: Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.
Genres: Fantasy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-26
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Galileo
Overview: A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-09-07
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Hercules
Overview: Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help of a benevolent sorceress, Circe, Hercules tries to save his beloved Cassiopeia from being sacrificed by Minos, and struggles against laser-breathing creatures and an evil sorceress.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-12
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Island of the Fishmen
Overview: After their prison ship sinks in the Caribbean, a group of prisoners and a doctor wash ashore on a seemingly deserted island. They soon discover a strange couple, who invite them to stay at their house. While the prisoners plan an escape, the doctor does some investigating, and soon finds out just what the pair are really doing, and why the prisoners keep disappearing mysteriously.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-18
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Warriors of the Year 2072
Overview: In the future, two television networks compete for ratings by producing violent game shows. One network produces a modern day version of the Roman gladiators, only on motorcycles instead of chariots, and uses convicted murderers as the participants, The network decides it needs a champion for this sport, so they frame a constant winner from another game for murder, and place him on the show.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-01-28
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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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Slave of the Cannibal God
Overview: A woman and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-07-12
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The Great Alligator
Overview: Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-11-03
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Hands of Steel
Overview: A story about a cyborg who is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-03-26
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Allonsanfan
Overview: After the 1815 Restoration, an aging revolutionary finds himself reluctantly involved in an attempted insurrection in Southern Italy while growing increasingly disillusioned with his cause.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-06
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The Suspicious Death of a Minor
Overview: Police detective Paolo Germi and the mysterious Marisa meet each other at a dance hall. Germi is unsuspecting of the secret Marisa is carrying with her: adverse conditions forced her into prostitution. As Germi finds the young girl brutally murdered, he decides to go after her killers. During his investigation, he enters a world of intrigue and obfuscation that leave an endless trail of blood.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-12
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Overview: A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-27
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The Good Thief
Overview: Caleb, "son of nobody" (Enrico Montesano) lives in Galilee in Jesus' day and struggles as a thief and con-man, pretending to be a magician. When he witnesses Jesus turning water into wine, he thinks he's found a competitor. So Caleb goes on, convinced that Jesus is a fake just as he is, always trying to figure out his tricks. In the meantime, he gets involved with a prostitute (played by Edwige Fenech), but also with the wife of a Roman patrician (played by the equally alluring Bernadette Lafont), he steals a few goats and cons a few people, he befriends a lovable dog and gets in trouble with some Roman soldiers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-01
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Killer Cop
Overview: In a crowded hotel in the center of Milan a bomb has been planted. The time device on its detonator has only minutes to run. A young detective discovers the bomb by accident and is drawn into a terrifying nightmare of intrigue, brutality and ruthless killing. This is a world where human life is sold or sacrificed for twisted ideals. A world of international terrorism. The time is now.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-27
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Blood and Diamonds
Overview: A man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were to blame for his arrest. The prize for this deadly fight is a large cache of diamonds.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-03-17
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Spy Connection
Overview: Musante plays a man blackmailed and forced to assassinate a highly guarded KGB official. Two British agents have kidnapped his daughter and want him to do what they tell him. Why him? He has the ability to see in darkness and is a sharpshooter. Will he get the job done, get his daughter back, and escape from the Russian and British agents that pursue him?
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-01-14
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Love Under the Elms
Overview: An adolescent boy and girl meet at a rural, turn-of-the-century Austrian resort where they are vacationing with their respective liberal-minded, single parents. Their budding love affair hits a serious snag when their two parents fall in love as well.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-08
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The Tempter
Overview: A young writer is invited to stay in a religious hostel run by a sinister, manipulative nun who plays deadly psychological games with the inhabitants.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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The Long Night
Overview: Two Milanese girls meet in a toilet where a distracted bourgeois forgets a valuable ring. They take it and go in search of someone to sell it to, helped by a southern taxi driver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-28
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Grog
Overview: Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-03
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Rome from the window
Overview: It is the story of a man and two women. Carlo, is a photojournalist from Rome. His wife Olga is a model in Paris (and in the first sequence of the film we see her being raped by an Indian in a fountain; but she laughs and says to the attacker: "It's the first time you have violated someone , right? " Then there is O, a Japanese fawn that Carlo meets at Idroscalo, on the places of the Pasolinian martyrdom, and immediately falls in love with it, He sees her pee, follows her and in a very short time throws the faith to the sea (literally) and ends up in bed with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-04-17
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Murder-Rock: Dancing Death
Overview: The world of dance can be brutal. The rehearsals are grueling. The competition is fierce. At the Arts for Living Centre in New York City, the best of the best are dying for a part in a major production. But only a select few will be chosen. The selection process seems to be at the hands of mysterious killer who pierces women's bare breasts with a hatpin, puncturing their hearts. Ambition and jealousy appear to be the motive, which makes everybody a suspect!
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-04-20
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Scorpion with Two Tails
Overview: An archeologist's wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating a lost temple. After a phone call where she is forced to listen to him being murdered, she travels to the excavation site to solve the mystery of his death.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-17
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Avalanche Express
Overview: CIA agent Harry Wargrave is sent to aid Gen. Marenkov, a senior Russian official, who is defecting to the west. Wargrave decides they should travel to safety on a train across Europe, the "Atlantic Express". During the journey, they must survive attacks by terrorists and an avalanche, all planned by Russian spy-catcher Nikolai Bunin.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-27
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China Is Near
Overview: A pair of working class lovers - a secretary and an accountant, scheme to marry into the rich landed gentry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-22
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Violent Milan
Overview: A gang of thieves decides to hit the headquarters of Aspex. The police intervened and only two of the robbers managed to escape with the loot, while the other two are forced to take hostages to escape. The police started investigations but also the gang leader, the Cat, will be hunting the first two escaped with the loot to get money, and revenge for their escape.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-05
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Fantasia, ma non troppo, per violino
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Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Unguided Tour
Overview: Also known as “Letter from Venice,” Susan Sontag’s fourth and final film tells of a relationship that is fragmenting as the partners tour the decaying ruins of a hallucinatory Venice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Overview: An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. It transpires that a private detective, Ruggero Pollente, was hired by Silvia's mother because the latter was concerned about her activities. As a conspiracy begins to emerge, Pollente's body is found dismembered and his girlfriend is subsequently attacked by a machete-wielding killer clad in motorcycle gear...
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-10
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Un caso d'incoscienza
Overview: In Italy, set in the early 1930s, a missing Swedish millionaire (Erland Josephson) is the target of a journalist (Rüdiger Vogler) who sets out to discover exactly what happened to the man and whether or not he is still alive. The biggest lead he has is the millionaire's attractive mistress (Brigitte Fossey), and the story takes off from there.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-07-10
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