Mino Doro
Also Known As: Mino D'Oro, Nino Doro
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Venice, Veneto, Italy
Birthday: May 06, 1903
Deathday: May 12, 2006
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Messalina
Overview: Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-12
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Hercules in the Haunted World
Overview: Upon his return from battle in the previous film, the great warrior Hercules learns that his lover, Daianara, has lost her senses. Acording of the oracle Medea, Dianara's only hope is the Stone of Forgetfulness which lies deep in the realm of Hades. Hercules, with two companions, Theseus and Telemachus, embarks on a dangerous quest for the stone, while he is unaware that Dianara's guardian, King Lico, is the one responsible for her condition and plots to have the girl for himself as his bride upon her revival.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-16
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Il corazziere
Overview: In fascist Italy, Urbano Marangoni aspires to become Corazziere, like his late father, but it is a dream destined not to come true because of his short stature.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-21
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A Hero of Our Times
Overview: Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-15
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Hercules and the Captive Women
Overview: King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the strongman falls overboard in a thick fog. Washed ashore, he saves a young Ismene from Proteus, an evil, shape-shifting creature. Ismene takes Hercules to Atlantis, where he discovers that her mother, Queen Antinea, has captured Androcles. Hercules schemes to rescue him and thwart Antinea's dream of world conquest.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-19
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Il trattato scomparso
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Angelique and the Sultan
Overview: Angélique is in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. She refuses to be bedded as her captors try to beat sense into her. She finally decides to escape with the help of two Christian prisoners.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-03-13
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The Big Grasshopper
Overview: While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets lost on his way, falling in love with Salène, a.k.a. "La grande sauterelle"...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-11
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The Beautiful Days of King Murat
Overview: For the past few weeks, revolt has been brewing in the Kingdom of Naples. The handsome Castelli is at the head of the conspiracy that wants to put an end to the reign of King Murat. To carry out his plan, he decides to infiltrate the court in order to become an intimate of the king. But his ploy works too well: he manages to enter the court thanks to his talents as a singer and very quickly seduces Queen Geneviève. But this imprudence costs him a lot. He is soon arrested by the king's men and immediately condemned to death.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-13
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Guilt Is Not Mine
Overview: Carlo, a young doctor, occasionally meets Anna, the daughter of professor Valli. Carlo falls in love with Anna, who returns his feelings; but her father longs a brilliant marriage for her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-28
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The Two Sergeants
Overview: Attempting to cover the fault of one of his subordinates, an officer of the Napoleonic army is condemned to death for treason.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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The Police Commissioner
Overview: Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the unlikely name of Dante Lombardozzi, in this entertaining comedy-murder mystery by director Luigi Comencini.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-21
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Everybody Go Home!
Overview: When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Genres: Comedy War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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To Skin a Spy
Overview: A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-08-24
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A Difficult Life
Overview: Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-19
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Tripoli, bel suol d'amore
Overview: The young Alberto Ruotolo leave the country cottage to go for the sharpshooter. But the command does not pull good air, three riflemen arrogant and unruly bear much disorder as anger Marshal Nero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-08-19
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My Wife
Overview: Five comedic episodes, all starring Alberto Sordi and Silvana Mangano.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-29
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Return of Sandokan
Overview: Samoa is kidnapped and held captive hypnotized in caves by her cousin Charles Druk, whose father has been murdered by her future husband Sandokan, lord of Malaya. Assisted by his European friend Iannis, he wants to rescue her.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-18
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SuperSeven Calling Cairo
Overview: Super 7 looks for a piece of a new metal hidden in a camera.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-30
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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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I Do Not Move
Overview: Former batsman Carlo Mezzetti, who has been left homeless with his daughter Annuccia, takes advantage of favorable situations and legal loopholes to find temporary accommodation, illegally occupying vacant houses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-08-13
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Margaret of Cortona
Overview: A Tuscan peasant girl in the 13th century overcomes sexual harassment, and the skepticism of her fellow citizens, as she saves plague victims, works miracles, and eventually becomes a saint.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-02-22
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Pietro Micca
Overview: An 1938 Italian historical war film that portrays the life and death of Pietro Micca who was killed in 1706 at the Siege of Turin while fighting for the Duchy of Savoy against France in the War of the Spanish Succession.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-01-15
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There Is a Path in the Sky
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Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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Marcella
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Una notte dopo l'opera
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-05-06
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Three Supermen in Tokyo
Overview: The Three Fantastic Supermen travel to Tokyo in search of a stolen miniaturization ray which they end up testing upon themselves.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-05-03
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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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Mi permette babbo!
Overview: While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-06
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Untamable Angelique
Overview: Angelique goes in search of her husband Joffrey de Peyrac who did not die on the stake.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Adventurer of Tortuga
Overview: In the New World, a rugged pirate leader and a corrupt governor vie for the affections of a beautiful Indian heiress.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-12
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100 of these days
Overview: Count Agostino di Montecorvo's nephew and niece pretend they get married for his hundredth birthday since the old man has had this wish for a long time. But when the count wants them to beget a child as well they are forced to present him with a fake one. But then the child's mother wants it back...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Allegri masnadieri
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-12-02
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Musica in piazza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-03-04
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Tenebre
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Old Guard
Overview: There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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War of the Zombies
Overview: A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!
Genres: Fantasy Horror Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-13
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Frine cortigiana d'Oriente
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Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-02
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Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo
Overview: This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the roman traffic police. 'Guardia'(agent) Alberto Randolfi has a too strong inclination to fine everyone and is dreaming about learning French. 'Brigadiere' (sergeant) Pietro Spaziali is busy looking at his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is going to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they often do.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-04-20
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Overview: Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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Ben-Hur
Overview: In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
Genres: History Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-18
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Two Weeks in Another Town
Overview: After spending three years in an asylum, a washed-up actor views a minor assignment from his old director in Rome as a chance for personal and professional redemption.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-17
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Rocambole
Overview: In London in 1903, during a reception at the German embassy, the legendary swindler Rocambole, thought to have died in the penal colony, helps the British secret service compromise a Prussian diplomat. His mission completed, Rocambole, under the identity of the Comte de Chamery, returns to Paris, where Baron Keller, an arms manufacturer in the service of the Kaiser, entertains the famous prima ballerina Cléo Santelli at Maxim's every evening, with whom he is madly in love. Despite her attentions, the young dancer falls in love with the false Chamery, who seems to have sworn the Baron's doom and ridicules him in the salons.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-03
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Defend My Love
Overview: As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-12
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How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
Overview: Playboy magazine darling (and one-time playmate of Hugh Hefner) Barbi Benton is Naughty Cheerleader Lynne Keefe, a small-town, small-brained babe who gets caught up big-time in the sex business. As a high school cheerleader who can really twirl a baton back in hometown Scranton, Lynne gets knocked up by a horny hunk on a motorcycle who then dumps her, sending her into a sexual spiral that takes her to The Catskills, Boston, New York, Miami and Rome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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Miss Italia
Overview: Journalist decides to report on Miss Italy candidates, in which detective intrigue is added.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-02-15
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Una parigina a Roma
Overview: Riccardo, a brilliant pianist studying in Rome, falls in love with Germaine, a young and pretty French tourist.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-11-11
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Two Public Enemies
Overview: Two two-bit crooks get in the way of a criminal ring and cause a hold up to fail. The two flee to Paradise avoiding a reprisal and try and steal Saint Peter's halo.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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Nero's Mistress
Overview: Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-13
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The Rover
Overview: A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval officer.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-27
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Gli innocenti pagano
Overview: Back from the war, a man discovers that his daughter has died and his wife has left their house. He searches for the girlfriend of a fellow soldier and falls for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-04-27
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The Man From Cairo
Overview: "The Man from Cairo", a Michaeldavid production for distribution by Lippert, with Ray Enright the only credited director on the film print, finds Mike Canelli, the man from Cairo, nosing around Algiers with mystery surrounding the people he meets and the things he does and has done to him, all deriving from the war-time theft of $100,000,000 in gold which lies somewhere in the adjacent desert. People representing many nationalities and reasons are also seeking the gold. It boils down to a battle between Canelli and the original looter aboard a speeding train.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-03
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L'anonima Roylott
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus
Overview: Goliath (Peter Lupus) comes to the aid of the former King Selim in order to regain his throne and rescue his daughter (Anna Maria Polani).
Genres: Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-03-03
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Duel of Champions
Overview: A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is agreed on how to settle the war. Three valiant brothers are chosen from each side to fight one last fierce and bloody duel...
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-19
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Inviati speciali
Overview: An Italian film from 1943.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-04-27
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Sandokan Fights Back
Overview: When Sandokan learns he is the rightful heir to the throne of Malaysia, he immediately sets off to claim his land back.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-13
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The Reluctant Saint
Overview: Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him to sainthood.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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8½
Overview: Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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T'amerò sempre
Overview: When young Adriana gives birth to her daughter, she understands that her baby's father won't come back to her; he is, in fact, a playboy, Diego. Years pass by and Adriana is now happy with her new job in a hair salon but, when one day Diego comes in the salon, he sees Adriana and he tries to speak with her but she tries to hide herself. He visits her another night but she refuses him; in the meantime, a colleague of Adriana, the accountant Mario Fabbrini.....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1933-04-30
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Il conte Max
Overview: Alberto, a newspaper man, tries a one-time shot of living the good life with the help of his penniless mentor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-08-30
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The Upper Hand
Overview: In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggling business.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-02
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Golden Chameleon
Overview: Vittorio, an employee of an insurance company, is the only witness to an incident where a thief called the golden chameleon dies. In his suitcase Vittorio finds the instructions to carry out a robbery. He decides to assume the identity of the golden chameleon and carry out the robbery.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-07-21
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Operation Atlantis
Overview: An American agent discovers that the Red Chinese have built a secret atomic city from which they will attempt to invade America.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-21
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Sign of Zorro
Overview: General Gutierrez, the evil governor of Mexico, terrorizes the people and demands high taxes. The young Ramon Martiney, after discovering that his father was murdered by Gutierrez, dons the mask of Zorro and starts fighting against the injustice.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-04-05
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He Thief, She Thief
Overview: Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-12
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Il successo
Overview: Giulio has a faithful wife and a true friend, but he is convinced that only with money can one be happy. So he devotes himself to dangerous real estate speculation in Sardinia, even though he does not have the capital to deal with it. To find the necessary money, he is willing to give up even his dignity. And slowly, he alienates his most beloved ones from himself....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-24
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Il treno del sabato
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-20
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Hornets' Nest
Overview: An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.
Genres: War Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-08
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Male Companion
Overview: A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Overview: Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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The Fate of Two Queens
Overview: Anthology film in which Hedy Lamarr plays 2 queens during 2 different time periods. Ulmer directed the Genoveffa di Brabante part whereas Allégret was responsible for the empress Josephine section after he left due to artistic differences with Lamarr.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-24
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The Bandit
Overview: Among others, Ernesto returns to Turin after the war from a German POW camp; his household destroyed and family deceased, he tries making an honest living.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-10-05
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Fantomas Unleashed
Overview: In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-12-08
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Si chiude all'alba
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-12-22
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La Dolce Vita
Overview: Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-05
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Il dottor Antonio
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-12-12
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Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
Overview: The construction of great temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, followed by new and high taxes and the arrival of a plague, create discontent in the population, and threatens the love between a sculptor and a slave.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-29
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The Seducer
Overview: Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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Gastone
Overview: During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-26
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Action Man
Overview: An American talks a retired French crook into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-31
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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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Cuori nella tormenta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-05-27
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Il prezzo dell'onore
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-08
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Ho visto brillare le stelle
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-03-17
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Panic Button
Overview: A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" that's destined to fail, thus giving him some major tax breaks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-10
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