Maria Cumani Quasimodo
Also Known As: Maria Clementina Cumani Quasimodo
Biography: Maria Cumani Quasimodo was an Italian actress and dancer. Born Maria Cumani in Milan, she studied dance under Jia Ruskaja. In 1936, she became the companion of the poet Salvatore Quasimodo, with whom she had a son, Alessandro. In 1937, she made her professional debut as a dancer, and shortly later she specialized in "poetic dance", a personal style in which dance was combined with poetic verses. She was married to Quasimodo from 1948 to 1960. In the meanwhile, Cumani Quasimodo started a double career as a choreographer and a stage and film character actress. Shortly before her death, she released an autobiography, L'arte del silenzio, which particularly focuses on her years alongside Salvatore Quasimodo. - Wiki
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Milan, Italy
Birthday: January 07, 1908
Deathday: November 22, 1995
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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All the Colors of the Dark
Overview: After a car accident that caused the loss of her baby, Jane experiences an increasing amount of nightmares that shake her to her core. After seeking professional help, her haunting visions turn into an even more frightening reality, one full of black magic, blood orgies, and murder.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-28
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Pulp
Overview: A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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Nosferatu in Venice
Overview: Professor Paris Catalano visits Venice, to investigate the last known appearance of the famous vampire Nosferatu during the carnival of 1786.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-09-10
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She
Overview: In a backward post-apocalyptic world, She aids two brothers' quest to rescue their kidnapped sister. Along the way, they battle orgiastic werewolves, a psychic communist, a tutu-wearing giant, a mad scientist, and gladiators before standing against the odds to defeat the evil Norks.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-15
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The House of Witchcraft
Overview: A man discharged from the hospital after suffering a nervous breakdown is taken to a remote Italian villa by his strangely-behaving wife. But he has strong premonitions that the house is possessed by some force of witchcraft, which he has been experiencing in his recurring nightmare.
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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The Laughing Woman
Overview: Beautiful PR woman, Maria finds herself trapped in the home of the sinister and troubled Dr. Sayer, where she is subjected to a series of increasingly bizarre, terrifying, and degrading sex games. Sayer admits that he has murdered several women after the same ordeal, always killing them at the point of orgasm. But all is not what it seems, and through a series of twists and turns, the whole situation is slowly turned on its head.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-08-24
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Riot in a Women's Prison
Overview: This film traces the prison life of a group of women who-rather than being prepared to reenter society-are brought to the limits of depravity. Martine, wrongly imprisoned will bear the scars of a prison system wrongly based on punishment rather than rehabilitation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-13
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Summer Frenzy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-04
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The Subversives
Overview: The film combines actual footage of Communist leader Palmiero Togliatti's funeral with the intermingled stories of four people affected by his death: Ettore, a Venezuelan radical who abandons the wealthy Italian woman he loves to go back to his country and help his cause; Ludovico, an ailing filmmaker who finds out that art alone is not enough; Giulia, a woman who embarks upon a lesbian affair with a former mistress of her husband; and Ermanno, a philosophy graduate who breaks up with his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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Heart
Overview: Four stories with teenagers as the protagonists: Young Blood - The Sardinian Drummer - The Little Look-out - The Nurse of the Father (Sangue romagnolo - Il tamburino sardo - La piccola vedetta lombarda - L'infermiere di Tata)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-21
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Veruschka - Poetry of a Woman
Overview: Fashion photographer Franco Rubartelli's visually lush and moody head film about European supermodel Veruschka.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-04-02
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The Two Missionaries
Overview: Two missionaries come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-12-21
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The Nun and the Devil
Overview: It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-25
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The Baby Sitter
Overview: Michelle, a French sculptor living in Rome, is told of a job babysitting a rich man's son by her new friend Ann, an actress. When she arrives at the boy's house, she discovers that he in fact has been kidnapped...
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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Five Women for the Killer
Overview: Thriller about a reporter who comes home from an overseas assignment to find his baby in the hospital and his wife dead...
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-12-04
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Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate
Overview: Michele, married to Rosaria, is a distinguished Neapolitan who "by profession" contacts only wealthy women, making her believe she wants to marry her to get money to disappear with. With this method he feeds his family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-08
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Behind Convent Walls
Overview: A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of the institution to enforce strict rules on these unfortunate women. At the same time, a particularly disturbed nun manages to poison herself and many of the other novitiates in yet another scandal which is covered up by church authorities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-25
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Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Overview: A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a frenetic life divided between numerous lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-23
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Teresa
Overview: Teresa is a young widow who is concentrated on her little business until she hires Gino.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-11-27
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L'inquilina del piano di sopra
Overview: Exasperated by the great racket coming from Miss Aurora Trabocchetti's apartment, the neighbors give Professor Canestrari a mandate to deliver an ultimatum to the young woman. Too bad the teacher takes a liking to Aurora and agrees to give her private lessons. In fact, the girl aspires to marry the scion of a noble family and to try to crown her dream she must improve her culture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Play-Boy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-07
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I Do Not Forgive... I Kill!
Overview: Don Ramon, a wealthy patron, receives his son back after he has sent him away to medical school, only to have him fall in love with his new young wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-05-05
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Night Is Made for Stealing
Overview: A new type of safe, touted as impregnable, alarms insurance companies. To deny the factory's assumptions, three burglars are hired with the task of violating one. A wealthy jeweler's new safe is targeted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-01
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Medea
Overview: Based on the plot of Euripides' Medea. Medea centers on the barbarian protagonist as she finds her position in the Greek world threatened, and the revenge she takes against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-28
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