Franco Diogene

Franco Diogene

Born: October 20, 1947
Died: May 28, 2005
in Catania, Sicily, Italy
Franco Diogene was born on October 20, 1947 in Catania, Sicily, Italy as Concetto Francesco Diogene. He was an actor, known for Midnight Express (1978), The Big Blue (1988) and The Name of the Rose (1986). He was married to Mariella Denari. He died on May 28, 2005 in Genova, Italy.

Movies for Franco Diogene...

Maria Goretti
Title: Maria Goretti
Released: February 23, 2003
Type: Movie
The life of the virgin and martyr Santa Maria Goretti
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The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Title: The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Character: Luigi Mennini
Released: March 7, 2002
Type: Movie
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
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Un uomo perbene
Title: Un uomo perbene
Character: L'avvocato della sig.ra Marzano
Released: October 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
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Indiscretion of an American Wife
Title: Indiscretion of an American Wife
Character: Giuseppe
Released: March 9, 1998
Type: Movie
An American diplomat's wife meets an Italian vintner at an embassy soirée. He sees her as more than just her "husband's hostess". Her husband has been so focused on advancing his career that he has forgotten how to see her as a woman, which the Italian reminds her that she is.
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Con rabbia e con amore
Title: Con rabbia e con amore
Released: April 24, 1997
Type: Movie
At a bus stop they meet Francesca, an eighteen year old who is collaborating in a veterinary office, and Claudio, a university student. The two begin to walk together and talk about many things.
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La classe non è acqua
Title: La classe non è acqua
Character: Professore Siciliano
Released: March 14, 1997
Type: Movie
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The Stendhal Syndrome
Title: The Stendhal Syndrome
Character: Victim’s Husband
Released: January 26, 1996
Type: Movie
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
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Esercizi di stile
Title: Esercizi di stile
Character: Various characters
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
The end of a love story, told in fourteen different styles: from comedy to western, from noir to thriller, silent movie and so on.
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Poliziotti
Title: Poliziotti
Character: Bunny
Released: February 10, 1995
Type: Movie
When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster.
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Pretty Princess
Title: Pretty Princess
Character: Titolare del bar
Released: December 3, 1993
Type: Movie
A princess from a Nordic European country is obligated to marry the boy her family chose. She escapes and discovers love in the arms of a beautiful swimming teacher.
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Ci hai rotto papà
Title: Ci hai rotto papà
Character: Colonnello Nardini
Released: September 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Kids from a huge apartment complex in Rome form a secret society to unite their forces and get back at the nasty adults who 'oppress' them, playing pranks on them to expose their weaknesses.
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Caino e Caino
Title: Caino e Caino
Character: Direttore della Casa di Riposo
Released: February 12, 1993
Type: Movie
After the death of their industrialist father leaves them each with 49% of his company shares, two quarrelling brothers go to war for the remaining 2%.
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Arizona Road
Title: Arizona Road
Character: Sheriff Barker
Released: May 24, 1991
Type: Movie
The head of a gang of criminals in Arizona tries to kidnap a girl, but is hindered in his intentions by a handsome mining engineer and a federal sheriff.
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Watch Out for Perestroika
Title: Watch Out for Perestroika
Character: il portiere della pensione
Released: October 5, 1990
Type: Movie
Three friends, Fulvio, Marco and Filippo who are employed in a company that sells agricultural machinery are working under contract in socialist Bulgaria. Seeking entertainment, they are introduced to three Bulgarian beauties...
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The Bachelor
Title: The Bachelor
Released: March 29, 1990
Type: Movie
In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.
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There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
Title: There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs
Character: Padre di Violetta
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
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Title: Valentina
Character: Camille
Released: September 29, 1989
Type: TV
The stories revolve around the investigations of Valentina Rosselli, and the intrigues in which she gets involved because of her curiosity and her wonderful physical appearance. In the Shareholders She is often assisted by the antiquarian Philip Rembrandt, with whom she shares an ambiguous relationship.
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The Sweet House of Horrors
Title: The Sweet House of Horrors
Character: Mr. Coby
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A murdered couple return from the beyond to care for their two young children, as well as seek revenge against their killer, accept their children's step parents, and try to prevent their house from being sold.
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The Big Blue
Title: The Big Blue
Character: Receptionist
Released: May 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, and who share a passion for the dangerous sport of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy; to the bewilderment of scientists, Jacques harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing pattern in the water, so that his vital signs more closely resemble that of dolphins than men. As Enzo persuades a reluctant Jacques to compete against him in a free diving contest -- determining who can dive deeper and longer without scuba gear -- Jacques meets Johana, a beautiful insurance investigator from America, and he finds that he must choose between his love for her and his love of the sea.
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The Third Solution
Title: The Third Solution
Released: April 8, 1988
Type: Movie
The Roman Catholic Pope is planning a reconciliatory meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an event awaited for many generations. But suddenly, right while the Pope is addressing the crowds gathered in the Piazza Navone, a nun is assassinated by a Ukrainian, placing the upcoming talks between the two leaders in jeopardy. And the head of the American diplomatic corps (the nun was an American) assigns the investigation of the killing to one of his underlings, which leads the young man to investigate the Russicum, a center for the study of Russia within the Vatican city. And from there he finds himself caught up in an intrigue of international proportions, filled with agents and double agents, and ending with a revelation most unexpected.
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Il lupo di mare
Title: Il lupo di mare
Released: November 25, 1987
Type: Movie
A waiter on a cruise ship tries to seduce the models that are aboard.
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Interzone
Title: Interzone
Character: Rat
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Humans fight mutants in a post-holocaust world.
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The Grumpy
Title: The Grumpy
Character: controllore del treno
Released: December 20, 1986
Type: Movie
Traveling from New York to Italia, pretty Mary rushes into moody macho lawyer Tito. The girl immediately falls for the guy with the gruffy manners and in an very impertinent way, she leans on him as she gets in trouble: Not only that she gets tied up in her suite by some Gangsters, but also, her new husband is found dead.
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7 Kilos in 7 Days
Title: 7 Kilos in 7 Days
Character: Assessore Turri
Released: December 18, 1986
Type: Movie
Two not very clever young doctors open a fitness center and promise to let people lose seven kilos in seven days. When the enterprise fails they open a gourmet restaurant.
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The Name of the Rose
Title: The Name of the Rose
Character: Papal Visitor
Released: September 24, 1986
Type: Movie
14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence – which is considerable.
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The Mines of Kilimanjaro
Title: The Mines of Kilimanjaro
Character: Tai-Ling
Released: July 31, 1986
Type: Movie
A World War II-era college student must journey to Africa both to find his missing archaeology professor and search for the treasured mines of Kilimanjaro. He is followed by natives as well as scheming Chinese and Nazis
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Madman at War
Title: Madman at War
Character: Nitti
Released: May 21, 1985
Type: Movie
A young psychiatrist struggles to remove an erratic captain from command at an Italian base in the Lybian desert during World War II.
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Killer vs Killers
Title: Killer vs Killers
Character: Hagen
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A businessman recruits some thieves to steal a valuable chemical formula kept in an well guarded industrial site. The raid is successful, but once he has the formula, the man tries to get rid of those who worked for him.
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Il ragazzo di campagna
Title: Il ragazzo di campagna
Character: Insurrance Manager
Released: December 20, 1984
Type: Movie
A man is forced to completely change his habits when he decides to move from the country to the city.
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Don Camillo
Title: Don Camillo
Character: Binella
Released: February 8, 1984
Type: Movie
A priest helps the small town he's stationed in to resolve conflicts by working together.
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Same Sea, Same Beach
Title: Same Sea, Same Beach
Character: Piero
Released: May 4, 1983
Type: Movie
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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Title: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Character: team manager
Released: December 26, 1982
Type: Movie
Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi.
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Attila flagello di Dio
Title: Attila flagello di Dio
Character: mercante genovese
Released: December 22, 1982
Type: Movie
The misadventures of Attila and his band of barbarians as they take up arms against the Roman Empire in their native Milano
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Grand Hotel Excelsior
Title: Grand Hotel Excelsior
Character: Ing. Binotti
Released: October 7, 1982
Type: Movie
Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.
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Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
Title: Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
Character: notaio Baldelli
Released: August 31, 1982
Type: Movie
Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who got a bad name as a "whore" in the town because of them and was forced to leave is now dead. Furthermore, she had amassed a great fortune abroad and decided to bequeath it to the three. However, she has a strange condition: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina should cheat on their husbands within three days and provide photographic evidence or else the inheritance will be donated to the retirement home.
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Attenti a quei P2
Title: Attenti a quei P2
Character: lo sceicco Kasheri
Released: March 19, 1982
Type: Movie
Attenti a quei P2 (Beware of those P2s) is a satirical parody of the judicial affair concerning the P2 Masonic lodge.
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The Haunted House
Title: The Haunted House
Character: il proprietario della casa fatiscente
Released: March 4, 1982
Type: Movie
George and Lucia are newlyweds and have also been lucky enough to find a home at a low price , very low . Maybe too low . In fact the house is haunted by two lovers who, a thousand years ago, were surprised by the girl's mother who subsequently turned them into pillars of salt . But there is a way to break the magic and free the two lovers caught in the curse and it is all in the hands of the newlyweds on their wedding night . Will they succeed ?
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The Paramedic
Title: The Paramedic
Character: Palletta, lo sfasciacarrozze
Released: February 7, 1982
Type: Movie
At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes
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Title: Patto con la morte
Character: Commerciante
Released: January 7, 1982
Type: TV
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Madly in Love
Title: Madly in Love
Character: Capo cameriere
Released: December 18, 1981
Type: Movie
Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble intentions get derailed when Barnaba, a zany bus driver enters their lives and falls madly in love with the gorgeous Cristina. He is nuts enough to succeed in this romantic chase after royalty, as love seems to fuel his determination to rid Cristina of her elitism and to make her see his own irrepressible attractions.
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The Soup
Title: The Soup
Character: Campione americano
Released: February 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Rome, 1960. Four different people meet each other at the Olympics. They follow the games and become friends, talking about their sad lifes.
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Crime at Porta Romana
Title: Crime at Porta Romana
Character: Busoni
Released: October 29, 1980
Type: Movie
A police inspector is called to Milan to investigate a murder case since he grew up in the same ghetto as the suspect.
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City of Women
Title: City of Women
Character: Party guest (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1980
Type: Movie
A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
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School Teacher on the Sea with Her Class
Title: School Teacher on the Sea with Her Class
Character: Preside
Released: February 7, 1980
Type: Movie
It's summer. Lisa goes every day in a holiday hotel to give French lessons to Mario, the owner's son. the beauty and personality of Lisa quickly raise the attraction of tourists, but also jealousy of mothers who see their husbands and son prowling around the lovely young woman ...
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Trauma
Title: Trauma
Character: Bitto
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A couple invites some friends to spend a weekend together in an isolated cabin surrounded by woods and fields. But... there's a killer lurking around.... And... someone is monitoring him.
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The Three Graces
Title: The Three Graces
Released: September 21, 1979
Type: Movie
A busty girl gets naked in the shopping centers to attract attention and thus allow her accomplice to perform some small theft.
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The New Godfathers
Title: The New Godfathers
Character: Achmet
Released: August 24, 1979
Type: Movie
A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on getting it to the US. They decide to run the drug through an unsuspecting network of good-natured, local smugglers in Naples, while an international anti-narcotics agent rushes to shut their operation down. Betrayals and divided loyalties lead to a final, bloody confrontation in America.
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A Policewoman on the Porno Squad
Title: A Policewoman on the Porno Squad
Character: Joe Maccarone
Released: August 10, 1979
Type: Movie
The adventures of Gianna, a sexy policewoman who wants to help a child in search of his mother.
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Saturday, Sunday and Friday
Title: Saturday, Sunday and Friday
Character: l'avvocato del gangster (episodio "Venerdì")
Released: June 6, 1979
Type: Movie
SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.
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Gardenia
Title: Gardenia
Character: Gardenia's Friend
Released: May 5, 1979
Type: Movie
A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold through his restaurant.
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Midnight Express
Title: Midnight Express
Character: Yesil
Released: August 31, 1978
Type: Movie
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of Turkey. The Turkish courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years in prison. Hayes has two opportunities for release: the appeals made by his lawyer, his family, and the American government, or the "Midnight Express".
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Blazing Flowers
Title: Blazing Flowers
Character: Brothel Customer
Released: February 5, 1978
Type: Movie
Pino Scalise discharged from the prison he was in for robbery, take refuge in Milan at the home of his uncle. Pino falls in love with one of the uncle's two daughters, who has become a prostitute because of Don Ciccio, head of a gang that traffics in drugs. Pino, now an informer to Police Commissioner Morani, makes plans to take the boss down.
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Taxi Girl
Title: Taxi Girl
Character: Sheik Abdul Lala
Released: April 15, 1977
Type: Movie
Marcella inherits a taxi business from her father and now sets out on the job of her life. With each new fare she becomes involved with sex and crime, all done up 70's Italian comedy style.
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Tentacles
Title: Tentacles
Character: Chuck
Released: February 25, 1977
Type: Movie
Several people disappear from and at the sea. Their bodies are found gnawed to the skeleton, even the marrow is missing. The scientists have no idea which animal could do such things. Dr. Turner begins to suspect that the company which builds a tunnel beneath the bay might have poisoned the environment and caused an octopus to mutate to giant dimensions...
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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Title: Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Character: Droghiere (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1976
Type: Movie
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
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Rome, the Other Face of Violence
Title: Rome, the Other Face of Violence
Released: July 27, 1976
Type: Movie
Four bandits commit a robbery in a villa. The maid calls the police and Commissioner Carli immediately orders patrols to chase them.
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Love Sacrifice
Title: Love Sacrifice
Character: Sciaccaluga
Released: May 19, 1976
Type: Movie
Leonidas, of noble lineage but poor, serves in the house of Count Aristide Of the Fava Dongo, waiting patiently for his death to arrive. He dies at last, but rumors reveal that, on his deathbed, the Count has decided to leave everything to Marco (Claudio Ercoli), his illegitimate and retarded son who secretly grew up in a boarding school. In the meantime, the whole family of Leonida moves to the luxurious estate as for certainly no one wants to miss out on this wealth opportunity...
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La madama
Title: La madama
Released: January 16, 1976
Type: Movie
In the slang of the underworld or "mala" there is a special term for cop: "Madama". But if word were to get around that the "Madama" is Vito (Christian De Sica) they might even start to like the guy. Vito is a funny sort of a cop. For a start he doesn't like the uniform (he never wears it). Things might even go smoothly for him, if it weren't for an incredible number of beautiful girls who always manage to get in his way. Especially one girl Angelo (shouldn't that have been Angela? No, the girl's name really is Angelo). Problems arise too, with his direct supervisor, who also happens to be a relative. But Vito puts up with it all and manages to stay his usual calm and polite self, even when he risks getting killed.
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Sex with a Smile
Title: Sex with a Smile
Character: Comm Ignazio (episodio "I soldi in bocca")
Released: January 9, 1976
Type: Movie
Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.
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The Teasers
Title: The Teasers
Character: Amante di Monica
Released: October 31, 1975
Type: Movie
Loredana is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes there are more important things to life than teasing men.
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Strip Nude for Your Killer
Title: Strip Nude for Your Killer
Character: Maurizio Montani
Released: August 24, 1975
Type: Movie
After a fashion model dies during a botched abortion, the doctor stages her death to exonerate himself but is murdered by a mysterious assailant who soon begins hunting down her agency colleagues.
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Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto
Title: Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto
Character: Tenente Parisi
Released: August 10, 1975
Type: Movie
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Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
Title: Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
Character: il vigile corrotto Nardini
Released: March 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work. He decides to take justice into his own hands and get rough with the world. He soon gets his family's respect back.
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La collegiale
Title: La collegiale
Character: Carlo De Marchi
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
The sexually naive Daniela returns home from boarding school only to realize that her family is involved in an excess of bed-hopping and sexual perversion.
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Il piatto piange
Title: Il piatto piange
Character: Peppino il Barbiere
Released: November 11, 1974
Type: Movie
In Luino, on Lake Maggiore, during the fascist twenty years, a group of friends belonging to the bourgeoisie spend the nights in the underground gambling den of the Metropolitan Hotel between poker games, gossip, manly goliards and escapades to the house of tolerance.
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How Colonel Buttiglione Became a General
Title: How Colonel Buttiglione Became a General
Released: July 14, 1974
Type: Movie
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Kidnap
Title: Kidnap
Character: Nino
Released: March 8, 1974
Type: Movie
This crime drama follows an Italian police commissioner as he races to rescue the 6-year-old daughter of an important businessman. Also hoping to save her is Frank Salvatore, the old-school Mafia don accused of the crime. Caprile leans on a low-level thug for information and is led to Salvatore, who considers children to be off-limits as targets and hopes to restore his reputation
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Teresa the Thief
Title: Teresa the Thief
Released: October 11, 1973
Type: Movie
Teresa gets her first taste of crime -- and its consequences -- when, during World War II, she is nabbed for robbing an apartment. But being poor and perpetually starving, the pretty petty thief doesn't give up her quest for ill-gotten gains and soon turns to pick-pocketing. Despite her questionable thieving skills, the bumbling crook tries scheme after scheme, pilfering from strangers and dodging the law as she searches for a way to fund an adequate meal.
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What the Chambermaid Saw
Title: What the Chambermaid Saw
Released: May 7, 1973
Type: Movie
Country bumpkin Maria Rosa becomes the new maid in a second-rate Roman hotel. A hole in the wall behind the mirror in her room turns her and a horny bellboy into voyeurs