Gianni Rizzo

Gianni Rizzo

Born: April 5, 1924
Died: February 4, 1992
in Brindisi, Italy

Movies for Gianni Rizzo...

All for the Moral Majority!
Title: All for the Moral Majority!
Character: ministro Euclide
Released: December 19, 1984
Type: Movie
The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society?
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The Lonely Lady
Title: The Lonely Lady
Released: October 2, 1983
Type: Movie
A young screenwriter allows others to exploit her in the hopes of "making it" in Hollywood.
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The Uranium Conspiracy
Title: The Uranium Conspiracy
Character: The Captain
Released: August 10, 1978
Type: Movie
This feature was shot in the midst of some of Europe's most stunning scenery. The story focuses on the efforts of an espionage agent, played by Italian heartthrob Fabio Testi, to secure a uranium shipment that has been targeted by an enemy power.
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Beach House
Title: Beach House
Character: l'allenatore di pallavolo
Released: October 27, 1977
Type: Movie
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
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Who Breaks... Pays
Title: Who Breaks... Pays
Character: Mister Paul
Released: October 26, 1975
Type: Movie
A ship stopped at the port of Istanbul should take vegetables, but an unscrupulous man would like to add weapons under the vegetable crates. The captain of the ship refuses the offer of the evildoer.
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Year One
Title: Year One
Character: Dirigente della DC torinese
Released: November 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.
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This Time I'll Make You Rich
Title: This Time I'll Make You Rich
Character: Giorgiakis
Released: June 14, 1974
Type: Movie
Joe Esposito, an italo-american, and Brad McCoy, a Scottish man, are engaged by Giorgiakis to be his bodyguards, due to their physical stature, and muscular development. Only, on the cover, both men are dealing in drugs... Wang and his gang get interested in a particular big cache of drugs, and therefore Giorgiakis, and his bodyguards, will find themselves under unexpected pressure.
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Bawdy Tales
Title: Bawdy Tales
Character: The Cardinal
Released: October 12, 1973
Type: Movie
Locked up in prison and awaiting execution, bored young vagabonds Bernardino and Mammone pass their time competing in a vulgar storytelling competition, relating indecent accounts about castration, unsavory testicles and an atypical threesome. Not intended for the faint of heart, this audacious piece of moviemaking focuses on tales of jealousy, murder and uncontrollable desires.
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Alfredo, Alfredo
Title: Alfredo, Alfredo
Character: Judge
Released: September 22, 1972
Type: Movie
Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
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Return of Sabata
Title: Return of Sabata
Released: September 3, 1971
Type: Movie
Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...
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The Decameron
Title: The Decameron
Character: Father Superior
Released: August 25, 1971
Type: Movie
A young Sicilian is swindled twice, but ends up rich; a man poses as a deaf-mute in a convent of curious nuns; a woman must hide her lover when her husband comes home early; a scoundrel fools a priest on his deathbed; three brothers take revenge on their sister's lover; a young girl sleeps on the roof to meet her boyfriend at night; a group of painters wait for inspiration; a crafty priest attempts to seduce his friend's wife; and two friends make a pact to find out what happens after death.
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Between Miracles
Title: Between Miracles
Character: Sacerdote
Released: March 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.
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Adiós, Sabata
Title: Adiós, Sabata
Character: Folgen
Released: September 30, 1970
Type: Movie
Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find it is not full of gold but of sand, and that the gold was taken by Austrian Colonel Skimmel. So Sabata plans to steal back the gold.
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Sabata
Title: Sabata
Character: Judge O'Hara
Released: September 16, 1969
Type: Movie
Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
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Run, Man, Run
Title: Run, Man, Run
Character: The Mayor
Released: August 29, 1968
Type: Movie
The legendary Tomas Milian stars as Cuchillo, a knife-throwing thief on the run from murderous bandits, sadistic American agents, his hot-blooded fiancée and a sheriff turned bounty hunter, all of whom are gunning for a hidden fortune in gold that could finance the Mexican Revolution.
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If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Title: If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Character: Alman
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks and murderous double-crosses, leaves the coach's strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track down the missing money and determine just who is ultimately behind the grisly robberies and killings.
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Face to Face
Title: Face to Face
Character: Williams
Released: November 23, 1967
Type: Movie
History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.
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Desert Commandos
Title: Desert Commandos
Character: Perrier
Released: September 1, 1967
Type: Movie
German commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert tasked with getting to Casablanca in an assassination attempt on allied leaders.
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Mission Stardust
Title: Mission Stardust
Character: Car Seller
Released: August 4, 1967
Type: Movie
A team of astronauts is sent to the moon to rescue an alien who is seeking help to save her dying race. They are attacked by a force of bandit robots and discover that enemy spies are out to kill the alien.
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Requiem for a Secret Agent
Title: Requiem for a Secret Agent
Character: Atenopoulos
Released: October 15, 1966
Type: Movie
A veteran US Secret Service agent must thwart the covert conspiracy of an enemy spy network that threatens the world's safety.
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Man On The Spying Trapeze
Title: Man On The Spying Trapeze
Character: Stephanolopoulus
Released: May 12, 1966
Type: Movie
An American spy travels to Beirut where he's attacked by agents seeking a valuable microfilm.
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Title: Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Character: Politician with glasses
Released: February 16, 1966
Type: Movie
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
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Money
Title: Money
Released: November 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Episodic comedy about the corrupting influence of money.
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Desperate Mission
Title: Desperate Mission
Character: Barrow
Released: November 13, 1965
Type: Movie
A nuclear scientist is kidnapped by Chinese communists in Hong Kong. A Japanese group of judo experts kidnaps him from the kidnappers, but before they can contact the American agent who has been assigned with overseeing the scientist's transfer back to the USA, the agent is killed. The American secret service send their top man to Hong Kong as his replacement, with the mission of locating the scientist. But there are TWO rival gangs of baddies who are also looking for the same target, so our hero has to assume a different identity to infiltrate them.
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The Dolls
Title: The Dolls
Character: direttore d'albergo (segment "Monsignor Cupido")
Released: January 27, 1965
Type: Movie
This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.
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Triumph of the Ten Gladiators
Title: Triumph of the Ten Gladiators
Character: Sesto Vitorio
Released: November 26, 1964
Type: Movie
The ten gladiators are hired to travel to Arbela, a small country on the outskirts of the Roman Empire to learn if Parthia is planning to war with Rome. Upon arriving, the heroes decide to kidnap the beautiful Parthian queen and spirit her to Syria to serve as a hostage.
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3 Avengers
Title: 3 Avengers
Character: Teomoco
Released: November 26, 1964
Type: Movie
Ursus and his sword-wielding companions run head-on against a usurper of a throne.
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Mission To Hell
Title: Mission To Hell
Character: John Yakiris
Released: June 18, 1964
Type: Movie
Some guys try to locate a evil guy's secret diamond mine somewhere in Thailand.
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The Ten Gladiators
Title: The Ten Gladiators
Character: Claudius Nero
Released: December 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross.
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I Am Semiramis
Title: I Am Semiramis
Character: Ghelas
Released: March 22, 1963
Type: Movie
Semiramis, a powerful and beautiful Assyrian queen, oversees the construction of the luxurious city of Babylon. She falls in love with Kir, a fallen prince turned into a slave who corresponds to her love. But a palace conspiracy will make the two lovers separate and confront each other.
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Lo smemorato di Collegno
Title: Lo smemorato di Collegno
Character: Ragionere
Released: September 7, 1962
Type: Movie
A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is her husband and brings him home; then Mrs. Polacich recognizes him as her husband.
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Those Two in the Legion
Title: Those Two in the Legion
Character: Suprut
Released: August 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra boss and enlist in the Foreign Legion. They are inept but are mistaken for brave people by their commander and sent to break a weapon smuggling ring.
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The Vengeance of Ursus
Title: The Vengeance of Ursus
Character: Licurgo
Released: December 7, 1961
Type: Movie
The evil King Zagro has designs on the beautiful Princess Sira. He wants to marry her so he can take over her kingdom and add it to his own. When Sira is kidnapped, Ursus leaves his farm to rescue her and to eventually lead a revolt against King Zagro.
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Gli scontenti
Title: Gli scontenti
Released: March 11, 1961
Type: Movie
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Sword in the Shadows
Title: Sword in the Shadows
Character: Giorgio
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Sword in the Shadows (Italian: Una spada nell'ombra) is a 1961 Italian swashbuckler film directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Tamara Lees and Livio Lorenzon.
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Cavalcata selvaggia
Title: Cavalcata selvaggia
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
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The Night of the Great Attack
Title: The Night of the Great Attack
Released: October 29, 1959
Type: Movie
In 15th century Romagna rules violence and fright. Cesare Borgia wants to incorporate the duchy of Catherine Sforza. But in between is the independent county Fabis, which he wants to bring into his possession.
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The Pirate and the Slave Girl
Title: The Pirate and the Slave Girl
Character: Nikopoulos
Released: October 22, 1959
Type: Movie
When a ship carrying the daughter of Rhodes' governor and secret documents is captured by Mediterranean pirate Dragut, the governor tasks captain Diego with their recovery before they can be sold to Sultan Selim.
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Adventure in Capri
Title: Adventure in Capri
Released: April 14, 1959
Type: Movie
A young French girl, Yvonne, having won a competition, goes to Capri for a short break. There she meets Baron Vanvutelli, an old-fashioned old man, Mario, a Roman student, who came to spend the Sunday at Capri, along with two friends, Renato and Julius.
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The Head of a Tyrant
Title: The Head of a Tyrant
Character: Osia
Released: February 26, 1959
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl plans to seduce, then murder, the brutal conqueror who has taken over her city.
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Pirate of the Half Moon
Title: Pirate of the Half Moon
Character: Visconte di Grand
Released: December 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Gianna Maria Canale as the Duchess who is offered a banquet and requests for a hard-boiled egg. The stingy Spanish lord, who used his last gunpowder to fire a salute to the noble lady and thus has no more when a bunch of pirates, led by Nadir, launches an attack against his castle. Nadir is the dashing fiery hero.
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Ripudiata
Title: Ripudiata
Released: June 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A young countess is wrongly accused of adultery and shunned by her husband. She leaves and becomes a successful opera singer and when war comes returns to face her accusers, see her son and clear her name.
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Tripoli, bel suol d'amore
Title: Tripoli, bel suol d'amore
Released: August 19, 1954
Type: Movie
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.
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Ho scelto l'amore
Title: Ho scelto l'amore
Character: il secondo delegato
Released: March 3, 1953
Type: Movie
A satire of the Cold War, Italian style. Soviet flunkey Boris Popovitc is sent on a goodwill mission to Rome, where he is to deliver a symbolic dove of peace to a group of WW II freedom fighters. Somehow, Boris winds up in Venice minus the dove. As he searches up street and down canal for the missing bird, he meets and falls in love with luscious flower-girl Maria.
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Serenata amara
Title: Serenata amara
Character: Giuseppe
Released: November 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Mario and Fabrizio are two boxer friends who fall for the same girl and become enemies because of her. As time goes by things get better between the two men but... tragedy looms behind the corner.
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Wolves Hunt at Night
Title: Wolves Hunt at Night
Character: Le commissaire italien
Released: February 6, 1952
Type: Movie
A secret agent is summoned by the head of a counter espionage organization, to Trieste where he is to unmask a potential enemy operating in Venice.
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Three Steps North
Title: Three Steps North
Character: The Greek
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: Movie
An ex-American GI returns to Italy to find some money he stashed before doing a prison term. He discovers his cash is now gone and quickly sets off on a manhunt to find out who stole his buried fortune.
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Il bivio
Title: Il bivio
Character: Beppe, detto "Il curato"
Released: March 19, 1951
Type: Movie
After the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides to became a policeman to help better his men in crime. He meets Giovanna and falls for her. But he begins liking his new job and after their first robbery, Aldo tries to leave his old accomplices...
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Fame and the Devil
Title: Fame and the Devil
Character: Max
Released: November 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.
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City of Pain
Title: City of Pain
Character: Sergio
Released: March 4, 1949
Type: Movie
The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito's Yugoslavia. However the main character decides to stay, thinking that Communism might bring him a better future. Life turns to be hard for him and his family until he changes his mind, but he is killed before he can leave the country.