Anthony Steffen

Anthony Steffen

Born: July 21, 1930
Died: June 4, 2004
in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Anthony Steffen (July 21, 1930 – June 4, 2004), born Antônio Luiz de Teffé von Hoonholtz, was an Italian Brazilian film actor who achieved fame as a leading man in over 25 Spaghetti Western features.

Movies for Anthony Steffen...

Doses of Horror
Title: Doses of Horror
Character: Lord Alan Cunningham ("A Dose of Undead Ecstasy" segment) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: January 5, 2018
Type: Movie
"In an asylum, patients were subjected to watching horror films for psychiatric study... but they all went mad and now those films have been unearthed!" claims the product description. In reality, the "story" is told with silly title cards over random abandoned asylum shots while long scenes from eleven different 70s and 80s horror films are edited in.
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The Loves of Lady Chatterley
Title: The Loves of Lady Chatterley
Character: The Count
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Joelle lives on a large estate with her crippled husband, Il conte. Just as he begins to feel he can't match up to his wife's sexual needs, his wife's ex-lover, Charles, is released from prison. Her husband invites him to become a groundskeeper on the estate.
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Abatjour 2
Title: Abatjour 2
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
An old farmer, who seeks the beautiful Camilla, is murdered. The young policeman, who is assigned to the mysterious death, also falls on her.
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Savage Island
Title: Savage Island
Character: Laredo
Released: September 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Women who have been captured and sold as slave labor to a South American emerald mine hatch a plan for revolution and revenge.
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Moments of Pleasure and Agony
Title: Moments of Pleasure and Agony
Character: Rodolfo
Released: September 11, 1983
Type: Movie
A small-town school teacher leads an apparently normal life, including a longtime boyfriend. But she secretly has several lesbian affairs until the women in her life start being brutally murdered.
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Hotel Paradise
Title: Hotel Paradise
Character: Juan Laredo
Released: October 25, 1980
Type: Movie
At a female prison located deep within the deadly South American jungles, a group of woman are forced to mine for valuable emeralds for the local corrupt government. A group of new prisoners on the way to the jail are ambushed and are convinced to join a group of revolutionaries seeking to overthrow the prison guards and take the treasure of jewels for themselves.
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Escape from Hell
Title: Escape from Hell
Character: Doctor Farrell
Released: March 27, 1980
Type: Movie
A women's prison camp is located deep in the tropical rain forest. Sadistic guards and a warden from hell make life almost unbearable for the inmates, and any infraction of the rules is dealt with swiftly and savagely. The camp doctor is horrified at what he sees happening, and drinks heavily to push the horror away. Finally the inmates have had had enough, and they enlist the help of the doctor to try and escape.
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Killer Fish
Title: Killer Fish
Character: Max
Released: December 7, 1979
Type: Movie
Jewel thieves attempt to recover treasure from piranha infested waters. Mistrust and betrayals happen amongst the gang in the quest for gold.
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Zoo zéro
Title: Zoo zéro
Character: Evariste, le commissaire
Released: May 9, 1979
Type: Movie
Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to remember her singing Mozart.
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Play Motel
Title: Play Motel
Character: Inspector De Sanctis
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.
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Rome, the Other Face of Violence
Title: Rome, the Other Face of Violence
Character: Dr. Alessi
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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A Diary of a Murderess
Title: A Diary of a Murderess
Character: Richard
Released: May 4, 1975
Type: Movie
A beautiful young woman sets her sights on an aging millionaire. She seduces him, and moves into his mansion with him. She soon tires of him, though, and after she gets rid of him, she goes after his son.
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Sixteen
Title: Sixteen
Character: Sergio (as Antonio De Teffè)
Released: March 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Thinly sketched portrayal of Maria, a sixteen year old girl who is resentful of her mother's decision to live with her lover. She flirts with the lover and eventually succumbs to his lust.
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Evil Eye
Title: Evil Eye
Character: Inspector Ranieri
Released: February 6, 1975
Type: Movie
People around Peter Crane begin dying in mysterious fashion. How is Playboy Peter involved in this? He begins having nightmares dealing with murder...His psychiatrist has no idea of what Peter is suffering from. Even the police are in danger as they start investigating the case. What is the secret of the "Magic Circle"?
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Charlotte
Title: Charlotte
Character: Le Prince Sforza
Released: November 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosophy of life where neither sex nor death are taboo, and where a lust for pushing limits meets it ultimate conclusion.
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Ten Killers from Afar
Title: Ten Killers from Afar
Character: Jake / Dallas
Released: June 27, 1974
Type: Movie
Dallas tries to regain his father's farm which he lost in a card game with Kelly. But Kelly is now dead and his daughter, Glenda, doesn't know how to play poker. There are also rumors of a hidden treasure.
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The Killer with a Thousand Eyes
Title: The Killer with a Thousand Eyes
Character: Inspector Michael Lawrence
Released: March 25, 1974
Type: Movie
A special detective is sent to Lisbon in order to investigate a series of murders. After looking into the murders, our hero realises that they are somehow linked to an illegal drug smuggling operation and so sets about looking into that in order to solve the murders and stop the smuggling from taking place.
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Seven Jackals
Title: Seven Jackals
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Seven legendary outlaws face a rival gang.
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The Killers Are Our Guests
Title: The Killers Are Our Guests
Character: Dr. Guido Malerva
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
After a bungled diamond heist a trio of killers take refuge at the home of a country doctor and force him at gunpoint to attend to their mortally wounded colleague. They abuse the doctor and take sexual advantage of his wife. But everything is not as it seems.
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Tequila!
Title: Tequila!
Character: Shoshena
Released: May 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Shosena, a clever bank robber, is associated with "Jaguar" to take a big hit. They think the town where the bank owned dock Koven, a man who has against all the farmers of the place. His only son, George, is in love with the daughter of Rush, his most angry enemy. And ... coincidentally, Shosena and "Jaguar" to justify their stay in the village, get to work for him.
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Lady Dynamite
Title: Lady Dynamite
Character: Nico Barresi
Released: March 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Donna Costanza is married to a New Jersey mafia boss. During their 10 year wedding anniversary party he is shot and killed. His dying words to her are "Giarratana from Palermo". Costanza takes a trip to Palermo in order to avenge the death of her husband. Her target is Don Giarratana, a dangerous and influential Italian politician.
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Tropic of Cancer
Title: Tropic of Cancer
Character: Doctor Williams
Released: September 30, 1972
Type: Movie
A couple on holiday in Haiti become involved in a series of savage murders linked to a doctors a new invention, a drug with extreme side effects.
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Too Much Gold for One Gringo
Title: Too Much Gold for One Gringo
Character: Trash Benson
Released: August 19, 1972
Type: Movie
A bunch of outlaws awaits the release from prison of an old goldminer, believed to have hidden 28 sacks of gold 20 years before... They all want the old man to speak, but only one of them will fulfill his dream.
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The Crimes of the Black Cat
Title: The Crimes of the Black Cat
Character: Peter Oliver
Released: August 12, 1972
Type: Movie
A blind pianist tries to figure out who is responsible for a string of murders using a black cat with its claws dipped in curare.
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Viva! Django
Title: Viva! Django
Character: Django
Released: September 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Django is on the trail of some renegade outlaws who raped and killed his wife. En route, he rescues a horse thief from an impromptu hanging. He discovers the man knows who committed the murder. The men team up and head west for revenge.
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The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
Title: The Night Evelyn Came Out of the Grave
Character: Lord Alan Cunningham
Released: August 18, 1971
Type: Movie
A rich, mentally-unstable man—with a penchant for playing deadly S&M games with women who resemble his dead wife—sparks off a chain of bizarre events after getting remarried.
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Apocalypse Joe
Title: Apocalypse Joe
Character: Joe Clifford
Released: December 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Travelling actor and gunman Joe Clifford inherits a gold mine from his uncle. Returning to claim the mine, he finds town boss Berg, his uncle's murderer, controls it instead. Clifford sets about avenging his uncle, recovering the mine and freeing the town from Berg using both shooting and thespian skills.
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Sabata the Killer
Title: Sabata the Killer
Character: Sabata / Garringo
Released: September 12, 1970
Type: Movie
After giving a ride to a man who recently ripped-off his thieving business partner, Sabata and his buddy are unaware that a group of men have been hired to kill them and bring back the loot!
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Arizona Colt Returns
Title: Arizona Colt Returns
Character: Arizona Colt
Released: August 14, 1970
Type: Movie
Famed gunman Arizona Colt is sent by Moreno to rescue his daughter from the grips of Arizona's old enemy, Keane. But certain complications make the mission far more dangerous than expected.
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Shango
Title: Shango
Character: Shango
Released: March 21, 1970
Type: Movie
Shango is a Texas Ranger who finds himself up against a former Confederate officer and his gang of thugs who have been terrorizing a local border town in search of gold.
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Django the Bastard
Title: Django the Bastard
Character: Django
Released: November 8, 1969
Type: Movie
A Confederate soldier returns from the dead to take revenge on three officers who betrayed his unit in battle.
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Dead Are Countless
Title: Dead Are Countless
Character: Lieutenant 'Garringo' Harris
Released: August 27, 1969
Type: Movie
Johnny was mentally traumatised when he witnessed as a child the killing of his father (a deserter) by a group of soldiers. As an adult he randomly kills every soldier he gets hold of, so that the army sends out the brutish Lieutenant Garringo to stop Johnny.
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No Room to Die
Title: No Room to Die
Character: Johnny Brandon/ Django
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Mexican's are being smuggled over the border to work as cheap labour for wealthy land baron Fargo. His gang is made up of known criminals with bounties on their heads, this greatly interests two bounty hunters who may have to team up to achieve their goals.
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Dead Men Don't Count
Title: Dead Men Don't Count
Character: Fred Dalton
Released: December 11, 1968
Type: Movie
Damon and Steffen are paired up bounty hunters falsely accused of murder in a lawless town ruled by racketeering lawmen
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Man Who Cried for Revenge
Title: Man Who Cried for Revenge
Character: Davy Flanagan
Released: July 28, 1968
Type: Movie
A Civil War veteran is amnesic after being shot in the head. When he returns to his hometown, he finds out that he has been declared a deserter. The local judge offers him a chance to clear his name, but he only wants to send him against some dangerous outlaw and his gang.
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A Stranger in Paso Bravo
Title: A Stranger in Paso Bravo
Character: Gary Hamilton
Released: March 23, 1968
Type: Movie
After spending many years in prison, Gary returns to Paso Bravo, where thugs burned his ranch killing his wife and daughter. Gary seeks revenge, and also finds a people who live terrorized by a group of gunmen led by Acombar. This situation causes Gary skip to face action this gang of murderers.
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Gunman Sent by God
Title: Gunman Sent by God
Character: Gary Maguire
Released: February 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Anthony Steffen, as a young gunman who works as a circus performer, witnesses the killing of some outlaws, carried out by their leader and is credited with the deed. Steffen suffers from a complex which blocks him in front of any violence and makes him appear cowardly, so when a young boy is kidnapped he must find a way to regain his composure.
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A Train for Durango
Title: A Train for Durango
Character: El Gringo
Released: January 6, 1968
Type: Movie
Two buddy adventurers witness a train-robbery and are then hunting the robbed gold and they also robbed Helen.
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Western, Italian Style
Title: Western, Italian Style
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that particular point in time. Contains behind-the-scenes footage from the films "Il Grande Silenzio" "Vado, Vedo e Sparo" "Ammazza Tutti e Torna Solo" and "Corri, Uomo, Corri" and interviews with their directors and cast.
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Killer Kid
Title: Killer Kid
Character: Captain Morrison / Chamaco / Scott / Killer Kid
Released: September 30, 1967
Type: Movie
The ruthless and cruel Captain Ramirez hunts down and kills revolutionaries in his search for The Saint, the righteous leader of the Mexican insurrection against the Federales.
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Gentleman Killer
Title: Gentleman Killer
Character: Jo Reeves aka Gentleman Jo
Released: August 14, 1967
Type: Movie
In a disputed border town, the US Army waits for word from Washington as to the rightful country it belongs, while dealing with a rowdy pack of Mexican soldier/bandits. Into the mix rides seemingly mysterious stranger Anthony Steffan, who looks like a dandy but has a few deadly tricks up his sleeve.
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$1,000 on the Black
Title: $1,000 on the Black
Character: Johnny Liston
Released: December 18, 1966
Type: Movie
Johnny Liston has just been released from prison where he has wrongly served twelve years for a murder. He returns to Campos, the village of his birth, where the whole town is terrorized by Johnny's brother, Sartana, who has taken Manuela, Johnny's fiancèe to be his lover. With his only friend a mute, Johnny must seize all opportunity to find out why he was framed, who was involved and why he is not welcome. source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
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A Few Dollars for Django
Title: A Few Dollars for Django
Character: Django / Regan
Released: September 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Django, bounty killer, hunter and repentant bandit wants to start a new life. No more bullets and blood, after years of killing and horror. Django wants to replace the sherrif and restore law and order to lawless land, but faces the history and bloodshed of his own past. Helped by the love of the daughter of a bandit Django can finally bring his life of violence to and end and spend his days in peace... If he can live that long!
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Ringo, the Mark of Vengeance
Title: Ringo, the Mark of Vengeance
Character: Ringo
Released: August 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Director Mario Caiano, best known for horror films like Amanti d' Oltretomba, co-wrote this much-parodied spaghetti western. Another in a long line of films titled for Lorne Greene's 1964 hit song "Ringo". Antonio De Teffe and Eduardo Fajardo star as two friends who rescue bumbling bandit Fidel (Armando Calvo) from a shootout. While patching him up, they discover half of a treasure map tattooed on his back. Learning that the other half is tattooed on the back of someone else, they set about trying to put the two halves together while being joined by card sharp and all round trickster Frank Wolff, who discovers their secret and wants in on the deal. American director Paul Bartel put a bizarre spin on the story in his comedic western, Lust in the Dust.
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An Angel for Satan
Title: An Angel for Satan
Character: Roberto Merigi
Released: May 4, 1966
Type: Movie
At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carries an ancient malediction.
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Seven Dollars on Red
Title: Seven Dollars on Red
Character: Johnny Ashley
Released: March 16, 1966
Type: Movie
A little boy is abducted by ruthless bandit gang leader El Cachal after Cachal and his men butcher the boy's family with the exception of his father. Johnny Ashley, the gunslinger father of the boy, goes searching for his son. Alas, the boy has grown up to be a mean and vicious criminal. Written by Woodyanders
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Lone and Angry Man
Title: Lone and Angry Man
Character: Joe Logan aka Shenandoah
Released: December 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Shenandoah (Steffen) works his way into a band of highwaymen led by Rojo (Armando Calvo). His initiation consists of hunting down and killing a member of the gang who has 12 bullets while he is only given 2 bullets. When the bandits attempt to rob a wealthy rancher, whom Shenandoah knows, he warns him. The outlaws begin to suspect they were betrayed and commence to rough Shenandoah up. Shenandoah then reveals his true reason for joining the gang; one of them killed his wife and he is there for retribution.
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Blood at Sundown
Title: Blood at Sundown
Character: Steve McDougall
Released: December 4, 1965
Type: Movie
A young deserter from the army returns to the place where his father has been killed by a family of Mexican landowners. The task is not easy as he is alone in his efforts to avenge his father's death.
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Latin Lovers
Title: Latin Lovers
Character: Riccardo Ferrari
Released: August 11, 1965
Type: Movie
The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.
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The Sons of the Leopard
Title: The Sons of the Leopard
Character: tenente garibaldino
Released: April 29, 1965
Type: Movie
Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and marries a rich woman. The mistress tries to have her rights established with the help of her sons.
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The Last Tomahawk
Title: The Last Tomahawk
Character: Falkenauge
Released: April 17, 1965
Type: Movie
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Unkas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Falkenauge.
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The Invincible Maciste Brothers
Title: The Invincible Maciste Brothers
Character: Prince Akim (as Antonio De Teffè)
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
Peplum movie from 1964
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Avventura al motel
Title: Avventura al motel
Character: Maurizio
Released: February 9, 1963
Type: Movie
A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary.
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Revenge of the Black Knight
Title: Revenge of the Black Knight
Character: Dottore George Welby
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
La Cieca Di Sorrento (also known as Revenge of the Black Knight is a 1963 cloak and dagger film directed by Nick Nostro and based on the novel of the same name by Francesco Mastriani. Masked knights fight the cruel Tyrant Amedeo, tutor of the beautiful, rich and blind orphan Isabella. The knights are led by a young doctor who in the end will defeat Isabella's evil oppressor, give her her sight and marry her.
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Title: Sodom and Gomorrah
Character: The Captain
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: Movie
Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.
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Ultimatum alla vita
Title: Ultimatum alla vita
Character: Lt. Kruger
Released: January 11, 1962
Type: Movie
Women held in prison by the Nazi's in Italy during WW2.
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Solitudine
Title: Solitudine
Character: Paolo
Released: April 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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Cavalcata selvaggia
Title: Cavalcata selvaggia
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
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The Jukebox Kids
Title: The Jukebox Kids
Character: Paolo Macelloni
Released: August 13, 1959
Type: Movie
When a promising record company president is arrested, his daughter takes over his company to promote her own rock and roll music by promoting various young singers.
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The Devil's Cavaliers
Title: The Devil's Cavaliers
Character: Richmond
Released: June 26, 1959
Type: Movie
Captain Richard and a small band of soldiers return home to France to discover the country ruled by horrible nobility.
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Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
Title: Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
Character: Demetrios
Released: August 29, 1958
Type: Movie
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.
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City at Night
Title: City at Night
Character: Alberto
Released: March 6, 1958
Type: Movie
A young girl falls in love with an actor. She persuades her father to support his acting company, but when she discovers him with another girl she runs away. Then everybody try to find her.
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La trovatella di Pompei
Title: La trovatella di Pompei
Character: Giorgio Della Torre
Released: July 25, 1957
Type: Movie
Maria, is a girl raised by the loving care of a poor couple but without knowing anything about her real parents. She is in love with Giorgio, a boy from a good family, who however has also aroused the interest of the intriguing Edvige who frequents bad company including jealous Roberto.
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Castle of the Banned Lovers
Title: Castle of the Banned Lovers
Character: Giacomo Cenci
Released: September 6, 1956
Type: Movie
The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But she has to face the jealousy of his violent and morbid father, and the hostility of his stepmother Lucrezia, who has a relationship with her other stepson, James. The stepmother and stepson-lover plan to kill Francesco. And when the latter dies accidentally, they decide to put the blame on Beatrice and Olimpio.
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Eighteen Year Olds
Title: Eighteen Year Olds
Character: Andrea La Rovere
Released: December 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him.
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Abandoned
Title: Abandoned
Character: Carlo
Released: September 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them for shelter in their villa. The young and aristocratic Andrea strikes up a friendship with a peasant girl, Lucia. Then the Germans suddenly appear, looking for the real partisans, and the time comes for serious decisions.
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I'll See You on the Balcony
Title: I'll See You on the Balcony
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Ignazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with an exceptional voice.