Giancarlo Giannini

Giancarlo Giannini

Born: August 1, 1942
in La Spezia, Liguria, Italy
Giancarlo Giannini (born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor and dubber.

Giannini was born La Spezia, Liguria, Italy. He studied at the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, and made his film debut in a small part in Fango sulla metropoli in 1965. He appeared in supporting roles in Anzio and The Secret of Santa Vittoria, and starred in the original version of Swept Away. In 1971, he appeared in E le stelle stanno a guardare, a television adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, The Stars Look Down.

In 1976, he starred in Seven Beauties, for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor, which is unusual in that his performance was given entirely in Italian. He dubbed Jack Nicholson's voice in the Italian release of both The Shining and Batman; he is the official Italian dubber of Al Pacino. His fluency in English has brought him a number of featured roles in Hollywood productions, most notably as Inspector Pazzi in Hannibal. He has also appeared in A Walk in the Clouds and Man on Fire.

Giannini's best-known starring roles have been in films directed by Lina Wertmuller. In addition to Swept Away and Seven Beauties, he also appeared in The Seduction of Mimi, Love and Anarchy, A Night Full of Rain, and Francesca e Nunziata.

He played the role of the protective father, Alberto Aragón, in A Walk in the Clouds in 1995. He played the Padishah Emperor Shaddam IV in the 2000 Dune miniseries. In 2002, he starred in the horror film Darkness.

Perhaps his best-known recent role is as French agent René Mathis in the 21st and 22nd James Bond films, Casino Royale and the sequel, Quantum of Solace.

Giannini has a son, Adriano Giannini, who is also an actor and dubber.

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Movies for Giancarlo Giannini...

Cabrini
Title: Cabrini
Character: Pope Leo XIII
Released: March 7, 2024
Type: Movie
Italian immigrant Francesca Cabrini arrives in 1889 New York City and is greeted by disease, crime, and impoverished children. Cabrini sets off on a daring mission to convince the hostile mayor to secure housing and healthcare for society's most vulnerable. With broken English and poor health, Cabrini uses her entrepreneurial mind to build an empire of hope unlike anything the world had ever seen.
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Senza malizia
Title: Senza malizia
Released: July 5, 2023
Type: Movie
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Book Club: The Next Chapter
Title: Book Club: The Next Chapter
Character: Police Chief
Released: May 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Four best friends take their book club to Italy for the fun girls' trip they never had. When things go off the rails and secrets are revealed, their relaxing vacation turns into a once-in-a-lifetime cross-country adventure.
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Title: The Great Game
Character: Dino De Gregorio
Released: November 18, 2022
Type: TV
At the center, the work of sports prosecutors and the economic and political interests that can gravitate behind the hiring of a player or the success of an entire team. The protagonist is Francesco Montanari in the role of a football agent who, at the height of his career, is arrested for illegal betting and loses everything.
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Duetto
Title: Duetto
Character: Gino
Released: September 29, 2022
Type: Movie
Duetto takes place in 1965 and tells the story of 18-year-old Cora, a Brazilian from an Italian family who, after losing her dad in a tragic car accident, goes with her grandmother Lucia to Puglia, Italy, where her ancestral homestead still stands. Lucia, aiming to sell an old family land lot, reencounters her sister Sofia and her husband Gino, whom she hasn't spoken to in 40 years.
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Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
Title: Franco Zeffirelli: Rebel Conformist
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 2022
Type: Movie
The documentary relates the decisive moments, the turning points and the rollercoaster ride of a brilliant, eventful international career and the extraordinary life of a great Italian artist. From his origins as an illegitimate child with no name to the attainment of great international fame as a film director, art director, painter and stager of theatrical and operatic productions. Through original and archive interviews with some of the most acclaimed stars who have known, admired and loved him and with his closest relatives, friends and collaborators, this gripping account paints a picture of the person and the artist—and not just “the master”—Franco Zeffirelli in all his many and even conflicting facets.
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We Are Cinema
Title: We Are Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 16, 2021
Type: Movie
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
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I Fratelli De Filippo
Title: I Fratelli De Filippo
Character: Eduardo Scarpetta
Released: December 13, 2021
Type: Movie
The story of the De Filippo brothers, children of Eduardo Scarpetta.
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Gianni Schicchi
Title: Gianni Schicchi
Character: Buoso Donati
Released: November 28, 2021
Type: Movie
Relatives of a recently deceased wealthy man enlist the help of a wise man to help them inherit the dead man's properties.
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Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore
Title: Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore
Character: Sé stesso
Released: October 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Necessarily far from the spotlights, Monica Vitti shines in a light intact to the eyes of spectators at every latitude. On scene the artistic path and life full of unpredictable events of an actress both introverted and sunny are recalled, through excerpts from her films and television programs, testimonies of friends and colleagues, leading exponents of Italian cinema of yesterday and today, critics, writers and costume experts.
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Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
Title: Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
Released: October 15, 2021
Type: Movie
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Hugo in Argentina
Title: Hugo in Argentina
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 5, 2021
Type: Movie
A promising Italian cartoonist lands in Buenos Aires in 1950, with the dream of reaching the United States, to discover that, for him, America will be Argentina. The country immediately overwhelms him with its massive economic boom and a cultural scene among the most vibrant in the world. We are at the dawn of Argentina's most delirious decade, and the young immigrant feels that the vast promise of this country is within his grasp. His name will indeed make itself known: Hugo Pratt.
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Being James Bond
Title: Being James Bond
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Daniel Craig candidly reflects on his 15 year adventure as James Bond. Including never-before-seen archival footage from Casino Royale to the upcoming 25th film No Time To Die, Craig shares his personal memories in conversation with 007 producers, Michael G Wilson and Barbara Broccoli.
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Title: Leonardo
Character: Verrocchio
Released: March 23, 2021
Type: TV
A fresh look at the life and legacy of the iconic artist Leonardo da Vinci, positing that he was a gay outsider who used his work as a way of hiding his true self. Each episode will examine one of da Vinci’s artworks for hidden clues about a tortured artist struggling for perfection.
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Starman
Title: Starman
Character: Se stesso
Released: May 1, 2020
Type: Movie
Luca Parmitano is the first italian astronaut to perform an extravehicular activity, currently part of the crew engaged in the Expedition 61 mission on board the International Space Station (SSI), is ready to tell his latest space adventures.
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De sable et de feu
Title: De sable et de feu
Character: Talleyrand
Released: September 18, 2019
Type: Movie
Set between 1802 and 1818, it is the epic true story of a Spanish army officer and genius conspirator. Missioned by Spain, Domingo Badia, alias Ali Bey El Abbassi will meet Lady Hester Stanhope, an English aristocrat, better known under the name of Meleki, and they will live together an extraordinary destiny which will upset the Middle East.
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Title: Catch-22
Character: Marcello
Released: May 17, 2019
Type: TV
Pianosa Island, Italy, World War II. Bombardier John Yossarian tries to fulfill his duty, maintain sanity and return home as soon as possible, but incompetence and bureaucracy constantly stand in his way.
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Magical Nights
Title: Magical Nights
Character: Leandro Saponaro
Released: November 8, 2018
Type: Movie
Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber river. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, who–promptly taken to the police–start to tell their version of the story.
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Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
Title: Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
Character: Self
Released: October 21, 2018
Type: Movie
This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian screen icon who began his illustrious career as a serious dramatic stage actor before going on to subvert that image in classic works of commedia all’italiana by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Dino Risi (Il Sorpasso), and Ettore Scola (We All Loved Each Other So Much). Through a wealth of interviews, film clips, and archival footage, Sono Gassman! reveals how Gassman’s comedic screen persona cannily reflected and critiqued mid-20th-century Italian society, while shedding light on the complex inner life of the man himself.
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Diminuta
Title: Diminuta
Released: October 3, 2018
Type: Movie
After his father dies, Italian-born saxophone player Cristiano finds a new life in Brazil as an insurance broker, but a return to Italy reignites his love of music and of life.
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The Catcher Was a Spy
Title: The Catcher Was a Spy
Character: Professor Eduardo Amaldi
Released: June 22, 2018
Type: Movie
Former major league baseball player Moe Berg lives a double life working for the Office of Strategic Services in World War II Europe.
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Prigioniero della mia libertà
Title: Prigioniero della mia libertà
Character: Ispettore Spaccini
Released: May 31, 2018
Type: Movie
Alejandro Torres, a young architect, lives a quiet life with his family until the day he is unjustly arrested. Traumatized by the miscarriage of justice and desperate for the truth, he will carry out his "revenge" on those who have turned his life upside down.
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Title: A Family Tale
Character: Gian Pietro Liegi
Released: January 8, 2018
Type: TV
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Pipi, Pupu & Rosemary: the Mystery of the Stolen Notes
Title: Pipi, Pupu & Rosemary: the Mystery of the Stolen Notes
Character: Narratore (voice)
Released: November 16, 2017
Type: Movie
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Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle
Title: Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle
Character: Catarella
Released: September 8, 2017
Type: Movie
After losing his farm during the floods of 1953, a romantic Dutch farmer is tired of getting his socks wet. He cycles to Italy and decides to grow tulips in the sweltering heat of Puglia.
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The Neighborhood
Title: The Neighborhood
Character: Gianluca Moretti
Released: August 18, 2017
Type: Movie
A brash group of hoodlums have been doing minor crime jobs in their neighborhood since they were kids until they step on the wrong toes and get caught up in a war with an old-school mafia king pin and their lives soon become hell on earth.
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Stanotte a Venezia
Title: Stanotte a Venezia
Character: Carlo Goldoni
Released: June 13, 2017
Type: Movie
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Nobili bugie
Title: Nobili bugie
Character: Franco
Released: April 24, 2017
Type: Movie
In the 1940s Italy, a ruined noble family agrees to hide a Jewish family from the Nazis in exchange for gold bars
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Love Pret-a-porte
Title: Love Pret-a-porte
Character: Giorgio's father
Released: March 16, 2017
Type: Movie
Giorgio urgently needs to find a job but his only chance is in a Fashion House in Rome so he to pretend being gay in order to succeed in the fashion industry. But suddenly after meeting a Russian girl and falling in love all his fake universe collapses.
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Caruso presents: The Good Italian III - The Magic of Naples
Title: Caruso presents: The Good Italian III - The Magic of Naples
Character: Principe
Released: January 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Giancarlo Giannini in his now usual role as the Prince of Soragna, a small town in the lower Po Valley, the starting and ending point of all the adventures in the series, is absorbed by the daily shaving ritual with his family barber, in this case played by the real Prince of Soragna, Diofebo Meli Lupi. A dear friend, the Italian tenor Vittorio Grigólo, arrives breathlessly and asks the Prince, who is half Neapolitan, for advice on the best rendering of the famous song "O Paese d'o Sole" with in the background the version by Roberto Murolo, the unmistakable voice and sophisticated performer of the tradition. The difficulty is obviously not technical for the great tenor but lies in looking for that expressivity and passion in interpretation that has made this musical form, deriving from great Italian melodrama, one of the best loved in the world.
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Black and White Stripes: The Juventus Story
Title: Black and White Stripes: The Juventus Story
Character: Himself - Narrator (voice)
Released: October 10, 2016
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of 'the beautiful game', Black and White Stripes tells the epic story of Italy's legendary Agnelli family and their team, Juventus F.C., as they set out to capture an elusive gold star in order to avoid annihilation. As the inspirational journey unfolds, the film weaves in game-changing moments from their heart-wrenching legacy - revealing the profound passion between family and team. On and off the field it's love, war and breathtaking cinema.
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Il ragazzo della Giudecca
Title: Il ragazzo della Giudecca
Released: May 12, 2016
Type: Movie
The life of singer Carmelo Zappulla is disrupted by the testimony of a repentant who accuses him of being involved in a murder. This is just the beginning of a long legal ordeal that will force Carmelo to fight to prove his innocence.
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On Air - Storia di un successo
Title: On Air - Storia di un successo
Released: March 31, 2016
Type: Movie
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Astrosamantha
Title: Astrosamantha
Released: March 1, 2016
Type: Movie
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Caruso presents: The Good Italian II - The Prince goes to Milan
Title: Caruso presents: The Good Italian II - The Prince goes to Milan
Character: Principe
Released: January 11, 2016
Type: Movie
The prince goes to the city, Milan, to meet a mysterious lady who turns out to be his niece. Travelling in a very elegant Lancia Aurelia Spider B24, a symbol of Italian design and industry in the world, and driven by the faithful Fefe, now more of a godchild than a butler, he chooses the secret enclave which is most similar to the atmospheres of the princely Rocca in Soragna: the Four Seasons Hotel.
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Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man
Title: Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man
Character: Himself
Released: September 21, 2015
Type: Movie
A documentary about the Italian director Sergio Corbucci.
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Behind the White Glasses
Title: Behind the White Glasses
Character: Self
Released: September 21, 2015
Type: Movie
It is a musical portrait that shines a spotlight on unknown aspects of the creative, visionary and groundbreaking talent of filmmaker and writer, Lina Wertmüller.
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Caruso presents: The Good Italian I - The Farmhouse of Wonders
Title: Caruso presents: The Good Italian I - The Farmhouse of Wonders
Character: Principe
Released: June 20, 2015
Type: Movie
The prince, played by actor Giancarlo Giannini, is very hospitable and welcomes the two tourists to his table, laden with from the cellars of Italy’s top producer (the “Antica Corte Pallavicina” of the Spigaroli brothers) together with the typical local wines, from the cellar of a renowned award-winning restaurant in Soragna, “La Stella D’Oro”.
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The Day of the Two Holy Popes
Title: The Day of the Two Holy Popes
Released: April 1, 2015
Type: Movie
"History is not just what you read in books, history often reveals itself with its extraordinary scope, already in the present. This is the case when on April 27 2014, the canonization of the greatest Popes of the 20th century was celebrated". With these words, the unmistakable voice of Giancarlo Giannini introduces us to an intimate and emotional story of what was, in all respects, a historical event: the Canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, director of the Vatican Television Center, holds the reins of the narrative which, among historical and exclusive images, leads to a closer understanding of the two Holy Popes and Pope Francis, and to discover places in the Vatican never seen before. Alongside him are the authoritative opinions of Pupi Avati, Aldo Grasso and Gianni Canova and a moving and emotional Dario Fo. A Vatican Television Center and Sky 3D production.
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The First Line
Title: The First Line
Character: Petros
Released: November 27, 2014
Type: Movie
Two Athenian attorneys pursue litigation for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. As the bronze statue of Athena Promakhos used to stand guard in front of the Parthenon, both must find the courage to stand in defense of what they love.
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27 aprile Racconto di un evento
Title: 27 aprile Racconto di un evento
Character: Voice
Released: October 16, 2014
Type: Movie
The documentary starts from the sanctification of Pope Giovanni XXIII and Pope Giovanni Paolo II and tells the scenes on the figures of the two saints and popes of Pope Francesco I, with a stock image of three Popes enriched with new images of Pope Francesco I at the time of his election before it is presented to the whole world. A journey through exclusive places and partly unpublished Vatican.
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The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
Title: The Gambler Who Wouldn't Die
Character: Nikita
Released: May 31, 2013
Type: Movie
Elderly Italian who immigrated to Canada after killing a famous soccer player in a car accident must pay off his gambling debts by agreeing to become a human prey in a deadly manhunt organized by his debtees.
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Euro Trapped
Title: Euro Trapped
Character: Don Ferracane
Released: February 28, 2013
Type: Movie
AmeriQua is the story of a lazy recent graduate, Charlie (Bobby Kennedy), whose rich parents cut him off with a $5000 check and an ultimatum to start a life of independence and responsibility. Instead, he buys a plane ticket to Italy, gets robbed upon arrival and winds up in Bologna in the care of his new friend Lele (Lele Gabellone), the self-proclaimed King of Bologna, who lives with a scraggly punkabbestia, Ballo (Gianlucca Bazzoli), and the insatiable prostitute frequenter, Il Pisa (Giuseppe Sanfelice). In Bologna, Lele teaches Chrlie the subtle strategies that the King knows so well, namely hitting on Italian women, throwing all-night parties and inciting general anarchy. Charlie takes to it like a pro and in the process meets the dangerously beautiful Valentina (Alessandra Mastronardi) and all-American Jessica (Eva Amurri).
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Un angelo all'inferno
Title: Un angelo all'inferno
Character: Pietro Bardelli
Released: February 8, 2013
Type: Movie
Pietro, a wealthy construction engineer who’s a widow, remarried with Cristina. Francesca has an affair with Pietro and Cristina catches them, she decides to leave Pietro and goes back to live with her mother. Pietro has two children: Marco from the first wife who’s now a cocaine addict; and Martina who’s still lives with him. Pietro is always out and busy at work and he’s not giving attention to his teenage daughter. Martina due to the relationship with her father falls as well into drug addiction. When Pietro realizes he’s about to lose his daughter becomes closer to her and understands that nothing is more important than the love of Martina.
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Omamamia
Title: Omamamia
Character: Lorenzo
Released: November 1, 2012
Type: Movie
Where shall we put grandma? Her permanently anxious and stressed daughter, Marie, knows exactly where: the neighbourhood’s idyllically situated retirement homem where she can find friends of “her own age”. But Granny has other ideas: She wants to see the Pope in Rome, and no one can stop her plan. She wants to finally confess a troubling sin to the highest possible power. She resolves to make the journey alone, and ends up one day on the doorstep of her granddaughter, Martina. What she doesn’t know is that Martina has a secret too, and that a private audience with the Pope is virtually impossible for mere mortals. Together with sly bon vivant, Lorenzo, the three set off on an adventure – but their attempt to receive a Papal blessing almost ends in disaster.
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Title: Pipì, Pupù e Rosmarina
Character: Narratore (voce)
Released: January 1, 2012
Type: TV
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First Happiness
Title: First Happiness
Character: Ettore
Released: July 25, 2011
Type: Movie
Five patients suffering from serious mental disorders, after therapy carried out at the mental health department, are entrusted to the care of Carmen who has the task of helping them resume a normal life and reintegrate into the social and working context. All of them go to live in the apartment where they are distrusted by their neighbours, intimidated by their strange habits. Only four of them will be able to regain possession of their lives, overcoming the dark tunnel into which their mind had fallen.
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Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Title: Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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I Know You Will Come Back
Title: I Know You Will Come Back
Character: Borghi
Released: June 5, 2009
Type: Movie
Anna Gastaldi, owner of an electromechanical industry, has a secret affair with her best friend Lisa's husband, Maurizio Mainardi; when she realizes she's pregnant, she tries to end the relationship, but Maurizio hinders her and, trying to stop her, dies in a car accident, though not before swearing that he will return. This promise seems to be fulfilled five years later when, during a wedding, she recognizes her lost lover in her friend Maddy's groom-to-be.
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La bella società
Title: La bella società
Character: Dott. Guarrasi
Released: May 21, 2009
Type: Movie
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Quantum of Solace
Title: Quantum of Solace
Character: René Mathis
Released: October 29, 2008
Type: Movie
Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, 007 fights the urge to make his latest mission personal. Pursuing his determination to uncover the truth, Bond and M interrogate Mr. White, who reveals that the organization that blackmailed Vesper is far more complex and dangerous than anyone had imagined.
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Title: Il sangue e la rosa
Character: Cardinale Eugenio Rospigliosi
Released: September 2, 2008
Type: TV
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Il sangue e la rosa
Title: Il sangue e la rosa
Character: Cardinal Rospigliosi
Released: September 2, 2008
Type: Movie
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Bastardi
Title: Bastardi
Character: Il gatto
Released: March 1, 2008
Type: Movie
The families Iuvara and Patene are bound by a common inherited hatred, which is further deepened when young Luke accidentically kills his rival Alexander during a motorace. To avoid revenge, the Iuvaras are forced to steal on behalf of their ancient rivals.
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Io non dimentico
Title: Io non dimentico
Character: Salvatore Conticello
Released: January 7, 2008
Type: Movie
In the 1970s, Angela flees from her Neapolitan base, wanting to leave ugly memories behind and rebuild her life in Rome. But someone cannot forget her: Carmine (an unscrupulous young boss) and John (a thirsty commissioner of justice). When Angela returns to Naples with her husband Gabriele, she struggles for the survival of her family. Carmine, defying the power of boss Conticello and Nina's love, will stop at nothing to have Angela at her side.
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Milan – Palermo: The Return
Title: Milan – Palermo: The Return
Character: Turi Leofonte
Released: November 23, 2007
Type: Movie
Turi Leofonte is released from prison after eleven years and asks for the surviving members of his old security detail to escort him back in Sicily to get revenge on his former associates – something the authorities indulge to seize a large stash of Mafia money he claims to have access to.
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Il generale Dalla Chiesa
Title: Il generale Dalla Chiesa
Character: Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa
Released: September 10, 2007
Type: Movie
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A Beautiful Vacation
Title: A Beautiful Vacation
Character: Self
Released: December 23, 2006
Type: Movie
This 2006 documentary was filmed on the occasion of director Dino Risi's ninetieth birthday. It features interviews with his collaborators, friends, and family, as well as Risi himself, who talks candidly about his personal successes and the obstacles he has faced.
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Casino Royale
Title: Casino Royale
Character: René Mathis
Released: November 14, 2006
Type: Movie
Le Chiffre, a banker to the world's terrorists, is scheduled to participate in a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro, where he intends to use his winnings to establish his financial grip on the terrorist market. M sends Bond—on his maiden mission as a 00 Agent—to attend this game and prevent Le Chiffre from winning. With the help of Vesper Lynd and Felix Leiter, Bond enters the most important poker game in his already dangerous career.
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Title: L'onore e il rispetto
Character: Don Giuseppe Bastianelli
Released: September 5, 2006
Type: TV
L'onore e il rispetto is an Italian television series. There are three seasons, each with six episodes: first season aired in 2006, second in 2009 and third in 2012. First season was directed by Salvatore Samperi, second by Samperi and Luigi Parisi, third by Parisi and Alessio Inturri. On October 2, 2012 Gabriel Garko announced through an interview with Tgcom 24 [1], which will soon turn a fourth season of the TV series.
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The Maidens' Conspiracy
Title: The Maidens' Conspiracy
Character: The Emperor
Released: April 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Constantinople, 1401. The emperor of Byzantium asks the famous knight Tirant lo Blanc to free the city from the siege of the Turks. After his victory, Tirant will have to face a more difficult task: to overcome the natural opposition of Carmesina, heiress to the Ottoman Empire, to surrender her most precious treasure.
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Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Title: Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 2005
Type: Movie
A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.
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Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'
Title: Vengeance Is Mine: Reinventing 'Man on Fire'
Character: Self
Released: May 24, 2005
Type: Movie
A documentary on the making of the 2004 film "Man on Fire," mixing movie clips, behind-the-scenes shots and interviews of cast and crew. The program covers the flick’s genesis and very long path to the screen, adaptation concerns and changes from the original story, the choice of Mexico as a location, research into real-life kidnapping and various case studies, training and realism, casting and characters, shooting in Mexico City and location issues, cinematography and the movie’s distinctive look, Scott’s style on the set, and general thoughts.
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Shadows in the Sun
Title: Shadows in the Sun
Character: Father Moretti
Released: May 12, 2005
Type: Movie
An aspiring young writer tracks a literary titan suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
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Raul - Right to Kill
Title: Raul - Right to Kill
Character: Giudice Porfirio
Released: April 15, 2005
Type: Movie
In a fascist Rome anxiously awaiting Hitler's visit, Raul is a young man not aligned with the regime and beset by debts. In May 1938, Raul kills an old usurer and her sister: not out of necessity, but to investigate the concept of the "right to kill" ... who can motivate it and assume the right?
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Title: Le cinque giornate di Milano
Character: Carlo Cattaneo
Released: December 5, 2004
Type: TV
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13 at a Table
Title: 13 at a Table
Character: Giulio
Released: November 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Giulio, a divorced middle-aged man, returns to the family villa in Tuscany where he spent his childhood holidays with his entire family, to arrange, with his brothers and cousins, for its sale. The house brings back memories of his youth and of the beautiful Anna, whom all her brothers pursued--but he was the one who ultimately won her over. Overcome with emotions, and now aware of the significance of the property, Giulio decides to buy all his relatives' shares and move back to the villa with his family.
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Man on Fire
Title: Man on Fire
Character: Miguel Manzano
Released: April 23, 2004
Type: Movie
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save her life.
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Forever
Title: Forever
Character: Giovanni
Released: September 25, 2003
Type: Movie
Giovanni is a criminal lawyer who is successful both at work and with women, despite a happy marriage. One day, however, his life is turned upside down by the sudden intrusion of Sara, a beautiful professional used to conquering men to fight boredom. Seized by an increasingly pressing passion, Giovanni leaves his family but shortly after he is in turn left by Sara, afraid of establishing a stable relationship with him.
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3 Women
Title: 3 Women
Character: David
Released: September 12, 2003
Type: Movie
It is the story of three women in three different places: Turin, Paris and Luxembourg City. Stefania, whose husband has left her for a younger woman, lives alone and types fiction teleplays for a living... until the day she decides to open a new chapter of her life. Elena tries to commit suicide by jumping into the River Seine. She is saved by Bernard, a tramp who, after attempting to reanimate her, takes her to the emergency ward. Later on, they meet again. Stella tries to wake up her drunk companion so that he can become again Diabolique, the fire-eater of a small circus. She more or less manages to but her man is wounded while performing his act and finishes the night in a hospital room.
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My House in Umbria
Title: My House in Umbria
Character: Inspector Girotti
Released: May 25, 2003
Type: Movie
Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.
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Five Moons Plaza
Title: Five Moons Plaza
Character: Branco
Released: May 9, 2003
Type: Movie
Just the night before his retirement District Attorney Saracini is given a film showing the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. As the District Attorney takes on the case he along with his team finds more compelling and secretive evidences. Too many secrets are found that should stayed as secrets.
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Incantato
Title: Incantato
Character: Cesare Balocchi
Released: January 24, 2003
Type: Movie
Rome, 1929. The Pope's tailor sends his only son, 35-year-old virgin Nello, to more liberal Bologna hoping he'll find a wife. His head brimming with ideas on romantic love induced by classical poetry, Nello falls for Angela, a beautiful blind woman who indulges him only to win back her fiancé.
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Darkness
Title: Darkness
Character: Albert Rua
Released: October 11, 2002
Type: Movie
A teenage girl moves into a remote country home with her family, only to discover that the gloomy old house has a horrifying past that threatens to destroy them.
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Title: Dracula
Character: Dr. Enrico Valenzi
Released: May 29, 2002
Type: TV
Dracula is an Italian 2 part TV-miniseries, directed by Roger Young. It is based on the 1897 novel of the same name by Bram Stoker, though it updates the events of the novel to the present day.
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Joshua
Title: Joshua
Character: The Pope
Released: April 19, 2002
Type: Movie
When Joshua moves to the outskirts of Auburn, he awakens the curiosity of the sleepy town. They don’t know who he is or where he came from, but no one can shake the feeling they’ve known him for years. Despite his benevolence and selfless work in the community, some remain suspicious. Just what exactly is Joshua up to?
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Amnèsia
Title: Amnèsia
Character: Xavier (voice)
Released: March 15, 2002
Type: Movie
In the Spanish island of Ibiza, porn filmmaker Sandro and Angelino, the manager of a beachside watering hole, find their very different lives overlapping. Meanwhile, the island police chief, who is currently at odds with his rebellious son Jorge, is investigating the death of a drug dealer (which was accidentally brought on by Angelino). Jorge's plans to move to America have so far been thwarted by his father, but when he finds out about the affair his dad had been having with a male nightclub dancer, he uses it as blackmail fodder.
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The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Title: The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Character: Flavio Carboni
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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Francesca e Nunziata
Title: Francesca e Nunziata
Character: Giordano Montorsi
Released: January 22, 2002
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the century, in Italy, a wealthy woman Francesca (Loren), adopts a poor little girl named Nunziata. The years pass, Nunziata falls in love Federico (Bova), her adoptive brother, son of Francesca.
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Ti voglio bene Eugenio
Title: Ti voglio bene Eugenio
Character: Eugenio
Released: January 18, 2002
Type: Movie
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Ciao America
Title: Ciao America
Character: Zi' Felice
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
Having recently earned his college degree, Lorenzo Primavera (Eddie Malavarca) leaves his home in Boston to travel to his family's ancestral homeland in Italy -- as was requested by his late grandfather. Upon arriving, Lorenzo is offered a short-term position as coach for an American-style football team by the team's manager, Giulio Fellini (Maurizio Nichetti). As the young American immerses himself in his new duties, he makes the acquaintance of Paola Angelini (Violante Placido) and the two begin a friendship that quickly blossoms into something more. In between spending time with Paola and working with the team, Lorenzo also begins investigating his own family's history and learns the reason for his grandfather's departure from Italy, as well as why his grandfather never returned to visit. As Lorenzo begins to forge an identity for himself in Italy -- not to mention strong romantic attachments to Paola -- he must eventually decide whether or not to return to the States.
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Il consiglio d'Egitto
Title: Il consiglio d'Egitto
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
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Momo
Title: Momo
Character: Presidente (voice)
Released: December 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Momo is a shy and affectionate girl who has found new friends and a house in the middle of some ruins of an old amphitheater. But suddenly, a day, the "Grey Men" burst in the city in order to rob people's time. Momo try to stop them but doesn't know how.
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Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Title: Breaking the Silence: The Making of Hannibal
Character: Self
Released: August 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Several aspects of Ridley Scott's masterpiece Hannibal (2001) are examined through interviews with the cast and crew, and behind the scenes footage. We are even taken to two premieres and get to see some of the audience's reactions while they're watching the film.
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CQ
Title: CQ
Character: Enzo
Released: May 12, 2001
Type: Movie
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
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A Long Long Long Night of Love
Title: A Long Long Long Night of Love
Character: Marcello
Released: February 23, 2001
Type: Movie
Reporter Marcello has a brief encounter with Irene while waiting for a train. A young woman who has lost her sight finds herself falling for the voice of a ship's captain she hears over a radio broadcast. Egle, a massage therapist who is soon to be married, finds herself pursuing one last fling with Gabriele -- though the odds are not in her favor, since he happens to be gay. Elena is a young woman with a child who wants to abandon her husband. And Carla wonders if she has any future at all with her lover -- who is married to someone else.
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The Whole Shebang
Title: The Whole Shebang
Character: Pop Bazinni
Released: February 11, 2001
Type: Movie
On a mission to save his family's fireworks business, a man becomes distracted after he falls in love.
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Hannibal
Title: Hannibal
Character: Insp. Renaldo Pazzi
Released: February 8, 2001
Type: Movie
After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.
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Title: Frank Herbert's Dune
Character: Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV
Released: December 3, 2000
Type: TV
Frank Herbert's Dune is a three-part miniseries written and directed by John Harrison and based on Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune.
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A Night with Sabrina Love
Title: A Night with Sabrina Love
Character: Leonardo
Released: June 8, 2000
Type: Movie
When he wins a contest, seventeen-year-old Daniel Montero gets to spend a night in Buenos Aires with his favorite adult movie star, Sabrina Love. However, getting there will be half the trouble of meeting Sabrina.
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Viper
Title: Viper
Character: Guastamacchia
Released: May 11, 2000
Type: Movie
Vipera is the wife of a Sicilian smithy. She meets a man who shows her that life can be better and promptly leaves her husband and her little daughter.
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Terra bruciata
Title: Terra bruciata
Character: Macrì
Released: November 26, 1999
Type: Movie
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Milonga
Title: Milonga
Character: Commissario
Released: April 9, 1999
Type: Movie
A celebrity is murdered in broad daylight in the streets of Rome. Behind the murder lies a much more complex truth. The tracks, surrounded by a sultry milonga, leading to a gay commissioner.
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Sweet Idleness
Title: Sweet Idleness
Character: Count Nencini
Released: March 31, 1999
Type: Movie
This movie depicts the two years that young Stendhal spent in Italy. Stendhal, that time still known simply as Henri Beyle, is living the life of a wanderer, looking for a direction in his life, meeting famous Rossini and falling in love with young widow Giuseppina. A story of love, betrayal and an analysis of women and men's minds and souls.
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No Deposit, No Return
Title: No Deposit, No Return
Character: Cesena
Released: February 19, 1999
Type: Movie
Francesco Cesena, a middle-aged policeman, while carrying out a routine operation, is involved in a firefight in which his colleague loses his life. Cesena, wounded, shoots and kills the convict and his wife. About a year later two young men, Fabrizio and Simonetta, are arrested for stealing a car. Cesena and his assistant Cane, the same age as the two boys, have the task of interrogating them. Partly out of boredom at the late hour, partly out of curiosity, Cesena makes the two believe they know far more serious things about them than car theft.
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La stanza dello Scirocco
Title: La stanza dello Scirocco
Character: Marchese di Acquafurata
Released: October 25, 1998
Type: Movie
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The Dinner
Title: The Dinner
Character: il professore
Released: September 3, 1998
Type: Movie
An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life. The camera, just like the people, moves constantly from table to table, into the kitchen and the back room to observe the staff's petty jealousies and frustrations -- until two hours later it's time for everybody to go home.
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Vacation in Hell
Title: Vacation in Hell
Character: Ortega
Released: December 31, 1997
Type: Movie
Italian man unknowingly becomes a drug mule and gets arrested in Thailand. He is sent to tough prison where he plans escape with the help of another prisoner who also has a score to settle with the drug dealer who set the Italian up.
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Mimic
Title: Mimic
Character: Manny
Released: August 22, 1997
Type: Movie
A disease carried by common cockroaches is killing Manhattan children. In an effort to stop the epidemic an entomologist, Susan Tyler, creates a mutant breed of insect that secretes a fluid to kill the roaches. This mutant breed was engineered to die after one generation, but three years later Susan finds out that the species has survived and evolved into a large, gruesome monster that can mimic human form.
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Heaven Before I Die
Title: Heaven Before I Die
Character: Thief
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Jacob's feet are so turned out that he walks like Charlie Chaplin. He is different because of that and decides to emigrate from Palestine to Canada, where "everyone is equal". There everybody treats him kindly, and a thief specializing in stealing money from cash machines takes him into his home and treats him like a son, waitress Selma finds him a job as a Chaplin imitator, "prophet" Khalil Gibran gives him wise advice
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Más allá del jardín
Title: Más allá del jardín
Character: Bernardo
Released: December 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Palmira, a woman belonging to the Sevillian aristocracy, as well known for her decrepitude and hypocrisy as the rest of her population, enters into an emotional crisis when she reaches maturity.
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New York Crossing
Title: New York Crossing
Character: Enzo
Released: December 12, 1996
Type: Movie
A family reunion is disrupted by possibly the real Santa Claus collapsing in Penn Station - minor miracles ensue across the city of New York.
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La lupa
Title: La lupa
Character: Padre Angiolino
Released: September 16, 1996
Type: Movie
She was tall, dark and thin, with a proud and voluptuous bust. They called her "The she-wolf" because she seemed never to be satisfied. All the men were obsessed with her but one day the she-wolf fell madly in love with young Nanni.
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Fried Crumbed Brains
Title: Fried Crumbed Brains
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: Movie
After a big car accident, caused by his brother Valerio, Antonio is mentally-ill, fallen to a childlike regression. They live together in Trieste. Valerio is totally absorbed by his job and by looking after Antonio that call him Papà (Daddy). One day Valerio decide to have a trip on a house-boat with Marianna, his fiancée, and they bring Antonio with them. Antonio unexpectedly drives the boat far away till it gets stuck on a sandbank. Valerio leaves his brother and Marianna alone on the boat and goes searching for help. A storm obliges the two to spend a night together on an island. During that night Marianna discovers, step by step, the poetic and childish world of Antonio, starting to appreciate the different resources of mentally handicapped persons.
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La frontiera
Title: La frontiera
Character: Von Zirkenitz
Released: September 4, 1996
Type: Movie
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Elective Affinities
Title: Elective Affinities
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 17, 1996
Type: Movie
After an architect (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) is invited to the home of his associate, the harmony of the place comes undone with the visitor's attraction to someone.
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Palermo – Milan One Way
Title: Palermo – Milan One Way
Character: Turi Leofonte
Released: February 2, 1996
Type: Movie
A mob accountant accepts to be witness for the prosecution at a trial involving Mafia higher-ups. Seven cops are tasked with escorting him and his family alive from Palermo, Sicily to Milan, in the North – but it won't be easy.
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Celluloide
Title: Celluloide
Character: Sergio Amidei
Released: January 26, 1996
Type: Movie
June 1944. In the newly liberated Rome, Roberto Rossellini and Sergio Amidei decide, against all odds, to make an unprecedented, true-to-life film on the tragic events that occurred during the Nazi occupation: Rome, Open City .
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Title: Il maresciallo Rocca
Character: Benedetto
Released: January 16, 1996
Type: TV
The adventures of the marshal of the carabinieri Giovanni Rocca, played by the great Gigi Proietti. Definitely one of the most successful Rai fictions ever, the series, after the first eight episodes broadcast in 1996, went on for six seasons, ending only in 2008. For over a decade the investigations and the private life of the marshal of Viterbo , born from an idea by Laura Toscano, have fascinated the television audience, making them become attached to characters such as the beautiful pharmacist Margherita (Stefania Sandrelli) or the brigadier Cacciapuoti (Sergio Fiorentini).
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A Walk in the Clouds
Title: A Walk in the Clouds
Character: Alberto Aragón
Released: May 27, 1995
Type: Movie
World War II vet Paul Sutton falls for a pregnant and unwed woman who persuades him -- during their first encounter -- to pose as her husband so she can face her family.
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Like Two Crocodiles
Title: Like Two Crocodiles
Character: Pietro Fraschini
Released: March 31, 1995
Type: Movie
A successful Italian man living in Paris returns to Italy to exact financial revenge upon his cruel half-brothers in this Italian-French drama. Gabriele now runs a successful antique appraisal company in Paris. He lives in a fine, automated apartment which his lover Claire compares to an impenetrable box. Gabriele is haunted by his troubled youth, which is presented through flashbacks. He and his baby brother Martino were bastards. Their father was the wealthy Giancarlo Giannini who already had a family. After Gabriele's feisty and independent mother died, he and his brother were taken into their father's home. Though living in luxury's lap, the now adolescent Gabriele was mistreated by his two hateful half-brothers. He eventually ran away from that house. This is the motive behind his revenge. But to get it he must return home and therefore, must face his past.
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Jacob
Title: Jacob
Character: Laban
Released: December 4, 1994
Type: Movie
Isaac's son Jacob deprives his brother Esau of his birthright and has to flee for his life. He finds shelter with his uncle Laban, but is himself deceived. Finally, Jacob has to face both his uncle and brother.
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Black as the Heart
Title: Black as the Heart
Character: Valentino Bruio
Released: January 5, 1994
Type: Movie
Lawyer Valentino Bruio goes to the "Sun City" bar for a meeting and on leaving the club he meets Ray who submits to him the case of his son who mysteriously disappeared. The disappearance leads Valentino to investigate, discovering that Ray worked as a gardener for the villa of the Alga Croce family.
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Giovanni Falcone
Title: Giovanni Falcone
Character: Paolo Borsellino
Released: October 8, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles.
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Title: Colpo di coda
Character: Professeur
Released: April 13, 1993
Type: TV
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Once Upon a Crime
Title: Once Upon a Crime
Character: Inspector Bonnard
Released: March 6, 1992
Type: Movie
On their way to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Marilyn and her husband, Neil, meet several other married couples, including Julian and Phoebe, who are traveling with a lost dog they plan to return to its wealthy owner for a large reward. But, when the dog's mistress is murdered, the travelers become the prime suspects, and Inspector Bonnard is determined to track them all down.
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The Amusements of Private Life
Title: The Amusements of Private Life
Character: Charles Renard
Released: November 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Italian-French costume dramedy that takes place in France in the end of 18th Century during the French Revolution. It is "The Marriage of Figaro" meets "The Dangerous Liaisons" and it tells the story of two women, Mathilde Seurat, the actress and Julie Renard, the aristocratic wife and a mother (Delphine Forest plays both) with the same face who came from the different parts of society and at one point exchanged their identities and their lives. The movie also features Giancarlo Giannini and great Vittorio Gassman.
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Anthony Quinn: An Original
Title: Anthony Quinn: An Original
Character: Self
Released: September 10, 1990
Type: Movie
Born in Mexico, Anthony Quinn became the family's main provider when his father died in an accident. Thus began the story of a man who had a thousand jobs before acting in a Cecil B. DeMille film…
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In The Rose Garden
Title: In The Rose Garden
Character: Tramontano
Released: September 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A successful businessman is haunted by the memories of his mother.
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Dark Illness
Title: Dark Illness
Character: Giuseppe Marchi
Released: February 22, 1990
Type: Movie
After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.
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Life with the Kids
Title: Life with the Kids
Character: Adriano Setti
Released: February 1, 1990
Type: Movie
The story of one man dealing with an unexpected series of events, discovering his youth once again in the relationship with a much younger woman and finally coming to grips with his age, and the fact that he hasn't been there for his family like he should have.
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The Sleazy Uncle
Title: The Sleazy Uncle
Character: Riccardo
Released: October 27, 1989
Type: Movie
A businessman has trouble reuniting with his roguish con-artist uncle, especially when the uncle propositions school-age girls and comes on to his nephew's mistress.
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Time to Kill
Title: Time to Kill
Character: Il Maggiore
Released: September 10, 1989
Type: Movie
During their invasion of Ethiopia in 1936, a wounded Italian soldier gets stranded in the wilderness after a truck wreck and makes his way to the nearest army hospital, losing his sanity in the process.
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Brown Bread Sandwiches
Title: Brown Bread Sandwiches
Character: Alberto
Released: September 9, 1989
Type: Movie
A 1957 period piece about Italian immigrants in Toronto.
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Blood Red
Title: Blood Red
Character: Sebastian Collogero
Released: August 18, 1989
Type: Movie
Set in the Napa Valley in 1895, an immigrant family struggles to keep their vineyards from industrialists.
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New York Stories
Title: New York Stories
Character: Claudio
Released: March 10, 1989
Type: Movie
Get ready for a wildly diverse, star-studded trilogy about life in the big city. One of the most-talked about films in years, New York Stories features the creative collaboration of three of America's most popular directors, Martin Scorsese, Francis Coppola, and Woody Allen.
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'o Re
Title: 'o Re
Character: re Francesco II di Borbone
Released: January 27, 1989
Type: Movie
One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royals as they adapt to their new lives. The former king has recognized the political finality of his deposition, but his queen has taken to traveling in men's clothing all over Italy trying to foment an uprising to restore them to the throne. She is also frantic to have a baby, an heir, but the king has become celibate as a kind of homage to his beloved mother; he spends all his time lobbying the Vatican to get her declared a saint.
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Snack Bar Budapest
Title: Snack Bar Budapest
Character: Avvocato
Released: September 22, 1988
Type: Movie
While his girlfriend recovers from a medical procedure, a corrupt lawyer becomes entranced by the grand visions of a mob boss.
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I picari
Title: I picari
Character: Guzmán de Alfarache
Released: December 18, 1987
Type: Movie
The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.
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Ternosecco
Title: Ternosecco
Character: Domenico
Released: January 16, 1987
Type: Movie
On a hot summer night, Raffaele, the elderly manager of a Neapolitan counter-lot, is brutally strangled in his own accommodation.
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Saving Grace
Title: Saving Grace
Character: Abalardi
Released: May 2, 1986
Type: Movie
A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the outside world, he winds up in an impoverished Italian village, where his adventures ultimately teach the Pope and his new friends some important lessons about friendship and self-esteem. Written by Chris DeSantis
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Title: Sins
Character: Marcello D'itri
Released: February 2, 1986
Type: TV
Sins is a 1986 CBS television miniseries starring Joan Collins. An adaptation of the 1982 novel of the same name by Judith Gould, it is the story of a woman who survives the horrors of the Nazi occupation of France and suffers a succession of challenges as she rises in the world of fashion. Produced by New World Television, Collins also served as executive producer with her then-husband Peter Holm, and the mini-series contained 85 costume changes for her role. Carly Simon co-wrote and performed the theme song, "It's Hard to be Tender."
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Fever Pitch
Title: Fever Pitch
Character: Charley
Released: November 22, 1985
Type: Movie
An investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry — organized gambling.
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Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Title: Bellissimo: Images of the Italian Cinema
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A documentary about the Italian cinema as art form and industry.
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American Dreamer
Title: American Dreamer
Character: Victor Marchand
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fictional international spy, Rebecca Ryan.
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Where's Picone?
Title: Where's Picone?
Character: Salvatore Cannavacciuolo
Released: January 12, 1984
Type: Movie
During a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council.
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My Darling, My Dearest
Title: My Darling, My Dearest
Character: Gennarino Laganà
Released: April 3, 1982
Type: Movie
Gennarino Laganà is a poor Sicilian who struggles with menial jobs to support his family, while his parents pressure him to seek his fortune in the North. Gennarino would never leave his beloved island if he had not stumbled into a love affair with Donna Egeria, wife of the Mafia boss Don Mimì. To escape certain revenge, he boards a goods train. In a dream, Saint Totino appears to him and promises him protection in exchange for a regulated life. He thus arrives in Milan, where he meets Armida, a woman of the streets, who takes him into her home and makes him her protector and lover. But San Totino appears again to Gennarino and reproaches him for being a kept man: he must work and Armida must change her life. 
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Lili Marleen
Title: Lili Marleen
Character: Robert
Released: January 14, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of a German singer named Willie who while working in Switzerland falls in love with a Jewish composer named Robert whose family is helping people to flee from the Nazis. Robert’s family is skeptical of Willie, thinking she could be a Nazi as she becomes famous for singing the song “Lili Marleen”.
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Life Is Beautiful
Title: Life Is Beautiful
Character: Antonio Murillo
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Antonio is a retired aviator in an unnamed country ruled by a military junta which violently suppresses any free thought. He falls in love with a member of the resistance against the dictatorship. He is arrested but escapes with his love. The code word among the resisters is: ‘Life is Beautiful’.
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Good News
Title: Good News
Character: L'Innominato
Released: November 24, 1979
Type: Movie
A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his frustrated wife at home. The monotonicity is disturbed when he is contacted by an old friend who confides in him he is being threatened by mysterious assassins.
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Lovers and Liars
Title: Lovers and Liars
Character: Guido Massacesi
Released: January 5, 1979
Type: Movie
An American actress on vacation in Italy falls for her friend's married Italian lover.
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Blood Feud
Title: Blood Feud
Character: Nicola Sanmichele detto 'Nick'
Released: December 21, 1978
Type: Movie
In pre-World War II Sicily, just as the fascists come to power, two men fall in love with the same woman. The changes in their country's politics ultimately take all three on a journey across the ocean to New York City.
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A Night Full of Rain
Title: A Night Full of Rain
Character: Paolo
Released: January 17, 1978
Type: Movie
Lizzy, a liberated American photographer, falls for narrow-minded journalist Paolo. Then finds she can't live with him or without him.
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The Innocent
Title: The Innocent
Character: Tullio Hermil
Released: May 18, 1976
Type: Movie
Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
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Seven Beauties
Title: Seven Beauties
Character: Pasqualino Frafuso aka Settebellezze
Released: December 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming to protect their honor at any cost, Pasqualino is arrested for murder and later sent to fight in the army after committing sexual assault. The Germans capture him and he gets sent to a concentration camp where he plots to make his escape by seducing a German officer.
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Midnight Pleasures
Title: Midnight Pleasures
Character: Gino Benacio
Released: February 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Tina is on trial for the murder of her lover, Gino. The violent nature of their relationship, revealed in the trial, seems to make obvious that she accidentally killed him during a fight. The lone female jury member compares her life to Tina's and, believing her to be innocent, sets out on her own to find a missing witness that can prove Tina's innocence.
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Swept Away
Title: Swept Away
Character: Gennarino Carunchio
Released: December 18, 1974
Type: Movie
A spoiled rich woman and a brutish Communist deckhand become stranded alone on a desert island after venturing away from their cruise.
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The Murri Affair
Title: The Murri Affair
Character: Tullio Murri
Released: September 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventually arrested for the murder. However, the dead husband happened to be a member of the Italian nobility, and the trial starts to turn into more of a prosecution of the defendant's socialist politics and the activities of his father, a well known liberal social reformer, than the actual crime itself.
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The Beast
Title: The Beast
Character: Nino Patrovita
Released: August 12, 1974
Type: Movie
An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.
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How Funny Can Sex Be?
Title: How Funny Can Sex Be?
Character: Domenico ('Signora sono le 8') / Cesaretto ('Due cuori e una baracca') / Enrico ('Non è mai troppo tardi') / Lello ('Viaggio di nozze') / Giansiro ('Torna piccina mia') / The Donor ('Lavoratore italiano all'estero') / Michele Maccò ('La vendetta') / Saturnino ('Un amore difficile') / Dottor Bianchi ('L'ospite')
Released: December 19, 1973
Type: Movie
How Funny Can Sex Be? is an nine-episode anthology film about love, sex and marriage in contemporary, mid-'70s Italy.
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It Was I
Title: It Was I
Character: Biagio Solise
Released: March 15, 1973
Type: Movie
A humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder of a soprano from La Scala.
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Love and Anarchy
Title: Love and Anarchy
Character: Antonio Soffiantini 'Tunin'
Released: February 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini.
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The Sensuous Sicilian
Title: The Sensuous Sicilian
Character: Paolo Castorini
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in Rome, a hostess at a post-war party, Paolo makes love to them all. He also feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. When his father is on his deathbed, Paolo learns of syphilis in the family and something of the curse of dissolution. Some years later, he resolves to marry Katrina, the pure daughter of the woman he should have married. He wants her purity to redeem him so he can make something of his life. But is it too late?
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Indian Summer
Title: Indian Summer
Character: Giorgio Mosca aka 'Spider'
Released: October 18, 1972
Type: Movie
In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend.
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Don Camillo and the Contestants
Title: Don Camillo and the Contestants
Character: fratello di "Veleno"
Released: March 29, 1972
Type: Movie
Mayor Peppone might very well lose the elections and Don Camillo makes sure that the mayor's delinquent son gets his act together while his own niece makes Peppone think she is pregnant by his son.
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The Seduction of Mimi
Title: The Seduction of Mimi
Character: Carmelo Mardocheo / Mimí
Released: February 19, 1972
Type: Movie
Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer - but he just can’t shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover – and love child – under wraps. That’s when his wife announces she’s pregnant.
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Hector the Mighty
Title: Hector the Mighty
Character: Ulisse, il drittone
Released: January 6, 1972
Type: Movie
A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him the land by kidnapping Helen, triggering a small gang war.
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The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Title: The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Character: Inspector Tellini
Released: August 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
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One Way Ticket
Title: One Way Ticket
Character: Weber
Released: May 26, 1971
Type: Movie
After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police, clear himself of a crime that he did not commit, and protect his girlfriend from a shady lawyer.
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My Father Monsignor
Title: My Father Monsignor
Character: Oreste
Released: May 25, 1971
Type: Movie
Against the backdrop of the Unification of Italy, two men have the dream of being recognized by their respective, illustrious, fathers: a bishop and the King.
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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Title: Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Character: Il neoammogliato
Released: February 25, 1971
Type: Movie
During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
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A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State
Title: A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State
Character: Walter Merighi
Released: January 22, 1971
Type: Movie
A hooker, mother of two, leaves her abusing husband for a young boxer. On the street she gets assaulted and beaten by pimps.
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La promessa
Title: La promessa
Character: Leonidik
Released: June 23, 1970
Type: Movie
Marat, Lika and Leonidik, survivors of the atrocities of World War II, meet up by chanche and start helping each other to continue their life.
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Una macchia rosa
Title: Una macchia rosa
Character: Giancarlo
Released: April 17, 1970
Type: Movie
A photographer comes back to Italy after a trip to India and struggles to adjust to his new life.
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A Drama of Jealousy (and Other Things)
Title: A Drama of Jealousy (and Other Things)
Character: Nello
Released: January 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will the hostile environment leave a way to jealousy?
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Title: The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Character: Fabio
Released: January 2, 1970
Type: Movie
During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
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The Sisters
Title: The Sisters
Character: Dario
Released: September 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Diana is divorcing her husband, and decides to spend winter at her younger sister's home. Adultery and saphic love will enter her life, amidst sad remembrances and with unsuspected consequences.
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The Betrayal
Title: The Betrayal
Character: Hans Ruppert
Released: January 24, 1969
Type: Movie
A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.
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Anzio
Title: Anzio
Character: Pvt. Cellini
Released: July 24, 1968
Type: Movie
American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously.
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Arabella
Title: Arabella
Character: Saverio
Released: November 29, 1967
Type: Movie
A young woman uses her womanly wiles to seduce older men in order to aid her debt-ridden grandmother.
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Stasera mi butto
Title: Stasera mi butto
Character: Carlo Timidoni
Released: November 3, 1967
Type: Movie
Summer Late sixties, Want to sing, Of Sun. Of golden skin from tanning. Of endless beaches. And relaxing baths. For everyone: young and old. Singles and couples. In the endless consumption of flirtation and new knowledge, the musical background goes crazy with the famous screamer. Famous personalities like Lola Falana emerge from famous people. They get confused. They are inserted between these alleged stars. But above all, they have fun like crazy ...
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Don't Sting the Mosquito
Title: Don't Sting the Mosquito
Character: Paolo Randi
Released: March 24, 1967
Type: Movie
Rita, a vivacious co-ed flees her boarding school with her music teacher, who is also engaged to her. She wants to take part in a singing contest but her father who is dead against it has her kidnapped. He finally gives in when his wife threatens to sing in the contest herself.
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The Criminals of the Metropolis
Title: The Criminals of the Metropolis
Character: Gerard Lemaire
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A group of drug dealers clashes with the police several times between December 28th and New Year's Eve.
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Rita the Mosquito
Title: Rita the Mosquito
Character: Paolo Randi
Released: September 30, 1966
Type: Movie
Rita, a vivacious co-ed is in love with her music teacher, a man who leads a double life - bespectacled professor by day and composer of rock songs by night. Will Rita win his heart?
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Title: David Copperfield
Character: David Copperfield adulto
Released: December 26, 1965
Type: TV
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Libido
Title: Libido
Character: Christian
Released: August 12, 1965
Type: Movie
A young man visits his ancestral home accompanied by his guardian and their wives, where he is plagued by the memories and influence of his murderous, psychosexual father.