Gabriele Ferzetti

Gabriele Ferzetti

Born: March 17, 1925
Died: December 2, 2015
in Rome, Italy
Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s.

Ferzetti's first leading role was in the film Lo Zappatore (1950). He portrayed Puccini twice in the films Puccini (1953) and Casa Ricordi (1954). He made his international breakthrough in Michelangelo Antonioni's controversial L'Avventura (1960) as a restless playboy. After a series of romantic performances, he acquired a reputation in Italy as an elegant, debonair, and somewhat aristocratic looking leading man.

Ferzetti starred as Lot in John Huston's biblical epic, The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), and played railroad baron Morton in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Perhaps his best known role, internationally, was in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) as Marc Ange Draco, although his voice was dubbed by British actor David de Keyser. He was perhaps best known to non-mainstream audiences for his role as the psychiatrist, Hans, in Liliana Cavani's The Night Porter (1974). In the 1970s, he appeared in a significant number of crime films, often as an inspector.

He appeared in Julia and Julia, opposite Laurence Olivier in Inchon (1982), and the cult film, First Action Hero. Later in his career, he played the role of Nono in the TV series Une famille formidable, while also appearing in Luca Guadagnino's 2009 film I Am Love.

Ferzetti died on 2 December 2015, aged 90.

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18 Years Later
Title: 18 Years Later
Character: Enrico
Released: July 4, 2010
Type: Movie
Mirko and Genziano are two 35-year-old brothers who have not seen each other since their mother died in a freak accident in which they were involved—eighteen years ago. Since then, Genziano left to live in the UK and now is a stockbroker; Mirko instead remained in Rome, to stay with their father Marcello, working at the same run-down family shop. When Marcello dies, he leaves a task for the two brothers in his will: he asks them to take, on an old restored roadster, his ashes to the grave of his old mother in a village in Calabria, where the accident happened.
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I Am Love
Title: I Am Love
Character: Edoardo Recchi Senior
Released: September 5, 2009
Type: Movie
Emma has left Russia to live with her husband in Italy. Now a member of a powerful industrial family, she is the respected mother of three, but feels unfulfilled. One day, Antonio, a talented chef and her son's friend, makes her senses kindle.
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1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time
Title: 1612: Chronicles of the Dark Time
Released: October 28, 2007
Type: Movie
The czar of Russia has died and a power vacuum has developed. This period in the late 16th and early 17th century has been called "The Time of Troubles." There are many impostors who claim to the right to rule, but there's only one heir, the Czarina Kseniya Godunova. She has married a Polish military leader who wants to claim the Russian throne in her name so he can rule all of Russia. As the Poles move in on Moscow in an attempt to install the czarina on the throne, Andrei, a serf with a life-long infatuation of the czarina attempts to save her from her brutal Polish husband.
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Title: Papa Luciani - il sorriso di Dio
Character: Card. Giuseppe Siri
Released: October 23, 2006
Type: TV
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Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
Title: Pope John Paul I: The Smile of God
Character: Card. Giuseppe Siri
Released: October 23, 2006
Type: Movie
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Callas & Onassis
Title: Callas & Onassis
Character: Livanos
Released: November 6, 2005
Type: Movie
Maria Callas, one of the most talented opera singers of her time, seemed to have it all. Coming from humble origins, she always felt slighted by her mother's preference for her sister. She grew up in an unhappy environment, until her career in the operatic world took off. Aristotles Onassis also came from a poor Greek family. His ambition took him places where others dare not go and became a shipping magnate whose great wealth bought his entry into an international society he didn't ever dreamed of entering. These two powerful personalities were so much alike that their own passion served to destroy them.
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Concorso di colpa
Title: Concorso di colpa
Character: Vito Santamaria
Released: August 25, 2005
Type: Movie
The chief commissioner of the homicide squad, with an anti-globalization activist for a son, investigates the suicide of a trade unionist – who may be connected to an unsolved political murder of the '70s.
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The Wages of Sin
Title: The Wages of Sin
Character: Self - Actor
Released: November 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Second part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968. (Preceded by An Opera of Violence; followed by Something to Do With Death.)
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An Opera of Violence
Title: An Opera of Violence
Character: Self - Actor
Released: November 18, 2003
Type: Movie
First part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968. (Followed by The Wages of Sin.)
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Something to Do with Death
Title: Something to Do with Death
Character: Self - Actor
Released: November 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Third part of a three-part documentary series on the making of Once Upon a Time in the West, Italian filmmaker Sergio Leone's masterpiece, released in 1968. (Preceded by The Wages of Sin.)
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Lost Love
Title: Lost Love
Character: Tommaso Pasini
Released: May 16, 2003
Type: Movie
Ettore, a young boy in Sicily in the 50's, is surrounded by women and is always surprised by what is happening around him. In Milan a few years later Ettore is once again the center of attention and the hip crowd.
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Best Ever Bond
Title: Best Ever Bond
Character: Draco (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: November 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
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Le ragazze di Miss Italia
Title: Le ragazze di Miss Italia
Character: professor De Lollis
Released: September 15, 2002
Type: Movie
A story set behind the scenes of the annual Miss Italia pageant, with its load of young girls and recognizable characters.
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Con rabbia e con amore
Title: Con rabbia e con amore
Released: April 24, 1997
Type: Movie
At a bus stop they meet Francesca, an eighteen year old who is collaborating in a veterinary office, and Claudio, a university student. The two begin to walk together and talk about many things.
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Porzus
Title: Porzus
Character: Strono vecchio
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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Black as the Heart
Title: Black as the Heart
Character: Signor Noé Alga Croce
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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Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen
Title: Weihnachtsfest mit Hindernissen
Character: Vittorio
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
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First Action Hero
Title: First Action Hero
Character: Ben Costa
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A maverick cop takes on the seedy criminal underbelly of Miami singlehanded.
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Title: Private Crimes
Character: Dottor Guido Braschi
Released: January 24, 1993
Type: TV
When a prominent businessman is found murdered, an ambitious newspaper reporter and a local police inspector will uncover a bizarre web of small-town corruption, violence and dark secrets.
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Die Ringe des Saturn
Title: Die Ringe des Saturn
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Suffocating Heat
Title: Suffocating Heat
Character: Gaetano Castelli
Released: August 26, 1991
Type: Movie
On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie Christine, who works as a translator, finds a bag that belongs to Miriam, who must leave the next day. Marie Christine decides to find her to return her passport, but one Giuliano Ferrini tries to prevent this. So Marie Christine finds herself navigating through a hot Roman night in a city she doesn't know, among people she never dreamed could inhabit the same city.
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Title: Édouard et ses filles
Character: Antoine di Marco
Released: December 24, 1990
Type: TV
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Una fredda mattina di maggio
Title: Una fredda mattina di maggio
Character: Signor Mantoni
Released: November 29, 1990
Type: Movie
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Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Title: Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Released: April 29, 1990
Type: Movie
The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.
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Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Character: Italian Chief of Police
Released: April 16, 1989
Type: TV
Around the World in 80 Days is a 1989 three-part television Eastmancolor miniseries originally broadcast on NBC. The production garnered three nominations for Emmy awards that year. The teleplay by John Gay is based on the Jules Verne novel of the same title. Starring Pierce Brosnan as Phileas Fogg, Eric Idle as Passepartout, Julia Nickson as Princess Aouda, and Peter Ustinov as Detective Fix, the miniseries featured multiple cameo appearances, including Patrick Macnee, Simon Ward, and Christopher Lee as members of the Reform Club, and Robert Morley, who had a cameo in the 1956 film adaptation, and Roddy McDowall appear as officials of the Bank of England. Other familiar faces, credited as guest stars and in more substantial roles, include John Hillerman, Jack Klugman, Darren McGavin, Henry Gibson and John Mills. The heroes travel a slightly different route than in the book, and the script makes several contemporary celebrities part of the story who were not mentioned in the book, such as Sarah Bernhardt, Louis Pasteur, Jesse James, Cornelius Vanderbilt and Queen Victoria.
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Computron 22
Title: Computron 22
Character: Il Nonno
Released: December 21, 1988
Type: Movie
Luca, a young boy of eleven, lives with his grandfather in a majestic house in Rome. Learning that his mother, whom he believed to be dead, now lives in Argentina, he goes to look for his portable computer, Toto.
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Julia and Julia
Title: Julia and Julia
Character: Alfredo
Released: February 5, 1988
Type: Movie
Giulia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding day. Six years later, Giulia inexplicably finds herself sliding in time between two different worlds where in one she is still struggling with her grief over Paolo's death, and in the other world she is married to Paolo who's alive and well with their five year old son, where Giulia is having an affair with a British gentleman named Daniel, in which the frequent supernatural sliding between these two worlds threaten to drive Giulia crazy when she begins having difficulty in telling them apart and learning which world she is currently living in. (First movie filmed with Sony HDVS camera, in High Definition.)
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Title: La voglia di vincere
Released: March 15, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Quo Vadis?
Character: Pisone
Released: February 24, 1985
Type: TV
Drama about love and intrigues in ancient Rome during the times of Nero.
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Title: Die goldenen Schuhe
Character: Marquesade Buenaventa
Released: December 5, 1983
Type: TV
German miniseries based upon the novel by Vicky Baum.
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Ritorno a Lisca Bianca
Title: Ritorno a Lisca Bianca
Character: Sandro (voice) (archive footage)
Released: October 27, 1983
Type: Movie
Twenty-three years after L'Avventura (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni returns to Lisca Bianca Island. The rarefied atmosphere of Anna's (Lea Massari's) disappearance is recalled by some audio excerpts from the original movie.
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Title: Delitto e castigo
Character: Svidrigajlov
Released: February 9, 1983
Type: TV
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The Basileus Quartet
Title: The Basileus Quartet
Character: Mario Cantone
Released: January 30, 1983
Type: Movie
The lives of the surviving members of the Basileus Quartet, a chamber group that has been playing successfully around the world for more than 30 years, are turned upside down after the death of the leader, Oscar Guarneri. The three aging musicians decide to split up to pursue those pleasures they've denied themselves too long.
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Grog
Title: Grog
Character: Alberto
Released: September 3, 1982
Type: Movie
Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy.
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Death in the Vatican
Title: Death in the Vatican
Character: Cardinale Ixaguirre
Released: August 30, 1982
Type: Movie
A hermit who has had contact with terrorists is planning to kill the Pope by poisoning.
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The Possessed Hand
Title: The Possessed Hand
Character: Maestro Gomin
Released: June 17, 1981
Type: Movie
To win a duel, a merchant makes a dangerous pact with an inscrutable spellcaster.
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Title: The Devil's Game
Character: Master Gomin
Released: May 20, 1981
Type: TV
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Inchon
Title: Inchon
Character: Turkish Brigadier
Released: May 4, 1981
Type: Movie
Gen. Douglas MacArthur leads a Korean War campaign, and the war tests a married couple's relationship.
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Encounters in the Deep
Title: Encounters in the Deep
Character: Miles
Released: April 4, 1979
Type: Movie
An oceanographer diving in the Bermuda Triangle discovers an undersea world.
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The Burning Years
Title: The Burning Years
Character: Padre di Saverio
Released: March 29, 1979
Type: Movie
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Pigs with a P.38
Title: Pigs with a P.38
Character: Max Astarita
Released: September 23, 1978
Type: Movie
After an elderly crime boss retires from business, his three lieutenants each inherit a piece of his empire: Max is given the kidnapping ring, while the prostitution racket and the drug trafficking go to the others. Max is not satisfied with his share, and after killing the old boss he gets rid of the other two lieutenants. However, a police officer finds a lighter at the murder scene which could lead to Max, who then kidnaps the policeman's daughter.
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Mon premier amour
Title: Mon premier amour
Character: Georges
Released: August 30, 1978
Type: Movie
This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old son who never really knew her. When he learns that she is dying of leukemia, he tries to get to know her. By the end of the film, the two have reconciled and she dies feeling at peace.
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Last In, First Out
Title: Last In, First Out
Character: Herzog
Released: August 30, 1978
Type: Movie
A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.
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Suggestionata
Title: Suggestionata
Character: Gregorio
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
An engineer and former fascist comes back to Italy to resume possession of his own lands. A widower with his sons and daughter befriends a girl who happens to be slightly nuts, the girl, influenced by the speeches of her own father which she had listened to when she was younger succeeds to isolate herself with her lover's sons and pulls them into a dark dimension of madness and murder.
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The Psychic
Title: The Psychic
Character: Emilio Rospini
Released: August 10, 1977
Type: Movie
A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
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Oedipus Orca
Title: Oedipus Orca
Character: Valerio
Released: April 4, 1977
Type: Movie
Sequel to "La Orca" which follows the life of the kidnapped girl after she returns home to her boyfriend and family. After her kidnap ordeal Alice tries to return to her normal life, but her memories still haunt her and her way to see the world has been changed forever.
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A Matter of Time
Title: A Matter of Time
Character: Antonio Vicari
Released: October 7, 1976
Type: Movie
During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.
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Nick the Sting
Title: Nick the Sting
Character: Maurice
Released: September 14, 1976
Type: Movie
Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American businessman he thinks responsible for his friend's death. He succeeds in getting a hundred thousand swiss francs and uses them to carry out the second part of his plan.
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Quick Trial
Title: Quick Trial
Character: L'avvocato Finaldi
Released: June 9, 1976
Type: Movie
After a terrorist attack against a train, the police arrest the young laborer Stefano Baldini, member of a group of militant leftists. Entrusted for interrogation to Sergeant Pendicò and special agents Lorusso and Spasiani, Stefano dies, after four days, in unclear circumstances. Doubting the official version of the police, the second time in which a young person died in custody, journalist Cristina Visconti tries, with the aid of the sister of Stefano, to discover the truth. They rub up against a conspiracy of silence that encircles the acts of Pendicò and his associates. Frustrated beyond reason, Cristina tries a desperate ploy: publishing a story without evidence in the newspaper, accusing the three agents of having caused the death of Stefano with their blows. Cristina is put on trial for defamation. Can she avoid going to jail and also reveal the facts surrounding Stefano's death?
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La Orca
Title: La Orca
Character: Valerio
Released: June 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, where she is made to write her own ransom letter. She soon discovers that one of her captors is infatuated with her and she will use those feelings to stay alive.
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The Hornet's Nest
Title: The Hornet's Nest
Character: Gaspard
Released: March 10, 1976
Type: Movie
A compulsive gambler must steal a suitcase full of money, which is also coveted by Melba, a cabaret singer. A getaway ensues.
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End of the Game
Title: End of the Game
Character: Dr. Lutz
Released: September 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Hans Baerlach is a Swiss police detective who has dedicated much of his career to pursuing powerful and allegedly murderous businessman Richard Gastmann. Though Baerlach's partner meets his demise while investigating Gastmann, his replacement, Walter Tschanz, is undaunted. Meanwhile, the lovely Anna Crawley becomes involved in the case, which proceeds to take many twists and turns.
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Calling All Police Cars
Title: Calling All Police Cars
Character: Professor Andrea Icardi
Released: August 28, 1975
Type: Movie
Story about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his class status and wealth.
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A Curious Man
Title: A Curious Man
Character: Moriondo
Released: April 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Moriondo, a bachelor in his mid-forties, has spent half his life on billiard tables around the world and returns to his home town after fifteen years. Tired, penniless, with a failing budget, he returns above all to rediscover part of what he suffers from having lost: the feelings, the enthusiasm, the memories of youth. Instead he finds many people willing to remain silent and some friends who escape him, like Mambretti. He finds, above all, a mysterious hint of death. In fact, he learns that five years earlier a friend of his, Count Luigi Ambrosi, was killed with a singular system. A cyanide egg. The investigations and the trial recognized a certain "Panozzo", administrator of Count Ambrosi, as the perpetrator of the crime, but the wife of the killed man continues to maintain that an innocent man was convicted.
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Smiling Maniacs
Title: Smiling Maniacs
Character: Prandó
Released: January 16, 1975
Type: Movie
During an inquest, an ambitious judge finds out that a lot of high-rank politicians are corrupt to the core.
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Appassionata
Title: Appassionata
Character: Dr. Emilio Rutelli
Released: May 22, 1974
Type: Movie
Two teenage friends conspire to find out how much their youthful sensuality can disrupt one of their households, headed by a dentist and his mentally-ill wife.
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The Night Porter
Title: The Night Porter
Character: Hans
Released: April 3, 1974
Type: Movie
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
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Kidnap
Title: Kidnap
Character: Don Francesco Salvatore
Released: March 8, 1974
Type: Movie
This crime drama follows an Italian police commissioner as he races to rescue the 6-year-old daughter of an important businessman. Also hoping to save her is Frank Salvatore, the old-school Mafia don accused of the crime. Caprile leans on a low-level thug for information and is led to Salvatore, who considers children to be off-limits as targets and hopes to restore his reputation
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La prova d'amore
Title: La prova d'amore
Character: Angela Father
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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Hospitals: The White Mafia
Title: Hospitals: The White Mafia
Character: Prof. Daniele Vallotti
Released: August 25, 1973
Type: Movie
A famous surgeon earns enormous amounts of money by speculating on patients, although he is generally considered a great man and an excellent doctor. Only one of his colleagues rebels against the situation and tries to reveal the truth. But during a dramatic operation, the famous surgeon forces him to turn accomplice and the doctor must keep quiet. Not for long, however.
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Title: Hitler: The Last Ten Days
Character: Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel
Released: April 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
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Title: Divorce His, Divorce Hers
Character: Turi Livicci
Released: February 6, 1973
Type: TV
The dissolution of an 18-year marriage, seen first from his point-of-view and then from hers.
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High Voltage
Title: High Voltage
Character: Pablo Moncada
Released: April 1, 1972
Type: Movie
José, a young mechanic, arrives in Madrid to make it big. After being conned he loses his savings, and is taken in by Elisa, a photographer. She introduces him to Pablo and Laura. Laura makes him an offer he cant refuse and then his troubles really begin.
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The Boxer
Title: The Boxer
Character: Nick La Caterina / Tony La Monica
Released: February 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Boxer Teddy Wilcox leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox's first fight, Nick receives a threat-- Wilcox loses, or Nick will die.
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Million Dollar Eel
Title: Million Dollar Eel
Character: Vasco
Released: May 6, 1971
Type: Movie
An heiress (Piccolo) fakes her own kidnapping in order to get money from her parents and hides in the river Po's delta among eel fisherman and is helped by a small time smuggler (Toffolo).
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Cannabis
Title: Cannabis
Character: Inspector Bardeche
Released: September 2, 1970
Type: Movie
Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know Jane, the rich daughter of an ambassador. Once in Orly Airport he gets seriously wounded by the men of French drug kingpin Henri Emery. He manages to escape them though and takes refuge at Jane's. Passion sets in between the killer and the young lady. As of then, sex will be intertwined with blood and death. For better or worse...
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The Confession
Title: The Confession
Character: Kohoutek
Released: April 29, 1970
Type: Movie
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
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L'amica
Title: L'amica
Character: Paolo Marchesi
Released: December 23, 1969
Type: Movie
The beautiful but neglected wife of a brilliant architect from Milan, betrayed by her husband and mocked by her friend who manages the amorous adventures that she dreams of having, decides to take vengeance of the two, seducing her friend's husband and her young son.
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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Title: On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Character: Marc Ange Draco
Released: December 18, 1969
Type: Movie
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.
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That Splendid November
Title: That Splendid November
Character: Biagio
Released: April 5, 1969
Type: Movie
In the most traditional Sicilian, a 18 year old is in full arousal. His relationship with breathtaking mature woman will create a great controversy in the retrograde Sicilian society.
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Machine Gun McCain
Title: Machine Gun McCain
Character: Don Francesco DeMarco
Released: April 1, 1969
Type: Movie
After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new employer, he retaliates with a high stakes Las Vegas casino heist that erupts into all-out war on the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Neither blood, nor lust, nor wedding vows can come between McCain and his money ... or his machine gun.
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Once Upon a Time in the West
Title: Once Upon a Time in the West
Character: Morton
Released: December 21, 1968
Type: Movie
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.
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Bandits in Rome
Title: Bandits in Rome
Character: Commissioner
Released: November 20, 1968
Type: Movie
After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
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Love Problems
Title: Love Problems
Character: Guido
Released: November 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Italian drama.
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Better a Widow
Title: Better a Widow
Character: Don Calogero Minniti
Released: October 8, 1968
Type: Movie
Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate. Proby talks to the mob bosses about the project, but disagreements between different bosses complicate his efforts.
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The Protagonists
Title: The Protagonists
Character: Il Commissario
Released: June 7, 1968
Type: Movie
An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in hiding. Under intermittent gunfire, they make their way to the mountain hideout of the bandit. After a leisurely conversation and photo session, the encampment comes under fire from a group of armed citizens acting as police. Bullets fly and violence overtakes the criminal's two henchman, as the thrill-seeking group and the wanted criminal find themselves under attack.
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Come Play With Me
Title: Come Play With Me
Character: Stefano
Released: April 30, 1968
Type: Movie
Young Alvise's body is paralyzed, or at least he thinks so. He is infatuated by his beautiful aunt Lea. What starts as innocent therapy and care soon develops into strange erotic and psychological battle between them.
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Escalation
Title: Escalation
Character: Augusto Lambertinghi
Released: February 29, 1968
Type: Movie
1968, London. Luca is living his 'swinging' years away from duties, while his father wants him to take the reins of the family business. He plots to have him kidnapped and placed in a sanitarium, where the young man undergoes electroshock therapy until 'normalised'. Luca is then made to marry a woman who is actually a psychiatrist hired to turn him into a perfect businessman.
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A Devil Under the Pillow
Title: A Devil Under the Pillow
Character: Anselmo
Released: February 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Anselmo is a young anthropologist who is tormented by jealousy, and although his wife Camilla does not give reasons, keeps a close eye on her. After consulting a psychiatrist, the doctor says the problem is him and not his wife. So he plots to verify, once and for all, if his suspicions are true. By chance he meets an old friend, Lotario, who seems the ideal person to carry out his plans. What Anselmo does not know is that his friend is a real womanizer who ends seducing his wife.
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We Still Kill the Old Way
Title: We Still Kill the Old Way
Character: Avvocato Rosello
Released: February 24, 1967
Type: Movie
A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.
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The Devil in Love
Title: The Devil in Love
Character: Lorenzo de' Medici
Released: December 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478.
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The Bible: In the Beginning...
Title: The Bible: In the Beginning...
Character: Lot
Released: September 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.
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Three Rooms in Manhattan
Title: Three Rooms in Manhattan
Character: le comte Larsi
Released: November 10, 1965
Type: Movie
When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar.
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Crime on a Summer Morning
Title: Crime on a Summer Morning
Character: Victor Dermott
Released: February 17, 1965
Type: Movie
An ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. Things go along swimmingly until various tensions within the group come to the fore.
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Crucero de verano
Title: Crucero de verano
Character: Carlos Brul y Betancourt
Released: May 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Patricia is guide of a travel agency. One night, when accompanying a group of tourists through the old Madrid, she meets Carlos and falls for him. Days later, Patricia embarks on a summer cruise meeting up again with Carlos. The romance begins, but Patricia is not the only one chasing Carlos. Three villains want to kidnap him
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Desideri d'estate
Title: Desideri d'estate
Released: April 4, 1964
Type: Movie
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La calda vita
Title: La calda vita
Character: Guido
Released: February 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Attractive teenager Sergia usually hangs out with her older sister and her circle of mature friends. For a change, she is convinced by two teenage male friends to go for a beach vacation. Their main motive is to try to win her affection and get to sleep with her. Tragedy soon follows when the love triangle unravels.
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Death, Where Is Your Victory?
Title: Death, Where Is Your Victory?
Character: Max
Released: January 10, 1964
Type: Movie
Feeling complicit in a heinous act of her husband, a woman sinks into decay, then recovers and becomes a nun
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A Sentimental Attempt
Title: A Sentimental Attempt
Character: Giulio
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: Movie
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Torpedo Bay
Title: Torpedo Bay
Character: Leonardi
Released: September 21, 1963
Type: Movie
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a British warship. They both make it to the neutral port of Tangiers where they agree a truce.
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The Shortest Day
Title: The Shortest Day
Character: Tenente in trincea
Released: February 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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Imperial Venus
Title: Imperial Venus
Character: Freron
Released: December 22, 1962
Type: Movie
The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the Conventionnel Fréron, then separated from him by her brother for political reasons, Pauline joined Napoleon in the Italian army, where she fell in love with the comté de Canouville. But the First Consul married her to his friend, General Leclerc, whom she followed on the expedition to Saint-Domingue. Unconcerned about fidelity, she began to love her husband just as he was about to die of yellow fever. Back in France, she was soon consoled by other gallants. Napoleon, now emperor, hastened to marry her off to Prince Borghese, but he was unable to make her love him. She soon returned to Paris to lead the life of a gallant woman, incognito, and again met Canouville, whom the emperor tried in vain to separate from her. But soon the Russian campaign begins, and her lover is killed. All that remains for Pauline, this time disconsolate, is to reconcile with her brother on the road to exile.
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Beach Casanova
Title: Beach Casanova
Character: Avvocato Leblanc
Released: December 22, 1962
Type: Movie
Mr. Edmond is a middle-aged playboy, living by his wits on the Riviera. Among the women with whom Edmond dallies are three gorgeous ladies.
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La Croix des vivants
Title: La Croix des vivants
Character: L'abbé Delcourt
Released: July 25, 1962
Type: Movie
Yan, who has just been acquitted of a crime he has not committed, returns to his Flemish village, where he meets hostility, particularly from Franz, the garage owner. Fortunately, Gus, his childhood friend refuses to follow the pack and talks his mother, the richest person in the area, into getting him a job. But Yan is soon drawn to Maria, the sultry girl Gus lives with.
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The Nun of Monza
Title: The Nun of Monza
Character: Gian Paolo Osio
Released: May 10, 1962
Type: Movie
Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's unable to resist a romance with the nobleman Gian Paolo Osio which will lead both to danger.
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Jessica
Title: Jessica
Character: Edmondo Raumo
Released: April 19, 1962
Type: Movie
When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse.
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Eruption
Title: Eruption
Character: Roberto Santi
Released: March 29, 1962
Type: Movie
In Congo during the revolution, an Italian journalist is in love with the wife of a Belgian businessman.
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Rencontres
Title: Rencontres
Character: Ralph Scaffari
Released: February 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Bella Krastner is sunbathing on a beach on the Côte d'Azur when she attracts the attention of an attractive younger man, Ralph Scaffari. It is the start of a whirlwind romance which looks like it might last beyond the end of the summer. Unfortunately, Bella is already married, to Carl Krastner, a once renowned pianist who has become bitter and reclusive after a car accident that irreparably damaged one of his hands. Krastner no longer has any zest for living. He tyrannises both his wife and his sister Laurence and divides his time between scuba diving and gambling. After ratcheting up a small fortune in gambling debts, Krastner decides to fake his own death so that he can claim on his life insurance.
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Love, the Italian Way
Title: Love, the Italian Way
Character: Alberto Bressan
Released: December 22, 1960
Type: Movie
A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other.
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Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
Title: Il carro armato dell'8 settembre
Character: Tommaso
Released: September 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Italy signed the armistice and in the general confusion a corporal decides to bring the tank back from the coast to the barracks.
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It Happened in '43
Title: It Happened in '43
Character: Franco Villani
Released: September 15, 1960
Type: Movie
1943. The affair between Anna, unhappily married to wheelchair-bound Pino, and deserter Franco unfolds in foggy Ferrara, intertwining with the power struggle taking place within local Fascist ranks that culminates in a massacre of civilians, including Franco's father – Pino sees it all from his window, but will he tell anyone?
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L'Avventura
Title: L'Avventura
Character: Sandro
Released: September 14, 1960
Type: Movie
Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disappearance, though the relationship suffers from guilt and tension.
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Red Lips
Title: Red Lips
Character: Avvocato Paolo Martini
Released: May 14, 1960
Type: Movie
A lawyer heads out on the road in an attempt to find his daughter who has been missing for quite some time. To help him navigate the secret world his daughter lived within that he knows nothing about, he recruits the help of Irene a close friend of his daughter's. But Irene has plans of her own.
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Hannibal
Title: Hannibal
Character: Senator Quintus Fabius
Released: December 21, 1959
Type: Movie
A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.
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The Great Deception
Title: The Great Deception
Character: Bernard Turquet de Mayenne
Released: September 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to his son Pascal. At least this is what he thinks, for Pascal has concealed from his father the fact that his son was ... a daughter, his eighth daughter! Well, enough is enough and Geneviève has no other choice but become a boy first, then a soldier and even the special envoy of Louis XV, King of France, to Catherine II, the Czarina of Russia.
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Everyone's in Love
Title: Everyone's in Love
Character: Arturo
Released: April 9, 1959
Type: Movie
Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra.
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Love on the Riviera
Title: Love on the Riviera
Character: Giulio Ferrari
Released: November 27, 1958
Type: Movie
It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.
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So Much Love Lost
Title: So Much Love Lost
Released: November 12, 1958
Type: Movie
Here's a railway station. Next to it, there's generally a town; and in a town,there is love! The train arrives. Mr. Andrieu is expecting his sardines and both his daughters, back from winter sports.
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Angel in a Taxi
Title: Angel in a Taxi
Character: Andrea
Released: September 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Marietto is a very lively and creative orphaned child, housed in a boarding school of nuns. One day, while browsing a newspaper, he sees a photo of a beautiful opera house dancer, Camilla, and is convinced that she is her mother.
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March's Child
Title: March's Child
Character: Sandro
Released: February 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Francesca and Sandro meet, falls for each other and get married. But the differences between them are too many and the separation is around the corner.
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It Happened in Rome
Title: It Happened in Rome
Character: Lawyer Alberto Cortini
Released: April 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome.
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Parola di ladro
Title: Parola di ladro
Character: Desiderio
Released: February 13, 1957
Type: Movie
Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in the jewelry store of Gabriele Bertinori, and with this position he plans to rob the place.
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Il prezzo della gloria
Title: Il prezzo della gloria
Character: Comandante Alberto Bruni
Released: October 24, 1956
Type: Movie
A destroyer departs from the port of Taranto with orders to take a load of petrol to Tobruk at all costs.
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Donatella
Title: Donatella
Character: Maurizio
Released: October 3, 1956
Type: Movie
Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handbag containing valuables and documents, and decides to return it to her owner, a wealthy American lady, who offers Donatella a job as a secretary as a reward: she has to manage the lady's villa during her absences. There, Donatella casually meets Maurizio, a rich, elegant and well-educated young man, and ends up falling in love.
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Defend My Love
Title: Defend My Love
Character: Pietro Leonardi
Released: September 12, 1956
Type: Movie
As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated.
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Le Amiche
Title: Le Amiche
Character: Lorenzo
Released: November 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.
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Adriana Lecouvreur
Title: Adriana Lecouvreur
Character: Maurizio di Sassonia
Released: August 11, 1955
Type: Movie
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Sins of Casanova
Title: Sins of Casanova
Character: Casanova
Released: December 22, 1954
Type: Movie
1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married.
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House of Ricordi
Title: House of Ricordi
Character: Giacomo Puccini
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
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Camilla
Title: Camilla
Character: Dott. Mario Rossetti
Released: November 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Camilla, a middle-aged Venetian widow, arrives in Rome to take up service as a maid for the Rossetti family, who are not prosperous. With her discreet presence, she is an element of cohesion for them thru tensions and misfortunes.
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Modern Virgin
Title: Modern Virgin
Character: Gabriele Demico
Released: September 22, 1954
Type: Movie
The young Claudia wants to escape from the gray life of the province and aims rich men but each time with unhappy results. Only the brother will eventually succeed in shaking her from this purpose.
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100 Years of Love
Title: 100 Years of Love
Character: Carlo, the Political Prisoner (segm. "Gli ultimi dieci Minuti")
Released: February 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
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Clothing the Naked
Title: Clothing the Naked
Character: Ludovico Nota
Released: February 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Ersilia Drei, after a suicide attempt recounts her vicissitudes: hired as governess to the daughter of Consul Grotti she is wooed by Franco but soon after seduced by the very consul who drives her away after his daughter loses her life due to Ersilia's distraction. Because of economic difficulties she falls lower and lower until she meets Ludovico with whom she can perhaps hope for sincere love again. The consul's return, however, will lead her toward a tragic ending.
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Empty Eyes
Title: Empty Eyes
Character: Fernando Maestrelli
Released: September 18, 1953
Type: Movie
A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.
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Puccini
Title: Puccini
Character: Giacomo Puccini
Released: April 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.
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The Wayward Wife
Title: The Wayward Wife
Character: Franco Vagnuzzi
Released: February 18, 1953
Type: Movie
The ever-growing popularity of Gina Lollobrigida was a decided box-office asset when the Italian La Provinciale was distributed to the U.S. as The Wayward Wife. Lollobrigida acquits herself quite nicely in the tensely dramatic role of a much-put-upon small-town girl named Cemma. Seduced by a lad who turns out to be a relative, Cemma is tossed out of her home. Seeking security, she impulsively marries bookish science professor Franco Vagnuzzi (Gabriele Ferzetti). Bored by her marriage, Cemma doesn't realize the true value of her loving husband until it's almost too late. The original 118-minute run time was reduced for U.S. release.
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Three Forbidden Stories
Title: Three Forbidden Stories
Character: Mario
Released: October 29, 1952
Type: Movie
While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently come out of an unfortunate marriage to a wealthy but insensitive boor. And Gianna (Eleanore Rossi Drago), the daughter of a college professor, has ruined her life with narcotics.
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Inganno
Title: Inganno
Character: Andrea Vannini
Released: September 18, 1952
Type: Movie
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The Counterfeiters
Title: The Counterfeiters
Character: Dario
Released: September 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Producers of phony currency become the object of a crackdown by law enforcement agencies.
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The Forbidden Christ
Title: The Forbidden Christ
Character: (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Freshly released from a Russian POW camp, Italian soldier Raf Vallone tries to discover who betrayed his brother to the Nazis.
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Gli amanti di Ravello
Title: Gli amanti di Ravello
Character: Sandro Deodata
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
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Lo zappatore
Title: Lo zappatore
Released: December 31, 1950
Type: Movie
A poor farmer who has struggled to advance his son's career as a lawyer is spurned by the ungrateful offspring when he visits him in the big city, to convey the news that the mother is dying.
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Welcome Reverend!
Title: Welcome Reverend!
Character: The veteran
Released: February 15, 1950
Type: Movie
A disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight immediately after WWII.
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William Tell
Title: William Tell
Released: April 8, 1948
Type: Movie
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Les Misérables - Manhunt
Title: Les Misérables - Manhunt
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Jean Valjean, pursued through the years for a minor infraction by the implacable policeman Javert, attempts to create a life for himself and for his adopted daughter Cosette amid the revolutionary struggles of France.
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La contessa Castiglione
Title: La contessa Castiglione
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 13, 1942
Type: Movie