Francesco D'Adda

Francesco D'Adda

Born: October 15, 1943
in Rome, Italy

Movies for Francesco D'Adda...

Volesse il cielo!
Title: Volesse il cielo!
Character: Padre di Chiara
Released: January 25, 2002
Type: Movie
A police inspector has to help an eccentric stranger who seems to have lost his memory.
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Bomber
Title: Bomber
Character: Ciuffo di cuoio
Released: August 5, 1982
Type: Movie
Bomber is an unemployed boat captain. One day he meets Jerry, a manager of boxers who are struck by the force of his fists. That is when they see the chance to win big money.
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Quando la coppia scoppia
Title: Quando la coppia scoppia
Character: Carletto
Released: May 21, 1982
Type: Movie
A woman takes advantage of the fact that her husband allowed himself to be praised for divorce to demand immediate separation.
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Desirable Teacher 2
Title: Desirable Teacher 2
Character: un passeggero sul treno
Released: February 19, 1982
Type: Movie
Pierino has again flunked the exams. Therefore, his desperate parents send him to boarding school.
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Fatal Fix
Title: Fatal Fix
Character: First Client (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1980
Type: Movie
A microcosm of people lost in search of an artificial happiness, which leads them to steal and prostitute themselves for the short ecstasy of a squirt of heroin in the veins. Marco and Pina live in this world of drugs, prostitution and violence, and they must fight for their survival. One day one of their friend dies during a holdup. Marco and Pina are helpless and will do anything to escape, but fate does not want a similar world. Between bites of heroin and sidewalk they are in a deadly trance.
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Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century
Title: Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century
Character: Hunnicut's Secretary
Released: December 23, 1977
Type: Movie
Professor Wassermann is asked by industry magnate Morgan Hunnicut to lead an expedition to study the giant Yeti creature found frozen in a large ice block on Newfoundland's coast. The professor does not know that Hunnicut intends to use the prehistoric creature as a trademark of its multinational industrial group. A very big mistake.
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I Am Afraid
Title: I Am Afraid
Released: October 6, 1977
Type: Movie
During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally upright judge. He feels increasingly fearful as the links of the upper echelons of police and government to the violence become clear.
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Destruction Force
Title: Destruction Force
Character: rappresentante di gioelli
Released: October 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes in search of a suspect, Lanza, to avenge the death of his boss. Ghini's search leads him to Belli, a Sicilian gangster and 'Trashy', the dirty leader of a gang of killers. The action is violent as both police and criminals track down Belli who still finds some time to attempt a couple of robberies...
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Brothers Till We Die
Title: Brothers Till We Die
Character: The Bespectacled Psychiatrist
Released: August 18, 1977
Type: Movie
Vincenzo 'hunchback' plans a robbery on a armored police van with his gang. Once the job is done, his gang try to kill him and absconds with the loot. Vincenzo hides in the sewers before looking up his friend Monezza who the police later interrogate for his involvement with vincenzo. Meanwhile, Vincenzo is getting revenge on his gang by killing them off one at the time in his various brutal ways.
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An Average Little Man
Title: An Average Little Man
Released: March 17, 1977
Type: Movie
Giovanni Vivaldi is an average middle-aged man with a secure job as a government accountant. He wishes nothing more than to set up his only son Mario, his biggest pride in the world, with the same secure government job before he eventually retires. For this, Giovanni will stop at nothing...
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Stormtroopers
Title: Stormtroopers
Released: December 20, 1976
Type: Movie
A handful of recruits prepares for a war that nobody knows about the purpose or the motive. The field commander is a general who plays with a Marx puppet and lives in a luxurious palace that looks like a cabin from the outside. His orderlies are a captain who lives in Arabic dress in a curtain and a sergeant in training who does not shine for intelligence. Continuing training between various and grotesque accidents until the order arrives for the front. And then?
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Hit Squad
Title: Hit Squad
Character: Marini
Released: October 29, 1976
Type: Movie
A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.
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Dimmi che fai tutto per me
Title: Dimmi che fai tutto per me
Character: Caputo, il vice commissario
Released: October 28, 1976
Type: Movie
Francesco Salmarani, a well-known doctor from Treviso, suddenly finds himself with an overdraft bank account as his wife's father has come from America demanding the purchase of a large Palladian villa. Tired of his wife, Francesco consoles himself with Paola and then lets himself be ensnared by the very young and beautiful Mary, who has come as housekeeper and father-in-law's lover. The need to fill the administrative gaps and the dream of running away with Mary lead the doctor to organize a coup against his father-in-law who, linked to the mafia, managed to transfer a large dollar patrimony, stolen from the gang, to the villa. The presence of the boy allows the commissioner to exonerate his son-in-law, Mary and Felegatti, of the death of the old mafioso. However, everyone will be left without the dreamed treasure which will fall to Mary and the son of the Salmarani who flee together.
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Meet Him and Die
Title: Meet Him and Die
Released: October 8, 1976
Type: Movie
Ray Lovelock stars as Massimo, a young undercover cop with a taste for violence and a thirst for revenge! Massimo gets himself arrested and quickly infiltrates the ranks of the underworld figure serving a sentence. Eventually a breakout is planned and Massimo is to be included. Just about as soon as they hit the street an attempt is made on the boss' (Martin Balsam) life. Massimo acts quickly in helping to save him and that's the in he has been waiting for
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1900
Title: 1900
Character: Soldier on Train (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1976
Type: Movie
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
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The Landlords
Title: The Landlords
Character: Orazio
Released: August 15, 1976
Type: Movie
Giorgia and her sister inherit a villa and decide to turn it into a pension. When the sister orders the advertising, the brochure, together with the name, Pension Paradise, leads people to believe it is a whore house.
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Colt 38 Special Squad
Title: Colt 38 Special Squad
Character: Technical Specialist (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1976
Type: Movie
The city of Turin is in the grip of a brutal crime boss known as "Il Marsigliese" and plenty of cops have good cause to want him dead — none more than Inspector Vanni, whose wife was murdered by the ruthless gangster. Having exhausted every other avenue, Vanni forms a crack squad of motorcycle-riding, Colt .38-toting elite officers, tasked with meting out justice on the margins of the law. But when "Il Marsigliese" launches a bombing campaign designed to extort a vast ransom from the city's authorities, Vanni finds himself in a race against time to exact his revenge and avert disaster.
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The Last Concert
Title: The Last Concert
Character: the doctor
Released: July 15, 1976
Type: Movie
Love story of a young woman Stella who is dying of leukemia. A man is mistaken for a family member at the hospital and is informed by a doctor the diagnosis of Stella. Stella cheerfully follows the man. He is reluctant at first but after some shaky moments the two develop a relationship. The two fall in love in the short period of time left to experience.
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Violent Milan
Title: Violent Milan
Released: March 5, 1976
Type: Movie
A gang of thieves decides to hit the headquarters of Aspex. The police intervened and only two of the robbers managed to escape with the loot, while the other two are forced to take hostages to escape. The police started investigations but also the gang leader, the Cat, will be hunting the first two escaped with the loot to get money, and revenge for their escape.
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La madama
Title: La madama
Released: January 16, 1976
Type: Movie
In the slang of the underworld or "mala" there is a special term for cop: "Madama". But if word were to get around that the "Madama" is Vito (Christian De Sica) they might even start to like the guy. Vito is a funny sort of a cop. For a start he doesn't like the uniform (he never wears it). Things might even go smoothly for him, if it weren't for an incredible number of beautiful girls who always manage to get in his way. Especially one girl Angelo (shouldn't that have been Angela? No, the girl's name really is Angelo). Problems arise too, with his direct supervisor, who also happens to be a relative. But Vito puts up with it all and manages to stay his usual calm and polite self, even when he risks getting killed.
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That Movement Which I Love So Much
Title: That Movement Which I Love So Much
Released: January 5, 1976
Type: Movie
Noblewoman Livia and her friend Marquis Cecco Ottobuoni take revenge against politician Fabrizio Siniscalchi, Livia's lover who dumped her for political reasons, by setting him up with a young prostitute Anna to cause a scandal.
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Mark Shoots First
Title: Mark Shoots First
Character: Ragioniere di Ghini
Released: December 22, 1975
Type: Movie
Mark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx".
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A Virgin Named Mary
Title: A Virgin Named Mary
Character: Francesco D'Adda
Released: September 11, 1975
Type: Movie
A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..
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Violent City
Title: Violent City
Released: August 13, 1975
Type: Movie
A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the department for a "questionable" shooting of a vicious criminal. However, he is soon approached by a representative for a group of citizens who themselves are fed up with what they see as criminals going unpunished, and they make him an offer he may very well not refuse.
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Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto
Title: Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto
Released: August 10, 1975
Type: Movie
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Blood, Sweat and Fear
Title: Blood, Sweat and Fear
Character: Giudice istruttore
Released: August 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Police believe that a respectable industrialist is actually the head of drug smuggling ring in Milan.
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Sex Diary
Title: Sex Diary
Character: Carluccio - Marisa's Fiancé
Released: July 27, 1975
Type: Movie
The Don Juan of a small provincial town saves from suicide a young American girl who falls in love with him. The citizens, after having discovered that the girl is very rich, will do everything to organize the marriage between them.
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Killer Cop
Title: Killer Cop
Character: Bondi
Released: March 27, 1975
Type: Movie
The investigation of the bombing of a hotel lobby as seen through the eyes of a young detective.
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The Last Desperate Hours
Title: The Last Desperate Hours
Character: Agent Scalise
Released: November 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Paolo Mancuso is a gang boss whose rivals want dead. During a failed assassination attempt, he is bitten by an infected lab rat. In the short time he has left to live, he tracks down his enemies and kills them one by one.
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The Murri Affair
Title: The Murri Affair
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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Prostituzione
Title: Prostituzione
Character: Immacolata's Client
Released: September 7, 1974
Type: Movie
They're Italy's notorious "Ladies of the evening" catering to the strange cravings of their kinky, high-paying clients. But suddenly, the girls of the street find themselves being stalked by someone with desires even they can't satisfy. After a series of shocking crimes, the clues lead police to a pornographic film maker and his stable of lovely models and starlets. But can the authorities track down the "Hooker Maniac" before he strikes again?
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Title: What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1974
Type: Movie
An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. It transpires that a private detective, Ruggero Pollente, was hired by Silvia's mother because the latter was concerned about her activities. As a conspiracy begins to emerge, Pollente's body is found dismembered and his girlfriend is subsequently attacked by a machete-wielding killer clad in motorcycle gear...
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Almost Human
Title: Almost Human
Character: Romano
Released: August 8, 1974
Type: Movie
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
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Bread and Chocolate
Title: Bread and Chocolate
Character: Rudiger
Released: May 5, 1974
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?
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Fasthand
Title: Fasthand
Character: Pracownik, Bank employee
Released: October 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Macedo, bloodthirsty leader of a gang of Confederates shoots the captain of the Northerners, Jeff Mallighan, known as "Fast Hand", shattering his right hand. Jeff, wounded on the ground, could not see the face of the villain, but his silver spurs have stuck in his mind as well as his unique gun. Some time after this event Macedo continues with his misdeeds, however, a mysterious horseman dressed in black will stand in his way.
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Rugantino
Title: Rugantino
Released: October 25, 1973
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice.
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La colonna infame
Title: La colonna infame
Released: April 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.
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Giovannona Long-Thigh
Title: Giovannona Long-Thigh
Released: April 12, 1973
Type: Movie
When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they discover the judge has a predilection for married women, the owner employs a prostitute to pose as his wife in an attempt to seduce the judge.
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For a Book of Dollars
Title: For a Book of Dollars
Character: Sheriff
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A bounty hunter name Amen is hired by a group of nuns to recover stolen money. The nuns are female desperadoes in disguise, who want the booty pillaged by an outlaw named Catapult and his gang.
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The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive
Title: The Weapon, the Hour, the Motive
Character: Pisani - Giulia's Husband
Released: November 23, 1972
Type: Movie
Don Giorgio, a handsome young priest and teacher in a convent, is involved with two lovers: Orchidea and Giulia. When he repents and vows to return to the Church, he is savagely beaten to death. Not long after, Giulia has her throat slashed. Inspector Boito falls in love with and prepared to marry Orchidea, who is also the main suspect. The key to solving the case seems to lie with an inquisitive boy called Ferruccio, who is kept locked up and drugged. He witnessed one of the murders, but will anyone believe his story?
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Roman Scandals '73
Title: Roman Scandals '73
Released: October 27, 1972
Type: Movie
The young Chiarina di Vallefiorita is forced by her father to marry an old, fat, rich man. With the help ot the monk of a nearby convent, she will escape her fate.
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Canterbury proibito
Title: Canterbury proibito
Character: Pilgrim
Released: October 27, 1972
Type: Movie
Two young boys compete for the same girl - a third enjoys from a distance . Two men are abusing a girl. Three men desires a married woman. Two nuns get out in the nice weather with a bunch of monks.
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Alfredo, Alfredo
Title: Alfredo, Alfredo
Character: Mayor
Released: September 22, 1972
Type: Movie
Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
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The Other Canterbury Tales
Title: The Other Canterbury Tales
Character: Galante (segment 'Il Sire di Brindisi')
Released: September 8, 1972
Type: Movie
Four stories about unfaithful wives and jealous husbands.
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Creeping Death
Title: Creeping Death
Character: Piano Player
Released: April 9, 1972
Type: Movie
A man comes to a western town willing to discover the perpetrators of the robbery of a bank, where a significant amount of gold disappeared and witnesses were cruelly murdered. One of the thieves is now getting rid of the accomplices, using some deadly snakes that only seem to obey him.
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Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo
Title: Continuavano a chiamarli i due piloti più matti del mondo
Released: March 8, 1972
Type: Movie
The sons of a billionaire hijack an airplane because their father is against their love affair with two poor girls.
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In the Name of the Italian People
Title: In the Name of the Italian People
Character: Lipparini - the registrar
Released: December 18, 1971
Type: Movie
An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?
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Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Title: Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Character: antiquario
Released: July 5, 1971
Type: Movie
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Confessions of a Police Captain
Title: Confessions of a Police Captain
Released: March 26, 1971
Type: Movie
A police captain arranges the release of a criminally insane prisoner, who soon winds up dead. When the District Attorney takes on the case, he uncovers corruption in the department and vows to take down the man who's responsible.
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Per amore o per forza
Title: Per amore o per forza
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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Many Wars Ago
Title: Many Wars Ago
Character: Military Doctor (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.