Florinda Bolkan

Florinda Bolkan

Born: February 15, 1941
in Uruburetama, Ceará, Brazil
Florinda Bolkan is a retired Brazilian actress and model. Bolkan acted with the Beatle Ringo Starr in her first film, "Candy". She worked in more than forty films, mainly in Italy. She was directed by Vittorio de Sica in Una Breve Vacanza. Under Elio Petri's direction, she made "Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion". Enrico Maria Salerno directed her in "Anonimo Veneziano". She worked with Jean-Louis Trintignant, John Cassavetes, and Annie Girardot.

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What's This Country Called Now?
Title: What's This Country Called Now?
Character: Archduchess Sophie
Released: October 11, 2020
Type: Movie
A Bosnian woman, working as a reporter during the Siege of Sarajevo, interviews a living witness to the assassination of the Archduke Ferdinand in 1914, and his wisdom gives her a deeper understanding of the Bosnian War, and her role in it.
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If Only
Title: If Only
Character: Olga
Released: March 26, 2020
Type: Movie
Alma, Jean and Sebastiano, the children of divorced parents, arrive in Rome from Paris on a visit to their father. During a holiday, the family’s tensions come to the surface.
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Who is Florinda Bolkan?
Title: Who is Florinda Bolkan?
Character: Carol Hammond (archive footage)
Released: October 15, 2010
Type: Movie
On holiday in Venice, a young couple try in vain to recapture the spirit of their relationship.
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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Title: Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 2008
Type: Movie
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.
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The Short Night
Title: The Short Night
Character: Magistrato
Released: May 4, 2006
Type: Movie
After twenty-five years, lawyer Lara Degli Esposti finds the son she had abandoned at birth is the main suspect in a murder case.
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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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Shedding the Skin
Title: Shedding the Skin
Character: Self
Released: February 18, 2005
Type: Movie
Documentary giving brief history of the giallo and the background to the film UNA LUCERTOLA CON LA PELLE DI DONNA - featuring interviews with various cast members and special effects technicians of the film.
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Bad Inclination
Title: Bad Inclination
Character: Mirta Valenti
Released: September 26, 2003
Type: Movie
When a bloodthirsty serial killer begins murdering women with a carpenter’s set square, the story becomes a media sensation, inspiring kooks from all over the city to attempt to cash in on the publicity.
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I Didn't Know Tururu
Title: I Didn't Know Tururu
Character: Eleonora
Released: August 4, 2000
Type: Movie
As Carmen prepares to marry for the fourth time, her three sisters find themselves juggling romantic predicaments of their own in this offbeat comedy from Brazil.
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A Kiss in the Dark
Title: A Kiss in the Dark
Character: Aldina
Released: May 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Alessandra Del Giudice, a successful lawyer with a few too many problems in the family, ends up in a coma for seven years following a road accident. When she wakes up she finds her husband waiting for her, who had just given permission to pull the plug on her life support, and her sister, who arrived at the last minute just in time to discover that Alessandra had lifted a finger and was about to reopen the eyes! Upon awakening, the worst surprise for the woman, however, is to discover that her son Yanneck has recently killed himself by jumping from a balcony. Convinced by a nightmare in which she sees the boy not jumping but being pushed by someone, she decides to investigate to understand what really happened.
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Ombre
Title: Ombre
Character: Kalantan
Released: November 17, 1999
Type: Movie
Elena Serpieri is an Italian neurologist who is in the United States, because she obtained a scholarship in a New York hospital. There she works together with the FBI on the profile of a dangerous serial killer.
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Bela Donna
Title: Bela Donna
Character: Mãe Ana
Released: August 14, 1998
Type: Movie
American couple move to the State of Ceará, Brazil, in the 1930s. The husband is looking for oil. His beautiful wife, Donna, soon falls in love with a rude but charming fisherman. The forbidden romance may destroy her marriage and upset the morals of the small village where they live.
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Title: Alice on the Run
Character: Elisabetta Mancini
Released: May 13, 1998
Type: TV
Alice Mancini, the young German wife of the Italian ambassador in Berlin, Mario Mancini, unexpectedly meets her husband's younger brother Vittorio who is presumed dead. Vittorio makes several mysterious references to the fate of Mario's first wife Alma, who apparently committed suicide ten years previously. Her curiosity aroused, Alice starts doing some research - but gets no answers either from her husband or his family. Several warnings later, when Alice still won't stop digging up the past , she suddenly finds herself the subject of an evil and complex intrigue: she is suspected of murder, and is forced to flee.
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The Shadow of the Pharaoh
Title: The Shadow of the Pharaoh
Released: January 2, 1996
Type: Movie
Under Pharaoh Amemphis III's reign, the most powerful in the kingdom, as vizier Burkis and a fanatic and xenophobic priest, will try to overthrow the Pharaoh. They will even murder the crown prince, Aker. But his twin brother will find a way to foil those fanatical plans.
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Shadow of a Kiss
Title: Shadow of a Kiss
Character: Mme Labronsky
Released: August 31, 1995
Type: Movie
Albert is a distinguished art dealer living in New York City. One day by chance, he visits a photo exhibit titled "Bistrot de Paris" by Carol Labronsky. In an old photo of two young lovers kissing while seated at a Bistro, Albert recognizes his first love, Rose, the girl he fell madly in love with during his stay in Paris in 1959, and had disappeared after leaving him. In that photograph Rose is wearing a sweater which Albert gave her, proof that the photo was taken after she had met him. Tormented by memories, AIbert feels a burning need to find out whet became of her.
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Olga O's Strange Story
Title: Olga O's Strange Story
Character: Sheila Altman
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
When Olga Roli returns to her birthplace after a nervous breakdown, it quickly becomes much worse for her. Anonymous, threatening phone calls to deal with her as Olga O, her stage name from her time working in a local strip club, soon followed by a near miss with a murderous motorcyclist.
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Crime of Passion
Title: Crime of Passion
Character: Giulia
Released: December 29, 1994
Type: Movie
Hungary: Callously leaving her handicapped daughter home alone, Sonya meets her lover at a hotel and is later shot to death. At her funeral, the main suspects are all present: Peter, Sonya's estranged husband; Tanya, her sister; and Julia, a business associate. The police inspector is assigned to the case discovers that Peter is sexually involved with both of the aforementioned women. Further murders ensue...
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The Evening Traveler
Title: The Evening Traveler
Character: La baronne
Released: October 25, 1993
Type: Movie
1993 TV movie
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Title: Mission of Love
Character: suor Helena
Released: September 9, 1993
Type: TV
After the death of her boyfriend, Stella travels to India and decides to become a nun and help the poor.
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The Blonde in Black
Title: The Blonde in Black
Character: Giovanna Bellocchi
Released: May 11, 1993
Type: Movie
In Perugia, Luca, a lawyer investigates mysterious facts that happened in the city and even got emotionally involved. The rather complicated cases are those of a jealous murderess girl, of a surgeon who kills a colleague who had helped him to face a dangerous intervention to become a woman, of a plumber who is suspected of murdering an heiress while the real guilty is the nephew who would like to take possession of a huge fortune.
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Title: Love at First Sight
Character: Samantha
Released: February 12, 1992
Type: TV
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Millions
Title: Millions
Character: Margherita
Released: February 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A pack of money-grabbing relatives try to take over his ailing uncle's industrial empire.
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Title: Der Erfolg ihres Lebens
Character: Bianca di Falco
Released: December 14, 1990
Type: TV
In Paris, Maxi Ardel, in her elegant forties, successfully and firmly runs a haute couture house bearing her name. In Florence, she is about to take over a textile company that belonged to an old Italian aristocratic family, the di Falco. She has, indeed, a revenge to take on them. Count Massimo di Falco had stolen her child twenty years earlier. Driven by a desire for revenge, Maxi wants to destroy this family at all costs, but she has to count on Countess Bianca, who is ready to defend herself from her former rival. From then on, the two women fight without mercy.
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Title: La trappola
Character: Sandra
Released: September 17, 1989
Type: TV
1989 2-part miniseries
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For Women Only
Title: For Women Only
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
1989 film For Women Only
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Some Girls
Title: Some Girls
Character: Mrs. D'Arc
Released: September 9, 1988
Type: Movie
While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.
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Prisoner of Rio
Title: Prisoner of Rio
Character: Stella
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
The story of the great train robber Ronald Biggs.
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Title: A Rainha da Vida
Character: Antônia Fidalgo
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: TV
Jurema, of humble origins, was raised on a large farm together with Vítor Correia and Carlos Valadares, whose father was the farmer. The three of them were very close and spent their childhood together. Only in adolescence began the rivalry between Carlos and Vítor, because of Jurema.
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Title: Family Business
Character: Lina Benetti
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: TV
The story of two sisters, two very different women: one is a determined and concrete businessman, the other a sweet and sensitive artist. Divided over everything, they will fall in love with the same man.
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The Trap
Title: The Trap
Character: Hélène
Released: September 11, 1985
Type: Movie
A woman becomes obsessed with a man she can't have, and carries the torch for more than 15 years.
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Title: The Octopus
Character: Olga Camastra
Released: March 11, 1984
Type: TV
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
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Soap and Water
Title: Soap and Water
Character: Wilma
Released: October 27, 1983
Type: Movie
A school janitor pretends to be a priest in order to give private lessons to a young top model.
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Bonded by Tender Friendship
Title: Bonded by Tender Friendship
Character: Adelaide
Released: September 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A once famous actor, whose career was ruined after he was forced to undergo an operation on his vocal cords, is constantly pursued by creditors and his faithful servant Dorino where the two endure an 'impossible' friendship.
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Manaos
Title: Manaos
Character: Manuela Aranda
Released: October 21, 1979
Type: Movie
At the beginning of this century some owners of rubber plantations in the Amazonas jungle convert a village into one big prison. But the inhabitants have other plans...
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Title: The Word
Character: Angela Monti
Released: November 12, 1978
Type: TV
A document is discovered that appears to be an ancient eyewitness account of the life of Jesus Christ. A public relations executive is hired to publicize this document as a new version of the Bible, but he finds himself enmeshed in controversy and intrigue.
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The Last House on the Beach
Title: The Last House on the Beach
Character: Sister Cristina
Released: April 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Sister Cristina is a nun who takes teenage girls in her care at a remote beach house where they rehearse A Midsummer Night's Dream. When three thugs show up, brutally raping and terrorizing the girls, sister Cristina is forced to renounce her teachings and seek bloody revenge.
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The Devil's Bed
Title: The Devil's Bed
Character: Walpurga
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A young engineer is supposed to do surveyings for a projected nuclear power station in an economically under-developed region and encounters strong opposition by the population. He realizes that the inhabitants are influenced by strange parapsychological occurences released by an elderly man, who also seems to dominate Walpurga, a young woman the engineer falls in love with.
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A Common Sense of Modesty
Title: A Common Sense of Modesty
Character: Loredana Davoli
Released: March 9, 1976
Type: Movie
The film is divided into four episodes that blends sex and comedy.
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The Day That Shook the World
Title: The Day That Shook the World
Character: Sophie
Released: October 31, 1975
Type: Movie
An historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo on June 28th, 1914.
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Royal Flash
Title: Royal Flash
Character: Lola Montez
Released: October 10, 1975
Type: Movie
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
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Footprints on the Moon
Title: Footprints on the Moon
Character: Alice Campos / Alice Cespi
Released: February 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?
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Flavia the Heretic
Title: Flavia the Heretic
Character: Flavia Gaetani
Released: June 14, 1974
Type: Movie
Puglia, southern Italy, around 1400. A convent is invaded by the Tarantula cult, whose fanatical and crazed members desecrate the sacred place by committing obscene and bloody acts.
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Love at the Top
Title: Love at the Top
Character: Flora
Released: March 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Nicolas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul, a young woman he hadn’t known before, in the streets of Paris to a café and sleeps with her the next day. When he tells his surprised friend Claude about the incident, the disillusioned and handicapped writer starts to guide him, leading Nicolas on a dazzling social ascent.
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A Brief Vacation
Title: A Brief Vacation
Character: Clara Mataro
Released: July 21, 1973
Type: Movie
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
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Dear Parents
Title: Dear Parents
Character: Giulia Bonanni
Released: February 9, 1973
Type: Movie
An Italian woman who has not heard from her daughter for a while travels to London, where the daughter is living, and is shocked to be confronted with the young woman's world. During the brief days they spend together, the women come to acknowledge the insurmountable differences that exist between them despite the love they share.
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The Master Touch
Title: The Master Touch
Character: Anna
Released: December 8, 1972
Type: Movie
A master thief, just out of prison, concocts a risky final score that would net him over a million dollars.
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Don't Torture a Duckling
Title: Don't Torture a Duckling
Character: Maciara
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.
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The Right to Love
Title: The Right to Love
Character: Helena
Released: August 15, 1972
Type: Movie
The tragedy of Helene and her husband Pierre, whose life is shattered when Pierre is kept as a political prisoner, while Helene is denied the right to visit him. A growing fear of losing her husband to tuberculosis takes over Helene, who does all she can to meet him, even for one last time.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Romance
Title: Romance
Character: Claudia Ridolfi
Released: October 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Love story between a young man and a married woman. She's married to a businessman who's neglecting her. She would like to leave him but she's afraid of the age difference between her and her lover.
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A Season in Hell
Title: A Season in Hell
Character: Gennet
Released: September 10, 1971
Type: Movie
The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at thirty-seven; and his passionate relationship with Paul Verlaine, full of wanderings, storms and falling out.
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Title: V.I.P. Schaukel
Character: Self
Released: May 9, 1971
Type: TV
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Title: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Character: Carol Hammond
Released: February 18, 1971
Type: Movie
Carol Hammond, the sexually frustrated wife of a successful London lawyer, is having bizarre, erotic dreams about her uninhibited neighbour, Julia Durer, who presides over noisy, sex and drug filled parties in the house next door. One night, Carol dreams culminate in violent death and she wakes to find her nightmares have become reality - Julia has been murdered and Carol is the main suspect. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
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The Last Valley
Title: The Last Valley
Character: Erica
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: Movie
People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Title: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Character: Augusta Terzi
Released: October 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
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The Anonymous Venetian
Title: The Anonymous Venetian
Character: Valeria
Released: October 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Without mentioning the reason, Venetian musician Enrico invites his ex-wife Valeria to visit him, and her heart is broken again during their last days together.
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Black Lemons
Title: Black Lemons
Character: Rossana Sciortino
Released: April 23, 1970
Type: Movie
Rosario Inzulìa, a young man involved with the Mafia, was sentenced to labor camp, forced to pay also for crimes he didn't commit. After eight long years of imprisonment he's finally released. Rosario goes back to Sicily, where he learns that his wife died in an accident. He tries to rebuild his life, but when he finds out that his wife was murdered, he decides that it's time to take action: alone against the Mafia!
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The Damned
Title: The Damned
Character: Olga
Released: October 30, 1969
Type: Movie
In the early days of Nazi Germany, a powerful noble family must adjust to life under the new dictatorship regime.
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Detective Belli
Title: Detective Belli
Character: Vera Fontana
Released: September 6, 1969
Type: Movie
A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.
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Crime Thief
Title: Crime Thief
Character: Florinda
Released: May 22, 1969
Type: Movie
A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.
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Love Circle
Title: Love Circle
Character: Nina
Released: April 13, 1969
Type: Movie
A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. She ends up taking on another man as well, and the writer has an affair with the another dinner guest. Soon the three men and two women are entangled in a confusing series of partner-swapping sex sprees where everyone's morals are challenged in the wake of the sexual revolution.
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Machine Gun McCain
Title: Machine Gun McCain
Character: Joni Adamo
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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A Rather Complicated Girl
Title: A Rather Complicated Girl
Character: Greta
Released: February 7, 1969
Type: Movie
Having casually overheard a confusing phone conversation between two women, Alberto manages to get in touch with one of the callers, Claudia, a painter. The two become lovers and things are spiced up by Claudia's ambiguous sexual nature and by the presence of her former lover, Pietro. Alberto discovers a pistol in Claudia's handbag and this leads to a further revelation: she's dominated by her stepmother Greta, who forced her into a clandestine lesbian relationship; of which Claudia is ashamed and wants to end - at all costs. Alberto, now a slave to love, runs Greta over. But Claudia denies urging him to murder...
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Candy
Title: Candy
Character: Lolita
Released: December 17, 1968
Type: Movie
A high school girl encounters a variety of kookie characters and humorous sexual situations while searching for the meaning of life.