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Chaque minute compte (1960)
Character: Patrick
The Leroy factory manager, Sorel, is a gambler with debts, playing double-game. He enjoys the advantages of his social situation and the confidence shown him by his boss, Leroy.
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Cherche famille désespérément (1994)
Character: Edward
After the accidental death of his son on a racetrack, Edward Milan, a wealthy industrialist, asks his nephew to find his grandson, who has been living in an orphanage for eleven years and whose existence he has just learned. But the boy, named Martineau, is suspicious of the police since he has been unjustly accused of shoplifting. He runs away when the two uniforms in charge of taking him back to his grandfather's house appear. He manages to find lodging with an old lady, a kleptomaniac at times, then with a theater prop master who is persecuted by his fiancée and finally with a lonely veterinarian.
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Le Cou de la girafe (2004)
Character: Maxime
A clever little girl convinces her grandfather to visit her grandmother, whom she has never met.
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Don Gnocchi - L'angelo dei bimbi (2004)
Character: Papa Pio XII
True story of Don Carlo Gnocchi, a priest who manages in postwar Italy, upon his return from the Russian front where he participated as military chaplain for the Alpini, to build a charity that is still active today and bears his name. Two episodes recount his life from the time he became spiritual director of the Gonzaga Institute in Milan at age 34 until his death in 1956. The miniseries is based on the biography written by Giorgio Rumi and Edoardo Bressan, Don Carlo Gnocchi, life and works of a great entrepreneur of charity, Mondadori, 2002.
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La sua giornata di gloria (1969)
Character: The Commander
Alerted by an informer, the police suppress an ideological uprising, causing the death of one of the participants. The traitor, in order to redeem himself in the eyes of his comrades, pushes them towards a terrorist action. But, once again, at the last moment he refuses to participate out of fear.
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Les filles sèment le vent (1961)
Character: Armand
It is fruit-picking season in the plain and pickers come from all over and live in a camp for several weeks. Among the many pretty girls are Kissa, a natural vamp who delights in exciting men; Margo who is hard and tough, and Josine who is tender and romantic. They work in a feverish atmosphere and inflamed by the summer heat, youthful passions run riot, and the girls' sensual behavior cause rivalry among the men. Lorry driver Armand applies the same degree of ardor to his love-making as to his work, and his biggest rival is the boss' son, Berto, a strutting rooster who is very proud of his American car. After work each day, Kissa queens it in the cabaret on shore, and derives great pleasure in arousing jealousy between the men.
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Gli ultimi angeli (1978)
Character: Massimo
Elisabeth and Massimo have been separated for two years and decide to affirm their independence with a divorce. The person who suffers the most from the situation is their son Marco, who normally lives with his father in a beautiful, but lonely country house. Marco's only satisfaction comes from riding his horse Socrates around the countryside, but Massimo sends the horse to his father-in-law in Sicily when, tired of solitude, he decides to sell everything and move into town. At this point, Marco, who has by chance witnessed the kidnapping and release of Gilberto, decides to flee and pretend he has been kidnapped to gain his parents' attention. His journey to Sicily, where his maternal grandfather lives near Ragusa, is crammed full of adventures, but the child makes it in the end, thanks to Rocco, a Neapolitan street urchin, who befriends him.
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海へ 〜See you〜 (1988)
Character: Toto Luciano
Team DANKAI are set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousands of miles and multiple continents. Prior to the event, DANKAI leader Mizuki is ordered by their sponsor to add popular celebrity Ryuichi Yoshii to the roster for publicity. This exacerbates DANKAI's resentments and baggage. Needing a steady hand to mediate dispute and navigate their support vehicle, Mizuki recruits legendary retired mechanic/driver Eiji Honma to the team. Soon Honma discovers his ex-wife Kei is also participating in the rally, alongside her current husband, the bullfighter Antonio Vázquez. Honma's truck also comes to include stowaway passenger Yuko Takei, Yoshii's pop star girlfriend who is trying to salvage their relationship.
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Quella strana voglia d'amare (1977)
Character: Priest
Angela and Marco are a new brother and sister, they live in a large country house outside the rest of the world, united by an at least ambiguous relationship, which goes far beyond fraternal affection.
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Lo scandalo (1966)
Character: Dario
A married couple and their friends are entangled in a series of love affairs.
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Berlin '39 (1993)
Character: Rostock
A German officer is forced to marry Louise, daughter of a general, hero of the First World War. But Louise maintains lesbian relationships with Margo.
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L'ape e il vento (2009)
Character: Giulio
Matteo, a young engineer, returns to the mountains of his childhood to visit his father's grave.
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L'Idea Fissa (1964)
Character: (segment "Sabato 18 luglio")
An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.
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Bello di mamma (1981)
Character: Duca William Trinacria
Domenico, known as Mimì, must prove to his parents that he is not impotent and homosexual, only this way will he be able to unlock himself and receive the rich family heritage.
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La notte è fatta per... rubare (1967)
Character: George
A new type of safe, touted as impregnable, alarms insurance companies. To deny the factory's assumptions, three burglars are hired with the task of violating one. A wealthy jeweler's new safe is targeted.
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Puttana galera! (1977)
Character: Col. Remy
The presence of mafia boss Vangelli's yacht in front of the island of Ventotene brings a group of prisoners of the penitentiary close.
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Peccato originale (1981)
Character: Marco Nobili
A wife tries to deal with the recent death of husband and her rebellious daughter who is at constant odds with her. One day a friend of her deceased husband enters her life. The wife and her husband’s friend quickly form a bound which further puts her at odds with her daughter who sets her sights on seducing her father’s friend.
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La Loi des hommes (1962)
Character: Dandrieu
After a planned robbery on an armoured car the investigating police officer encounters a female journalist who specialises in criminology, and who he suspects may have had a role in the heist.
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L'ombre du pharaon (1996)
Character: N/A
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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Detective per caso (2003)
Character: Mario Del Marro
A famous collector dies suddenly in Florence in strange circumstances. His wife, the only heir of an immense wealth, has a unpleasant surprise: the husband, a few days before his death, had spent 20 million dollars to buy a building in the heart of the Tuscan city. Why didn't he say anything to anybody?
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Ecce Homo - I Sopravvissuti (1969)
Character: Jean
Having survived a terrible nuclear war that destroyed the human race, a family of three persons, Jean, his wife Anna and Patrick, lives in a trailer by the sea.
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Baciami Strega (1985)
Character: N/A
A beautiful witch is sent to Earth by the devil to capture the souls of a group of ambitious men.
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Due vite, un destino (1993)
Character: Colonnello Aller
David Sloan is 40 and is a Vietnam veteran unable to accept his violent past. Decides to consult a psychiatrist and gradually begins to understand that there are other things in life besides killing.
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Un omicidio perfetto a termine di legge (1971)
Character: Marco Breda
A speed-boat racer suffers amnesia after an boating accident and goes to his isolated villa to recuperate. His relationship with his wife is troubled, so he starts an affair (sort of) with the another woman, which results in one of the three of them being shot. But there are several more twists--and more murders--to come.
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Kamikaze (1987)
Character: Capo servizi segreti
A shy employee at a furniture store, accountant Artioli is sent by his manager to the airport to pick up a young black woman who is to be hired as a domestic worker. What seems like a mundane task turns into a dangerous adventure. The woman is in fact a princess being pursued by the secret services. The poor accountant will have to face killers, secret agents and African guerrillas.
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Il soldato di ventura (1976)
Character: Charles La Motte
Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore bides his time to determine which side is the winning one. This is at first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.
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Senza via d'uscita (1971)
Character: Gilbert
A rich industrialist is accused of a crime he didn't commit. But every single clue leads to him.
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Mario und der Zauberer (1994)
Character: Graziano
The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time. The Fuhrmann's have to realize the upcoming and growing fascism and their children are fascinated by a magician visiting the town. Soon nothing is as usual. The times are changing ...
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Piazza delle cinque lune (2003)
Character: Barista
Just the night before his retirement District Attorney Saracini is given a film showing the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. As the District Attorney takes on the case he along with his team finds more compelling and secretive evidences. Too many secrets are found that should stayed as secrets.
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Fatevi vivi, la polizia non interverrà (1974)
Character: The Professor
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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Le Déménagement (1997)
Character: Le livreur 1
Qui n'a pas connu le stress d'un déménagement ? Surtout quand on est un jeune écrivain comme Alain, sur le point de quitter une bonne maison d'édition pour écrire un sitcom pour la télévision, que sa femme est sur le point d'accoucher et de surcroît quand les déménageurs sont des Roumains qui travaillent au noir et qu'ils n'ont pas vraiment le sens de la ponctualité...
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Libera, amore mio... (1975)
Character: Franco Testa
A strong-willed woman risks everything to support the cause of anti-fascism in World War II Italy.
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Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte (1971)
Character: Romolo "Sartana" Moretti
Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which happens to have been designed by Manteghin.
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Yankee (1966)
Character: Yankee
A man known only as 'Yankee' rides into a dying, desolate frontier New Mexico town completely controlled by 'The Grand Cougar', setting off a chain of events where dominance is the prize.
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Teste di quoio (1981)
Character: Commander Bartoli
A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage.
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7 uomini d'oro (1965)
Character: Albert (le professeur)
After bungling a job in London, Albert, an international thief, masterminds a plan to rob a Geneva bank of 7 tons of gold. Assisted by the seductive Giorgia, who works from within the bank, and six other accomplices, Albert sets himself up in an expensive hotel with a battery of electronic devices to supervise the operation.
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Come, quando, perché (1969)
Character: Marco
Paola, wife of a wealthy Turinese industrialist, meets Alberto, a friend of her husband, who emigrated to Argentina and has returned for business reasons. After a few days, Alberto confesses his love to Paola, but she resists. However, during a vacation in Sardinia, having waited in vain for the arrival of her husband, she gives in to Alberto's wishes.
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La mandragola (1965)
Character: Calimaco
A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.
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Le voci bianche (1964)
Character: Don Ascanio
In 18th-century Rome, a young man in a choir of castrati falls for the beautiful wife of a powerful aristocrat.
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La ville est tranquille (2000)
Character: René
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
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Alibi perfetto (1992)
Character: Police Chief
Michael Woods stars as Tony Giordani, a narcotics agent who learns that his wife has been murdered while he is recuperating from an attack by a mysterious stranger. His boss thinks it's a Mafia vendetta, but Tony follows the clues to an empty house which his wife had been photographing on the day of her murder. There, he finds a burned corpse and several clues leading to the Full Moon Killer, who has been decapitating prostitutes around the city. The owner of the house is an insane countess, whose escape from an asylum leads to yet another murder. Before long, Tony and his partner, Lisa, with whom he is engaged in a passionate affair, find themselves targeted for murder unless they can solve the case.
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Cebo para una Adolescente (1974)
Character: Ignacio
A young woman was seduced by a high positioned official who is married but when she falls in love with a young man she tries to break the other relationship...
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Sono stato un agente C.I.A. (1978)
Character: Greek Inspector
Janssen plays an ex-CIA agent who has become an author, writing both non-fiction exposes (Phillip Agee was in the news at this time) and fiction spy novels. The CIA is on his case, in the person of Arthur Kennedy, CIA chief in Athens, where Janssen is staying. Janssen is pursuing a case that interests him, while dodging the traps set for him by Kennedy and trying to help Maurizio Merli, a former colleague with personal problems.
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Questione di karma (2017)
Character: Ludovico Sterne
Giacomo befriends a con man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
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La bambina dalle mani sporche (2005)
Character: Ciuti
A Telepiemonte journalist, Giulio Guala, is awakened one morning by a phone call from a "deep throat" warning him to rush to the airport for the arrival of Celeste Cucchi, a famous pasta industrialist.
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Teste di cocco (2000)
Character: Yanez
Tommaso and Pietro are two brothers who, shortly after their father's funeral, discover that the coffin is actually empty. To find out more they leave for Malaysia, where the man died, but a series of misunderstandings and false clues will take them around the world to discover other empty coffins and a father yet to be found and perhaps to know.
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R.A.S. (1973)
Character: Commandant Lecoq
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training before being sent to the front. Rémy March, Alain Charpentier and Raymond Dax are three such young men who have no interest in the military escapade and are reluctant conscripts. What they witness in Algeria will appall and transform them. Rape, torture, executions... there is no end to the atrocities in which they become unwilling participants. No wonder the French military are so willing to proclaim that there is nothing to report...
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Leoni al sole (1961)
Character: Mimí
The endless summer of a group of thirty-something neapolitans at Positano.
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Vajont - La diga del disonore (2001)
Character: Giorgio dal Piaz
On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, the higher dam in the world. The landslide formed a 250-meters wave and 50 million cubic meters of water completely destroied all the below towns, killing more than 2000 people. Planned by engineer Semenza, Vajont dam (263 meters) had to carry the electricity in all the houses of the country. Tina Merlin, a journalist from 'L'Unitá', tried for years to denounce the danger to build a dam near the Mount Toc and expecially to denounce all the omissions by the corrupted politicians and workers in charge of the dam construction. They preferred to trust in old geologist Dal Piaz instead to hear engineer Semenza young son's alarming analysis. No one seemed to understand the high danger until that October fatal night.
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Solo contro Roma (1962)
Character: Silla
A Roman Consul, on his way to fight a border war, stations a garrison of soldiers in a provincial town. The townspeople aren't happy with this situation but decide it's in their best interests to cooperate. However, the Tribune left in charge of the garrison proves to be cruel and demanding.
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La svergognata (1974)
Character: Fabio Lorenzi
In this movie a writer comes to stay at an island resort and gets involved with a teenage lolita who is there with her parents and rather malicious best friend. She teases the older man mercilessly--going to a hotel and dancing with him naked and then suddenly getting dressed and running off to a party with a young American guy. But it's not so much because she is malicious, but because she is really an insecure virgin. Finally, he gives up on her after his beautiful wife (Barbara Bouchet) shows up. But the younger woman becomes jealous and is not going to give up so easily. . .
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Che notte, ragazzi! (1966)
Character: Tony
Lawyer Tony Green has to pay a two-million-dollar check as compensation to the widow of a wealthy businessman who died as a result of an explosion on the plane immediately after take-off. Tony has to reach the widow who is currently abroad.
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Breve storia di lunghi tradimenti (2015)
Character: Joseph Milton-Dumonnier
In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the power of governments behind the events has been replaced by the power of holding companies. Nowadays you don't conquer a country. You buy it. "Short story of long betrayals" is again set in the Republic of Queimada, where in the "Salar de Queimada" (a salt lake) lies 50% of lithium in the whole world. Not surprisingly, there is an international interest in its fate and a breathless fight to seize it.
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Pleins feux sur l'assassin (1961)
Character: André
An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count's body.
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Valentine (2003)
Character: Jacques
When Valentine, a young organic vegetable farmer who lives just opposite the famous vineyards of the Château de Perrac, accepts to be transformed into the ideal wife for Baron Xavier de Perrac, little does she know what is in store for her. The apprenticeship of Valentine begins but the master-pupil relationship takes an unexpected turn.
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State buoni se potete (1983)
Character: Ignazio di Loyola
Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel.
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Il pesce innamorato (1999)
Character: Autista
Carpenter Arturo becomes a literary sensation when the children's stories he writes in his spare time get published, but he comes to resent success and the spotlight that comes with it. During a press tour he falls in love with beautiful married woman, Matilde.
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Montecarlo Gran Casinò (1987)
Character: Duroc
The misadventures of different Italian rascals who came to the famous Montecarlo Gran Casinò to get lucky.
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La nuora giovane (1975)
Character: Franco
The entrepreneur Franco, a wealthy man, finds himself going through a period of profound crisis with his wife Laura and things get complicated when he meets his young and beautiful daughter-in-law, Flora. Passion sparks between the two but the girl's husband certainly doesn't sit idle, starting a relationship with her sister-in-law. Each member of the family ends up being involved in affairs and betrayals, with unpredictable consequences.
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Amore in quattro dimensioni (1964)
Character: Franco Lampredi, il marito (segment "Amore e arte")
Young Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love. "Love and Language," the first tale, centers on the difficulties of a Sicilian immigrant who is unable to master proper Italian. the second tale "Love and Life" centers on a jealous and unhappy wife who becomes so desperate to be free of her constantly philandering husband she takes on a lover of her own. "Love and Art" a nearly exhausted screenwriter hires a secretary to help manage his typing. She's a pretty lass and this makes his insecure wife crazy until he fires the female and hires a male secretary. "Love and Death," the final episode centers on the love affair between a middle-aged widower and the grieving young widow he meets at the cemetery. Unfortuantely for his bank statement, the young, impoverished beauty isn't as bereaved as she seems.
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Netchaïev est de retour (1991)
Character: Luiz Perez
Freshly landed in Paris, Daniel Laurençon, who calls himself Netchaïev, who was believed dead five years ago in Gibraltar, warns a commercial center of a bomb attack a few minutes before its completion.
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Una gita a Roma (2017)
Character: Jean
A poetic adventure of two children who arrive from a small village in outing to Rome and, in front of an unexpected, decide to escape from their mother
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Tranquille donne di campagna (1980)
Character: Guido Maldini
In the late thirties of Italy, In the background of peaceful village landscapes, Guido requires unquestioning obedience to his will in his house. Alberto dreams of breaking free from the dictatorial care.
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Le Trou (1960)
Character: Manu Borelli
Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system – yet their escape is anything but assured.
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Il castello dei morti vivi (1964)
Character: Eric
Count Drago invites over entertainers to his castle, but what the people don't know is that Drago mummifies animals and humans!
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Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
Character: Vittorio
After the end of WWII, an Italian woman receives child support payments from three former US soldiers who all believe themselves to be the father of her daughter, Gia.
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Un homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà (1986)
Character: Professeur Thévenin
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.
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In Love and War (1996)
Character: Count Sergio Caracciolo
After teenage ambulance driver Ernest Hemingway takes shrapnel in the leg during World War I, he falls in love with Agnes von Kurowsky, a beautiful older nurse at the hospital where he's sent to recover. Their affair slowly blossoms, until Hemingway boldly asks Agnes to be his wife and journey to America with him.
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La rabbia (2008)
Character: Nonno
A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to leave a footstep of his presence on this world realizing a film.
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Chi salverà le rose? (2017)
Character: Eugenio
The melting love story between two old men, one of them is sick and stays in bed all day, the other is a gambler who takes care of him, visit him everyday and has a hard relationship with his daughter. Sometimes love is the only solution but we realize it when it's too late.
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Ragazza tutta nuda assassinata nel parco (1972)
Character: Martin
Johan Wallenberger, a rich financier, is killed in the House of Horrors at an amusement park in Madrid. His insurance company assign Chris Buyer, one of their best agents, to investigate because a few days prior to his death, the businessman took out a million dollar life insurance policy. Chris ingratiates himself with Catherine, Wallenberger's beautiful daughter, and it emerges that she is being plagued by a blackmailer. Chris is invited to the Wallenbergers' country house and is soon the centre of attention for several attractive women. Meanwhile, the plot thickens...
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Cuore di mamma (1969)
Character: Andrea Franti
A mute mother stands by idly as her young children radicalise as a result of a society that thrives on conflict and manipulation. As she is drawn to a group of political activists, her absence allows her children to become increasingly extreme in their behaviour and lethal games they play.
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La linea del fiume (1976)
Character: Padre di Giacomino
Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is entrusted by a priest, Don Luigi.
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Senilità (1962)
Character: Stefano Balli
Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Until he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful but fickle, wayward and coquettish young woman. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her.
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Frenesia dell'estate (1964)
Character: Manolo
Five episodes: a mature model makes his lover jealous; lovers quarrel; a clumsy Don Juan in business; a dancer and a captain; a beauty falls in love with a Spanish cyclist. The characters in the episodes intertwine, but the stories are not always treated with a light touch.
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Il tango della gelosia (1981)
Character: principe Giulio Lovanelli
Since her husband is distracted by his passion for horse racing, Lucia decides to make him jealous by pretending to be the lover of his bodyguard, Diego.
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Le ore nude (1964)
Character: Massimo
In this sex-charged character study, a woman's husband persuades her to share in his predilection for group sex. Later, she meets a student and has a one-day affair with him.
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Deux (1989)
Character: M. Muller
The manager of a contemporary music composer falls in love with the real estate agent with whom he is looking for a house in Paris. But both have been used to living an independent life: they want to marry but at the same time, are afraid of marriage
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San Pietro (2005)
Character: Gamaliele
Saint Peter, a reluctant but passionate leader, from the crucifixion of Jesus to his own. The film's first half dramatizes the New Testament's "Acts": early fear, the renewal of Pentecost, Saul's conversion, the decision to baptize pagans, and the Apostles' dispersal. In the second half, an aged Peter goes to Rome to join Paul, arriving on the day of Paul's arrest. Paul's death brings a crisis to Rome's Christians and to Peter; lessons from Jesus's teachings guide his decision to stay. Events within the fictive household of Persius, a Roman aristocrat, capture the upheaval that Christian teachings bring to the Eternal City.
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I briganti italiani (1961)
Character: O Zelluso
Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.
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Ettore lo fusto (1972)
Character: Ettore
A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him the land by kidnapping Helen, triggering a small gang war.
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La donna del lago (1965)
Character: Mario
While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.
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La matriarca (1968)
Character: Istruttore di tennis
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
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Amore facile (1964)
Character: Giovanni Bollati (segment "Il vedovo bianco")
Five episodes: A professor decides to murder her husband to win a woman. A hotelier seduces a boarder. A man convinces a friend to marry his lover, so as not to arouse his wife's suspicions. A man borrows money from a loan shark to pay for the services of his wife. Two couples try in vain to take a trip to the seaside.
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Milano Rovente (1973)
Character: Roger Daverty
A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.
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Il terrorista (1963)
Character: Rodolfo Boscovich
In Venice in 1943, a group of partisans led by Renato Braschi organize a series of autonomous terrorist attacks against the fascists while the National Liberation Committee urges caution. Renato is determined to carry out his ideas, risking his own life, and not only that...
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Hotel Gagarin (2018)
Character: Virgil
An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie, all ignoring what will happen to each of them.
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Le quatrième sexe (1962)
Character: Paul
Michel and Paul earn money from passers-by by doing chalk drawings outside the Louvre. They also make the scene at the hot spots of Paris. Sand is a wealthy and luscious blonde artist who paints nude girls and houses at her loft. When Michel's gorgeous sister shows up from out of town, both Paul and Sand fall for her.
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Qua la mano (1980)
Character: Pope
Two episodes: A roman coachman fulfills the dream of his life and meets the Pope. A priest crazy about dancing wins the first prize in a contest.
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Una vita lunga un giorno (1973)
Character: Philippe
Andrea Rispoli falls in love with Anna Andersson, a Swedish girl who has just inherited the boarding house where he's staying. When Anna is discovered to be suffering from a potentially lethal heart condition, Andrea decides to do whatever it takes to raise the money for he treatment. Even if it means risking his own life...
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Interno berlinese (1985)
Character: Herbert Gessler
What begins as an innocent art class becomes a steamy triangle of erotic passions and forbidden love. A beautiful Japanese girl becomes the object of obsession in a devious relationship between the wife of a German diplomat and her husband.
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Mannaja (1977)
Character: McGowan
Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of power in a corrupt mining town, he unleashes a firestorm of brutality, betrayal and cold-blooded murder. Now, one man stalks a savage land where justice walks a razor and no bullets slice deeper than vengeance. He is A MAN CALLED BLADE.
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Il gatto (1977)
Character: Don Pezzolla, the priest
Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer...
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Non faccio la guerra, faccio l'amore (1966)
Character: Nicola
Twenty years after the end of the war, a German submarine has not yet surrendered and continues to wander the seas. Its travelers include a half-witted officer, a meager and dazed crew, and Ombrina, a girl rescued from a shipwreck when she was only one year old and adopted by the men of the strange vessel.
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Al di là del bene e del male (1977)
Character: Peter Gast
The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and his Jewish companion Paul Ree meet a beautiful young Russian intellectual and draw her into a ménage-à-trois.
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La mano spietata della legge (1973)
Character: Commissario Gianni De Carmine
When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the consequences. Unfortunately the murderers realize that they have been seen, and kill both women. Catching the killers proves difficult as anyone who knows anything dies in unexplained circumstances. It becomes evident that a large and powerful criminal organization is behind the murders, and that they have links within the police force. It is up to Lt. Carmine to see that justice prevails, using any means necessary.
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Nikita (1990)
Character: Chief Grossman
A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
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La terza madre (2007)
Character: Guglielmo De Witt
An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are gathering in the city. All these events are caused by the return of Mater Lacrimarum, the last of three powerful witches who have been spreading terror and death for centuries. Alone against an army of psychos and demons, Sarah Mandy, an art student who seems to have supernatural abilities of her own, is the only person left to prevent the Mother of Tears from destroying Rome.
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Femina Ridens (1969)
Character: Dr. Sayer
Beautiful PR woman, Maria finds herself trapped in the home of the sinister and troubled Dr. Sayer, where she is subjected to a series of increasingly bizarre, terrifying, and degrading sex games. Sayer admits that he has murdered several women after the same ordeal, always killing them at the point of orgasm. But all is not what it seems, and through a series of twists and turns, the whole situation is slowly turned on its head.
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Milano Calibro 9 (1972)
Character: Chino
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
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Il portiere di notte (1974)
Character: Klaus
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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Le Premier Cercle (2009)
Character: Halami (as Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu)
The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules his world with an iron fist. His son and heir, Anton, dreams of breaking free and making his own choices. But the gang's inner circle is engraved in blood. To escape, not only does Anton have to counter his own destiny, but also the man who has sworn to bring his father down.
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Una vergine per il principe (1965)
Character: Ippolito
Young Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, rejects his first wife Margherita Farnese, obtaining the annulment of the union and, at the same time, raising strong doubts about her virginity
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L'attico (1963)
Character: Tommaso
In the 1960s, Silvana, a beautiful girl from the countryside, decides to spend the night in Rome after missing the last bus home. Without a place to stay, she seeks refuge in an under-construction attic. There, she meets a young man, leading to a short-lived romance. He opens her eyes to the wonders of the economic boom shaping the capital in those years. Despite the chaos of buses, protests, and big stores, Silvana chooses to make Rome her home.
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Senza sapere niente di lei (1969)
Character: Nanni Brà
When an old lady dies two hours before her life insurance expires, the insurance lawyer suspects something dubious. He begins to investigate and he becomes the lover of the old lady's daughter...
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Il medium (1980)
Character: Prof. Power
A composer, grieving over the death of his wife, moves into a temporary home, with his young son, where they both fall under supernatural assault.
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55 Days at Peking (1963)
Character: Julliard
Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
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La donna del traghetto (1986)
Character: Primo
Giulì is a traveling puppeteer who meets Viola, a young ferrywoman who transports passengers on a raft. Giulì's desire is to have a child, so he builds one out of wood. One morning, in place of the puppet , he finds a child of flesh and blood.
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Llanto por un bandido (1964)
Character: Pedro Sánchez
José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.
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Roma bene (1971)
Character: Giorgio Santi
A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
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Don Bosco (1988)
Character: Papa Leone XIII
This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin.
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L'Autrichienne (1990)
Character: D'Estaing
A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days.
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Le retour de Casanova (1992)
Character: Emissary
After many years of rambling across Europe the aging Giacomo Casanova is impoverished. He wants to return to the Republic of Venice but he doesn't dare going there directly because he was a fugitive when he left. While he tries to find a way to get a pardon he meets a young lady named Marcelina. The more he shows his affection, the more ostentatiously she rejects him. Even so he doesn't give up on her because her lover Lorenzo has grave gaming debts. In return for the required money Lorenzo tells Casanova about a looming secret rendezvous with Marcelina. Moreover he lets Casanova take his place. Undercover of the night Casanova finally seduces her. Lorenzo later feels his honor was besmirched and demands satisfaction. Casanova kills him in a duel and then goes home to Venice.
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Courage fuyons (1979)
Character: Chalamond
At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful!
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La mano nera (1973)
Character: The Professor
Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.
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Calibro 9 (2004)
Character: Self
Short documentary on the 1972 Italo-crime classic Caliber 9
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L'occhio selvaggio (1967)
Character: Paolo
A film documentarian stops at nothing to record unusual and supposedly true-to-life situations.
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Il giorno più corto (1963)
Character: Soldato
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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