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Intolerance: il caso Liuzzo (1969)
Character: N/A
With a screenplay by Liliana Cavani, this film is based on a true story, events that happened in Alabama in 1965. A daughter of Italian immigrants, Liuzzo participated in the march led by Martin Luther King. As she returned home, she was accosted and murdered by four members of the Ku Klux Klan.
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L' ultima faccia di Medusa (1958)
Character: Fabio
The alien Achtab lands in the garden of a couple in the middle of a party. The extraterrestrial, who has fled his planet, is greeted with curiosity and fear by his hosts, despite being unable to remove the heavy space suit that conceals his appearance. Achtab's arrival particularly intrigues Alice, who embarks on a special and intimate relationship with the alien, driven by her curiosity to discover what lies behind the stars.
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Incontro con Maria Carta (1972)
Character: Self
In this 1972 film, Maria Carta, considered one of the most beautiful voices in the folk music scene and one of the most gifted artists in Sardinia, interacts with the actor Riccardo Cucciolla. Maria Carta recites verses and sings songs of the Sardinian tradition and conveys in her art the essential lines of Sardinian identity and culture.
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Il segreto dell'uomo solitario (1988)
Character: Giorgio
Christian, well-off of a certain age, lives alone in a house between the moors and the sea on the Sardinian coast, she loved dearly by Ghiana, a peasant married. The arrival in the farmhouse near the young and charming Sara, who takes care of the mentally ill husband, upsets the life of Christian and his relationship with Ghiana, arousing in him love and anguish.
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Le Montreur de boxe (1996)
Character: Zipolino
Corruption on the boxing circuit at the turn of the century provides the basis of this French drama. The story centers on a talented young fighter, a logger that Abel Ginoux and his Italian partner Zipolino, a crooked doctor, discover during a fight in a woodland town. The logger, Passe Partout, is in a fight with Ginoux's best fighter and ends up accidentally killing the pugilist. Ever the opportunist, Ginoux lures Partout into the ring to replace the late fighter. Partout proves to be the classic provincial innocent with high, rugged ideals and little knowledge about the modern world. Ginoux takes him to town for the first time and the logger is delighted to discover amenities such as electricity and silent films. He soon falls in love with the beauteous Camille who works in her late father's cafe with her mother. Her father made many of the films, most of which are boxing matches, because he believed that the presence of a camera rendered a fight unfixable.
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La rivoluzione sessuale (1968)
Character: Emilio Missiroli
Fourteen people of different ages - seven men and seven women - gather in a comfortable hotel by the sea to carry out an experiment inspired by the theories of an Austrian psychoanalyst. The creator - Professor Emilio Missiroli - wants to show that only a thousand breaking taboos' that stifle the sexual life can liberate man from his existential malaise. Every night, so, for a whole week, men and women of the group will couple through a draw, without giving any importance to their feelings, thus demonstrating that these can and should do without. Based on Wilhelm Reich's The Sexual Revolution.
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Una casa in bilico (1987)
Character: Teodoro detto Teo
An elderly trio tries to adjust to each other when they all move into an apartment in Rome. When Giovanni (Ricardo Cucciolla) inherits the unit, he invites the Russian immigrant Maria (Marina Vlady) and his shy friend from college Teo (Luigi Pistilli) to live with him. Maria tries to get Teo to marry her friend so she can receive Italian citizenship. The three do their best to live in harmony in this bittersweet drama.
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Our God's Brother (1997)
Character: The Monk
In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.
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Rascel-Fifì (1957)
Character: Undici
Renato and Gedeon have just opened a nightclub in a disreputable area of New York, triggering the hostility of Gionata, a gang leader and owner of the nightclub across the street. Helped by the hoods of his gang, Gionata uses a couple of tricks to try and ruin his competitors. To begin with, he induces his friend Barbara, a vamp, to perform in a hot number in Renato and Gedeon's joint, so that the police intervene and close the club. The move fails, so Gionata decides to have Renatino, Renato's son, kidnapped by his men, which proves another flop. To make matters worse for Gionata, Michaela, his own daughter, has fallen in love with Renato, and sides with him and his partner...
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La violenza: Quinto potere (1972)
Character: Professor Salemi
Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.
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Addio ultimo uomo (1978)
Character: Narrator (voice)
A Castiglioni Brothers mondo film about the practices and rites of several native African tribes.
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Africa ama (1971)
Character: Narrator
Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.
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Africa segreta (1969)
Character: Narrator
Documentary about French Equatorial Africa, including sequences on adult circumcision rites of Bariba tribe; whipping of young Peuls; a secret asylum in the jungle; new-born tattooing in Haussa tribe; Muslim Tabaski tribe's rites; blood rites.
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Il pane dei pastori (1968)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Filming took place in the fall of 1962 in various locations in Barbagia, Sardinia, but above all in Oliena, where the entire carasau bread processing cycle was filmed.
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La quieta febbre (1964)
Character: protagonista
A documentary based largely on images of violence, abuses, crimes and genocide that occurred in the world, accompanied by the poems of Dylan Thomas ( “Hands have no tears to shed”)
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Al Fatah - Palestina (1970)
Character: Narratore (voice)
A documentary about the birth of the palestinian liberation movement Al Fatah, lead by the young Yasser Arafat.
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L'ultimo giorno di scuola prima delle vacanze di Natale (1975)
Character: Ambro
On the Apennines of Emilia in 1944 three fascists stop and seize a battered bus carrying several women, two men and a poor student named Athos, as well as the driver. The three republicans, who are collaborating with the Nazis, want to escape to Switzerland, but they begin to think that anyone who is not a fascist like them is a traitor and eventually cruelly kill all the passengers on the bus, while Athos is left naked and dying on the bank of a creek.
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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
Character: Dominico Villani
This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom, her marriage to Carlo Ponti following a romantic fling with Cary Grant, and the birth of her first child, and is tied together with actual clips from some of her movies.
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Blinde Augen klagen an (1996)
Character: N/A
Bosch witnesses a theft: German publishing house lawyer Petra Jansen's handbag is stolen from a street café. Together, the two set off in pursuit of the thief.
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La fantarca (1966)
Character: Lo speaker
The operetta, which was introduced from the headlines and a preamble, is initiated by a particular ballet, which then gives way to the development of the plot, in the form of operetta-musical.
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Hermann der Cherusker - Die Schlacht im Teutoburger Wald (1967)
Character: Narrator (uncredited)
In the first half of the first century A.D., the Teutonic tribes, led by Arminius The Terrible, rebel against the cruel and conquering Roman Empire. In raging torments and blood curdling battles, the barbarian tribes and Roman Legions fight a war of attrition, so brutal and terrible that Arminius becomes a legend throughout the empire. Only Augustus, Emperor of Rome is evil and treacherous enough to enslave the Teuton barbarian and halt his murderous uprisings.
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I sette fratelli Cervi (1968)
Character: Gelindo Cervi
The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World War 2.
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Il delitto Matteotti (1973)
Character: Antonio Gramsci
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
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Cani arrabbiati (1974)
Character: Riccardo
Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway.
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Un flic (1972)
Character: Paul Weber
A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.
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32 dicembre (1988)
Character: Generale Emanuele Anselmi
Three episodes about the relativity of time.
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Il seduttore (1954)
Character: Racca
Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.
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L'ultimo pugno di terra (1966)
Character: Narrator
'L'ultimo pugno di terra' (The Last Fistful of Land) is a 1966 documentary film directed by Fiorenzo Serra about the anguish and instability of the lower classes in a destitute Sardinia. Originally commissioned by the Sardinian regional government as a celebratory piece on the 'miraculous' effects of the 'Piano di Rinascita della Sardegna' (Sardinia's Rebirth Plan), the film instead shows an island still 'standing still in time', barely affected by the painful oxymoron of the inevitable changes taking place.
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Una sull'altra (1969)
Character: Benjamin Wormser
A San Francisco doctor encounters a prostitute who bears a striking resemblance to his late wife.
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Italiani brava gente (1964)
Character: Giuseppe Sanna
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
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Il ragazzo di Ebalus (1984)
Character: Old Farmer
During the Years of Lead in Italy, a student approaches extra-parliamentary terrorist groups, but comes to realize that he has to get away from those circles as he's hunted by both his former comrades and the police.
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La bugiarda (1965)
Character: Alfredo
Maria is a young beauty who is busy juggling three boyfriends (a count, a dentist and a student) at the same time. She manages this elaborate deception by impersonating her roommate Silvana who is a real life airline hostess. She lies to the count and the dentist about her flight schedules and her whereabouts so she can spend three days a week with each of them. She spends the remaining day of the week with the student who thinks she is a fellow student. One day surprising news of the real Silvana break out. Comedy and confusion ensure when Maria is forced to come up with a more elaborate scheme to cover her tracks and keep her boyfriends happy.
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Vanille fraise (1989)
Character: Andreani
Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.
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I vitelloni (1953)
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
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Francesco d'Assisi (1966)
Character: Fra' Leone
A 1966 biopic of Francis of Assisi presents him as a troubled rebel and champion of radical brotherhood, reflecting the spirit of 1968 student protests. Praised and condemned, the film sparked controversy for its bold, dissenting portrayal of faith.
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La donna nella Resistenza (1965)
Character: Narrator
Documentary composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy in World War II.
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Perseo l'invincibile (1963)
Character: (Voice dubbing for Richard Harrison)
To avenge his father's death and free the people of Seriphos from the evil King Galinor of Argus, the noble Perseus must defeat a dragon -- and the monster Medusa, whose steely gaze has cast the kingdom's best soldiers into stone.
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Abbasso Il Zio (1962)
Character: Narrator
Three kids climb over the wall of an old cemetery in the Piacenza countryside and reach a boy their age, who is praying in front of a tomb. Then, they all run out and reach an ancient abandoned cemetery. Here they amuse themselves by destroying votive statues and uncovering tombstones from which they extract bones and teeth.
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The Assisi Underground (1985)
Character: Luigi Brizzi
This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
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I malamondo (1964)
Character: Narrator
This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hot-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a graveyard.
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Pizza Colonia (1991)
Character: Massimo Serboli
Italian Francesco ( Mario Adorf ) runs a restaurant in Cologne , partnership is the brewer Zach ( Willy Millowitsch ) . Francesco has problems : a " Godfather" makes Zach an offer he can not refuse , the wedding between Francesco's daughter and Zach son bursts , and his wife threatened behind his affair to come up with kiosk owner Hilde , which lasts at least 18 or older to ...
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La linea del fiume (1976)
Character: Dr. Roder
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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Borsalino and Co. (1974)
Character: Volpone
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
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La via del petrolio (1967)
Character: Narrator
La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made following Bertolucci’s breakthrough second feature Before the Revolution, and the director has said that it’s a documentary made by a man who is desperate to direct another feature. The film was presented in three parts: "The Origins", "At Sea" and "In the Heart of Europe".
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Dedicato a una Stella (1976)
Character: Stella's father
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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Faccia di spia (1975)
Character: Giuseppe Pinelli
Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points out some of the more brutal aspects of the intelligence community from around the world. Wars are started, all facets of everyday life are controlled, innocent people are tortured needlessly and subjected to extreme violence.
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Pronto ad uccidere (1976)
Character: Police Commissioner Sacchi
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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Cugini carnali (1974)
Character: Celio D'Altamura
A shy schoolboy's life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer.
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In Calabria (1993)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Vittorio De Seta's documentary about the Calabria, revisiting the territory he documented in I Dimenticati in 1959.
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L'istruttoria è chiusa: dimentichi (1971)
Character: Pesenti
Arrested on suspicion of a hit and run, a succesful architect is put in prison awaiting trial or release. Whilst there he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.
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Sacco e Vanzetti (1971)
Character: Nicola Sacco
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
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No, il caso è felicemente risolto (1973)
Character: Professor Eduardo Ranieri
When the eyewitness to a brutal murder decides not to testify, the actual murderer chooses to finger him as the murderer and claim eyewitness status for himself.
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Roma come Chicago (1968)
Character: Vice Commissioner Pascuttini
After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
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Il pleut sur Santiago (1975)
Character: Olivares
A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearances of many people.
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Ad ogni costo (1967)
Character: Agostino Rossi
Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a mechanical genius, and a playboy.
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Paolo il caldo (1973)
Character: Paolo's Father
The Catanese baron Paolo Castorini leaves the closed Sicilian environment and moves to Rome where he enters into erotic relationships with women of all classes. He, however, feels dissatisfied with a life of only the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. But is it too late for him?
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Nella città perduta di Sarzana (1980)
Character: Terzi, sindaco di Sarzana
The film is set in the period of fascism and is represented through the story of the general inspector Vincenzo Trani.
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