
Birthday:
02-13-1939
(86 years)
Birthplace:
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Once Upon a Time in America
Special Effects
event1984 star_border 8.4
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A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Life Is Beautiful
Special Effects
event1997 star_border 8.4
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A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
Cliffhanger
Special Effects Coordinator
event1993 star_border 6.5
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A year after losing his friend in a tragic 4,000-foot fall, former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner, Hal, are called to return to the same peak to rescue a group of stranded climbers, only to learn the climbers are actually thieving hijackers who are looking for boxes full of money.
Il caso Moro
Special Effects Technician
event1986 star_border 6.5
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On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual account of what happened in between.
The Blonde
Special Effects
event1993
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Coming back from work by night, shy watchmaker Tommaso runs over a girl with his car, luckily without serious consequences. Next day he finds her waiting for him at his door. She asks him for help, as she can't remember anything prior to the incident.
The Stendhal Syndrome
Special Effects
event1996 star_border 5.6
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A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brutal man's obsession.
Man on Fire
Special Effects
event1987 star_border 5.7
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Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.
The Berlin Affair
Special Effects
event1985 star_border 5.4
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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.
All Deceased... Except the Dead
Special Effects
event1977 star_border 6.2
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Dante arrives at the castle of the recently deceased Marquis Zanetti to sell a book which contains a prophecy that the death of nine members of the Zanetti family will reveal a hidden treasure.
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Special Effects
event1975 star_border 6.3
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Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.
Savages
Special Effects
event1995 star_border 5.6
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A group of Italian tourists on a Caribbean holiday finds itself stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash.
Catherine and I
Special Effects
event1980 star_border 5.4
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Enrico Melotti, a middle-aged businessman, has a difficult relationship with his wife, maid and secretary/lover. During a business trip to America, his friend Arturo shows him the key to solving all of his problems: Caterina, a female-looking robotic maid that does all domestic chores better than any human.
How Long Is the Adventure
Special Effects
event1987 star_border 4.8
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In order to get some money Gianni Zappi tries to organize an insurance fraud by drowning his yacht.
The Miser
Special Effects
event1990 star_border 6.3
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Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.
The Grand Duel
Special Effects
event1972 star_border 6.1
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A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
Il tassinaro
Special Effects
event1983 star_border 6.5
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Pietro Marchetti, a mature Roman taxi driver, has countless and interesting meetings while he is on duty with his car "Zara 87".
Alive or Preferably Dead
Special Effects
event1969 star_border 5.6
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Two brothers, Monty and Ted, will inherit $300,000 if they manage to live together for six months.
Fantozzi The Return
Special Effects
event1996 star_border 5.8
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Ugo Fantozzi has been ejected from Heaven and is sent back to Earth for a short period of time until the staff in Heaven can get Fantozzi a place there. Fantozzi goes through a variety of unfortunate experiences, such as rescuing his retro punk granddaughter Uga, and having to pay a vast telephone bill due to frequent chat line conversations. He ends up getting arrested instead of his ex-boss, who was originally charged with corruption. Just as he is about to enjoy the World Cup Final with Italy, he is called back into Heaven. Can he find peace once again?
The Big Racket
Special Effects
event1976 star_border 6.9
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Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the threat of violence, no one dares to act, except for a restaurant owner who is forced by Palmieri to tell the truth.
Keoma
Special Effects
event1976 star_border 6.9
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Half-breed Keoma returns to his border hometown after service in the Civil War and finds it under the control of Caldwell, an ex-Confederate raider, and his vicious gang of thugs. To make matters worse, Keoma's three half-brothers have joined forces with Caldwell, and make it painfully clear that his return is an unwelcome one. Determined to break Caldwell and his brothers' grip on the town, Keoma partners with his father's former ranch hand to exact violent revenge.
Honeymoon Trips
Special Effects
event1995 star_border 6.8
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The vicissitudes of three couples of newlyweds from the celebration of weddings to their respective honeymoons.
Holy Cow
Special Effects
event1982 star_border 5.7
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When a stage artist is send to fight he met a lovely girl.
Cyber Eden
Special Effects
event1992 star_border 5.6
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Gloria Ruckhauser has a dream: rediscovering the figure and features of herself when she was 20. Convinced that science is getting nowhere in the search for a cure to the aging process, Gloria sets up a foundation whose mission is to find a miracle potion. Various scientists take up the challenge and develop a substance that reverses the biological clock. Now, they face a new challenge. How to stop getting younger before it's too late.
Cop in Drag
Special Effects
event1984 star_border 5.6
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Rome, Italy, early 1980s. A guy who worked at the Blue Gay, a transvestite cabaret, is found murdered, strangled. Marshal Nico Giraldi is responsible for investigating, infiltrating the Roman Gay community.
Here We for Example...
Special Effects
event1977 star_border 5.3
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Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the culprit, a photographer nicknamed 'Click' and takes up residence with him until he either gets his money back or his poetry published.
Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style
Special Effects
event1983 star_border 5
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Two stupid lowlifes are "forced" into a life of violent crime on the streets of Italy. What follows is a mocking takeoff of the American crime classic "Bonnie and Clyde."
Il ragazzo di campagna
Special Effects
event1984 star_border 6.8
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A man is forced to completely change his habits when he decides to move from the country to the city.
Christmas Holidays
Special Effects
event1983 star_border 6.2
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Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man, Donatone, but in the past she had a flirt with Billo, who wants to reignite the flame.
The Venetian Woman
Special Effects
event1986 star_border 5.1
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Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are Angela, a widowed lady, and Valeria, whose husband has left for Florence.
California
Special Effects
event1977 star_border 6
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At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier is released from prison and travels with a fellow prisoner to Missouri where his travelling companion is shot and hung for horse stealing. California decides to take the dead companion's belongings to his family's ranch, where he falls in love with his friend's sister. But then the "ghosts" of the war return in an unexpected way haunting him again.
Soldier of Fortune
Special Effects
event1976 star_border 6.4
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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.
Christmas Vacation '95
Special Effects
event1995 star_border 5.4
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Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wants to meet him at all costs. The second one wants to win back his wife who has left him because of his gambling problem.
Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Special Effects
event1985 star_border 5.3
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Fresh out prison, Tiberio reconnects with his old partners in crime, Michele Ferribote and Peppe the Panther, only to realise that a lot has changed--including crime--after twenty years. Can he cope with this new reality?
My Friends Act III
Special Effects
event1985 star_border 6.5
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This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
Contamination
Special Effects
event1980 star_border 5.2
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A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Operation Snafu
Special Effects
event1970 star_border 5.5
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World War II soldiers enter Sicily to seize German arms supply only to discover there is not a gun in sight.
My Friends Act II
Special Effects Supervisor
event1982 star_border 7.6
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The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
Nothing Left to Do But Cry
Special Effects Supervisor
event1984 star_border 7.8
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Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.
To Die for Tano
Special Effects
event1997 star_border 5.5
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Shot in his butcher shop by a rival clan during the Mafia wars of 1988, the Palermo Mobster Tano Guarrasi is mourned by his wife, four unmarried sisters and his daughter. But in truth, his death represents a kind of liberation for the women.
Joan Lui
Special Effects
event1985 star_border 5.2
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In a world ravaged by violence, and other serious social problems, Joan - a character that alludes to Christ (which represents the return to Earth) arrives to Italy by train and preaching for the salvation of mankind, condemning the hypocrisy and hedonism.
Rich and Poor
Special Effects
event1983 star_border 6.1
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Pozzetto is a rich man obsessed by the idea of becoming poor. So, his psychiatric suggests him to leave home and live just like a poor man for some days. He will then become familiar with this way of living, and fear less the idea of becoming poor. So he does, and his old family & friends soon forget about him. They don't miss him at all.
Dimmi che fai tutto per me
Special Effects
event1976 star_border 6.2
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Francesco Salmarani, a well-known doctor from Treviso, suddenly finds himself with an overdraft bank account as his wife's father has come from America demanding the purchase of a large Palladian villa. Tired of his wife, Francesco consoles himself with Paola and then lets himself be ensnared by the very young and beautiful Mary, who has come as housekeeper and father-in-law's lover. The need to fill the administrative gaps and the dream of running away with Mary lead the doctor to organize a coup against his father-in-law who, linked to the mafia, managed to transfer a large dollar patrimony, stolen from the gang, to the villa. The presence of the boy allows the commissioner to exonerate his son-in-law, Mary and Felegatti, of the death of the old mafioso. However, everyone will be left without the dreamed treasure which will fall to Mary and the son of the Salmarani who flee together.
I Know That You Know That I Know
Special Effects
event1982 star_border 7
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The investigations of a private eye shake up the almost broken marriage of a middle aged couple.
Hypochondriac
Special Effects
event1979 star_border 6.2
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During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only waiting to see him dead to inherit.
For a Few Dollars More
Special Effects
event1965 star_border 8
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Two bounty hunters both pursue a brutal and sadistic bandit El Indio who has a massive bounty on his head.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Special Effects
event1966 star_border 8.5
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While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
Cinema Paradiso
Special Effects Coordinator
event1988 star_border 8.4
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A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
The Godfather Part III
Special Effects
event1990 star_border 7.4
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In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
The Sicilian Connection
Special Effects
event1985 star_border 5.6
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An Italian-American pizzeria manager returns to Sicily to assassinate a judge, enlisting his honest younger brother for help. As the brother's morals clash with the task, the only way to save him is through a sacrifice that appeases the mafia.
House of Pleasure for Women
Special Effects
event1976 star_border 5.5
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The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has chosen Eddie Mordace to open the Italian branch of the multinational American Love Company. So Eddie opens in Milan a small branch of the Company whose purpose is to comfort women. Eddie hires Simbad, Adone and later, when business starts to go well, Ugolino, a real Count, and Ivanoe, a raper, who becames the attraction of the House.
Who Killed Pasolini?
Special Effects
event1995 star_border 6.4
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November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, citing Pasolini's notorious sexual habits as proof. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also killed for another reason?
Sahara Cross
Special Effects
event1977 star_border 2
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Jean Bellard and Carl Mank, two Western engineers supported by Hamid are in search of a terrorist group that murdered their colleague in the Tunisian desert.
From Hell to Victory
Special Effects
event1979 star_border 6.1
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In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.
Nestore, l'ultima corsa
Special Effects
event1994 star_border 6.2
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Gaetano works in the historic center of Rome. During the summer months he keeps his nephew Aurelio, a nine-year-old, as a helper.
Everybody's Fine
Special Effects
event1990 star_border 7.3
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Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
The Comfort of Strangers
Special Effects
event1990 star_border 5.8
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An Italian diplomat's son follows and seduces English lovers in Venice.
Escape from the Bronx
Special Effects
event1983 star_border 4.8
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A ragtag group of people have to fight extermination squads amid their ruined city.
Salomé
Special Effects
event1986 star_border 5
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John the Baptist, the prophet of Israel, is imprisoned by Herod, governor of Judea for protesting Herod's marriage to his brother's wife. Jealousies rage and Herod's step-daughter and niece Salome seduces Herod by means of a torrid dance to give her the head of the prophet - but then tries to save the life of the man she has thus condemned. Updated to a WWII setting
Sorry for the Delay
Special Effects
event1983 star_border 7.6
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Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.
Le vie del Signore sono finite
Special Effects
event1987 star_border 7.3
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Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves.
Avenger of the Seven Seas
Special Effects
event1962 star_border 6.5
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It's 1790 and British Naval Commander Redway is driven by greed for money and will stop at nothing to get it. His second in command, David Robinson, questions his allegiance when Redway kills his father and takes his brother prisoner. In order to save his brother and avenge his father's death David must join forces with a band of pirates, led by Captain Bernard, hunt down and kill Redway.
Christmas Vacation '90
Special Effects
event1990 star_border 5.2
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Several characters coincide during the Christmas holidays in the winter season of Saint Moritz.
A Fistful of Dollars
Special Effects
event1964 star_border 7.8
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The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
Duck, You Sucker
Construction Coordinator
event1971 star_border 7.7
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At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
Buddy Goes West
Special Effects
event1981 star_border 6.2
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Trinity series star Bud Spencer returns to the Wild West in director Michele Lupo's comic tale of an outlaw drifter, Buddy, who is mistaken for a doctor after his Indian companion inadvertently steals a bag of surgical instruments. When a band of murderous outlaws attempts to overrun the small town Buddy is passing through, the presumed medico shows that his true talent is cracking skulls. Music is composed by Ennio Morricone.
Flatfoot in Africa
Special Effects
event1978 star_border 6.1
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Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the South African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his young son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.
They Called Him Bulldozer
Construction Coordinator
event1978 star_border 6.8
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The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees.
Mediterraneo
Special Effects
event1991 star_border 7.6
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Greek Sea, World War II. An Italian ship leaves a handful of soldiers in a little island; their mission is to spot enemy ships and to hold the island in case of attack. The village of the island seems abandoned and there isn't a single enemy in sight, so the soldiers begin to relax a little. Things change when their ship is hit and destroyed by the enemy, and the soldiers find themselves abandoned there.
Opera
Special Effects
event1987 star_border 6.8
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A young opera singer is stalked by a deranged fan bent on killing the people associated with her to claim her for himself.
Tenebre
Special Effects
event1982 star_border 6.9
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A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.
The House with Laughing Windows
Special Effects
event1976 star_border 7.3
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A young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano, which was painted on the wall of a local church by a mysterious, long-dead artist.
A Blade in the Dark
Special Effects
event1983 star_border 5.7
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Bruno, an up and coming film composer, has been hired to write the score to a new horror movie. After moving into a secluded villa, life begins to imitate art as a vicious killer starts bumping off anyone and everyone who happens to pay him a visit.
The Story of Piera
Special Effects
event1983 star_border 5.8
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Piera is a young woman who grows up under the parentage of two extremely original overseers: both her mother and father have incestuous relations with her before they are committed to insane asylums.
A special connection, between a mother and her daughter, full of sensuality and complicity, has allowed to portray a family full of fears, rather unbalanced, but nevertheless searching infinite love.
I'm Getting a Yacht
Special Effects
event1980 star_border 5
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A dentist buys a small yacht and takes his two children on a cruise of the Mediterranean. His ex-wife stows away to keep an eye on the children and the inevitable happens.
Help Me Dream
Special Effects
event1981 star_border 7.5
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In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.
Leviathan
Special Effects Coordinator
event1989 star_border 6
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Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by one.
The Adventures of Hercules
Special Effects
event1985 star_border 4.9
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Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.
Quo Vadis?
Special Effects (6 ep.)
event1985 star_border 5.4
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Drama about love and intrigues in ancient Rome during the times of Nero.
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