Venantino Venantini

Born: 1930-04-17

Venantino Venantini (17 April 1930 – 9 October 2018) was an Italian film actor. He was the father of Victoria Venantini and Luca Venantini and appeared in more than 140 films between 1954 and 2018. He made his debut in the cinema with an appearance in Un giorno in pretura under the direction of Steno and he had his first important role in Odissea Nuda (1961), directed by Franco Rossi. Among the almost 150 films he performed in, some became cult favorites such as Les Tontons flingueurs, Amore libero - Free Love, Black Emanuelle and City of the Living Dead. He acted with actors such as Lino Ventura, Yves Montand, Alain Delon and Gérard Depardieu and for directors such as Ettore Scola, Luciano Salce and Dino Risi and for French film directors such as Georges Lautner, Gérard Oury and Claude Lelouch. Source: Article "Venantino Venantini" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


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Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman

as The Polo Player
Released: 1975-12-15

Emmanuelle returns to her husband in Hong Kong and proceeds to have several extramarital affairs...

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22 Bullets

as Padovano
Released: 2010-03-23

A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body...

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Ladyhawke

as Bishop's Secretary
Released: 1985-03-27

Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each...

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The Restaurant

as Henrique, chef de la sécurité du président Novalès
Released: 1966-09-09

A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one...

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Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade

as Giorgio Rivetti
Released: 1978-04-20

Emanuelle returns to Kenya, trying to get an interview with a foreign gangster who's taken...

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Black Emanuelle

as William Meredith
Released: 1975-11-27

Internationally-renowned photographer Mae Jordan, professionally known as 'Emanuelle', is hired...

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Cannibal Ferox

as Sgt. Ross
Released: 1981-04-24

Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a...

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The Agony and the Ecstasy

as Paride de Grassis
Released: 1965-09-16

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to...

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The Agony and the Ecstasy

as Paris De Grassis
Released: 1965-09-16

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to...

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La Cage aux Folles

as Le chauffeur de Charrier
Released: 1978-10-25

Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the...

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Cop or Hood

as Mario, shot of 'L'Auvergnat'
Released: 1979-03-28

When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division...

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Delusions of Grandeur

as Marquis del Basto
Released: 1971-12-08

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and...

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Love & Passion

as Alfredo
Released: 1987-02-25

After the renewed flings with their former lovers prove to be disastrously unlike the romantic...

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City of the Living Dead

as Mr. Ross
Released: 1980-08-11

A woman seemingly dies of fright after participating in a séance where she sees a vision of a...

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The Beguines

as Max
Released: 1972-09-19

Hélène, a fragile and romantic teenager, discovers that her father, a rich business man, has a...

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The Sucker

as Mickey, 'le bègue'
Released: 1965-03-24

In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a...

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Aladdin

as Puncher
Released: 1986-12-23

A teenager in modern-day Miami finds a magic lantern and out pops a genie, who's been asleep for...

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Crooks in Clover

as Pascal
Released: 1963-11-27

An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a...

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Cannibal Apocalypse

as Lieutenant Hill
Released: 1980-08-04

Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and...

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Flatfoot in Egypt

as Ruotolo
Released: 1980-03-01

Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.

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Un + une

as Henri
Released: 2015-12-09

A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood...

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Terror Express

as Mike
Released: 1980-01-10

Three thugs commandeer a couple of cars on a moving train and spread terror among the passengers.

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The Erotic Dreams of Cleopatra

as Dolabella
Released: 1985-07-24

Caesar brings the Egyptian queen Cleopatra to Rome, but their intense passion for each other has...

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There Once Was a Cop

as Felice, killer
Released: 1972-02-11

Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch...

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Anzio

as Capt. Burns
Released: 1968-07-24

American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on...

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School's Out

as Marcello, compagnon de danse d'Adèle
Released: 2008-07-16

A few days before the baccalaureate, a high school student decides to settle accounts with the...

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Emanuelle in Bangkok

as David
Released: 1976-05-07

A reporter travels the world's hot spots, looking for lurid stories that usually involve her...

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The New Barbarians

as Father Moses
Released: 1983-06-10

Two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers...

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Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes

as Father Robertson
Released: 1973-04-12

In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the...

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Beast in Space

as Juan Cardoso
Released: 1980-05-13

In the future the struggle for space superiority has forced humanity to search the cosmos for a...

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The Terrace

as un'ospite
Released: 1980-02-08

Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a...

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Concorde Affair

as Forsythe
Released: 1979-03-23

A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save...

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The Libertine

as Aurelio
Released: 1968-12-23

A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she...

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A Day in Court

as uncredited
Released: 1954-01-28

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes...

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The Adventures of Hercules

as High Priest
Released: 1985-08-26

Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.

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Marseille

as Giovanni
Released: 2016-03-16

Faced with the insistence of his brother Joseph, whom he has not seen for 25 years, Paolo...

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Sesso e volentieri

as l'uomo al cinema che adesca la donna procace (episodio L'avventura)
Released: 1982-10-14

Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.

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Nine Guests for a Crime

as Walter
Released: 1977-01-12

Nine members of an extremely rich and hateful family have decided to have a reunion on a remote...

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First Love

as Emilio
Released: 1978-11-10

Ugo is an old actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the...

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Bandidos

as Billy Kane
Released: 1967-10-15

Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student...

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I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster

as Joe
Released: 2008-03-26

Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals...

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The Very Private Life of Mister Sim

as Monsieur Matteotti
Released: 2015-12-16

Mister Sim is of no concern whatsoever. At least, this is what he thinks about himself. His wife...

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Dandelions by the Roots

as Pierre Michon, comédien de théâtrre
Released: 1964-05-06

Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry...

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The Return of James Battle

as Matt Kelso
Released: 2004-07-21

James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the...

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The Biggest Battle

as Michael
Released: 1978-02-07

A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both...

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Exterminators of the Year 3000

as John
Released: 1983-08-13

It's the year 3000 and a nuclear war has turned the earth into a desert wasteland. A group of...

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Hyde's Secret Nightmare

as uncredited
Released: 2012-01-13

An erotic horror movie dedicated to Joe D Amato, Hyde's Secret Nightmare combines the two genres...

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All You Ever Wished For

as Old Gypsy
Released: 2018-08-03

A young New York fashion executive's trip to Milan takes a bad turn when he is kidnapped and...

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Sex Diary

as amico di Luca
Released: 1975-07-27

The Don Juan of a small provincial town saves from suicide a young American girl who falls in...

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The Eighteenth Angel

as Clockmaker
Released: 1997-01-01

Mythology and religious dogma are slowly revealed when an attractive young woman is approached...

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The Assisi Underground

as Pietro
Released: 1985-05-03

This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing...

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The Hideout

as Installatore telefonico
Released: 2007-11-16

A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her...

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The Humanoid

as uncredited
Released: 1979-04-11

Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the...

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The Dinner

as uncredited
Released: 1998-09-03

An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of...

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The War of the Robots

as Paul
Released: 1978-04-26

An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists...

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Ho visto le stelle

as Duilio Masera
Released: 2003-12-19

The young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his...

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Liberté, égalité, choucroute

as Un sans-culotte
Released: 1985-04-30

A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in...

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The Magnificent Dare Devil

as Piero Albertini
Released: 1973-11-20

A race-car driver must elude the police and two rival criminal organizations as he tries to...

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Contraband

as Captain Tarantino
Released: 1980-08-08

Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival...

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Could This Be Love?

as Della Ponte
Released: 2007-02-08

Lucas, a wealthy, 43 year-old divorced businessman, is irresistibly attracted to Elsa, a 38 year...

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Troubleshooters

as Tosca
Released: 1971-04-07

The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse...

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Final Justice

as Palermo
Released: 1984-10-28

Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III has been transferred to a...

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The Priest's Wife

as Maurizio
Released: 1970-12-22

After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman attempts suicide but survives and...

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Death Has A Bad Reputation

as Umberto Aidoni
Released: 1990-01-01

A British agent is chasing after famous terrorist Carlos when he resurfaces in Europe.

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Young, Violent, Dangerous

as Sign. Morandi
Released: 1976-09-02

Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty...

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Galia

as Greg
Released: 1966-01-26

Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening,...

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Gardenia

as Nocita
Released: 1979-05-05

A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold...

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Vanille fraise

as Anselmo
Released: 1989-11-29

Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.

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The War Devils

as Heinrich Meinike
Released: 1969-12-19

A German Captain and an American Captain help each other survive the North African desert during...

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Giovani e belli

as Buby
Released: 1996-06-23

Luca, a young man from a rich family, travels to Rome. Here he encounters Gino, who makes a...

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Number One

as a
Released: 1973-05-28

This raw Italian political melodrama investigates the underbelly of Rome in the early '70s,...

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Erotissimo

as Sylvio
Released: 1969-06-07

Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner...

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Riavanti… Marsch!

as Sergeant Sconocchia
Released: 1979-11-26

Five forty-year-old boys, who had been soldiers together, find themselves, once again in...

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The Big Grasshopper

as Vladimir
Released: 1967-01-11

While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets...

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The Repenter

as uncredited
Released: 1985-11-15

A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a...

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L'altra metà del cielo

as Mr. Rickie
Released: 1977-03-04

Don Vincenzo, a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.

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Free Love

as Chavad
Released: 1974-08-14

An engineer named Francesco arrives on Emerald Island in the Seychelles and is instantly smitten...

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From Corleone to Brooklyn

as Commissario Danova
Released: 1979-04-13

Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the...

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Le faremo tanto male

as Pietro
Released: 1998-04-30

Two brothers kidnap a has-been actress who makes a living doing TV commercials for a...

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Crazy Underwear

as Alessia's father
Released: 1992-02-04

Four ambitious women are ready to do anything to make a name in show business.

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Dio li fa poi li accoppia

as Occhipinti, il proprietario della discoteca
Released: 1982-11-25

At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes...

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Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?

as uncredited
Released: 1971-11-11

Roger Blanchard has a busy life. On the family side, he is married and has two children, aged...

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Vive la crise !

as Luigi Pirandello
Released: 2017-05-10

In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless.

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Master of Love

as Soldier from Sicily
Released: 1972-10-30

The wise and experienced maestro in the arts of love imparting his knowledge and techniques to a...

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My Other Husband

as Nino
Released: 1983-09-21

A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.

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La Celestina P… R…

as Carlo
Released: 1965-03-17

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Test of Memory

as uncredited
Released: 1993-10-07

Fifteen years after being the cause of an alleged love suicide there, writer Paul Herzog returns...

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Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst

as Giorgio Rivetti (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: 1983-07-20

Investigative journalist Emanuelle breaks into a home to find a microfilm, which leads her to an...

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Balearic Caper

as Giuliano
Released: 1966-03-10

A scepter is stolen, and it's hunted for by various groups of international robbers and spies,...

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Fair Game

as Claudio
Released: 1994-06-11

It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to...

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À deux c'est plus facile

as uncredited
Released: 2009-12-12

In order not to be thrown from his big Parisian apartment by his sister, the idiosyncratic...

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Heat in the Suburbs

as Santuzzo
Released: 1975-01-01

Ciccio Zannone, a insignificant little man, but who is very successful with women, wants to join...

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Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant

as Self
Released: 2015-01-14

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Quella chiara notte d'ottobre

as Killer
Released: 1970-01-01

A unhappily married woman tries to find happiness with a former lover, but when they witnesses...

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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

as Self
Released: 2008-03-06

This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci...

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The Police Serve the Citizens?

as Mancinelli
Released: 1973-09-06

In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that...

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No Sun in Venice

as uncredited
Released: 1957-05-31

Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept...

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Rene the Cane

as Carlo
Released: 1977-02-16

"René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming...

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The Museum Of Wonders

as Master of Ceremonies
Released: 2010-04-01

When the beautiful dancer Salome learns that the dwarf circus owner Marcel has just received an...

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The Red Headed Corpse

as Mr. Gonzales
Released: 1972-08-10

An alcoholic artist, who may in fact have been driven to murder, seeks inspiration from a mannequin.

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Conquest

as Pedro de Valdivia
Released: 1971-08-02

La Araucana is a Chilean film based on an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of...

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Windsurf - Il vento nelle mani

as Walter
Released: 1984-09-20

A romantic comedy about teen surfers.

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Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour

as Le Tailleur
Released: 2006-10-16

Jeanne Poisson, the headstrong, ambitious, witty and erudite, catches the eye and heart of...

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Emma Hamilton

as Prince Carraciola
Released: 1968-11-28

The Making of a Lady: The Story of Lady Hamilton is a 1968 historical drama film directed by...

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Giggi il bullo

as Don Salvatore
Released: 1982-08-20

Giggi is a city boy convinced that "in life you must always hit first". And, good or bad, he...

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Three Under the Sheets

as uncredited
Released: 1979-06-09

Film in three episodes, entitled Sabato mattina, L'omaggio and No, non è per gelosia, which see...

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The Rip-Off

as The Frenchman
Released: 1977-05-19

Crime Comedy starring Walter Chiari, Maurizio Arena and Ettore Manni. Directed by Luciano Ercoli...

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Madame, nuda è arrivata la straniera

as Fisher
Released: 1989-09-07

In order to correct inaccuracies that appeared after her tragic experience in New York, fashion...

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C'è una spia nel mio letto

as Roger, capo della CIA
Released: 1976-06-05

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Lady Dynamite

as uncredited
Released: 1973-03-23

Donna Costanza is married to a New Jersey mafia boss. During their 10 year wedding anniversary...

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Longshot

as Henri Bresson
Released: 1981-01-01

When one of the foosball team members is injured, a 14-year-old girl takes the champion's place.

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Escapade in Florence

as Lorenzo
Released: 1962-09-30

American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they...

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The Fuhrer Runs Amok

as Valet italien
Released: 1974-04-12

France and Germany are at war. Adolf Hitler challenges the Allies to seal the fate of the war by...

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Phantasmagoria

as GrandPa (segment "My Gift to You")
Released: 2014-10-31

Three shocking tales of horror that will get you beyond fear. From the mind of the filmmaker...

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A Way of Being a Woman

as Simone
Released: 1973-10-12

Italian drama

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Hate Is My God

as Sweetley
Released: 1969-05-23

A young man returns to his village, and with the help of a black-clad stranger, seeks revenge...

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The Kisser

as Giusy
Released: 1976-01-01

Raffaele is a man who decides to change his life: he manages to get noticed by a beautiful girl.

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L'amico di Wang

as Ezio
Released: 1997-06-01

Paolo invites his American friend Sam to Rome with the promise of a film to direct, but it takes...

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Hot Dogs On Ibiza

as Norbert
Released: 1979-09-26

Bored with life in Paris, Christian takes off for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to sunny Ibiza. Once...

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Per amore o per forza

as Jane's father
Released: 1971-01-01

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Pastasciutta nel deserto

as Malapaga
Released: 1961-12-01

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Bloody Sin: Abonimations of the Third Reich

as uncredited
Released: 2011-11-10

A team of researchers investigates a European castle that was used for sadistic tortures during...

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Fantasmagorie

as uncredited
Released: 1964-09-15

In 1743, in the French countryside, a strange epidemic deserted the region. 200 years later, a...

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Playgirl 70

as uncredited
Released: 1969-11-27

Italian comedy.

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Warriors Five

as Alberto
Released: 1962-09-30

World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an...

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Odissea nuda

as Film director
Released: 1961-04-20

A director arrives in Tahiti to make a film, but soon he lets himself be captured by the exotic...

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Un momento muy largo

as Andrea Masi
Released: 1964-03-05

The romance between a nuclear physicist and a translator for the United Nations.

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Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story

as uncredited
Released: 1985-05-08

The true story of Bill Johnson, the first US men's skiing gold medal winner, whose Olympics...

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Profession: Adventurers

as Pablo
Released: 1973-05-24

Henry, a rich Londoner bored, shipwrecked in the Atlantic and ends up in San Francisco. The...

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Love in the Night

as Bollert
Released: 1968-06-10

Bourgoin uses Philippe to attract customers from another establishment to the nightclub he wants...

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Fallait pas buter mémé!

as uncredited
Released: 2003-08-20

On one side, the last representatives of a gangster family. On the other side, Choubert, the new...

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P.O.E. Pieces of Eldritch (P.O.E. 3)

as uncredited
Released: 2014-07-18

In this award-winning anthology, several international directors take on the most macabre...

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Toni

as Minelli
Released: 1999-01-20

Toni is a mob movie combined with an urban love story and reflections about one's roots. The...

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Flying Sex

as Mr. Murphy
Released: 1980-02-07

An ice queen takes a plane ride and discovers that flying is her g-spot, or least the gateway to...

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Sesso profondo

as istruttore capo Martin Murphy
Released: 1980-01-01

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I Cesaroni

as Domenico Masetti
First aired: 2006-09-07

I Cesaroni is an Italian television series produced since 2006 by Publispei and Mediaset RTI....

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Arne Dahl

as Di Spinelli
First aired: 2011-12-27

An elite, seven-member team is tasked with solving the most complex crimes in Sweden, from...

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Return of the Saint

as Xexo
First aired: 1978-09-10

Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.

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The Art of Crime

as Leonard de Vinci
First aired: 2017-11-17

Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty...

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Big Man

as Pierre Legrand
First aired: 1988-11-25

The renowned Insurance International Co. has created an enquiry network, headed by detective...

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Mafiosa

as Charly Scaglia
First aired: 2006-12-12

By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli is propelled to the head of a...

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I Ragazzi della 3ª C

as Signor Lazzaretti
First aired: 1987-01-13

I ragazzi della 3ª C is an Italian television series.

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I Ragazzi della 3ª C

as Signor Lazzaretti / Commissario di polizia
First aired: 1987-01-13

I ragazzi della 3ª C is an Italian television series.

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The secret files of Inspector Lavardin

as Giuseppe Rasia
First aired: 1988-09-15

The Dossiers of Inspector Lavardin is a French television series in four 90-minute episodes,...

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Oceano

as Ramiro Galeon
First aired: 1989-08-20

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