Sandro Continenza — Playwright (50)
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Nero's Mistress (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Mio figlio Nerone
director: Steno actor: Alberto Sordi / Vittorio De Sica …
other title: Mio figlio Nerone / Neros tolle Nächte …
On seaside holiday, Nero, Poppea, Seneca and their friends and family prepare a great show where Nero will star. When his mother Agrippina arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she's asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.
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The Double (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La controfigura
director: Romolo Guerrieri actor: Ewa Aulin / Jean Sorel …
other title: La controfigura / Love Inferno …
A man is shot in an underground car-park by a mysterious bearded man. As he dies he recollects the events that led him to this situation, including adulterous liaisons and jealous envy.
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Django Shoots First (1966) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Django spara per primo
director: Alberto De Martino actor: Glenn Saxson / Ida Galli …
other title: Django spara per primo / Django - Nur der Colt war sein Freund …
Django's father is framed by his business partner Clusker and shot by a bounty Killer. Django inherits his fathers part of the business and a score to settle with Clusker.
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The Cop (1970) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Un condé
director: Yves Boisset actor: Michel Bouquet / Françoise Fabian …
other title: L'uomo venuto da Chicago / Ein Bulle sieht rot …
A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds the harried inspector battling his colleagues as much as the criminal element targeted for extermination.
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Minotaur, the Wild Beast of Crete (1960) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Teseo contro il minotauro
director: Silvio Amadio actor: Rosanna Schiaffino / Bob Mathias …
other title: Teseo contro il minotauro / Teseo e o Minotauro …
King Minos sacrifices the 'required' virgins to the Minotaur. As his wife lies dying, she confesses that her daughter has a twin she has secreted to avoid giving one of the girls to the Minotaur. The daughter raised by Minos tries to have her twin killed, but failing in her first attempt, continues to try to have her given to the Minotaur. Theseus, the Greek hero, tries to prevent it.
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Too Bad She's Bad (1954) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Peccato che sia una canaglia
director: Alessandro Blasetti actor: Vittorio De Sica / Sophia Loren …
other title: Peccato che sia una canaglia / Bela e Canalha …
When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.
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Hercules in the Haunted World (1961) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ercole al centro della terra
director: Mario Bava actor: Reg Park / Christopher Lee …
other title: Ercole al centro della terra / Vampire gegen Herakles …
Upon his return from battle in the previous film, the great warrior Hercules learns that his lover, Daianara, has lost her senses. Acording of the oracle Medea, Dianara's only hope is the Stone of Forgetfulness which lies deep in the realm of Hades. Hercules, with two companions, Theseus and Telemachus, embarks on a dangerous quest for the stone, while he is unaware that Dianara's guardian, King Lico, is the one responsible for her condition and plots to have the girl for himself as his bride upon her revival.
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Uncle Was a Vampire (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Tempi duri per i vampiri
director: Steno actor: Renato Rascel / Christopher Lee …
other title: Tempi duri per i vampiri / Schlechte Zeiten für Vampire …
Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi is forced to sell his ancestral castle, staying on as a bellboy when it's converted into a hotel. However he becomes vampirized when his mysterious uncle comes to stay.
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The Inglorious Bastards (1978) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Skybridge
Quel maledetto treno blindato
director: Enzo G. Castellari actor: Bo Svenson / Fred Williamson …
other title: Quel maledetto treno blindato / Æresløse slyngler …
Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers on their way to military prison are beset upon by a German artillery attack, escaping with Switzerland in their sights. Before making it any farther, they volunteer to steal a V2 warhead for the French Underground - taking them deep into the heart of German territory.
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The Legend of Blood Castle (1973) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Ceremonia sangrienta
director: Jorge Grau actor: Lucia Bosè / Espartaco Santoni …
other title: Le vergini cavalcano la morte / Cérémonie sanglante …
Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.
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Murder by Music (1969) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Las trompetas del apocalipsis
director: Julio Buchs actor: Romina Power / Brett Halsey …
other title: I caldi amori di una minorenne / Mortelle Symphonie …
Katharine Milford commits suicide by jumping out the window. Her brother, Richard refuses to believe the police story about suicide, and when it is discovered that more people had contact with Katharine died in the same way he starts a private investigation, which leads the man into Londons 'dirtiest hippie clubs. It seems that music is the common factor in all suicide - or was it murder?
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The Maids (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Le cameriere
director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia actor: Giovanna Ralli / Valeria Moriconi …
other title: Le cameriere
Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to jail. Some other maids organize a search party for the real thief who seems to be a moustached youth who continually sings a popular song.
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Hercules and the Captive Women (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide
director: Vittorio Cottafavi actor: Reg Park / Fay Spain …
other title: Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide / Herkules erobert Atlantis …
King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the strongman falls overboard in a thick fog. Washed ashore, he saves a young Ismene from Proteus, an evil, shape-shifting creature. Ismene takes Hercules to Atlantis, where he discovers that her mother, Queen Antinea, has captured Androcles. Hercules schemes to rescue him and thwart Antinea's dream of world conquest.