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Johnny Stecchino (1991) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Johnny Stecchino
director: Roberto Benigni actor: Roberto Benigni / Nicoletta Braschi …
other title: Zahnstocher-Johnny / Johnny Palillo …
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
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Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958) TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
I soliti ignoti
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Vittorio Gassman / Renato Salvatori …
other title: I soliti ignoti / Os Eternos Desconhecidos …
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
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Shocking Dark (1989) IMDb WikiData
Terminator 2
director: Bruno Mattei actor: Christopher Ahrens / Haven Tyler …
other title: Terminator 2 - Shocking dark / Contaminator …
In a polluted future Venice researchers work to improve the situation. One day, unknown forces start killing them. A team of soldiers and a couple of civilians is sent to investigate. Soon, they encounter strange murderous creatures.
April 28, 2026 watched
Blatant Aliens ripoff Shocking Dark is shockingly awful. I'm shocked!!!

Made laughably bearable by watching it in the #MondayActionMovie watch party on Mastodon. Thanks, you guys!
Italy BrunoMattei 1980s SciFi Horror
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On Tour (1990) IMDb WikiData
Turné
director: Gabriele Salvatores actor: Diego Abatantuono / Laura Morante …
other title: Turné / Nosotros tres
Two actors leave on a theatrical tour, but there is a matter to be settled: one has become the lover of the other's girl-friend and since they are very good friends, cannot bring himself to tell him.
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Puerto Escondido (1992) IMDb WikiData
Puerto Escondido
director: Gabriele Salvatores actor: Diego Abatantuono / Valeria Golino …
Mario works in a Milan bank. His daily routine is shattered when he witnesses a murder committed by a deranged police commissioner. To save his life, he flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico. When he runs out of money he teams up with Alex and Anita, a couple of Italians that will lead him on to a series of adventures and encounters with drug dealers, corrupt police officers and other weird characters.
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Mediterraneo (1991) TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mediterraneo
director: Gabriele Salvatores actor: Diego Abatantuono / Claudio Bigagli …
other title: Mediterráneo / Jeg elsker soldater
WWII: When a group of Italian soldiers washes up on a Greek island after the Allies sink their ship, the men initially believe that the region is deserted. However, they discover that the islanders have been in hiding, and the soldiers, winning the trust of the locals, gradually become part of the community. As the Italians ease into an idyllic existence, they begin to forget about war and pursue romance with the lovely women of the island.
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The Arena (1974) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Arena
director: Steve Carver actor: Pam Grier / Margaret Markov …
other title: La rivolta delle gladiatrici / La Révolte des gladiatrices
Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus, follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who, upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring, mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom.
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The Forbidden City (2025) NeoDB WikiData IMDb TMDB
La città proibita
director: Gabriele Mainetti actor: Yaxi Liu / Enrico Borello …
other title: La città proibita / Kung Fu in Rome
In the suburbs of Rome two very different souls intersect. One is the son of a restaurant owner who disappeared with his lover. The other is a young mysterious woman who has arrived from China in search of her missing sister.
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Hercules (1983) IMDb WikiData
Hercules
director: Luigi Cozzi actor: Lou Ferrigno / Sybil Danning …
other title: Herkules / Hercule …
Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help of a benevolent sorceress, Circe, Hercules tries to save his beloved Cassiopeia from being sacrificed by Minos, and struggles against laser-breathing creatures and an evil sorceress.
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Avanti! (1972) Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
Avanti!
director: Billy Wilder actor: Jack Lemmon / Juliet Mills …
other title: Che cosa è successo tra mio padre e tua madre? / Avanti - kom ind! …
A successful businessman travels to Italy to arrange for the return of his tycoon father's body, only to learn that dear old dad died with his longtime mistress.
March 23, 2026 watched
Romcom spiced up with a little middle-aged nudity but still pretty mild and rather long.

Watched in #SundayFunnies watch party on Mastodon.
JulietMills BillyWilder USA Comedy JackLemmon
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Wrath of the Wind (1970) IMDb WikiData
La collera del vento
director: Mario Camus actor: Terence Hill / Maria Grazia Buccella …
other title: La collera del vento / Mission hævn …
A mute gunslinger takes on an oppressive landlord in 19th century Valencia and falls in love with a local woman.
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Compañeros (1970) TMDB
Vamos a matar, compañeros
director: Sergio Corbucci actor: Franco Nero / Tomas Milian …
other title: Vamos a matar, compañeros / Companheiros …
Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe, the combination known only to Professor Xantos, a prisoner of the Americans. Yolaf agrees to free Xantos, accompanied by reluctant guerilla Basco, but a former business partner of Yolaf's- John 'The Wooden Hand', has other ideas.
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Rome, Open City (1945) WikiData Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Roma città aperta
director: Roberto Rossellini actor: Aldo Fabrizi / Marcello Pagliero …
other title: Roma città aperta / Aaben By …
In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.
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The Red Circle (1970) NeoDB TMDB WikiData Douban IMDb
Le cercle rouge
8.1 (9 ratings) director: Jean-Pierre Melville actor: Alain Delon / Bourvil …
other title: Le cercle rouge / I senza nome …
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.