
Acting
Antonio Maimone
Acting credits
6.8A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
Phenomena
1985
6.8Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.
La Cage aux Folles
1978
6.4In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to perfection by Risi's favorite leading man, Vittorio Gassman). Risi paints his portrait against a backdrop of an Italy where the new permissiveness has run rampant, traditional socio-cultural values have been usurped by consumerism, and the streets have become an open battleground for politically extremist groups (the '70s were dubbed "The Years of Lead" due to the great number of terrorist acts, and politically motivated assassinations).
Dear Father
1979
6.3Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins becoming one of the chief of the Mafia. The US Army seems to refrain from interfering.
Lucky Luciano
1973
5.5The death of a multinational company’s chairman induces the three candidates for the chairmanship to plot against one another for control of the business.
The Perfect Crime
1978
5.6Three thugs commandeer a couple of cars on a moving train and spread terror among the passengers.
Terror Express
1980
5.2The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.
Fear in the City
1976
4.7An archeologist's wife has recurring nightmares about ritual killings in an Etruscan tomb while her husband is away excavating a lost temple. After a phone call where she is forced to listen to him being murdered, she travels to the excavation site to solve the mystery of his death.
Scorpion with Two Tails
1982
7.0A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he seeks revenge.
A Dangerous Toy
1979
6.1A school bus with young children being kidnapped. Commissario Betti will solve the case. High action is promised, including hostage, bank robberies, car chases, prison scenes and mafia bosses!
A Special Cop in Action
1976
5.8Don Vincenzo, a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.
L'altra metà del cielo
1977
6.6As John Dannahay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, plans the overthrow of an African government, he discovers one of his men has been in contact with agents from the other side. Before he can confront the traitor, the man seemingly goes crazy, sniping several people before taking an adulterous couple hostage in a hotel room.
Goodbye & Amen
1977
4.0An au pair girl comes to work for a greedy couple who make money by renting her out to all the other tenants in their building.
The Best
1976
10.0A young and talented dancer with aspirations of becoming a movie star soon finds himself exploited by a screenwriter friend looking for ways to fund his expensive drug addiction.
American Fever
1978
5.0An Italian reporter is travelling on the Instabul-Athens train. A woman is murdered with the reporter's letter-opener so that makes him the main suspect. With the help of his Swedish girlfriend he starts investigating in order to prove his innocence.
Death Steps in the Dark
1977
4.7An Italian businessman travels to Brazil looking for a new job. When things don't go his way, he becomes despondent until he meets a beautiful woman who reveals Rio de Janeiro's most magical, secret locales.
The Naked Sun
1984
5.4With Fred Williamson as director and star of Mr. Mean, is there any question as to the identity of the title character? Williamson plays a former Cosa Nostra henchman who seeks greener pastures. Hiring himself out as a hit man, he immediately lands a job. His mission: wipe out his old boss. Filmed in Italy, Mr. Mean certainly fulfills audience expectations
Mr. Mean
1977
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Io e il re
1995
6.5The Italo-American playboy Rocky is an international thief, followed step by step by an FBI Inspector, who manages to keep a "loot" also "claimed" by an international boss belonging to the Sicilian Mafia.
Suppose... I Break Your Neck
1973
6.3A little girl, niece of a wealthy industrialist, is kidnapped in Sardinia just when his parents decide to separate. An aspiring journalist, assisted by the dog Buck, helps save her.
The Sons of White Fang
1974
6.8Laura, a woman of a certain age with full grown children who, by all indications should be leading a great life, but actually, she appears to have none. She comes from a wealthy family. Laura has made herself a lawyer with a nice practice. Her placid existence comes to an abrupt stop when a young motorcyclist suffers an accident almost in front o her. Laura is made to take the youth to the hospital. The incident will change the way she looks at things. Laura becomes obsessed with the young man that was almost killed.
The Circumstance
1974
4.0A group of people at a desolate gas station fantasize about what could happen next. Some are violent, some erotic and some both.
The Devil in the Brain
1976