Orazio Stracuzzi

Acting

Orazio Stracuzzi

Born

1947-08-08 (79)

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Known for

Film credits

2000s · 5 titles

1990s · 10 titles

The Postman poster
7.9

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.

The Postman

1994

Snowball poster
5.1

Snowball, a dolphin, gets into trouble when it swallows a bottle with the records of pension payments owed to Billy Bolla, an aged cruise ship entertainer. If the performer cannot quickly catch Snowball and induce him to produce the papers, he will have no retirement.

Snowball

1995

Open Doors poster
7.3

Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he kills his superior who sacked him, the man who replaced him and his wife. He wants a quick trial and an early execution, but an earnest, principled assistant judge looks for a way to save the murderer from being shot, because he does not belive in capital punishment.

Open Doors

1990

The Last New Year's Eve poster
5.8

New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner party, the wealthy Guilia discovers her husband's affair with her best friend and vows revenge. Next door, a family prepares their vintage Dodge for a drive through the streets. A call girl ties up a lawyer while, unbeknownst to him, three men await the right moment to break into his office. Across the hall, a woman downs pills in a lonely suicide attempt. Two young men hide out in a bedroom smoking dope; one of them has some dynamite. As midnight approaches, each group draws closer to grotesque tragedy.

The Last New Year's Eve

1998

The Invisible Wall poster
6.9

June 27, 1980: a DC–9 flying over the Tyrrhenian Sea breaks up mid-air and crashes near the Italian island of Ustica, killing all 81 people on board. The official version blames the "structural failure" of the plane, but a young journalist smells a cover-up and starts to uncover the truth out of the 'invisible wall' of lies built by politicians and air force higher-ups.

The Invisible Wall

1991

Altri uomini poster
5.7

In 1985 in Milan Michele Croce is now in prison and decides to answer the magistrate's questions, telling how in the seventies he became the ruler of the Milanese underworld.

Altri uomini

1997

Ritorno a casa Gori poster
6.1

Matriarch Adele's death prompts an unexpected and often incendiary reunion for the large Gori family – unaware that inside her coffin lie also the stolen goods of a robbery by her son Danilo.

Ritorno a casa Gori

1996

Il cielo in una stanza poster
6.1

Clashing with his father Paolo after coming home late, 17-year-old Marco accuses him of being old and stifling. They time travel to the 1960s, where Paolo will be able to prove his son he too used to be hip.

Il cielo in una stanza

1999

Mille bolle blu poster
6.7

The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is awaiting for a total eclipse of the sun, that really happened during summer of '61, and it was was fully visible from Italy. He sees his family life, a young girl who is about to marry a man she doesn't love, an old man who has just died and whose relatives fight for his inheritance, a blind trumpet player who hopes to recover, his little friends...

Mille bolle blu

1993

Vado e Torno poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Vado e Torno

1998

1970s · 29 titles

Brancaleone at the Crusades poster
7.2

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.

Brancaleone at the Crusades

1970

Secret Fantasy poster
6.1

Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first and neither the second cello. He is frustrated. Nobody can remember his face, nor his name. Niccolò is married to Costanza, who is really beautiful and he takes some pictures of her naked. Later he shows the pictures to a friend and so he feels better. He starts to write a comic opera called "Il merlo maschio" only to discover later he had written Rossini's "La gazza ladra". To maintain his self-esteem he can only show his wife...

Secret Fantasy

1971

The Working Class Goes to Heaven poster
7.8

After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.

The Working Class Goes to Heaven

1971

Emergency Squad poster
5.7

A ruthless Interpol agent goes after the man who killed his wife in Stelvio Massi's crime thriller. A gutsy robber named Marseilles pulls off a tricky heist, but he's no match for agent Ravelli, a maverick who can't control his bloodlust. And this time, it's personal: Years earlier, the daring thief murdered the operative's wife in cold blood.

Emergency Squad

1974

Playing the Field poster
5.5

A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way, especially the women, now.

Playing the Field

1974

Lucky Luciano poster
6.3

Lucky 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

Revolver poster
6.8

An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife. Enraged, the gang sets out to free their compatriot and kill the man who took him.

Revolver

1973

The Hassled Hooker poster
6.3

Luisa Latin, betrayed by her husband, is imprisoned for the murder of her husband's mistress - who is still alive. When Luisa is released from prison, she kills her.

The Hassled Hooker

1972

That's How We Women Are poster
6.3

The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.

That's How We Women Are

1971

Massacre in Rome poster
6.3

In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.

Massacre in Rome

1973

Cry of a Prostitute poster
5.8

The gangster Tony Aniante in the middle of a feud between two mafia families. He manipulates both families into believing he is on their side and are just waiting for the right moment to take the initiative...

Cry of a Prostitute

1974

Run, Run, Joe! poster
6.0

When a don who they were suppose to protect ends up dead, his bodyguard and bodyguard's friend must go under cover to escape the wrath of mob.

Run, Run, Joe!

1974

Il generale dorme in piedi poster
6.3

A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up.

Il generale dorme in piedi

1974

Policewoman poster
5.6

A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.

Policewoman

1974

Mafia Junction poster
5.2

Cliff works as a narcotics investigator for the police and infiltrate a mafia gang. Soon it turns out that Cliff has bigger plans than just to bust bad guys.

Mafia Junction

1973

Story of Fear and a Knife poster
6.9

A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength.

Story of Fear and a Knife

1972

The Profiteer poster
6.0

In the city of Ostuni in Puglia, the mute seminarian Ercole is designated to be the driver and nurse of Parsifal, the paraplegic son in a rich and sanctimonious family of landowners. Ercole soon becomes the lover of his master's wife, the beautiful Baroness Clotilde. In a familial and social context where only money, sex and power count, everyone tries to take advantage of everyone, but the real saprophyte turns out to be Ercole.

The Profiteer

1974

In the Name of the Father poster
6.4

In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.

In the Name of the Father

1971

The Assassination of Matteotti poster
6.7

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.

The Assassination of Matteotti

1973

Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro poster
10.0

Yet another adventure of the famous musketeers engaged as usual to help the needy. Cardinal Richelieu is always hindering their task.

Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro

1973

Amore mio non farmi male poster
5.1

Anna and Marcello, two wealthy high school students. they would like to consume their Platonic love so far, going against the directives of their parents ... who get in the way to prevent their sexual initiation.

Amore mio non farmi male

1974

Tulips of Haarlem poster
6.0

Two teenagers looking for love find each other in this tragic and cruel story of romance, co-dependence and psychological torment. Pierre (Frank Grimes) is the French boy who saves the British girl Sarah (Carole Andre) from suicide. Despondent over a broken affair, Sarah soon becomes fond of Pierre and agrees to stay with him. The twisted girl puts him through a series of humiliations before she intentionally blinds him so he will never leave her.

Tulips of Haarlem

1970

From Our Copenhagen's Correspondent poster
8.0

Two American soldiers fresh from the Vietnam War are haunted by the atrocities that they witnessed and committed while on a vacation in Copenhagen, Denmark.

From Our Copenhagen's Correspondent

1970

Love and Death on the Edge of a Razor poster
6.2

Stefano, the son of a wealthy businessman, meets a beautiful woman named Lidia while accompanying his father to a meeting with a cardinal. He pursues her through the streets of Venice and a romance develops. Upon returning from an overseas business trip, he is informed that Lidia has been killed in an accident. Soon afterwards, he thinks he recognizes her at a building site, but the woman claims to be a reporter who is obviously involved with gangsters. Furthermore, all evidence of Lidia's death has now been obliterated. Stefano continues to investigate the mystery, uncovering family intrigues

Love and Death on the Edge of a Razor

1973

Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera poster
6.9

A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl is only interested in his title and plans a divorce, but after a while she also grows fond of him.

Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera

1970

The Lady Has Been Raped poster
5.8

Good bourgeois damage unintentionally life of a drug-party, during which the mistress of the house is raped without recognizing the aggressor. Both she and her husband come into crisis and try to figure out who it was. The truth comes to the surface slowly, and it is unexpected.

The Lady Has Been Raped

1973

The Godfather's Godson poster
6.1

A mafioso falls in love with his boss's daughter. Since the girl has already been widowed four times her father takes good care that this does not happen again.

The Godfather's Godson

1973

Vermisat poster
3.3

Luigi Tagrana, a hopeless social outcast living on the industrial outskirts of northern Italy, scrapes together a meager living by gathering worms to sell as bait. His days are spent in a bleak, repetitive cycle of labor and solitude amidst a decaying landscape, moving in and out of hospitals and prisons where he is treated as a number rather than a person.

Vermisat

1974

The Migratory Bird poster
6.2

Andrea Pomeraro, a history teacher, has an affair with a student who then blackmails him. Attempting to retrieve the incriminating photos, he accidentally becomes the head of the student revolt and ends up in jail.

The Migratory Bird

1972

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