Acting

Gianni Solaro

Born — Died

1926-08-11 — 2006-08-12

Place of birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 15 titles

My Sister in Law poster
5.5

Intransigent magistrate Viola Orlando is targeted by her rivals who set her twin sister Rosa — a high-class prostitute and pornographic photo-novel star — up to impersonate Viola and demolish her reputation. To complicate things even further, Viola is torn between enforcing the law or giving up her seat on the bench to marry her childhood friend.

My Sister in Law

1976

Slap the Monster on Page One poster
7.7

Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.

Slap the Monster on Page One

1972

Execution Squad poster
6.9

Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full

Execution Squad

1972

Policewoman poster
5.6

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

Policewoman

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

Scipio the African poster
6.8

Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius Cato of the theft of 500 talents intended for Rome.

Scipio the African

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

The Murder of Julius Caesar poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Murder of Julius Caesar

1972

The Divorce poster
6.7

Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.

The Divorce

1970

Rome, the Other Face of Violence poster
6.1

Four bandits commit a robbery in a villa. The maid calls the police and Commissioner Carli immediately orders patrols to chase them.

Rome, the Other Face of Violence

1976

La clinica dell'amore poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

La clinica dell'amore

1976

Studio legale per una rapina poster
3.5

Maurice Poitier, a disbarred lawyer, is dumped in prison. In prison, he learns of a plan of robbery worth millions from a dying inmate: once released, will begin to put together a group of bandits to pull this off. But not everything goes as hoped.

Studio legale per una rapina

1973

We Want the Colonels poster
6.7

Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!

We Want the Colonels

1973

Last Feelings poster
6.4

Diego is a troubled runaway who tries to make something out of himself by joining a swimming team and competing in national tryouts and champion races which takes a turn when he is struck by a terminal illness and attempts to find a way to beat it.

Last Feelings

1978

Paths of War poster
6.2

Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's republican troops. They end up in the Far West with the army fighting the Indians and with their ineptitude they contribute to the army's defeat.

Paths of War

1970

1960s · 43 titles

Arizona Colt poster
6.4

Arizona Colt heads for Blackstone City where Gordon is planning a robbery. When one of Gordon's henchmen murders a saloon girl, Arizona offers to hunt down the killer.

Arizona Colt

1966

Untamable Angelique poster
6.5

Angelique goes in search of her husband Joffrey de Peyrac who did not die on the stake.

Untamable Angelique

1967

Star Pilot poster
4.8

Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair of Oriental spies are taken hostage by the beings so they can use them to repair their spaceship's broken engine. With that done, they take off towards their home planet, taking the earthlings with them. However, the humans attempt to mutiny against their captors, inadvertently sending their tiny spaceship hurtling into the infinite beyond...

Star Pilot

1966

The Oldest Profession poster
5.0

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

The Oldest Profession

1967

M.M.M. 83 poster
4.6

A secret agent works with a scientist to recover documents outlining a new formula to make fuel.

M.M.M. 83

1966

The Queen of the Pirates poster
5.5

In 16th century Italy, on the Adriatic coast, the duchy of Doruzza is governed by a tyrannical duke, Zulian, and his haughty daughter, Isabella. When they commit a great injustice, a ship's captain and his daughter turn pirate to fight back for the people.

The Queen of the Pirates

1960

The Centurion poster
5.5

A Roman soldier falls in love with the daughter of a Greek city's anti-Roman leader.

The Centurion

1961

Attack of the Normans poster
6.5

An evil duke kidnaps the good king and tries to make the virtuous queen his bride and the peasants take arms.

Attack of the Normans

1962

Messalina Against the Son of Hercules poster
6.2

While fighting in Britain, Roman forces commanded by Caligula capture the noble warrior, Glaucus. Seeing in him gladiator material, Caligula takes Glaucus back to Rome along with other hostages including Glaucus's girlfriend, Ena. A man seeking to restore the Roman Republic then assassinates Caligula after which Claudius is proclaimed emperor. Messalina -- Claudius's beautiful but evil wife -- then maneuvers to replace Claudius with her lover, Silio. She forces Glaucus to help her in this quest by threatening to harm the enslaved Ena. Written by dinky-4 of Minneapolis

Messalina Against the Son of Hercules

1964

Johnny Yuma poster
6.2

Infidelity, murder, and betrayal lies at the center of this violent Spaghetti western. A scheming wife does away with her husband, causing the man's heir to seek revenge. A number of double-crosses and bloody gun battles follow, eventually driving the woman to flee into the desert.

Johnny Yuma

1966

The Revenge of the Gladiators poster
7.0

Friends of Spartacus achieve revenge on the plotter who tries to make political capital out of the rumor that he is still alive. It was shot back to back with Seven Slaves Against the World.

The Revenge of the Gladiators

1964

Erik the Conqueror poster
6.4

In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.

Erik the Conqueror

1961

Pirates of the Coast poster
5.7

Luis de Monterey is a ship captain who is pitted against a crafty pirates.

Pirates of the Coast

1960

Sword in the Shadows poster
8.0

Sword in the Shadows (Italian: Una spada nell'ombra) is a 1961 Italian swashbuckler film directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Tamara Lees and Livio Lorenzon.

Sword in the Shadows

1961

Five Branded Women poster
6.1

Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.

Five Branded Women

1960

Ursus in the Valley of the Lions poster
5.5

Bodybuilder Ed Fury stars as the legendary Ursus in this above-average sword-and-sandal adventure from veteran director Carlo Campogalliani. The plot concerns Ursus' attempts to rescue his kidnapped fiancee, aided by a pretty blind slave girl. Now an evil queen, Ursus' former love throws him into a gladiatorial arena with a bull, which manages to smack the slave girl in the head and restore her eyesight before Ursus defeats it and his enemies. The bullfight is particularly well-staged, and this exciting spectacle may be the highlight of Fury's erratic screen career. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi

Ursus in the Valley of the Lions

1961

Days of Violence poster
5.8

During the last months of the Civil War, Joe's brother is killed unjustly by Clifford, a captain in the Northen army. Joe decides to join a group of Southerners determined to resist till the end. Joe is considered an outlaw and a reward is posted for his capture. When the war ends, Joe returns to the farm where he used to work only to find Christine, the owner's daughter and his sweetheart, engaged to the hated Captain Clifford.

Days of Violence

1967

Three Swords for Rome poster
8.0

222 AD in the Roman Empire. A teenage Emperor, Elagabalus, is technically on the throne but manipulated by a conniving mother, who is the real power.

Three Swords for Rome

1964

Sword of Damascus poster
7.0

Thieves collude against the governor of Syria and the power of Rome while robbing everyone.

Sword of Damascus

1964

Five for Revenge poster
4.9

Jim Latimore's ranch is a thorn in the side of the ruthless Gonzales brothers and his marriage to their cousin Rosaria rankles even more. Bandit chief El Matanza is hired to rid them of Latimore and his baby son is taken to be raised as a Gonzales. Three years later five of Latimore's friends arrive to reclaim the boy, replace Rosaria in her home and avenge their murdered compadre.

Five for Revenge

1966

The Adventures of Mary Read poster
4.5

Redhead Mary is a girl who dresses like a man to better approach, and rob the jewels worn by the pretty ladies of her time.

The Adventures of Mary Read

1961

Adultery Italian Style poster
6.2

A betrayed wife decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson in this riotous farce. Marta (Catherine Spaak) discovers that husband Franco (Nino Manfredi) has been stepping out with her own best friend (Maria Grazia Buccella), and gets revenge by inventing an imaginary lover. Franco takes the bait, leading to improbable but hilarious complications.

Adultery Italian Style

1966

Rocco e le sorelle poster
7.0

A Sicilian leaves for Milan, in search of fortune, with the four sisters he supervises fiercely.

Rocco e le sorelle

1961

The Traffic Policeman poster
7.3

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.

The Traffic Policeman

1960

Rocambole poster
6.7

In London in 1903, during a reception at the German embassy, the legendary swindler Rocambole, thought to have died in the penal colony, helps the British secret service compromise a Prussian diplomat. His mission completed, Rocambole, under the identity of the Comte de Chamery, returns to Paris, where Baron Keller, an arms manufacturer in the service of the Kaiser, entertains the famous prima ballerina Cléo Santelli at Maxim's every evening, with whom he is madly in love. Despite her attentions, the young dancer falls in love with the false Chamery, who seems to have sworn the Baron's doom and ridicules him in the salons.

Rocambole

1963

Gladiator of Rome poster
5.7

A warrior protecting a slave girl, who is really a princess, winds up as a gladiator in the Roman arenas.

Gladiator of Rome

1962

Knight of 100 Faces poster
6.5

Two knights, the honorful Riccardo and the sinister Fosco, are rivalling for damsel Zuela.

Knight of 100 Faces

1960

Rome, 1585 poster
10.0

The leader of a gang of Spanish mercenaries falls for a beautiful princess. Thing get dicey, however, when an imprisoned leader is freed and comes calling.

Rome, 1585

1961

Black Box Affair poster
5.5

An airplane crashes in Spain. The Russian as well as the Chinese government take care of the events because on board there was a "black box" containing precious and dangerous devices for the whole world.

Black Box Affair

1966

Torpedo Bay poster
7.0

An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a British warship. They both make it to the neutral port of Tangiers where they agree a truce.

Torpedo Bay

1963

The Triumph of Robin Hood poster
6.2

Adventure film about the popular hero Robin Hood, and how he and his partisans take on the defence of King Richard Lion-Heart's interests against his brother John, while the former is in the Holy Land.

The Triumph of Robin Hood

1962

Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold poster
6.0

Giovanna and Franco are lovers pretending to be brother and sister in order to con unsuspecting marks while staying in the most luxurious locales throughout Europe. In their travels, they come across the beautiful Christina, a girl who is being threatened by her brother, Sergio, in order to get the family fortune. But as Giovanna and Franco delve into their story, the double-crossing begins, and no one is sure who is getting tricked.

Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold

1967

The Two Gladiators poster
5.5

The twins of the recently departed Marcus Aurelius fight it out to see who will become emperor of Rome.

The Two Gladiators

1964

Redhead poster
5.9

Bored with her marriage, Franziska decides to travel to Venice.

Redhead

1962

Hercules the Avenger poster
4.7

Reg Park returns to his antics of old as the man of iron in HERCULES THE AVENGER. The Son of Jove undertakes another journey into the nether realms battling zombies and monsters in order to rescue his son, allowing goddess Gia an opportunity to place her own slacker son in Hercules' sandals. There's something for everyone: ghouls, dragons, sweating men and girls in skimpy outfits.

Hercules the Avenger

1965

Ciccio Forgives, I Don't poster
5.9

Franco and Ciccio are small time horse thieves who get involved with the bandit, El Diablo, and two former members of his gang who are after his gold. Fortunately two pretty, sharp shooting saloon girls come to the bumbling duo's rescue.

Ciccio Forgives, I Don't

1968

The Secret Seven poster
9.0

Greece is under the power of Rabirius, from which rise a few patriots led by Axel. He is taken prisoner and condemned to die of hunger and thirst. But his brother Leslio, who fears no one, makes him free. The next step Leslio takes, is to dissolve a group of mercenaries, without listening to his brother, who begs her to join the fight for freedom.

The Secret Seven

1963

The Black Duke poster
7.0

Cesar Borgia--a cardinal in the Catholic church, a confidant of the Pope and a member of one of the wealthiest and most powerful families in 16th-century Italy--must deal with a host of political and personal crises. He is having problems with his mistress, and members of a secret society called The Black Carnation are out to assassinate him.

The Black Duke

1963

A Devil Under the Pillow poster
4.5

Anselmo is a young anthropologist who is tormented by jealousy, and although his wife Camilla does not give reasons, keeps a close eye on her. After consulting a psychiatrist, the doctor says the problem is him and not his wife. So he plots to verify, once and for all, if his suspicions are true. By chance he meets an old friend, Lotario, who seems the ideal person to carry out his plans. What Anselmo does not know is that his friend is a real womanizer who ends seducing his wife.

A Devil Under the Pillow

1968

Catherine of Russia poster
5.6

Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him.

Catherine of Russia

1963

Agent X1-7 poster
7.0

A Scientist that developed a formula to increase the world's food supply, is captured by enemies that don't want this to happen. George Collins, Agent X 1-7 is assigned to rescue him from a castle where he is held hostage.

Agent X1-7

1965

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

L'incoronazione di Carlo Magno

1968

All on the Red poster
7.5

With the help of two accomplices an underhanded gambler prepares a rigged roulette wheel with which they quickly accumulate money hand over fist. But then greed forges a wall between the three and the intrusion of ruthless competitors result in a massacre.

All on the Red

1968

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