Giovanni Pallavicino

Acting

Giovanni Pallavicino

Known for

Acting

Credits

20 titles

Known for

The Day of the Owl poster
7.1

Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.

The Day of the Owl

1968

Find a Place to Die poster
4.8

An outcast Confederate soldier protects a woman from bandits trying to steal her gold mine.

Find a Place to Die

1968

Roseanna's Grave poster
6.6

Roseanna is dying of a heart condition, and all she wants is to be buried next to her daughter, in a cemetery that is getting full fast. The cemetery can't expand because Capestro, the man who owns the land next to the cemetery, won't sell. While Marcello is doing good deeds to make sure no one dies, Roseanna thinks of Marcello's future.

Roseanna's Grave

1997

We Still Kill the Old Way poster
6.7

A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.

We Still Kill the Old Way

1967

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

Flight of the Innocent poster
5.9

The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins.

Flight of the Innocent

1992

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

1970s · 8 titles

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 Counsellor poster
5.6

When the godson of San Francisco's crime lord asks permission to leave "the business," Don Antonio agrees, but reluctantly. Such behavior by either one is a violation of the code, and a bloody mob war breaks out. It is only through the strong support of his family connections in Sicily that Don Antonio is able to survive the mêlée and come out on top. Aghast at the situation he has caused, the godson becomes his leader's "consigliere," or Counselor at Crime.

The Counsellor

1973

Italy is Rotten poster
4.8

Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.

Italy is Rotten

1976

Why poster
7.3

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Sweden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?

Why

1971

Family Killer poster
6.1

Stefano, son of the Mafia Don Angelino Ferrante, is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone (John Saxon) for refusing to sell some valuable land. The old don sends for Ferrante Santino Billeci from America, in the hope that he'll be able to help in getting revenge. But Gaspar, meanwhile, is becoming the most powerful and ruthless boss of the area...

Family Killer

1973

El Bandido Malpelo poster
6.7

A young European, Diego Medina (Carvell), joins the Mexican revolution and becomes a courier for Pancho Villa. He is captured and tortured by the Federales but escapes to the desert where he meets and joins a bandit named Malpelo (Fajardo) and his gang.

El Bandido Malpelo

1971

Il lumacone poster
5.1

A struggling chef and a kind-hearted thief form an unlikely bond on the streets of Rome, finding hope and a chance to rebuild their lives together.

Il lumacone

1974

The Beast poster
5.6

Foul, twitchy, and deranged sex maniac Johnny Laster comes up with a plan to abduct a lovely young heiress in order to obtain her considerable inheritance.

The Beast

1970

1960s · 5 titles