Massimo Vanni

Massimo Vanni

A cousin of director Enzo G. Castellari and nephew of director Marino Girolami, Massimo Vanni became involved in the Italian film industry at a young age both as a bit-part player and stuntman before slowly graduating to larger more dramatic roles toward the end of the decade. A skilled acrobat and fight choreographer, Vanni himself became known as the Italian Jackie Chan of the 1980's, usually getting a good fight scene in before meeting with an inevitable demise.

  • Title: Massimo Vanni
  • Popularity: 4.092
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1946-07-08
  • Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
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  • Also Known As: Alex McBride, Patrick O'Neil, Max Vanders, Patrick O'Neil jr.
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Massimo Vanni Movies

  • 1997
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    The Wax Mask

    The Wax Mask

    5.66 1997 HD

    Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the...

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  • 1975
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    We Are No Angels

    We Are No Angels

    6 1975 HD

    Two wannabes rig a fight with a large prize fighter to buy a car.

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  • 2008
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    Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

    Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

    6 2008 HD

    This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom...

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  • 2007
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    E guardo il mondo da un oblò

    E guardo il mondo da un oblò

    1 2007 HD

    After constant arguments with his parents and after being left by the girl who dumped him for an engineer, Mike leaves university and starts managing...

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  • 2021
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    I Am Santa Claus

    I Am Santa Claus

    6.483 2021 HD

    Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn’t...

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  • 1980
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    Day of the Cobra

    Day of the Cobra

    6.2 1980 HD

    An American narcotics agent is murdered in Italy. The head of the department decides to hire Larry Stanziani, 'The Cobra'. Larry, a former agent and...

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  • 1976
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    The Big Racket

    The Big Racket

    6.8 1976 HD

    Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the...

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  • 1977
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    The Heroin Busters

    The Heroin Busters

    6.2 1977 HD

    Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport...

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  • 2008
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    Solitaire

    Solitaire

    5 2008 HD

    A three-billion-lire hit. A bloody hold-up. A sole survivor. Hunted down by fate and ruthless gangsters, Leo Piazza finds himself with a "hot"...

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  • 1995
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    Segreto di Stato

    Segreto di Stato

    6 1995 HD

    A bomb blows up in Milan and five people die. After only three hours Ravida, the chief of the Secret Service, knows the name of the killer and that...

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  • 1975
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    Emanuelle and Françoise

    Emanuelle and Françoise

    5.106 1975 HD

    Emanuelle is out to avenge her sister, who committed suicide after escaping from her sadistic lover Carlo. So she chains Carlo up in her basement,...

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  • 1984
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    Rats: Night of Terror

    Rats: Night of Terror

    4.9 1984 HD

    One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two factions; the underground society and the...

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  • 1978
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    Magnum Cop

    Magnum Cop

    4.8 1978 HD

    A low-rent private investigator and former cop is sent to Austria on a job, and while there sees a number of seemingly unrelated coincidences that...

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  • 1974
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    Street Law

    Street Law

    6.7 1974 HD

    Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand,...

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  • 1980
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    The Last Hunter

    The Last Hunter

    5.4 1980 HD

    During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped beind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him.

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  • 1988
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    Cop Game

    Cop Game

    4.8 1988 HD

    In the final days of the Vietnam War, someone is killing the officers of the elite Cobra Force. Two undercover M.P.'s are assigned to the case. The...

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  • 1987
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    Double Target

    Double Target

    4.7 1987 HD

    After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout southeast Asia, the U.S. begins to suspect a plot by...

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  • 1984
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    Blastfighter

    Blastfighter

    5.3 1984 HD

    An ex-cop, fresh out of prison, returns home to find it ruled by violent rednecks and must fight to protect himself and his daughter, using his...

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  • 1988
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    Strike Commando 2

    Strike Commando 2

    5 1988 HD

    A commando rescues his squad leader from heroin smugglers in Burma.

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  • 1989
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    Born to Fight

    Born to Fight

    5.7 1989 HD

    Vietnam War veteran Sam Wood is a survivor of a vicious prison camp where he was brutally and painfully tortured before finally managing to escape....

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  • 1975
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    Seven Beauties

    Seven Beauties

    7.5 1975 HD

    Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of the profits of his seven sisters while claiming...

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  • 1979
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    John Travolto: The Face with Two Left Feet

    John Travolto: The Face with Two Left Feet

    6.1 1979 HD

    Also known as THE LONELY DESTINY OF JOHN TRAVOLTO, it's the first and only Travoltasploitation movie. It's about a hotel cook named Gianni who can't...

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  • 1997
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    Desert of Fire

    Desert of Fire

    9.3 1997 HD

    A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of...

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  • 2013
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    Roma criminale

    Roma criminale

    2 2013 HD

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  • 1994
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    A Pure Formality

    A Pure Formality

    7.457 1994 HD

    Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a...

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  • 1996
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    Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo

    Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo

    5.8 1996 HD

    Alex, a high-school boy fond of rock and punk music, falls in love with Adelaide, who shares his feelings but doesn't want to get too involved...

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  • 2008
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    Ti stramo - Ho voglia di un'ultima notte da manuale prima di tre baci sopra il cielo

    Ti stramo - Ho voglia di un'ultima notte da manuale prima di tre baci sopra il cielo

    4.9 2008 HD

    Friedberg/Seltzer-like spoof about popular Italian teen romance movies of the aughts (such as Tre metri sopra il cielo, Come tu mi vuoi, Ho voglia di...

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  • 1978
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    Little Italy

    Little Italy

    6 1978 HD

    Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squadron back in Italy a bad name.

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  • 1981
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    The Last Shark

    The Last Shark

    5.4 1981 HD

    When a 35-foot great white shark begins to wreak havoc on a seaside town, the mayor, not wanting to endanger his gubernatorial campaign, declines to...

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  • 1985
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    Light Blast

    Light Blast

    4.5 1985 HD

    A policeman saves San Francisco from a mad scientist holding it hostage with a laser gun.

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  • 2024
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    Pretendo l'inferno

    Pretendo l'inferno

    6 2024 HD

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  • 1997
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    Body and Soul

    Body and Soul

    2 1997 HD

    Ljuba, a woman who has recently become a model, gets involved with a uranium thief.

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  • 1994
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    Una grande voglia d'amore

    Una grande voglia d'amore

    1 1994 HD

    In a ski center of Apennines lives young Paolo Antonelli and the rich Daniela. Paolo feels constrained by his marriage to Daniela as he was only...

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  • 1979
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    The House by the Edge of the Lake

    The House by the Edge of the Lake

    5.5 1979 HD

    A young university student returns to her family's country villa near a lake where years earlier had mother drowned. She is supposedly researching a...

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  • 1975
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    Violent Rome

    Violent Rome

    6 1975 HD

    A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the...

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  • 1974
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    Lovers and Other Relatives

    Lovers and Other Relatives

    5.7 1974 HD

    Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same time he's caring for a large number of sexually...

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  • 1988
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    Robowar

    Robowar

    4.5 1988 HD

    A group of commandos heads into the jungles of Venezuela on a highly classified mission and encounters a robotic killing machine.

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  • 1976
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    Rome, the Other Face of Violence

    Rome, the Other Face of Violence

    6.1 1976 HD

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

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  • 2005
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    Belle da morire 2

    Belle da morire 2

    2.7 2005 HD

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  • 1989
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    Sinbad of the Seven Seas

    Sinbad of the Seven Seas

    3.9 1989 HD

    Sinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers.

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  • 1980
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    Crime at Porta Romana

    Crime at Porta Romana

    5.7 1980 HD

    A police inspector is called to Milan to investigate a murder case since he grew up in the same ghetto as the suspect.

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  • 1979
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    Assassination on the Tiber

    Assassination on the Tiber

    6.1 1979 HD

    A black-out occurs during the meeting of a gang of criminals. When the light is back one of them is found killed with a stab on his back and all the...

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  • 1982
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    The Gorilla

    The Gorilla

    5 1982 HD

    Ruby has been trained in martial arts by her father and now has a job safeguarding a wide range of people and their valuables. A clumsy artist named...

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  • 1977
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    The Swindle

    The Swindle

    6.4 1977 HD

    A rude Roman policeman Nico Giraldi and an English detective team up in search of a gang that has carried out an enormous fraud against the Lloyd's...

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  • 1987
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    My Sister and I

    My Sister and I

    6.4 1987 HD

    Carlo is a responsible sibling who deals with his black-sheep sister Silvia in this situation comedy. When Silvia returns after many years to attend...

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  • 1976
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    The Loves and Times of Scaramouche

    The Loves and Times of Scaramouche

    3 1976 HD

    The adventures of a cad in Napoleonic times.

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  • 2005
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    Il ritorno del Monnezza

    Il ritorno del Monnezza

    4.2 2005 HD

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  • 2001
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    Vajont

    Vajont

    6.6 2001 HD

    On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, the...

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  • 1985
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    È arrivato mio fratello

    È arrivato mio fratello

    5.717 1985 HD

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  • 1981
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    Crime at the Chinese Restaurant

    Crime at the Chinese Restaurant

    5.8 1981 HD

    The officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnappeded by the...

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  • 2003
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    Five Moons Plaza

    Five Moons Plaza

    5.5 2003 HD

    Just the night before his retirement District Attorney Saracini is given a film showing the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. As the District Attorney takes...

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  • 2002
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    Gangs of New York

    Gangs of New York

    7.3 2002 HD

    In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who...

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  • 1977
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    Weapons of Death

    Weapons of Death

    6.3 1977 HD

    When a crime boss sends out his thugs to terrorize an entire city, they do whatever they want, which includes anything from petty theft to robbing...

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  • 1976
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    Keoma

    Keoma

    6.836 1976 HD

    Half-breed Keoma returns to his border hometown after service in the Civil War and finds it under the control of Caldwell, an ex-Confederate raider,...

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  • 1978
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    The Inglorious Bastards

    The Inglorious Bastards

    6.2 1978 HD

    Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers on their way to military prison are beset upon by a German artillery attack, escaping with...

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  • 1973
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    High Crime

    High Crime

    6.3 1973 HD

    An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds...

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  • 1989
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    Shocking Dark

    Shocking Dark

    4.6 1989 HD

    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...

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  • 1994
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    First Action Hero

    First Action Hero

    3 1994 HD

    A maverick cop takes on the seedy criminal underbelly of Miami singlehanded.

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  • 1984
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    Tuareg: Desert Warrior

    Tuareg: Desert Warrior

    5.8 1984 HD

    In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp of a Tuareg warrior where they're given water and...

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  • 1976
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    A Special Cop in Action

    A Special Cop in Action

    6.3 1976 HD

    A school bus with young children being kidnapped. Commissario Betti will solve the case. High action is promised, including hostage, bank robberies,...

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  • 1986
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    The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri

    The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri

    5.4 1986 HD

    Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge of investigating fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is...

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  • 1977
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    Nerone

    Nerone

    4.5 1977 HD

    Parody of real life events of the Roman emperor Nero.

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  • 2008
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    Bastardi

    Bastardi

    1 2008 HD

    The families Iuvara and Patene are bound by a common inherited hatred, which is further deepened when young Luke accidentically kills his rival...

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  • 1976
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    Hit Squad

    Hit Squad

    6.5 1976 HD

    A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.

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  • 1988
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    Zombie Flesh Eaters 2

    Zombie Flesh Eaters 2

    5.1 1988 HD

    When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corpse is cremated, unintentionally releasing a virus...

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  • 1983
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    The New Barbarians

    The New Barbarians

    4.3 1983 HD

    Two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust.

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  • 1982
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    1990: The Bronx Warriors

    1990: The Bronx Warriors

    5.1 1982 HD

    In post-apocalyptic New York City a policeman infiltrates the Bronx which has become a battleground for several murderous street gangs.

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  • 1990
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    After Death

    After Death

    4.9 1990 HD

    A woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. They had been working on a cure for cancer and accidentally raised the dead by...

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  • 1983
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    Escape from the Bronx

    Escape from the Bronx

    4.7 1983 HD

    A ragtag group of people have to fight extermination squads amid their ruined city.

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  • 1972
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    Hector the Mighty

    Hector the Mighty

    5 1972 HD

    A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling...

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  • 2005
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    Romanzo Criminale

    Romanzo Criminale

    7.187 2005 HD

    After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi and embarks on a crime spree that makes the trio...

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  • 1975
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    Cry, Onion!

    Cry, Onion!

    4.9 1975 HD

    Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted...

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  • 2008
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    Dragonland: L'Urlo di Chen terrorizza ancora l'occidente

    Dragonland: L'Urlo di Chen terrorizza ancora l'occidente

    10 2008 HD

    The first Italian documentary on the most extraordinary phenomenon of the 70s: the Kung-fu films!

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  • 2006
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    The Borgia

    The Borgia

    5.1 2006 HD

    A portrait of the bloody dynasty that spawned a pope, Alexander VI, as well as the role model for Machiavelli's “The Prince,” his son...

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  • 1977
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    Destruction Force

    Destruction Force

    5.8 1977 HD

    A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes in search of a suspect, Lanza, to avenge the...

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  • 1977
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    Highway Racer

    Highway Racer

    5.4 1977 HD

    Maurizio Merli stars as a hot-shot police driver who has more guts than brains, often landing him in hot water with his middle-aged mentor, who was...

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  • 2007
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    Quelli del Maledetto Treno Blindato - Making of 'Inglorious Bastards'

    Quelli del Maledetto Treno Blindato - Making of 'Inglorious Bastards'

    1 2007 HD

    Behind the scenes of "Inglorious Basterds" by Quentin Tarantino.

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  • 1981
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    The Last Shark

    The Last Shark

    5.4 1981 HD

    When a 35-foot great white shark begins to wreak havoc on a seaside town, the mayor, not wanting to endanger his gubernatorial campaign, declines to...

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  • 2024
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    L'uomo che disse no

    L'uomo che disse no

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2024
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    The man who said no

    The man who said no

    1 2024 HD

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  • 2005
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    Come Into the Light

    Come Into the Light

    7.2 2005 HD

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  • 2001
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    Stregati dalla luna

    Stregati dalla luna

    4.7 2001 HD

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  • 1993
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    Skinheads

    Skinheads

    4.6 1993 HD

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  • 2006
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    Baciami piccina

    Baciami piccina

    5.8 2006 HD

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  • 1989
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    Shocking Dark

    Shocking Dark

    4.6 1989 HD

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  • 1987
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    Strike Commando

    Strike Commando

    4.9 1987 HD

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  • 1988
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    Robowar

    Robowar

    4.5 1988 HD

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  • 1994
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    First Action Hero

    First Action Hero

    3 1994 HD

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  • 1984
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    Tuareg: Desert Warrior

    Tuareg: Desert Warrior

    5.8 1984 HD

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  • 2000
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    Alex the Ram

    Alex the Ram

    2.44 2000 HD

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  • 2002
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    A Perfect Love

    A Perfect Love

    4.7 2002 HD

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  • 2001
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    Vajont

    Vajont

    6.6 2001 HD

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  • 2002
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    Gangs of New York

    Gangs of New York

    7.3 2002 HD

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  • 1990
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    After Death

    After Death

    4.9 1990 HD

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  • 1975
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    Cry, Onion!

    Cry, Onion!

    4.9 1975 HD

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  • 2021
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    Dietro la notte

    Dietro la notte

    5.9 2021 HD

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  • 1976
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    Rome, the Other Face of Violence

    Rome, the Other Face of Violence

    6.1 1976 HD

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  • 1975
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    Violent Rome

    Violent Rome

    6 1975 HD

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  • 1989
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    Appointment in Trieste

    Appointment in Trieste

    1 1989 HD

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