Gian Carlo PreteFilmography

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Escape from the Bronx

Actors: Mark Gregory, Henry Silva, Valeria D'Obici, Timothy Brent, Paolo Malco

Synopsis: In this routine sci-fi sequel, Trash (Mark Gregory) is back in action again after his introduction in 1990: The Bronx Warriors, to defend that much-maligned New York burrough from total extinction at the hands of a vicious corporate giant. The General Construction Corporation plans on building Read More

1985
Ladyhawke

Actors: Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, John Wood

Synopsis: In medieval France, knight Rutger Hauer and lady fair Michelle Pfeiffer both run afoul of evil-bishop John Wood. Through the auspices of bishop's confessor Leo McKern, Hauer and Pfeiffer are placed under a curse. During the night, Hauer takes the form of a wolf, while Pfeiffer assumes the form of Read More

1985
The Assisi Underground

Actors: Ben Cross, James Mason, Irene Papas, Maximilian Schell, Karlheinz Hackl

Synopsis: Set during World War II, The Assisi Underground deals with the efforts made by a handful of hardy European souls to rescue Jews from the Holocaust. Ben Cross plays a dynamic young Catholic priest who puts his own life on the line to save thousands of refugees from Nazi-occupied Italy. While the Read More

1984
The New Barbarians

Actors: Fred Williamson, Anna Kanakis, Venantino Venantini

Synopsis: In this run-of-the-mill, derivative film about vulgar road warriors in the year 2019 -- after a nuclear holocaust -- the two macho heroes (Giancarlo Prete and Fred Williamson) have to single-handedly save a band of religious nomads plagued by the evil Templars. Between scenes and characters lifted Read More

4/7/83
Great White

Actors: James Franciscus, Vic Morrow, Joshua Sinclair, Gian Carlo Prete

Synopsis: A quaint little beach town is terrorized by a bloodthirsty great white shark in the infamous Italian Jaws rip-off The Last Shark. As usual, the powers that be turn a blind eye to it for tourist reasons, although eventually even they cannot escape the ocean of blood at their doorstep. Cue novelist Read More

4/2/81
Caligula II: Messalina Messalina

Actors: Vittorio Caprioli, Gian Carlo Prete, Tomas Milian, Lino Toffolo

Synopsis: This slapstick Italian sex comedy actually looks far more expensive than it really is, as it used the sets left over from the 1980 spectacular Caligula. It can't quite make up its mind, though, if it's a comedy (the emperor Claudius is a doddering, stuttering, impotent old fool), a sex film (with Read More

8/11/77
Le Avventure e gli Amori di Scaramouche

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Ursula Andress, Aldo Maccione, Gian Carlo Prete, Michael Forest

Synopsis: In this comedy, Scaramouche (Michael Sarrazin) and his friend Whistle (Giancarlo Prete) are members of Napoleon's army, and through a series of adventures, become embroiled in the intrigues surrounding Napoleon (Aldo Maccione) and his Empress, Josephine (Ursula Andress). ~ Clarke Fountain, All Read More

1/23/76
The Anonymous Avenger

1976
La Nottata

12/28/74
Il Cittadino si Ribella

Actors: Franco Nero

Synopsis: When the police cannot prosecute heinous crimes effectively, some very brave men will do their jobs for them, this film seems to say. Carlo (Franco Nero) gets in the way of a group of crooks who are trying to rob a bank, and they mutilate him horribly for his trouble. When the police cannot quite Read More

9/17/74
Rappresaglia

Actors: Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern, John Steiner, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: On March 24, 1944, in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome, one of the most infamous atrocities of World War II occurred -- the mass execution of 330 Italians in retaliation for the deaths of 33 Germans. The book Death in Rome contends that Pope Pius XII knew of the German plan but did nothing to stop Read More

10/4/73
The Con Men

Synopsis: Jack Palance and Lionel Stander, two familiar Hollywood faces in foreign films of the 1960s and 1970s, star in Con Men. Palance and Stander play a pair of frontier sharpsters who sell shares in a worthless gold mine. You guessed it: the mine begins to yield a fortune. Now our two anti-heroes must Read More

1973
Snow Job

Actors: Jean-Claude Killy, Vittorio De Sica

Synopsis: In this offbeat crime adventure, a downhill ski instructor at an Alpine resort involves himself in a conspiracy to rob the bank that lies in the resort town nearby. The heist is a success until a dogged insurance investigator threatens to reveal their identities unless they give him the loot. They Read More

1972
La Tarantola dal ventre nero

Actors: Barbara Bach, Barbara Bouchet, Rossella Falk, Annabella Incontrera, Carla Mancini, Stefania Sandrelli, Silvano Tranquilli, Giancarlo Giannini

Synopsis: This frightening horror-thriller stars Giancarlo Giannini as Inspector Tellini, chasing a killer whose victims are paralyzed with a poisoned acupuncture needle, forcing them to watch helplessly as their stomachs are ripped open with a sharp knife. This method duplicates the habits of the black Read More

8/12/71
Bad Cop Chronicles #1: Confessions of a Police Captain

Actors: Franco Nero, Martin Balsam, Marilù Tolo

Synopsis: A mild-mannered police commissioner (Martin Balsam) is frustrated at every attempt to capture a political crimelord with legal means, so he is forced to turn to vigilante justice to get his man. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

3/26/71
The Price of Death

Synopsis: In this western, a brave hero helps a man wrongly accused of killing a saloon girl in a small Texas town. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1971
The Martlet's Tale

Actors: Katina Paxinou, Takis Emmanuel

Synopsis: Sotiris (George Linjeris) is the grandson of Orsetta (Katina Paxinou), the wealthy matriarch of a Greek family. As she lingers near death, Sotiris is repulsed by the ghoulish death watch prompted by greed for the old woman's fortune. He takes off for an unknown country in the Middle East where he Read More

1970
Hornet's Nest

Actors: Rock Hudson, Sylva Koscina, Sergio Fantoni, Jacques Sernas, Mark Colleano

Synopsis: Captain Turner (Rock Hudson) is the American paratrooper who employs Italian children to blow up a strategic dam controlled by the Nazis. He is the only survivor of his unit gunned down during the jump. Rescued by the moppets, he slaps and rapes German medico Bianca (Sylva Koscina), which Read More

1970