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Actors: Andrea del Boca, Graciela Borges, Gian Maria Volontè, Pepe Soriano, Moria Casan
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Ana Belén, Juan Diego, Ignacio Tarso, Fernando Guillén
Synopsis: This historical drama, set in the '20s examines the strange, brief reign of a Latin American dictator. It was alternately shot in Havana and Mexico. The story is set in an unspecified Latin country and chronicles the daily life of the tyrannical dictator. One of his day's highlights is the signing Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Graciela Borges, Pepe Soriano
Synopsis: In his retirement home, the former bartender (Pepe Soriano) at a brothel and bistro in a provincial town in Argentina in the 1930s regales his listeners with tales about the personalities there. Chief among them was the brothel's owner (Gian Maria Volonte), who seemed the master of all he Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Renato Carpentieri, Ennio Fantastichini, Renzo Giovampietro
Synopsis: Set during the Mussolini years, Open Doors stars Gian Maria Volonte as an old-line judge. Volonte tries to remain faithful to the letter of the law, despite the "improvements" made by the Fascists. His insistence upon justice over dogma results in government reprimands, and ultimately poses a Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Ennio Fantastichini, Ricky Tognazzi, Massimo Dapporto, Paolo Graziosi
Synopsis: This detective drama explores the labyrinthine byways of the Sicilian and Italian mind when confronted with ancient family secrets and treasures in the course of a murder investigation. In the story, an eminent diplomat returns unexpectedly to his remote villa near a small Sicilian town to hunt Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Sami Frey, Jacques Lippe, Anna Karina, Johan Leysen
Synopsis: Andre Delvaux directed this stylish, yet ultimately empty adaptation of a historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar. Gian Maria Volonte leads the cast as Zenon, a Belgian doctor and alchemist in the 1500s. Zenon travels across Europe for many years hiding from the Inquisition, which eventually Read More
Actors: Michael Gwisdek
Synopsis: It is difficult these days to imagine that elementary school education was instituted by anyone at all. In fact, Swiss experimental educator Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746-1827) laid the groundwork for universal elementary school education and developed many of the educational theories and Read More
Actors: Rupert Everett, Ornella Muti, Anthony Delon, Gian Maria Volontè, Irene Papas, Lucia Bosé
Synopsis: This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to murder. Based on a novel by distinguished author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the tale begins in the present as a middle-aged doctor returns to the village after a twenty-year Read More
Actors: Diego Abatantuono, Gian Maria Volontè, Therese Liotard
Synopsis: Like many uninsightful fathers, Nicola is very ambitious and hardworking and perceives himself to be a failure. He has persuaded himself that the only good thing his thirteen-year-old son can possibly do is to work harder and smarter than he himself did, so that he, at least, can fulfill his Read More
Actors: Bud Spencer, Luca Venantini, Janet Agren, Umberto Raho
Synopsis: A 14-year-old boy working in a secondhand store after school finds a magic lamp in this comical fantasy adventure. The genie (Bud Spencer) grants Alan his wishes when he asks for a Rolls Royce, vanquishes the local bullies, and becomes a star basketball player. The genie helps get rid of local Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Margarita Lozano, Mattia Sbragia, Bruno Zanin, Consuelo Ferrara
Synopsis: In 1978, Italian politics were thrown into turmoil when the Christian Democratic president Aldo Moro was executed. This gripping political drama is based on American journalist Robert Katz's non-fiction book Days of Wrath and documents the convoluted chain of events that lead to Moro's death. Moro Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Jean-Michel Dupuis, Heinz Bennent, Mimsy Farmer, Magali Noël
Synopsis: The Death of Mario Ricci is a Swiss/French/West German coproduction, filmed on location in Switzerland. Gian-Maria Volonte stars as a TV newscaster who journeys to a remote alpine village to interview a famed malnutrition expert. Upon his arrival, Volonte learns that there's an ongoing Read More
Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Gian Maria Volontè, Bruno Ganz, Fernando Rey, Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Synopsis: In the original story of Camille by Alexandre Dumas, Jr. La Dame aux Camelias, a beautiful Parisian courtesan, Marguerite Gautier, (called "Camille" because of her love for camelias) is supported by a series of aristocratic lovers, but does not fall in love until she meets Armand Duval. Armand's Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Eusebio Poncela, Ángela Molina, Saverio Marconi, José M. Sacristán
Synopsis: This thriller is based on the still politically sensitive story of the assassination of General Francisco Franco's heir apparent General Carrero Blanco. The General was to have been kidnapped by the Basque separatists, but when that proved too difficult, they arranged to bomb his car (with him in Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Paolo Bonacelli, Alain Cuny, Lea Massari
Synopsis: Based on an autobiographical novel by Carlo Levi, Cristo si e fermato a Eboli stars Gian-Maria Volonte as Levi, a prominent anti-fascist author and artist who, during Mussolini's regime was exiled to Eboli, a tiny village in Southern Italy. The government believed Levi's controversial views would Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato, Michel Piccoli
Synopsis: Set at an indeterminate time in the near future, this routine, well-acted drama by Elio Petri tackles favorite Italian topics: religion and politics. A bit of macabre fantasy is added to the mix, but the end product remains somewhat muddled. Don Gaetano (Marcello Mastroianni) is a priest who is Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Annie Girardot, Renato Salvatori
Synopsis: Political intrigues and infighting within the Italian Communist Party are the overriding themes of this drama. Emile (Gian Maria Volonte) has been sent to Turin by the Italian Communist Central Committee in Paris, ostensibly to find out which of the four Party representatives working in the Fiat Read More
Actors: Diana Bracho, Eduardo Lopez Rojas
Synopsis: Originally Actas De Marusia, this Mexican film re-creates a dark chapter in the history of Chile. The scene is a small Chilean mining town in 1907. Suffering under the despotic rule of the British mine owners, the workers stage a revolt. The government's solution is to utterly destroy the town Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè
Synopsis: Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was one of the pivotal thinkers of the Renaissance. A Dominican friar in Italy, he left the order and taught widely throughout Europe. Among the ideas he taught were the inexpressibility of any ultimate truths and the complete relativity of ordinary truth. He also taught Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Rod Steiger, Charles Siragusa, Edmond O'Brien, Vincent Gardenia
Synopsis: Director Francesco Rosi returns to his recurring theme of the connections between legal and illegal exercises of power in this sensationalized account of the infamous gangster Charles "Lucky" Luciano (Gian Maria Volonte). The film examines the life of Luciano after serving nine years of his Read More
Synopsis: A major Milanese newspaper publisher makes moves to frame a student protest leader for the murder of a young college coed. This political thriller takes the student and political unrest of the late '60s and early '70s in Italy as its background. It includes previously unseen documentary footage of Read More
Actors: Michel Piccoli, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Seberg, Gian Maria Volontè
Synopsis: L'Attentat is a political thriller based largely on a true story (the Ben Barka affair), which recounts how the French government and the American CIA connived to have a socialist in exile murdered before he could return to his homeland and start a revolution. Darien, a French journalist Read More
Synopsis: Well-known actor Gian Maria Volonte carries this Italian biographical film almost single-handedly in his role as the industrialist Enrico Mattei. Mattei gave Italian industry a much-needed shot in the arm in the postwar era and died under suspicious circumstances in 1962. However, like many Read More
Synopsis: If this Italian drama were any less well told, it would come off as a pure union propaganda piece. Instead, it is a worthy film for the director who made the acclaimed film Investigation Of A Citizen Above Suspicion. In any manufacturing situation, it simply doesn't pay to be the fastest and Read More
Synopsis: One of the most notorious American judicial cases of the 20th century is paced and photographed like a spaghetti Western in the Italian Sacco and Vanzetti. There is no denying that Nicola Sacco (Riccardo Cucciolla) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti (Gian Maria Volontè) were anarchists. But it is highly Read More
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Actors: Alain Delon, Bourvil, Gian Maria Volontè, Yves Montand, François Perier
Synopsis: Corey (Alain Delon) is the young gun in the French underworld who has just been released from prison. Escaped convict Vogel (Gian-Maria Volonté) hides in the trunk of Corey's car. The two enlist the help of an alcoholic former cop (Yves Montand) for an elaborate jewelry-store robbery. Police Read More
Actors: Mark Frechette, Alain Cuny, Gian Maria Volontè, Franco Graziosi, Pier Paolo Capponi
Synopsis: Italian army regulars resist the orders of a cruel general whose rigid interpretations of the rules call for a man to be shot. Leone (Alain Cuny) orders the execution of an army regular who halted the troops while under enemy fire. A sympathetic lieutenant substitutes a dead body for that of the Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Florinda Bolkan, Salvo Randone, Gianni Santuccio, Arturo Dominici, Orazio Orlando
Synopsis: Better known as Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, this Oscar-winning political drama stars Gian Maria Volonte as the citizen of the title, an unnamed police inspector. The story finds the inspector calmly cutting his mistress' throat, then planting evidence that will clear him of Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Lucia Bosé, Giulio Brogi, Samy Pavel
Synopsis: This symbolic film underscores the struggles between a group of visionaries versus the Establishment while wondering about the survival of humankind. A group of young men manage to escape a volcano eruption on their small island. Seeking a new life, they stop at an island between their destroyed Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Stefania Sandrelli, Ivo Garrani, Luigi Pistilli
Synopsis: A father and son are offered a good price for their land by a wealthy land baron. they agree to the sale, but are tricked into giving up their property through a bureaucratic maneuver for next to nothing. The son grows up to become a young man and fueled by his hatred for the evil baron, he seeks Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Mireille Darc, Olga Georges-Picot
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Anne Wiazemsky, Allen Midgette
Synopsis: Noted French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard makes another foray into Marxist film in this poorly-wrought attempt at a political film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This documentary was made by the labor union that has occupied the Appollon Printing Press Company for more than a year. Management tried to move the plant to a non-union town where the workers will be more willing to meet their demands. This decidedly pro-labor effort does tend to characterize Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Mireille Darc, Olga Georges-Picot, Giampiero Albertini, Erika Blanc
Synopsis: As revolution sweeps across Europe, a newspaper correspondent covers the changing political events by attending summits in different countries. He travels across the superhighways and behind the iron curtain to watch the series of revolts unfold. His girlfriend Anne leaves him for a German student Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Don Backy, Tomas Milian
Synopsis: This gripping crime thriller from director Carlo Lizzani was based on a true story. A daring gang of bandits pull off a series of risky heists in Milan, murdering several innocent bystanders in the film's exciting opening getaway scene. Lizzani then moves the story backwards in time, painting a Read More
Synopsis: This Italian western contains subtle political undertones as it chronicles the exploits of a tubercular history professor who journeys to the American Southwest to recuperate. There he becomes fascinated by an outlaw who befriends him. The intelligent prof uses his brains to assist the outlaw. Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Irene Papas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Salvo Randone
Synopsis: Paolo Giana Maria Volonte is a lonely teacher who learns that two of his friends have been murdered in this twisting crime drama. He discovers that the victims were the recipients of threatening, anonymous letters. Paolo falls for Louisa Irene Papas, the widow of one of the dead men. He finds out Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Lou Castel, Martine Beswicke, Andrea Checchi, Klaus Kinski
Synopsis: It is early in the 20th century, and an American traveler has come to Mexico at just the wrong time to continue living a peaceful life, for the Revolution has begun and he quickly finds himself in the thick of it. At first, he is right in the middle between government troops and the Read More
Synopsis: In this romantic horror movie, a family hires a genealogist to help them assemble the late patriarch's papers. While there, he falls in love with the daughter who is not nearly as angelic as she looks. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Robert Hoffman, Lisa Gastoni, Gian Maria Volontè
Synopsis: Dashing Austrian actor Robert Hoffmann stars as Luciano Luthring, a small-time hood who rises quickly to to the ranks of ruthless professional criminal, only to be betrayed by his beautiful moll (Lisa Gastoni). This fact-based crime thriller, directed by veteran Carlo Lizzani, also contains a fine Read More
Actors: Soupy Sales, Tab Hunter, Arthur O'Connell, Edward Andrews, Doris Dowling
Synopsis: Comedian Soupy Sales makes his feature film debut in this silly outing as a janitor cleaning up at Cape Kennedy. He has been specially assigned to make sure that none of the nuclear warheads there get dusty. It's not easy because spies run around spreading dust. One day the janitor stumbles into Read More
Actors: Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Gian Maria Volontè, Folco Lulli, Maria Grazia Buccella
Synopsis: Brancaleone (Vittorio Gassman) leads an inept group of Crusaders to the sea in this offbeat war comedy. The Crusaders hope to find a ship that will take them to the Holy Land to reclaim the area for Christianity. The situation allows for plenty of sight gags and ribald humor. Catherine Spaak Read More
Actors: Kitty Courbois, Paolo Graziosi, Gian Maria Volontè
Synopsis: Wessel Franken (Paolo Graziosi) is a writer who leaves his wife and work behind for a vacation in sunny Cote D'Azur. When he discovers his elderly host Max (Walter Kous) is having a homosexual affair with young Danny (Joop Van Hulzen), he flees to Rome for a brief fling with Karen (Kittie Read More
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, Gian Maria Volontè, Josef Egger, Mara Krup
Synopsis: This pulse-pounding follow-up to Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars brings back Clint Eastwood as the serape-clad, cigar-chewing "Man With No Name." Engaged in an ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the Man joins forces with his enemy to capture homicidal Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Ugo Tognazzi, Bernard Blier, Michéle Girardon, Philippe Nicaud, Salvo Randone
Synopsis: This uninhibited Italian comedy was originally titled Il Magnifico Cornuto. Ugo Tognazzi plays a philandering businessman, inordinately proud of his hyperactive libido. Claudia Cardinale is his sexy wife, which makes one wonder why Tognazzi would ever want to stray. Be that as it may, Cardinale Read More
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, Gian Maria Volontè, Wolfgang Lukschy, Mario Brega
Synopsis: By the time Sergio Leone made this film, Italians had already produced about 20 films ironically labelled "spaghetti westerns." Leone approached the genre with great love and humor. Although the plot was admittedly borrowed from Akira Kurosawa's Yojimbo (1961), Leone managed to create a work of Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Philippe Leroy, Anouk Aimée, Giulio Bosetti
Actors: Regina Bianchi, Aldo Giuffré, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel, Franco Sportelli
Synopsis: This gripping, Oscar-nominated war drama is set in the fall of 1943 during the Nazi occupation of Italy when all the Neapolitan males from five to sixty are forced to work in slave camps. Tired of the cruelty and oppression, the people rise up and launch such a violent melee that they frighten the Read More
Actors: Gian Maria Volontè, Didi Perego, Lydia Alfonsi
Synopsis: Three novice directors went in together to write and direct this routine drama about the Mafia in Sicily. Salvatore (Gian Maria Volonte) lives in a rural environment on the island, and when he becomes fed up with Mafia tactics, he swings into action. First he convinces the farmers and workers that Read More
Actors: Nino Manfredi, Mario Adorf, Gian Maria Volontè, Raymond Bussières
Synopsis: This well-acted though conventional comedy-drama by director Luigi Comencini features comic Nino Manfredi in the title role of Giacinto, a father and husband who has been driven to steal in order to survive. His ineptitude lands him in jail where he meets up with slightly more hardened criminals Read More
Actors: Reg Park
Synopsis: Hercules (Reg Park) and King Androcles (Ettore Manni) are on an ocean expedition when Androcles is washed overboard during a storm near a mysterious island. Making landfall, Hercules finds that the island is the kingdom of Atlantis, ruled by a beautiful, cruel, and ambitious queen, Antinea (Fay Spain Read More
Synopsis: Three mining engineers are marooned in the Sahara after their helicopter crashes and end up finding a secret doorway to the lost city of Atlantis where they capture the fancy of a ruthless Egyptian queen. She manages to seduce one of the men with her magic, but the other two meet grim fates after Read More
Actors: Claudia Cardinale, Jacques Perrin, Corrado Pani, Luciana Angiolillo, Romolo Valli
Synopsis: The title character, played by Claudia Cardinale, is a young woman who heads out alone to the big city after being dumped by her lover. She is befriended and protected by her ex-suitor's younger brother Jacques Perrin, who eventually becomes her new romance, despite the difference in ages (Perrin Read More
Actors: Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, Mylène Demongeot, John Ericson, Cecil Parker
Synopsis: Under Ten Flags is a fact-based British maritime epic set during World War II. Allied ships are being victimized by a German surface raider, which sails under friendly flags until moving in for the kill. Since so many nationalities were involved in making this film (both before and behind the Read More
Actors: Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Henri Vidal, Irene Papas, Colette Regis
Synopsis: Italian director Pietro Francisci directed this 1954 drama about the fifth-century invasion of Rome by Attila the Hun. Anthony Quinn stars as the legendary barbaric King of the Huns who wreaked havoc upon Rome, threatening to topple the entire empire. Sophia Loren costars as Honoria, the beautiful Read More
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