John Steiner

John Steiner

John Steiner (born 7 January 1941 in Chester) is an English actor. Tall, thin and gaunt, Steiner attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and worked for a few years at the BBC. Steiner featured in a lead role in a television production of Design for Living by Noel Coward. Later he found further work primarily in films. In the late 1960s, Steiner was hired to play a part in the spaghetti western Tepepa. He found himself in demand in Italy and relocated there, specializing in playing villains in a great number of Italian B-movies and exploitation films. John Steiner has appeared in various genres of movies, including horror films and police actioners. He also became a favorite of famed Italian filmmaker Tinto Brass featuring in Salon Kitty alongside Ingrid Thulin and Helmut Berger. Steiner was in very steady demand until the late 1980s. As the Italian film industry dwindled, Steiner retired from acting in 1991 and relocated to California, where he became a real estate agent. In the late 1990s a special magazine was started by Cranston McMillan's Also Press. Titled, John Steiner the zine was dedicated to Steiner's film, TV and stage work, featured reviews and helping fans trace prints of his more obscure Italian work, the publication triggered new interest in the happily retired star. Selling mainly in mainland Europe and the USA the zine ran until successfully 2005. A special large format issue ended the run. McMillan remains the best authority on John Steiner and has promised that his long awaited definitve work on the actors career will be with publishers soon. Steiner has recently contributed to DVD extras on some of his films and given interviews about his Italian work. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Steiner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: John Steiner
  • Popularity: 6.127
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1941-01-07
  • Place of Birth: Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
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John Steiner Movies

  • 1969
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    Twelve Plus One

    Twelve Plus One

    5.3 1969 HD

    Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he...

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  • 1977
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    Shock

    Shock

    6.333 1977 HD

    A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.

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  • 1991
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    Paprika

    Paprika

    7 1991 HD

    Mimma starts working in Madame Colette’s brothel to help her boyfriend financially. There she is rechristened “Paprika,” and falls...

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  • 1986
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    Troppo forte

    Troppo forte

    6.5 1986 HD

    Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries...

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  • 1985
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    Cut and Run

    Cut and Run

    5.6 1985 HD

    A reporter and her cameraman connect a surviving Jonestown leader and a TV exec's missing son to a drug war where jungle installations are being...

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  • 1986
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    Body Count

    Body Count

    5.1 1986 HD

    A bodybuilder, a junk-food addict and a wild blonde nymph and their friends are stalked by a terrifying figure. An horrific tale of murder as a...

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  • 1979
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    Caligula

    Caligula

    6 1979 HD

    After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and...

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  • 1976
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    I Don't Want to Be Born

    I Don't Want to Be Born

    5 1976 HD

    A woman gives birth to a baby, but this is no ordinary little tyke. The child is seemingly possessed by the spirit of a freak dwarf who the mother...

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  • 1976
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    Salon Kitty

    Salon Kitty

    5.6 1976 HD

    Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army...

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  • 1986
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    The Lone Runner

    The Lone Runner

    4.6 1986 HD

    The Summerking's daughter has been kidnapped, and the legendary hero of the desert comes to her rescue as he did when she was young. The Lone Runner...

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  • 1975
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    Waves of Lust

    Waves of Lust

    5.4 1975 HD

    A young couple become embroiled with the personal problems of another couple on a yacht moored off Sicily during a turbulent weekend of fun, games,...

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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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  • 1974
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    Morel's Invention

    Morel's Invention

    6.1 1974 HD

    A castaway arrives on an island. He thinks it's uninhabited, but he sees a palace with also a hidden room. Soon he sees some people walking, dressed...

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  • 1976
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    Plot of Fear

    Plot of Fear

    5.4 1976 HD

    Plot of Fear tells the story of a decadent weekend party full of orgies and drugs on the outskirts of Milan. After two deaths occur Inspector Lomenzo...

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  • 1989
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    Sinbad of the Seven Seas

    Sinbad of the Seven Seas

    4 1989 HD

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

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  • 1983
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    Yor, the Hunter from the Future

    Yor, the Hunter from the Future

    4.4 1983 HD

    In prehistoric times, the muscular Yor saves his cave-babe from a dinosaur just before they get zapped into the future to battle bad guys in the...

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  • 1970
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    Bali

    Bali

    4.3 1970 HD

    The wife of a European photographer on assignment in exotic Bali falls for an enigmatic ex patriot under the spell of a mystical death cult...

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  • 1976
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    Violent Milan

    Violent Milan

    6.8 1976 HD

    A gang of thieves decides to hit the headquarters of Aspex. The police intervened and only two of the robbers managed to escape with the loot, while...

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  • 1988
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    The Night of the Sharks

    The Night of the Sharks

    3.1 1988 HD

    David must fight for his life against the gangsters who killed his brother for a CD filled with proof of their illegal activities. When David gets...

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  • 1972
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    Slap the Monster on Page One

    Slap the Monster on Page One

    7.6 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1976
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    Deported Women of the SS Special Section

    Deported Women of the SS Special Section

    4.9 1976 HD

    Young women in Nazi-occupied countries are packed onto a train and shipped off to a prison camp, where the sadistic commandant uses them as rewards...

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  • 1986
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    Cobra Mission

    Cobra Mission

    4.773 1986 HD

    Ten years after the end of the war in Vietnam, four ex-Marines decide to return to S.E. Asia to investigate reports of American POWs still being held...

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  • 1977
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    A Man Called Blade

    A Man Called Blade

    6.6 1977 HD

    Maurizio Merli stars as a hatchet-wielding bounty hunter with a dark past and an even more desperate future. But when he disrupts the balance of...

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  • 1969
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    Tepepa

    Tepepa

    6.542 1969 HD

    The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.

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  • 1976
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    Mark Strikes Again

    Mark Strikes Again

    4.8 1976 HD

    A murderous drug dealer breaks his partner out of police custody. An undercover cop is assigned to track down the two killers and bring them in.

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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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  • 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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  • 1982
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    The Hunters of the Golden Cobra

    The Hunters of the Golden Cobra

    5.7 1982 HD

    An American soldier and a British intelligence agent try to track down an ancient relic called the Golden Cobra, rumored to have supernatural powers....

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  • 2012
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    Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s

    Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s

    7.7 2012 HD

    A documentary concerning the violent Italian 'poliziotteschi' cinematic movement of the 1970s which, at first glance, seem to be rip-offs of American...

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  • 1984
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    The Ark of the Sun God

    The Ark of the Sun God

    5.563 1984 HD

    A safecracker takes a job where he must go to Istanbul and steal a scepter that once belonged to the god Gilgamesh but is now in the temple of a...

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  • 1985
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    Commando Leopard

    Commando Leopard

    6.1 1985 HD

    A cruel dictator rules a Latin American state. Corruption, brutality and exploitation are present every day. A few people begin to organise...

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  • 1988
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    The Commander

    The Commander

    5.5 1988 HD

    Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett...

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  • 1988
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    Appuntamento a Liverpool

    Appuntamento a Liverpool

    5.3 1988 HD

    Caterina's father died before her eyes in the Heysel Stadium disaster. Years later, she's summoned by British police to look at some possible...

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  • 1970
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    May Morning

    May Morning

    6.5 1970 HD

    A dramatic and penetrating examination of the intellectual and moral standards existing at Oxford University, England, in the early 1970s.

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  • 1973
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    The Police Serve the Citizens?

    The Police Serve the Citizens?

    6.2 1973 HD

    In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that controls the port activities. But the law restrains his...

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  • 1988
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    Striker

    Striker

    4.3 1988 HD

    John Slade is hired to rescue a journalist named Frank Morris from a Sandinista prison in Nicaragua. He teams with Marta, a local woman, to carry out...

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  • 1968
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    Work Is a 4-Letter Word

    Work Is a 4-Letter Word

    3 1968 HD

    Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind...

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  • 1977
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    The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond

    The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond

    6.8 1977 HD

    Returning from Switzerland to Rome, the boss prof. Salviati, called 'The Prince', finds his business compromised by Rudy, a small local bandit full...

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  • 1974
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    Challenge to White Fang

    Challenge to White Fang

    6.2 1974 HD

    Sequel to Lucio Fulci's first 'White Fang' has the wolf-dog once again trying to stop the villainous Beauty Smith from claiming a recently discovered...

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  • 1971
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    The Case Is Closed, Forget It

    The Case Is Closed, Forget It

    6.8 1971 HD

    Arrested on suspicion of a hit and run, a succesful architect is put in prison awaiting trial or release. Whilst there he witnesses the grim reality...

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  • 1977
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    Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison

    Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison

    6.6 1977 HD

    Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life.

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  • 1970
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    The Ancines Woods

    The Ancines Woods

    4.74 1970 HD

    Benito Freire, a pedlar in a small village in northern Spain suffers from epileptic seizures and rumours start to spread that he may be a werewolf...

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  • 1973
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    Massacre in Rome

    Massacre in Rome

    6.1 1973 HD

    In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story...

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  • 1973
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    White Fang

    White Fang

    6.4 1973 HD

    The wolf dog, White Fang, aids a reporter, a fur trapper, a nun, a young Eskimo boy and his father of ridding a gold mining town of a sleazy crime...

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  • 1977
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    Gangbusters

    Gangbusters

    5.5 1977 HD

    Mario Gastaldi, a lawyer with no clients and no money, agrees to be a negotiator in a deal on stolen paintings, between the boss Peseti and the...

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  • 1970
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    A Girl Called Jules

    A Girl Called Jules

    6.8 1970 HD

    After his Western triumphs, Valerii stepped out of the shadow of Sergio Leone with this distinctly Bergmanesque sexual melodrama.Dionisio is perfect...

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  • 1988
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    Julia and Julia

    Julia and Julia

    5.3 1988 HD

    Giulia, an American woman living in Italy, becomes depressed and traumatized after her husband Paolo is killed in a car accident on their wedding...

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  • 1977
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    Goodbye & Amen

    Goodbye & Amen

    6.7 1977 HD

    As John Dhannay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, plans the overthrow of an African government, he discovers one of his men has been in contact with...

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  • 1980
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    Action

    Action

    4.6 1980 HD

    Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he...

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  • 1981
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    The Salamander

    The Salamander

    5.6 1981 HD

    An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a...

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  • 1984
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    I due carabinieri

    I due carabinieri

    6.105 1984 HD

    Two deadbeat friends barely pass the entrance exam for the Carabinieri, the national gendarmerie of Italy, but love for the same woman gets in the...

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  • 1986
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    Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil

    Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil

    5.3 1986 HD

    A charming billionaire manager kidnaps a criminal and locks him up in her private villa in Sardinia.

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  • 1983
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    Mystère

    Mystère

    5 1983 HD

    Assassins are after a prostitute who has come into possession of a cigarette lighter that, unbeknownst to her, contains the negatives that show a...

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  • 1985
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    The Berlin Affair

    The Berlin Affair

    5.4 1985 HD

    What begins as an innocent art class becomes a steamy triangle of erotic passions and forbidden love. A beautiful Japanese girl becomes the object of...

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  • 1977
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    La Gabbia

    La Gabbia

    5.5 1977 HD

    Based on the infamous Stanford prison experiment. In 1977, Italian director Carlo Tuzii adapted the experiment to an Italian environment. Italian...

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  • 1981
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    Car Crash

    Car Crash

    4.5 1981 HD

    When successful racer Nick, with friend and business manager Paul are threatened off the racing circuit they call in a favor from a stock car...

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  • 1974
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    Occupations

    Occupations

    1 1974 HD

    In an attempt to win better conditions for the workers in 1920s Turin, Gramsci leads a takeover of the factories by the workers. He is offered...

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  • 2013
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    The Outsider - The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti

    The Outsider - The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti

    6 2013 HD

    Documentary on the life and films of Antonio Margheriti.

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  • 2007
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    My Roman Holiday With John Steiner

    My Roman Holiday With John Steiner

    1 2007 HD

    Interview with John Stiener about his career and views and perspectives on Caligula and some of his other movies.

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  • 1978
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    Il prigioniero

    Il prigioniero

    1 1978 HD

    Italian TV movie. Based upon a novel by Anton Chekhov.

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  • 1976
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    The Hornet's Nest

    The Hornet's Nest

    6.5 1976 HD

    A compulsive gambler must steal a suitcase full of money, which is also coveted by Melba, a cabaret singer. A getaway ensues.

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  • 1973
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    The Professional

    The Professional

    1 1973 HD

    An insignificant little middle-aged man strikes a heinous bargain with an underworld expert. The man has a problem: his wife. A professional killer...

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  • 1975
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    The Last Day of School Before Christmas

    The Last Day of School Before Christmas

    1 1975 HD

    Directed by Gian Vittorio Baldi

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  • 1973
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    Holidays

    Holidays

    7 1973 HD

    Rossini, history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that...

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  • 1975
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    Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

    Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

    6.2 1975 HD

    A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his...

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  • 1970
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    The Golden Ass

    The Golden Ass

    1 1970 HD

    In ancient Mauretania, the young Roman Lucius Apuleius and his friend Aristomene run into a series of misadventures.

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  • 1978
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    Question of Love

    Question of Love

    6.4 1978 HD

    Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his young Swedish wife Catherine and her English lover...

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  • 1977
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    Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer

    Von Buttiglione Sturmtruppenführer

    4.5 1977 HD

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  • 1979
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    Design for Living

    Design for Living

    1 1979 HD

    Design for Living presents a trio of neurotic but intensely artistic characters: Gilda, Otto and Leo. Set in Paris, Otto and Leo both fall in love...

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  • 1967
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    Bedazzled

    Bedazzled

    6.2 1967 HD

    A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.

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  • 1979
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    The Little Archimedes

    The Little Archimedes

    7 1979 HD

    The action takes place in Florence in the 1930s. Alfred, an Englishman who moved to that city in order to write a book on Giotto, meets a boy who is...

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  • 1967
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    Marat/Sade

    Marat/Sade

    6.1 1967 HD

    In Charenton Asylum, the Marquis de Sade directs a play about Jean Paul Marat's death, using the patients as actors. Based on 'The Persecution and...

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  • 1989
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    Massacre Play

    Massacre Play

    5 1989 HD

    Estranged childhood friends, both passionate filmmakers, find themselves on divergent paths: one an acclaimed Oscar winner, the other struggling in...

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  • 1982
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    Tenebre

    Tenebre

    6.9 1982 HD

    A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.

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  • 1969
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    Department S

    Department S

    4.9 1969 HD

    Department S is a United Kingdom spy-fi adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. The series consists of 28 episodes which originally aired in...

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  • 1962
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    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.3 1962 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...

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  • 1967
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    Sanctuary

    Sanctuary

    5 1967 HD

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  • 1971
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    Hine

    Hine

    1 1971 HD

    Barrie Ingham (The Caesars) stars as Joe Hine, an international arms dealer battling to stay one step ahead of the competition in this rapidly paced...

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  • 1985
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    A.D.

    A.D.

    4.9 1985 HD

    A 12 hours miniseries adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked.

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  • 1983
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    The World of Yor

    The World of Yor

    1 1983 HD

    A warrior seeks his true origins in a seemingly prehistoric wasteland.

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  • 1988
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    Big Man

    Big Man

    5.5 1988 HD

    The renowned Insurance International Co. has created an enquiry network, headed by detective Jack Clementi, to defend itself against insurance...

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