Silvano Tranquilli
1925 - 1997Born in Rome, Silvano Tranquilli attended theater lessons at the Sharoff Academy, and started his stage activity with the theatrical companies of Salvo Randone and Vittorio Gassman. In 1959 he made his television debut, and later acted in more than 100 television productions, achieving his main success with the TV-series I ragazzi di padre Tobia. In the early 1960s he also started a prolific film career as character actor.
He died in Rome, at 71, shortly after his theatrical comeback with the company Stabile del Giallo.
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Happy New Year
Claude Lelouch
Lino Ventura, Françoise Fabian
Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.
Happy New Year
Sunflower
Vittorio De Sica
Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead. There's a flashback to their brief courtship near her hometown of Naples, his 12-day leave to marry her, ruses to keep from deployment, and the ultimate farewell. Some years after the war, still with no word from Antonio, Giovanna goes to Russia to find him, starting in the town near the winter battle when he disappeared. Armed with his photograph, what will she find?
Sunflower
Napoli violenta
Umberto Lenzi
Maurizio Merli, John Saxon
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Violent Naples
Castle of Blood
Antonio Margheriti
Barbara Steele, Georges Rivière
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Castle of Blood
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Mauro Bolognini
Marcello Mastroianni, Barbara Bouchet
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Down the Ancient Stairs
Amore mio aiutami
Alberto Sordi
Alberto Sordi, Monica Vitti
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Help Me, My Love
Roma violenta
Marino Girolami
Maurizio Merli, Richard Conte
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 department for a "questionable" shooting of a vicious criminal. However, he is soon approached by a representative for a group of citizens who themselves are fed up with what they see as criminals going unpunished, and they make him an offer he may very well not refuse.
Violent City
L'uomo della strada fa giustizia
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Henry Silva, Luciana Paluzzi
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Manhunt in the City
Il giustiziere sfida la città
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Syndicate Sadists
The Bloodstained Butterfly
Duccio Tessari
Helmut Berger, Giancarlo Sbragia
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The Bloodstained Butterfly
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Riccardo Freda
Barbara Steele, Robert Flemyng
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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
