Venantino Venantini
Venantino Venantini (17 April 1930 – 9 October 2018) was an Italian film actor. He was the father of Victoria Venantini and Luca Venantini and appeared in more than 140 films between 1954 and 2018. He made his debut in the cinema with an appearance in Un giorno in pretura... Read full bio →
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Marseille
Faced with the insistence of his brother Joseph, whom he has not seen for 25 years, Paolo resolves to give up his calm and harmonious life in Canada, to return to Marseilles at the bedside of his rugged father. He left, therefore, with his son under his arm, determined not to linger in that city which he had fled years before, after a tragedy.
Un + Une
A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
La vie très privée de Monsieur Sim
François Sim considers himself worthless and he may have good reasons for that. Hasn't he lost his job as well as his wife Caroline? Isn't he unable to relate to Lucy, his teenage daughter? Didn't he, when he was eighteen miss out on passion whereas the sexy, gorgeous Luigia opened her arms to him?
L'immortel
Charly Matteï has turned a new leaf on his past as an outlaw. Since three years he's living a comfortable life and devoting himself to his wife and two kids. However, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the underground parking of Marseille's Old Port with 22 bullets in his body. Against all odds, he will not die.
Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
The life & times of the "Godfather of Gore" as seen through the eyes of his colleagues & peers.
J'ai toujours rêvé d'être un gangster
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.
Il nascondiglio
A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years recovering at a Minnesota mental hospital. When she builds herself up enough to begin another restaurant, she discovers that a murder took place there fifty years earlier.
Atomik Circus - Le retour de James Bataille
James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it goes sour, he ends up in prison with a 133-year sentence. Bataille escapes from behind bars to make an appointment to fix the car of music biz tycoon, as well as watch the love of his life take part in the town's annual talent show.
La cena
A multitude of characters face personal problems while having dinner in a roman restaurant.
La putain du roi
Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.
Capriccio
After the renewed flings with their former lovers prove to be disastrously unlike the romantic memories, an unfaithful couple returns to each other.
Superfantagenio
A teenager in modern-day Miami finds a magic lantern and out pops a genie, who's been asleep for 200 years and in his gratitude grants the boy several wishes.
Le avventure dell'incredibile Ercole
Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.
Ladyhawke
A bishop has put a curse on Isabeau d’Anjou that causes her to turn into a hawk during the day. When she finds a thief that had been imprisoned by the Bishop she asked for his help to get her past the guards to kill the Bishop. A poetic fantasy from Richard Donner.
Il giustiziere della strada
In the year 3000, the Earth has been rendered a desert by nuclear war. A group of survivors goes in search of rare and valuable water, but standing in their way are the evil Exterminators, who live only to cause pain and misery.
La bestia nello spazio
In the future the struggle for space superiority has forced humanity to search the cosmos for a rare element called Antallum that is the key ingredient for the construction of neutron bombs. Starship captain Larry Madison and his crew are assigned to retrieve Antallum from the remote planet Lorigon.
I nuovi barbari
Two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust.
Cannibal Ferox
Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is out for revenge.
Piedone d'Egitto
Police Commissioner Rizzo, Bigfoot (Piedone by nickname) and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing. The professor has discovered an insect that can smell where oil is and lots of criminals are interested in it. Written by Salvatore Santangelo
Paura nella città dei morti viventi
In the small New England town of Dunwich, a priest commits suicide by hanging himself in the church cemetery which somehow opens the gates of hell allowing the dead to rise.
Luca il contrabbandiere
Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a graphic rape scene.
La terrazza
Drama about the difficulties of a group of people trying to change their lives. A group of people gathers in a terrace in Rome . Some are friends, some know each other and others just meet for the first time. All are intellectual and belong to the middle class.
Apocalypse domani
Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.
On est venu là pour s'éclater
Bored with life in Paris, Christian takes off for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to sunny Ibiza. Once there he is rejuvenated by the beautiful bronzed topless bodies of sexy Eurostars Ursula Buchfellner, Sandra Barry, Olivia Dutton and Valentino Venantini. A series of sexy shenanigans and high jinks ensue ensuring everybody has a great time.
Gardenia il giustiziere della mala (Gardenia)
In the city of Rome lives Gardenia, a respected exponent of Roman organized crime.
Flic ou voyou
Le commissaire Borowitz, super flic de la police parisienne, introduit le milieu niçois pour le démanteler.
Concorde Affaire '79
A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.
Primo amore
Ugo is an old actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the rules of the other old people so he escapes with a young girl.
La via della prostituzione
An interview with a mobster propels newswoman Emanuelle into an undercover investigation of the seedy world of white slavery and the infamous mansion of Madame Claude.
La guerra dei robot
An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat the humanoid robots and rescue the victims.
La cage aux folles
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.
Il grande attacco
A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.
Nove ospiti per un delitto
Nine members of an extremely rich and hateful family have decided to have a reunion on a remote island in the Mediterranean. No sooner than their arrival, old grudges, resentments, and feuds make themselves known, along with allusions to some more macabre events in their past.
La bidonata
Italian expat Renato lives off illegal trafficking in Paris. He learns from a prostitute about a kidnapping plot to be carried out shortly in Italy: the intended victim is the son of a rich family. Renato then decides to immediately return to Italy and recruit some friends in order to thwart the kidnapping.
Liberi armati pericolosi
Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of paul’s girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). the group starts by robbing a gas station where paul guns down three innocent bystanders.
Emanuelle nera: Orient reportage
Emanuelle is sent to Bangkok on a journalism assignment. While there, she embarks on her own exploration of the secrets of sensual pleasure. While learning much, she also reveals several secrets of her own.
Emmanuelle: L'antivierge
Emmanuelle returns to her husband in Hong Kong and proceeds to have several extramarital affairs -- with his knowledge, of course. Her husband's lover and American guest are both very puzzled by their openness.
Emanuelle nera
While on assignment in Nairobi, a photojournalist questions her racial and sexual identity when she engages in affairs with her wealthy hosts.
Amore libero - Free Love
Young engineer Francesco Ferraro is sent to Smeraldo Island in the Seychelles to oversee the tests necessary to dig a silver mine. But Francesco must also find out what happened to his predecessor, vanished without trace.
La morte negli occhi del gatto
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curse involving a killer cat.
Laisse aller... c'est une valse
Serge Aubin vient de passer trois ans en prison pour vol de bijoux. Dénoncé par sa femme Clara, il décide de se venger et l'enlève avec l'aide de Michel, un ami. Clara ne tarde pas à se réconcilier avec son mari. Mais des tueurs, désireux de récupérer les bijoux, sont à leurs trousses...
La folie des grandeurs
In 17th-century Spain, the Minister of Finance tries to dishonor the queen with an overly complex plan.
Il était une fois un flic...
Pour piéger un trafiquant de drogue, un commissaire, célibataire endurci, doit jouer les pères de famille.
Lo sbarco di Anzio
American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back ferociously.
La matriarca
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to used the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
La grande sauterelle
While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets lost on his way, falling in love with Salène, a.k.a. "La grande sauterelle"...
Bandidos
Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooting his hands. Years later, Martin meets an escaped convict, wrongly convicted for the train robbery. Martin trains his new student and both men seek out Billy Kane.
Le grand restaurant
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime (Louis de Funès), is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
Galia
Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening, whilst walking along the banks of the River Seine, she saves a young woman from drowning. The woman, Nicole, tells Galia that she intended to drown herself, having left a suicide note for her husband, Greg.
The Agony and the Ecstasy
The biographical story of Michelangelo's troubles while painting the Sistine Chapel at the urging of Pope Julius II.
Le corniaud
In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car.
Des pissenlits par la racine
Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case.
Les tontons flingueurs
La vie de Fernand Naudin, ex-truand devenu depuis petit propriétaire d'une usine de tracteurs, est bouleversée quand son ami d'enfance, un gangster notoire, l'appelle à son chevet...