Gian Maria Volonté

Gian Maria Volonté

Gian Maria Volonté (9 April 1933 – 6 December 1994) was an Italian actor. He is perhaps most famous outside of Italy for his roles as the main villain in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars (credited in the USA as "Johnny Wels") and For a Few Dollars More. In Italy and much of Europe, he was notable for his roles in high-profile social dramas depicting the political and social stirrings of Italian and European society in the 1960s and 1970s, including four films directed by Elio Petri - We Still Kill the Old Way (1967), Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1971), The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) and Todo modo (1976). He is also recognized for his performances in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Cercle Rouge (1970) and Giuliano Montaldo's Sacco & Vanzetti (1971). Description above from the Wikipedia article Gian Maria Volonté, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Gian Maria Volonté
  • Popularity: 7.442
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1933-04-09
  • Place of Birth: Milano, Lombardia, Italy
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  • Also Known As: Johnny Wels, Gian-Maria Volonte, Джан Мария Волонте
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Gian Maria Volonté Movies

  • 1965
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    For a Few Dollars More

    For a Few Dollars More

    8.016 1965 HD

    Two bounty hunters both pursue a brutal and sadistic bandit of the name El Indio who has a massive bounty on his head.

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  • 1961
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    Journey Beneath the Desert

    Journey Beneath the Desert

    2.4 1961 HD

    A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt.

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  • 1970
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    Le Cercle Rouge

    Le Cercle Rouge

    7.6 1970 HD

    When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a...

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  • 1970
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    Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

    Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

    8.174 1970 HD

    Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him...

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  • 2022
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    Rosi About Eboli

    Rosi About Eboli

    10 2022 HD

    An exceptional documentary filmed in 1978 by Swedish directors Björn Blixt and Peter Englesson showing the behind-the-scenes of the film Christ...

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  • 1979
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    Christ Stopped at Eboli

    Christ Stopped at Eboli

    7.1 1979 HD

    In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty...

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  • 1961
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    Hercules and the Captive Women

    Hercules and the Captive Women

    4.4 1961 HD

    King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the...

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  • 1990
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    Open Doors

    Open Doors

    7.2 1990 HD

    Tommaso Scalia is a man who commits three murders: he kills his superior who sacked him, the man who replaced him and his wife. He wants a quick...

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  • 1967
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    A Bullet for the General

    A Bullet for the General

    6.5 1967 HD

    El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill...

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  • 1966
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    The Witch

    The Witch

    6.5 1966 HD

    A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces...

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  • 1972
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    The Mattei Affair

    The Mattei Affair

    7.5 1972 HD

    Enrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public...

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  • 1986
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    Il caso Moro

    Il caso Moro

    6.5 1986 HD

    On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the...

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  • 1967
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    Face to Face

    Face to Face

    7 1967 HD

    History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher...

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  • 1988
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    The Abyss

    The Abyss

    5.4 1988 HD

    The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe...

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  • 1979
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    Operation Ogre

    Operation Ogre

    6.8 1979 HD

    Spain, 1973. Dictator Francisco Franco has ruled the country since 1939 with an iron fist; but he is now a very old and sick man. The future of the...

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  • 1973
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    Giordano Bruno

    Giordano Bruno

    6.4 1973 HD

    Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in...

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  • 1962
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    The Four Days of Naples

    The Four Days of Naples

    7.5 1962 HD

    September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, most people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon realize Germans are still in...

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  • 1971
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    Sacco & Vanzetti

    Sacco & Vanzetti

    7.6 1971 HD

    Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist...

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  • 1972
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    Slap the Monster on Page One

    Slap the Monster on Page One

    7.592 1972 HD

    1972, Milan. Just a few days before the general elections, a young girl from an esteemed family is raped and murdered. Bizanti, editor-in-chief of a...

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  • 1976
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    One Way or Another

    One Way or Another

    7.658 1976 HD

    Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing,...

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  • 1981
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    Lady of the Camelias

    Lady of the Camelias

    6.2 1981 HD

    A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique...

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  • 1961
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    Girl with a Suitcase

    Girl with a Suitcase

    7.2 1961 HD

    Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated....

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  • 1967
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    We Still Kill the Old Way

    We Still Kill the Old Way

    6.7 1967 HD

    A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to...

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  • 1971
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    The Working Class Goes to Heaven

    The Working Class Goes to Heaven

    7.822 1971 HD

    After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.

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  • 1968
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    The Violent Four

    The Violent Four

    6.563 1968 HD

    A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.

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  • 1977
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    I Am Afraid

    I Am Afraid

    7 1977 HD

    During a wave of political violence in Italy, a policeman who's already survived an assassination is assigned to act as a bodyguard to a morally...

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  • 1987
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    A Boy from Calabria

    A Boy from Calabria

    6.5 1987 HD

    Set in 1960, the year of the Rome Olympics, a 13 year-old boy with aspirations to become an athlete befriends an ageing, disabled bus driver who...

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  • 1970
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    Many Wars Ago

    Many Wars Ago

    7.4 1970 HD

    Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the...

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  • 1973
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    Lucky Luciano

    Lucky Luciano

    6.3 1973 HD

    Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years...

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  • 1961
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    On the Tiger's Back

    On the Tiger's Back

    7.2 1961 HD

    Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous...

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  • 1991
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    A Simple Story

    A Simple Story

    6.8 1991 HD

    After many years, a retired diplomat returns to his native Sicily to visit an abandoned property and delve into family correspondence. But is it...

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  • 1975
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    The Suspect

    The Suspect

    6.3 1975 HD

    Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization,...

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  • 1966
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    Wake Up and Die

    Wake Up and Die

    5.8 1966 HD

    A petty hoodlum pulls jewellery store heists in broad daylight. The cop on his tail knows he has accomplices and focuses on the gangster's girl...

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  • 1966
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    Seasons of Our Love

    Seasons of Our Love

    5.5 1966 HD

    Vittorio is a 40-year-old journalist who reaches a mid-life crisis. His wife nags him constantly for ignoring her and their child. After his mistress...

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  • 1972
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    The Assassination

    The Assassination

    6.6 1972 HD

    Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World....

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  • 1983
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    The Death of Mario Ricci

    The Death of Mario Ricci

    6 1983 HD

    A TV reporter and his assisstant go to a small Swiss village to do a programme with a reclusive scientist, an expert on world food shortages. During...

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  • 1969
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    The Bandit

    The Bandit

    5.9 1969 HD

    Sicily, 1865. Two peasants, Gramigna and his father are tricked by Baron Nardò and robbed of their field, which then the baron lets to...

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  • 1987
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    Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    Chronicle of a Death Foretold

    7.3 1987 HD

    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...

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  • 1964
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    The Magnificent Cuckold

    The Magnificent Cuckold

    6.5 1964 HD

    Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he...

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  • 1963
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    The Terrorist

    The Terrorist

    6.7 1963 HD

    In Venice in 1943, a group of partisans led by Renato Braschi organize a series of autonomous terrorist attacks against the fascists while the...

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  • 1968
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    The Seven Cervi Brothers

    The Seven Cervi Brothers

    6.9 1968 HD

    The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini's rule of Italy and World...

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  • 1993
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    Banderas, the Tyrant

    Banderas, the Tyrant

    5.1 1993 HD

    In Santa Fe de Tierra Firme, an imaginary Latin American country, the indigenous dictator Santos Banderas rules with an iron fist. A group of rebels...

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  • 1962
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    A Man for Burning

    A Man for Burning

    5.2 1962 HD

    Political activist Salvatore returns to his native Sicily and stirs up trouble among the peasants, urging them to confront the Mafia and demand the...

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  • 1989
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    Pestalozzi's Mountain

    Pestalozzi's Mountain

    6.3 1989 HD

    In the 1770s, Swiss farmer Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi established a school for poor orphaned children in the Aargau. Up to total exhaustion he...

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  • 1970
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    Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli

    Documenti su Giuseppe Pinelli

    7.7 1970 HD

    The film examines the death of the anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli, who fell from the fourth floor of the police headquarters in Milan December 15, 1969,...

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  • 1969
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    Apollon: una fabbrica occupata

    Apollon: una fabbrica occupata

    1 1969 HD

    The film documents the trade union battle of the workers of the Apollon printing house in Rome, occupied for a few months after the management...

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  • 1968
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    Summit

    Summit

    6 1968 HD

    Paolo, a special guest of an Italian newspaper, leaves for Paris to attend an international conference, a summit meeting, the 'summit' of hope. He...

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  • 1972
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    La tenda in piazza

    La tenda in piazza

    1 1972 HD

    The film recounts the struggle of the factory workers of five Italian factories, Cagli, Coca Cola, Filodont, Luciani and Metalfer. A montage of...

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  • 1980
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    Stark System

    Stark System

    10 1980 HD

    Armenia Balducci's film, featuring Gian Maria Volontè as Stark, a cop-movie actor that falls prey to paranoia because he fears his latest...

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  • 1963
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    The Felling of the Forest

    The Felling of the Forest

    7 1963 HD

    In the forested slopes surrounding the rural Tuscan village of Tirli, a group of lumberjacks work long hours felling trees in the hopes of making an...

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  • 1957
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    Fedra

    Fedra

    1 1957 HD

    Theatre play adaptation of Jean Racine's Phaedra filmed for TV.

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  • 1963
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    Summer Night

    Summer Night

    5.9 1963 HD

    Barcelona in the early sixties: black and white chronicle of the ups and downs in the relationship of several young couples of the Catalan...

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  • 1970
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    Wind from the East

    Wind from the East

    6.8 1970 HD

    A politically oriented film in which images suggestive of a mock western are accompanied by an attack on all cinematic conventions to date and a...

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  • 2005
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    Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

    Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

    6.7 2005 HD

    A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.

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  • 1966
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    Gangster Girl

    Gangster Girl

    5 1966 HD

    A successful young writer is in search of his true destiny. Is it the life with his wife and typewriter in Amsterdam or the offers to go to the...

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  • 1975
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    Letters from Marusia

    Letters from Marusia

    5.3 1975 HD

    Chronicle of the repression that a foreign company exerts on the miners of a small nitrate town in Chile, whose workers decide to claim their most...

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  • 2021
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    We Are Cinema

    We Are Cinema

    9.5 2021 HD

    An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.

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  • 1990
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    Tre colonne in cronaca

    Tre colonne in cronaca

    5.9 1990 HD

    Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a...

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  • 2017
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    Forgotten Activism

    Forgotten Activism

    8 2017 HD

    Volonté, the militant. How many people know this singular and important aspect of the great Milanese actor's life? "Forgotten Activism"...

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  • 1969
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    Under the Sign of Scorpio

    Under the Sign of Scorpio

    5.4 1969 HD

    An island has been decimated by a volcanic eruption and the few survivors escape to a nearby island. Led by Rutolo, they know that their new home is...

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  • 1993
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    Funes, a Great Love

    Funes, a Great Love

    5 1993 HD

    A group of musicians, prostitutes, gamblers, and laborers, react to the arrival of a tango pianist at a saloon.

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  • 1960
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    Under Ten Flags

    Under Ten Flags

    5.4 1960 HD

    "Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and...

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  • 2004
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    Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté

    Investigation of a Citizen Named Volonté

    6.5 2004 HD

    Documentary on actor Gian Maria Volonté

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  • 2005
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    Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté

    Un attore contro - Gian Maria Volonté

    5.2 2005 HD

    A portrait of the famous italian actor and political activist Gian Maria Volonté.

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  • 1967
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    Caravaggio

    Caravaggio

    1 1967 HD

    A miniseries about Caravaggio's life.

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  • 1964
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    A Fistful of Dollars

    A Fistful of Dollars

    7.8 1964 HD

    The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter....

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  • 1966
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    For Love and Gold

    For Love and Gold

    7.7 1966 HD

    A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a...

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  • 2019
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    Zénon the Rebel

    Zénon the Rebel

    1 2019 HD

    Zénon is the hero of “The Abyss”, the famous novel by Marguerite Yourcenar published in 1968. He is also the main character in...

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  • 1965
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    La strada più lunga

    La strada più lunga

    6 1965 HD

    Michele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he returns home in 1943, but is now tired and...

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  • 2015
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    Spanish Western

    Spanish Western

    5.7 2015 HD

    A vindication of the role of the technicians and artists who made spaghetti western genre possible, and a walk through the landscapes that made it...

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  • 1978
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    Reflections on a Political Cinema

    Reflections on a Political Cinema

    8 1978 HD

    This documentary addresses the challenges facing the Italian film industry in 1978 by focusing on the television productions of Francesco Rosi's...

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  • 1970
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    Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli

    Ipotesi sulla morte di G. Pinelli

    6.833 1970 HD

    After a wave of arrests in 1969, Italian anarchist Giuseppe Pinelli allegedly falls out of a police building window while being interrogated. The...

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  • 2024
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    Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

    Volonté: The Man of a Thousand Faces

    7.5 2024 HD

    A documentary exploring the life and legacy of renowned Italian actor Gian Maria Volonté, featuring insights from his colleagues, family, and...

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  • 1959
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    Saul

    Saul

    1 1959 HD

    Television play adaptation of Vittorio Alfieri's tragedy Saul (1782).

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  • 1972
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    La tenda in piazza

    La tenda in piazza

    1 1972 HD

    The film recounts the struggle of the factory workers of five Italian factories, Cagli, Coca Cola, Filodont, Luciani and Metalfer. A montage of...

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  • 1980
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    Stark System

    Stark System

    10 1980 HD

    Armenia Balducci's film, featuring Gian Maria Volontè as Stark, a cop-movie actor that falls prey to paranoia because he fears his latest...

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  • 1972
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    Reggio Calabria

    Reggio Calabria

    1 1972 HD

    The film retraces the events of the Reggio Calabria revolt and reconstructs, with images of the protagonists and places, the atmosphere of those...

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  • 1995
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    Ulysses' Gaze

    Ulysses' Gaze

    7.379 1995 HD

    An exiled filmmaker finally returns to his home country where former mysteries and afflictions of his early life come back to haunt him once more.

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  • 1982
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    The Charterhouse of Parma

    The Charterhouse of Parma

    10 1982 HD

    Stendhal's epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt - a duchess of legendary beauty and resourcefulness.

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  • 1964
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    Vita di Michelangelo

    Vita di Michelangelo

    5.5 1964 HD

    A mini series about the great artist's life.

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  • 1974
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    Spécial cinéma

    Spécial cinéma

    1 1974 HD

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  • 1981
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    La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie

    La Storia Vera Della Signora Dalle Camelie

    4 1981 HD

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  • 1959
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    The Idiot

    The Idiot

    6.5 1959 HD

    Italian televison adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same name. Although it is to all intents and purposes a television miniseries, the...

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  • 1964
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    Le inchieste del commissario Maigret

    Le inchieste del commissario Maigret

    9.4 1964 HD

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  • 1967
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    Diamoci del tu

    Diamoci del tu

    8 1967 HD

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