Massimo De Rita
Total Credits at Criticker: 33 (Writer)
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Arms dealer Yolaf Peterson aims to make a sale to guerilla Mongo, but the money is locked in a bank safe... (imdb)
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Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian railroad worker, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined... (imdb)
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Irena "the unknown" (Rappoport) is an Ukranian young woman living in the Italian city of Velarchi. Soon we discover she has an horrible past of violence and humiliations. To pursue a mysterious aim she manages, by any means, legal and illegal, to get the job as an house servant for a wealthy couple with a little girl... (imdb)
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When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence. (imdb)
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After a bloody double-cross leaves him for dead, professional hit man Jeff (Charles Bronson) tracks the shooter and his beautiful mistress (Jill Ireland) to New Orleans. But when Jeff takes both revenge and the woman, he finds himself blackmailed by a powerful crime boss (Telly Savalas) who wants the fiercely independent gunman to join his organization. Jeff refuses, and is hunted through an unforgiving city where love is like a loaded gun and debts of vengeance are paid in bullets. (imdb)
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Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side. (imdb)
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Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals. (IMDB)
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Story revolves around tribe of amazons and the crowning of a new queen. Also deals with tribe's battle with male enemies. They meet once per year to allow for reproduction. All male children are supposedly killed at birth. Johnson and Sun vie for throne. Paluzzi plays the queen until new queen is crowned. Johnson defeats Sun in wrestling match ( topless ) to become new queen and later on they fight in the nude. (imdb)
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An Italian official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released--but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the man's colleagues don't kill his wife.
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A state senator is murdered outside his home, and the police arrest a strange man described as having "icy eyes" for the crime. A reporter finds a stripper who claims to have been an eyewitness to the assassination and saw the man with the icy eyes commit it. At his trial she testifies against him, and he's sentenced to death. However, the reporter soon begins to find holes in the stripper's story, and other circumstances arise which makes him believe that the wrong man may have been convicted. (imdb)
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Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra's bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of "Il professore" (the professor). He is in prison, and by there he is able to build, step by step, an empire founded on murders and drugs. He starts a war to destroy all the old Camorra bosses and becoming the new "boss of the bosses". With his sister's help he manages to evade from prison and escape in New York. (imdb)
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Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that moment on the two will join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicate when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter. (imdb)
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An Irish journalist (Lynn Redgrave) will do anything she can to support a peasant revolution in Mexico. The rogues played by Franco Nero and Eli Wallach will do almost anything for money, but they will also do a lot for a charming lady: particularly when she has saved one of them from certain death in front of a prison firing squad. After arranging Wallach's prison escape, the trio heads for Mexico, where incredible things happen. (Answers.com)
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A reformed murderer retires to his small hometown to get away his past. He comes into possession of a powerful super-weapon, a gun capable of firing many different projectiles from a single barrel. He soon becomes involved with a poaching ring which he tries to smash, despite the gang's support from local law enforcement. (EOFF)
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Fabio Testi stars in this crime film as an ex-stunt man turned bodyguard (or "Gorilla") who buddies up with a rich businessman who has been harassed by the mob. Also stars Renzo Palmer, Claudia Marsani, Saverio Marconi and the late great Al Lettieri in his last film. (lfvw.com)
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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 portrait of Milan as a seething hotbed of vice. Gian Maria Volonte gives an increasingly flamboyant performance as the gang's egomaniacal leader, whose Nazi-like belief in his own superiority proves to be the flaw which foils his plans... (allmovie.com)
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Because of a violation of traffic regulations an architect is put in prison. There he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia. (imdb)
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During World War II, a tough officer organizes a commando raid into Germany. (imdb)
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An army of zombies infiltrates the Roman Empire in this campy horror flick. When a group of rebels steals a valuable treasure, Roman centurion Gaius (Ettore Manni) volunteers to retrieve it. But rebel leader Aderbad (John Drew Barrymore) taps into the mysterious power of a one-eyed goddess statue to turn his soldiers into zombies. Now potent fighting machines, the undead warriors rise up to engage the Roman army in an epic battle.
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De Gasperi, l'uomo della speranza (2005) - TV Movie
The biography of one of most influential Italian politicians, through the dramatic years of fascism, WWII and country economic and social rebuilding. First victim of political persecution, at end premier during the transition from monarchy to republic, De Gasperi was one of the writers of the Italian Constitution, and a thinker capable to invoke an European union when the ruins of war were still burning. (imdb)
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his Italian film is a searing indictment of the greed and ambition which warp the medical profession. It focuses especially on surgeons in the persons of Professor Valiotti (Gabriele Ferzetti) and Dr. Giordani (Enrico Maria Salerno). Many of the scenes are based on Italian news stories of the period ('70s) which recount the suffering and high costs of unnecessary or overly aggressive treatment motivated by academic ambitions or simple greed. (allmovie.com)
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Set during the First World War, the film focuses on the men who try to avoid active service such as Barbasin, a singer, and Tomo, a coward. (ftvdb.bfi)
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Comedy, thriller. Sasá Iovine, a small-time Neopolitan operator, finds himself in the thick of a multi-murder mystery when Don Michelle, a building contractor involved in a number of housing scandals hires Iovine to find his daughter who has disappeared with incriminating documents. (bfi)
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I ragazzi della via Pál (2003) - TV Movie
The story of a group of schoolboys in the rapidly developing Budapest at the turn of the 20th century, who defend their playground, the "grund", from the "redshirts", a team of other boys who want to occupy it. (Wikipedia)
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Inconpreso (2002) - TV Movie
Family drama lived through the eyes of a kid misunderstood by his parents
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A group of young skiers stumble upon a demonic mask in a (very) loose re-imagining of Lamberto Bava's father's 1960 gothic classic 'La Maschera Del Demonio'.
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When one of a crime family's hit men fails to come up to expectations, the boss orders his execution.
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Ferrari (2003) - TV Movie
When he is only ten years old, Enzo Ferrari watches a car race and starts immediately working on vehicles and as soon as he is old enough he becomes a race car driver. Soon he shows ambitions in finding a racing team. Alfa Romeo hires Ferrari and promotes him to team manager. Ferrari takes his family to the races. His wife objects to the noise and considers this environment inappropriate for little Dino, but Enzo's determined to raise him as his successor. Ferrari creates his own company. (imdb)
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Paul, an ace driver and Nick, a wizard of mechanics, form a perfect team of auto racers. By winning a rigged race and he had to leave victory to a rider of a team in the pay of a mobster named Wronsky, our friends are forced to temporarily erase circuits; to escape the wrath of Wronsky. (imdb)
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Car racing movie following Rudi (Fabio Testi) as he rises through the ranks of the track racing world with the help of a drug dealing syndicate. When the syndicate makes demands upon his loyalty that he is not willing to meet, he finds that his career, and indeed his life, are suddenly in danger.
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Paolo, a professor in Florence, was abandoned by Sena, his ex-student, with whom he had lived for many years. She did not give him any explanations and all the attempts made by him to see her again proved useless. Finally, when she is about to leave for Paris to study, she asks him to take her back to the station. (imdb)
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Based on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina. (imdb)
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