Acting

Giancarlo Badessi

Born September 22, 1928 · Lecco, Lombardy, Italy

Died December 6, 2011 · aged 83

Giancarlo Badessi (1928 – 2011) was an Italian actor. Born in Lecco, at the age of almost 40 Badessi gave up his daily job as an accountant to embrace the theatre, making his debut in a stage play directed by Giancarlo Cobelli. He was also active in cinema and on television, often playing character roles. Badessi died in Rome at the age of 83 from a heart attack, on 6 December 2011. Description…

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Caligula

Caligula · 1979

MovieDramaHistory

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

Action

Z-movie actor Bruno Martel has hero syndrome, often quarrelling with directors. He meets fellow actor Doris, who is obsessed with Ophelia but cannot get any Shakespearean bookings. One day, during a nervous breakdown, Bruno 'rescues' Doris from the set, leaving town to encounter various absurd situations.

Salon Kitty

Salon Kitty · 1976

In Nazi Germany, Kitty runs a brothel where the soldiers come to 'relax'. Recording devices have been installed by a power-hungry official who plans to use the information to blackmail and usurp Hitler. One of the girls discovers the ploy and, with the madam's help, takes on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.

Ace High

Ace High · 1968

MovieWesternAction

After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.

Roma bene

Roma bene · 1971

A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.

Tepepa

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

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

What Have They Done to Your Daughters? · 1974

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

MovieCrimeThriller

An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. Conspiracies and horrors pile up, as do the body parts.

What Have You Done to Solange?

What Have You Done to Solange? · 1972

What Have You Done to Solange?

MovieMysteryThriller

After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them.

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Caligula

Caligula · 1979

MovieDramaHistory

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

Claudius

Action

Z-movie actor Bruno Martel has hero syndrome, often quarrelling with directors. He meets fellow actor Doris, who is obsessed with Ophelia but cannot get any Shakespearean bookings. One day, during a nervous breakdown, Bruno 'rescues' Doris from the set, leaving town to encounter various absurd situations.

Gay Man in Sauna

Salon Kitty

Salon Kitty · 1976

In Nazi Germany, Kitty runs a brothel where the soldiers come to 'relax'. Recording devices have been installed by a power-hungry official who plans to use the information to blackmail and usurp Hitler. One of the girls discovers the ploy and, with the madam's help, takes on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.

Nazi Official with a Bread Penis

Ace High

Ace High · 1968

MovieWesternAction

After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.

Man with Moustache Promoting the Black Boxer (uncredited)

Roma bene

Roma bene · 1971

A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.

Rossi

Tepepa

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

Sergeant

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

What Have They Done to Your Daughters? · 1974

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

MovieCrimeThriller

An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. Conspiracies and horrors pile up, as do the body parts.

Paglia's Lawyer (uncredited)

What Have You Done to Solange?

What Have You Done to Solange? · 1972

What Have You Done to Solange?

MovieMysteryThriller

After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them.

Mr. Erickson

The Grand Duel

The Grand Duel · 1972

A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.

Blindfolded Innkeeper

The Swindle

The Swindle · 1977

MovieCrimeComedy

A rude Roman policeman Nico Giraldi and an English detective team up in search of a gang that has carried out an enormous fraud against the Lloyd's of London.

Barrufaldi

The Conspiracy of Torture

The Conspiracy of Torture · 1969

The Conspiracy of Torture

In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci who keeps her locked up in the dungeon of his castle where he sexually abuses her. Beatrice plots with her stepmother, her besotted servant Olimpio, as well as a local bandit, named Catalano to plan Francesco’s murder.

Officer

Black Journal

Black Journal · 1977

MovieDramaThriller

A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.

Lisa's Friend

Innocence and Desire

Innocence and Desire · 1974

Innocence and Desire

MovieComedyRomance

A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.

il rettore

Hit Squad

Hit Squad · 1976

MovieComedyAction

A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.

Maniac

Secret Confessions in a Cloistered Convent

Secret Confessions in a Cloistered Convent · 1972

Secret Confessions in a Cloistered Convent

A young libertine after a series of love affairs, to escape the wrath of the betrayed husband disguises himself as a monk and hides in a convent where one immediately realizes how much his presence is very welcome.

Strangolagalli

Anyone Can Play

Anyone Can Play · 1967

Anyone Can Play

MovieComedyDrama

In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.

Charity Show Organizer (uncredited)

How to Kill a Judge

How to Kill a Judge · 1975

How to Kill a Judge

MovieThrillerCrime

A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.

Onorevole Derrasi

Confessions of a Police Captain

Confessions of a Police Captain · 1971

Confessions of a Police Captain

MovieCrimeDrama

A police captain arranges the release of a criminally insane prisoner, who soon winds up dead. When the District Attorney takes on the case, he uncovers corruption in the department and vows to take down the man who's responsible.

Tiger Joe

Tiger Joe · 1982

On one of his last trips before retirement, a plane of an illegal gunrunner in Vietnam is shot down where he hooks up Annie Belle, a humanitarian rebel.

Bronski

One Way or Another

One Way or Another · 1976

One Way or Another

MovieDramaThriller

Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.

Ventre

Le mille e una notte... e un'altra ancora!

Le mille e una notte... e un'altra ancora! · 1973

Le mille e una notte... e un'altra ancora!

Marito di Gobeida

The Son of the Sheik

The Son of the Sheik · 1978

The Son of the Sheik

MovieComedyAction

The old Emir of the Qudmar discovers he has a natural son in Italy. Secret agents and oil companies involve the man, an aspiring gas station, in the fight for the succession to the emirate.

Barnas, il mediatore

Behind The Scenes of Caligula

Behind The Scenes of Caligula · 2009

Behind The Scenes of Caligula

Extra from The Imperial Edition featuring extensive behind the scenes look at the production and setting up the sets accompanied by the score from the music.

Silent Action

Silent Action · 1975

MovieDramaAction

A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begins to unravel.

Vittorio Chiarotti