person

Franco Nero

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1941-11-23

Place of Birth

San Prospero Parmense, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Franco Nero

Biography

Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero (born 23 November 1941), known professionally as Franco Nero, is an Italian actor, producer, and director. His breakthrough role was as the title character in the Spaghetti Western film Django (1966), which made him a pop culture icon and launched an international career that includes over 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films and television programmes. During the 1960s and 1970s, Nero was actively involved in many popular Italian "genre trends", including poliziotteschi, gialli, and Spaghetti Westerns. His best-known films include The Bible: In the Beginning... (1966), Camelot (1967), The Day of the Owl (1968), The Mercenary (1968), Battle of Neretva (1969), Tristana (1970), Compañeros (1970), Confessions of a Police Captain (1971), The Fifth Cord (1971), High Crime (1973), Street Law (1974), Keoma (1976), Hitch-Hike (1977), Force 10 from Navarone (1978), Enter the Ninja (1981), Die Hard 2 (1990), Letters to Juliet (2010), Cars 2 (2011), and John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017). Nero has had a long relationship with Vanessa Redgrave, which began during the filming of Camelot. They were married in 2006, and are the parents of the actor Carlo Gabriel Nero. Description above from the Wikipedia article Franco Nero licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also Known For

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Touch and Die

Jan 01, 1991

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69

Die Hard 2

Jul 03, 1990

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72

The Bible: In the Beginning...

Sep 28, 1966

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68

Saint Paul

Dec 03, 2000

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65

David

Mar 23, 1997

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72

Django

Apr 06, 1966

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63

Blood Brothers

Feb 23, 1974

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65

Amore e libertà - Masaniello

Jun 28, 2006

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70

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

Nov 15, 2021

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59

Texas, Adios

Aug 28, 1966

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68

Keoma

Nov 25, 1976

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NA

La battaglia di Gorthene

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68

The Battle of Neretva

Oct 07, 1969

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62

Massacre Time

Aug 10, 1966

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72

Tristana

Mar 29, 1970

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43

The Wild, Wild Planet

Jul 15, 1966

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63

The Man with Bogart's Face

Oct 03, 1980

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66

The Fifth Cord

Aug 17, 1971

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58

Jonathan of the Bears

Apr 21, 1995

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62

Victory March

Mar 12, 1976

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65

Compañeros

Dec 18, 1970

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56

Bathory: Countess of Blood

Jul 10, 2008

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62

The Last Four Days

Mar 27, 1974

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66

Killing Is My Business, Honey

Feb 26, 2009

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68

The Case Is Closed, Forget It

Oct 27, 1971

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62

Day of the Cobra

Aug 12, 1980

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66

The Assassination of Matteotti

Sep 13, 1973

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43

Brothers and Sisters

Sep 11, 1992

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78

Vasco Rossi - È solo un rock'n'roll show

Jul 09, 2005

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55

Enter the Ninja

Jul 17, 1981

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56

Detective Belli

Sep 06, 1969

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61

Cars 2

Jun 11, 2011

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69

The Mercenary

Dec 20, 1968

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62

Force 10 from Navarone

Aug 16, 1978

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50

Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire

Jan 31, 2010

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81

Django Unchained

Dec 25, 2012

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45

The Conquest

Dec 12, 1996

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62

Camelot

Oct 25, 1967

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NA

Along the River

Feb 07, 2016

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58

Mimi

Jun 06, 1979

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22

The Virgin and the Gypsy

Jun 01, 1970

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NA

Marina Cicogna - La vita e tutto il resto

Oct 15, 2021

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49

Rasputin

Sep 04, 2010

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61

21 Hours at Munich

Dec 25, 1976

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52

The 5th Day of Peace

Apr 17, 1970

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45

Redneck

Feb 02, 1973

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66

Street Law

Sep 17, 1974

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69

Hitch Hike

Apr 30, 1977

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45

Devil's Crude

Jan 01, 1985

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56

Talk of Angels

Oct 30, 1998

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63

A Quiet Place in the Country

Nov 14, 1968

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52

Cry, Onion!

Aug 25, 1975

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51

Li chiamarono... briganti!

May 28, 1999

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64

White Fang

Dec 21, 1973

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51

Django Strikes Again

Oct 22, 1987

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70

The Day of the Owl

Feb 17, 1968

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NA

Fumata blanca

May 10, 2002

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41

The Shark Hunter

Dec 24, 1979

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65

High Crime

Aug 12, 1973

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49

War of the Planets

Jul 21, 1966

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69

The Dragon Ring

Jan 02, 1994

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65

The Flower in His Mouth

Oct 30, 1975

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62

Challenge to White Fang

Oct 25, 1974

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65

The Harder They Come

Sep 01, 1972

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77

Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s

Mar 30, 2012

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20

Sahara Cross

Sep 10, 1977

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57

Man, Pride and Vengeance

Dec 22, 1967

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46

The Girl

Aug 07, 1987

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NA

Mein Herz in Chile

Jan 01, 2008

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50

Hans

Jan 27, 2006

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NA

Harmonie

Sep 20, 2020

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45

Amelia Lópes O'Neill

Feb 05, 1992

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52

Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears

Mar 29, 1973

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42

Top Line

Aug 16, 1988

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46

La rabbia

Feb 28, 2008

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55

The Salamander

Apr 25, 1981

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68

Confessions of a Police Captain

Mar 26, 1971

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59

The Tramplers

Dec 31, 1965

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70

How to Kill a Judge

Feb 05, 1975

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65

Submission

Mar 26, 1976

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53

Don't Turn the Other Cheek

Dec 22, 1971

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48

Vacation

Sep 04, 1971

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45

Gold

Jun 06, 1992

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20

La ragion pura

Oct 26, 2001

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39

Red Bells Part I: Mexico on Fire

Oct 01, 1982

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53

The Blue-Eyed Bandit

Aug 07, 1980

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42

Red Bells Part II: I Saw the Birth of a New World

Oct 18, 1982

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31

New Order

Feb 22, 2012

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57

Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Last Works

Jul 25, 1982

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60

Memories They Told Me

Jun 26, 2013

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42

Post Coitum

May 20, 2004

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40

Race to Danger

Apr 14, 1988

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70

Crazy Dog

Apr 16, 2012

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40

Márió, a varázsló

Nov 28, 2008

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NA

Prigioniero di un segreto

Jul 15, 2010

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59

Young Toscanini

Oct 07, 1988

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53

Obsessive Rythms

Jan 08, 2014

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54

The Hired Killer

Mar 25, 1966

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42

Death Rite

Sep 05, 1975

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NA

Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…

Jan 01, 2014

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50

The Falcon

Mar 29, 1983

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NA

A Double Victory

Jan 01, 1989

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55

The Last Alchemist

Dec 10, 2012

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42

Killer Mermaid

Mar 08, 2014

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40

Giorni Felici

Oct 05, 2023

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45

Megiddo: The Omega Code 2

Sep 07, 2001

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59

The Monk

Nov 02, 1972

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50

In the Hand of Dante

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NA

Grog

Sep 03, 1982

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NA

Smiling Maniacs

Jan 16, 1975

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35

On Our Way

May 19, 2023

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69

The Pope's Exorcist

Apr 05, 2023

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62

Sardinia Kidnapped

Mar 14, 1968

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NA

Die achte Todsünde: Das Toskana-Karussell

Sep 25, 2002

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NA

Un altare per la madre

Aug 01, 1986

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67

Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker

Sep 03, 2005

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NA

Das Babylon Komplott

Nov 01, 1993

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93

Desert of Fire

Jan 01, 1997

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72

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films

Oct 06, 2014

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NA

Il tesoro di Damasco

Oct 06, 1998

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44

Sacra Corona

Apr 11, 2001

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56

The Man from Rome

Oct 21, 2022

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52

The Visitor

Mar 22, 1979

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53

The Last Gunfighter

Oct 25, 2002

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NA

In the Company of Compañeros

Nov 03, 2001

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NA

Mirka

Mar 10, 2000

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60

A Night at the Grand Hotel

Oct 29, 2008

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NA

Io e il re

Sep 01, 1995

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33

Test of Memory

Oct 07, 1993

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100

Figli di Maam

Oct 01, 2014

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NA

The Duel

Dec 24, 2021

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55

The Legend of Valentino

Nov 23, 1975

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60

The Outsider: The Cinema of Antonio Margheriti

Apr 17, 2013

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NA

Road to Ruin

Feb 16, 2016

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NA

Earth

Jun 26, 2015

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95

Mineurs

Jul 13, 2007

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95

We Are Cinema

Dec 16, 2021

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44

Run for Your Life

Jan 01, 1988

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NA

I Tarantiniani

Feb 21, 2013

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NA

Entree Des Artists

Jun 01, 2020

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35

Die Försterbuben

Dec 26, 1984

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NA

André schafft sie alle

Mar 29, 1985

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46

The Pirate

Nov 21, 1978

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100

Handy

Oct 26, 2013

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NA

Rack Up

May 09, 1997

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74

I Knew Her Well

Dec 01, 1965

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NA

The Temptation Of Gracie

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66

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern

Apr 23, 2006

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NA

Le rose di Danzica

Nov 23, 1979

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NA

Django Lives!

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43

The Innocent Sleep

Jan 25, 1996

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43

Love Island

Aug 08, 2014

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NA

Forever Blues

Oct 11, 2005

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59

Pope Joan

Aug 16, 1972

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NA

Summer Solstice

Dec 25, 2005

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NA

The Estate

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50

Der Fall Lucona

Jun 10, 1993

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41

The Crusaders

Jan 01, 2001

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NA

La Celestina P… R…

Mar 17, 1965

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NA

Breath of Life

Oct 11, 1990

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NA

Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso

Sep 16, 2009

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73

John Wick: Chapter 2

Feb 08, 2017

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51

The Time of Their Lives

Mar 10, 2017

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64

The Lost City of Z

Mar 15, 2017

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35

Uninvited

May 19, 2000

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48

Dropout

Dec 18, 1970

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32

The Neighborhood

Aug 18, 2017

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25

Bad Inclination

Sep 26, 2003

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61

The Repenter

Nov 15, 1985

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32

The Broken Key

Nov 16, 2017

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47

The Final Inquiry

Apr 04, 2007

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38

Magdalene

Nov 25, 1988

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40

Agony

Oct 05, 2017

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62

Iceman

Nov 30, 2017

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27

The Versace Murder

Jul 15, 1998

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54

Kamikaze '89

Jul 16, 1982

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NA

The Uncrowned Heart

May 26, 2003

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60

The Spaghetti West

Sep 01, 2005

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56

Il crimine non va in pensione

Jun 15, 2017

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61

A Rose in Winter

Oct 05, 2020

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61

Red Land

Nov 15, 2018

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71

The Holy Family

Oct 12, 2006

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20

Guardians of the Clouds

Jan 01, 2004

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73

The Collini Case

Apr 18, 2019

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NA

Sergio Corbucci: The Smiling Man

Sep 21, 2015

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48

Sweet Country

Jan 23, 1987

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NA

Ultimo stadio

May 10, 2002

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NA

Italian Engagement

Oct 16, 1964

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40

Ed è subito sera

Mar 21, 2019

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NA

Bastardi

Jan 04, 2008

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NA

Giornata Nera

Jan 01, 2006

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NA

Un delitto

Jan 01, 1963

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66

Christmas in Rome

Nov 30, 2019

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NA

The Medal

Aug 30, 1997

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59

The Third Eye

Jun 11, 1966

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NA

Road to Capri

Jan 01, 2015

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66

Querelle

Sep 08, 1982

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70

Letters to Juliet

May 13, 2010

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49

Istintobrass

Aug 30, 2013

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60

Off the Rails

Jul 23, 2021

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50

Azzurro profondo

May 03, 1993

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40

The Dark Dance

Dec 18, 2020

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48

Recon

Oct 25, 2019

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60

Havana Kyrie

Dec 20, 2019

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NA

Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema

Jul 24, 2014

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10

Immortalist

Jul 10, 2020

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66

Bella Mafia

Nov 16, 1997

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49

The Man Who Drew God

Mar 02, 2023

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30

Silent Life: The Story of the Lady in Black

Nov 19, 2022

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62

The Match

Sep 01, 2020

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60

The Jester from Transylvania

Jan 01, 2020

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NA

Two Men Alone

Jul 12, 2021

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NA

Father

Jan 25, 2011

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NA

Two Families

Jan 01, 2007

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NA

Buon Lavoro

Jun 07, 2022

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NA

Compagni d'arte

Oct 07, 2024

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NA

Titanus 1904

Oct 17, 2024

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NA

Franco Nero: Back in the Saddle

Jan 07, 2001

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47

Scorched Skin

Oct 18, 1962

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NA

Winds of Passion

May 26, 2000

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NA

Roma elastica

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NA

The Run

Jun 20, 2025

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89

Ulisse - Il piacere della scoperta

Apr 07, 2001

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60

Viva el lunes

Oct 16, 1995

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62

The Hitchhiker

Nov 01, 1983

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63

Delicious

Dec 30, 2016

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75

Rosamunde Pilcher's Four Seasons

Dec 25, 2008

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NA

Der Fürst und das Mädchen

Sep 17, 2003

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70

Il sangue e la rosa

Sep 02, 2008

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75

Painted Lady

Dec 07, 1997

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30

Liebe, Lügen, Leidenschaften

Jan 03, 2002

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NA

Blaues Blut

Mar 09, 1989

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69

Emigratis

Apr 03, 2016

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100

Desert of Fire

Oct 19, 1997

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73

The Last Days of Pompeii

May 06, 1984

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79

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Sep 20, 1999

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80

Through the Night with...

May 10, 2002

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NA

Desideria e l'anello del drago

Jan 02, 1995

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67

Il Ritorno di Sandokan

Oct 06, 1996

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64

I promessi sposi

Nov 12, 1989

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NA

Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love

Jan 01, 2005

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62

Young Catherine

Feb 17, 1991

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10

Na sowas!

Mar 29, 1982

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50

L'inchiesta - Anno Domini XXXIII

Apr 02, 2007

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53

Django

Feb 13, 2023

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70

Augustine: The Decline of the Roman Empire

Jan 31, 2010

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NA

La voce del sangue

Jun 07, 2001

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60

Der große Preis

Sep 05, 1974

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NA

David

Apr 06, 1997

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NA

Davide

Mar 23, 1997

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NA

Saint Paul

Dec 03, 2000