Attila 1954  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Pietro Francisci
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren, Henri Vidal, Irene Papas, Scott Marlowe, Henri Vidal, Richard Bakalyan, Claude Laydu, Ettore Manni, Colette Regis, Georges Brehat, Christian Marquand, Marco Guglielmi, Dickie Jones, Eduardo Ciannelli
The King of the Huns is Attila (Anthony Quinn) who has spent his life raping, killing, and pillaging with his tribesmen in an attempt to take over the Roman Empire–"Today Rome, tomorrow the world!" Pope Leo wants to put an end to the massacres and seeks help from the empress-mother Honoria (Sophia Loren). But, will the Pope's prayers to God be enough to end the rampaging?
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Austerlitz 1960 N/R, 180 min.
Genre: Action
aka: The Battle of Austerlitz
Director: Abel Gance
Cast: Pierre Mondy, Martine Carol, Leslie Caron, Vittorio De Sica, Jean Marais, Jack Palance, Orson Welles, Ettore Manni, Claudia Cardinale, Elvire Popesco, Michel Simon, Georges Marchal, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Rossano Brazzi
At the beginning of this film, the private life of Napoleon Bonaparte (Pierre Mondy) unfolds–showing his family life with wife Josephine (Martine Carol)–before the story moves on to the battlefields of the Napoleonic War and Napoleon proclaiming himself Emperor of France.
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Le Amiche 1955  N/R, 104 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: The Girlfriends
Director: Michelangelo Antonioni
Cast: Eleonora Rossi Drago, Valentina Cortese, Franco Fabrizi, Gabriele Ferzetti, Yvonne Furneaux, Ettore Manni, Madeleine Fischer, Anna Maria Pancani, Maria Gambarelli, Luciano Volpato
This is one of Antonioni's better, early films as he brings out the problems that confront a woman who moves to Turin, Italy from Rome to work in a boutique. Her doomed relationships eventually result in losing her job and heading back to Rome.
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Mademoiselle 1966  N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Tony Richardson
Cast: Jeanne Moreau, Ettore Manni, Umberto Orsini, Keith Skinner, Jane Beretta, Mony Rey, Georges Douking, Rosine Luguet, Jean Gras, Georges Aubert, Paul Barge, Pierre Collet, Gerard Darrieu
Manou (Ettore Manni) arrives in a small French village where he catches the eye of schoolteacher Mademoiselle (Jeanne Moreau), an anti-social, sexually disturbed woman. When a rash of crimes begins–fires and animal poisonings, for example–Manou is blamed, especially after Mademoiselle seduces him and then claims he raped her. But we, and Manou's son, know who is behind the mischief. Different and disturbing.
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Rabid Dogs 1974 N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: Kidnapped
Director: Mario Bava, Lamberto Bava
Cast: Riccardo Cucciolla, Lea Lander, Maurice Poli, George Eastman, Don Backy, Erika Dario, Maria Fabbri, Luigi Antonio Guerra, Francesco Ferrini, Emilio Bonucci, Ettore Manni
Bank robbers (George Eastman, Maurice Poli, and Don Backy) kidnap a young woman (Lea Lander), a man (Riccardo Cucciolla), and his sick child when they hijack a car in a desperate effort to find safety in Rome.
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Street People 1976 R, 92 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
Director: Maurizio Lucidi
Cast: Roger Moore, Stacy Keach, Ivo Garrani, Fausto Tozzi, Ennio Balbo, Ettore Manni, Loretta Persichetti, Pietro Martellanza, Luigi Casellato, Romano Puppo
This film's tangled, confusing plot revolves around the Mafia and narcotics smuggling ($3 million worth of heroin) inside a crucifix). Comic relief helps, but it is not enough to help this one.
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Two Nights with Cleopatra 1953  N/R, 78 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Roger Vadim
Cast: Sophia Loren, Alberto Sordi, Paul Muller, Ettore Manni, Nando Bruno, Alberto Talegalli, Gianni Cavalieri, Ugo D'Alessio, Rolf Tasna, Carlo Dale, Riccardo Garrone, Ughetto Bertucci
One of Queen Cleopatra's (Sophia Loren) games is to make love to a guard and then have the guard executed. But now she has a problem: she wants to be with her true lover, Marc Antony (Ettore Manni), before he heads to war, but there is also a new guard to "take care of." Her solution is to have a slave girl (also played by Loren) pretend to be the Queen. A silly, sex farce.
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| 1. Attila (1954)
2. Austerlitz (1960)
aka: The Battle of Austerlitz
3. Chino (1973)
aka: The Valdez Horses
4. City of Women (1980)
5. Le Amiche (1955)
aka: The Girlfriends
6. Mademoiselle (1966)
7. Rabid Dogs (1974)
aka: Kidnapped
8. Street People (1976)
9. Two Nights with Cleopatra (1953)
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