The Ambassador 1984  R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Rock Hudson, Donald Pleasence, Ellen Burstyn, Fabio Testi, Michal Bat-Adam, Chelli Goldenberg, Ori Levy, Joseph Shiloach, Zachi Noy
This entertaining story involves an American ambassador (Robert Mitchum) who deals with an Israeli/Palestinian crisis while also confronting a crisis in his marriage. Made two years earlier under the title "52 Pick-Up," the title of the novel from which the story was taken.
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China 9, Liberty 37 1978  R, 98 min.
Genre: Western
Director: Monte Hellma
Cast: Fabio Testi, Warren Oates, Jenny Agutter, Sam Peckinpah, Isabel Mestres, Luis Prendes, Franco Interlenghi, Helga Line, Sydney Lassick, Charly Bravo
Gunfighter Clayton Drumm (Fabio Testi) is saved from the gallows by railroad men on the promise to kill Matthew Sebanek (Warren Oates) who refuses to sell his land. Not only does Clayton not kill Matthew, he sleeps with Matthew's wife, Catherine (Jenny Agutter), after which the railroad men must be dealt with.
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Four of the Apocalypse 1975  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Foreign / Western
Director: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Fabio Testi, Michael J. Pollard, Lynne Frederick, Harry Baird, Tomas Milian, Adolfo Lastretti, Bruno Corazzari, Giorgio Trestini, Donald O'Brien, Salvatore Puntillo
In one of the last spaghetti Westerns, card shark Stubby Preston (Fabio Testi) arrives in a Utah town where he gets in trouble and is jailed. The townsfolk, wanting to rid the town of riff-raff, kick him and three losers out of town. The four travel together looking for people to swindle, but violence begins when they run across mean villain Chaco (Tomas Milian).
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis 1971 R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Cast: Dominique Sanda, Lino Capolicchio, Helmut Berger, Fabio Testi, Romolo Valli, Raffaele Curi, Camillo Cesarei, Inna Alexeievna, Katina Morisani, Cinzia Bruno, Barbara Pilaven
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, this is the story of the wealthy Jewish family, Finzi-Continis, who ignored the dangers of fascism in the late 1930s that overtook Italy–until it was too late. While many Jewish families left Italy, the Finzi-Continis family remained believing that their sprawling estate would protect them from fascism. Giorgio (Lino Capolicchio) is invited to their home to do research for his school studies and falls in love with Micol Finzi-Contini (Dominique Sanda). Giorgio tries to draw Micol away from Italy, but she refuses, and now the politics of war close in on them.
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Iguana 1988 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Monte Hellman
Cast: Everett McGill, Maru Valdivielso, Michael Madsen, Fabio Testi, Joseph Culp, Robert Case, Roger Kendall, Tim R. Ryan, Luis Barboo, Jack Taylor
Based (loosely) on a true story, a short story by Herman Melvill, and finally a novel, this is the story of Oberlus (Everett McGill), a sailor with a deformed face. After he had been made fun of and shunned by other sailors, he ended up as an outcast on an island. When others are washed ashore, he takes out his bitterness and hatred for the human race on them.
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Il Grande Racket 1976  N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action / Drama
aka: The Big Racket
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
Cast: Fabio Testi, Vincent Gardenia, Renzo Palmer, Orso Maria Guerrini, Glauco Onorato, Sal Borgese, Romano Puppo, Antonio Marsina, Daniele Dublino, Massimo Vanni, Salvatore Billa, Joshua Sinclair, Marcella Michelangeli, Roberto Dell'Acqua
Rome police Inspector Nico Palmieri (Fabio Testi) uncovers the work of racketeers in his home town but has problems because the citizens live in terror of the vicious gang. Just as Palmieri closes in, he is fired. Forced to take matters into his own hands, Palmieri gives the gang a lesson in street justice when he and his own newly formed gang raid the meeting of mob bosses, and a bloody massacre ensues. "The Big Racket" is the title of the English-dubbed version.
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The Inheritance 1976 R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Mauro Bolognini
Cast: Anthony Quinn, Fabio Testi, Dominique Sanda, Gigi Proietti, Adriana Asti, Paolo Bonacelli, Rossana Di Lorenzo, Harold Bradley, Silvia Cerio, Maria Russo, Rossella Rusconi, Simone Santo, Carlo Palmucci
Gregorio (Anthony Quinn) is a domineering, wealthy man who knows that he hasn't many years left. He sells his bakery and decides not to leave any money to two of his grown children since they had not pleased him. Instead, all will go to third son, Pippo (Luigi Proietti), who has stayed with Gregorio's bakery over the years. The lecherous Gregorio is also having an affair with Pippo's wife.
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Mussolini: The Decline and Fall of Il Duce 1985 TV, 192 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Mussolini and I
Director: Alberto Negrin
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Annie Girardot, Barbara DeRossi, Fabio Testi, Kurt Raab, Kietlinde Turban, Hans-Dieter Asner, Marne Maitland
This made-for-TV film features Anthony Hopkins as Count Celeazzo Ciano–the primary player in this film. He is the crafty son-in-law of Il Duce, and the story unfolds through the perspective of Mussolini's daughter, Edda (Susan Sarandon).
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Nada 1974 N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
aka: The Nada Gang
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Fabio Testi, Mariangela Melato, Maurice Garrel, Michel Duchaussoy, Michel Aumont, Didier Kaminka, Lou Castel, Katia Romanoff, Andre Falcon, Viviane Romance, Francois Perrot, Henri Attal
The Nada Gang, as the group of anarchist terrorists is called, kidnap an American ambassador, leaving death in their wake. They hole up, and as they begin to bicker, the government and police gain information about them and home in on their location. A good thriller by Chabrol.
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Revolver 1973 R, 111 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller / Drama
aka: Blood in the Streets
Director: Sergio Sollima
Cast: Oliver Reed, Fabio Testi, Agostina Belli, Frederic de Pasquale, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Peter Berling, Marc Mazza, Daniel Beretta, Sal Borgese, Steffen Zacharias, Paola Pitagora, Bernard Giraudeau, Gunnar Warner, Calisto Calisti
Vito's (Oliver Reed) wife (Agostina Belli) is kidnapped. The ransom demand is the release of imprisoned Milo (Fabio Testi). Vito, a prison official who knows that Milo is to be killed if released, teams up with the prisoner to foil the bad guys and free his wife.
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The Smuggler 1980 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Action
aka: Contraband
Director: Lucio Fulci
Cast: Fabio Testi, Ivana Monti, Guido Alberti, Daniele Dublino, Venantino Venantini, Marcel Bozzuffi, Saverio Marconi, Tommaso Palladino, Ofelia Meyer, Ferdinando Murolo
Luca (Fabio Testi) heads a cigarette and liquor smuggling crime family but otherwise is a pleasant man with a wife and child. When his brother is killed by a rival gang, Luca sets out for revenge. But, before long, his gang members have either been assassinated or have been picked up by the police, and Luca must fight the rivals alone. Gore and violence are abundant in Fulci's departure from Horror films.
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Stateline Motel 1975 R, 86 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Last Chance for a Born Loser
Last Chance
Director: Maurizio Lucidi
Cast: Eli Wallach, Ursula Andress, Fabio Testi, Massimo Girotti, Barbara Bach, Renato Rossini, Carlo De Mejo, Howard Ross, Celine Lomez, Susanna Onofri, Luigi Antonio Guerra
Joe (Eli Wallach) and Floyd (Fabio Testi) team up and steal $1,000,000 in diamonds. After the heist, they split up and arrange a meeting near the Canadian border. On his way to the meeting, Floyd, who has the diamonds in his possession, experiences car trouble and ends up in a motel run by Fred Norton (Massimo Girotti). It doesn't take long for Floyd to fall for Fred's wife, Michelle (Ursula Andress), and ends up in bed with her. But, now the diamonds are missing and matters take even more of a turn for the worse when Joe, suspecting a double-cross, arrives on the scene.
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| 1. The Ambassador (1984)
2. China 9, Liberty 37 (1978)
3. Four of the Apocalypse (1975)
4. The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (1971)
5. Iguana (1988)
6. Il Grande Racket (1976)
aka: The Big Racket
7. The Inheritance (1976)
8. Mussolini: The Decline and Fall of Il Duce (1985)
aka: Mussolini and I
9. Nada (1974)
aka: The Nada Gang
10. Revolver (1973)
aka: Blood in the Streets
11. The Smuggler (1980)
aka: Contraband
12. Stateline Motel (1975)
aka: Last Chance for a Born Loser
aka: Last Chance
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