Ely Galleani
Actor · b. 1953 · Alassio, Italy
Born in Alassio as Federica Elisabetta De Galleani, daughter of an Italian count and of a Polish woman of Lithuanian origin, Galleani made her film debut in 1970 with a small role in Quella piccola differenza by Duccio Tessari, then appeared in a number of films with roles of more weight. She retired from acting in 1978 and moved on to a career as an accountant. She was the half-sister of actress Halina Zalewska, who accidentally died in 1976, at 36, in a fire. Galleani is also the ex-wife of Italian filmmaker Carlo Vanzina.
Movies24
Movie6.4ComedySummer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
Movie4.9DramaHorrorEmanuelle returns to Kenya, trying to get an interview with a foreign gangster who's taken refuge in the African countryside while still operating an international criminal network.
Movie6.5HorrorThrillerCarol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.
Movie4.4DramaRomanceA reporter travels the world's hot spots, looking for lurid stories that usually involve her sexual participation in gaining those behind-the-scenes exclusives.
Movie5.7HorrorMysteryA wealthy playboy gathers a group of bourgeois friends at his isolated beach house for a weekend of relaxation. When bodies start pilling up, they realize they’re trapped with a killer in their midst, sending them in a frenzy to figure out who amongst them is killing the others before they are killed next.
Movie6.4CrimeThrillerAn Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.
Movie5.6DramaThrillerLoosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
Born for Hell
1976 · 35 votes
Movie5.5MysteryHorrorA blind boy, who lives alone with his mean sister in a rundown hotel in Venice, receives a vision that warns him of the upcoming birth of the Antichrist. Soon, his sister mysteriously becomes pregnant.
Movie7.2ComedyDramaAn obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?
Movie5.5HorrorMysteryA mysterious witch casts a spell on an attractive young fashion photographer, who is then thrust into a world of sadism.
Baba Yaga
1973 · 83 votes
Movie4.3WesternTommy is an innocent cavalry officer who falls in love with a beautiful Apache woman after rescuing her from a nasty gun smuggler named Honest Jeremy. When Jeremy and his gang find Tommy, gruesome violence ensues.
Movie6.0ComedyA parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
Roma bene
1971 · 13 votes
Movie6.6CrimeMark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx".
Movie4.4DramaActionFranco Nero and Telly Savalas star in the story of a trio of jewel thieves on the lam after a heist goes very wrong. Wrecking their car they take another unaware that there is a teenager hiding in the back. As the flight becomes more frantic, the young man is discovered, upsetting the balance of the thieves.
Movie6.5AdventureRomanceThe Story of Oddyseus and the Sirens placed in the countryside of France. Oddyseus is a trucker and his Penelope runs a café.
Movie5.3DramaA young writer is invited to stay in a religious hostel run by a sinister, manipulative nun who plays deadly psychological games with the inhabitants.
Movie5.0ComedyThree medical students who are reluctant to hit the books and unwilling to work are much more enthusiastic about creating pranks and targeting a thriving confidential, female doctor.
Movie3.7ComedyMara, Silvia and Irene, three sisters, are sent from Rome to Padua as guests of prof. Bordignon, their uncle. First, they let off steam with the young cousin Anselmo; then, realizing that their destiny is a boarding school, they take plot their revenge.
Cugine mie
1978 · 6 votes
Movie6.0DramaRomanceInvestigative journalist Emanuelle breaks into a home to find a microfilm, which leads her to an "international expedition" in Hong Kong. This film was made entirely of footage from Joe D'Amato films released between 1976 and 1980, quickly becoming popular within the bootleg video market.
Movie3.9ComedyAriberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone.
Jus primae noctis
1972 · 4 votes
Movie4.6ComedyThe aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.
Movie8.0DramaAngela, a 16-year-old student, and Gianni, her classmate, get to know each other and one day fall in love with each other. Convinced that the physical union must seal and not precede or further the sentimental one, the girl wants to be sure that the emotional bond is firm and deep before giving herself to her boyfriend.
Movie6.0ComedyCrimeA humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder of a soprano from La Scala.
Movie4.6ThrillerActionTwo thugs take 15 people hostage and demand a ransom from the authorities million dollars in gold, a car and a plane to get out of the country.