Dario Michaelis
Actor · 1927 – 2001 · Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina
Dario Michaelis was born on March 29, 1927 in Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Nana (1955), I briganti italiani (1961) and La strada dei giganti (1960). He died on January 5, 2001 in Rome, Italy.
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Movie7.1DramaHistoryAfter fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Quo Vadis
1951 · 470 votes
Movie7.5DramaHistoryEnrico Mattei helped change Italy’s future, first as freedom-fighter against the Nazis, then as an investor in methane gas through a public company, A.G.I.P., and ultimately as the head of ENI, a state body formed for the development of oil resources. On October 27, 1962, he died when his private airplane crashed during a flight to Milan. Officially, it is declared an accident, but many journalists explore other plausible reasons for Mattei's untimely death.
Movie5.3HistoryDramaBased on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.
Movie5.6ThrillerCrimeAn industrialist's affair with a troubled woman entangles him in a dangerous situation with her abusive boyfriend. His glamorous life spirals into unexpected peril.
Movie6.3HorrorMysteryA mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess.
Movie6.4WesternAfter the war of secession, the aging Cordeen, who owns thousands of acres in Texas, rules his numerous and quarrelsome sons with an iron hand. He sends them out to deal with the threat of the representatives from the North. However, not all the sons share their father's unlimited hatred for the Northerners and they find it increasingly difficult to obey his despotic commands. To add to the family's unrest, a prodigal son decides to return to the fold, provoking two other sons to down tools and leave. Cordeen, outraged, pursues them and tries to kill them. An absurd family feud ensues, prolonged by the participation of the entire Cordeen family.
Movie5.6AdventureAn American secret agent is tasked with recovering a nuclear bomb stolen by spies.
Movie5.8HorrorMysteryAfter being released from a mental hospital, Otto returns to his old job as a butcher. He tries to adjust to his new life, but after a bitter argument with his wife, he accidentally kills her. Fearing he will be sent back to the hospital, he grinds up her body and sells it as sausages. As friends and relatives start asking questions about her disappearance, they too start ending up in the butcher's display case.
Movie4.5DramaAdventureGoliath (Peter Lupus) comes to the aid of the former King Selim in order to regain his throne and rescue his daughter (Anna Maria Polani).
Movie4.8ComedyA young aspiring director steals a silent movie camera to make his movie.
Movie6.1RomanceDramaIn Paris during the Second Empire, Count Muffat, despite his prejudices against loose women, falls madly in love with Nana, a young kept woman and star of the Théâtre des Variétés. This all-consuming passion will lead nowhere and, like Nana's other lovers, will lead him to ruin and crime... An adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.
Nana
1955 · 17 votes
Movie7.3DramaRomancePhilippe Derblay, master of Pont Avesnes ironworks, is an honest and generous young man loved by his workers. He has long been in love with Marchioness Claire de Beaulieu.
Il padrone delle ferriere
1959 · 3 votes
Movie5.6WesternWyatt Earp comes to a small town, Rio Bravo, to help the woman saloon owner against the town villain and to save a mine owner from robbery.
Movie5.0HistoryActionTreacherous Roman senator Lucius Quintilius plans a secret journey into Thrace to recover a legendary treasure. He is accompanied by his daughter Livia posing as a Christian slave girl, his cruel henchman Commodio, and Terenzius, an ex-gladiator and Nero look-alike who fools the local Thracians into believing he is the real Emperor. But Lucius's plans are thwarted by Spartacus and his band of rebels who succeed in capturing the treasure for Thrace. When news arrives from Rome that the real Nero has died, local Roman governor Consul Metellus joins forces with Spartacus to defeat the traitors.
Movie4.3Science FictionActionScientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed.
Movie5.0Science FictionAdventureAn American agent discovers that the Red Chinese have built a secret atomic city from which they will attempt to invade America.
Movie8.0WarDramaThe odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later.
I cinque dell'Adamello
1954 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ActionDramaAmore e sangue (released in the U.S. as "City of Violence"), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as "John Wolff") West German/Italian romantic action adventure war thriller.
Movie8.0DramaWarA radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city.
Movie7.0ComedyCome scopersi l'America
1949 · 2 votes
Movie9.0DramaI figli non si vendono (literally, Children must not be sold) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film by Mario Bonnard
I figli non si vendono
1952 · 1 votes
Movie9.0Adventure1860, the great Duchess of Parma, Maria Luisa, wants to provide her little state with train tracks, in spite of the opposition she gets from certain noble people.
Movie5.4WarDramaIn 1941 an Italian regiment known as the Savoy Cavalry is sent by Mussolini to Russia to assist the German invasion. After crossing an extensive area of Soviet territory the men arrive at a village that seems deserted. A patrol sent on reconnaissance comes under machine-gun fire from the top of a bell-tower.