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Adolfo Celi

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Adolfo Celi (27 July 1922 –19 February 1986) was an Italian film actor and director. more

Directed [3]
Starred In [80]
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Thunderball
(1965)
Action, Adventure, Thriller
A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
Terence Young
Cast:
Sean Connery, Claudine Auger, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi, Rik Van Nutter
7.0
87%
64
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The Phantom of Liberty
(1974)
Comedy, Drama
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects ...
Runtime:
104 min
Director:
Luis Buñuel
Cast:
Adriana Asti, Adriana Asti, Julien Bertheau, Milena Vukotić, Milena Vukotić
7.9
87%
N/A
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Von Ryan's Express
(1965)
Action, Drama, History, Thriller, War
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Runtime:
117 min
Director:
Mark Robson
Cast:
Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter, Sergio Fantoni
7.1
90%
N/A
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My Friends
(1975)
Comedy
Four middle-aged friends in Florence organize together idle pranks (called zingarate, "gypsy shenanigans") in a continuous attempt to prolong childhood during their adult life.
Runtime:
140 min
Director:
Mario Monicelli
Cast:
Ugo Tognazzi, Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret
8.0
N/A
N/A
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Grand Prix
(1966)
Action, Drama
The story tells about the confrontation of four first-class racers of Formula 1. Each of the competitors had their own additional motivation to become a champion. Their world is a risk and extreme, fast driving on the highway. The taste of adrenaline is what race lovers live. Outside of competition, they all experience personal drama...
Runtime:
176 min
Director:
John Frankenheimer
Cast:
James Garner, Eva Marie Saint, Brian Bedford, Yves Montand, Jessica Walter
7.2
100%
72
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That Man from Rio
(1964)
Action, Adventure, Comedy
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue t...
Runtime:
112 min
Director:
Philippe de Broca
Cast:
Jean-Paul Belmondo, Françoise Dorléac, Jean Servais, Simone Renant, Adolfo Celi
7.1
92%
N/A
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The Agony and the Ecstasy
(1965)
Drama, History
Charlton Heston stars as Renaissance artist Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), who begrudgingly paints the Sistine Chapel for imperious Pope Julius II in this epic adaptation of Irvine Stone's novel directed by Carol Reed. While the novel covers Michelangelo's life from birth to death, the fil...
Runtime:
138 min
Director:
Carol Reed
Cast:
Charlton Heston, Rex Harrison, Diane Cilento, Harry Andrews, Alberto Lupo
7.2
86%
N/A
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Danger: Diabolik
(1968)
Action, Comedy, Crime
International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Mario Bava
Cast:
John Phillip Law, Marisa Mell, Michel Piccoli, Adolfo Celi, Terry-Thomas
6.5
65%
N/A
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
(1972)
Drama, History, War
This is a dramatization of events in the life of St. Francis of Assisi from before his conversion experience through his audience with the pope, including his friendship with St. Clare.
Runtime:
135 min
Director:
Franco Zeffirelli
Cast:
Graham Faulkner, Judi Bowker, Leigh Lawson, Kenneth Cranham, Lee Montague
7.2
42%
N/A
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King of Hearts
(1966)
Comedy, Drama, War
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
Runtime:
102 min
Director:
Philippe de Broca
Cast:
Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Pierre Brasseur, Michel Serrault, Jean-Claude Brialy
7.5
89%
N/A
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My Friends Act II
(1982)
Comedy
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
Runtime:
130 min
Director:
Mario Monicelli
Cast:
Gastone Moschin, Ugo Tognazzi, Philippe Noiret, Adolfo Celi, Renzo Montagnani
7.7
N/A
N/A
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Madly in Love
(1981)
Comedy
Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble intentions get derailed when Barnaba, a zany bus driver...
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia
Cast:
Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Adolfo Celi, Franco Diogene, Corrado Olmi
7.0
N/A
N/A
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The Honey Pot
(1967)
Comedy, Crime, Mystery
A millionaire fakes a terminal illness to fleece his former girlfriends.
Runtime:
125 min
Director:
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast:
Rex Harrison, Susan Hayward, Capucine, Maggie Smith, Cliff Robertson
7.0
N/A
N/A
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The Italian Connection
(1972)
Action, Crime, Drama
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Fernando Di Leo
Cast:
Mario Adorf, Henry Silva, Woody Strode, Adolfo Celi, Luciana Paluzzi
7.3
N/A
N/A
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And Then There Were None
(1974)
Crime, Drama, Mystery
Ten people are invited to a hotel for a weekend getaway by a Mr. U. N. Owen, who mysteriously isn't in attendance. When the group gets together for their first dinner, a record is played in which Mr. Owen accuses each guest of committing various unpunished crimes, which sets off a series of murders in the hotel.
Runtime:
98 min
Director:
Peter Collinson
Cast:
Oliver Reed, Elke Sommer, Richard Attenborough, Charles Aznavour, Herbert Lom
5.7
N/A
N/A
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Brancaleone at the Crusades
(1970)
Comedy
After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.
Runtime:
120 min
Director:
Mario Monicelli
Cast:
Vittorio Gassman, Adolfo Celi, Paolo Villaggio, Stefania Sandrelli, Lino Toffolo
7.4
N/A
N/A
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Who Saw Her Die?
(1972)
Mystery, Thriller
Giallo thriller about a child killer roaming the streets of Venice. The family of the latest victim begin their own investigation. Soon finding they are in way over their heads, the killer now begins to target those who have discovered too much.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Aldo Lado
Cast:
George Lazenby, Anita Strindberg, Adolfo Celi, Dominique Boschero, Peter Chatel
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Horse Fever
(1976)
Comedy
Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Steno
Cast:
Gigi Proietti, Enrico Montesano, Francesco De Rosa, Adolfo Celi, Catherine Spaak
7.4
N/A
N/A
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Sandokan
(1976)
Action, Adventure
In this mini-series in six parts from 1976 the Indian actor Kabir Bedi plays the lead role. Carol Andre plays Lady Marianna Guillonk and as Sandokans best friend Yanez de Gomera we see Phillipe Leroy. The noble prince Sandokan is a fighter of the first rank who are cruel to their enemies, but always loyal to his friends.
Runtime:
360 min
Director:
Sergio Sollima
Cast:
Kabir Bedi, Philippe Leroy, Adolfo Celi, Mohammed Azad
7.6
N/A
N/A
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My Friends Act III
(1985)
Comedy
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for al...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Nanni Loy
Cast:
Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Adolfo Celi, Renzo Montagnani, Bernard Blier
6.3
N/A
N/A
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Hitler: The Last Ten Days
(1973)
Drama, History, War
Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.
Runtime:
106 min
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Grand Slam
(1967)
Crime, Thriller
Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a...
Runtime:
121 min
Director:
Giuliano Montaldo
Cast:
Janet Leigh, Robert Hoffmann, Klaus Kinski, Riccardo Cucciolla, George Rigaud
7.0
N/A
N/A
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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
(1976)
Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and who love to live dangerously.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Ruggero Deodato
Cast:
Marc Porel, Ray Lovelock, Adolfo Celi, Franco Citti
6.6
N/A
N/A
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Cinderella '80
(1984)
Drama, Fantasy, Music, Romance
In this contemporary retelling of the Cinderella story, a feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets, and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility. There's a fairy st...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Roberto Malenotti
Cast:
Bonnie Bianco, Pierre Cosso, Sandra Milo, Adolfo Celi, Vittorio Caprioli
6.8
N/A
N/A
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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
(1976)
Comedy
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a f...
Runtime:
105 min
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Cafè Express
(1980)
Comedy
An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.
Runtime:
100 min
Director:
Nanni Loy
Cast:
Nino Manfredi, Adolfo Celi, Lina Sastri, Vittorio Caprioli, Vittorio Mezzogiorno
7.2
N/A
N/A
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
(1971)
Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesa...
Runtime:
87 min
Director:
Gordon Hessler
Cast:
Jason Robards, Herbert Lom, Christine Kaufmann, Adolfo Celi, Maria Perschy
5.2
83%
N/A
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They Have Changed Their Face
(1971)
Horror, Mystery
In this allegory on capitalism, director of a known car corporation invites one of his employees to his country villa to give him the good news. He just got promoted. However, the old man is not what he seems and promotion has a price.
Runtime:
90 min
Director:
Corrado Farina
Cast:
Adolfo Celi, Geraldine Hooper, Giuliano Esperanti, Francesca Modigliani, Lorenzo Rapazzini
6.9
N/A
N/A
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The Bobo
(1967)
Comedy
Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia, a "shrewd merciless beauty" who seems effortlessly to collect apartments and Maserati sports cars whil...
Runtime:
105 min
Director:
Robert Parrish
Cast:
Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Rossano Brazzi, Adolfo Celi, Hattie Jacques
5.5
N/A
N/A
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Eye in the Labyrinth
(1972)
Horror, Thriller
Julie (Rosemary Dexter) is disturbed by the disappearance of her psychiatrist boyfriend Luca (Horst Frank) following a bizarre dream where she witnessed him murdered. She travels to a seaside village where he might be and encounters Frank (Adolfo Celi), who tells her Luca has indeed been there. Julie's investigation leads her the house...
Runtime:
93 min
Director:
Mario Caiano
Cast:
Rosemary Dexter, Adolfo Celi, Alida Valli, Horst Frank, Sybil Danning
6.3
N/A
N/A
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Monsignor
(1982)
Crime, Drama, War
The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.
Runtime:
121 min
5.0
N/A
N/A
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Fragment of Fear
(1970)
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.
Runtime:
94 min
Director:
Richard C. Sarafian
Cast:
David Hemmings, Gayle Hunnicutt, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Adolfo Celi, Zakes Mokae
6.3
N/A
N/A
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The Cop
(1970)
Crime, Drama, Thriller
A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop (Michel Bouquet) to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds the harried inspector battling his col...
Runtime:
95 min
Director:
Yves Boisset
Cast:
Michel Bouquet, Françoise Fabian, Michel Constantin, Gianni Garko, Anne Carrère
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Seven Times Seven
(1968)
Comedy, Crime
A gang of prison inmates escape and rob the Royal Mint. They then sneak back to prison.
Runtime:
92 min
7.2
N/A
N/A
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The Next Man
(1976)
Action, Thriller
Khalil is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state as a member of OPEC. This instantly makes him a target for a series of ingeniously conceived assassination attempts, most of which he foils with the aid of his friend Hamid and his girlfriend Nicole. But can he trust even them?
Runtime:
108 min
5.1
N/A
N/A
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The Borgias
(1981)
Drama, History, TV Movie
Historical story of the ruthless Rodrigo Borgia a man who intends to become Pope and who will not let anything stand in his way.
Runtime:
500 min
Director:
Brian Farnham
Cast:
Oliver Cotton, Maurice O'Connell, Louis Selwyn, Adolfo Celi
7.6
N/A
N/A
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Yankee
(1966)
Western
A man referred to only as "Yankee" rides into a dying, desolate town in frontier New Mexico which is completely controlled by a man called the "Grand Cougar." Almost immediately, a battle for dominance ensues.
Runtime:
92 min
6.0
N/A
N/A
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Libera, My Love
(1975)
Drama
Director Mauro Bolognini inserts this story in Fascist Italy, with careful attention to details. The couple formed by Matteo Zannoni (Bruno Cirino) and Libera Valente (Cardinale) can't bear fascism. They move constantly between cities, settling down in Modena, where Libera quickly collides with the fascist political commissar Franco Te...
Runtime:
110 min
Director:
Mauro Bolognini
Cast:
Claudia Cardinale, Bruno Cirino, Adolfo Celi, Philippe Leroy
6.9
N/A
N/A
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Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold
(1980)
Action, Drama, Thriller
When designer Robert Meering returns from vacation, he discovers the company he worked for unexpectedly went bankrupt so he decides to visit his old boss. His former employer Banninger liquidated the company and claims that all designs of Robert are his. When Robert's Porsche gets stolen by two thieves, he manages to track them down. W...
Runtime:
89 min
6.3
N/A
N/A
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Detective Belli
(1969)
Crime, Drama
A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.
Runtime:
103 min
Director:
Romolo Guerrieri
Cast:
Franco Nero, Florinda Bolkan, Adolfo Celi, Delia Boccardo, Susanna Martinková
6.3
N/A
N/A