Flavio Bucci
Birthday: Born in 1947-05-25 in Turin, Italy
Deathday: 2020-02-18
Flavio Bucci (25 May 1947 – 18 February 2020) was an Italian actor. He appeared in over 90 films and television shows from 1971 until his death. Internationally, he may be best known for playing Daniel, the blind pianist, in Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977). His breakthrough role was the banknote-burning main character of Elio Petri's politically-charged Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973).
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Teta
Character: Talbot
Frankenstein's Aunt is the protagonist of three novels - two by Allan Rune Pettersson and a seven-episode TV miniseries based on the first one. The story is a humorous homage to the Universal Horror Frankenstein films....
Der Ochsenkrieg
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Miniseries based on a 1914 historical novel by the German writer Ludwig Ganghofer - The War of the Oxen - set against the backdrop of the War of the Oxen in the 1420s....
La dottoressa Giò
Character: Dott. Nicotera
La dottoressa Giò is an Italian television series....
I promessi sposi
Character: poliziotto Luna Piena
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Mit den Clowns kamen die Tränen
Character: Enrico Langfrost
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L'AVVOCATO GUERRIERI
Character: Delli Santi
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Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
Character: Commissario Ingravallo
Italian miniseries about a homicide that occurred in Rome during the 1920s....
Don Luigi Sturzo
Character: Luigi Sturzo
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La Piovra
Character: Don Manfredi
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price....
Ligabue
Character: Antonio Ligabue
Ligabue is a 1978 Italian biographical drama film directed by Salvatore Nocita. It depicts real life events of painter Antonio Ligabue. For this film Nocita was awarded Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director, while Flavio Bucci won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor....
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A Spiral of Mist
Character: Vittorio, the physician
The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Maria Teresa's marriage is contrasted by the passionate Valeria, who is killed during a chase. Is Valeria's husband the murderer? Maria Teresa helps him.....
The Magic Mountain
Character: Ludovico Settembrini
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has en...
Il Divo
Character: Franco Evangelisti
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra....
The Marquis of Grillo
Character: Don Bastiano
In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself....
To Love the Damned
Character: Riccardo
Young radical Riccardo returns home after hiding in South America for five years, only to find out that his comrades either gave up their ideals or turned to drugs, while all they fought for seems to have set the stage for near-anarchy....
Volesse il cielo!
Character: Uomo Angelo
A police inspector has to help an eccentric stranger who seems to have lost his memory....
Late Night Trains
Character: Blackie
Two young women, Margaret and Lisa, are set to take the overnight train from Munich in Germany to stay with Lisa's parents in Italy for Christmas. Unfortunately a pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize the pair....
Dream of a Summer Night
Character: Oberon
Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"....
Closed Circuit
Character: Il sociologo
At the local cinema, an audience watches a Spaghetti Western matinee. During the film's on-screen climactic duel, a bullet is fired into a patron. With no leads and a theater full of suspects, police investigators lock the doors, put everyone back in their seats, and run the movie again. But will this shot in the dark reveal the real killer?...
Lezioni di volo
Character: Pollo's father
A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by a visit to his ancestral homeland, India. While the ruse works wonderfully on their parents, this impromptu journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when Curry locates his biological sister and remains captivated by the country he first despised, and Chicke...
How Long Is the Adventure
Character: Padre Ribaldo
In order to get some money Gianni Zappi tries to organize an insurance fraud by drowning his yacht....
Muzungu
Character: Il vescovo
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Skinheads
Character: Riccardo
22-year-old Marco leads an aimless life in Rome's suburbs. One day he meets skinhead Saverio, aka 'Führer', head of a local neo-nazi chapter. Marco becomes fascinated with their single-minded purpose and ends up joining Führer's group, partaking in bullying, beatings, and other violent activities. However he is hiding his previous relationship with an immigrant Somalian girl....
La posta in gioco
Character: Gulli
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Secondo Ponzio Pilato
Character: Erode Antipa
The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate....
I miei più cari amici
Character: Il botanico
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The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal
Character: Terenzio Papiano
Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pascal is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancée, scorned by his associates, and cheated out of his inheritance by contemptuous relatives. The dispirited Pascal heads to Monte Carlo, accruing a fortune and also assuming the identity of a less fortunate gambler who killed himself. The "new" Pascal is treated with a dignity and re...
Men or Not Men
Character: Enne 2
In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ago, but Berta refuses to leave her husband for him. Enne 2 is pursued by the fascists of Cane Nero and, instead of running away to Turin, waits for Berta to rejoin him...
The Vanishing of Pato
Character: Capitano Arturo Bosisio
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Ligabue
Character: Antonio Ligabue
Ligabue is a 1978 Italian biographical drama film directed by Salvatore Nocita. It depicts real life events of painter Antonio Ligabue. For this film Nocita was awarded Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director, while Flavio Bucci won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor....
Fratelli coltelli
Character: Vannino
Guelfo is a Florentine noble who has never worked and has no money. On the death of his mother, he believes he can inherit a large fortune, but from the notary he learns that he has an illegitimate brother with whom he will have to share half of his inheritance. His brother is called Felice, he works as a waiter in Bari and goes to Florence with a student friend who is indebted to the usurers. A rivalry without quarter begins between the two brothers....
Dove volano i corvi d'argento
Character: Simula
Former shepherds return to Sardinia from Milan in order to avenge a brother wantonly killed by bandits. In describing the grinding contrasts between places and personages of old and new Sardinia, director Piero Livi does not falter, photographing faithfully a desolated land, stuck in the past but alienated from traditional beliefs....
L'archivista
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Poli Ugo, investigator of the Police Headquarters, after an accident that leaves him lame is relegated to the archives by his superiors. To take revenge for the treatment he has suffered, he secretly withdraws unresolved files from the archive, investigating and solving cases on his behalf, without communicating the result to those in charge....
And Agnes Chose to Die
Character: Pugliese
After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside....
Property Is No Longer a Theft
Character: Total
A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business unscrupulously....
Tutto può accadere nel villaggio dei miracoli
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Sassiwood
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Woman of Wonders
Character: Astolfo
In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not yet over it, director Alberto Bevilacqua has used his own experiences to fashion a conventional tale about a search for the "perfect woman." His mettlesome neighbor Luisa (Lina Sastri) just will not leave him alone; she was the reason why he ended his marriage to Maura (Claudia Cardinale), but Alberto considers their affair dead and buried. Recently, ...
Gegè Bellavita
Character: Gennarino Amato
Pregnant with their 10th child, Agata discovers that her lazy husband Gennaro betrays her cheerfully....
Freckled Max and the Spooks
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A parody of Frankensteinian stories. It is a story of a little boy, an orphan who arrives at the Castle of Count Frankenstein - a world inhabited by mysterious and sometimes a bit ridiculous scary creatures. Although each one of them is different, they all share one thing: they feel lonely and they are desperate for a little love and affection....
Tex and the Lord of the Deep
Character: Kanas
Based on the adventures of the hero Tex from the comic strip by Bonelli. An interesting spaghetti-western/fantasy movie that blends magic and mythology with six-guns and stagecoaches....
The Smugglers
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Caterina in the Big City
Character: Lorenzo Rossi Chaillet
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself at sea with an environment where students sort themselves by social class and their parents' political affiliation....
Nineties
Character: professor Moira
Scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV......
Strange Occasion
Character: coreografo del porno night (episodio "Italian Superman")
Three sexy and comic episodes....
Control
Character: Herman Pundt
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine....
Agadah
Character: Vecchio Moreno
A hieratic Count sits in his elegant mansion finishing his writings - Alphonse, a young Waloon officer, rides through the Murgia to reach his regiment in Naples but soon finds himself mysteriously detained at a inn in the strange and varied company of thieves, brigands, cabalists, noblemen, coquettes and gypsies, whose stories he records over ten days. A range of situations in stories-within-stories, which, like the Decameron and Tales from the Thousand and One Nights, provide entertainment on a...
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Character: Operaio
After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups....
The Great Rage
Character: Virgilio, Padre Matteo
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The Great Rage
Character: Virgilio, Matteo's father
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Sotto il Segno della Vittoria
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Daddy, Don't Blush
Character: Pagani
Tullio Venturini, a retired widower, has a daughter, Anna, who is an actress. However, he is the only one not to know that she works in the porn industry....
The Incinerator
Character: Hunchback
Pollution caused by an incinerator drives people mad and turns them into maniac killers. But, instead of the victims' bodies, the three wise monkeys are found (one cannot hear, one cannot see, one cannot speak)....
Matlosa
Character: Il matlosa
A Canton Ticino family goes up for the weekend to the house in the mountains where the father spent his childhood. The journey to the valley, suffered at intervals by his wife and children, is an obsessive ritual for Alfredo, repeated week after week as he searches for his past....
The Gospel According to Mattei
Character: Franco Gravela
A cinic director and his assistant come back to Basilicata, their homeland, looking for redemption. 50 years aged and aristically loser, they try to shoot a rickety investigative movie titled "Il Vangelo secondo Mattei" in the same location where Pasolini filmed his "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" but focusing on the disasters caused by oil extractions in their wasteland of Basilicata, in the south of Italy. As main character, they choose Franco, 70 years old, that was an extra in Pasolin...
Flavioh - Tributo a Flavio Bucci
Character: Himself
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La Orca
Character: Gino
A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, where she is made to write her own ransom letter. She soon discovers that one of her captors is infatuated with her and she will use those feelings to stay alive....
The Big Step
Character: Umberto Cavalieri
At the age of six, Dario watched the first moon flight on television. Since then, his dream has been to fly to the moon. For the past three decades, the ingenious but difficult by nature Dario has been building a moon rocket on his farm in the Veneto countryside. Rocket technology represents applied rocket science. Its systems are implemented on a do-it-yourself basis, and the components are obtained from the local hardware store. The initial launch of the rocket fails. The neighbor's cornfield ...
Suspiria
Character: Daniel
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders....
Credo in un solo padre
Character: Zio Domenico Bianco
Falcino, a small town in the south of Italy. No one sees. No one hears. Nobody talks. But everyone knows. And so they all become accomplices of a tragedy against women, against kids, against a family. A story of violence and slavery. Indifference is stronger than their conscience. Maria, a young mother of a family, lives with her husband Gerardo and her two children, Rocco e Carmela, on her father-in-law's farm: "grandpà" Giuseppe. Gerardo decides to emigrate to Austria to earn more money so as ...
Ammazzare il tempo
Character: Igor, lo psicanalista
From the novel by Lidia Ravera, which wants to be a mirror of the disappointed generation that made '68 and that ten years later finds itself without ideals to reject the world or to fit into that, reassuring, of the fifties. The protagonist, a left-wing journalist, manages to find her identity in the relationship with a teenager who lives her life without wasting it on hopes or regrets....
Il generale dorme in piedi
Character: Bucci
A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up....
Il mistero del panino assassino
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Psychedelic
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Candlewick
Character: Lucio's father
Red-haired, sex-obsessed manchild Lucio lazes all day long with his friend Pino until he falls for the beautiful head of the local loony bin....
Provincia Segreta
Character: Cagnato
Two provincial stories, murky, mysterious and disturbing that shed a new light on apparent "small and sincere" paradises far from the metropolises and their devastating existences and instead so tangled and full of pitfalls....