Massimo Vanni
Birthday: 1946-07-08
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Biography: A cousin of director Enzo G. Castellari and nephew of director Marino Girolami, Massimo Vanni became involved in the Italian film industry at a young age both as a bit-part player and stuntman before slowly graduating to larger more dramatic roles toward the end of the decade. A skilled acrobat and fight choreographer, Vanni himself became known as the Italian Jackie Chan of the 1980's, usually getting a good fight scene in before meeting with an inevitable demise.
Movies
The Wax Mask
Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts ...
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Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through...
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E guardo il mondo da un oblò
After constant arguments with his parents and after being left by the girl who dumped him for an eng...
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I Am Santa Claus
Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go...
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Day of the Cobra
An American narcotics agent is murdered in Italy. The head of the department decides to hire Larry S...
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The Heroin Busters
Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their s...
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Solitaire
A three-billion-lire hit. A bloody hold-up. A sole survivor. Hunted down by fate and ruthless gangst...
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Segreto di Stato
A bomb blows up in Milan and five people die. After only three hours Ravida, the chief of the Secret...
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Emanuelle and Françoise
Emanuelle is out to avenge her sister, who committed suicide after escaping from her sadistic lover ...
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Rats: Night of Terror
One hundred years after a nuclear war has devastated the planet, society has been reborn into two fa...
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Magnum Cop
A low-rent private investigator and former cop is sent to Austria on a job, and while there sees a n...
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Street Law
Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands....
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The Last Hunter
During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped beind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies s...
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Cop Game
In the final days of the Vietnam War, someone is killing the officers of the elite Cobra Force. Two ...
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Double Target
After several American and British military personnel are killed in suicide attacks throughout south...
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Blastfighter
An ex-cop, fresh out of prison, returns home to find it ruled by violent rednecks and must fight to ...
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Born to Fight
Vietnam War veteran Sam Wood is a survivor of a vicious prison camp where he was brutally and painfu...
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Seven Beauties
Pasqualino Frafuso, known in Naples as "Pasqualino Seven Beauties" is a petty thief who lives off of...
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The Face with Two Left Feet
Gianni, a hotel cook, is frustratingly in love with the sexy blonde DJ at the nightclub "John's Fev...
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Desert of Fire
A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculo...
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A Pure Formality
Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the ...
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Jack Frusciante è uscito dal gruppo
Alex, a high-school boy fond of rock and punk music, falls in love with Adelaide, who shares his fee...
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Ti stramo - Ho voglia di un'ultima notte da manuale prima di tre baci sopra il cielo
Friedberg/Seltzer-like spoof about popular Italian teen romance movies of the aughts (such as Tre me...
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Little Italy
Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squ...
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Light Blast
A policeman saves San Francisco from a mad scientist holding it hostage with a laser gun....
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Body and Soul
Ljuba, a woman who has recently become a model, gets involved with a uranium thief....
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Una grande voglia d'amore
In a ski center of Apennines lives young Paolo Antonelli and the rich Daniela. Paolo feels constrain...
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The House by the Edge of the Lake
A young university student returns to her family's country villa near a lake where years earlier her...
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Violent Rome
A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds wit...
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Lovers and Other Relatives
Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same...
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Robowar
A group of commandos heads into the jungles of Venezuela on a highly classified mission and encounte...
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Rome, the Other Face of Violence
Four bandits commit a robbery in a villa. The maid calls the police and Commissioner Carli immediate...
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Belle da morire 2
Louise, an up and coming model, will do anything it takes to become a top model. Along the way she f...
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Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Sinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers....
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Crime at Porta Romana
A police inspector is called to Milan to investigate a murder case since he grew up in the same ghet...
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Assassination on the Tiber
A black-out occurs during the meeting of a gang of criminals. When the light is back one of them is ...
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The Gorilla
Ruby has been trained in martial arts by her father and now has a job safeguarding a wide range of p...
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The Swindle
A rude Roman policeman Nico Giraldi and an English detective team up in search of a gang that has ca...
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My Sister and I
Carlo is a responsible sibling who deals with his black-sheep sister Silvia in this situation comedy...
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Il ritorno del Monnezza
Rocky Giraldi, son of police officer Nico, followed in his father's footsteps and is now an agent in...
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Vajont
On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the ...
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Crime at the Chinese Restaurant
The officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Ro...
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Five Moons Plaza
Just the night before his retirement District Attorney Saracini is given a film showing the kidnappi...
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Gangs of New York
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the...
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Weapons of Death
When a crime boss sends out his thugs to terrorize an entire city, they do whatever they want, which...
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The Inglorious Bastards
Set in Europe during WWII, a group of American soldiers on their way to military prison are beset up...
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High Crime
An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to t...
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Shocking Dark
In a polluted future Venice researchers work to improve the situation. One day, unknown forces start...
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First Action Hero
A maverick cop takes on the seedy criminal underbelly of Miami singlehanded....
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Tuareg: Desert Warrior
In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp ...
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A Special Cop in Action
A school bus with young children being kidnapped. Commissario Betti will solve the case. High action...
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The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri
Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge of investigating fake banknotes traffic. He di...
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Bastardi
The families Iuvara and Patene are bound by a common inherited hatred, which is further deepened whe...
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Hit Squad
A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy...
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Zombie Flesh Eaters 2
When a terrorist's body, infected with a stolen chemical, is recovered by the US military, the corps...
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The New Barbarians
Two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers afte...
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1990: The Bronx Warriors
In post-apocalyptic New York City a policeman infiltrates the Bronx which has become a battleground ...
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After Death
A woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. They had been working on a cure for c...
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Escape from the Bronx
A ragtag group of people have to fight extermination squads amid their ruined city....
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Hector the Mighty
A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal com...
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Romanzo Criminale
After serving prison time for a juvenile offense, Freddo gathers his old buddies Libano and Dandi an...
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Cry, Onion!
Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of...
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Dragonland: L'Urlo di Chen terrorizza ancora l'occidente
The first Italian documentary on the most extraordinary phenomenon of the 70s: the Kung-fu films!...
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The Borgia
A portrait of the bloody dynasty that spawned a pope, Alexander VI, as well as the role model for Ma...
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Destruction Force
A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes ...
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Highway Racer
Maurizio Merli stars as a hot-shot police driver who has more guts than brains, often landing him in...
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Quelli del Maledetto Treno Blindato - Making of 'Inglorious Bastards'
Behind the scenes of "Inglorious Basterds" by Quentin Tarantino....
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The Last Shark
When a 35-foot great white shark begins to wreak havoc on a seaside town, the mayor, not wanting to ...
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The Repenter
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-calle...
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Keoma
Half-breed Keoma returns to his border hometown after service in the Civil War and finds it under th...
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The Big Racket
Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, e...
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