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  • A Bullet For The General
  • A Bullet For The General review by A customer from Leyland
    Rated - 4.0 stars One of the Best 19 April 2005
    ...ematic enjoyment. There is a great life about this film, embodied especially in Gian Maria Volonte's exuberant performance. He was a great actor. It is the most convincing recrea...   Read customer review
  • Lucky Luciano
  • Lucky Luciano review by srb from Richmond, Surrey
    Rated - 2.0 stars Mafia biopic for the Watergate era 29 January 2006
    ...ourful and felt very authentic. The trouble is, the acting is very patchy (Gian Maria Volonte excellent, others quite wooden) and the direction indulgent, with long scenes t...   Read customer review
  • Christ Stopped At Eboli
  • Christ Stopped At Eboli review by Cato from Shropshire
    Rated - 5.0 stars Fragmented view of pre-war Italy 8 March 2007
    ...ical mixture of pre-war hysteria and the languid and intelligent performance of Gian Maria Volonte, who sees through all the bombast, is wonderfully achieved, and the setting in ...   Read customer review

Gian Maria Volonte - filmography


  • Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1987)
    Starring: Ornella Muti,  Rupert Everett,  Anthony Delon
    Director: Francesco Rosi
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Cristóbal Bedoya, who is also called "Cristo", is a medical doctor. He has been away from home for 27 years. Currently he comes back to his home-town, which is a small Colombian city in the banks of the Magdalena River. Santiago Nasar is his best friend, who has been murdered three decades ago. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 8 members
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  • Christ Stopped At Eboli on DVD (1979)
    Starring: Paolo Bonacelli,  Alain Cuny,  Lea Massari
    Director: Francesco Rosi
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on an autobiographical novel by Carlo Levi, Cristo si e fermato a Eboli stars Gian-Maria Volonte as Levi, a prominent anti-fascist author and artist who, during Mussolini's regime was exiled to Eboli, a tiny village in Southern Italy. The government believed Levi's controversial views would ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 596 members
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  • Lucky Luciano on DVD (1974)
    Starring: Gian Maria Volonte,  Vincent Gardenia,  Silverio Blasi
    Director: Francesco Rosi
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Francesco Rosi returns to his recurring theme of the connections between legal and illegal exercises of power in this sensationalized account of the infamous gangster Charles Lucky Luciano (Gian Maria Volonte). The film examines the life of Luciano after serving nine years of his 50-year ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 140 members
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  • Le Cercle Rouge on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Alain Delon,  Andre Bourvil,  Gian Maria Volonte
    Director: Jean-Pierre Melville
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Jean-Pierre Melville's hugely influential film remains a cornerstone of the crime genre. Corey (Alain Delon - BORSALINO) is the young gun in the French underworld who has just been released from prison. Escaped convict Vogel (Gian Maria Volonte – FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE) hides in the trunk of Corey'..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 2,555 members
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  • Face To Face - Blu-ray (1967)
    Starring: Angel Del Pozo,  Jolanda Modio,  Gianni Rizzo
    Director: Sergio Sollima
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This Italian western contains subtle political undertones as it chronicles the exploits of a tubercular history professor who journeys to the American Southwest to recuperate. There he becomes fascinated by an outlaw who befriends him. The intelligent professor uses his brains to assist the outlaw. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 7 members
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  • Face To Face on DVD (1967)
    Starring: Angel Del Pozo,  Jolanda Modio,  Gianni Rizzo
    Director: Sergio Sollima
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This Italian western contains subtle political undertones as it chronicles the exploits of a tubercular history professor who journeys to the American Southwest to recuperate. There he becomes fascinated by an outlaw who befriends him. The intelligent professor uses his brains to assist the outlaw. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 70 members
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  • A Bullet For The General on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Gian Maria Volonte,  Klaus Kinski,  Martine Beswick
    Director: Damiano Damiani
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    A fast paced and vicious spaghetti western starring Klaus Kinski and Lou Castel, A BULLET FOR THE GENERAL begins as a gang of former Mexican rebels attempt to rob a train carrying munitions, which they plan to sell to a revolutionary named General Elias. One of the passengers on the train, a gringo ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 377 members
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  • For a Few Dollars More on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Clint Eastwood,  Lee Van Cleef,  Klaus Kinski
    Director: Sergio Leone
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    This pulse-pounding follow-up to Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dollars brings back Clint Eastwood as the serape-clad, cigar-chewing Man With No Name. Engaged in an ongoing battle with bounty hunter Col. Douglas Mortimer (Lee Van Cleef), the Man joins forces with his enemy to capture homicidal bandit ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 13,408 members
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Gian Maria Volonte facts

5 most recent films

Chronicle of a Death Foretold - 4.0 stars
Christ Stopped At Eboli - 3.5 stars
Lucky Luciano - 2.5 stars
Le Cercle Rouge - 3.5 stars
The Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

For a Few Dollars More - 4.0 stars
Le Cercle Rouge - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Christ Stopped At Eboli - 3.5 stars
Le Cercle Rouge - 3.5 stars
Face To Face - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Face To Face - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion - 3.0 stars
Chronicle of a Death Foretold - 4.0 stars
Lucky Luciano - 2.5 stars
A Bullet For The General - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Klaus Kinski - 6 times - show films
Mario Brega - 4 times - show films
Clint Eastwood - 4 times - show films
Mara Krup - 4 times - show films
Lee Van Cleef - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Sergio Leone - 4 times - show films
Francesco Rosi - 3 times - show films
Damiano Damiani - 2 times - show films
Jean-Pierre Melville - 2 times - show films
Sergio Sollima - 2 times - show films