Paolo Bonacelli
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Paolo Bonacelli (February 28, 1939 - October 8 2025) was an Italian actor.
He is best known for his performance as The Duke de Blangis in Pasolini's notorious Salò (1975). He can also be seen in Midnight Express (1978) and Caligula (1979), in which he plays the role of Cassius Chaerea.
He also co-starred with Roberto Benigni in the films Johnny Stecchino and Night on Earth, both from 1991.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7941 |
| Birthday | 1937-02-28 |
| Place of Birth | Rome, Italy |
| Also Known As | Паоло Боначелли, パオロ・ボナチェリ, |
1991
Night on Earth
7.51/1087
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
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Night on Earth
1991
Touch and Die
5/4
Martin Sheen stars as an American newsman in Rome who begins to investigate the appearance of several corpses found throughout Europe with their hands...
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Touch and Die
1993
Abraham
7.125/56
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mank...
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Abraham
1988
Lenin: The Train
6.409/11
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany and...
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Lenin: The Train
1994
Once a Year, Every Year
9/1
A man enters a restaurant in Trastevere, in the suburbs of Rome, and asks the owner to cook him the superb bass he has just been given. He wants it se...
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Once a Year, Every Year
1992
Ciao, Professore!
7.162/407
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples
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Ciao, Professore!
1980
Le Guignolo
6.1/178
After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business...
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Le Guignolo
1979
Caligula
5.981/1010
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravit...
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Caligula
1991
Johnny Stecchino
7.3/1081
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow...
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Johnny Stecchino
2023
Noi ce la siamo cavata
6.6/7
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Noi ce la siamo cavata
2010
The American
6.012/1563
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
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The American
1984
Nothing Left to Do But Cry
7.732/1195
Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history.
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Nothing Left to Do But Cry
1982
Words and Blood
0/0
The youth protest against corruption in Italian politics. When they subsequently find themselves in trouble, they take the law into their own hands: t...
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Words and Blood
1979
Christ Stopped at Eboli
7.2/98
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and...
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Christ Stopped at Eboli
1976
Illustrious Corpses
6.731/107
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
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Illustrious Corpses
1974
Milarepa
6.7/7
After a car accident, a professor, trapped and awaiting help, hears a student recount the life of Milarepa. The tale unfolds in three parts: dark veng...
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Milarepa
1985
Mother Ebe
4.944/9
Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft.
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Mother Ebe
2004
13 at a Table
6.607/14
Giulio, a divorced middle-aged man, returns to the family villa in Tuscany where he spent his childhood holidays with his entire family, to arrange, w...
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13 at a Table
1976
Evil Thoughts
5.533/15
Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milan, with a wonderful wife and a high social life. But Mario has a problem: every time he sees h...
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Evil Thoughts
1989
Francesco
6.6/61
The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a priv...
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Francesco
1986
Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
6/12
After Annunziata opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio, she is saved from being raped by a Camorra boss as the gangster is suddenly killed. The ki...
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Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime)
1968
Seven Times Seven
7.125/12
A gang of prison inmates escape to do a job at the Royal Mint, with only the time of the Cup Final to get back into the Scrubs.
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Seven Times Seven
1981
The Mystery of Oberwald
5.76/25
A man, mirroring the assassinated King, infiltrates a castle to kill the Queen but hesitates, leading to a deadly dare and revelation of shared histor...
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The Mystery of Oberwald
1984
Henry IV
6.458/24
Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. H...
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Henry IV
2003
A.A.A. Achille
7.833/6
Achille, nine years old, intelligent, sympathetic, and stutterer. The parents decide to treat him and entrust him to Dr. Aglieri, who begins the thera...
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A.A.A. Achille
1975
Gli strumenti del potere. 1925/1926 la dittatura fascista
0/0
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Gli strumenti del potere. 1925/1926 la dittatura fascista
1966
Pleasant Nights
6.625/8
A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.
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Pleasant Nights
2023
The Commander
6.894/236
One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At t...
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The Commander
1984
The Naked Sun
4.667/3
An Italian businessman travels to Brazil looking for a new job. When things don't go his way, he becomes despondent until he meets a beautiful woman w...
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The Naked Sun
I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
0/0
A documentary which explores the life and the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the greatest Italian directors, through archival footage and in...
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I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni
1975
Beyond Fear
6.7/3
A group of outlaws takes a man's wife and child hostage. He must walk a fine line between working with the police to rescue his family and not angerin...
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Beyond Fear
1987
Love Sins
4.25/4
A biographical feature on the Italian literary giant, Gabriele D'Annunzio. Set in late 19th century Italy and France when the artistic style, Decadent...
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Love Sins
1989
A Double Victory
7/1
Following a life-altering heart attack, a train driver named Saverio receives a heart transplant from a young, deceased runner. To honor his donor, Sa...
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A Double Victory
1978
Nest of Vipers
5/13
A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teache...
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Nest of Vipers
2026
In the Hand of Dante
5.442/60
A Vatican priest discovers Dante's original Divine Comedy manuscript. When asked to authenticate it, writer Nick Tosches steals it, while a parallel s...
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In the Hand of Dante
1980
The Persian Lamb Coat
5/9
Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the famous place Ramazzini and has so many in...
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The Persian Lamb Coat
1992
Il segno del comando
5/4
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Il segno del comando
1999
Dirty Linen
6.167/6
The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market bring...
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Dirty Linen
1978
Midnight Express
7.44/1942
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years...
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Midnight Express
1982
Delitti, amore e gelosia
7/1
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Delitti, amore e gelosia
1979
Good News
6.211/19
A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his fru...
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Good News
1997
Bakunin's Son
7/1
Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief,...
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Bakunin's Son
1988
Topo Galileo
5.786/7
A pacifist pest controller tries to catch the rat infesting a nuclear power plant.
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Topo Galileo
1972
Il cancelliere Krehler
0/0
When he is granted a day off to celebrate his daughter's wedding, office worker Krehler begins to realize how alienated he is.
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Il cancelliere Krehler
1981
Calderon
7/2
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Calderon
1986
L'ultima mazurka
8/1
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L'ultima mazurka
1976
La banca di Monate
7/2
Lago Maggiore, 1949: a failed bank manager, to revive his economic situation, tries to combine a marriage of interest for his daughter. Failing to do...
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La banca di Monate
2016
The Ploy
5.9/36
In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate pl...
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The Ploy
1996
The Stendhal Syndrome
5.446/296
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brut...
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The Stendhal Syndrome
1971
A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State
4.4/5
A hooker, mother of two, leaves her abusing husband for a young boxer. On the street she gets assaulted and beaten by pimps.
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A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State
1990
Flight from Paradise
8.5/2
In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two...
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Flight from Paradise
2003
Gli astronomi
9/1
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Gli astronomi
1987
Rimini Rimini
4.801/103
Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.
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Rimini Rimini
1995
Christmas Vacation '95
5.408/224
Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wa...
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Christmas Vacation '95
1973
Giordano Bruno
6.38/54
Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in Venice....
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Giordano Bruno
1976
The Inheritance
6.26/25
In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her brothers-in-law to prevent their father's remarriage...
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The Inheritance
1971
Maddalena
5.294/17
The love story between a free-spirited girl and a priest.
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Maddalena
1993
Mille bolle blu
6.722/9
The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is...
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Mille bolle blu
1974
The Murri Affair
6.615/13
Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventual...
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The Murri Affair
1964
Corpse for the Lady
5.4/6
Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amo...
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Corpse for the Lady
1965
SuperSeven Calling Cairo
5.647/17
Super 7 looks for a piece of a new metal hidden in a camera.
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SuperSeven Calling Cairo
2018
Magical Nights
6.1/182
Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is fou...
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Magical Nights
1994
The Teddy Bear
4.667/15
A renowned gynecologist receives anonymous death threats that seem to be related to his troubled past.
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The Teddy Bear
1989
La moglie ingenua e il marito malato
10/1
A thief caught red-handed tells the landlord a very strange fact that happened to him looking through the keyhole of another apartment where he was st...
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La moglie ingenua e il marito malato
2019
Forse è solo mal di mare
5.9/4
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Forse è solo mal di mare
1970
Tears of Love
8/1
An English singer thinks his Italian wife has cheated on him and goes back to England. He is then involved in drug trafficking and ends up in jail. Lu...
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Tears of Love
2019
To the Unknown God
0/0
Lucia and her 17-year-old son Gabriel only have each other. The father left the family when Gabriel's older sister Anna died of leukemia eight years a...
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To the Unknown God
1976
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
6.331/2364
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
2006
Mission: Impossible III
6.767/7834
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian,...
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Mission: Impossible III
1974
Year One
5.278/9
Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the ye...
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Year One
1983
The Knight, Death and the Devil
8.5/2
A family of the three fall into a dark and disturbing nightmare after meeting the mysterious Orlok and the seductive punk girl Patty. Adapted from the...
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The Knight, Death and the Devil
2020
Divine
5.8/48
While reporting on the election of the Pope in Rome, the completely atheistic journalist Gregory falls in love with Maria of all people, who is about...
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Divine
1966
The Devil in Love
5.8/15
Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 14...
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The Devil in Love
1973
Io e lui
6/3
Rico is a not too successful screen-player. He is also a repressed sex addict. His life changes when he starts to talk to his own penis, which incredi...
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Io e lui
1977
This Is the Night
7/1
Based on a book by Juan Carlo Onetti, the film tells the story of Ossario, a hunted revolutionary leader who sees his comrades die one after another.
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This Is the Night
1964
One Million Dollars
6.1/14
Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl accompanying him...
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One Million Dollars
1990
Only One Survived
8/1
Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble.
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Only One Survived
2024
Nato il sei ottobre
5/3
The documentary recounts an important part of the history of this country, retracing a long journey that began on October 6, 1924, and continues to th...
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Nato il sei ottobre
1993
Flusso di coscienza - Razzismo 1993
0/0
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2003
The Accidental Detective
10/1
A famous collector dies suddenly in Florence in strange circumstances. His wife, the only heir of an immense wealth, has a unpleasant surprise: the hu...
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The Accidental Detective
1983
The Commissioner
9/1
In the basement of a hypothetical ministry, a man has set up a public office where he intends, for a fee, to solve any bureaucratic problem. His life...
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