Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 14, 1901
Deathday: April 02, 1984
Popularity:
1953-03-03
Overview: A satire of the Cold War, Italian style. Soviet flunkey Boris Popovitc is sent on a goodwill mission to Rome, where he is to deliver a symbolic dove of peace to a group of WW II freedom fighters. Somehow, Boris winds up in Venice minus the dove. As he searches up street and down canal for the missing bird, he meets and falls in love with luscious flower-girl Maria.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-03-03
Popularity:
1952-09-28
Overview: A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-28
Popularity:
1952-03-22
Overview: A group of boys calling themselves The Monte Cristo gang find a note from an innocent prisoner and set out to free him from a fortress-like prison.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-22
Popularity:
1952-01-10
Overview: A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-10
Popularity:
1952-10-09
Overview: I figli non si vendono (literally, Children must not be sold) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film by Mario Bonnard
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-09
Popularity:
1943-10-27
Overview: In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-10-27
Popularity:
1959-11-19
Overview: The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred thousand lire from the famous financier Bruscatelli, who ends up in prison immediately afterwards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-19
Popularity:
1960-09-02
Overview: A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers worth a fortune, but dies while attempting the hit. His wife takes those papers for herself, while discovering there are rival criminals, a powerful organization and a sleazy blackmailer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-02
Popularity:
1941-09-07
Overview: In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince Arminio to beasts in the woods, but lions don't kill him and breed him as one of them.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-09-07
Popularity:
1963-10-14
Overview: A boy of fourteen enters to work as messenger boy in a flower shop. His first task is to bring a bouquet for a bride but arrives late and is forced to go to the altar. His second job is to bring a funeral wreath but uses it to save a man who is drowning in the river. Naturally, he is late again. In the afternoon, he carries a basket of flowers to the TV a Spanish movie star is performing. But he is wrong and takes another funeral wreath that is delivered to star in a big stage. Due to customer complaints he is fired and the store puts back the sign "boy is needed."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-10-14
Popularity:
1961-03-23
Overview: Antonio goes to Rome to represent his fellow peasants, to request a highway that will be built in their region. But the guy is mastered by 'la dolce vita' and wastes the money entrusted to him for his mission. When Peppino is sent to to find out what happened, he lets himself be trapped by the gentle grip of 'la dolce vita'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-23
Popularity:
1954-11-24
Overview: Camilla, a middle-aged Venetian widow, arrives in Rome to take up service as a maid for the Rossetti family, who are not prosperous. With her discreet presence, she is an element of cohesion for them thru tensions and misfortunes.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-11-24
Popularity:
1954-11-30
Overview: The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-11-30
Popularity:
1935-12-01
Overview: Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-12-01
Popularity:
1942-10-08
Overview: In a small mountain town, a new teacher arrives, Maria Bini, who, with her extreme confidentiality, arouses people's curiosity and gossip. The young mayor of the village feels attracted to the girl and begins to court her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-10-08
Popularity:
1935-12-01
Overview: Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-12-01
Popularity:
1956-09-21
Overview: Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojourn and love stories begin and end.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-21
Popularity:
1940-11-15
Overview:
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-11-15
Popularity:
1960-08-06
Overview: A great Party is given by the rich family of Improta. Every kind of intrigue gets around this party. The purpose of every plan is to find a husband or a wife with a quality: wealth.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-06
Popularity:
1936-01-01
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1935
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
Popularity:
1937-01-01
Overview: The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
Popularity:
1943-05-05
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-05-05
Popularity:
1953-12-28
Overview: Giorgio with some friends rehearses a show of Neapolitan songs financed thanks to an elderly artist. Having come to quarrel with the landlady, Giorgio rented a room with a good woman who lives with her beautiful daughter Maria. Love soon arises between the two.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-28
Popularity:
1951-12-20
Overview: Anna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun; Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her; and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-20
Popularity:
1956-02-24
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-02-24
Popularity:
1939-04-01
Overview: After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-04-01
Popularity:
1934-12-31
Overview: A school teacher falls in love with one of his female colleague, who teaches gymnastics. She returns his love, but this discovered by his students who try and sabotage their relationship.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-12-31
Popularity:
1955-12-09
Overview: Roberto Maldi, a young scientist, is trying to find a serum capable of giving courage but he unwittingly invents a serum which transforms any man in a womanizer. His boss scents a good business and wants to produce the serum on industrial basis, but Roberto does not agree.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-09
Popularity:
1954-05-08
Overview: A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-05-08
Popularity:
1969-12-30
Overview: Agilulfo is a righteous, perfectionist, faithful and pious knight with only one shortcoming: he doesn't exist. Inside his empty armor is an echoing voice that reverberates through the metal. Nevertheless, he serves the army of a Christian king out of goodwill and faith in the holy cause.
Genres: Animation Adventure Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-30
Popularity:
1952-10-03
Overview: Based on the Nikolai Gogol story but set in 1950s Italy, "The Overcoat" is the story of a poor city hall clerk whose only desire is to buy a new overcoat.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-03
Popularity:
1941-03-16
Overview: The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-03-16
Popularity:
1953-11-13
Overview: Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas because he lost a lot of money due to some wrong investments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-13
Popularity:
1950-11-09
Overview: Two young men from the Navy fall in love with an actress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-09
Popularity:
1960-03-26
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-26
Popularity:
1956-10-24
Overview: A destroyer departs from the port of Taranto with orders to take a load of petrol to Tobruk at all costs.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-10-24
Popularity:
1941-05-06
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-05-06
Popularity:
1957-03-23
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-03-23
Popularity:
1952-12-18
Overview: Stefano and Maria have a marriage by proxy while he is working abroad in Canada. When she is mistakenly accused of abandoning her own child and sent to jail, Stefano finds out and decides to annul their marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-18
Popularity:
1937-10-31
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-10-31
Popularity: