Mario Frera
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I due vigili
1967-12-13
I due vigili
Overview: Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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Everybody Go Home!
1960-10-27
Everybody Go Home!
Overview: When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Genres: Comedy War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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Love and Larceny
1960-02-11
Love and Larceny
Overview: Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!
1958-12-17
Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!
Overview: A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-17
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Un mostro e mezzo
1964-12-18
Un mostro e mezzo
Overview: A thief steals a suitcase but it contains a corpse and the thief is sentenced, but is released by the robbed doctor, who then subjects him to a facial plastic that makes him equal to a criminal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Husbands in the City
1957-12-18
Husbands in the City
Overview: In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-18
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Dogs and Cats
1952-10-15
Dogs and Cats
Overview: In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business away him. Unbeknownst to them a romance is developing between the younger generation of the families.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-15
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Our Husbands
1966-08-21
Our Husbands
Overview: Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-21
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The Black Invaders
1962-09-20
The Black Invaders
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-20
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The Professor
1986-09-12
The Professor
Overview: An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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The Sexbury Tales
1973-05-29
The Sexbury Tales
Overview: Series of tales. The framing story: a group of women are doing their laundry and begin to tell lusty tales.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-05-29
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Put Your Devil Into My Hell
1973-03-16
Put Your Devil Into My Hell
Overview: Ricciardetto is a fourteenth-century playboy who wants at all costs to sleep with the wife of the mayor of Montelupone. He succeeds, but is caught between the covers with the woman and sentenced to death. He will be saved by a kind of pilgrim saint who is in love with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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Io non protesto, io amo
1967-03-21
Io non protesto, io amo
Overview: Caterina, a young teacher, has a hobby of singing and occasionally delights her students.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-03-21
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The Black Hand
1973-03-16
The Black Hand
Overview: Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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Alfredo, Alfredo
1972-09-22
Alfredo, Alfredo
Overview: Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-22
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The Forbidden Decameron
1972-03-22
The Forbidden Decameron
Overview: The Decameron forbidden is a 1972 Italian comedy, directed by Carlo Infascelli. The film, which counts among the starring actors such as Orchidea De Santis, Gabriella Giorgelli, nut Crostarosa and Carlo De Carvalho, is inspired by Boccaccio's fourteenth-century novels. In particular, it is the film adaptation of that novel starring frà Pepin, a young native of Florence, which was discovered and arrested for his relationship with Mona Fawaz, a married woman. Thanks to the help of his friends painters, manages to escape..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-22
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Complexes
1965-08-15
Complexes
Overview: In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-15
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The Great War
1959-10-28
The Great War
Overview: Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
Genres: Comedy War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-28
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I due toreri
1964-12-03
I due toreri
Overview: In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. In reality however this is not simple salad vegetables but marijuana; the two bungling fools and friends do not realize it at first.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-03
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I due mafiosi
1964-01-15
I due mafiosi
Overview: Two clumsy mobsters on a mission in Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-15
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We Want the Colonels
1973-03-02
We Want the Colonels
Overview: Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-02
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Destination Fury
1961-07-23
Destination Fury
Overview: Lemmy Caution has been assigned by Interpol to work as a double agent. Little does he know how many spies are on to this deception and how dangerous his assignment has become.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-07-23
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La nipote Sabella
1958-11-20
La nipote Sabella
Overview: Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-20
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The Traffic Policeman
1960-11-16
The Traffic Policeman
Overview: An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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The Masseuses
1962-09-20
The Masseuses
Overview: Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-20
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Magnum Cop
1978-02-03
Magnum Cop
Overview: A low-rent private investigator and former cop is sent to Austria on a job, and while there sees a number of seemingly unrelated coincidences that lead him into a strange web of corruption and decadence.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-03
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The Monsters
1963-10-30
The Monsters
Overview: The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-30
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Pugni, pupe e marinai
1961-11-17
Pugni, pupe e marinai
Overview: Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-17
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...e continuavano a mettere lo diavolo ne lo inferno
1973-01-01
...e continuavano a mettere lo diavolo ne lo inferno
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Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Le mille e una notte all'italiana
1972-10-10
Le mille e una notte all'italiana
Overview: Two young friends - one poet, the other a sculptor - have fun conquering the wives of others.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-10
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The Amazing Doctor G
1965-10-15
The Amazing Doctor G
Overview: Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his scheme to spark an international war by zombifying all government employees in this Italian spoof of the James Bond movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-15
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Side Street Story
1950-09-21
Side Street Story
Overview: A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-21
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La contessa azzurra
1960-09-16
La contessa azzurra
Overview: Loreley looks back to the happy times when she became a silent movie star with the huge success of "La Contessa Azzurra", directed by Don Salvatore and produced by Don Peppino, the owner of a Café Chantant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-16
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Two Women
1960-12-22
Two Women
Overview: A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-22
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Gastone
1960-01-26
Gastone
Overview: During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-26
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Tarantella napoletana
1953-04-23
Tarantella napoletana
Overview: Combining musical and dance numbers with comedy sketches (performed by members of The Armando Curcio Company and The Gauthier Ballet Troupe)without any plot, this is more of a revue than a movie, along the lines of The Ed Sullivan television series in the U.S.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-23
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Il divorzio
1970-04-20
Il divorzio
Overview: Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-04-20
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