Totò
Biography: Totò was born Antonio Clemente in a poor district of Naples, the illegitimate son of Anna Clemente from Sicily and Marquis Giuseppe De Curtis from Naples. Nicknamed “il principe della risata’ (the prince of laughter), he was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter, and widely considered one of the greatest Italian artists of the 20th century. While he first gained his popularity as a comic actor, his dramatic roles, poetry, and songs are all of cultural import; his style and a number of his recurring jokes and gestures have become universally known memes in Italy. As a comic actor, Totò is classified as an heir of the Commedia dell'Arte tradition, and has been compared to such figures as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. At the age of 15, he was already acting as a comedian in small theatres, under the pseudonym "Clerment". His early repertoire mostly consisted in imitations of Gustavo De Marco's characters. He served in the army during World War I and then went back to acting to develop the trademarks of his style. In 1937, he appeared in his first movie "Fermo con le mani", and later starred in 96 more films, many of which are still frequently broadcast on Italian television. In his vast cinematographic career, Totò had the opportunity to act side by side with virtually all major Italian actors of the time. Totò's unmistakable figure, with his peculiarly irregular face (due to an accident in his teen years), and his unique trademark ability to disarticulate his body like a marionette, soon became very popular and his comic gags became part of the Italian culture. Totò died at the age of 69 in Rome after a series of heart attacks. Due to overwhelming popularity there were three funeral services: the first in Rome, and the second and third in Naples. Totò's birth home has been recently opened to the public as a museum.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 14, 1898
Deathday: April 15, 1967
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Known For
Big Deal on Madonna Street
1958-07-26
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Overview: Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-07-26
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The Hawks and the Sparrows
1966-05-04
The Hawks and the Sparrows
Overview: A man and his son take an allegorical stroll through life with a talking bird that spouts social and political philosophy.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-05-04
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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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You're on Your Own
1959-09-04
You're on Your Own
Overview: In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-09-04
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Fifa e arena
1948-11-23
Fifa e arena
Overview: In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-11-23
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He Who Hesitates Is Lost
1960-12-15
He Who Hesitates Is Lost
Overview: After their boss' death, two clerks eagerly await the arrival of the next one, each one of them hoping to become the apple of his eye. They compete in every possible way to impress him, which causes lots of trouble and many misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-15
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Toto and Carolina
1955-03-02
Toto and Carolina
Overview: During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-02
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Totó in color
1952-04-08
Totó in color
Overview: In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-04-08
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Toto the Sheik
1950-11-30
Toto the Sheik
Overview: Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-30
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Totò d'Arabia
1965-02-18
Totò d'Arabia
Overview: Toto, a former Italian military servant who works as a servant at the British Intelligence Service, is promoted to secret agent with the name of Agent 00Ø8 to convince the ruler of Shamara, Sheikh Ali El Buzur, to yield oil to UK.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-02-18
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Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
1961-03-30
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Overview: A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-30
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Cops and Robbers
1951-11-29
Cops and Robbers
Overview: Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-29
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Toto in Madrid
1959-02-06
Toto in Madrid
Overview: When the swindler La Spada and his accomplice José come out of jail in Madrid, they decide to pull a really great swindle: nothing less than to discover and sell a third picture of the famous Goya's Maya. They engage the renowed Scorcelletti who can imitate any picture and who lives in Rome. Afterwards, with the help of the beautiful Eva, they convince the celebrated art critic Francisco Montiel of the existance of a third Maya and let him find the picture. When the swindlers are on the point of selling the faked maya to an American millionaire, Scorcelli comes back from Rome to sell one of his six other maya pictures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-06
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Letto a tre piazze
1960-09-09
Letto a tre piazze
Overview: Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returned. Amalia has to choose between two husbands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-09
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Toto in Paris
1958-10-23
Toto in Paris
Overview: Duclos's son, a worldly gangster, is compromised in a case of which he is innocent. The proof of this innocence is in the hands of a "competitor", the Marquis de Chemantel de Beauvoiron, a misguided aristocrat. He asked for $ 10 million to cede the document. Duclos will then imagine Chemantel contracting $ 10 million in life insurance for his son. As he discovered in Rome a tramp, a look-alike of the marquis, he will bring this man to Paris and arrange for him to die accidentally.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-10-23
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I due orfanelli
1947-11-26
I due orfanelli
Overview: In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-26
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Le sei mogli di Barbablù
1950-11-10
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Overview: Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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Gli onorevoli
1963-10-10
Gli onorevoli
Overview: Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-10
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Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
1958-08-22
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
Overview: A psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-22
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Totò Double or Nothing?
1956-05-03
Totò Double or Nothing?
Overview: The penniless Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o raddoppia", a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between themselves on his success and, alas, the Duke is kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-05-03
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Totò vs the Four
1963-03-07
Totò vs the Four
Overview: The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-07
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Yvonne of the Night
1949-11-24
Yvonne of the Night
Overview: Carlo Rutelli falls in love with the beautiful variety singer Yvonne la Nuit, but his father opposes the wedding. World War I breaks out and Carlo is killed while Yvonne has a son, but on orders from Carlo's father, she is told he is dead. Her career descends and only Nino, an art partner, remains close to her and helps her earn her living by singing in taverns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-11-24
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Signori si nasce
1960-04-28
Signori si nasce
Overview: Baron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-04-28
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Toto Tours Italy
1948-12-30
Toto Tours Italy
Overview: A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-12-30
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Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
1957-12-23
Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Overview: The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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Toto and the Women
1952-12-20
Toto and the Women
Overview: Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-20
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Il coraggio
1955-12-24
Il coraggio
Overview: A wealthy trader saves the life of a poor suicidal man who then decides that his savior has the responsibility of taking care of him and his family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-24
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What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
1964-08-21
What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?
Overview: A pair of brothers, Baby Toto and Pietro, sons of different mothers, live stealing suitcases at the Termini Station in Rome. After a theft, they discover that the stolen suitcase they got from an apparent sweet old lady actually contains a corpse.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-21
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Totò cerca casa
1949-12-09
Totò cerca casa
Overview: Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-12-09
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Totò cerca pace
1954-12-17
Totò cerca pace
Overview: Two widowers decide to get married but their decision is continually hampered by their grandchildren, who are just interested in their inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-17
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Toto and the Kings of Rome
1952-10-15
Toto and the Kings of Rome
Overview: An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-15
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Totò contro il pirata nero
1964-03-27
Totò contro il pirata nero
Overview: José is a Neapolitan petty thief who escapes from the guards and hides himself in a barrel of Jamaican rum on the quay of the port of Naples.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-27
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Toto and Marcellino
1958-04-22
Toto and Marcellino
Overview: Marcellino becomes an orphan and finds two uncles--a good old eccentric man and a villain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-04-22
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The Monk of Monza
1963-03-29
The Monk of Monza
Overview: Pasquale takes all of his 12 children and runs away from Monza, looking for a house of a wealthy and generous awning. Having met on the way impoverished peasant, Pasquale takes him also, having granted the rank of "Half-Monk" and thus having gained rustic, but a reliable friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-29
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Toto and Cleopatra
1963-09-05
Toto and Cleopatra
Overview: Mark Antony has a brother-lookalike, Totonno, a sinister slave trader. Totonno secretly replaces Mark Antony in the most delicate moments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-05
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The Overtaxed
1959-04-10
The Overtaxed
Overview: Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-10
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Toto at Night
1962-10-25
Toto at Night
Overview: Nini and Mimi are strolling musicians-bassist. For days they are playing on the streets of Rome. One day Nini announced that he has one million and one thousand pounds, having inherited from her grandmother died. Now world belongs only to them, and they can do everything! Ahead of them are Paris, Madrid, England, Scotland, Hong Kong, the United States ....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-25
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Totò nella Luna
1958-11-28
Totò nella Luna
Overview: Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-28
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Il medico dei pazzi
1954-10-19
Il medico dei pazzi
Overview: Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-19
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The Passionate Thief
1960-10-12
The Passionate Thief
Overview: On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-12
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L'allegro fantasma
1941-03-16
L'allegro fantasma
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
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Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
1961-03-23
Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life
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
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I tre ladri
1954-09-27
I tre ladri
Overview: Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-09-27
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Totò all'inferno
1955-03-16
Totò all'inferno
Overview: After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-16
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Caprice Italian Style
1968-04-13
Caprice Italian Style
Overview: The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-13
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The Rape of the Sabine
1945-11-21
The Rape of the Sabine
Overview: Ernesto is the teacher of the village, he is married and he is dominated by his wife. He has the passion of the theatre and he has written a drama in verse named "Il ratto delle Sabine". Unfortunately he has only an admirer and she is their servant Rosina. When the touring company of Prof. Tromboni arrives in the village, Ernesto decides to let them perform his play, though anonymously. So the day arrives and the theatre is sadly empty. But when the news that the author is the teacher spreads far and wide...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-11-21
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Of Life and Love
1954-02-03
Of Life and Love
Overview: A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-03
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The Mandrake
1965-11-18
The Mandrake
Overview: A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-18
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The Emperor of Capri
1949-12-16
The Emperor of Capri
Overview: Beautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law. A lucky series of circumstances actually does transform him into the prince of the island.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-12-16
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The Commandant
1963-12-23
The Commandant
Overview: The retired general Antonio Cavalli is a nuisance to his family: to his wife Francesca who still works, to his son and to his daughter-in-law. Then he finds a job in a building firm. Only by chance Cavalli finds out that his salary is paid by his wife to keep him busy. But the general is well known as a very reliable man, and Sandrelli, the firm's owner, uses him and his name to win a valuable contract. When Sandrelli is arrested, the general finds the money to honour his debt but he is robbed while he is going to the bank...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-23
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Totò le Mokò
1949-12-20
Totò le Mokò
Overview: Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-12-20
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Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
1956-08-23
Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy
Overview: Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-08-23
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San Giovanni decollato
1940-12-12
San Giovanni decollato
Overview: Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy friend and he does not want him to marry her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-12-12
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The Band of Honest Men
1956-04-12
The Band of Honest Men
Overview: Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-04-12
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Hands Off Me!
1937-03-06
Hands Off Me!
Overview: In his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in order to provide for himself and his young Shirley Temple-like protégée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-03-06
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The Gold of Naples
1954-12-03
The Gold of Naples
Overview: A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-03
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Toto the Third Man
1951-09-23
Toto the Third Man
Overview: In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-23
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Tototarzan
1950-10-31
Tototarzan
Overview: Roaming the vast jungles of Congo with his best friend, Bongo the gorilla, Antonio della Buffas, a mysterious man whom the natives call the "white monkey", is utterly unaware that he is the long-lost son of a wealthy explorer. Then, three opportunists manage to capture and bring the white savage to civilisation, bent on getting their hands on his immense fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-10-31
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Le motorizzate
1963-08-15
Le motorizzate
Overview: Five episodes about women drivers during the economic boom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-08-15
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Lo smemorato di Collegno
1962-09-07
Lo smemorato di Collegno
Overview: A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is her husband and brings him home; then Mrs. Polacich recognizes him as her husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-07
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Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
1960-08-18
Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
Overview: A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-18
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Animal Crackers
1939-04-01
Animal Crackers
Overview: After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-04-01
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Noi duri
1960-02-24
Noi duri
Overview: Lieutenant Bombardone is in Paris to wipe out a gang of drug traffickers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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Funniest Show on Earth
1953-11-12
Funniest Show on Earth
Overview: A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealousy of three women and even by a policeman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-12
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Where Is Freedom?
1954-03-05
Where Is Freedom?
Overview: A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocrisy of his own relatives and decides to return behind bars.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-05
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The Thieves
1959-06-27
The Thieves
Overview: An Italian-American mobster is sent back to Naples from the States. He moves to Italy with all his illegal proceeds hidden in jam jars--which fall into the wrong hands when they get to the harbour of Naples. These hands belong to people who demand their fair share. Meanwhile, the mobster is questioned by investigators.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-27
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The Firemen of Viggiù
1949-04-16
The Firemen of Viggiù
Overview: In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-04-16
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The Law Is the Law
1958-09-17
The Law Is the Law
Overview: Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-17
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Totò diabolicus
1962-04-07
Totò diabolicus
Overview: The marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them, with the exception of Monsignor Antonino di Torre Alta, are killed by Diabolicus. The police are unable to solve the case, but when Antonino gives his inheritance to Pasquale Bonocore, illegitimate son of his father and Pasquale is in prison and therefore can't be the killer, all the clues are in the hand of the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-07
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47 Talking Corpses
1950-12-22
47 Talking Corpses
Overview: Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself. The major and the rest of the townspeople therefore organize a trick at his expense: they'll make him believe he is dead, and, in a fake "afterlife", they'll try to convince him to finally show them where the money is hidden to save his soul.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-22
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La cambiale
1959-11-19
La cambiale
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
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Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
1962-09-08
Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Overview: Antonio goes to West Berlin and meets Giuseppe. But Antonio looks like Canarinis, a wanted war criminal, So the daughter of the criminal pays Antonio to impersonate him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-08
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The Two Marshals
1961-12-22
The Two Marshals
Overview: September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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Totòtruffa '62
1961-08-12
Totòtruffa '62
Overview: Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-12
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Neapolitan Turk
1953-09-16
Neapolitan Turk
Overview: Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-09-16
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Poverty and Nobility
1954-04-17
Poverty and Nobility
Overview: Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-04-17
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Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
1956-12-21
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
Overview: Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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The Treasure of San Gennaro
1966-11-25
The Treasure of San Gennaro
Overview: A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Gennaro, in Napoli.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-11-25
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Totò contro Maciste
1962-02-28
Totò contro Maciste
Overview: Totokamen is an entertainer and an illusionist who performs in various Egyptian nightclubs assisted by his manager, Tarantenkamen. Taking advantage of cheesy tricks, Totokamen pretends to be the son of the god Amun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-28
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Two Colonels
1963-01-05
Two Colonels
Overview: In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-01-05
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Destinazione Piovarolo
1955-12-16
Destinazione Piovarolo
Overview: Antonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising. Later he marries a jewish woman. He has career ambitions but can not reach them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-16
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The Shortest Day
1963-02-14
The Shortest Day
Overview: Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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Figaro qua... Figaro là
1950-10-12
Figaro qua... Figaro là
Overview: In the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-10-12
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Totò nella fossa dei leoni
1943-05-31
Totò nella fossa dei leoni
Overview: The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst of one of his researches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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Totò Sexy
1963-09-05
Totò Sexy
Overview: Two strange street musicians end up in jail and exchange sexy stories to while away time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-05
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Totò Story
1968-01-01
Totò Story
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Totò cerca moglie
1950-03-15
Totò cerca moglie
Overview: Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-03-15
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Sette ore di guai
1951-10-17
Sette ore di guai
Overview: Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart and rents Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are awaiting for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-17
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Legs of Gold
1958-08-27
Legs of Gold
Overview: Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a triumphant championship, is about to be promoted to Serie C.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-27
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Risate all'italiana
1964-07-15
Risate all'italiana
Overview: A sort of best of popular comedy skits from previous films by various directors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-07-15
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Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
1975-07-14
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
Overview:
Genres: Romance History Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-07-14
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Beautiful Families
1964-12-26
Beautiful Families
Overview: The film's theme is four episodes that offer the public a glimpse into the lives of rich and poor families in Italy in the 1960s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-26
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Rita the American Girl
1965-12-02
Rita the American Girl
Overview: Professor Serafino Benvenuti is a master of classical music who has the passion of the orchestra director. However, the young audience of the 60 does not appreciate classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven, and so Serafino is likely to have compromised his image as a director. One day Serafino receives the news that his adopted daughter Rita is about to return to Italy from America, where she is studying. Serafino is very happy, because at least he can teach her the real music. However, Rita is deeply grown and changed: she follows the musical patterns of her time: the rock music and blues. Serafino gets very angry, especially when he discovers that his daughter falls in love with a young man, a member of a band called "The Rockets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-02
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Man, Beast and Virtue
1953-05-09
Man, Beast and Virtue
Overview: Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-05-09
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The Witches
1967-02-22
The Witches
Overview: Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-22
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Totò e il Principe De Curtis. L'uomo oltre la maschera
2023-10-05
Totò e il Principe De Curtis. L'uomo oltre la maschera
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-10-05
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Una di quelle
1953-10-08
Una di quelle
Overview: Rocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-08
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Il latitante
1967-05-04
Il latitante
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-04
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Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare
1967-06-28
Tutto Totò - Il tuttofare
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-06-28
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Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino
1967-01-01
Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino
Overview: Barnabas, said Don Giovannino, is a true lover of beautiful women. One day he chases a beautiful American in his apartment, taking advantage of the fact that her husband is in Rome for a process.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak
1967-06-07
Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak
Overview: Toto participates in various samples in a study of cinema, first going in a studio where there's shooting a spy movie, then in a western scenario, where he has to play a cruel and uncouth bandit who must challenge him to a duel a cowboy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-06-07
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Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli
1967-06-12
Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-06-12
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Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye
1967-05-31
Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-31
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Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel
1967-01-01
Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Tutto Totò - La scommessa
1967-01-31
Tutto Totò - La scommessa
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-31
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Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
1967-04-10
Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-10
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Latin Lovers
1965-08-11
Latin Lovers
Overview: The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-11
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Variety carousel
1955-02-08
Variety carousel
Overview: A painter gives his daughter a television set for her 18th birthday. On the evening of the party, the family sits in the living room and watches a series of variety shows taken from the sets of theatrical performances and various films recited by the famous Totò,
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-02-08
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Slave Girl
1947-07-17
Slave Girl
Overview: Tongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-17
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How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
2004-09-24
How We Got the Italian Movie Business Into Trouble: The True Story of Franco and Ciccio
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-09-24
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Naples '44
2016-12-15
Naples '44
Overview: A British Intelligence Officer in Naples at the end of World War II: Norman Lewis's acknowledged masterpiece about a war-torn city and its unforgettable humanity.
Genres: War Drama Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-12-15
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Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
2020-04-12
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
Overview:
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-04-12
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021-05-16
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Overview: Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-05-16
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We Are Cinema
2021-12-16
We Are Cinema
Overview: An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-12-16
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The Earth As Seen from the Moon
1967-02-22
The Earth As Seen from the Moon
Overview: Ciancicato Miao and his son, after the death of his wife and mother by mushroom poisoning, are dedicated to find her replacement and have no luck until they find a mysterious deaf mute green-haired woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-22
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What Are the Clouds?
1968-04-12
What Are the Clouds?
Overview: Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-12
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Are We Men or Corporals?
1955-08-26
Are We Men or Corporals?
Overview: These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, suffering the harassment of Colonel Hammler, a Nazi cruel and despotic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-08-26
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Roman Tales
1955-12-21
Roman Tales
Overview: Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-21
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Antologia di Totò
1978-01-01
Antologia di Totò
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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The Anatomy of Love
1954-03-16
The Anatomy of Love
Overview: Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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