Biography: Renato Salvatori (20 March 1934 – 27 March 1988) was an Italian multi-purpose character actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Renato Salvatori, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 20, 1933
Deathday: March 27, 1988
Popularity:
1969-02-26
Overview: Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. A thinly veiled dramatization of the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis and its aftermath, “Z” captures the outrage at the US-backed junta that ruled Greece at the time of its release.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-26
Popularity:
1976-04-20
Overview: Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-04-20
Popularity:
1979-08-29
Overview: While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-29
Popularity:
1959-09-23
Overview: Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-09-23
Popularity:
1973-05-30
Overview: The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-30
Popularity:
1960-10-07
Overview: When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-07
Popularity:
1958-07-26
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
Popularity:
1975-10-01
Overview: The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-01
Popularity:
1971-10-27
Overview: In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-27
Popularity:
1981-10-01
Overview: The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-10-01
Popularity:
1980-04-18
Overview: An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-04-18
Popularity:
1959-06-18
Overview: Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-18
Popularity:
1969-12-21
Overview: The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-21
Popularity:
1957-01-23
Overview: Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-01-23
Popularity:
1976-02-12
Overview: A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-12
Popularity:
1981-04-09
Overview: Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the "final" game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-04-09
Popularity:
1958-11-20
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
Popularity:
1957-08-29
Overview: Raffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He immediately goes to Pollena to be beside her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-08-29
Popularity:
1972-10-18
Overview: In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-18
Popularity:
1963-09-01
Overview: An alien takes over the body of a factory worker in order to learn about Earth so his race can take it over.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-01
Popularity:
1980-04-12
Overview: Oppressed by her husband, her lover, and her obsessive mother, a bourgeois woman is reunited with a childhood companion at the central train station in Milan. Throughout 24 hours there, she will experience her particular descent into hell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-04-12
Popularity:
1977-03-16
Overview: After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-16
Popularity:
1963-10-25
Overview: In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-25
Popularity:
1957-12-20
Overview: Romolo and Salvatore look for jobs to impress their girlfriends, but things get complicated when their old flame Giovanna reappears.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-20
Popularity:
1967-05-11
Overview: William Berger and his wife Carol are the protagonists of this silent film, in which bodies come to the fore and the gaze becomes obsessive.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-11
Popularity:
1971-07-16
Overview: Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-16
Popularity:
1972-12-30
Overview: Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-30
Popularity:
1952-02-01
Overview: Three gorgeous seamstresses meet on the historic steps of the Piazza de Spagna in Rome to discuss one another's love lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-02-01
Popularity:
1973-07-21
Overview: Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-07-21
Popularity:
1952-10-16
Overview: The castle of the counts of Ventimiglia is conquered by the spanish Van Gould, who kills the count and sends his three sons in the Antilles. The ship is attacked by pirates and the three brothers are liberated. They decide to join the pirates to have revenge on Van Gould, who has also moved to the Antilles on the command of the viceroy.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-16
Popularity:
1975-12-05
Overview: Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-05
Popularity:
1960-10-07
Overview: In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-07
Popularity:
1975-02-21
Overview: Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-21
Popularity:
1953-01-25
Overview: In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-25
Popularity:
1953-11-06
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-06
Popularity:
1966-11-23
Overview: A young man is chosen by a magazine company to be a modeled into a public heart-throb while being dogged by a persistant reporter out to expose the fraud the company is putting out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-11-23
Popularity:
1958-11-26
Overview: Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny instead is married to a ugly woman. Ornella is Bruno's wife, she is very jealous and maintains that all men are deceitful, granted the opportunity, while Claudine, Federico's wife, maintains the contrary point of view. So they bet that Tosca, a former dancer, will succeed in seducing Federico.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-26
Popularity:
1961-09-05
Overview: September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-05
Popularity:
1957-03-19
Overview: For the 17-year-old Mariza, there is no other house than the train station in Civitavecchia. Here, an orphaned girl lives early after the death of her father, a railwayman; here she earns additionally at the station buffet, selling ice cream to passengers of passing trains. Beautiful and brisk, she was accustomed to the admiration of others and perfectly mastered the art of coquetry, but Marise’s heart remains calm until the young sailor Angelo, who is in a hurry on her first voyage, leaves the train on the platform on a sunny Sunday morning.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-03-19
Popularity:
1960-12-22
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
Popularity:
1953-02-05
Overview: Collected at the age of two, under extreme conditions, by a company of Gypsies, Jolly grew up among them, together with the man who accompanied her.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-02-05
Popularity:
1963-02-01
Overview: Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-02-01
Popularity:
1958-03-20
Overview: In 1950s Naples, a couple struggles to be together against the will of the mother-in-law. In the end, not only will they be together, but the mother-in-law-to-be, a widow, finds love as well.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-20
Popularity:
1969-06-25
Overview: A story where the Cristero Rebellion creates a story of love, passion, and betrayal. When the Federal Rosas and his lover arrive in a town, a local woman feels strangely attracted to him. The woman will surrender under the pretext that the population is liberated when in reality she wants to consummate the passion that ignites her.
Genres: Drama War Action History
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-06-25
Popularity:
1976-04-30
Overview: Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-30
Popularity:
1959-01-29
Overview: A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-01-29
Popularity:
1967-07-12
Overview: Before the three feature films, Mario Schifano directs the camera towards the people around him to create real film diaries. His friends, his time partner and the artists he frequented are portrayed in their everyday life or object of the mechanical gaze of the camera, a filter through which to look at the outside world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-12
Popularity:
1962-10-04
Overview: An ambitious Italian attorney has his flight delayed in Los Angeles. The vapid lawyer goes to some parties with some Italians living there and has a brief affair with a beautiful Italian expatriate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-04
Popularity:
1958-07-07
Overview:
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-07-07
Popularity:
1967-04-13
Overview: Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married, but he drowns while bathing in the river. From that moment the woman is unable to love anyone else because, at the most beautiful, the ghost of her fiancé appears to her who, in the end, will be able to be followed in the other world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-13
Popularity:
1959-05-02
Overview: After a series of misunderstandings and other unfortunate incidents, the honeymoon of two young couples ends sooner than planned. Back at their starting point, the ensuing conflict leads to one of the couples separating. Salvatore, who moves away, is hit in the street by a car and loses his memory: he has lost his memories of his friends and family - until he meets his wife Marisa, in which he falls in love again ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-05-02
Popularity:
1964-10-08
Overview: Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-08
Popularity:
1957-01-01
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-01-01
Popularity:
1954-02-26
Overview: Following the death of his wife in unclear circumstances, the mechanic Egisto Bianchi is accused of auxoricide. A journalist begins to take care of the case and ignites public interest with a successful press campaign. The accused is acquitted for lack of evidence, but the reporter thinks he can still take advantage of the case by making a film of it. He then convinces some filmmakers to draw from the episode the subject of a film in which Bianchi himself will be the protagonist. During the filming, the reporter discovers that Bianchi's wife was cheating on her husband. So he then decides to modify the film script, including adultery, and to be able to shoot without problems he makes Bianchi go away. But he returns and, unseen, witnesses the new scenes of the film in the cinema of the country. Bianchi convinced that adultery is an invention, protests for the change, but the journalist reveals the truth to him, bringing the story to a dramatic ending.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-26
Popularity:
1956-12-20
Overview: The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-20
Popularity:
1957-12-18
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
Popularity:
1973-01-25
Overview: The premise deals with a family living in a country-house which turns out to be 'alive' – to the point where a TV crew is brought in to 'capture' the paranormal phenomena
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-25
Popularity:
1962-09-08
Overview: Based on the misdeeds of the criminal group headed by Paolo Casaroli, who were dedicated to robbing banks.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-08
Popularity:
1963-07-08
Overview: Samuel finances his participation in a card game by stealing parts from a jeep. He cheats at cards, and has his hands broken as a consequence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-07-08
Popularity:
1967-10-06
Overview: A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-10-06
Popularity:
1962-03-16
Overview: Study of 1960s Milanese social life and its glamorous depravity, as seen through the story of the working class Mario who dreams of social climbing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-16
Popularity:
1959-01-01
Overview: Antonio Spagara, a young Sicilian worker, has been assigned by the Mafia to murder a nobleman, Marquis Macri. But at the last minute Antonio reneges on his commitment and instead of killing the father, he flees to Palermo with Grazia, his daughter. Life is not a bed of roses in the Sicilian capital, as the young man must impose himself to face his godfather and Grazia's despotic sister Dorotea. To make matters worse, the Mafia is not going to tolerate Antonio's desertion...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-01-01
Popularity:
1976-03-11
Overview: Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and who love to live dangerously.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-11
Popularity:
1959-12-19
Overview: The usual gang of robbers are hired by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will hinder the success of the operation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-19
Popularity:
1965-05-24
Overview: In the figure of Ettore Zambrini, a small industrialist with a dream of opening a factory overlooking the Autostrada del Sole, Montaldo offers us an effective narrative transposition of the 'animal spirits' that governed the economic boom in Italy at the time. He is a character of contradictory humanity: capable of handling business, overdue bills, trade union relations, marital betrayal, but also the passion that binds him to his wife with equal unscrupulousness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-05-24
Popularity:
1959-03-18
Overview: Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Policarpo, and falls in love with her. Policarpo sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to be a count, sees with very bad eyes that his son meets a girl from such a different social position, and does just the opposite. But the efforts made by both parties will be of no use, since Celeste has fallen in love with Mario Marquetti, a "specialized mechanic" (typist) who is giving private lessons in the offices of the businessman Franquinet .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-18
Popularity:
1964-12-24
Overview: Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-24
Popularity:
1979-01-12
Overview: Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-12
Popularity:
1963-02-14
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
Popularity: