Armando Francioli
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 21, 1919
Deathday: April 06, 2020
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C'è sempre un ma!
1943-05-26
C'è sempre un ma!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-05-26
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Queen Margot
1954-11-25
Queen Margot
Overview: Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the League and the Huguenots. In fact, it was an opportunity to bring all the Huguenots to Paris and kill them all at once. King Charles IX fails in his attempt on Coligny's life. Queen Margot tries to save her husband from the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre by preventing the annulment of his marriage, forcing Henri to share her bed. Two knights from opposing camps are wounded and, saved în extremis, are hidden together by the queen and her cousin. Margot falls in love with one of them, but has to run to warn her husband of a new attack and cannot prevent the two knights from being beheaded.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-25
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Traviata 53
1953-10-07
Traviata 53
Overview: An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-07
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Wife for a Night
1952-07-12
Wife for a Night
Overview: A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-07-12
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Rome 11:00
1952-02-27
Rome 11:00
Overview: The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-02-27
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Il prigioniero del re
1954-07-29
Il prigioniero del re
Overview: Giorgio Venturini's take on the classic "Man in the Iron Mask" story.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-07-29
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Beauties in Capri
1951-11-10
Beauties in Capri
Overview: The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-10
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Fumeria d’oppio
1947-09-05
Fumeria d’oppio
Overview: A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate protests of his sister arouse the compassion of Za la Mort, who promises to help the girl.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-09-05
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The Mark of Kriminal
1968-09-14
The Mark of Kriminal
Overview: The bandit Kriminal by pure chance finds a fragment of a map in an old porcelain statue indicating the location of two precious paintings hidden by a notorious outlaw before he was executed. Kriminal immediately begins searching for the three other statuettes, similar to the one in their possession, containing the fragments needed to complete the map .
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-09-14
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Milady and the Musketeers
1952-10-22
Milady and the Musketeers
Overview: Very stylish Italian swashbuckler - The Three Musketeers from the viewpoint of Milady de Winter
Genres: Drama History Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-22
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The Hawk of the Caribbean
1962-01-01
The Hawk of the Caribbean
Overview: In the mid-1500s, a ship containing Spanish prisoners being sent to a Spanish penal colony in the Caribbean sinks at sea, but some of the prisoners manage to survive and make it to shore at a nearby island. They organize themselves under the leadership of Juan Olivares (dynamically played by charismatic singer-actor Johnny Desmond), manage to take over a ship with some cargo that they barter for supplies, and eventually are asked to fight on behalf of the Spanish crown against the English... or is the request sincere?
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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The Pharaohs' Woman
1960-12-10
The Pharaohs' Woman
Overview: A beautiful girl and a young physician fall in love in the midst of a family, and power struggle between rival princes of Upper and Lower Egypt. When all seems to turn to the better, a dejected woman gets her revenge, and the couple's destruction.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-10
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Paolo e Francesca
1950-02-28
Paolo e Francesca
Overview: The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta. Francesca is married to Paolo's brother, Gianciotto an old and crippled man and secretly Paolo's mistress. When Gianciotto finds out tragedy ensues.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-02-28
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Rebecca (La prima moglie)
1969-08-26
Rebecca (La prima moglie)
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-08-26
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Don Cesare of Bazan
1942-10-04
Don Cesare of Bazan
Overview: In Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched against the king by the French ambassador.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-10-04
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Farewell, My Beautiful Lady!
1953-10-16
Farewell, My Beautiful Lady!
Overview: Guido and Cristina fall in love, but she is betrothed to a solider. When he is reported killed they hope to marry, but his reappearance without his limbs makes matters difficult for all concerned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-16
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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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Stubborn Fate
1992-05-28
Stubborn Fate
Overview: Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-05-28
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Berlin '39
1993-06-24
Berlin '39
Overview: A German officer is forced to marry Louise, daughter of a general, hero of the First World War. But Louise maintains lesbian relationships with Margo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-06-24
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Il piccolo vetraio
1955-11-28
Il piccolo vetraio
Overview: A poor fisherman entrusts his children Piero and Nino for money to the Frenchman Neroni who recruits young men to work in his glass factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-11-28
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Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?
1971-04-15
Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?
Overview: Roger Blanchard has a busy life. On the family side, he is married and has two children, aged ten and fifteen. On the work side, he holds an important position at the Ministry of Culture. To bolster his social status, he has a mistress to liven up his Saturdays. But nothing is going right. His wife Marion exasperates him, his children irritate him, his job gives him no real satisfaction, his mistress neglects him and his superior, Monsieur Gambaud, gets on his nerves. But when he meets a beautiful young secretary, his life and habits are turned upside down: Blanchard amuses him and gets his way. In revenge, Gambaud warns Blanchard's wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-15
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On Asphalt at Full Speed!
1970-08-08
On Asphalt at Full Speed!
Overview: Italian racing film
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-08
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The Glorious Avenger
1953-04-24
The Glorious Avenger
Overview: Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge is an Italian adventure film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-24
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I Piombi di Venezia
1953-02-10
I Piombi di Venezia
Overview: An Italian historical melodrama
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-02-10
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The Merchant of Venice
1953-07-12
The Merchant of Venice
Overview: A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-12
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All for the Moral Majority!
1984-12-19
All for the Moral Majority!
Overview: The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-12-19
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Tower of Screaming Virgins
1968-09-01
Tower of Screaming Virgins
Overview: King's swordsman Captain Buridan, hero of the Flanders campaign, returns to Paris to find it in a grip of fear -a "vampire/witch" in the "Tower of Sin" is luring young men to their deaths by offering them a night of sexual ecstasy followed by savage slaughter. Buridan is holding secrets of his own and his battle to save France from an evil Chancellor, an impotent King and a lascivious, wanton Queen make the battlefields of war seem like child's play.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1968-09-01
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The Man From Mykonos
1966-07-13
The Man From Mykonos
Overview: In Belgium, Silvio Donati, a young painter, meets Dorothée Yanakov, a rich woman, older than him. Tempted by her money, Silvio marries her. After a time, while in Mykonos for business, Silvio comes across Pascale, his former mistress. Soon, their flame is rekindled and Dorothée instantly becomes a disturbance. The only way out for Silvio is to get rid of his wife...
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-07-13
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Double Cross
1951-04-10
Double Cross
Overview: A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-04-10
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Due soldi di felicità
1955-03-01
Due soldi di felicità
Overview: A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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The Horse
1970-02-22
The Horse
Overview: Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-02-22
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Aquila Nera
1946-09-21
Aquila Nera
Overview: An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-09-21
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Figaro, il barbiere di Siviglia
1955-07-29
Figaro, il barbiere di Siviglia
Overview: Cinematic version of Rossini's opera in which Count Almaviva wins the heart of beautiful Rosina with the help of Figaro, the barber of Seville.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-07-29
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Se vincessi cento milioni
1953-12-01
Se vincessi cento milioni
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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