Biography: Fausto TozziFausto Tozzi (29 October 1921 – 10 December 1978) was an Italian film actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 70 films between 1951 and 1978. He wrote the script for The Defeated Victor, which was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. He also directed one film, Trastevere. Born in Rome, after graduating in accountancy Tozzi made several humble jobs, including peddler and bird taxidermist. He was introduced in the cinema industry by Sergio Amidei, for whom he worked as a stenographer. Through Amidei, Tozzi met Renato Castellani, with whom he collaborated as a screenwriter for Professor, My Son (1946) and Under the Sun of Rome (1948, based on a Tozzi's original story). In the early 1950s, he also started working as an assistant director and as an actor, sometimes being cast in main roles. His typical roles were of hardmen and villains. He was also active on stage, where he is best known for the role of Gnecco in Rugantino, and on television, in which he is well known for his performance as Menelaus in L'Odissea. Tozzi died of respiratory failure, aged 57. Source: Article "Fausto Tozzi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 29, 1921
Deathday: December 10, 1978
Popularity:
1964-02-27
Overview: The British Admiralty is worried: several cargo ships carrying troops have mysteriously jumped off Gibraltar. The Admiralty calls in the Intelligence Service to find out the cause of the destruction before new units arrive. Lieutenant Jackson, of the Marine Infantry Regiment stationed in Gibraltar, spends all his duty time in Tangier, where he is attracted by his love of poker and a beautiful dancer, Lola. Despite the objurgations of his general and the tender friendship of Cathie, his general's daughter, he can't stop playing and loses a very large sum one evening.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-27
Popularity:
1962-10-19
Overview: A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-19
Popularity:
1968-03-24
Overview: Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.
Genres: TV Movie Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-24
Popularity:
1952-10-15
Overview: In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-15
Popularity:
1966-05-30
Overview: A mysterious knife-throwing viking warrior protects a young peasant woman and her young son from the clutches of a evil regent bent on claiming the title of king and the woman for himself.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-05-30
Popularity:
1976-03-30
Overview: A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-30
Popularity:
1970-10-14
Overview: Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by Albine, the beautiful carefree niece of the outspoken atheist Jeanbernat. After Serge and Albine fall in love, Serge recovers his memory and realizes the grave sin he has committed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-14
Popularity:
1974-02-08
Overview: The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-02-08
Popularity:
1965-03-04
Overview: Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-03-04
Popularity:
1976-01-01
Overview: Augusto Valle is a successful young industrialist who weds Palmira, the girl working in his factory, and the two have a child despite the infant's uncertain legitimacy. Scheming to control her husband's fortune, Palmira has affairs with both the mayor and the judge to have Augusto committed to a mental institution. While there, he falls in love with Serafina Vitali, a young woman who was also put away.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
Popularity:
1973-09-14
Overview: Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unwelcome almost everywhere he goes. One day, a young runaway named Jimmy shows up at his door looking for work and a roof over his head. Reluctantly, Chino agrees to take him in and teach him the art of raising, breaking and breeding horses, until the pair finally begin to accept each other.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-14
Popularity:
1969-05-22
Overview: Lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one of Rome's highest paid call-girls.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-22
Popularity:
1957-09-19
Overview: Italian move on the battle of El Alamein
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-09-19
Popularity:
1976-09-14
Overview: The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-14
Popularity:
1974-04-04
Overview: The gangster Tony Aniante in the middle of a feud between two mafia families. He manipulates both families into believing he is on their side and are just waiting for the right moment to take the initiative...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-04
Popularity:
1963-05-10
Overview: Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-10
Popularity:
1956-09-06
Overview: The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But she has to face the jealousy of his violent and morbid father, and the hostility of his stepmother Lucrezia, who has a relationship with her other stepson, James. The stepmother and stepson-lover plan to kill Francesco. And when the latter dies accidentally, they decide to put the blame on Beatrice and Olimpio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-06
Popularity:
1967-03-09
Overview: This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw while protecting his mother, but then turns into a trigger happy killer. When he falls in love he tries with the help of Pat Garrett, a fatherly friend, to change back. However, circumstances force Billy to become violent again and it is Garrett who is credited with the killing.
Genres: Western
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1967-03-09
Popularity:
1951-10-12
Overview: Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-12
Popularity:
1972-12-21
Overview: A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-21
Popularity:
1954-11-30
Overview: The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-11-30
Popularity:
1965-09-16
Overview: During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-16
Popularity:
1955-03-08
Overview: Whistle is an orphaned boy, raised in an environment unsuitable for a budding child and thief. A shady lawyer, an accomplice of thieves and fences, entrusts him to Nino, the leader of a gang that is preparing a particularly valuable coup.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-08
Popularity:
1954-10-30
Overview: After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-30
Popularity:
1952-01-01
Overview: Capodistria, 1915. Captain Nazario Sauro, an officer in the Austrian Navy, is one of those patriots who militate for Italy to enter World War I. When he is about to be arrested by the Austrian authorities he chooses to desert. Once in Venice he enlists in the Italian Navy and becomes an officer in a submarine where his perfect knowledge of the coast of Istria proves particularly helpful. But when his submarine runs aground near the island of Munje, he is captured by the Austrians, sentenced to death for high treason and hanged in 1916.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-01
Popularity:
1961-01-01
Overview: The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".
Genres: Crime Thriller Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-01-01
Popularity:
1979-10-13
Overview: While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-13
Popularity:
1965-04-17
Overview: Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-04-17
Popularity:
1958-08-08
Overview: After the end of World War II, a man comes back to his former fiancée and finds out that she is married to an older man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-08
Popularity:
1959-01-21
Overview: Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves her to escape from the police. Nevertheless, she gives birth to a baby who dies shortly afterwards. Distraught, she steals a parentless child from a maternity hospital. Arrested and tried, she is acquitted, only to find Fausto innocent.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-21
Popularity:
1959-10-29
Overview: In 15th century Romagna rules violence and fright. Cesare Borgia wants to incorporate the duchy of Catherine Sforza. But in between is the independent county Fabis, which he wants to bring into his possession.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-29
Popularity:
1960-10-20
Overview: Argentinian-Italian western features a rancher and landowner who makes a common mistake - he marries the wrong woman, a dazzling showgirl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-20
Popularity:
1954-12-30
Overview: In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-30
Popularity:
1970-12-04
Overview: A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and an avenger, stalking and killing Indians without warning.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-04
Popularity:
1972-01-06
Overview: When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-06
Popularity:
1959-09-03
Overview: A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-09-03
Popularity:
1954-12-27
Overview: As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-27
Popularity:
1961-02-02
Overview: Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-02
Popularity:
1965-09-16
Overview: During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-09-16
Popularity:
1975-09-03
Overview: After a couple of 'special squad' cops are gunned down while chasing some kidnappers, the head of the squad takes it really personally! His violent path to find the kidnappers leads him to the upper echelons of the government. Now, the powers-that-be don't want to be found out and decide it's time to kill one more cop...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-03
Popularity:
1973-03-11
Overview: When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the consequences. Unfortunately the murderers realize that they have been seen, and kill both women. Catching the killers proves difficult as anyone who knows anything dies in unexplained circumstances. It becomes evident that a large and powerful criminal organization is behind the murders, and that they have links within the police force. It is up to Lt. Carmine to see that justice prevails, using any means necessary.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-11
Popularity:
1976-06-15
Overview: A gang of robbers takes possession of a load of diamonds.. Only one of them, Mark Lemmon, is arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. But before being captured, the gangster had managed to hide the loot in a sewer. Five years later, Mackenzie, an insurer, pretending to be a mafia boss, assigns three petty criminals to arrange his escape. Once free, Lemmon finds the booty but now he has to deal with his new 'partners'.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-06-15
Popularity:
1961-07-21
Overview: With her parents away, Anne-Marie drops her studies to spend eight days in Saint-Tropez with her friend Jean-Paul. They are soon caught up in the Saint-Tropez whirlwind. Jean-Paul is seduced by a wealthy woman while Anne-Marie ends up alone with a young man she meets along the way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-07-21
Popularity:
1953-12-09
Overview: A young poacher is wrongly accused of killing the father of the woman he loves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-09
Popularity:
1971-03-19
Overview: Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-19
Popularity:
1970-11-14
Overview: James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-14
Popularity:
1961-10-24
Overview: Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Genres: Action Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-24
Popularity:
1955-04-11
Overview: Rafa, a Communist Republican exiled after the Spanish Civil War, returns to his hometown to carry out an attack against the imposed tyrannical regime, but the mission fails and, in his attempt to escape, he kidnaps a lady of high society.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-04-11
Popularity:
1971-02-25
Overview: During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-25
Popularity:
1973-11-23
Overview: There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-23
Popularity:
1973-05-03
Overview: The Godfather Don Vito Monreale knows, by chance, the Italian-American singer Nick Bouillon. Since the two are alike, Don Vito decided to exploit this similarity in his favour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-05-03
Popularity:
1964-05-06
Overview: Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-06
Popularity:
1971-11-13
Overview: A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-13
Popularity:
1961-10-31
Overview: Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-31
Popularity:
1950-03-23
Overview: This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for displaced women after the end of World War II. Among them, Anna, a Yugoslav, who has seen her husband killed in Trieste by political enemies. She is pregnant and her one and only aim right now is her baby to be born. Janka, a beautiful Polish girl who has lost her mind, is reunited with the physician who sent her to a brothel for Nazi officers. As for Yvonne, a light-hearted French woman, she is prepared to do anything to leave the place, including to marry out with an Albanese ice cream man, despite his unappetizing looks. At least,she will stop being a woman without a name.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-03-23
Popularity:
1955-09-17
Overview: Cosimo de' Bardi is assassinated by a gentleman called the Flemish. Time passes and at some point a masked knight wearing a red cloak enters the scene. He is the son of the killed. These and the Flemish are also rivals in love. In the final duel the Flemish will be eliminated.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-17
Popularity:
1962-11-14
Overview: A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-11-14
Popularity:
1959-04-24
Overview: The changing fortunes of two boxers are explored in this interesting drama by Paolo Heusch, seen from the point of view of the women the boxers love. One of the pugilists is a rookie on the rise and his sister has married the reigning champion. Now the champ is getting older and less able to hold his own against the newcomers -- including his brother-in-law. As his fortunes begin to decline, his wife whom he married while affluent is slowly forced to deal with the difficulties of poverty. This Italian drama was an entry in the 1959 Berlin Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-24
Popularity:
1955-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-01-01
Popularity:
1954-12-01
Overview: The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Genres: History Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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:
1958-06-14
Overview:
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-06-14
Popularity:
1953-01-01
Overview:
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1953-01-01
Popularity:
1955-12-30
Overview:
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-30
Popularity: