Adriano Celentano
Biography: Adriano Celentano (born 6 January 1938) is an Italian musician, singer, composer, actor, and filmmaker. He is dubbed il Molleggiato (the springy one) because of his dancing. Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both commercial and critical success. With 150 million records sold worldwide, he is one of the best-selling Italian musical artists. Often credited as the author of both the music and lyrics of his songs, according to his wife Claudia Mori, some were written in collaboration with others. Due to his prolific career, both in Italy and abroad, he is considered one of the pillars of Italian music. Celentano is recognized for being particularly perceptive of changes in the music business, and is credited for having introduced rock and roll to Italy. As an actor, Celentano has appeared in 39 films, mostly comedies. Celentano was born in Milan at 14 Via Cristoforo Gluck, and this address later became the subject of the famous song "Il ragazzo della via Gluck" ("The boy from Gluck Street"). His parents were from Foggia in Apulia and had moved north for work. His career as a singer started in 1959. Before his debut as an artist he was working as a watchmaker. Heavily influenced by Elvis Presley and the 1950s rock 'n' roll scene as well as by American actor Jerry Lewis, Celentano started playing in a rock and roll band with Giorgio Gaber and Enzo Jannacci. Along with Gaber and Jannacci, he was discovered by Jolly Records A&R Executive Ezio Leoni, who signed him to his first recording contract and co-authored with Celentano some of his greatest early hits, including "24.000 baci", "Il tuo bacio è come un rock", and "Si è spento il Sole". He first appeared on screen in Ragazzi del Juke-Box, a 1959 Italian musical film directed by Lucio Fulci with music by Ezio Leoni. In 1960, Federico Fellini cast him as a rock and roll singer in his film La Dolce Vita. In 1962, Celentano founded the Italian record label Clan Celentano (which is still active) with many performers such as Don Backy, Ola & the Janglers, Ricky Gianco, Katty Line, Gino Santercole, Fred Bongusto and his wife Claudia Mori. As a film director, Celentano frequently cast Ornella Muti, Eleonora Giorgi and his wife Claudia Mori. He and Mori have three children, Rosita, Giacomo and Rosalinda Celentano. Rosalinda is most notable to worldwide audiences for playing Satan in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ. Celentano has also hosted several Italian television shows. Celentano has retained his popularity in Italy for over 50 years, selling millions of records and appearing in numerous TV shows and movies. As part of his TV and movie work, he created a comic genre, with a characteristic walk and facial expressions. For the most part, his films were commercially successful; indeed, in the 1970s and part of the 1980s, his low-budget movies were top of Italian box office rankings. As an actor, critics point to Serafino (1968), directed by Pietro Germi, as his best performance. ... Source: Article "Adriano Celentano" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Birthday: January 06, 1938
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Known For
The Taming of the Scoundrel
1980-12-20
The Taming of the Scoundrel
Overview: A rich farmer is well known for being very unkind. He's misanthropic, misogynous and cantankerous. Until he meets by chance a gorgeous girl...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-12-20
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Madly in Love
1981-12-18
Madly in Love
Overview: Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble intentions get derailed when Barnaba, a zany bus driver enters their lives and falls madly in love with the gorgeous Cristina. He is nuts enough to succeed in this romantic chase after royalty, as love seems to fuel his determination to rid Cristina of her elitism and to make her see his own irrepressible attractions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-12-18
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Loggerheads
1978-09-28
Loggerheads
Overview: A comedy styled as a documentary about the rise of Adolf Hitler as well as the story of two brothers, one a magician and Nazi, the other an anarchist anti Nazi...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-09-28
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The Grumpy
1986-12-20
The Grumpy
Overview: Traveling from New York to Italia, pretty Mary rushes into moody macho lawyer Tito. The girl immediately falls for the guy with the gruffy manners and in an very impertinent way, she leans on him as she gets in trouble: Not only that she gets tied up in her suite by some Gangsters, but also, her new husband is found dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-12-20
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Yuppi Du
1975-03-06
Yuppi Du
Overview: Humble fisherman Felice finds out his first wife faked her suicide in order to run away — and now wants her daughter back.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-06
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Ace
1981-04-09
Ace
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
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Bingo Bongo
1982-12-23
Bingo Bongo
Overview: The ape-man, found somewhere in the jungles of Congo, transferred to Milan and named Bingo Bongo. The only one who believes in the human qualities of him is Laura, a woman anthropologist , so their affection for each other even grows to love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-12-23
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Velvet Hands
1979-12-20
Velvet Hands
Overview: Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries around the world. But this got him lots of enemies too: the insurance agencies, who've lost hundreds of customers, and the burglarers. When he temporarily looses his memory and voice in an accident, of all people, a family of thieves finds and cares for him - believing he's a pocket-picker. Things get complicated when he falls in love with his host Tilli.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-12-20
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The Con Artists
1976-04-15
The Con Artists
Overview: Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that moment on the two will join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicate when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-15
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Grand Hotel Excelsior
1982-10-07
Grand Hotel Excelsior
Overview: Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-10-07
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Saturday, Sunday and Friday
1979-06-06
Saturday, Sunday and Friday
Overview: SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-06-06
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Special Features: Handsome
1983-12-22
Special Features: Handsome
Overview: Forty-something Mattia has every woman in town lusting after him. But every time a woman wants to get hitched, he drags out his 'daughter' (actually the girl next door) to pass judgment on this woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-12-22
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1960
2010-09-05
1960
Overview: By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates an illustration of the economic boom in Italy during the 1960s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-09-05
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The Five Days
1973-12-20
The Five Days
Overview: In 1848 Milan, a thief and a baker witness the chaotic final days of the Italian Revolution.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-20
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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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Here We for Example...
1977-10-28
Here We for Example...
Overview: Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the culprit, a photographer nicknamed 'Click' and takes up residence with him until he either gets his money back or his poetry published.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-28
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Geppo il folle
1978-12-01
Geppo il folle
Overview: Italian rockstar Geppo has to learn English in order to perform with Barbra Streisand in the US, but falls in love with his beautiful female tutor, Gilda.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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Cyber Eden
1992-12-23
Cyber Eden
Overview: Gloria Ruckhauser has a dream: rediscovering the figure and features of herself when she was 20. Convinced that science is getting nowhere in the search for a cure to the aging process, Gloria sets up a foundation whose mission is to find a miracle potion. Various scientists take up the challenge and develop a substance that reverses the biological clock. Now, they face a new challenge. How to stop getting younger before it's too late.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-12-23
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Joan Lui
1985-12-25
Joan Lui
Overview: In a world ravaged by violence, and other serious social problems, Joan - a character that alludes to Christ (which represents the return to Earth) arrives to Italy by train and preaching for the salvation of mankind, condemning the hypocrisy and hedonism.
Genres: Music Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-12-25
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Rugantino
1973-10-25
Rugantino
Overview: A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-25
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Little Funny Guy
1973-04-19
Little Funny Guy
Overview: Movie starts with a small boy watching his father boarding a ship to America. Years later, all grown up and in colour, Pippolo Cavallo (Adriano Celentano) takes the same route (dressed as a woman) to search for his father and begin a new life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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Give Me Five
1980-03-28
Give Me Five
Overview: Two episodes: A roman coachman fulfills the dream of his life and meets the Pope. A priest crazy about dancing wins the first prize in a contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-28
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Robbery Roman Style
1964-12-17
Robbery Roman Style
Overview: After scoring big in a high-profile bank robbery, a gang of Milanese criminals has to hide in a monastery.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-17
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Serafino
1968-12-17
Serafino
Overview: Serafino, a young and innocent shepherd, inherits a huge fortune. He immediately starts spending the entire sum on presents for his friends, causing the envy of his family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-17
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The Story of Romance and Knife
1971-09-18
The Story of Romance and Knife
Overview: The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-18
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Sing Sing
1983-10-15
Sing Sing
Overview: Eduardo accidentally discovers that he is adopted. His real father is dying, but before his death he said that his mother was the "Queen of England", failing to clarify that this is the nickname of Italian prostitute. But Eduardo is already rushing to the capital of England...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-15
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The Strange Type
1963-02-28
The Strange Type
Overview: Peppino, a slow-witted local villager of the Italian resort town of Amalfi, is bribed to impersonate famed rock and roll star Adriano Celentano for autographs and personal appearances. While Celentano tries to romance Emanuela Mazzolani, the daughter of a well-to-do resident who dissaproves of the union between his daughter and the man he thinks of as a "punk", Peppino, unaware of the true nature of his job to impersonate Celentano, tries to deal with his girlfriend's newborn baby which gets switched around between him and Celentano.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-28
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He's Worse than Me
1985-02-21
He's Worse than Me
Overview: Two reckless friends Leonardo (Adriano Celentano) and Luciano (Renato Potstsetto) are just doing whatever they want and getting into endless alterations. When one of them decides to marry, their friendship is in a crisis ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-02-21
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Di che segno sei?
1975-10-23
Di che segno sei?
Overview: Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a partner for a dance contest. A worker seduce his boss wife. A guard is too much proactive and this will cause many troubles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-23
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Howlers of the Dock
1960-03-13
Howlers of the Dock
Overview: Follows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire jiving from some of Rome's citizens, and bitter complants from others which inspire a group of corrupt officials determined to a bring the group down.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-13
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Go, Johnny, Go!
1959-06-01
Go, Johnny, Go!
Overview: Rock-n-roll promoter Alan Freed holds a talent search to develop a new rock star, then must find the elusive, mystery contestant (Jimmy Clanton) who doesn't know he has won.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-01
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La più bella coppia del mondo
1968-01-26
La più bella coppia del mondo
Overview: Walter and Paola, presenter and godmother of the sixth Cantagiro, are involved in a misunderstanding: to dismiss a suitor, the presenter pretends to be married to Quattrini.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-26
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La locandiera
1980-10-02
La locandiera
Overview: The innkeeper Mirandolina is a beautiful girl, and for her beauty the Count of Albafiorita and the Marquis of Forlimpopoli fall in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-10-02
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La colère
1962-03-07
La colère
Overview: Anger seizes a man who finds a fly in his Sunday soup. It spreads through his neighborhood, his city, his country and soon the whole world. (Segment of "Les sept péchés capitaux")
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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The Seven Deadly Sins
1962-03-07
The Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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I Kiss... You Kiss
1961-03-09
I Kiss... You Kiss
Overview: Adolfo Cocchi has a building firm but his plan to build a set of buildings is been stopped by an old former Garibaldian, Don Leopoldo, who refuses to sell his property. A group of young people go to his house to play and sing. Marcella, Cocchi's daughter, who has a beautiful voice, goes to visit Leopoldo and falls in love with Paolo. They have an idea: open a night-club called "Io bacio... tu baci"...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-09
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Hey, Let's Twist!
1961-12-31
Hey, Let's Twist!
Overview: Film about the creation of New York's famous Peppermint Lounge, where the Twist became a dance craze.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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Lunatics and Lovers
1976-05-29
Lunatics and Lovers
Overview: The family of a wealthy nobleman tries to take away his land away after learning that he is having an affair with an imaginary woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-29
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Malamondo
1964-04-30
Malamondo
Overview: This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hot-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a graveyard.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-04-30
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White Sister
1972-03-31
White Sister
Overview: A strange love story between a devoted young nun and a young Marxist determined to help run the hospital wards where the nun is the head nurse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-31
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L'altra metà del cielo
1977-03-04
L'altra metà del cielo
Overview: Don Vincenzo, a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-03-04
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Sanremo - La grande sfida
1960-11-13
Sanremo - La grande sfida
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-13
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Noi che abbiamo fatto la dolce vita
2009-08-08
Noi che abbiamo fatto la dolce vita
Overview: A documentary about Federico Fellini's cinematic masterpiece.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-08-08
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Juke Box - Screams of Love
1959-11-28
Juke Box - Screams of Love
Overview: After serving a conviction for fraud Mario tries to continue with his life and promises Marisa to marry her...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-28
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The Jukebox Kids
1959-08-13
The Jukebox Kids
Overview: When a promising record company president is arrested, his daughter takes over his company to promote her own rock and roll music by promoting various young singers.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-13
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La Dolce Vita
1960-02-05
La Dolce Vita
Overview: Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-05
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