Lauro Gazzolo
Also Known As: Ilario Gazzolo, Лауро Гаццоло
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Genova, Italy
Birthday: October 15, 1900
Deathday: October 02, 1970
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Alina
Overview: A woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-08-06
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Il bacio del sole
Overview: The story of homeless boys on the streets of Naples and of a priest who uses unusual methods to try to help them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-07
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Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-08-20
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L'ispettore Vargas
Overview: A detective investigates on the death of a factory owner.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-10-18
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Headlights in the Fog
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-02-15
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L'attore scomparso
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-06-02
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Four Steps in the Clouds
Overview: A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-12-24
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L'uomo dal guanto grigio
Overview: A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-11-11
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Scorned Flesh
Overview: A sailor, Paolo, falls in love with a girl named Luisa. The two decides to get married, but on the day of the marriage the woman is involved in a serious car accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-04-14
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Mare
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-05-19
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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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The Devil's Daughter
Overview: Garibaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to be a patriot who has returned to Italy to take part in the fight but a degraded Bourbon official who has been promised rehabilitation if he can succeed as a spy. Tucci discovers old Sereni's second wife is one of his former lovers and persuades her to murder her husband so as to gain his inheritance. She does indeed cause the count to die, by withholding his heart medicine, but not before he destroys his will.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-27
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The Betrothed
Overview: Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before being reunited and being able to marry.
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-12-19
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The Rose Of Baghdad
Overview: Princess Zeila, daughter of Caliph Oman III, is preparing to review the nobles who aspire to her hand. The sinister Prince Jafar plots in the shadows: the young musician Amin will see to it that love can triumph, with the help of the Genie of the Lamp.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-12-22
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House of Ricordi
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
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House of Ricordi
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
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Mid-Century Loves
Overview: Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-18
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The Lovers of Manon Lescaut
Overview: In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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L'innocente Casimiro
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-10-07
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Sambo
Overview: A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of chance. Sent a messenger to Brazil to gamble, the two men go wild and run up debts. When they realize they have won nothing, they initially fall into total despair; however the coachman had played a coupon from the football pools on his own account. He will win and make things right.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Pinocchio
Overview: The film was directed by Giuliano Cenci with assistance from his brother Renzo. During production, Carlo Collodis grandchildren Mario and Antonio Lorenzini were consulted. The subtle movements made by fidgeting children whilst speaking or under scrutiny were incorporated into Pinocchios movements, particularly when he lies to the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair over the fate of his gold coins. For the design of the Fairy, Italian portrayals of the Blessed Virgin Mary in art were used as starting points.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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The House of Intrigue
Overview: A radio operator for the British Army is captured in a Nazi-occupied Dutch city.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-11-30
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Casta diva
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
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Vietato ai minorenni
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-03-02
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Notte di fiamme
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-01-01
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Cose dell'altro mondo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Beyond Love
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1940
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-10
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Blood Feud
Overview: An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in person, he hired his former employee who needs money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-11
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Scandalo per bene
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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Un figlio d'oggi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Enrico IV
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-11-26
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Lettere al sottotenente
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-10-09
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I, His Father
Overview: An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Ai vostri ordini, signora...
Overview: The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend. Then things change and the two fake boyfriends discover that they are really in love with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-02-15
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Fiamme sulla laguna
Overview: After the death of his father, Anna starts working in the navy where he falls in love with a navy man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-06-20
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Down with Misery!
Overview: The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-12-27
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First Communion
Overview: The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-29
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The Jester's Supper
Overview: In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-02-10
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Noi siamo le colonne
Overview: The adventures of three university students who live in the same boarding house. Ugo, the most serious one, is in love with Lea, daughter of the lodger. Aldo is a practical joker, Bartolozzi is the shiest. Ugo and Lea's love story becomes stormy because of Aldo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-29
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Io sono la Primula Rossa
Overview: Comedy with Renato Rascel
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-20
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Adventure in the city
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Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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The Taming of the Shrew
Overview: A modern retelling of The Taming of the Shrew shot in wartime Italy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Il tallone di Achille
Overview: Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-08-18
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Adorable and Lying
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-07
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Il mondo vuole così
Overview: Accused of having stolen 3 million liras, a bank employee serves five years in prison. Having served his sentence and believed to be rich, he was showered with care and attention by everyone, even his wife. When the real perpetrator of the theft is found, he is despised and mocked. Then he actually steals some money and runs away with his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Poppy
Overview: A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-05-03
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Incatenata dal destino
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-02-24
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Imputato, alzatevi!
Overview: Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-10-18
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La ladra
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
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Sul ponte dei sospiri
Overview: Coming of age, a girl is told the truth about her dead father: he is alive, but imprisoned for several crimes he did not commit... With the help of an old noble lady and a young count (who doubles as a daring sea captain), she will fight for the truth, and justice. Her opponent is the State Town's Inquisitor himself, who set her father's up to escape his own crimes.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-08-21
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Past Lovers
Overview: Past Lovers (Italian: Amanti del passato) is a 1953 Italian melodrama film that was directed by Adelchi Bianchi and starring Lia Amanda, Vittorio Sanipoli and Irene Genna.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Montevergine
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1939
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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La resa di Titì
Overview: A young diplomat falls in love with a lady he has followed in the street and in order to establish a relationship, he introduces her into her house proposing a connection between Titì, the lady's dog and her Pekingese. The husband of the woman, somewhat naive, lends itself to the game and the dongiovanni becomes a regular home. The lady knows how to resist the siege and, after the critical moment, speaks clearly to the young man who definitively desists from the enterprise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-14
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A Hundred Thousand Dollars
Overview: On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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Pia de' Tolomei
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-09-15
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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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Soltanto un bacio
Overview: Italian film from 1942.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-05-14
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Tomorrow Is Too Late
Overview: Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with one another and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-21
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Peddlin' in Society
Overview: Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She also becomes involved with some very dubious characters who profit from her ignorance and cheat her out of her money.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-12-21
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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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Siamo tutti inquilini
Overview: Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Goha
Overview: As far as can be determined, Goha was Tunisia's first entry in the Cannes Film Festival. Omar Sharif stars as a naïve young man who is taken for granted by friends and family. Little do they know that he has more intelligence, tenacity and imagination than all of them put together. The story takes an unexpectedly dramatic turn when the man falls in love with the young wife of his village's elderly "wise man". Based on an ancient Tunisian folk tale, Goha boasts impressive production values and sure-handed direction (by Jacques Baratier).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-06
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The Woman's Confidant
Overview: A veterinarian in Figarolo, Giuliano Goberti has also been providing care to the villagers since the death of Dr. Lofal, but the arrival of a luscious replacement for the vacant doctor precipitates events. While she prescribes drugs, Giuliano orders the bedridden Countess to eat well and exercise. A Roman journalist reports on the miraculous results. Soon the quiet little Italian town is invaded by a motley crew of imaginary patients, who have to bring an animal with them to save the vet from trouble for practicing medicine illegally. In the end, the brave Giuliano marries the lovely doctoress, thus curing their celibacy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-06-20
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Cortocircuito
Overview: Early giallo directed by Giacomo Gentilomo.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-04-06
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The Sky Is Red
Overview: Daniele, a 16 year old boy, runs away from boarding school after a catastrophic bombing, only to find his home destroyed and his parents dead. Alone in the world he meets Tullio, a disbanded boy who lives in an abandoned area with some girls, Carla, an eighteen year old girl who works as a prostitute, Giulia, younger and sick of tuberculosis, and a girl, Maria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-03-15
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High Time
Overview: The historic clock of a small town needs to be repaired but there is no money in the town coffers to pay for it. Don Paolo (Peppino Spadaro), the Priest, raises the money by lottery and thinks the surplus should go to the poor. The Communists and Socialists object because they are afraid the priest will get the credit and they claim it as "the people's money." The democratic mayor (Arturo Brogaglia) can think of no solution other than organizing committees and sub-committees. Finally, Rocchetti (Paola Stoppi), the town mechanic who has no answers for town problems and hates the clergy and politicians alike, comes forward and repairs the clock for the sheer joy of work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-04-12
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In cerca di felicità
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-02-18
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Le modelle di via Margutta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-05-16
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Il romanzo della mia vita
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Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-18
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The Age of Indiscretion
Overview: In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-08-23
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Eternal Melody
Overview: The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-12-03
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Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto
Overview: Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai and Lamberto Picasso. Nazzari portrays the painter Caravaggio as a wayward genius. It was one of his favourite screen roles.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-06-02
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Pellegrini d'amore
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-30
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The Gorgon
Overview: 1017 AD. The Republic of Pisa is organizing a fleet to drive out the Saracens who are infesting the Mediterranean. While the forces are away "The Gorgon," the young daughter of a Pisan nobleman who has been heroically killed, comes to be solemnly invested as the figurehead virgin who will maintain a lantern to celebrate the men's victorious return. In charge of the home guard is an ambitious young Florentine who feels deprived of the forthcoming honour and glory, and who seeks revenge by violating the sacred person of the virgin. He gains access to her well guarded quarters, but when the Gorgon falls helplessly in love with him, his desire for vengeance falls away. His plot exposed, he commits suicide rather than invoke the wrath of the Pisans. The Gorgon too takes her life by throwing herself from a high tower. Meanwhile, the victorious Pisan vessels return.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-10-12
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Sucedió en Damasco
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1943-01-14
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Saranno uomini
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-03-23
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The Woman Who Invented Love
Overview: The Woman Who Invented Love (Italian: La donna che inventò l'amore) is a 1952 Italian historical melodrama film
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-08-02
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It Happened Between Bars
Overview: A man turns to a life of crime after his mother's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-29
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Le vie del peccato
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-10-19
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Ha da venì... don Calogero!
Overview: A good-natured priest inherits a large sum of money from a former student at his elementary school and must decide wisely on how to use it best.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-04
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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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Un marito in condominio
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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