Tano Cimarosa
Also Known As: Gaetano Cisco, Gaetano Cimarosa
Biography: Tano Cimarosa, real name Gaetano Cisco, (1 January 1922 – 24 May 2008) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He participated in more than fifty movies. He played the "Blacksmith" in the Oscar-winning film Cinema Paradiso from 1988. He is known to horror film fans for directing Reflections in Black in 1975. Source: Article "Tano Cimarosa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Messina, Sicily, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: January 01, 1922
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 24, 2008
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Cinema Paradiso
Overview: A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-11-17
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Delirium
Overview: A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-07-05
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The Exorciccio
Overview: A satire on the American film "The Exorcist," but with an Italian twist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-27
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May God Forgive You... But I Won't
Overview: While Cjamango is away from his ranch, bandits attack and kill his family. Disrupted by this tragedy, he sets out to take his revenge, helped by a Mexican who has seen the bandits. The writer of the western Cjamango directed this unofficial sequel to Cjamango.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-13
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Boys on the Outside
Overview: Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-09-14
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Overview: A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-27
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Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
Overview: In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find the treasure, each one for himself/herself. What's worse - the only information they have is that the treasure is under a lion - and it's in Leningrad, a city known by its numerous statues of lions. The story gets even more interesting when the soviet militia (police) learns about the whole thing and send an undercover agent...
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1974-01-31
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Police Chief Pepe
Overview: A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a lesbian and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-24
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The Most Beautiful Wife
Overview: A 16-year-old Sicilian becomes the target of a mafia hit man after refusing to go through with her prearranged marriage.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-12
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Acla's Descent into Floristella
Overview: Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by his destitute parents to work in the underground Floristella sulfur mines. Overworked and underfed, Aclà toils from Monday to Saturday in the steamy, candle-lit labyrinths. Repeatedly beaten and abused by his "owner" and with constant threats of being raped, Aclà plots his escape to the sea...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-09-10
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Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Overview: Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which happens to have been designed by Manteghin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-07-05
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L'Anno Mille
Overview: In a story that follows some lives and their respective reincarnations over time, Valerio is a prince in the year one thousand and a doctor of the S.e.r.t. in the year two thousand. Altea on the other hand is a princess, who after a thousand years was reincarnated as a university student who volunteers as a mission and it also operates in the same S.e.r.t.. Their antagonist, in the past as in the present, is a man who was an alchemist and who today is the evil director of the same hospital where the S.e.r.t. is located. of Valerio and Altea. A rather anomalous director, given that he takes advantage of the cover offered by his position to traffic drugs in a big way. A fourth character is added to the three, Herrmugnen, who in the story embodies the mythological figure of the giant hero.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-04-23
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Bootleggers
Overview: A group of gangsters escape from prison and attempt to destroy a rival organisation holed up in a convent in Mexico.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-06
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Crazy Sea
Overview: A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a handsome younger man are amongst the lodgers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-13
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The Eye of the Needle
Overview: Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-14
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Death Hunt
Overview: When his baby daughter is was ran over by a car full of violent criminals her father decides to avenge her death by gorily killing them all one by one.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-20
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The Day of the Owl
Overview: Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-17
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A Man on His Knees
Overview: Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-13
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All Sons of the Saintest Mother
Overview: Two crime families battle for supremacy in 1929 Chicago in this Italian crime spoof. One group, known as the "Sons of Mammasantissima" thereby professes its (ironic) dedication to the Virgin Mother. The other family works undercover from a Salvation Army soup kitchen. Neither family seems capable of accomplishing anything of note until a wily Sicilian arrives on the scene and sorts things out.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-12
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Uomini di parola
Overview: Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1981
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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A Sword to Brando
Overview: In a mediaeval feudal hamlet, young girls are being abducted by a sect of devil-worshipers, all of whose faces are masked by sinister skulls. Brando, the young hero of this film, saves two damsels from the ravages of the sect.
Genres: Horror Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-05-14
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Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone
Overview: Marino Stroppaghetti is a breadwinner in a layoff fund who, in order to make some money, arranges himself by doing small tailoring jobs at home. Desperate for having received the eviction, he turns to the City of Rome, where he discovers that there are as many as 80 thousand questions before his. How to do?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-09-02
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A Pure Formality
Overview: Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-15
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Quattro Delitti: Winchester M2
Overview: Madness and jealousy push a not very attractive young man to plan to kill a friend who, on the contrary, has a lot of luck with women.
Genres: Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-25
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Se sarà luce sarà bellissimo - Moro: Un'altra storia
Overview: The film is the result of a planned trilogy about the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades first announced by director Grimaldi in 2003: shot in the UK on a low budget, the project was never completed because of lack of funding and other issues, and the existing footage from the first two planned installments was condensed into a single movie and released on DVD in 2009.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-12-04
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L'Italia in pigiama
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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Cafè Express
Overview: An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-16
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They Still Call Me Amen
Overview: Chaco and his band of downtrodden men meet Così Sia (Amen), who always seems to get the better of them. He takes on the men with a plan to break into the Bank of Little-hole. For Così Sia, getting the money is not as important as getting his revenge on Reverend Smith, with whom he has a bone to pick.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-24
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The Witches
Overview: Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-22
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How to Kill a Judge
Overview: A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-05
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Suicide Commando
Overview: World War 2 - a British commando squad is tasked with attacking the "secret" German airfield from which German fighters have been attacking bombers which are trying to stop German tanks from reinforcing the D Day defences.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-09
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Be Sick… It's Free
Overview: Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-24
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Man Called Amen
Overview: A very unlikely trio join forces in order to rob a bank: an ex-bandit called Smith, now a cheerful reverend, a nomadic artist and a pickpocket. Their plan is successful, however, and the three make off with the money from the bank's vaults, only to find themselves robbed of their newly-acquired wealth by a young schoolmistress.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-11
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Reflections in Black
Overview: A woman dressed in black is murdering young women. The police question lawyer Anselmi for whom one of the girls worked as a secretary, and it turns out that all the victims were friends of lawyer's wife Leonora.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-03
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L'Italia in pigiama
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-09
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Uomo di rispetto
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-08-28
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The Shatterer
Overview: Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by Sicilian mobsters. This was a co-production between Italy and Japan's Toho Studios.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-13
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Death on High Mountain
Overview: Braddock is an influential and highly respected citizen of the town of Two Arrows. He also represents a group of Mexican outlaws led by Valiente. Braddock plans an important robbery with only two young men, Loring and Parker, standing in the way of the bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-25
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A Girl in Australia
Overview: The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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Una storia qualunque
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-02-05
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Nineties - Part II
Overview: Second scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-06-06
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The Star Maker
Overview: The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-09-21
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Why
Overview: Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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The Saracen Woman
Overview: Montreal, 1904. Giuseppe and Ninetta own a boarding house where they welcome their fellow Sicilians. One day, as he comes to the defence of one of his boarders, Giuseppe accidentally kills Theo, his French Canadian best friend’s son-in-law. This drama depicts the tensions between people from different ethnic backgrounds and their life-changing impact. Based on a true story, 'The Saracen Woman' paints a portrait of Italian immigration to Quebec and the affinities and conflicts that arose from the clash of two different cultures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-02-15
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Gang War in Milan
Overview: A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-21
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The Tall, The Short, The Cat
Overview: Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late woman's money, on the condition that they have to care for her rambuncous pet cat, which is not an easy thing to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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Touch and Go
Overview: North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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Between Miracles
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
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Bread and Chocolate
Overview: An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-05-05
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L'ammazzatina
Overview: Sicilian baron, Mimì Galluzzo, will be able to enjoy the legacy of his deceased father-in-law on two conditions: that his wife accepts the will and that there is a compromising document to be delivered to the mafia. While, however, the precious "dossier" is, in reality, in the hands of an avid widow, Donna Maria, willing to sell it only if Mimi marries her. Rosalba, obsessed with the absence of a child, suddenly goes mad or pretends 'go crazy. Recommended by Donna Maria, of whom he became the lover Don Mimì tries, with the help of his friend Langatta, undertaker, and a nurse in the clinic in which Rosalba was hospitalized, to get rid of his wife. Instead, he finds himself without having reached his goal, involved in an obscure series of crimes that will make him lose his mind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-28
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Two Friends
Overview: Two Sicilian friends, Nunzio and Pino, share the same apartment in Turin. Nunzio works in a factory but is laid off because of his illness. Pino, on the other hand, is a mysterious man and he is always traveling because of his work. Nunzio would very much like to know what his friend is doing for a living but Pino will not tell him. Nunzio spends his free time the best he can in his friend's absences. He ends up falling in love with Maria, a commercial employee, whereas his health condition deteriorates...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-03-20
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The Tough and the Mighty
Overview: Based on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-23
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Frida Professione Menager
Overview: Frida gets married, but is very busy with her job as an engineer, and doesn't have time for her new husband. He then runs away with the flower girl which causes Frida to lose it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata
Overview: Pasqualino Cammarata is an Italian naval officer who has been disliked by his admiral because of his high-level knowledge, given that he is quite incapable as an officer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-14
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The Two Parachutists
Overview: Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from. Afterwards they become big shots in the States but their dream comes to an end : they are sent to fight in Vietnam
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-24
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The Dark Sun
Overview: After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to participate in various crimes commited by the mafia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-02-04
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Italia Village
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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