Vivi Gioi
Also Known As: Виви Джой
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Livorno, Italy
Birthday: January 02, 1917
Deathday: July 12, 1975
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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Bionda sottochiave
Overview: A famous American director is looking for a special type of girl he needs to play in his next film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-06-18
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Tutta la città canta
Overview: A shy and oppressed professor inherits a musical theater show, so he has the opportunity to change is life and find the real love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-08-15
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Mister Max
Overview: Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-11-13
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The Verona Trial
Overview: This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her husband by fanatics of her father.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-02
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Rice Girl
Overview: The 19-year-old Elena, who is as pretty as she is bright, works as a rice girl for the landlord Guerrini. Having become aware of her name, he finds out that she is his illegitimate daughter of whom he knew nothing. He tries to secretly help Elena, who has fallen in love with the car mechanic Gianni. But that only creates mistrust. When Guerrini's worthless nephew harasses the girl, the situation is dramatically worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-01-27
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But It's Nothing Serious
Overview: Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more appealing wife than any of the others could have been. Assis Noris decorates the screen well as one of the chasers and pursuers. In 1937, De Sica and Noris made a film, "II Signor Max," which, other than the setting and character role names, basically has the same plot as this film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-04-01
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People Like That
Overview: A respectable small town in Lombardy, whose inhabitants live peacefully together with smugglers, is disturbed by the arrival of an independent female teacher. She falls in love with a smuggler and elopes with him to Milan; she becomes pregnant and returns to the town. He is mortally wounded by the frontier guards and they get married just before he dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-01-05
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Kill the Wicked!
Overview: A robber decides to hide his loot in a ghost town, helped by his girlfriend and his one remaining man. Keeping it though may be a problem, with the lone inhabitant, an old lady, a mysterious stranger, a recent widow and a former gang member all more or less plotting against the bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-15
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1000 km per minute!
Overview: Guido Renzi and his lawyer friend chase a beautiful girl to return a purse that he lost and after a long drive in the car reach the laboratory of an improvised astrophysicist - the girl's father - who, together with another scientist, is about to take off in the direction of Mars aboard a missile.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-12-21
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Frenesia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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Harlem
Overview: This propaganda film was partly inspired by the story of the first Italian heavyweight champion Primo Carnera who, after winning the title with Al Capone’s help in 1933, was beaten the following year by the Jewish Max Bear and then again by the ‘Brown Bomber’ Detroit Joe Lewis in June 1935, on the eve of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. This match provoked numerous racial skirmishes on the streets of Harlem between the Black community and pro-Fascist Italian-Americans. The film overturns historical facts and here, obviously, it is the white boxer who wins in order to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan Italians” over the “sinister Jewish entrepreneurs” and the “savage Afro-American fans in Yankee Stadium”. In the film, these were played by South African prisoners-of-war interred in a work camp, which the German and Italian propaganda ministries had set up near Cinecittà “for cinematic purposes”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-04-21
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Dopo divorzieremo
Overview: Grace Peterson works in department stores "Tutto per Tutti", along with many other young people. His employment contract entitling them to live in a boarding house built specifically for them by the company but on the other hand, forbid them not fall in love or marry under threat of dismissal. Still, Grace falls for Phil Golder, a violinist penniless. The director of the residence will notice and the best friend of the girl impersonate violinist girlfriend to try to save Grace dismissal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-09-21
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Red Roses
Overview: A comedy of errors about marriage and infidelity. Vittorio De Sica's debut film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-04-16
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Tragic Hunt
Overview: Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovanna and the accountant of an agricultural cooperative charged with bringing four million lire into office.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-04
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La portatrice di pane
Overview: France, 1860. A young widow is wrongly accused of murder and, after serving many years in prison, she escapes to find the real culprit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-13
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The Earth Cries Out
Overview: Two Jews and their former British comrade land on opposite sides of the Palestine issue following World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-08-30
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Women Without Names
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
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Bengasi
Overview: The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-01-10
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Primo amore
Overview: An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-10-05
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Night Shift
Overview: A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-04-19
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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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La casa senza tempo
Overview: A captain, a well-known flying ace, is developing his own device which will make a notable contribution to the prestige of his country's air force. One evening he occasionally meets a girl who strikes him with her mysterious behavior. In fact, he witnesses some completely inexplicable events that disturb him and take away the necessary serenity of mind to attend to his work, from which he feels detached. An explosion in the laboratory brings to the attention of an entire espionage network that was working to prevent the realization of the project.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-10-25
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The Silk Worm
Overview: Smeralda Amadier, a retired singer, lives in an isolated villa with her secretary Marcella and her lover Didier (but throws out the latter after catching him with another woman). Smeralda has huge debts and when creditors threaten her with bankruptcy she decides to sell her valuable jewels. That evening, she meets Costas, a handsome young man who seduces her. Next morning, there is no sign of him or the jewels. He was apparently a penniless gigolo, but who was his secret partner in the theft?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-01
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Lascia cantare il cuore
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-03-10
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Cento lettere d'amore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-08-22
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