Otello Toso
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Padua, Veneto, Italy
Birthday: February 22, 1914
Deathday: March 15, 1966
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Bitterly
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-24
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1860
Overview: The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-02-21
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Ridi pagliaccio
Overview: When she is in jail to defend her colleague, the secretary Anna Alessandri finds out that her man got engaged to another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-03-05
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Nebbie sul mare
Overview: A woman struggles to make a living after her husband is mistakenly presumed dead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-05-10
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Death of a Cyclist
Overview: A couple having an affair strike a bicyclist with their car and do not offer aid out of fear of their relationship being exposed.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-09-07
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Jeanne Doré
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-11-30
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Le père Lebonnard
Overview: Father Lebonnard, a former watchmaker who made a fortune, remains simple while his wife is only dreaming of worldly affairs and pushes his son Freddy to marry Bianca, the daughter of the Marquis de Rocafort, their neighbor. She feeds a similar project for her daughter Mariella.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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Last Desire
Overview: Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl, Marcella, who is in full depression because she was abandoned by her lover. Caesar welcomes her into his home and surrounds her with paternal attention so that he can quickly forget the past. Slowly his feeling turns into a love that Marcella seems to reciprocate. However, when Cesare realizes that the girl feels only gratitude for him and is in love with a younger man, he loses control. Blinded by jealousy, he plans to kill Marcella's lover but, in the face of the girl's vulgarity and indifference, he realizes that he has been teased and turns his anger towards her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-08-28
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Fuoco nero
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Two Anonymous Letters
Overview: When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio. She comes to regret her decision when Tullio proves to be a Nazi collaborationist. Casting her lot with the Resistance movement, Gina is forced into a difficult decision when the safety of ex-lover Bruno is endangered by the treachery of Tullio.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-11-03
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Desiderio 'e sole
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-04-13
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Planets Around Us
Overview: An alien race sends cyborgs — made to look like the son of a famous scientist, whom they killed when he landed on their planet — to Earth to help pave the way for an invasion.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-02-14
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Follies of the Century
Overview: An aging count courts a beautiful singer who is also wooed by his son-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-09-10
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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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Il peccato degli anni verdi
Overview: Released from a boarding school of nuns in Como, the seventeen-year-old Milanese Elena Giordani manages to convince her parents to let her spend the summer holidays together with her Genoese friend Diana D'Aquino in her villa in Rapallo.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-21
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Il canale degli angeli
Overview: Directed by Francesco Pasinetti
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-30
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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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Le signorine della villa accanto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-04-17
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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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Piscatore 'e Pusilleco
Overview: A wealthy and jealous merchant tries to lure a young girl away from her boyfriend by offering to pay to stage small singing concerts for her.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-06
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Una donna prega
Overview: Gianna, a young radio singer, marries Giulio, director of a travel agency. Soon after, they welcome a child. The tranquility of their family life is deeply disturbed by the arrival in Rome of a French tourist, Giselle, who falls madly in love with Giulio. He reciprocates her feelings and becomes her lover. Gianna separates from her husband and devotes her attention to the child, while Giulio begins to live with Giselle. But the thought of his family leads Giulio to ponder severing ties with his lover. Unexpectedly, Giselle's lifeless body is found in Giulio's apartment. Evidence points to Giulio's guilt, so he attempts to escape abroad. Giulio is involved in a car accident close to the border, nearly killing him. In the hospital, it is revealed that Giselle was killed by her former Parisian lover. Healed of his serious wounds, Giulio returns to the affection of his wife and little daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-07-22
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Lettera napoletana
Overview: Warehouseman "Franco" is set up by the son of his boss for robbery and cigarette smuggling. Can he prove his innocence and rescue his relationship with "Anna"?
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-07-11
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Verginità
Overview: Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franco, a salesman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-04
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Il conte di Matera
Overview: Rambaldo Tramontana, a count who went into battle backed by the French, returns to Matera to take revenge once he is victorious, but the city is deserted and he begins to commit abuses and violence.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-06
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Il corriere di ferro
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-03-20
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Lacrime d'amore
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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Desert Desperadoes
Overview: A caravan guarded by Roman soldiers comes across a woman bound to a stake and left to die. A wealthy merchant who hired the caravan is against taking The Woman along, but the commander of the soldiers, Verrus, overrules him. Verrus tries to get friendly with her, promising all kinds of wealth for her favors. The caravan encounters a group of Jdean refugees fleeing from King Herod's orders to kill all male children. They are on their way to Egypt with a male child with them. The Merchant begins to ponder the reward that would be paid by the King and orders The Woman to seduce a Roman guard to enable the messenger to get away. When the King's soldiers show up, Verrus refuses to surrender the refugees. Then the sand hits the fan.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-30
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I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli)
Overview: Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-03-27
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Gli innocenti pagano
Overview: Back from the war, a man discovers that his daughter has died and his wife has left their house. He searches for the girlfriend of a fellow soldier and falls for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-04-27
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Onore e sangue
Overview: A humble clerk is forced to take on debts to cure his mother.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-04-27
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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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Il ponte dei sospiri
Overview: Rolando, the chief of the Venetian fleet, is condemned after a highly unfair judicial process and locked up in prison. After succeeding to escape he will demonstrate his innocence to the Doge's daughter he is in love with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-10-27
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Inviati speciali
Overview: An Italian film from 1943.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-04-27
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Tormento d'amore
Overview: "Torment of love" - Sara and Pietro meet in Barcelona and immediately a strong friendship grows between them, that soon turns into love. Sara does not dare to tell Pietro about a recent affair with a man called Roberto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-24
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Doomed
Overview: Barbara Florian is in love with Renalto Baldini. After the latter goes off to a distant job to make enough money to marry her, the girl discovers she is going to have a baby. Marco (Otello Toso), posing as a friend, exploits the situation to his own gain, and uses the situation to shock the girl's ailing father to his death. Marco then marries the widow, Valeria (Franca Marzi), the girl's stepmother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-22
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Bertoldo, Bertoldino and Cacasenno
Overview: A poor farmer is invited to the King's court and tries to prevent the princess' marriage to a villanious knight.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-09-04
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Malacarne
Overview: A film that is going to be viewed on Filmoteca
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-12
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Il cavaliere dalla spada nera
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-10-13
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Santo disonore
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-03-24
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Vanità
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-05-15
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La trovatella di Milano
Overview: Love story set in Milan during the Five Days of 1848.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-06-04
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Le due orfanelle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-08-16
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La legge della vendetta
Overview: A farmer's daughter falls in love with a sheepherder who raped her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-01-11
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Ettore Fieramosca
Overview: ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic fervor and pride in the Italian nation, and it contributed to a revival of Italian nationalism.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-12-28
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