Fulvia Franco
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Biography: From Wikipedia Fulvia Franco (21 May 1931 - 15 May 1988) was an Italian actress, model and beauty pageant titleholder. Born in Trieste, the daughter of a businessman, Franco won the third edition of the Miss Italia beauty contest held in 1948 in Stresa. As a part of the contest that provided for the winner a role in a movie soon to be realized with Totò, a member of the jury, Franco appeared in a bib part in Totò al giro d'Italia. Thanks to the success of the film, Franco continued her film career, even appearing in leading roles; her most significant and critically apprecciated role was the sensual widow in L’avventura di un soldato, the directorial debut of Nino Manfredi which was part of the anthology film L'amore difficile. Franco was married to the actor and boxer Tiberio Mitri for about twenty years, and she starred with him on several fotoromanzi.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Trieste - Friuli-Venezia Giulia - Italy
Birthday: May 21, 1931
Deathday: May 15, 1988
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Gender: Female
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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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Caravan of songs
Overview: In a luxury hotel in Miramare, a competition is organized between pop music singers. Famous celebrities and famous singers are invited.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-04-02
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Hercules, Samson & Ulysses
Overview: Two strongmen set out to hunt down a murderous sea monster. Their ship is wrecked and they end up in the Holy Land where Hercules is assumed to be Samson who is a wanted man. The two team up to survive.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-20
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Toto Tours Italy
Overview: A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-12-30
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Totó in color
Overview: In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-04-08
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Hercules Unchained
Overview: En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
Genres: Fantasy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-14
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Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza
Overview: Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-24
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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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Lone and Angry Man
Overview: Shenandoah (Steffen) works his way into a band of highwaymen led by Rojo (Armando Calvo). His initiation consists of hunting down and killing a member of the gang who has 12 bullets while he is only given 2 bullets. When the bandits attempt to rob a wealthy rancher, whom Shenandoah knows, he warns him. The outlaws begin to suspect they were betrayed and commence to rough Shenandoah up. Shenandoah then reveals his true reason for joining the gang; one of them killed his wife and he is there for retribution.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-23
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Conquerors of Arkansas
Overview: Based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, the film, set entirely in the state of Arkansas, tells of the conflict of interests between the local townspeople and homesteaders on the surrounding land, miners arriving during the gold rush, cowboys and cattle thieves who cause problems in the area, and the native tribes of the region. Two adventurers arrive in town and try to restore peace to it and its inhabitants.
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-11-19
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Obiettivo ragazze
Overview: Four former soldiers meet and reminisce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mistaking his sergeants house for a brothel, a hypnotized sailor who thinks he has changed his sex, two GIs captured by an African tribe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-08-05
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Finalmente libero
Overview: Enrico Rossi is accused of polygamy for having married six different women over the years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-19
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Virgin Merchants
Overview: A man who sells counterfeit drugs decides to become a marriage counselor. Having barely started this business, he finds himself in serious trouble, threatening him with mortal danger...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-22
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Scapricciatiello
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-28
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La rossa
Overview: Amelia, a beautiful and irrepressible girl known as "La Rossa", returns from Paris to her country, a small seaside town in southern Italy, where her father is the lighthouse keeper. To her father and her fellow villagers, she gives the impression that she is married to a rich gentleman. In reality she is only the friend of Pierre Dupont, an elegant Parisian bandit. Dupont, however, actually gives the girl a certain economic comfort. Later Pierre arrives in the country incognito, being wanted for a large theft of jewels in Paris, and Amelia, her lover and accomplice, helps him to hide.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-15
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Sins of Casanova
Overview: 1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-22
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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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The Black Archer
Overview: A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-14
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The Magnificent Texan
Overview: A gang of bandits burn down the Red House belonging to Pablo Lopez. The whole Lopez family is murdered except ten year old Manuel, who is scarred for life by the horrifying sight of his dead parents and burning home. Fifteen years later, Manuel has grown up. After living through many adventures he returns to his village in disguise. Two things are on his mind: to find his long-loved Evelyn and to take revenge on those responsible for the slaughter at the Red House.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-07-28
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Tempest
Overview: A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Soon after he arrives at his new post, a revolt by the local Cossacks breaks out and the fort is besieged by the rebels. The young officer is astonished to find out that the leader of the rebellious Cossacks is none other than the stranger whose life he had saved during the storm.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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Trieste, Un ring sull'Adriatico
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Romanticismo
Overview: Drama set in Milan in 1858. Dr. Antonio Ansperti from Como, implicated in the clandestine activities of the Young Italy revolutionary movement, is arrested by the Austrian authorities. After a trial he is sentenced to death and executed, in spite of efforts by his countryman Count Lamberti to intervene on his behalf with the Governor of Milan.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-12-14
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Tripoli, bel suol d'amore
Overview: The young Alberto Ruotolo leave the country cottage to go for the sharpshooter. But the command does not pull good air, three riflemen arrogant and unruly bear much disorder as anger Marshal Nero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-08-19
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Queste pazze, pazze donne
Overview: Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of female madness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-05-22
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Totò all'inferno
Overview: After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-16
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Letti sbagliati
Overview: Four episodes: a traveler is enticed by train per bet; a professional wants to be alone with a woman he likes; a lawyer becomes the lover of an adversary; a man discovers his wife's infidelity after ten years.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-04-08
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Two Sons of Ringo
Overview: Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam pretending to be bounty hunters, are 'persuaded' to help a real bounty hunter discover a treasure by claiming to be the heirs of a deceased lawman.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-07
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Brutti di notte
Overview: Franco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The doctor prescribes a very special treatment for the patient: an intense love life. The man's wife, aware that she is part of the problem, decides to get a facial and to meet her husband in disguise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-14
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High Infidelity
Overview: Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-22
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Sex Can Be Difficult
Overview: A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-24
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For Love and Gold
Overview: A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-04-07
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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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Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Overview: The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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La moglie è uguale per tutti
Overview: Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-10-21
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Peppino, le modelle e... chella llà
Overview: Young painter Teddy is successful with women but not very clever about selling pictures. He is in love with Elisabetta but cannot marry her because he is penniless. The couple asks for help from Peppino, a retired clerk who often uses Teddy's painting, pretending that they are his so he can impress the women he likes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-04-28
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Beauties on Motor Scooters
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-15
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Las aeroguapas
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-11-24
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Buongiorno primo amore!
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-09-23
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