Vittorio Caprioli
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Biography: Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian film actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions. He was born and died in Naples, Italy. Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in Rome, he made his stage debut in 1942 in the Carli-Racca company. From 1945, he began his collaboration with the Italian public broadcaster, RAI, often together with Luciano Salce, creating magazine and variety programs. Arriving in 1948 at the Piccolo theatre in Milan, where under the direction of Giorgio Strehler he took part in William Shakespeare's The Tempest. At the beginning of 1950, he was cast alongside Alberto Bonucci and Gianni Cajafa for the Neapolitan Carosello musical theatrical work, directed by Ettore Giannini. A versatile interpreter, in 1950 he founded, with Bonucci and Franca Valeri the Teatro dei Gobbi, which proposed a subtly satirical type of show. In 1960, he married Valeri with whom he presented plays. They divorced in 1974. He appeared in cinema as a character actor and made his directorial debut in 1961 with Lions In the Sun, which was later selected to enter the list of the 100 Italian films to be saved. He followed this with Paris, My Love and then a segment of I cuori infranti which was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. The Splendors and Miseries of Madame Royale in 1970 was generally considered to be his best film. He continued to appear on stage in between his films and was occasionally tempted by television, where he began his career in 1959, but he never really loved the small screen ("I suffer more than anything because of the absence of the public, which I consider an integral and irreplaceable part of the show in which I participate"). In the Sixties he acted in Village Wooing, directed by Antonello Falqui, and in 1972 he let himself be tempted by a television variety show, which he wrote and interpreted, Una Serata con Vittorio Caprioli. In his last years he returned to theater interpreting, among others, Don Marzio in Carlo Goldoni's Bottega del caffè, The Sunshine Boys by Neil Simon paired with Mario Carotenuto, and Capocomico in Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author. During the rehearsals of a interpretation of Napoli Milionaria, he died suddenly at the age of 68, in a room of one of the famous hotels on the promenade of Naples, struck down by a heart attack. Source: Article "Vittorio Caprioli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Napoli, Campania, Italia
Birthday: August 15, 1921
Deathday: October 02, 1989
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Gender: Male
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Times Gone By
Overview: A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-28
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Anyone Can Play
Overview: In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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Zazie dans le Métro
Overview: A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-10-28
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Catherine & Co.
Overview: Catherine, a young British sexworker living in Paris, decides to start her own "company" after learning the basics of big businesscom from her clients. She encounters both interest and setbacks in her search for investors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-29
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Tout Va Bien
Overview: A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-04-28
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Blackmail Chase
Overview: A couple of friends aspiring to join film land get mixed up in a robbery, ordered by a mafia boss who wants to seize the evidence he needs to blackmail an American politician.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-04-02
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Il borghese gentiluomo
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-01-16
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Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Overview: The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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You're on Your Own
Overview: In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-09-04
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His Days Are Numbered
Overview: A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-05
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Petomaniac
Overview: The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-28
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Adieu Philippine
Overview: Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, and aspiring actresses, who hang around outside the TV studio. Michel invites them in to watch, flirts with them both, and dates them separately and together. When Michel goes on a holiday to Corsica, just before he is drafted, the girls follow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-25
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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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The Anatomy of Love
Overview: Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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Rulers of the City
Overview: Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan. Together, they will con mob boss Manzari out of a fortune, after which they can retire and live in luxury. Manzari, however, is not about to let them go so easily.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-12-03
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The Sensual Man
Overview: The Catanese baron Paolo Castorini leaves the closed Sicilian environment and moves to Rome where he enters into erotic relationships with women of all classes. He, however, feels dissatisfied with a life of only the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. But is it too late for him?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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The Law
Overview: A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-25
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The Magnificent One
Overview: A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.
Genres: Comedy Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-11-23
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Cinderella '80
Overview: A feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility. There's a fairy stand-in in the form of a spaced-out astrologer, a dance, and she even loses a shoe at one point. Care to venture a guess how it all turns out?
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-02-16
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Hypochondriac
Overview: During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only waiting to see him dead to inherit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-12-20
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The Story of Romance and Knife
Overview: The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-18
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When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong
Overview: Prehistoric cave-stud Ari wins lovely virgin Listra in a pig-catching contest, but their attempts at "Ding-Dong" keep getting interrupted by idiot battles between his tribe, The Cave Dwellers, and their neighbors, The Lake Dwellers. Annoyed that hubby would rather make war than Ding-Dong, Listra organizes the women of both tribes to go on strike and "abstain Ding-Dong" until the men stop fighting. It all happens back in the days when men carried clubs and women played ding-dong, an Italian stone-age sex comedy based on the Greek classic "Lysistrata" and filled with shapely cavewomen sporting '70s hairstyles, a gay caveman with the hots for the hero, a title tune that will follow you forever and, of course, plenty of old-fashioned Ding-Dong!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-28
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Stuff for the Rich
Overview: 3 episodes set in Monte Carlo. In the first one a priest is compelled to become the lover of a princess. In the second, a con woman tries to cheat an insurance man. In the third, a man has to deal with his wife's suicidal attempts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-11-13
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Utopia
Overview: Stan and Ollie are marooned on an atoll. This was their last film together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-17
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Good night… lawyer!
Overview: A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tries to escape from her jealous husband. Fascinated by the beauty of the unexpected guest, the lawyer is determined to conquer her, in vain. But when the woman leaves, she discovers that she has been stolen some money.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-16
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A Leap in the Dark
Overview: Mauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a boy, and now suffers from mental illness and suicidal thoughts. She seems to recover from her depression when Mauro acquaints her with Giovanni, a brilliant actor at the edge of legality. However, Mauro becomes unconsciously jealous of their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-02-14
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I picari
Overview: The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-12-18
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I'm Losing My Temper
Overview: Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-09
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The School Teacher
Overview: A rich Sicilian, Fefè Mottola, decides to call a wealthy girl graduate: Giovanna, who is about to become a teacher, because his son needs repetitions. The boy, named Franco, is shocked by the physical beauty of the teacher, and so to restrain himself decides to pose as gay. But the deception does not last long, because the sexual impulses of Alfredo explode.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-07-11
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Blood and Diamonds
Overview: A man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were to blame for his arrest. The prize for this deadly fight is a large cache of diamonds.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-03-17
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Roma bene
Overview: A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-08
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Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Overview: A gay man who is trying to protect his wayward ward runs afoul of criminals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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Eager to Live
Overview: Massimo pretends to be rich but he's actually poor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-24
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Adultery Italian Style
Overview: A betrayed wife decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson in this riotous farce. Marta (Catherine Spaak) discovers that husband Franco (Nino Manfredi) has been stepping out with her own best friend (Maria Grazia Buccella), and gets revenge by inventing an imaginary lover. Franco takes the bait, leading to improbable but hilarious complications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-25
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L'ultima scena
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-11-22
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Dark Illness
Overview: After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-02-22
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Violence and Love
Overview: The nature of love and marriage is studied in two episodes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-26
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Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
Overview: Marcello, the scion of a noble and rich family, is morbidly obsessed with his mother, Countess Elisabetta di Tarcento. When she dies, things go haywire as people around him reveal their true identity and he gets a new motherly companion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-04
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Messalina, Messalina!
Overview: Adventure comedy directed by Bruno Corbucci.
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-11
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Più bello di così si muore
Overview: In Rome a man needing money become a transvestite prostitute.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-03-18
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Death on the Run
Overview: On the run from the police in Athens, a man named Jason has in his possession a microfilm eagerly sought by both criminal gangs and government agencies.
Genres: Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-09
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Leoni al sole
Overview: The endless summer of a group of thirty-something neapolitans at Positano.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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How I Learned to Love Women
Overview: An erotic comedy about the many affairs of a young man with different women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-02
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Neapolitan Carousel
Overview: Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-14
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Ischia operazione amore
Overview: Gennaro runs a small boarding house in Ischia, the beautiful island in the gulf of Naples. Each member of his family is involved: his wife cooks, his daughter has a small boutique and his married son courts the old and rich patrons under his wife's enraged eyes.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-10
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The Automobile
Overview: An ex-prostitute, feeling an emptiness in her life, decides to fill it by buying a car.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-10
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Soldier's Girl
Overview: Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married, but he drowns while bathing in the river. From that moment the woman is unable to love anyone else because, at the most beautiful, the ghost of her fiancé appears to her who, in the end, will be able to be followed in the other world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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Woman Is a Wonderful Thing
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
Overview: In Lazio, four young people named Riccetto, Girasole, Lallo and Tombarolo try to make a living by stealing what they find in the tombs of the rich buried. Being inexperienced, they often find themselves in trouble or pursued by the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-28
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Hector the Mighty
Overview: A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him the land by kidnapping Helen, triggering a small gang war.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-06
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A Maiden for the Prince
Overview: Young Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, rejects his first wife Margherita Farnese, obtaining the annulment of the union and, at the same time, raising strong doubts about her virginity
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-26
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Innocence and Desire
Overview: A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-21
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White Voices
Overview: In 17th-century Rome, a young man in a choir of castrati falls for the beautiful wife of a powerful aristocrat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-12
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Paris, My Love
Overview: Parigi O Cara is probably the most camp in the history of Italian cinema, certainly a favourite with the GLBT community who quote its lines by heart. Unique as it's the only film where Franca Valeri (now 90) is the unquestioned star, in the role of Delia, a snobbish, stingy prostitute who is moving to Paris looking for greener and more lucrative pastures. An anti-neorealist, amoral, almost abstract comedy, which anticipates Almodóvar, a ferocious, though gentle, non-moralistic portrayal of the 60's boom and its broken dreams. The dialogue between Delia and her brother (played by Fiorenzo Fiorentini), when he does (or does not) tell her he is a homosexual, is memorable, a primordial coming-out, a masterpiece of allusions. But what makes it one of the first examples of a film with a "gay point of view" is the approach: perceptive, non-conformist, caustically witty. A film ahead of its times, still unbeaten.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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The Governess
Overview: Catania, Italy. The Platania family hires a new French governess, the beautiful Caterina. The life of the whole family will be soon turned upside down.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-01
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Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Overview: Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the cuckhold, but.. it always seems to work out for lucky Ignazio!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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The Groper
Overview: Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-29
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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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Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Overview: Ottone and Savio work hard to keep each other out of trouble with the Roman Centurions while scraping together food and drink with various scams. Emperor Nero's wife, the beautiful Poppea, takes an interest in Ottone, who after a short stint as a gladiator gets a region to manage and an army of his own to command, all the while assisted by his best friend and partner in crime Savio.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-11-21
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The Landlords
Overview: Giorgia and her sister inherit a villa and decide to turn it into a pension. When the sister orders the advertising, the brochure, together with the name, Pension Paradise, leads people to believe it is a whore house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-07
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Uno scandalo perbene
Overview: Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward story is about a poorly-dressed man who is brought into the police station in Turin for stealing flower pots from the cemetery. He is rather brutally interrogated, and then because he has no idea who he is or where he belongs, he is put into an asylum for the mentally disturbed. After his photograph is published in the newspapers, a woman shows up at the institution claiming that he is Professor Canella, her missing and wealthy husband. The news obtains the release of the amnesiac, but his claim is quickly and hotly contested by another family, arguing that the man is an imposter. As a result, his case goes back to court and in the meantime, the "professor" is put in jail. As the courtroom drama continues, there are various clues that suggest whether or not the amnesiac has been accurately identified and by whom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-19
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Variety Lights
Overview: In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-06
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Kidnap Syndicate
Overview: After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-27
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The Messiah
Overview: Rossellini takes numerous liberties with the original source material, rearranging and omitting events at will, presenting everything in a highly undramatic fashion. The film begins in the time of the Old Testament, allowing Rossellini to present the story of Jesus in its ancient, historic context.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-24
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Latin Male Wanted
Overview: A film in 5 segments. The first is about a trafficker who takes a German tourist to an illegal sex market in a working-class neighborhood. The second involves an elderly man courting a young adult film star. The third, a thief seduces a man's wife. The fourth involves an Italian immigrant in Germany who is fired and subsequently offered work as a porn actor. Finally the last segment involves a baron who convinces his wife into a swinging.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-28
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Love & Passion
Overview: After the renewed flings with their former lovers prove to be disastrously unlike the romantic memories, an unfaithful couple returns to each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-02-25
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Giovannona Long-Thigh
Overview: When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they discover the judge has a predilection for married women, the owner employs a prostitute to pose as his wife in an attempt to seduce the judge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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To Be Twenty
Overview: Lia and Tina are two beautiful girls who meet and realize that they have a lot in common. They are both young, beautiful and pissed off, so they decide to hitchhike their way to Rome to find Nazariota's commune, a place to stay for free and have all the sex they want... or so they think. Things don't go as they have planned though, and soon they become involved in prostitution, the police and an aggressive gang.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-07-14
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When Women Were Called Virgins
Overview: When women were called Madonna is a film of 1972 directed by Aldo Grimaldi . The film is one of the first Italian erotic comedies in which a licentious bursting Edwige Fenech struggles with the nagging demands of three suitors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-23
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Paris Is Always Paris
Overview: A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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Le Mans, Shortcut to Hell
Overview: Former racing champion John Lee Scott coaches young driver Dustin Rich. The learn of a new Italian model that can reach 300 kilometers an hour developed by an 80 year old racing expert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-03
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Taste of Life
Overview: Elvio Battistini works as a ticket taker in the local cinema of the small town where he lives. He has a prosthesis in one leg, the result of an accident, but he tells anyone who will listen it is a war injury. Giuseppe Mondardini, is also an older man living alone in what was the splendid family home. When Elvio and Giuseppe meet, they hit it off immediately. A trip to a cooler area is in order, so Mordardini unveils his ancient automobile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-12-22
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La Presidentessa
Overview: Gobette, a young avant-garde dancer, finds herself unemployed after the closure of the provincial club where she performs. By pure coincidence, Cipriano Gaudet, Minister of Justice, meets her at a judge's house and, convinced that she is the wife of the subordinate, gives promotions to the unsuspecting representative of the law in order to remove him from the woman and be able to get married with the soubrette. ..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-11-17
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Assicurasi vergine
Overview: Ruined by a local tyrant who also gets to marry his daughter to pay off a debt, a Sicilian ensures the girl's innocence and counts on the ardor of her lover to collect the prize and prevent her marriage to the squire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-03
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The Rip-Off
Overview: Crime Comedy starring Walter Chiari, Maurizio Arena and Ettore Manni. Directed by Luciano Ercoli in 1977, but shelved when producer Niccolo De Nora was kidnapped... ironically the theme of the movie. A band of criminals plan one final heist, to kidnap a wealthy French businessman.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-05-19
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La colonna infame
Overview: Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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A porte chiuse
Overview: The movie is about the celebrated trial of Olga Duvovich, very beautiful woman accused of killing her husband, a wealthy financier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-22
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Erotomania
Overview: Rodolfo Persichetti has reached the maximum of his career and at the same time the minimum of his sexual capacities. A famous psychiatrist helps him in regaining his lost virility by mean of a new therapy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-30
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The Libertine
Overview: A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-23
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Società a responsabilità molto limitata
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-10
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Umbrella Coup
Overview: Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-08
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Recourse in Grace
Overview: Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his hidden past, she feels hurt by Mario's lack of trust in her and she distances herself from him. In despair, Mario surrenders to the law but, at the time of trial, he runs away to join the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-19
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Before It's Too Early
Overview: At the Nato di Bagnoli headquarters, Tony, who lives with US Army officer Janet, works awkwardly and uncomfortably with modern equipment, which is also found at home. Strongly frustrated, Tony decides to return to the Naples neighborhood where he has always lived.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-09-25
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Overview: Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-16
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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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On the Day of the Lord
Overview: Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-18
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The Barons
Overview: Leopoldo Lalumera, grandson of a wealthy eighty-four-year-old baron, infuriated during a galactic convention with a prosaic maid, discovers, on the eve of the wedding with his cousin Mariantonia, that he has become impotent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-11
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Easy Love
Overview: Five episodes: A professor decides to murder her husband to win a woman. A hotelier seduces a boarder. A man convinces a friend to marry his lover, so as not to arouse his wife's suspicions. A man borrows money from a loan shark to pay for the services of his wife. Two couples try in vain to take a trip to the seaside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-03
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Shoot First, Die Later
Overview: When mobsters try to put an honest policeman on the payroll, he seeks revenge on the mob. But, he soon learns that his actions, however honest, have dire consequences.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-07-12
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The Wing or the Thigh?
Overview: Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-27
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General Della Rovere
Overview: The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-07
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Trastevere
Overview: A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-13
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It Happened in the Park
Overview: Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-18
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The Maniacs
Overview: An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-28
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The Boss
Overview: A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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Io e lui
Overview: Rico is a not too successful screen-player. He is also a repressed sex addict. His life changes when he starts to talk to his own penis, which incredibly answers him! All his relationships and views about reality are seriously impacted by his new "friend", his penis! The "two" in fact, often have different opinions, and sometimes the personality of "it" is stronger than its owner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-19
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The Shortest Day
Overview: Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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A Full Day's Work
Overview: A father plans to kill in the same day the nine members of the jury who condemned his son to death.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-08
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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Overview: Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-09-01
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