Anna Maria Dossena
Also Known As: Annamaria Dossena
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Massa Carrara, Tuscany, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: February 17, 1912
Age: 113 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: June 18, 1990
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My Friends Act III
Overview: This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-06-06
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Empty Eyes
Overview: A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-09-18
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Due soldi di felicità
Overview: A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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A Virgin Named Mary
Overview: A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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Sambo
Overview: A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of chance. Sent a messenger to Brazil to gamble, the two men go wild and run up debts. When they realize they have won nothing, they initially fall into total despair; however the coachman had played a coupon from the football pools on his own account. He will win and make things right.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Amore
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1935
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Musica in piazza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-03-04
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The Old Lady
Overview: An elderly chestnut vendor lives in poverty but once a month puts on a show with silk and a carriage to impress her daughter in a convent. One day she is robbed of her meager savings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-02-26
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Lohengrin
Overview: The monotonous life of a bourgeois family is disturbed by the announcement of the imminent return from America of Mr. Lohengrin, who had left Italy years earlier, leaving behind the reputation of being an irresistible womanizer. Lohengrin's cousin, worried about the stability of his marriage, convinces some relatives who live in the countryside to welcome the dreaded guest into their home and then, to avoid meeting him, leaves. Meanwhile, in the country house everyone eagerly awaits Lohengrin, and envy and spite are unleashed during the wait. In particular, while the young landlady prepares the house, the woman's husband begins to be tormented by jealousy. But the arrival of the long-awaited guest will be a huge disappointment for everyone: the once seductive man is now just an aged, with glasses and a prominent belly.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Eravamo sette vedove
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-10-03
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Love and Anarchy
Overview: Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-23
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Revenge
Overview: A man comes home from the war and finds both his plant and his family destroyed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-04-21
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Sotto a chi tocca!
Overview: Straccio, a young acrobat, wants to free his beloved Julia, held prisoner in the tyrant's castle. He designs a good plan, and develops it with the help of his three friends, Pietro, Bitonto, and Gatto Mammone. When he thinks he achieved both his ends - overthrowing Fregonese from power, and winning Julia's love - he finds that his countrymen cupidity for the tyrant's gold is more difficult to deal with.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-24
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Due soldi di felicità
Overview: A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom
Overview: Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.
Genres: Horror Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-10
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One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future
Overview: The young lawyer Vincenzo, Lucetta's new husband, daughter of a building speculator, discovers, on the night of the wedding, that he can not fulfill his duty as husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-25
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Il bambino e il poliziotto
Overview: Carlo, a police officer, after intercepting a call conducts a drug bust at a private party at the upper class apartment of Rosanna Clerici and she is arrested. Just as the police and party guests are leaving, Giulio, Rosanna's six-year-old son, comes out of his room and asks Carlo where his mother is. Seeing that Carlo is the person responsible for his mother's arrest, Giulio tags along with him until his mother is freed. Carlo does everything possible to have Social Services or somebody look after the kid but is told by the Courts that he is the best candidate for his custody until a better one is found. Even though Giulio manages to turn Carlo's life inside out he ends up getting to like the kid and falling for the kid's mother, Rosanna, while she is in prison. It ends with Rosanna being released from prison and the three of them going out for dinner.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-12-20
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Eravamo 7 sorelle
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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The Commissioner
Overview: In the basement of a hypothetical ministry, a man has set up a public office where he intends, for a fee, to solve any bureaucratic problem. His life becomes complicated the day he realizes that someone is persistently spying on him.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-03-19
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