Gustavo Serena
Also Known As: Signor Serena
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy
Birthday: October 05, 1881
Deathday: April 16, 1970
Adult: No
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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Taxi di notte
Overview: A taxi driver, with singing ambitions, finds an abandoned baby in his cab and begins to look for his mother. He doesn't find her but succeeds in finding two people who want to adopt the child.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-09
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Fra Diavolo
Overview: The film depicts the daring endeavors of Michele Pezza, the patriot/ bandit who opposed the Napoleonic occupation of the Kingdom of Naples at the turn of the 19th century.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Mariute
Overview: The actress Francesca Bertini, as every diva worthy of her name, always arrives on the set extremely late. One day, in the studio, she happened to hear a colleague actor who, back from the front, tells about the brutalities suffered by the civilians in the occupied territories. At night, still troubled by that story, Bertini falls asleep and dreams: in her dream she plays the role of Mariute, a young Friulian countrywoman, mother of three kids waiting for her husband homecoming from the frontline. One day, while she is going to the well for water, she is assaulted and molested by three enemy soldiers. Her father-in-law will avenge her. In the meantime Bertini, waking up with a start, will arrive to work on time and she will end the film inviting the public to put their savings into the war bonds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1918-07-06
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L'ira
Overview: Elena and Zefor are brothers. They live with their mother in a wild country where smuggling reigns. At their modest home, Zefor plays the violin while she dances to entertain the bandits. Arturo, one of them, has conquered Elena's heart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1918-01-01
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City of Pain
Overview: The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito's Yugoslavia. However the main character decides to stay, thinking that Communism might bring him a better future. Life turns to be hard for him and his family until he changes his mind, but he is killed before he can leave the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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Il vetturale del Moncenisio
Overview: During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-30
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House of Ricordi
Overview: The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Genres: History Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Mid-Century Loves
Overview: Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-18
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Il matrimonio
Overview: An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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The Flame that Never Dies
Overview: Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-09-21
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The Lady of the Camellias
Overview: La Signora delle Camelie chronicles the tragic love story of courtesan Marguerite Gautier and provincial bourgeois Armand Duval. Armand’s father disapproves of the relationship and convinces Marguerite to leave Armand, making him believe that she has left him for another man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1915-11-21
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Romeo e Giulietta
Overview: The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-01-24
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Peppino e la vecchia signora
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Se quell'idiota ci pensasse...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-02-01
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First Communion
Overview: The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-29
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La grande rinuncia
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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Men and Noblemen
Overview: Nicola Peccoli has always nurtured his niece Giovanna, an orphan since the age of two and now of age, but he does not look favorably on her beloved Mario because he is just a simple employee and a lower class of society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-03
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Diana, the Enchantress
Overview: Diana is assigned to find out the details of the enemy's war tactics. Together with her partner in crime, Robertson, she manages to get in touch with Captain Argo and retrieves secret information. All is proceeding according to plan until Diana slowly gets torn by on the one hand her duty as a spy, and on the other her passionate feelings for Captain Argo.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1915-11-20
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The Clemenceau Affair
Overview: The Clemenceau Affair (Italian: Il processo Clémenceau) is a 1917 silent Italian adventure film directed by Alfredo De Antoni. The film features the first onscreen performance from Vittorio De Sica.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1917-09-27
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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 White Sister
Overview: Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Angela stands to inherit half of a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits everything herself, throwing Angela into poverty. Fortunately, Angela is engaged to marry dashing Captain Giovanni Severi - but he soon is captured by Arabs while on an expedition to Africa. Believing him dead, Angela, dedicating her life to his memory, becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and is returning to Italy. The dramatic climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-05
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Assunta Spina
Overview: Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic acting and a blueprint for the Italian Neorealist films to come.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1915-10-27
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The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Overview: The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
Genres: Music Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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Ivonne, la bella danzatrice
Overview: Ivonne is a vulgar, loose, promiscuous and a passionate danseuse at the tavern. Countess Edith is an angelic creature, exquisitely elegant, a finite and aristocratic heiress. Two sides of a woman with a split personality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1915-09-15
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Don Camillo: Monsignor
Overview: Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-07
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Big Deal on Madonna Street
Overview: Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-07-26
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L'avarizia
Overview: Maria and Luigi love each other in spite of their poverty, while she resists her many wealthy suitors. But their mutual enemies figure out a lie that will separate them. Maria will become temporarily rich but then she will commit a crime and will divert into the slums. There Luigi will meet her again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1918-12-01
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Quo Vadis?
Overview: During the latter years of the reign of the tyrannical Roman emperor Nero, Marcus Vinicius, one of Nero's officers, falls in love with a young Christian named Lygia, attempting to enslave her. Lygia's protector, the noble and burly Ursus, works to save her from Vinicius' clutches. Pursuing Lygia, Vinicius finds himself at a catacomb prayer meeting led by the apostle Peter and finds his conscience stirring-- just as Nero orders Rome burned. A landmark in epic film, Enrico Guazzoni’s grand-scale masterpiece laid the foundations for what colossal Italian spectacles would become. The film had tremendous influence on Giovanni Pastrone’s Cabiria (1914) and D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916).
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: la
Release Date: 1913-03-01
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47 Talking Corpses
Overview: Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself. The major and the rest of the townspeople therefore organize a trick at his expense: they'll make him believe he is dead, and, in a fake "afterlife", they'll try to convince him to finally show them where the money is hidden to save his soul.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-22
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Tosca
Overview: Film version of the play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1918-07-04
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Beatrice d'Este
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1912-01-01
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The Railroad Man
Overview: Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes. A check up by a doctor reveals that he's at the brink of becoming an alcoholic. Due to this evaluation he is degraded and must accept a salary cut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-11-21
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Dora o Le spie
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1919-04-01
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Re di danari
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Lucrezia Borgia
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1910-01-01
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Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
Overview: The construction of great temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, followed by new and high taxes and the arrival of a plague, create discontent in the population, and threatens the love between a sculptor and a slave.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-29
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Il mondo dei miracoli
Overview: An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-25
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Jealousy
Overview: A Sicilian nobleman is very jealous of his mistress and when she gets married flies off his handle and commits a murder of which an innocent man is accused. He is however tormented by his conscience.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-09-29
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The Cry of the Eagle
Overview: The first fascist propaganda film.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1923-11-01
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Quattro rose rosse
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
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