Giuseppe Pierozzi
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: October 11, 1883
Age: 141 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 22, 1956
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Bionda sottochiave
Overview: A famous American director is looking for a special type of girl he needs to play in his next film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-06-18
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The Cuckoo Clock
Overview: The rich banker Rosen of Livorno fear that the Bonapartist will take all his gold, so he is hiding it inside a cuckoo clock.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-09-19
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Don Pasquale
Overview: In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-09-16
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Manon Lescaut
Overview: Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally forced to exile to America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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Hands Off Me!
Overview: In his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in order to provide for himself and his young Shirley Temple-like protégée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-03-06
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Peddlin' in Society
Overview: Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She also becomes involved with some very dubious characters who profit from her ignorance and cheat her out of her money.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-12-21
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Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
Overview: The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-01-21
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Vele ammainate
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-01-01
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The Face of Medusa
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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I volti dell'amore
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1924-01-01
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Tourist Train
Overview: The film portrays the comic adventures of a group of summertime travellers. Produced at the height of the fascist era, Treno popolare was nonetheless free of propaganda, and featured the first film score by the legendary composer Nino Rota.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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Three Cornered Hat
Overview: A comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Grace
Overview: Based on a short story written by Novel Prize for Literature in 1894, Grazia Deladda, “La Grazia” is a classic Italian-drama that follows the story of the a man (Giorgio Bianchi) who fell in love with beautiful shepherdess (Carmen Boni). Separated by fate, the man had an accident on his way back to his wife. For years, absence of her husband has made the woman suffer. She takes care of her child while waiting for her husband’s return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-11
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L'albero di Adamo
Overview: Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-01-19
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Ginevra degli Almieri
Overview: Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-12-01
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Il fidanzato di mia moglie
Overview: Enrico breaks up his marriage to Renata because he discovers that in the registry office she is already married to a certain Giulio, an inhabitant of a country town. The couple leaves in search of the mysterious Giulio who is about to marry Marcella, but her wedding also ends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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But It's Nothing Serious
Overview: Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more appealing wife than any of the others could have been. Assis Noris decorates the screen well as one of the chasers and pursuers. In 1937, De Sica and Noris made a film, "II Signor Max," which, other than the setting and character role names, basically has the same plot as this film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-04-01
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Pazza di gioia
Overview: A modest accountant wins a utility vehicle in a contest and publishes an ad looking for a companion to share expenses on a vacation trip. An attractive young lady answers the ad, but at the meeting place, the girl mistakes the accountant for a millionaire, who of course, leaves with her...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-03-07
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Ginevra degli Almieri
Overview: Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-12-01
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La notte delle beffe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-12-11
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Vivere ancora
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Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-04-08
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Miss Italia
Overview: Journalist decides to report on Miss Italy candidates, in which detective intrigue is added.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-02-15
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Ballo al castello
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-12-30
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Dva sagapà para
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1923-10-01
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Italia, paese di briganti?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1923-07-01
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Turbamento
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-03-01
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Lorenzino de' Medici
Overview: Lorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-29
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Un viaggio nell'impossibile
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1923-09-01
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La Wally
Overview: Old fashioned opera adaptation: A feisty and free spirited woman of the Tyrol withdraws to a mountain peak when she is separated from the man she loves. When he later attempts to rejoin her, disaster results.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-10-10
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Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-11-28
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Before the Jury
Overview: During a reception in a villa, wealthy banker Calandri is killed in the park with a gunshot. The gamekeeper Barra is immediately arrested, but he declares himself innocent. During the trial it turns out that the defendant had threatened the victim, guilty of courting his sister-in-law. But the deposition of a journalist present at the party soon leads to discover the existence of a dense network of equivocal relations between the victim, the guests and the servants. This judicial setting drama is allegedly the second Italian sound film after "The Song of Love", made using the RCA Photophone recording technique, and is also considered to be the first Italian detective film, a precursor to the later genre of Giallo films.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-01-31
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Resurrection
Overview: A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-05-30
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The Faun
Overview: The model Fede loves the writer Arte, but he is enmeshed by the beautiful Femmina. Fede takes comfort in the Faun, a mythological creature who becomes animated from the stone sculpted by Arte. The love story with the Faun represents a return to a dreamt wildness impossible by now, for the modern man, to reach and maintain.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1917-06-01
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I'll Give a Million
Overview: A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-01-02
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Animal Crackers
Overview: After several unsuccessful suicide attempts, Totò finds himself in an animal asylum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-04-01
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Il bazar delle idee
Overview: Annna, a rich lady, decides to finance in great secrecy a singular enterprise: the founding of a real center for the creation of ideas, directed by Mario Morelli, a poet and songwriter perpetually waiting for great success, and a painter, Enrico Bovio, who cannot find the inspiration or the model for a portrait of a woman he wants to finish. Both are short of money and, convinced of the brilliance of their ideas, wish to open that bizarre business, called precisely the "Bazaar of Ideas".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-06-30
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Dove Sta Zaza?
Overview: The film is set in Naples. Two doubles, an American and a Neapolitan, alternate visiting Zaza, the maid of a magazine company, deceived by their resemblance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-28
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Quei due
Overview: Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number, but all I get are miscues and boos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
Overview: Believed dead, a husband poses as his own brother, to cash in on an insurance policy.But when his former boss,a rich man, asks the so called brother for help in wooing the widow, the new fortune from the insurance loses some of its appeal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-12-05
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In High Places
Overview: In High Places is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Soldati and starring Adriana Benetti, Massimo Serato and Nerio Bernardi. It is based on a play by Jean Anouilh. The film portrays the rise into high society of an immoral young man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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La carne e l'anima
Overview: This melodrama was directed by an émigré Russian from a story by Corrado Alvaro and Emanuele Caracciolo. The latter was murdered by the Nazis in the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, before the film’s post-war release. Featuring Miranda and Girotti prior to neo-realist stardom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-01-11
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Il cappello da prete
Overview: The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the body in an abandoned well. He continues his life of revelries and luxury, until the remorse for the crime trigger a process of self-destruction. The nightmares of the baron, tormented by the only evidence left of the murder, the hat of the priest ,drags him into a daring and hallucinated series of ups and downs to the brink of insanity and jail.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-11-10
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Paradiso
Overview: Italian film by Guido Brignone.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-12-31
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Down with Misery!
Overview: The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-12-27
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L'innocente Casimiro
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-10-07
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Validità giorni dieci
Overview: After finding a train ticket on the ground, the young Paolo decides to go by train to Venice, where he meets Clara, a beautiful girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-08-03
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Arma bianca
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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The Dream of Butterfly
Overview: Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new wife in tow, leading inexorably to a doleful ending both on- and offstage. Critics complained about the substandard photography in Il Sogno di Butterfly, but this might have been due to poor laboratory work.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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Maddalena Ferat
Overview: Madeleine is a beautiful married woman, hopelessly attracted to her former lover, Jacques. This obsession leads to the destruction of her life and eventually drives her to suicide, while her husband goes insane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1921-12-01
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Spring song
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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Non canto più
Overview: A woman, a theatrical impresario, simulates the theft of a precious necklace for marketing purposes. A young singer living in the province is believed to be responsible for the theft and is arrested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-09-30
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Il feroce saladino
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-09-23
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The Captain's Daughter
Overview: A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-10-08
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Mille lire al mese
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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La prima donna che passa
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-10-26
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L'avvocato difensore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-05-08
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