Saro Urzì
Also Known As: Rosario Urzì , Saro Urzzi , Саро Урци
Biography: Saro Urzì was born on February 24, 1913, died November 2, 1979 (age 66) in San Giuseppe Vesuviano, Italy. He was an actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Catania, Sicily, Italy
Birthday: February 24, 1913
Deathday: November 02, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Facts of Murder
Overview: A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-24
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The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic
Overview: The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic is a reduced, 386-minute version of the 1977 television miniseries, "Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television," released to video in 1981. Unlike the miniseries, which was presented in four segments (each with opening and closing credits), the Epic is presented as a single segment. In January 2016, HBO aired the Epic in its uncut and uncensored format, later making it available on its streaming platforms. The HBO showing contained most of the known deleted scenes, thereby lengthening the runtime of the Epic from its video release to 423 minutes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-24
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Modesty Blaise
Overview: Modesty Blaise, a secret agent whose hair color, hair style, and mod clothing change at a snap of her fingers is being used by the British government as a decoy in an effort to thwart a diamond heist. She is being set up by the feds but is wise to the plot and calls in sidekick Willie Garvin and a few other friends to outsmart them. Meanwhile, at his island hideaway, Gabriel, the diamond thief has his own plans for Blaise and Garvin.
Genres: Comedy Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-01
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Seduced and Abandoned
Overview: The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-30
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Don Camillo in Moscow
Overview: Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-18
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Una storia di notte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo
Overview: In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their country to ransom.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-15
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People of Honor
Overview: In an operation aimed at hitting the mafia, the Sicilian police hunt down several assassins to trace their bosses. The hunted, with the help of the mafia, try to escape from the island.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-15
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The Lovemakers
Overview: Carlo Danieli, an industrialist of Sicilian origins, manages a French fries company. The man marries Elena, his girlfriend for years, who has decided to remain a virgin until the wedding day. The man is a great womanizer and is surprised by the revelation, so much so that on the first night he is unable to consummate the relationship. The word soon spread and the mother of the bride, Donna Virginia, urged her son-in-law to apply. Carlo then tries to find a solution before it's too late and his mother-in-law thinks that throwing him into the arms of a professional is the ideal ploy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-19
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Serafino
Overview: Serafino, a young and innocent shepherd, inherits a huge fortune. He immediately starts spending the entire sum on presents for his friends, causing the envy of his family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-12-17
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The Path of Hope
Overview: The story of a group of Sicilian miners and their families decide to illegally cross the border to France and their hardships.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-22
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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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Frisky
Overview: The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-06
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Alfredo, Alfredo
Overview: Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-22
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The Godfather
Overview: Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-14
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Who's Got the Black Box?
Overview: The widow of a murdered undercover NATO officer in Greece is the prime suspect in his killing. She finds herself embroiled in a bigger conspiracy about the sabotage of U.S. radar installations while trying to prove her innocence.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-10-27
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The Peddler and the Lady
Overview: Peppino, a fishmonger on Campo de' Fiori, a famous Roman marketplace, works alongside Elide, a greengrocer, who has a soft spot for him, despite the fact they argue all day long... But neither Peppino, nor his friend Aurelio, the barber, are interested in getting married. Until he meets the beautiful Elsa...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-06-24
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Cronaca di un delitto
Overview: After a factory worker is killed, Sergio Bruni is placed on remand for two years before being released for lack of evidence. Shunned by his wife and his colleagues, he must now discover the true culprit.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-06-29
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Son of the Red Corsair
Overview: Enrico di Ventimiglia, the Son of the Red Corsair, travels through the Spanish conquests of Central America in search of the stepsister he has never met.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-23
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In the Name of the Law
Overview: A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-03-13
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A Day for Lionhearts
Overview: September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-05
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Divorzio alla siciliana
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-15
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Senza cielo
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-11-24
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Monastero di Santa Chiara
Overview: Rudolf a nazi officer falls in love with Ester a jewish singer and tries to save her from deportation hiding her in the Monastery of Santa Chiara.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-03-19
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I cinque dell'Adamello
Overview: The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-11-30
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The Fruit Is Ripe
Overview: It is fruit-picking season in the plain and pickers come from all over and live in a camp for several weeks. Among the many pretty girls are Kissa, a natural vamp who delights in exciting men; Margo who is hard and tough, and Josine who is tender and romantic. They work in a feverish atmosphere and inflamed by the summer heat, youthful passions run riot, and the girls' sensual behavior cause rivalry among the men. Lorry driver Armand applies the same degree of ardor to his love-making as to his work, and his biggest rival is the boss' son, Berto, a strutting rooster who is very proud of his American car. After work each day, Kissa queens it in the cabaret on shore, and derives great pleasure in arousing jealousy between the men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-06-22
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People Like That
Overview: A respectable small town in Lombardy, whose inhabitants live peacefully together with smugglers, is disturbed by the arrival of an independent female teacher. She falls in love with a smuggler and elopes with him to Milan; she becomes pregnant and returns to the town. He is mortally wounded by the frontier guards and they get married just before he dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-01-05
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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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The Return of Don Camillo
Overview: Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-06-05
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The Pisciotta Case
Overview: The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the imprisoned assassin of Salvatore Giuliano. He very soon finds himself struggling against a conspiracy of silence, which Scauri must therefore overcome in order to indict two powerful mafia bosses. His only hope comes for a brief moment from the testimony of the young prosecutor Lojacono. But The Organization is the most strong: the young prosecutor withdraws his deposition and the magistrate disappears in mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-11-23
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Brothers of Italy
Overview: Capodistria, 1915. Captain Nazario Sauro, an officer in the Austrian Navy, is one of those patriots who militate for Italy to enter World War I. When he is about to be arrested by the Austrian authorities he chooses to desert. Once in Venice he enlists in the Italian Navy and becomes an officer in a submarine where his perfect knowledge of the coast of Istria proves particularly helpful. But when his submarine runs aground near the island of Munje, he is captured by the Austrians, sentenced to death for high treason and hanged in 1916.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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I, Hamlet
Overview: The adventures of Hamlet who, following many adventures, manages to kill Claudio the usurper, marry Ophelia and be elected President of the Republic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-27
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Revenge of the Pirates
Overview: A pirate tries to lead his followers in vengeance against a corrupt governor.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-18
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Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale
Overview: An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so stupid he is demoted and becomes a corporal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-27
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Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima
Overview: Doctor Gaudenzi, a real Sicilian manly man living in Rome, Italy, married the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. One day, his wife is about to die, and being very religious, she asks for a cardinal to perform the last rites and further demands that her husband pledges not to marry or be with other women after she dies. Constrained by the cardinal's presence, Gaudenzi promises, and she promptly dies. Later, as soon as he is about to fall in temptation when looking at sexy girls, strange things happen, finally convincing him that his jealous wife is watching from "out there". Gaudenzi decides to give up on his lusty life: he's returning to his Sicily home and, to be on the sure side, he asks to be injected with female hormones. That's when he meets a sexy woman no man can resist...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-03
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Giovannino
Overview: Giovannino grows up and seeks his way, exemplary in his total and definitive absence of character. He lets himself be guided a little by everyone, without ever making a decision of his own free will. He first seduces the family servant, then runs away to Rome and tries to marry her unserious daughter to a boarding house owner. But her father arrives from Catania who distrusts her and arranges for him to marry a rich and lame girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-04
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Il bivio
Overview: After the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides to became a policeman to help better his men in crime. He meets Giovanna and falls for her. But he begins liking his new job and after their first robbery, Aldo tries to leave his old accomplices...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-03-19
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Johnny Belinda
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Public Opinion
Overview: Following the death of his wife in unclear circumstances, the mechanic Egisto Bianchi is accused of auxoricide. A journalist begins to take care of the case and ignites public interest with a successful press campaign. The accused is acquitted for lack of evidence, but the reporter thinks he can still take advantage of the case by making a film of it. He then convinces some filmmakers to draw from the episode the subject of a film in which Bianchi himself will be the protagonist. During the filming, the reporter discovers that Bianchi's wife was cheating on her husband. So he then decides to modify the film script, including adultery, and to be able to shoot without problems he makes Bianchi go away. But he returns and, unseen, witnesses the new scenes of the film in the cinema of the country. Bianchi convinced that adultery is an invention, protests for the change, but the journalist reveals the truth to him, bringing the story to a dramatic ending.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-26
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Man of Straw
Overview: Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young son Giulio develops a cough. The doctor recommends the seaside. Luisa leaves with Giulio for several weeks. Andrea stays to work at the metal shop.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-11
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Girl Merchants
Overview: A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-13
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La ladra
Overview: Whistle is an orphaned boy, raised in an environment unsuitable for a budding child and thief. A shady lawyer, an accomplice of thieves and fences, entrusts him to Nino, the leader of a gang that is preparing a particularly valuable coup.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-08
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Seven in the Sun
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-05-02
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Tombolo, paradiso nero
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-10-24
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Song of the World
Overview: In Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberjack, who has gone up to Rebeillard country to fell trees, has not been heard from for several months. Concerned by his long absence, his father sets out to find him. Antonio, known as "Bouche d'or" (Golden Mouth), the man from the river, accompanied him out of friendship; the two of them toiled together for long days, but one night, at the edge of the wood, they discovered a blond woman lying on the ground, giving birth to a child: it was Clara, a young blind woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-07
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Love in the Night
Overview: Bourgoin uses Philippe to attract customers from another establishment to the nightclub he wants to open in Pigalle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-06-10
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Beat the Devil
Overview: A group of con artists stake their claim on a bogus uranium mine.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-26
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Un caso di coscienza
Overview: Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-04
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Occhio Alla Vedova!
Overview: Concetta Li Cause, deprived of her husband Oreste by the Mafia, is coveted by Bologna Marcello and Charles postman. Besides the two, there are other suitors because the widow is rich; but Cosa Nostra deploys its resources to prevent the woman from finding a new partner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Black Turin
Overview: Mino and Lello, two sons of a worker wrongly accused of murder, try to find out evidence of his innocence and begin to investigate mafia business in Torino.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-05-22
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Mission to Caracas
Overview: Special agent Becker is after a briefcase that rather cleverly disguises some secret documents.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-06
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Don Camillo's Last Round
Overview: Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-29
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Reeds and Mud
Overview: Province of Valencia, Spain, 19th century. Tonet lives an intense love story with Neleta, whom he has known since childhood, but is forced to leave her to serve in the war in Cuba.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-10-02
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Romarei, the Girl with the Green Eyes
Overview: Clairvoyant gifted Romarei (Carola Kayser) manages to save her childhood friend Lorenz Ophofen from what would have been a fatal accident. Prang, a greedy widow, decides to gain some money by using that gift of her daughter by adoption, Romarei, and she sends her to Boris Olinzoff's luxury estate, in East Africa. Boris is the CEO of a powerful economic group, and soon Romarei gets herself in danger. Romarei misses Lorenz, who tries her to uncover the identity of Boris' mortal enemy Masareff... But when Boris travels to Germany, Romarei is kidnapped.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-12-18
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Pact with the Devil
Overview: The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensively produced period piece is more along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, with young love threatened by warring families. In his first Italian film, Hollywood veteran Eduardo Cianelli goes through his usual villainous paces as the scheming father of the male lead (Jacques Francois). The most fascinating performance is rendered by Umberto Spadaro, as the village idiot, or is he? Patto col Diavolo makes the most of the visual dynamics of Italy's mountainous Calabrian region.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-01-11
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Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera
Overview: A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl is only interested in his title and plans a divorce, but after a while she also grows fond of him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-29
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Engaged to Death
Overview: A tale of love, rivalry and passion set in the 50s, in the madcap world of motorcycle speed races, shot on the occasion of the main competitions of that time, such as Monza’s Moto GP and the last edition of the legendary Milano-Taranto race. With also very rare footage of the Moto Guzzi wind tunnel and factories. The film features, alongside popular actors Rik Battaglia and Sylva Koscina, many of the most important champions of those years: Geoffrey Duke, Libero Liberati, Bill Lomas, Enrico Lorenzetti, Reg Armstrong, Stanley Woods, Ken Cavanagh, Dickie Dale, Thomas Campbell, Pierre Monneret, Albino Milani, Walter Zeller, Bruno Francisci, all of them riding amazing Moto Guzzi, Gilera, Mondial and Norton bikes with the so charming and dangerous dustbin fairings that were going to be banned in 1958.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-04-13
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The Little World of Don Camillo
Overview: In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-28
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Hell in the City
Overview: A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-01-29
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Streets of Sorrow
Overview: A magistrate saves a young woman from drowning and they fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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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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There's Going to Be a Party
Overview: FBI agent John Lewis travels in Europe, from Paris to Lisbon, trying to locate a disappeared fellow secret-agent, Mark Lemoine. Soon he has trouble with a violant gang, and is involved with a young French reporter, Michèle Laurent. Finally, the chief of the Secret Service tells Lewis that Lemoine never existed. Instead of ending his mission there, the real trouble starts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-12-22
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Il monello della strada
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-20
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Lo sparviero del Nilo
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Cavalcata selvaggia
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Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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La mano della morta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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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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The Sucker
Overview: In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-03-24
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Lo sgarro
Overview: A young man joins a band of brigands, but, faced with their exactions, rebels against them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-06
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The Counterfeiters
Overview: Producers of phony currency become the object of a crackdown by law enforcement agencies.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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Il Figlioccio del padrino
Overview: A mafioso falls in love with his boss's daughter. Since the girl has already been widowed four times her father takes good care that this does not happen again.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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Dinanzi a noi il cielo
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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