Mario Garriba
Also Known As: Mario Carriba, Maria Garriba
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Soave, Verona, Veneto, Italy
Birthday: November 13, 1944
Deathday: December 31, 2013
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Male, Female, Flower, Fruit
Overview: A pair of twins, Anna and Tony, leave their country to go to Rome to make their fortune. Anna knows how to sing and Tony knows how to dance. They suffer many setbacks, but they are willing to go the distance in order to succeed.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-11-07
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Little Flames
Overview: Tommaso, a quiet, thoughtful child of five, lives in a world of his own, conversing daily with three imaginary friends. Seemingly loved by his parents, Tommaso senses that their affections are superficial and he yearns for something more.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-09-13
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Littlefoot the Policeman
Overview: Petralia, a Neapolitan policeman casually makes friends with Maria, a girl engaged in the smuggling of cigarettes and belonging to the family of Ferdinando Il Barone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-13
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Sweet Dreams
Overview: Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-09-10
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The Suspect
Overview: Fascism has forced the leadership of the Italian Communist Party to settle in Paris. In Italy arrests of militants are decimating the organization, so Emilio is sent on a mission in the area of Turin, to put out of harm whistleblowers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-21
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That Malicious Age
Overview: Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-11
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Zelda
Overview: Henry Davis and Zelda are a couple with peculiar sexual tastes. In order to have more freedom, they send their daughter Ingrid to study in a school away from home. They have a relationship with Ursula but, after some time, when they get tired of her, they involve Christian and his wife Clarissa in their erotic games. When Ingrid comes to spend some time home, her presence becomes the catalyst of profound transformations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-09
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The Minor
Overview: Suffocated from the strict atmosphere of her high school, Valeria has been experiencing erotic dreams with sadistic motorcyclist rapists, a doctor who decides more than an exam is in order and a torturous priest whipping her in pure delight. After leaving school she finds out that the her bourgeois family setting has something to do with her recurring dreams and suppressed desires. She idealistically seeks out romance and love, but falls short time and time again...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-25
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A Black Ribbon for Deborah
Overview: A young woman with psychic powers is obsessed with having a child. Even though she is unable to conceive, her desire to do so creates a supernatural force determined to fulfill her wishes
Genres: Mystery Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-04
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Silence the Witness
Overview: De Luca is killed by Marchetti's chauffeur. Marchetti ordered the murder because he was to be accused by De Luca. The two have a car accident while going home to get an alibi. There is a witness, Sironi, who calls the police. But when the police arrive the car has gone and so have the two men. Inspector Santi and young judge Novelli look into the strange case. Marchetti, however, is a powerful man and Sironi and his family begin to be obsessed first by threats then by assaults.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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La vita in gioco
Overview: A filmmaker of committed films, together with his lover, plans to commit suicide within a few days.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-22
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Increase and Multiply
Overview: Italian comedy
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-15
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A Brief Vacation
Overview: Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-07-21
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No More Time
Overview: This Italian black-and-white film, based on a true story, was originally made for television. It concerns the life and sad end of Evariste Gallois (Mario Barriba), a brilliant student mathematician whose republican politics and hot-bloodedness resulted in his death; it is unclear whether he died by political assassination or as a result of a duel.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-10
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Bianca
Overview: Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he feels more alone than ever. Then, out of the blue, a new French teacher called Bianca arrives at school. Amongst uncertainties and contradictions, the two start dating. In the meantime, a series of homicides take place and a police officer begins to suspect that Michele is involved. Bianca will save him providing an alibi at the right moment, but then, everything goes wrong again.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-02-23
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