Memmo Carotenuto
Also Known As: Меммо Каротенуто, Guglielmo Carotenuto, Guglielmo "Memmo" Carotenuto
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: August 23, 1908
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 23, 1980
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Umberto D.
Overview: When elderly pensioner Umberto Domenico Ferrari returns to his boarding house from a protest calling for a hike in old-age pensions, his landlady demands her 15,000-lire rent by the end of the month or he and his small dog will be turned out onto the street. Unable to get the money in time, Umberto fakes illness to get sent to a hospital, giving his beloved dog to the landlady's pregnant and abandoned maid for temporary safekeeping.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-20
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Indiscretion of an American Wife
Overview: While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-02
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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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No Man's Land
Overview: A group of traveling persons end up as prisoners of a German sergeant and his squad, in an isolated and precarious cabin in the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-02
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È arrivata la parigina
Overview: An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-06-26
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Poor But Beautiful
Overview: Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-01-23
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Toto in Paris
Overview: Duclos's son, a worldly gangster, is compromised in a case of which he is innocent. The proof of this innocence is in the hands of a "competitor", the Marquis de Chemantel de Beauvoiron, a misguided aristocrat. He asked for $ 10 million to cede the document. Duclos will then imagine Chemantel contracting $ 10 million in life insurance for his son. As he discovered in Rome a tramp, a look-alike of the marquis, he will bring this man to Paris and arrange for him to die accidentally.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-10-23
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Gli onorevoli
Overview: Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-10
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The Anatomy of Love
Overview: Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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Toto and Marcellino
Overview: Marcellino becomes an orphan and finds two uncles--a good old eccentric man and a villain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-04-22
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Poor Girl, Pretty Girl
Overview: Romolo and Salvatore look for jobs to impress their girlfriends, but things get complicated when their old flame Giovanna reappears.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Bread, Love and Dreams
Overview: When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-22
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Piccola posta
Overview: Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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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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Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
Overview: Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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Biblioteca di Studio Uno: I tre moschettieri
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Crazy Bunch
Overview: Tricky Dicky is after a gold treasure with his companion. He tracks the treasure down in insane asylums, Ku Klux Klan rallies, and finally, the outlaw's hideout.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-27
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Lo scocciatore
Overview: A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics!
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-18
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Caravan of songs
Overview: In a luxury hotel in Miramare, a competition is organized between pop music singers. Famous celebrities and famous singers are invited.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-04-02
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Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
Overview: A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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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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Ripudiata
Overview: A young countess is wrongly accused of adultery and shunned by her husband. She leaves and becomes a successful opera singer and when war comes returns to face her accusers, see her son and clear her name.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-06-01
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Legs of Gold
Overview: Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a triumphant championship, is about to be promoted to Serie C.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-27
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Piovuto dal cielo
Overview: A pickpoket falls in love with one of his victims.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-06-26
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The Third
Overview: A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed sentimental life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-22
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The Police Serve the Citizens?
Overview: In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that controls the port activities. But the law restrains his action.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-06
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A Pest to Everyone
Overview: When a relentlessly annoying and obnoxious man named Karl decides to make everyone’s life a living nightmare, no one is safe. Whether it’s his coworkers, family, or strangers, Karl’s determined to get under everyone’s skin with his endless disruptions and antics. Hilarity ensues as Karl’s quest to irritate leads him into absurd and outrageous situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1969-08-21
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The Ballad of Husbands
Overview: Giulio and Armando, both married, attempt an escape from their respective married lives, invent a secret mission and leaves for the south.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-09
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I dritti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-02
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Akiko
Overview: The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Japanese girl knocks at her door, claiming to be the daughter of her late husband, an Italian military officer who went to Japan on a secret mission during WWII and reportedly killed in action there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-23
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Adventure at the Motel
Overview: A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-09
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You, Your Mother, and Me
Overview: In 1950s Naples, a couple struggles to be together against the will of the mother-in-law. In the end, not only will they be together, but the mother-in-law-to-be, a widow, finds love as well.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-20
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Good Folk's Sunday
Overview: In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-25
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It Happens in Roma
Overview: Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in the center of Rome with amazing views both want it and strike the compromise of marrying each other platonically to get it. The woman still hopes for true love and the man agrees to step aside should that special someone come along but he is secretly smitten with her and surreptitiously makes her various suitors look like fools. All goes well until he comes up against Rosanno Brazzi and finds him a tough challenge to overcome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-05-24
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It Happened in the Penitentiary
Overview: A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-10-19
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Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!
Overview: A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-17
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Too Bad She's Bad
Overview: When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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Cantando sotto le stelle
Overview: A man finds out that he won the lottery and travels to Rome to retrieve the other half of his winning ticket.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Processo contro ignoti
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Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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Poor Millionaires
Overview: After a series of misunderstandings and other unfortunate incidents, the honeymoon of two young couples ends sooner than planned. Back at their starting point, the ensuing conflict leads to one of the couples separating. Salvatore, who moves away, is hit in the street by a car and loses his memory: he has lost his memories of his friends and family - until he meets his wife Marisa, in which he falls in love again ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-05-02
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On Friday at Eleven
Overview: An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck bound for Marseilles. However, things don't go exactly as planned.
Genres: Action Mystery Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-16
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Prima di sera
Overview: A middle-aged insurer, after spending a sleepless night because of a quarrel with his wife, goes to the pharmacy to buy a sleeping pill. By mistake, the doctor, instead of giving him a sedative, gives him poison. The man goes out of town to visit a client and, unaware that he is wanted by the police, is more than once about to swallow the pills; but every time an obstacle prevents him from fulfilling his purpose.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-21
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Gagliardi and Babes
Overview: Paolo, a youth, associates with very dubious characters and shirks work but all in all he is a good guy. Will he mend his own ways?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-06-19
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Il cocco di mamma
Overview: Aldo, Vasco and "Smilzo" (Slim) are friends. They live with their parents and are training for boxing. But their real interest is in women. When casually Aldo meets Laura and falls for her. Will he succeed in winning her love?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-05
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The Most Wonderful Moment
Overview: Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she prepares for the upcoming childbirth
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-03-21
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Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo
Overview: This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the roman traffic police. 'Guardia'(agent) Alberto Randolfi has a too strong inclination to fine everyone and is dreaming about learning French. 'Brigadiere' (sergeant) Pietro Spaziali is busy looking at his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is going to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they often do.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-04-20
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Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras?
Overview: A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition depends on the lawyer's ploys to get his clients acquitted.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-19
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I giorni più belli
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-08-13
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My Wife's Enemy
Overview: Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and make him impossible to keep a job for a long time: that's why the young couple keeps arguing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-28
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Class of Iron
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Le vacanze del Sor Clemente
Overview: Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa he's left in the company of a friend and a butler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-06-01
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Mariti in pericolo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-24
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Parola di ladro
Overview: Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in the jewelry store of Gabriele Bertinori, and with this position he plans to rob the place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-02-13
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Time of Vacation
Overview: Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojourn and love stories begin and end.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-21
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Gente felice
Overview: Tanino, who lives in a village without a cemetery, goes to a deputy to obtain the land necessary for the cemetery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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La Pica sul Pacifico
Overview: Adelaide takes possession of an island in the Pacific inherited from her deceased husband. She is opposed by the chieftain and a convict. To get the island's citizenship she tries to marry the convict, but he prefers to turn himself in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-24
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The Three Thieves
Overview: Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-09-27
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Chéri-Bibi
Overview: Chéri-Bibi is an ex-convict who undergoes plastic surgery in order to resemble his rival for the hand of Cecily. Once he emerges from the bandages, Cheri-Bibi is plunged into a series of melodramatic misadventures.
Genres: Drama Adventure Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-06-07
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Husbands in the City
Overview: In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-18
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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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Accroche-toi, y'a du vent!
Overview: A self-taught amateur detective who learned his trade from a book finds himself caught between two gangs in Milan, trying to recover a wooden leg full of drugs. He is accompanied by an unlikely trio: a deaf secretary, an undertaker and a monkey.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-20
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Ragazzi della marina
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-06-12
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Fathers and Sons
Overview: The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-02-21
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7 Golden Monks
Overview: Count Raimondo and his girlfriend Veronique return to Italy from Switzerland carrying with them a load of contraband cigarettes but, using the pretense of a kidnapping to cheat their supplier, they hide out in the convent run by his uncle Friar Hugh. In the same convent without anyone's knowledge, the bandit Lucky Marciano is also hiding out with a significant quantity of gold ingots stolen from the Swiss Federal Bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-08
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Bicycle Thieves
Overview: Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-07-21
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All Cream Susanna
Overview: A young woman gets closely watched by her jealous fiance while she is trying to deliver cakes to customers' houses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-09-20
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The Two of the F. 1 at the Craziest, Craziest Race in the World
Overview: Two chaps who earn a living repairing household appliances are hired by a formula one manager who has had his best pilot kidnapped. One of them drives the car which is remote controlled by a device invented by the other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-12
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Nero's Mistress
Overview: Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-13
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I piaceri dello scapolo
Overview: Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-30
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Love in First Class
Overview: A man from Milan, Carmelo, is forced to take his young son Malcolm, on a trip down South so his mother, who usually takes care for the boy, can go on vacation with her Moroccan boyfriend. Carmelo, who obviously is not too often at home, has no clue about how to deal with young children, even the most basic chores a father should know to tend the restless imp thrown in his care. The crowded train traveling from Milan to Reggio, Calabria, is packed in the second class section where Carmelo and Malcom have a hard time getting a seat. When they finally do, young Malcolm decides to disappear from his compartment. He goes to the first class car, where eventually Carmelo decides to sit and pay the extra supplement. He is lucky to find more space, and the companionship of Beatrice, a woman that is bringing the skeleton of a rare animal. Carmelo finds a way to interest the lady. Their ride is certainly bumpy, complicated when he decides to leave the mischievous Malcolm at an intermediate stop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-08-12
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Casanova '70
Overview: The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-06-15
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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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L'uomo dai calzoni corti
Overview: Salvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he never met. Before arriving in Venice, he stays in a small sea village where he meets people of various kinds.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-06-23
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The Band of Honest Men
Overview: Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-04-12
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The Cheerful Squadron
Overview: The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-05
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Le ambiziose
Overview: Thirty girls arrive in a seaside town to participate in a beauty contest. Marina has no ambitions of victory: she only wants to have the sewing machine promised to each participant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Cocagne
Overview: As the driver of a garbage truck in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife, Mélanie, and their two children. When Amédée's "Fanny" is stolen from the bouliste club, Marc-Antoine offers to repaint another one. As soon as the work is finished, he becomes a local celebrity and, intoxicated by his new-found fame, leaves his family to go with Hélène, the young waitress, to his friend Septime's house in the Camargue to take up painting. Eventually, Marc-Antoine realizes that he is dissatisfied and that his success seems dishonest. He realizes that happiness awaits him with his wife, children and friends, and resumes his simple life without remorse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-08
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Rocco e le sorelle
Overview: A Sicilian leaves for Milan, in search of fortune, with the four sisters he supervises fiercely.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-05-05
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The Woman's Confidant
Overview: A veterinarian in Figarolo, Giuliano Goberti has also been providing care to the villagers since the death of Dr. Lofal, but the arrival of a luscious replacement for the vacant doctor precipitates events. While she prescribes drugs, Giuliano orders the bedridden Countess to eat well and exercise. A Roman journalist reports on the miraculous results. Soon the quiet little Italian town is invaded by a motley crew of imaginary patients, who have to bring an animal with them to save the vet from trouble for practicing medicine illegally. In the end, the brave Giuliano marries the lovely doctoress, thus curing their celibacy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-06-20
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Male Companion
Overview: A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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Mattino di primavera
Overview: Two teenagers are late for school so they decide to spend the day together.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-05-01
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Ferdinand I King of Naples
Overview: The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises in search of love adventures. With the De Filippo brothers to complete.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-22
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Via col para... vento
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Agosto, donne mie non vi conosco
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-20
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Assassination in Rome
Overview: In this crime-thriller, Rome proves to be an unhappy destination for an American couple when the husband is kidnapped and his wife begins a desperate search for him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-06-07
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Everyone's in Love
Overview: Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-09
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What a Woman!
Overview: A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-02-03
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The Bigamist
Overview: A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-02-17
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Rascel Marine
Overview: During WW2 a platoon of marines fights the Japanese on a little island in the Pacific Ocean. On the island there is a hut where old Taikiki lives with his two daughters. The two opposing armies soon forget about war and concentrate on winning the girls' hearts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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Spavaldi e innamorati
Overview: This is an Italian movie starring Terence Hill
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-27
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Il principe fusto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-26
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The Italians They Are Crazy
Overview: In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-04-05
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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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Nerone '71
Overview: A family from the province goes to CinecittÃ, hoping that their daughter will be assigned a part in the blockbuster Nero 71 .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-07
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Diez fusiles esperan
Overview: During the first Carlist war in the 1830s in Spain a lieutenant falls into the enemy's hands and is arrested. When condemned, he claims he only wanted to see his newborn baby.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-15
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El Lazarillo de Tormes
Overview: An adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth century novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), it tells the story of Lazarillo, a poor boy who has to live by his wits after being sold to a series of cruel masters.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-11-16
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Theft in the Evening, a Big Coup Hopefully
Overview: A comedy about two friends attempting a heist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-18
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The Shortest Day
Overview: Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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A vent'anni è sempre festa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-08-14
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Solo Dio mi fermerà
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-08-16
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Goodbye dreams of glory
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-02-20
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1860
Overview: The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-02-21
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Tosca
Overview: Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is fighting for freedom.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-01-31
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Old Guard
Overview: There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly propagandistic as this famous (notorious?) dramatic paean to the Blackshirts. The story takes place in a small village in Italy in October of 1922, on the eve of the fascist "March on Rome", in which King Victor Emanuel III was persuaded to consign power to Benito Mussolini. Gianfranco Giachetti is Dr. Cardini, a doctor at the local psychiatric hospital, where a strike has been called by the local socialists. Cardini turns to the fascists to help avert the strike. His son Roberto (Mino Doro) rounds up fascist friends to fight those aligned with the strikers and the town's socialists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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Canzoni a tempo di Twist
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Napoleone a Firenze
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Grazie tante arrivederci
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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La canzone più bella
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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La prigioniera della torre di fuoco
Overview: Italy, 15th century: Marco and Cesco, two youths from rival families are friends but become enemies when they both fall in love with the same girl, Germana, who is kept prisoner by Cesco's family in a tower. Germana is however in love with Marco and Cesco, feeling betrayed, has Marco imprisoned. During a battle Marco proves however his loyalty to his friend, who falls unfortunately deadly wounded.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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