Gianni Cavina
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bologna, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: December 09, 1940
Age: 84 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 26, 2022
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The Wedding Director
Overview: Franco Elica is a film director casting a remake of a pious melodrama in Rome. He's melancholy, heading south for a break. On a beach, he meets a man who films weddings and is roped into helping film the wedding of the daughter of a severe and imperious prince. The wedding is one of convenience - the prince needs money, the groom is a mama's boy. Elica is attracted to the bride, Boda, and tries to convince her not to marry. No matter how outrageous his behavior, the prince keeps Elica on as the wedding director. As the wedding approaches, what's real blurs with Elica's imagination. Is he mad?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-04-21
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Empty Eyes
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-05-26
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The Friends At The Margherita Café
Overview: Bologna, 1954. Taddeo, a young man of 18 whom everyone calls Kid, dreams of becoming one of the regulars of the mythical Margherita Café, located under the portico across from his family's home. Through a ploy, he manages to get work as the chauffeur for Al, the neighborhood's most glamorous and mysterious resident. Having been taken under Al's wing, Taddeo gets to witness the adventures of Bep, who is in love with Marcella the entraineuse; the trials and tribulations of Gian, an aspiring singer and the victim of a horrible practical joke; the crazy behavior of Manuelo, a small-time robber with a sex phobia; the meanness of Zanchi, inventor of the elastic necktie; and the bizarre manias of Sarti, a ballroom dancing champion who wears his tux day and night. And Taddeo's home life is no less out of the ordinary, considering his mother is being led on by the family physician while his grandfather has fallen head over heels for a well-built piano teacher.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-04-03
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Christmas Present
Overview: On Christmas night, four estranged friends reunite for a game of poker to rip off a rich businessman—but old grudges get in the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-10-04
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Thomas
Overview: A modest theatrical company, soon to debut, organizes a superstitious spiritual session. During the evening the spirit of little Thomas is evoked.
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-09-28
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Christmas Rematch
Overview: Fifteen years after the card game on Christmas Eve in which he lost 550 million lire, Franco Mattioli returns to Bologna because he learned that his friend Lele - a film critic by profession, present at the fateful game (he managed to win 500 thousand lire) - has an incurable disease. In all these years Franco has continually thought about the match and now he knows that the time for revenge has arrived. For this reason he decides to convince the people present in 1986 (in addition to Lele, Ugo Cavara, Stefano Bertoni and Antonio Santelia) to play again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-01-30
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Per non dimenticare
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-10-01
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Porzûs
Overview: In 1945, at the huts above Porzûs, a hundred partisans from the Garibaldi Brigade and the Gap massacred about twenty partisans from Osoppo. They were commanded by Geko, who later went around saying that the group was accused of treason and collusion with the fascists, all to avoid consequences. But at the end of the war, Storno, who had escaped the massacre, sentenced Geko and his men to life imprisonment in absentia.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-09-12
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A Second Childhood
Overview: Lino and Chicca are an aging, childless middle-class couple whose life is disrupted after he's diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-10-08
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The House with Laughing Windows
Overview: A young restorer is commissioned to save a fresco representing the suffering of St. Sebastiano, which was painted on the wall of a local church by a mysterious, long-dead artist.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-20
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Cream Horn
Overview: Mariana and Domenico are on the run from her jealous boyfriend who just happens to be an over-jealous professional football player.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-09-11
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Midsummer Night Dance
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-12-03
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Passi furtivi in una notte boia
Overview: tory of a valet waitress. In order to become the owner of the bar where he works, he agrees to rob a bank. Good for the first time, not the second.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-08
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Festival
Overview: The annual film festival in Venice is, of course, an ideal place to make a film (how come no-one has thought of it before). Everything is there in Pupi Avati's Festival: the famous hotels Des Bain and Excelsior on the Lido, the shimmering sandy beach which captivated Visconti. The film was made last spring and exploits the presence of passing film stars such as Jack Nicholson. We see the hysterical press conferences, where journalists and experts ask intelligent questions-without listening to the answers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-09-27
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San Pasquale Baylonne, Protector of Women
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-02
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House of Pleasure for Women
Overview: The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has chosen Eddie Mordace to open the Italian branch of the multinational American Love Company. So Eddie opens in Milan a small branch of the Company whose purpose is to comfort women. Eddie hires Simbad, Adone and later, when business starts to go well, Ugolino, a real Count, and Ivanoe, a raper, who becames the attraction of the House.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-23
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Fancy a Woman
Overview: An erotic, comedic anthology film in which a young couple becomes addicted to having their trysts recorded, a woman cheats on her husband with an older man and desperately attempts to avoid the traps set for her, and a man, with the help of a mad scientist, is able to have an amorous encounter with Cicciolina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-07-22
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The Three of Us
Overview: 1770. Young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with “normal” boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of young genius.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-12-20
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Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-10-15
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La locandiera
Overview: The innkeeper Mirandolina is a beautiful girl, and for her beauty the Count of Albafiorita and the Marquis of Forlimpopoli fall in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-10-02
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The Son of the Buried Alive
Overview: A young nobleman battles against the ferocious woman who’s reigning upon those lands. The truth, as told by a poor but valiant mute, is that the real sovereign is the young boy and helps him defeat the evil ones.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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Il prigioniero
Overview: Italian TV movie. Based upon a novel by Anton Chekhov.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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All The Souls... Except the Dead
Overview: Dante arrives at the castle of the recently deceased Marquis Zanetti to sell a book which contains a prophecy that the death of nine members of the Zanetti family will reveal a hidden treasure.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-03-10
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The Legendary Life of Ernest Hemingway
Overview: Larger-than-life American author Ernest Hemingway is the subject of this biopic that chronicles the famous writer's life from childhood to his suicide at age 61. Haunted by various inner demons -- including his father's suicide -- Hemingway serves in World War I, marries four times, and finds creative support from Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein and other expatriates living in 1920s Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Facciaffittasi
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-05-01
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The Big Heart of Girls
Overview: Carlino Vigetti is pushed by his family to court the daughters of the Osti, landowners. But the return of their third daughter, the beautiful Francesca, will shatter the plans ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-11-11
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The Baron's Mazurka
Overview: A fig tree growing in the estates of Baron Anteo Pellacani has been worshipped since the Middle Ages, after a Saint was supposedly martyred there. The Baron, who was crippled in a fig tree-related accident and has since become a raging atheist, vows to tear it down—until he mistakes a beautiful prostitute momentarily lying on the tree for the Saint herself, falling in love with her. Her pimp, his relatives and the clergy try to take advantage of his newfound faith.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-22
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Il turno
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-09-18
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Dancing Paradise
Overview: Set in a fantastic site, the film tells the story of a mythical musician named Dancing Paradise and of his son William who, accompanied by an angel, retraces his father's career to repeat it.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-06-12
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Blood Relations
Overview: The story about a sinister magician-dwarf, physically unable to love a woman. His wife's betrayals and an obsessive isolation drive him to despair.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-28
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Per favore, occupati di Amelia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-06-01
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Buttiglione diventa capo del servizio segreto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-10
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Caffè Capo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-10-24
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Baciami piccina
Overview: 7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-09-29
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The Stars in the Ditch
Overview: A father and his four sons during the 18th century have their lives thrown into turmoil with the arrival of a woman at their villa. She quickly takes on multiple roles of sister, mother, confidant and lover to all, plunging the men into confusion and leading to an almost mythic ending.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-24
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Welcome Mr. President!
Overview: In a small mountain village lives a man with a challenging name, Giuseppe Garibaldi (one of Italy's "fathers of the fatherland"), but everybody call him with the nickname Peppino. Love fishing, the company of friends, the library where he works as a precarious employee. He is an optimistic person even if his child accuse him of being a wannabe. One day, due to a mess of politicians, an amazing thing happens: Peppino is mistakenly elected President of the Italian Republic. Pulled out from his quiet life, is to play a role for which he knows he is obviously inappropriate, but his common sense and his instinctive gestures are incredibly effective, except for the etiquette, for which he is in trouble. The inflexible and fascinating Deputy Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Janis Clementi, is anxious to no avail in an attempt to regulate the unpredictable actions of the President...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-03-21
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The Big Operator
Overview: The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-11-27
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Quando c'era lui... caro lei!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-06-04
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Mr. Devil
Overview: In 1950s Italy, a government official arrives in a rural town to investigate a grisly child murder. The culprit is a young boy who claims he acted in order to kill the Devil itself.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-08-22
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Cinema!!!
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-11-13
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Non chiamarmi Omar
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-11-05
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Traffic Jam
Overview: A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-12
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Dante
Overview: The tormented life of Dante Alighieri, from solitary childhood to death in exile, seen through Giovanni Boccaccio’s journey to rehabilitate his memory.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-09-29
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Flashback
Overview: Heinz is a German soldier stationed as a sniper overlooking his own army from a tree. When he falls asleep, his troops are gone and he is left alone to defend the incoming enemy invasion. Flashbacks recall his wartime experiences and his transition from a human being into a sadistic murderer and rapist.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-01
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