Nando Bruno
Also Known As: Fernando Bruno , Ferdinando Bruno, Фернандо Бруно, Фердинандо Бруно, Нандо Бруно
Biography: Nando Bruno was born on October 6, 1895, died April 11, 1963 (age 67) in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and writer,
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: October 06, 1895
Age: 129 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 11, 1963
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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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Ivan, il figlio del diavolo bianco
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-05
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Ivan, il figlio del diavolo bianco
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-05
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Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Overview: A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-30
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Mare
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-05-19
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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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Una di quelle
Overview: Rocco and his brother Martino are two rich country-estate owners who descend upon the city in search of adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-08
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The Overtaxed
Overview: Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-10
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The Widower
Overview: Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-20
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Angelina
Overview: A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for the affection of her man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-12
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Scampolo 53
Overview: A young girl meets by chance an engineer who lives with an unbearable mistress. After abandoning his mistress, the engineer has to leave for Sardinia. He decides to take the girl with him, who has been waiting for this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-08
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Lasciateci in pace
Overview: A mild-mannered man is mistaken for a subversive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Totò nella fossa dei leoni
Overview: The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst of one of his researches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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Le signorine dello 04
Overview: The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-02-09
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The Beautiful Otero
Overview: An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-04
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Flesh Will Surrender
Overview: Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Giovanni did what he should never have done: he associated himself with the crook. Giulio soon laid hands on Giovanni's money, ruined his career and manhandled him into marrying his own mistress, the beautiful Ginevra. It was of course an unhappy marriage but Giovanni found a little solace when his son Ciro was born. Seven years later though, Wanzer resurfaced...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-09-27
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The Flame that Never Dies
Overview: Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-09-21
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Professor, My Son
Overview: During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-12-09
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The Last Wagon
Overview: Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with Roberto, a young taxi driver. But it is Roberto who helps him when he gets into trouble with a former client, Mary Dunchetti (Anna Magnani), an arrogant singer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-12-01
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Sambo
Overview: A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of chance. Sent a messenger to Brazil to gamble, the two men go wild and run up debts. When they realize they have won nothing, they initially fall into total despair; however the coachman had played a coupon from the football pools on his own account. He will win and make things right.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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How I Lost the War
Overview: Leo Bianchetti has just finished his military service but then is again called to arms; after 10 years on various fronts, he finds himself again in Italy to guard a bridge destroyes by the Germans that he doesn't want to leave.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-12-20
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Fortunella
Overview: A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-14
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Lost Youth
Overview: In impoverished post-war Rome, a gang of young thieves is lead by Stefano, the son of an illustrious professor. The police suspects that the criminals are actually university students; inspector Mariani, a young World War II veteran, enrolls and tries to find out more. He falls for a pretty fellow student, Luisa, but she is the sister of the gang leader...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-04-02
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The King's Guerrillas
Overview: Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-03
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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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Courtyard
Overview: A teenager escapes from a reformatory and is accused of theft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-27
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L'imprevisto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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Rome-Paris-Rome
Overview: Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome-to-Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France: Ginette, a widow with a four-year-old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to move, but unfortunately his wife and petulant brother-in-law insist on accompanying him to Paris, and he must decide between the two women in his life.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-18
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Madri pericolose
Overview: A great Party is given by the rich family of Improta. Every kind of intrigue gets around this party. The purpose of every plan is to find a husband or a wife with a quality: wealth.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-06
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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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The Lucky Five
Overview: Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-15
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Christmas at Camp 119
Overview: Second World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners Still waiting to return home , preparing to celebrate , away from families , another sad Christmas. To dare a little rein to Their longing , they tell Episodes of Their Life . A Roman tells the USA difficult married life . A Neapolitan soldier tells of His lieutenant, a Neapolitan duke penniless . Meanwhile , the camp commander gave : Prisoners and a gramophone , So , Ai stories intertwine songs . Another soldier recalls the parties and the songs of the Sicilian spring , WHILE a Venetian gondolier evokes A HIS love affair . Sometimes , From Radio shabby listening news from abroad and Italy . Finally , one day , comes the ' pending release and All They return home .
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-12-22
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Partenza ore 7
Overview: The young Chiaretta has joined, against the will of her family, a theater company in the magazine in the hope of being able to sing on the stage. Her fiancé chases her trying to make her change her mind and bring her home.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-06-01
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Emigrantes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-09-28
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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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If I Were A Member Of Parliament
Overview: A young dare-devil goes to Rome in search of fortune, with the blessings and money of his loving aunts. While in the city, he is a victim of a series of mishaps. His aunts hear about a man of the same name who is a candidate for Parliament; they think that he is their nephew and organize a series of celebrations. So, the youngster gets the idea of trying to replace the real candidate, but gets found out. The aunts forgive him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-10-27
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Hello Elephant
Overview: Vittorio De Sica is a teacher struggling to take care of his family and always dreaming that Parliament will increase the salaries for teachers and life will become easier for his wife, Maria Mereander, and kids. An Indian prince (Sabu) visits Italy, is assisted by the teacher and gives De Sica a baby elephant as a reward. This upsets the landlord, Nando Bruno, the other tenants, and the neighborhood. He takes the elephant away but, like Lassie, it comes home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-02-23
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L'Incantevole nemica
Overview: The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-06-14
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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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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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Two Nights with Cleopatra
Overview: Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she's the real monarch.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-04
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Life Begins Anew
Overview: A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-09-21
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Rome, Open City
Overview: In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-10-08
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Una bruna indiavolata!
Overview: Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-21
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Montevergine
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1939
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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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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Beauties in Capri
Overview: The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-10
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The Love Specialist
Overview: A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but things come to a crazy conclusion when he tries to bribe a horse to win a race at the Palio racing grounds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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To Live in Peace
Overview: Vivere in pace is a 1947 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Luigi Zampa.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-03-13
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Papà Pacifico
Overview: After she inherits a huge sum of money, a girl suddenly leaves a working-class man that she previously used to fancy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-08-11
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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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Destinazione Piovarolo
Overview: Antonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising. Later he marries a jewish woman. He has career ambitions but can not reach them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-16
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Tragic ballad
Overview: A sailor is accused of the murder of his girlfriend's father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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The Intruder
Overview: A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her to the limit taking advantage of her re-enters her life. The ensuing crisis will help the newlyweds overcome their differences and start a fresh, better new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-05-18
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Time Out for Love
Overview: Abandoned by her lover Philippe, Michèle, a Parisian fashion designer, tries to kill herself. She is saved by her doctor and Ann, a young American nurse, who takes up residence in Michèle's apartment to keep an eye on her patient.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-02-03
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He Thief, She Thief
Overview: Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-12
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The Traffic Policeman
Overview: An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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Rome: Free City
Overview: In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-12-17
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Gli assi della risata
Overview: An anthology of several segments about everyday Italian life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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High Time
Overview: The historic clock of a small town needs to be repaired but there is no money in the town coffers to pay for it. Don Paolo (Peppino Spadaro), the Priest, raises the money by lottery and thinks the surplus should go to the poor. The Communists and Socialists object because they are afraid the priest will get the credit and they claim it as "the people's money." The democratic mayor (Arturo Brogaglia) can think of no solution other than organizing committees and sub-committees. Finally, Rocchetti (Paola Stoppi), the town mechanic who has no answers for town problems and hates the clergy and politicians alike, comes forward and repairs the clock for the sheer joy of work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-04-12
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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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Roman Tales
Overview: Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-21
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The Age of Indiscretion
Overview: In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-08-23
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La sposa non può attendere
Overview: On his way to his own wedding, a young man saves a woman who attempted suicide by jumping into a river and falls for her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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Stranger on the Prowl
Overview: A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects the kid from a life of crime. Tipped off by a woman anxious to collect the reward for him (who is wanted for murder), the police pursue the two lost souls.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-12
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Gastone
Overview: During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-26
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Love and Larceny
Overview: Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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Il trovatello
Overview: A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-10-01
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Vent'anni
Overview: Two petty thieves, Ciro and Geppa, plan a much bigger scam than they usually practice, but complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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3 Strangers in Rome
Overview: Three girls from Milan dreaming of a holiday in Rome arrive in the city by train and decide to pretend to be rich Danish girls to attract three nice guys... Three guys looking for easy-going girls offer them a guided tour through the most beautiful places of the city. The girls accept and make the guys spend a fortune, but one evening they get drunk and one of them incidentally reveals she's just from Milan. The guys get upset and set up a sort of revenge, but in the end they make it up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-02
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La cento chilometri
Overview: During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-05-06
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