Leopoldo Trieste
Also Known As: Леопольдо Триесте
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leopoldo Trieste (3 May 1917, Reggio Calabria – 25 January 2003) was an Italian actor, film director and script writer. Trieste was born in Reggio Calabria. He worked with directors such as Pietro Germi, Francis Ford Coppola, Giuseppe Tornatore, Tinto Brass, Charles Vidor, René Clément and Federico Fellini. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leopoldo Trieste, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: May 03, 1917
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 25, 2003
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The Godfather Part II
Overview: In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-20
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Don't Look Now
Overview: While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-11
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Momo
Overview: Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction Family Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1986-07-16
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Divorce Italian Style
Overview: Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-20
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A Bay of Blood
Overview: An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-08
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Cinema Paradiso
Overview: A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-11-17
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I Vitelloni
Overview: Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-09-17
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Pulp
Overview: A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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L'albero della maldicenza
Overview: Five youngsters spend their time spreading rumours in a little village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-16
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The White Sheik
Overview: In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as "The White Sheik". While Wanda impetuously sneaks away to locate the object of her affections, disconsolate Ivan tries his hardest to keep up appearances with the couple's relatives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-27
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A Farewell to Arms
Overview: An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-14
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Law of Courage
Overview: The true story of Rosario Livatino, a young judge in Sicily in the early 1980s, who have been nicknamed 'The Boy Judge' from the President of the Republic. He's strictly incorruptible, working hard and refusing even to shake hands with suspects. He then starts a number of investigations that lead him to touch the mafia power in the area, and then to personal war with the hidden organization.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-11-17
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Where Is Freedom?
Overview: A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocrisy of his own relatives and decides to return behind bars.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-05
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The Golden Ass
Overview: In ancient Mauretania, the young Roman Lucius Apuleius and his friend Aristomene run into a series of misadventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-26
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Marianna Ucrìa
Overview: In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing three children before even turning 16, when she finally gives birth to a boy. Despite everything, she'll find a way to emancipate herself from the oppressive social conventions of the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-08-13
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Two hearts, a Chapel
Overview: Aristide receives a big inheritance from his mother, but when he meets a beautiful redhead at the cemetery, his life changes unexpectedly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-02
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Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
Overview: Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito, sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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Henry IV
Overview: Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. His psychiatrist concocts an elaborate scheme to shock him out of his medieval reverie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-05-24
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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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Fellini nel cestino
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Vacation
Overview: An allegedly insane woman is allowed to finally leave the madhouse to see if she is capable of functioning normally…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-04
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Son tornate a fiorire le rose
Overview: The birth of a nephew upsets the life of Paolo and Carlo who, unable to grow old, try to prove that they are lively.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-17
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Il successo
Overview: Giulio has a faithful wife and a true friend, but he is convinced that only with money can one be happy. So he devotes himself to dangerous real estate speculation in Sardinia, even though he does not have the capital to deal with it. To find the necessary money, he is willing to give up even his dignity. And slowly, he alienates his most beloved ones from himself....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-24
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Amore mio non farmi male
Overview: Anna and Marcello, two wealthy high school students. they would like to consume their Platonic love so far, going against the directives of their parents ... who get in the way to prevent their sexual initiation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-07-13
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Fischia Il Sesso
Overview: A girl from New York, Carol, to get married turns to the marriage agency of Mr. Lewis, who introduces her to Gavino, a young Sardinian immigrant clandestine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-06
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Weekend, Italian Style
Overview: Manager Marletti goes to the sea to meet his wife Giuliana to spend the weekend with her and many friends. After three days Marletti comes back driving his car to Rome. So he can sleep, alone and happy, with silence around him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-27
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A Virgin Named Mary
Overview: A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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The Eye of the Needle
Overview: Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-14
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The Lady Has Been Raped
Overview: Good bourgeois damage unintentionally life of a drug-party, during which the mistress of the house is raped without recognizing the aggressor. Both she and her husband come into crisis and try to figure out who it was. The truth comes to the surface slowly, and it is unexpected.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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A Matter of Honor
Overview: Efisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with colleagues in strength with the game "head against head". In the village the Sanna and Porcu families' conflict has lasted over a century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-24
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Se non avessi l'amore
Overview: The film covers the last year of Pier Giorgio Frassati life, son of the family that owned the newspaper La Stampa, who lived between 1901 and 1925 and was beatified in 1990.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-12-24
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Don Bosco
Overview: This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-01-31
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The Private Lesson
Overview: Alessandro has a thing or two to learn. Carroll Baker, in her role, is the perfect teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-11-03
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Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa
Overview: A whimsical commedia all'italiana divided into four episodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-29
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Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe
Overview: Son of a poor Sicilian sharecropper committing suicide (he owed half a million lire to Baron Lamia), 35-year-old Carmelo Macaluso returns to the Sicilian town, after 15 years of hard work in Germany, with a Mercedes, 100 million in his briefcase and the ambitious plan to buy the respect of the villagers ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-13
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Journey of Love
Overview: An older couple finally travels to the sea, reliving old memories along the way.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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We Still Kill the Old Way
Overview: A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-24
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Be Sick… It's Free
Overview: Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-24
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F.B.I. Operation Baalbeck
Overview: An Interpol agent is tasked with investigating the deaths of several other agents.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-06-29
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Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?
Overview: In Lazio, four young people named Riccetto, Girasole, Lallo and Tombarolo try to make a living by stealing what they find in the tombs of the rich buried. Being inexperienced, they often find themselves in trouble or pursued by the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-28
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Stress
Overview: The film centers on young revolutionary student Gilberto who is being sought by the police. To avoid arrest, he boards a train and travels home. The house now seems somehow haunted, as doors slam shut and shadows are seen running throughout the corridors. But Gilberto soon discovers that it's his own troubled conscience that is torn in two. He hesitates as one part tells him to accept the attraction that his father's 'world' exerts on him whilst the other orders him to destroy everything to pursue his own ideals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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A Maiden for the Prince
Overview: Young Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, rejects his first wife Margherita Farnese, obtaining the annulment of the union and, at the same time, raising strong doubts about her virginity
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-26
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White Voices
Overview: In 17th-century Rome, a young man in a choir of castrati falls for the beautiful wife of a powerful aristocrat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-08-12
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The Black Stallion
Overview: While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-13
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Escalation
Overview: 1968, London. Luca is living his 'swinging' years away from duties, while his father wants him to take the reins of the family business. He plots to have him kidnapped and placed in a sanitarium, where the young man undergoes electroshock therapy until 'normalised'. Luca is then made to marry a woman who is actually a psychiatrist hired to turn him into a perfect businessman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-29
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Sick Love
Overview: Marcello is a dwarf who is kept hidden by his family and falls in love with a prostitute from the local brothel. The prostitute's lover plots to kill the dwarf but she helps him to escape, though at a cost to her own well-being.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-02
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Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Overview: Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the cuckhold, but.. it always seems to work out for lucky Ignazio!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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The Tree with Pink Leaves
Overview: Little Marco suffers from his parents' divorce. He runs away from home and is hit by a car. He drags on but eventually dies under a tree with pink leaves, remembering a story his grandmother told him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-11
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A Day in Court
Overview: A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-28
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Adventure in Capri
Overview: A young French girl, Yvonne, having won a competition, goes to Capri for a short break. There she meets Baron Vanvutelli, an old-fashioned old man, Mario, a Roman student, who came to spend the Sunday at Capri, along with two friends, Renato and Julius.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-14
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Il padrone sono me
Overview: In Romagna, an Italian district, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the owners of an estate are the professor Edoardo, always lost in reveries, and his wife Maria. They have a son, Robertino, who has a friend: Zvanin. Zvanin is the son of Mingòn and Marianna, two peasants. Dolly is an american cousin and every summer she comes in Romagna. The movie narrates their stories over the years until the post I World War period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-11-17
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On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
Overview: A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.
Genres: Romance Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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I ragazzi dei Parioli
Overview: A tale on the Italian upper class of the '60s and their ways to kill time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-18
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Una cavalla tutta nuda
Overview: The youngsters Folcacchio and Guffardo must bring an embassy to the Bishop of Volterra, and during the trip, the two boys meet the beautiful Gemmata. The woman is a poor peasant who is married to Nicholas. Folcacchio and Guffardo, to have a night of love with the girl, pretends to be magicians who can turn humans into beasts.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-20
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The Dark Sun
Overview: After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to participate in various crimes commited by the mafia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-02-04
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Il coraggio di parlare
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-05-02
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Fellini dice...
Overview: A story about the mythical film director
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Vitellonismo
Overview: A look at the making of Federico Fellini's "I Vitelloni".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-08-24
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My Pleasure Is Your Pleasure
Overview: In '500 a noble Tuscan gives a banquet in which they are told bawdy stories: a cardinal tells dirty stories during a banquet that turns into a purge; a marquise is induced into temptation by an abbot; a tintora has carnal relations with a brother, and the two have a son; prisoner of Charles V , Francis I of France has a relationship with two Spanish and get an acquittal advance by the Pope; a group of cardinals contain a prostitute during a council; the Marquis Cavalcanti, rejected by the bride, vents his cravings with a syphilitic prostitute.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-14
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Web of Deception
Overview: An international crime syndicate absconds with over $5 million in precious jewels. Police are baffled. The insurance companies are outraged. When dashing Tony Driscoll-private investigator-is called in, the robbery investigation quickly becomes a murder case. And Driscoll is suspect #1. Dodging cops as well as criminals, Driscoll steps into a subterranean world. A world of beautiful women, exotic ports and sleek fast cars. Where hunter becomes hunted-and romance is heartbeats away from death.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-12
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Flatfoot in Egypt
Overview: Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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Hallucination Strip
Overview: The story is about a youth named Massimo Monaldi, who, living in Rome, is a part-time college student who has some involvement in the protests that occur at his university. Massimo is also involved with drugs and he sometimes steals to make a living and support his habit (the theft of a tobacco box is very important to the story). Among his associates are his girlfriend, Cinzia, who comes from a wealthy family, and he has a wealthy male friend named Rudy who is very naive as well as strangely pampered by his overly-doting mother. Both families don't approve of their relationship with Massimo.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-18
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Soldier's Girl
Overview: Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married, but he drowns while bathing in the river. From that moment the woman is unable to love anyone else because, at the most beautiful, the ghost of her fiancé appears to her who, in the end, will be able to be followed in the other world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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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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The Star Maker
Overview: The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-09-21
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The Name of the Rose
Overview: 14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-24
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Il coraggio
Overview: A wealthy trader saves the life of a poor suicidal man who then decides that his savior has the responsibility of taking care of him and his family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-24
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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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Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
Overview: An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-25
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Stray Days
Overview: Italian comedy produced by Cannon featuring songs by Enrico Ruggeri.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-10-01
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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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Night Police Station
Overview: Rome police headquarters. A new commissioner, promoted by the political team at "night", has to deal with the case of a girl seriously injured at Villa Borghese.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-01
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Togli le gambe dal parabrezza
Overview: "Remove your legs from the windshield" - Alberto, an engineer over forty years old, on his return from an inspection, a nineteen-year-old Parisian student called Sylvie is looking for a ride. Even though the girl reminds him of her daughter Francesca's age, Alberto decides to accompany her to Rome, with the secret hope of being able to derive an adventure from her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-03
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Seduced and Duped
Overview: Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins separate and then marry them. After the operation the girls are thought to be dead but then they reappear to con more money out of the two gullible men. Will they manage to do so?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-14
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Assicurasi vergine
Overview: Ruined by a local tyrant who also gets to marry his daughter to pay off a debt, a Sicilian ensures the girl's innocence and counts on the ardor of her lover to collect the prize and prevent her marriage to the squire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-03
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Overview: During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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Master of Love
Overview: The wise and experienced maestro in the arts of love imparting his knowledge and techniques to a younger man before he dies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-30
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The Moralist
Overview: The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-30
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The Sicilian Clan
Overview: An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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Touch and Go
Overview: North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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The Marquis of Grillo
Overview: In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-12-23
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
Overview: Ukrainian bishop Kiril Lakota, a political prisoner in a Soviet gulag for twenty years, is unexpectedly released and sent to the Vatican, where, upon the sudden death of the Pope, leader of the Catholic Church, he must face a challenging destiny that will put the future of the entire world in his hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-14
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A Hero of Our Times
Overview: Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-15
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The Double Bed
Overview: Various sketches centered on alcove stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-08-06
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L'ammazzatina
Overview: Sicilian baron, Mimì Galluzzo, will be able to enjoy the legacy of his deceased father-in-law on two conditions: that his wife accepts the will and that there is a compromising document to be delivered to the mafia. While, however, the precious "dossier" is, in reality, in the hands of an avid widow, Donna Maria, willing to sell it only if Mimi marries her. Rosalba, obsessed with the absence of a child, suddenly goes mad or pretends 'go crazy. Recommended by Donna Maria, of whom he became the lover Don Mimì tries, with the help of his friend Langatta, undertaker, and a nurse in the clinic in which Rosalba was hospitalized, to get rid of his wife. Instead, he finds himself without having reached his goal, involved in an obscure series of crimes that will make him lose his mind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-28
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The Barons
Overview: Leopoldo Lalumera, grandson of a wealthy eighty-four-year-old baron, infuriated during a galactic convention with a prosaic maid, discovers, on the eve of the wedding with his cousin Mariantonia, that he has become impotent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-11
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Via Veneto
Overview: A young man who lives on scams and deceptions manages to convince a wealthy industrialist who has come from the province to finance a film. Having received an adequate advance, he begins to lead an expensive life among luxury cars and beautiful women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-04-23
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City at Night
Overview: A young girl falls in love with an actor. She persuades her father to support his acting company, but when she discovers him with another girl she runs away. Then everybody try to find her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-06
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The Sign of Venus
Overview: Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-12
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Una macchia rosa
Overview: A photographer comes back to Italy after a trip to India and struggles to adjust to his new life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-04-17
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An American in Rome
Overview: Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-10
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Trastevere
Overview: A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-13
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Il giorno dell'Assunta
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-09
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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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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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Caligula
Overview: After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-14
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Delusions of Grandeur
Overview: Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-08
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The Prince's Manuscript
Overview: A solitary, disappointed, proud and educated old man meets and becomes the teacher of an intelligent, clumsy, middle-class, young would-be writer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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The Profiteer
Overview: In the city of Ostuni in Puglia, the mute seminarian Ercole is designated to be the driver and nurse of Parsifal, the paraplegic son in a rich and sanctimonious family of landowners. Ercole soon becomes the lover of his master's wife, the beautiful Baroness Clotilde. In a familial and social context where only money, sex and power count, everyone tries to take advantage of everyone, but the real saprophyte turns out to be Ercole.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-20
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Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis
Overview: Based on the epistolary work by Ugo Foscolo.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-21
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Panic Button
Overview: A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" that's destined to fail, thus giving him some major tax breaks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-10
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Viaggia, ragazza, viaggia, hai la musica nelle vene
Overview: After 16 years of marriage ends with him running away and vanishing into thin air. The wife goes in search of him, but instead of finding him, he ends up in various perversions, eventually reaching suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-30
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