Erminio Spalla
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Male
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The Pirate and the Slave Girl
Overview: When a ship carrying the daughter of Rhodes' governor and secret documents is captured by Mediterranean pirate Dragut, the governor tasks captain Diego with their recovery before they can be sold to Sultan Selim.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-22
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Il conte di Matera
Overview: Rambaldo Tramontana, a count who went into battle backed by the French, returns to Matera to take revenge once he is victorious, but the city is deserted and he begins to commit abuses and violence.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-06
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La gondola del diavolo
Overview: In the Venetian Republic a series of murders are carried out by a hooded man in black who always makes his escape through the city's waterways on a gondola.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-11-21
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Fumeria d’oppio
Overview: A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate protests of his sister arouse the compassion of Za la Mort, who promises to help the girl.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-09-05
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The Rape of the Sabine
Overview: Ernesto is the teacher of the village, he is married and he is dominated by his wife. He has the passion of the theatre and he has written a drama in verse named "Il ratto delle Sabine". Unfortunately he has only an admirer and she is their servant Rosina. When the touring company of Prof. Tromboni arrives in the village, Ernesto decides to let them perform his play, though anonymously. So the day arrives and the theatre is sadly empty. But when the news that the author is the teacher spreads far and wide...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-11-21
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Deported
Overview: The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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Giarabub
Overview: The Italian troops at Giarabub defend themselves against the British.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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Sangue a Ca' Foscari
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Il socio invisibile
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Angel in a Taxi
Overview: Marietto is a very lively and creative orphaned child, housed in a boarding school of nuns. One day, while browsing a newspaper, he sees a photo of a beautiful opera house dancer, Camilla, and is convinced that she is her mother.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-09-04
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Io piaccio
Overview: Roberto Maldi, a young scientist, is trying to find a serum capable of giving courage but he unwittingly invents a serum which transforms any man in a womanizer. His boss scents a good business and wants to produce the serum on industrial basis, but Roberto does not agree.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-09
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Harlem
Overview: This propaganda film was partly inspired by the story of the first Italian heavyweight champion Primo Carnera who, after winning the title with Al Capone’s help in 1933, was beaten the following year by the Jewish Max Bear and then again by the ‘Brown Bomber’ Detroit Joe Lewis in June 1935, on the eve of the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. This match provoked numerous racial skirmishes on the streets of Harlem between the Black community and pro-Fascist Italian-Americans. The film overturns historical facts and here, obviously, it is the white boxer who wins in order to demonstrate the superiority of the “Aryan Italians” over the “sinister Jewish entrepreneurs” and the “savage Afro-American fans in Yankee Stadium”. In the film, these were played by South African prisoners-of-war interred in a work camp, which the German and Italian propaganda ministries had set up near Cinecittà “for cinematic purposes”.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-04-21
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Vendicata!
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-03-07
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Arriviamo noi!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-02-27
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Cab Number 13
Overview: To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is adopted by a coachman, and later, as secretary to the Minister of Justice, discovers the truth, punishes the bad guys, rewards the good ones and marries the daughter of another innocent man, unjustly accused by Claudia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-28
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Miracle in Milan
Overview: Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-02-08
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Il bravo di Venezia
Overview: Marco Fuser, an outlaw. returns to Venice after many years. His son who works in the studio of a celebrated painter is unaware of his father's history. Arrested by the Doge's men, Marco agrees to become a bravo in the service of the city's ruler and kill his enemies. He enjoys some success at this, until he finds he has been tasked with killing his son.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-09-17
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Luz Apagada
Overview: On a small coastal town, a light-keeper lives in total seclusion after his wife's passing. His daughter is also there and she becomes his only contact with the other locals, and when a helper is sent to assist him on duties, she asks a childhood friend of hers to marry her, so he can be appointed as her father's helper.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1953-12-02
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Il Tiranno di Padova
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-12-28
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Il campione
Overview: A boxer falls in love with his coach's daughter despite the coach's objections.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-02-26
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Senza famiglia
Overview: Remigio, a young foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents and then is sold to an old musician.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-10
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The Fury of Achilles
Overview: In the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon divide the Greek camp while giving hope to the Trojans.
Genres: War Adventure Drama Romance Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-23
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
Overview: This is an Italian live action film with Alessandro Tomei as Pinocchio.
Genres: Fantasy Family Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-04-17
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Siege of Syracuse
Overview: Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle for power. The fate of Syracuse lies in the hands of its leader, the famed inventor and scientist Archimedes.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-17
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Uma Pulga na Balança
Overview: Swindler in jail devises a scheme to blackmail the family of recently deceased people, threatening to tell supposedly incriminating facts about their dead relatives' lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1953-04-15
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Taur the Mighty
Overview: The warlike men of Kixos murder the king of Surupak and abduct his two daughters, Jia and Tuja. Jia's bridegroom Syros asks the mighty warrior Taurus for assistance. Taurus faithful companion Ubaratuta will give Taurus a hand to defeat the warlike tribe.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-06-29
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I, His Father
Overview: An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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The Red Cloak
Overview: Cosimo de' Bardi is assassinated by a gentleman called the Flemish. Time passes and at some point a masked knight wearing a red cloak enters the scene. He is the son of the killed. These and the Flemish are also rivals in love. In the final duel the Flemish will be eliminated.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-17
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Every Day Is Sunday
Overview: During the war, a girl falls in love with a soldier. Having no news from her, she has meanwhile accepted the overtures of an older colleague.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-09-10
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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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Un uomo facile
Overview: The changing fortunes of two boxers are explored in this interesting drama by Paolo Heusch, seen from the point of view of the women the boxers love. One of the pugilists is a rookie on the rise and his sister has married the reigning champion. Now the champ is getting older and less able to hold his own against the newcomers -- including his brother-in-law. As his fortunes begin to decline, his wife whom he married while affluent is slowly forced to deal with the difficulties of poverty. This Italian drama was an entry in the 1959 Berlin Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-24
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La compagnia della teppa
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-05-06
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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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Prisoner of the Iron Mask
Overview: The action takes place in 1703 and Colbert wants to buy the duchy of Pignero ,unbeknowst to the old Duke. A sadistic villain (a count) is slowly poisoning the lord, besides he covets her daughter. The iron mask is here the duke's son, but the hangman's daughter takes pity on the unfortunate prisoner. The nasty traitor oppresses the poor, but André and his men (complete with priest) do their Robin Hood act.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-24
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Il leone di Damasco
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-03-31
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Il fanciullo del West
Overview: Comedy Western
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-24
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