Franca Valeri
Also Known As: Франка Валери
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Milan, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: July 31, 1920
Age: 104 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 09, 2020
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These Phantoms
Overview: A young husband is persuaded to move his new bride into an old palace that is supposedly haunted.But the so called ghost is really the bride's former lover who is stalking her on the premises.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-11-12
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You're on Your Own
Overview: In post war Italy during the fifties it is very difficult to find a house to rent and a family ends up living in a former brothel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-09-04
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Totó in color
Overview: In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-04-08
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Gli onorevoli
Overview: Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-10
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The 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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Love in First Class
Overview: A man from Milan, Carmelo, is forced to take his young son Malcolm, on a trip down South so his mother, who usually takes care for the boy, can go on vacation with her Moroccan boyfriend. Carmelo, who obviously is not too often at home, has no clue about how to deal with young children, even the most basic chores a father should know to tend the restless imp thrown in his care. The crowded train traveling from Milan to Reggio, Calabria, is packed in the second class section where Carmelo and Malcom have a hard time getting a seat. When they finally do, young Malcolm decides to disappear from his compartment. He goes to the first class car, where eventually Carmelo decides to sit and pay the extra supplement. He is lucky to find more space, and the companionship of Beatrice, a woman that is bringing the skeleton of a rare animal. Carmelo finds a way to interest the lady. Their ride is certainly bumpy, complicated when he decides to leave the mischievous Malcolm at an intermediate stop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-08-12
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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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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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Piccola posta
Overview: Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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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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...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Overview: Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-13
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Basta guardarla
Overview: Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-27
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Come ti rapisco il pupo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-21
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Tanto va la gatta al lardo...
Overview: Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband, two Bolognese spouses quarrel and do not realize that the civil war has broken out, a Neapolitan fan scandalizes a first class compartment ..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-05-23
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Italy is Rotten
Overview: Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-13
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Poker in Bed
Overview: A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appears to be perfectly content with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy writer. The gambler gets the idea that if he can get this woman into bed, it will change his luck at the gambling tables.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-14
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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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Leoni al sole
Overview: The endless summer of a group of thirty-something neapolitans at Positano.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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L'uomo dalla bocca storta
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-10-19
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Questi fantasmi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-01-29
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Listen, Let's Make Love
Overview: When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful at finding rich women to prey on, but finds himself caught up in a bidding war.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-09-13
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I Don't Understand You Anymore
Overview: On entering her bathroom, Luisa finds a naked man showering. She calls the police at once and the man is arrested. At the police station Alberto, a psychiatrist, recognizes the man: he is Paolo, Luisa's husband. Alberto offers to help Paolo, but when the two men arrive at his home, Paolo still in his bathrobe, Luisa hugs Alberto and calls him Paolo. The two men try everything they think of to help Luisa regain her memory until the last (but not too unexpected) surprise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-10-03
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Hector the Mighty
Overview: A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him the land by kidnapping Helen, triggering a small gang war.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-06
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Paris, My Love
Overview: Parigi O Cara is probably the most camp in the history of Italian cinema, certainly a favourite with the GLBT community who quote its lines by heart. Unique as it's the only film where Franca Valeri (now 90) is the unquestioned star, in the role of Delia, a snobbish, stingy prostitute who is moving to Paris looking for greener and more lucrative pastures. An anti-neorealist, amoral, almost abstract comedy, which anticipates Almodóvar, a ferocious, though gentle, non-moralistic portrayal of the 60's boom and its broken dreams. The dialogue between Delia and her brother (played by Fiorenzo Fiorentini), when he does (or does not) tell her he is a homosexual, is memorable, a primordial coming-out, a masterpiece of allusions. But what makes it one of the first examples of a film with a "gay point of view" is the approach: perceptive, non-conformist, caustically witty. A film ahead of its times, still unbeaten.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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The Last Italian Tango
Overview: A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in the attic. The husband abandons her and goes and lives with a young girl who drags him into a sadomasochistic relationship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Mariti in pericolo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-24
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Overview: Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-16
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It's Not Me, It's Him
Overview: Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and proposes to him to come to work with him in Tunisia with the development of a scenario. In fact Barazutti wants only to flee her wife to find her mistress Valerie. Misunderstandings when Vallier joined them. They must flee in the desert a jealous husband...
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-23
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Non perdiamo la testa
Overview: A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-16
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Variety Lights
Overview: In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-06
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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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Vittorio D.
Overview: A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-17
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Lady Football
Overview: It is the story of the brilliant football player Cotechiño, hired by the Napoli team as a centre-forward. Too bad that his professional career will be strongly influenced by the frequent absence of his fiancée, for which he feels an inexplicable, almost obsessive jealousy. That's why he hires a plumber very similar to him to keep an eye on his beloved, but that won't be enough when Cotechiño is kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1983-09-28
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The Rip-Off
Overview: Crime Comedy starring Walter Chiari, Maurizio Arena and Ettore Manni. Directed by Luciano Ercoli in 1977, but shelved when producer Niccolo De Nora was kidnapped... ironically the theme of the movie. A band of criminals plan one final heist, to kidnap a wealthy French businessman.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-05-19
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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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Alberto il grande
Overview: Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary from the actor’s death happened on 24th February 2003. Through this documentary Verdone’s brothers with deep respect towards the Roman actor trace an affectionate and sincere portrait not only about an Artist but, above all, about a man with his habits, his ideas, his tics, his vices and his virtues. And for the first time Mrs Aurelia – Alberto Sordi’s sister who is dedicated the documentary – opens the doors of the beautiful house of Via Druso where the actor has lived since 1958. In this way we are led by Carlo Verdone (a sort of Virgilio whose Dante Alighieri wrote about but we are not in the Hell but in the Seven Heaven where there is the source of the Italian Cinema) and on the tips and staying in silence we can go into the rooms of this wonderful house which reveals the true, authentic character of Alberto Sordi.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-02-16
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I cuori infranti
Overview: Two surreal/satirical comedy episodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-11-21
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I motorizzati
Overview: A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-11-30
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On the Day of the Lord
Overview: Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-18
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It Happened in the Park
Overview: Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-18
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The Bigamist
Overview: A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-02-17
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The Maniacs
Overview: An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-28
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Zona Franca
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-11-27
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Franca, la prima
Overview: Directed by Sabina Guzzanti
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-10-31
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Husbands in the City
Overview: In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-18
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The Shortest Day
Overview: Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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RARA
Overview: In all of his work, Bussotti makes frequent reference to the body, to sexuality. This to remind musicians — especially classically trained ones — that they are not body-less angels, that they are not just their musical thoughts, that they are still, in the last analysis, flesh and bones. Thus the erotic is not for shocking, but to stress that making music involves the body in a very direct way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1969-05-30
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Tosca e altre due
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-05-15
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Grazie tante arrivederci
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-01
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Le ragazze di Milano
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-09-14
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