Tina Pica
Also Known As: Тина Пика, Concetta Luisa Annunziata Pica
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Tina Pica (31 March 1884 in Naples – 16 July 1968 in Naples) was an Italian supporting actress who played character roles on stage. Her film debut came in 1935 with Il cappello a tre punte. In the 1950s, she became a celebrity thanks to her role as Caramella in the successful film series Pane, amore e fantasia (1953),Pane, amore e gelosia (1954), Pane, amore e... (1955), Pane, amore e Andalusia (1958) and the last one, Pane, amore e così sia(which was never filmed).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Napoli, Italy
Birthday: March 31, 1884
Deathday: July 16, 1968
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Lost in the Dark
Overview: Naples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries to blackmail the father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-09
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Il conte Max
Overview: Alberto, a newspaper man, tries a one-time shot of living the good life with the help of his penniless mentor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-08-30
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Toto and Carolina
Overview: During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-02
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The City Stands Trial
Overview: Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-05
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Oh! Sabella
Overview: Raffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He immediately goes to Pollena to be beside her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-08-29
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La nipote Sabella
Overview: Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-20
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Terra di nessuno
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-04-17
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Hands Off Me!
Overview: In his first feature, great Italian clown Totò plays a carefree tramp moving from job to job, in order to provide for himself and his young Shirley Temple-like protégée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-03-06
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The Gold of Naples
Overview: A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-03
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Scandal in Sorrento
Overview: Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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Three Cornered Hat
Overview: A comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Bread, Love and Dreams
Overview: When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-22
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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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Frisky
Overview: The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-06
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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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Good night… lawyer!
Overview: A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tries to escape from her jealous husband. Fascinated by the beauty of the unexpected guest, the lawyer is determined to conquer her, in vain. But when the woman leaves, she discovers that she has been stolen some money.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-16
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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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The Sheriff
Overview: A gang of outlaws terrorizes Rio Ciuccio. When they kill the sheriff his wife, an old neapolitan lady, takes his place.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-15
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Lazzarella
Overview: Luciano, who studies at the university, falls in love with Sandra, a high school student, who returns his love. If her family is very rich, his family is of modest extraction; however, the difference in condition does not seem to be a problem, and Luciano's degree increases the hope of a happy future. However, following a sudden financial collapse, Sandra's family business failed: so, to help her parents, the girl accepted the kindness of a very rich childhood friend, deciding to marry him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-11-27
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Napoli è sempre Napoli
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-10
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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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Marito e Moglie
Overview: Two episode about the married life. In the first one a paralyzed man is forced by her wife to brood eggs while the mother hen is gone. In the second episode a good-willed man tries to escpape from the grey of the world that surround him
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-08
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Ergastolo
Overview: Rosa Lulli, has an illegitimate 20-year-old son, named Stefano, who lives with her in the house of Professor Arlotta. Stefano is in love with Lydia, the granddaughter of the professor. The couple has a gambling addiction: the need to obtain a large sum to meet gambling debts, which pushes him to accept the loving invitation of Jeannette, owner of a dance school, where Stefano goes to play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-05-18
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Neapolitan Carousel
Overview: Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-14
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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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Graziella
Overview: Naples 1821. Alphonse, a young poet belonging to a noble French family, is caught by a storm at sea. Fortunately the boat manage to reach the shores of Procida, where Alphonse is welcomed by the family of Andrea. Here he meets the beautiful Graziella.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-28
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Filumena Marturano
Overview: Filumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of death in order to get him to marry her instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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La Pica sul Pacifico
Overview: Adelaide takes possession of an island in the Pacific inherited from her deceased husband. She is opposed by the chieftain and a convict. To get the island's citizenship she tries to marry the convict, but he prefers to turn himself in.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-24
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The Virtuous Bigamist
Overview: The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-20
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Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Overview: Three tales of very different women using their sexuality as a means to getting what they want.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-21
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Il voto
Overview: During the absence of her husband, who left for a fishing cruise in the seas of China, Carmela falls under the spell of Vito, a young fisherman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-10-17
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Che femmina!! E... che dollari!
Overview: An American millionaire has just died. His sole legatee is a youthful indiscretion, a girl who is currently living in Italy. Two private eye detective agencies, in competition with each other, investigate. Combining business with pleasure, they search sunny Italy, but they only have one clue to find their heiress: she has three moles on the buttock. One of the private eyes falls in love with a gypsy who sings in nightclubs.
Genres: Family Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-31
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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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Guaglio
Overview: On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While trying to retrieve his baggage he realizes how miserable the city of Naples is. Then he decides that his mission is there in Naples, He creates his 'The Boys' Town' a shelter for poor kids, aka the 'scugnizzi' (street urchins), with a view to putting them back on the right track. Some of the kids, though, do not play by the rules just using that 'home' as a convenient place for hiding the product of their thefts...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-09-10
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We will get married in Capri
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-06
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Fantasmi e ladri
Overview: Tina, an old lady and detective stories buff, moves to town in the house of a god-daughter of hers whose husband is a private dick. She thinks she will be able to help him with his inquests. He does not agree with her and tries to discourage her by any possible means.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-12
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Mia nonna poliziotto
Overview: Tina, an old lady, is in town for the wedding of her grandson when a medallion left to her by her late husband disappears. Dissatisfied with the police effort to find it, she sets on the tracks of the thieves herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-09-10
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Napoli sole mio
Overview: Lorella must marry Dr. Matteini, but when she goes to Naples to meet him, she meets Michele, who sings in restaurants. The fateful spark is ignited, and although Michele is poor, Lorella decides to marry him against his mother's wishes.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-18
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A Mink Coat
Overview: A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-08-21
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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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La duchessa di Santa Lucia
Overview: Zì Carmela, the owner of a famous restaurant in Naples, wants her niece to marry an English peer and doesn't like her love story with Carlo the son of a baker. When the English lord comes to Naples with his family she throws a magnificent party during which however class differences come out. Will this convince her and stop her from being castles in the air?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-27
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Guaglione
Overview: This is an Italian Romance starring Terence Hill
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-15
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Non sono più guaglione
Overview: A mechanic falls in love with a girl who aspires to become a diva.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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Due soldi di felicità
Overview: A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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Melody of Love
Overview: A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can't elope because her father has an heart ailment and uses it to hold Maria. Giacomo misunderstands and takes off on a global singing tour.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-29
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Destino
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-05-02
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Mother's Heart
Overview: An unworthy nephew, with the help of a girl who seduces the young guardian, robs the aunt of the family jewels. He also manages to put the blame for the theft on the caretaker, engaged to a young woman who is actually the woman's natural daughter. The thief also tries to blackmail his aunt by threatening to reveal the truth after so many years, but a commissioner manages to prove the innocence of the suspect and the guilt of his nephew.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-09-24
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La moglie è uguale per tutti
Overview: Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-10-21
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La zia d'America va a sciare
Overview: Tecla Cammarano, following a financial crisis that has made her situation precarious, leaves America and comes to Italy with her two lovely grandchildren.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-02-13
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Sing with us
Overview: The old friends Nicola and Pasquale meet in the city after many years. The two, now married and with their children, try to marry their four children, but it soon becomes more difficult than expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-08-10
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Porca miseria!
Overview: Two friends, Giacomino and Carletto, have no job and no money and are looking for a job, or any device that will help them to meet expenses and especially will give them the opportunity to fill their stomachs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-12
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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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Siamo ricchi e poveri
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-19
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Ha da venì... don Calogero!
Overview: A good-natured priest inherits a large sum of money from a former student at his elementary school and must decide wisely on how to use it best.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-04
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Un po' di cielo
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-30
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Da qui all'eredità
Overview: A musical comedy film by Riccardo Freda.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-01-07
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