Paolo Panelli
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roma, Italy
Birthday: July 15, 1925
Deathday: May 19, 1997
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Dearest Relatives, Poisonous Relations
Overview: During the annual Christmas gathering at the family home, the parents surprise their children by announcing their decision to move in with one of them and pass on the house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-03-26
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Splendor
Overview: Splendor is the name of an old movie theater managed by Jordan (Mastroianni), who inherited it from his father. The theater is in decay and only generates debts and trouble, but Jordan gets aid in his almost quixotian quest from projectionist Luigi (Troisi) and ushurette Chantale (Vlady). However, Jordan is finally forced to sell the Splendor to businessman Lo Fazio (Piperno), which plans to transform it in some kind of furniture store. When Jordan leaves the theater for the last time (the very first scene), he recalls the glorious days of Splendor and movies in general.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-02-16
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Song That's Playing In My Head (Zum Zum Zum)
Overview: The sons of a music-loving insurance broker take extreme measures to find happiness for themselves and others, with some help from the power of music.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-02-13
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Scampolo 53
Overview: A young girl meets by chance an engineer who lives with an unbearable mistress. After abandoning his mistress, the engineer has to leave for Sardinia. He decides to take the girl with him, who has been waiting for this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-08
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Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
Overview: A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Divisione Folgore
Overview: In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-30
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Love Italian Style
Overview: Anthology comedy structured in 10 episodes (The Exam, Blue Bloods, Too Easy, Love Italian Style, Sunday Story, Wedding Present, Gold Fischer, The Tuxedo, Railway Courtesy, Play Boy). Whimsical exploration of the mores, customs and vices of Italy at that time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-02
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The Third
Overview: A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed sentimental life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-22
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I teddy boys della canzone
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-07-16
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Midnight of Love
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-07-21
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Perdono
Overview: Federico, his girlfriend Laura and her cousin, Caterina, are three young people full of hope, united by a great friendship that seems indissoluble. The three work in a department store but, when Caterina decides to attempt a musical career, given her vocal skills, everything changes. Caterina becomes a successful singer and Federico falls in love with her. Caterina, who however does not want to make her cousin Laura suffer, pretends not to reciprocate the young man by making him put his head in order. Meanwhile, the plots of various secondary characters evolve, in particular the fresh marriage between the security guard Antonio and the secretary of the department stores Adelina.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-06
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Aggiungi un posto a tavola
Overview: Father Silvestro receives a phone call from God telling him He intends to send the second flood to earth. The priest then decides to seek help from his compatriots to build a new Noah’s Ark. But to achieve their objectives they must overcome the obstacles that mayor Crispino puts in their way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-04-04
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The Last Sentence
Overview: Piero is the leader of a group of university students who lead a carefree life. Finding himself in trouble and in need of money, he turns to criminal means—receiving aid from Daniela, the daughter of a rigid magistrate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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Paris Is Always Paris
Overview: A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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Wife for a Night
Overview: A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-07-12
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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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Count Tacchia
Overview: In 1900 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized component of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows the cynical and ruthless Prince Torquato Terenzi, disappointed by life and progress, and also falls in love with the beautiful Duchess Elisa. When Prince Terenzi dies, Francesco realizes that he's not enriched for nothing with the inheritance, because the noble family is broke; so he enlistes himself for the war in Libya, but quickly returnes to Italy, disgusted by the atrocities of the fighting. His dream is to be a singer, and so he goes to America with the Duchess Elisa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-12-23
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Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Overview: An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-31
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Noi duri
Overview: Lieutenant Bombardone is in Paris to wipe out a gang of drug traffickers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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Zum Zum Zum 2
Overview: While happily engaged to Rosalia, Tony has the misfortune of falling for a vibrant pilot named Valeria — and that’s just the beginning of his problems.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-18
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Siamo tutti pomicioni
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-07
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This and That
Overview: Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso' (the one with the red beret). Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance. In fact she always remember her mother having sex with a man wearing a red beret. She discovers that man is Sandro, makes love with him and soon recovers from her obsession.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-12-21
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Akiko
Overview: The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Japanese girl knocks at her door, claiming to be the daughter of her late husband, an Italian military officer who went to Japan on a secret mission during WWII and reportedly killed in action there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-23
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I dritti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
Overview: Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestrials incognito, but end up getting involved in the Roman "dolce vita".
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-06-21
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Rita the Mosquito
Overview: Rita, a vivacious co-ed is in love with her music teacher, a man who leads a double life - bespectacled professor by day and composer of rock songs by night. Will Rita win his heart?
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-30
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Hell Raiders of the Deep
Overview: A crack team of Italian naval divers plan to attach high explosives to the hulls of Royal navy warships anchored in Gibraltar harbour.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-16
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Towards Evening
Overview: Italy, 1977. Professor Bruschi is a retired widower who lives according to a strict routine he set for himself. An ardent old-style communist, he has always been at odds with the unconventional lifestyle led by his son and his hippieish girlfriend Stella. When their four-year-old daughter is left in his care out of the blue after the two break up, the old professor becomes a sort of father figure to the girl, growing fond of her. However he's once again challenged when Stella also arrives for a stay in his elegant villa, reclaiming custody of her daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-12-21
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Department Store
Overview: A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-06-06
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Against the Law
Overview: A young bourgeois who launders money for the mafia gets accused of murder.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-08-09
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Sing Sing
Overview: Eduardo accidentally discovers that he is adopted. His real father is dying, but before his death he said that his mother was the "Queen of England", failing to clarify that this is the nickname of Italian prostitute. But Eduardo is already rushing to the capital of England...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-10-15
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Ho scelto l'amore
Overview: A satire of the Cold War, Italian style. Soviet flunkey Boris Popovitc is sent on a goodwill mission to Rome, where he is to deliver a symbolic dove of peace to a group of WW II freedom fighters. Somehow, Boris winds up in Venice minus the dove. As he searches up street and down canal for the missing bird, he meets and falls in love with luscious flower-girl Maria.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-03-03
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Rosso e nero
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-27
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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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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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Cuori sul mare
Overview: Two young men from the Navy fall in love with an actress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-09
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I Kill, You Kill
Overview: Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-03-25
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The Assassin
Overview: Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is all about-- that he is the main suspect in the killing of his wealthy ex-lover. Is he guilty, or is he just a sleaze?
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-04-01
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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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Arrivederci, papà!
Overview: Two little angels, a boy and a girl, come down on earth to choose their parents prior to birth. They choose the daughter of a retired general as their future mother and an opera singer as their dad. But making the two chosen ones meet, fall in love and marry will prove to be anything but easy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-09-14
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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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Le signore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-05-03
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Voice of Silence
Overview: Voice of Silence is a 1953 Italian drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, written by Giuseppe Berto, starring Aldo Fabrizi and Jean Marais.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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I pinguini ci guardano
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-03-08
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Submarine Attack
Overview: During WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional survivor and treat them humanely while seeking a safe place to put them ashore.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-08-16
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Guarany
Overview: Based on José de Alencar's novel, directed by Riccardo Freda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-01-02
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