Armando Bandini
Also Known As: Armando Burlando
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Genova, Liguria, Italy
Adult: No
Deathday: May 27, 2011
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Tipi da spiaggia
Overview: Four penniless friends wich Belong to a small commedy theatre go to taormina a famous Italian beach resort willing to marry Barbara a famous multimillionaire cosmetic firm owner and forget their troubles. After a series of adventures the four youths go back to Rome with four new girlfriends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-12
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The Eroticist
Overview: Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-16
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Bellezze sulla spiaggia
Overview: A doctor running a health clinic by the sea is convinced that women are the cause of the disturbed behaviour of his (male) patients. We get to follow the adventures of the patients during a day on the beach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-05
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È arrivato mio fratello
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-03-19
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Giovannona Long-Thigh
Overview: When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they discover the judge has a predilection for married women, the owner employs a prostitute to pose as his wife in an attempt to seduce the judge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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Don Camillo: Monsignor
Overview: Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-07
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Fontamara
Overview: Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-12
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The Mandrake
Overview: A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-18
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Ridendo e scherzando
Overview: Four comic episodes based on betrayal. The main characters are a famous professionist that receives a girl as his anniversary present, a wife tired of her boring marriage, a look-alike of a dangerous wanted person and a very jealous husband. Fantastic Italian actors as Walter Chiari and Luciano Salce act in this beautiful movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-09-13
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His Women
Overview: Stefano Garbelli is employed by a pharmaceutical company. One evening Daniela, a young independent prostitute, approaches Stefano pretending to be a nurse. They get together, but Daniela has a sinister plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-30
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Pure as a Lily
Overview: Anthony M. Wilson is an English gentleman. He has a string of restaurants in London plus a beautiful house decorated with all the trendy art he can get.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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The Sex Machine
Overview: The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of award-winning scientists succeeds in harnessing energy from the world’s oldest source of reciprocating motion.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-27
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Ace High
Overview: After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.
Genres: Western Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-02
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Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
Overview: Misadventures of a sacristan with three eager tourists, a commendatore with a sheikh, a worker who is passionate about hunting with a wife too good and an appearance mistaken for a priest with a patrician family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-25
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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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Per amore di Cesarina
Overview: Davide Camporesi is the owner of the "Tornerai" pension in Cesenatico which he manages together with his wife Elvira and daughter Carletta, and which mainly welcomes German tourists. One day, during a trip to the countryside to buy wine, Davide meets Vindice Forattini, a former partisan comrade whom he had not seen for 30 years and who now sells agricultural feed together with his attractive daughter Cesarina. During the meeting, Davide is deeply impressed by Cesarina, and invites her to stay at the family pension. But things soon get out of hand to Davide, who finds himself romantically involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-01
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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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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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Love and Larceny
Overview: Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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Tottering in the Dark
Overview: An elderly trio tries to adjust to each other when they all move into an apartment in Rome. When Giovanni (Ricardo Cucciolla) inherits the unit, he invites the Russian immigrant Maria (Marina Vlady) and his shy friend from college Teo (Luigi Pistilli) to live with him. Maria tries to get Teo to marry her friend so she can receive Italian citizenship. The three do their best to live in harmony in this bittersweet drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-01-31
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Cinque Storie Inquietanti: Scacco Matto
Overview: Five Disturbing Stories offers us as many adaptations from the stories of the American writer Stanely Ellin. Set in Italy between Genoa, Turin and Milan, they illustrate the darkest part of our existence while the detective story derails towards a daily horror
Genres: Thriller Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-09-21
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Cellini: A Violent Life
Overview: The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of three 90 minutes episodes, broadcasted by RaiDue.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-05-02
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Maigret at the Pigalle
Overview: Maigret is about to leave for the holidays but a colleague asks him for help in investigating the mysterious murder of a stripper and a noblewoman, both of which took place in Pigalle.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-30
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