Giuseppe Maffioli
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Padova, Italy
Birthday: April 28, 1925
Deathday: June 03, 1985
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Giordano Bruno
Overview: Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to bring him on trial for 'heresy'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-11-29
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The Beast
Overview: An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-12
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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
Overview: A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. The men assemble to analyze Sordi's rise to power and his increasingly immoral behavior as he attained success, and the warped perceptions of right and wrong he has adopted to remain successful.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-22
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Africa Express
Overview: John Baxter is a freewheeling trader of goods in Africa with a pet chimpanzee and one dream: to save enough money to buy a gas station in Detroit.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-11-02
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Police Chief Pepe
Overview: A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a lesbian and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-24
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Safari Express
Overview: John and Howard work in a company named Safari Express booking tourists on safaris. Their lives are turned upside down when they encounter a beautiful blonde wandering in the jungle who doesn't know who she is. They also discover uranium and what appear to be some well-mannered simians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-05
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The Priest's Wife
Overview: After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman attempts suicide but survives and falls for the priest who took her call, leading to complications with his vow of celibacy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-22
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The Diamond Peddlers
Overview: Bumbling crooks Butch and Toby pose as priests in order to elude being arrested by the authorities in Africa. Butch and Toby deliver a statue of the Virgin Mary from Africa to Amsterdam. Unbenownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling diamonds. A group of equally inept mobsters give chase.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-29
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Eye of the Cat
Overview: Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who covets another man's wife (Mariangela Melato) as his own. He gets what he wants, but Ras wants more: in this case, to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined by leaving his cat and taking his wife. He forces Marcello to seek an annulment to his marriage through the Vatican. Ras gets everything, but Marcello's wife, Giulia, and Marcello have other ideas.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-19
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White Sister
Overview: A strange love story between a devoted young nun and a young Marxist determined to help run the hospital wards where the nun is the head nurse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-31
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Portrait of a Nude Woman
Overview: Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during Carnival. As he enters midlife, he argues with his wife of sixteen years more often than they laugh or make love. She's had enough of his moods, so they separate so he can sort out his mind. His first night away, he sees a photograph of a nude; the image resembles his wife. He searches for the model, whose name is Riri. He finds her, and she looks exactly like his wife, except that Riri is a gaily attired prostitute and Laura is a self-contained antiquarian bookseller. Are they two women, are they one, and in the masquerade of Carnival, what is real?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-11-06
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Il piatto piange
Overview: In Luino, on Lake Maggiore, during the fascist twenty years, a group of friends belonging to the bourgeoisie spend the nights in the underground gambling den of the Metropolitan Hotel between poker games, gossip, manly goliards and escapades to the house of tolerance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-11
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Sex Diary
Overview: The Don Juan of a small provincial town saves from suicide a young American girl who falls in love with him. The citizens, after having discovered that the girl is very rich, will do everything to organize the marriage between them.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-07-27
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La Grande Bouffe
Overview: Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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We Want the Colonels
Overview: Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-02
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It Was I
Overview: A humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder of a soprano from La Scala.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-15
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A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)
Overview: Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often goes to communist rallies, and enjoys the filthy beaches of Ostia. Will the hostile environment pave a way to jealousy?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-18
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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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C'è una spia nel mio letto
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Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-06-05
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