Mario Scaccia
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Birthday: December 26, 1919
Deathday: January 25, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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La fiammata
Overview: Just before the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, a party is held in the castle of the Stettin's Counts.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-18
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The Anatomy of Love
Overview: Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Overview: Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.
Genres: Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-29
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Bambina
Overview: In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her mentally-disturbed and sex-obsessed adolescent daughter. He plans to have her kidnapped and raped by an accomplice so she won't be a virgin anymore and he'll have an excuse to get out of the impending marriage. But what he doesn't plan is to fall in love with the girl...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-17
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Break Up
Overview: Paolo has been reasonably happy for the past 10 years; he has a job at the university and has Sena as a lover all these years. When she suddenly decides to leave the relationship, it comes as a shock to him, and he desperately wants to know the reason. After a series of reconciliations and separations, he finally finds out and briefly has another apparently blissful relationship with Silva.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-11-07
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The Antichrist
Overview: An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-22
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Secondo Ponzio Pilato
Overview: The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-10-28
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Day by Day, Desperately
Overview: The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-23
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Robin Hood and the Pirates
Overview: On his way to (or from) the Crusades, Robin Hood is shipwrecked but saved by pirates who plan to return him home in order to ransom him to his father.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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Summer Frenzy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-04
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La calandria
Overview: The luxurious Livio bets with the lord of the city to seduce a young bride in a month, at the cost of his genitals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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L'arte della commedia
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-07-06
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The Swindlers
Overview: A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-25
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Voglio stare sotto al letto
Overview: Leonardo is a young theater enthusiast who has written a comedy for a comedian at sunset, Giordani, and leaves for the Adriatic coast together with the producer Peppino and his assistant to reach the actor and convince him to stage the script. During the journey, which becomes longer and longer and with unusual and bizarre stops, he will soon realize that Peppino's attentions are not disinterested, while he will be attracted by a young and beautiful girl, Paola.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-04-16
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Musketeers of the Sea
Overview: Three pirates are saved from a shipwreck and seize a galleon bound for Maracaibo, where they will save the governor from a conspiracy. Italian adventure movie directed by Steno.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-23
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Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Overview: Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy.
Genres: Romance Drama History Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-30
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We Still Kill the Old Way
Overview: A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-24
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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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Avventura al motel
Overview: A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-09
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Il generale dorme in piedi
Overview: A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-10-05
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A Maiden for the Prince
Overview: Young Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, rejects his first wife Margherita Farnese, obtaining the annulment of the union and, at the same time, raising strong doubts about her virginity
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-26
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Revenge of the Barbarians
Overview: 408 AD. The Visigoths led by Alaric invade northern Italy. At Ravenna, they have to battle, and they are stopped by the power of the Roman legions and the cunning of the emperor's sister, Galla Placidia. As the Goths lose many warriors in the cruel battle, Alaric vows bloody revenge.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-23
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Too Bad She's Bad
Overview: When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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Meo Patacca
Overview: Adapted from the mock-heroic poem in Roman dialect, tells the misadventures of the young trasteverino Bartolomeo Patacca that, because of the ambition of his woman, is having to train a group of beggars to go fight in defense of Christianity in Vienna, besieged by the Turks.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-27
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Love, the Italian Way
Overview: A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-22
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Ursus
Overview: Ursus returns from war to find his fiancée, Attea, has been kidnapped by a mysterious sect which sacrifices virgins to its patron goddess. Ursus faces much treachery and is forced to display much courage and strength as he and the blind girl Doreide embark upon a quest to retrieve Attea.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-12
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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Overview: An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-28
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Property Is No Longer a Theft
Overview: A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business unscrupulously.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-03
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L'ultima mazurka
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-10-25
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Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-09
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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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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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Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
Overview: The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-11-30
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
Overview: Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Family Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-21
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Black Journal
Overview: A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-11-24
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A porte chiuse
Overview: The movie is about the celebrated trial of Olga Duvovich, very beautiful woman accused of killing her husband, a wealthy financier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-22
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Gabriel
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Between Miracles
Overview: Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-19
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The Traffic Policeman
Overview: An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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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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Easy Love
Overview: Five episodes: A professor decides to murder her husband to win a woman. A hotelier seduces a boarder. A man convinces a friend to marry his lover, so as not to arouse his wife's suspicions. A man borrows money from a loan shark to pay for the services of his wife. Two couples try in vain to take a trip to the seaside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-03
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All the Other Girls Do!
Overview: The innocent love of two young students is hindered by their families. The two meet in a squalid apartment where they will perhaps decide their future. At the exit, however, are arrested for a kiss exchanged on the road.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-09
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Soldier of Fortune
Overview: Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore bides his time to determine which side is the winning one. This is at first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-19
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Un amore targato Forlì
Overview: The young Rimini native Stefano Santi goes to Rome, with a letter of recommendation for the maestro Melchiorri, artistic director of the Opera House, to take part in a competition for cellists. While trying in vain to be received by Melchiorri, he met an unscrupulous girl, Giorgia Muller, an architectural student temporarily linked to a fellow student. Between one misfortune and another the cello smashes, a homosexual theater manager tries to enmesh him Stefano, who now has a precarious employment in a nightclub, yields to the allurements of Giorgia, ending up in his bed. The girl, however, is unfaithful to him, so that Stefano, disgusted with her, and having now lost all hope of participating in the competition,
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-24
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Gastone
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-09-09
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Double Murder
Overview: Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat and a worker are struck by lightning inside a fancy mansion. The incident would be relegated to freak accidents, but Baldassare's attention is drawn to the strangeness of the events and he begins to investigate.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-23
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The Seventh Sword
Overview: In this costume adventure, a dashing swordsman helps protect Philip III of Spain from the traitors trying to overthrow him.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-29
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What a Woman!
Overview: A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-02-03
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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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A proposito di Roma
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-08-01
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