Mario Ferrari
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Birthday: September 03, 1894
Deathday: June 28, 1974
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli)
Overview: Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-03-27
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Moses the Lawgiver
Overview: The epic story of Moses, who led the Israelites out of slavery, parted the Red Sea and received the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai. Originally a TV Miniseries recut for theaters
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-22
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Palio
Overview: It seems that Zarre (Guido Celano), the man chosen to be the jockey for the Lupa contrada, and fiance' to Fiora (Leda Gloria), becomes enamored of a cafe' chanteuse. Bachicche, the jockey of a rival neighborhood, wants to get even with Zarre for a past offense and enlists the help of the chanteuse, Liliana (Laura Nucci).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-04-17
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The Table of the Poor
Overview: A bankrupt aristocrat tries to keep up appearances while his situation worsens. To top it off the life savings given to him by a beggar to invest has been mistakenly claimed by the aristocrat's altruist society for their annual Feast of the Poor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-01-02
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Regina della Scala
Overview: In order to encourage the young maestro Vernieri not to break down after the first failures, the director of the theater "La Scala" in Milan tells two significant episodes concerning the theater.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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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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Storms
Overview: A renowned surgeon becomes involved with an attractive circus trapeze artist with the relationship threatening his marriage and family life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-05-29
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Madonna delle rose
Overview: A young couple, Renato and Maria, struggle to provide for their young daughter Pia.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-09-12
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Tormento
Overview: Anna flees her home, where she has been victimized for years by her spineless father’s mean-spirited second wife, to be with her lover, an honest businessman yet to make his fortune. When he is accused of a murder he didn’t commit, the couple’s domestic tranquillity is upended, and a desperate Anna must rely on her cruel stepmother to help support their child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-02-11
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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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The Avenger
Overview: Aeneas leads escapees from the Trojan war to new land in Italy, and must deal with new threats to his people.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-11-28
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He Who Is Without Sin...
Overview: Stefano and Maria have a marriage by proxy while he is working abroad in Canada. When she is mistakenly accused of abandoning her own child and sent to jail, Stefano finds out and decides to annul their marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-18
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The Queen of Sheba
Overview: The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-06
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The Barbarians
Overview: Rome, 1527. Massimo Colonna is in love with Angela, a member of the Orsinis, the Colonnas'arch enemies. As she is officially engaged to Tancredi Serra, the latter, a faithless individual, has Massimo accused of the murder of Prince Orsini whereas he himself has woven it. Massimo is rejected by an outraged Angela and banned from Rome.Meanwhile the Eternal City has to face a brutal attack by armed invaders from Spain. The Spaniards are about to storm Rome when Massimo and his troops appear. The invading forces are defeated and Massimo is acclaimed by the crowd. After clearing his name, he can marry Angela.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-09-29
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Piccolo alpino
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Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-10-20
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But It's Nothing Serious
Overview: Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more appealing wife than any of the others could have been. Assis Noris decorates the screen well as one of the chasers and pursuers. In 1937, De Sica and Noris made a film, "II Signor Max," which, other than the setting and character role names, basically has the same plot as this film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-04-01
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1860
Overview: The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-02-21
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Il milione
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1920-04-01
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La maestrina
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-04-17
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Marcella
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Il cavaliere senza nome
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-10-12
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Il conte di Bréchard
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Abuna Messias - Vendetta africana
Overview: The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic Church. He comes back to Italy and he tries to get the help of the government of Piedmont. The Count Cavour, although he appreciates the Cardinal's deeds in Africa, cannot grant his Cabinet's support to the Cardinal's plans. The missionary man, trusting the Divine Providence, goes back to Africa by himself. The Cardinal, who is known among the people as Abuna Messias, becomes a friend of king Menelik. The support of the king is fundamental to spread his word and accomplish his mission. The Head of the Coptic Church, Abuna Attanasio, does whatever he can to prevent Massaia from reaching his goals and to get him exiled from Ethiopia. Menelik refuses to help Abuna Attanasio, who decides to address the Emperor, thus igniting a war between the Emperor and his subject Menelik. In order to end the war, the Cardinal decides to leave Africa.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-08-30
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Tempesta sul golfo
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-03-13
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Il castello dalle cinquantasette lampade
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1920-08-01
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L'isola scomparsa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1921-10-01
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Cavalleria
Overview: Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitation and become an aviator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-10-23
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Lorenzino de' Medici
Overview: Lorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-29
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Destiny Unknown
Overview: Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as railroad workers in turn-of-the-century South America. In addition to facing poverty, deprivation, and prejudice, the immigrants are also bedeviled by a raging fever epidemic. Finally achieving a measure of prosperity, the Italians are forced to confront tragedy once more when their grown children march off to WWI. Though Isa Miranda is top-billed, she has very little to do in comparison with male lead Filippo Scelso. Passaporto Rosso was released in the U.S. as Destiny Unknown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-13
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Luciano Serra, Pilot
Overview: Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In the 30s, his son in Italy wants also to become a pilot, and Luciano accepts an offer of a double dealing agent for a flight from Rio to Rome, but his plane crashes in the Atlantic. For the world Luciano Serra is missing, but he has entered the Italian army under a new name to fight in Ethiopia. The train in which his unit travels is attacked by Ethiopian soldiers, his son flying a reconasaince mission is shot down and wounded by the same attacking enemies. Will Luciano be able to fly the plane back, to get close air support for the outnumbered Italian troups?
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-01-02
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Il vetturale del San Gottardo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-10-23
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Il capitano nero
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-03-15
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The Thrill of the Skies
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-02-08
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Il cavaliere del sogno
Overview: Luisa's dreams of love comes true in a hotel in the mountains.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-09-15
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Everybody's Woman
Overview: Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-11-29
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Divieto di sosta
Overview: A wealthy widow becomes infatuated with an adventurer posing as a poet and, forgetting her responsibilities as a mother and her no longer young age, falls prey to a love frenzy in her family that puts her at odds with her daughter, who has just left boarding school, and her own brother, who is all about scientific research. The girl, who has learned of the alleged poet's less-than-honest intentions, tries every means to drive him away and restore her mother's sentimental balance. For this she pretends to be in love with him who, attracted by her youth and rich dowry, proposes that she elope.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-11-20
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Your Money or Your Life
Overview: Daniele, a stockbroker, learns that he has lost a large sum entrusted to him by his friend Giovanni Bensi and he does not have the nerve to tell it in person, so he writes a letter to his friend, telling him that he may collect his life insurance, as he is going to commit suicide - but he can not tell, because he will find a way to make it appear as a misfortune. The insurance policy is valid until midnight, but does not cover suicide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-12-31
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Giarabub
Overview: The Italian troops at Giarabub defend themselves against the British.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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La carne e l'anima
Overview: This melodrama was directed by an émigré Russian from a story by Corrado Alvaro and Emanuele Caracciolo. The latter was murdered by the Nazis in the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, before the film’s post-war release. Featuring Miranda and Girotti prior to neo-realist stardom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-01-11
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Passo falso
Overview: A scientist kills his rival with a perfect alibi and tries to get away with it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-10
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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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Traversata nera
Overview: "Black Crossing" - In an Oriental port a group of people embarks a trader designated for Europe. One of them, a shady individual, entrusts the captain with a box of valuables to be kept until the end of the journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-08-12
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Il Conte Aquila
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-07
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La última Falla
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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Women Without Names
Overview: This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for displaced women after the end of World War II. Among them, Anna, a Yugoslav, who has seen her husband killed in Trieste by political enemies. She is pregnant and her one and only aim right now is her baby to be born. Janka, a beautiful Polish girl who has lost her mind, is reunited with the physician who sent her to a brothel for Nazi officers. As for Yvonne, a light-hearted French woman, she is prepared to do anything to leave the place, including to marry out with an Albanese ice cream man, despite his unappetizing looks. At least,she will stop being a woman without a name.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-03-23
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All'ombra della gloria
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-04-18
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Giuseppe Verdi
Overview: The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-22
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Lulù
Overview: Mario, a student from a noble Milanese family, falls in love with Lulù, a young slender girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-06-10
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Re di danari
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Sand
Overview: Venice FilmFestival 1952
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1952-09-01
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Verginità
Overview: Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franco, a salesman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-04
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Menzogna
Overview: A young widow flees from her small town and moves to the seaside, where she falls for a fisherman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-27
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Noi peccatori
Overview: A man and a woman love each other, but they can’t marry because he’s ashamed of his unjustly incarcerated mother. What’s more, he loses his eyesight in an accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-03-21
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Ettore Fieramosca
Overview: ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic fervor and pride in the Italian nation, and it contributed to a revival of Italian nationalism.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-12-28
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