Carlo Pisacane
Also Known As: Capannelle
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Napoli, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: February 02, 1889
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 09, 1974
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I soliti rapinatori a Milano
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-02
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Getting Away with It the Italian Way
Overview: Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-05-04
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Seduction Of The South
Overview: Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-16
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Brother Sun, Sister Moon
Overview: In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no longer the Francesco that everybody knew. Instead of spending hours in taverns, he meditates on the beauty of God's creatures, soon renouncing his riches and his family with plans to rebuild an abandoned church and his life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-03
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I ragazzi dell'Hully Gully
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-30
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Maskenball bei Scotland Yard
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-08-23
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Big Deal on Madonna Street
Overview: Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-07-26
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Piece of the Sky
Overview: As he does every year, Severino, a young hawker who goes around the festivals of the various villages in the Po Delta, returns to Migliarino to sell his knick-knacks and tell far-fetched stories about the future and progress. Besides the beautiful Marina, three gullible old friends live here, pensioners who live off poverty, to whom he proposes the sale of a hectare of sky.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-15
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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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Paisan
Overview: During the Allied invasion of Italy in World War II, six stories unfold in various regions, from Sicily to the northern Po Valley. These tales follow the interactions between American soldiers and Italian civilians as they navigate their way through language barriers and cultural differences.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-12-10
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The Taming of the Shrew
Overview: Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-08
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Gli onorevoli
Overview: Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-10
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Made in Italy
Overview: A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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The Saint Lies in Wait
Overview: Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American secret services, to ensure a comfortable future for his daughter, Sophie. But the plans are fake and Chartier decides to get help from his good friend Simon Templar.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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Le motorizzate
Overview: Five episodes about women drivers during the economic boom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-08-15
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Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows
Overview: A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo and Oreste are married to the same woman; when she delivers twins, they fight for paternity. In the second episode, Celestina needs a heir to receive her dead husband's fortune. In the third episode, young widow Daisy arrives in Italy to meet her deceased much-older husband's family and ends up marrying his great-grandson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-13
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Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Overview: Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which happens to have been designed by Manteghin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-07-05
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The Sheriff
Overview: A gang of outlaws terrorizes Rio Ciuccio. When they kill the sheriff his wife, an old neapolitan lady, takes his place.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-15
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I Kiss... You Kiss
Overview: Adolfo Cocchi has a building firm but his plan to build a set of buildings is been stopped by an old former Garibaldian, Don Leopoldo, who refuses to sell his property. A group of young people go to his house to play and sing. Marcella, Cocchi's daughter, who has a beautiful voice, goes to visit Leopoldo and falls in love with Paolo. They have an idea: open a night-club called "Io bacio... tu baci"...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-09
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Fra' Manisco cerca guai...
Overview: Father Pacifico is a genuine friar with a brisk manner, for this reason he is nicknamed Father Manisco. The religious finds himself grappling with a thorny case, as Don Liborio, a Neapolitan lord, dominates all local events, including the love choices of his young daughter. Father Pacifico manages to restore harmony and order despite a thousand difficulties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-30
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Man Only Cries for Love
Overview: Tony and some friends put together a rock band to do some concerts and earn some money. Unfortunately the military service is incumbent, but fortunately the boys will find themselves in the same barracks.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-07-27
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Los dinamiteros
Overview: Doña Pura, don Benito and don Augusto are three venerable old people who usually coincide each month in the queues of the mutuality windows to collect their pension, an opportunity they take advantage of to talk about life. When they learn that the old don Felipe, an acquaintance, is very sick and is alone and without money for a decent funeral, they decide to ask for a loan to help him, but, as they do not grant it, they decide to rob the savings bank. To do this, they will plan everything thoroughly and manufacture a homemade explosive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-11-02
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Caprice Italian Style
Overview: The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-13
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What Are the Clouds?
Overview: Some puppets come to life in a theater with no windows. This time the puppets interpret William Shakespeare's Othello.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-12
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Samson Against the Sheik
Overview: In the late 1500s, forces of the Duke of Malaga topple the Sacred Obelisk in the North African city of Melida before they're defeated by the local Sheik. The Shiek's men then sail to Spain and kidnap the Duke's daughter, Isabella.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-21
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A Husband for Anna
Overview: Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. But while she is waiting for Andrea to return from the navy she gets raped by her boss. Her life suddenly takes a downward spiral.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-08-22
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Prepotenti più di prima
Overview: Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-11
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I piaceri dello scapolo
Overview: Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-30
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The Archangel
Overview: Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Gloria Bianchi to defend her from the alleged murder of her lover.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-07-02
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Songs, Bullies and Chicks
Overview: In order to promote a plumcake an adman associates with a mad scientist who has found a way to interfere with TV broadcasts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-05-29
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Men and Noblemen
Overview: Nicola Peccoli has always nurtured his niece Giovanna, an orphan since the age of two and now of age, but he does not look favorably on her beloved Mario because he is just a simple employee and a lower class of society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-03
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Il raccomandato di ferro
Overview: An Italian clerk has been helped to his position by a fake kickback letter from a politician who, meanwhile has become a state secretary. His colleagues thus send him to Rome to settle an important matter with the powerful character. The poor fellow goes hoping the truth will not come out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-08
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Nights of the Teddy Boys
Overview: An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-03
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Mariti in pericolo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-24
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Our Husbands
Overview: Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-21
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We will get married in Capri
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-06
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Death Rides a Horse
Overview: Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-31
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A Very Handy Man
Overview: In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-23
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Accroche-toi, y'a du vent!
Overview: A self-taught amateur detective who learned his trade from a book finds himself caught between two gangs in Milan, trying to recover a wooden leg full of drugs. He is accompanied by an unlikely trio: a deaf secretary, an undertaker and a monkey.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-20
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7 Golden Monks
Overview: Count Raimondo and his girlfriend Veronique return to Italy from Switzerland carrying with them a load of contraband cigarettes but, using the pretense of a kidnapping to cheat their supplier, they hide out in the convent run by his uncle Friar Hugh. In the same convent without anyone's knowledge, the bandit Lucky Marciano is also hiding out with a significant quantity of gold ingots stolen from the Swiss Federal Bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-08
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Riuscirà il nostro eroe a ritrovare il più grande diamante del mondo?
Overview: Jimmy Logan, a detective, tries to retrieve a diamond from the British crown stolen by the traitorous chief of the English Secret Service. After carrying out dangerous investigations at Montecarlo, Beirut and Hamburg, he discovers that the headquarters of the thieves is located in a mental hospital and sets about infiltrating their ranks.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-06-23
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Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
Overview: A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-18
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More Than a Miracle
Overview: A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, when she meets the ill- tempered Spanish Prince Rodrigo Ferrante y Davalos. The King of Spain has ordered Rodrigo to choose a wife among seven Italian Princesses, but he is smitten by the lowly peasant.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-10-19
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Andy... Andy Silly Andy
Overview: Thanks to his actions during a farm fire, the young and naive Dreas is appointed to the local fire department, which awakens various ambitions in him. He constructs primitive watchtowers everywhere and achieves some successes, partly due to the activities of an arsonist. He is then allowed to attend a course at the fire academy in Maastricht. Back in his village, he fails during a fire at the local bakery, where everything goes wrong. Dismissed from his position, he finds new employment as a market vendor with a fire extinguisher he invented.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1964-12-21
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Il mio amico Benito
Overview: A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-03
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Veneri in collegio
Overview: Two competing teams of paparazzi try to enter a college to get a picture of an Arab Prince's fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-06-26
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Le tardone
Overview: A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-29
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For a Few Dollars Less
Overview: A bank clerk and his cousin, a "general", join forces to track down a Mexican outlaw.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-11
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Fiasco in Milan
Overview: The usual gang of robbers are hired by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will hinder the success of the operation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-19
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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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Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Overview: Antonio goes to West Berlin and meets Giuseppe. But Antonio looks like Canarinis, a wanted war criminal, So the daughter of the criminal pays Antonio to impersonate him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-08
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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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Colossus of the Arena
Overview: A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-13
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Il treno del sabato
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-20
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For Love and Gold
Overview: A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-04-07
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Le sedicenni
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-24
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Tiger of the Seven Seas
Overview: Tigre is the skipper of the Santa Maria, a pirate-ship, but he feels tired and decides to leave the command of the ship. Unfortunately he has only a daughter, Consuelo. So he will leave the command and the ship to the winner of a challenge among his men. Unexpectedly Consuelo wins. The same night Tigre is killed, William is charged with the killing and is sentenced to death. But before the sentence could be executed the Spaniards of Grand Duke Inigo arrives. Consuelo escapes, however this is only the first move of Indigo's wife to get to the pirates treasure.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-23
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Valley of the Doomed
Overview: 1860, the great Duchess of Parma, Maria Luisa, wants to provide her little state with train tracks, in spite of the opposition she gets from certain noble people.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-04-08
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Spavaldi e innamorati
Overview: This is an Italian movie starring Terence Hill
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-27
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I piaceri del sabato notte
Overview: Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-05-04
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La contessa azzurra
Overview: Loreley looks back to the happy times when she became a silent movie star with the huge success of "La Contessa Azzurra", directed by Don Salvatore and produced by Don Peppino, the owner of a Café Chantant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-16
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Nerone '71
Overview: A family from the province goes to CinecittÃ, hoping that their daughter will be assigned a part in the blockbuster Nero 71 .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-07
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El Lazarillo de Tormes
Overview: An adaptation of the anonymous sixteenth century novel Lazarillo de Tormes (1554), it tells the story of Lazarillo, a poor boy who has to live by his wits after being sold to a series of cruel masters.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-11-16
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The Man Who Wagged His Tail
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Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-09-27
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Campane a martello
Overview: Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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Black City
Overview: A charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police inspector.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-16
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The Passionate Thief
Overview: On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-12
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Sing with us
Overview: The old friends Nicola and Pasquale meet in the city after many years. The two, now married and with their children, try to marry their four children, but it soon becomes more difficult than expected.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-08-10
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La cento chilometri
Overview: During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Canzoni a tempo di Twist
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Questo pazzo, pazzo mondo della canzone
Overview: Thirty Italian singers from the sixties sing their hits.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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Napoleone a Firenze
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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