Eduardo De Filippo
Also Known As: Eduardo, Edoardo De Filippo, Эдуардо Де Филиппо, Eduardo de Fillipo
Biography: Eduardo De Filippo (Naples, 24 May 1900 - Rome, 31 October 1984), was an Italian playwright, actor, director, screenwriter and poet. Considered one of the most important Italian theatrical authors of the twentieth century, he was the author of numerous theatrical works which he himself staged and interpreted and, later, translated and performed by others also abroad. A prolific author, he also worked in the cinema with the same roles covered in the theatrical activity. For his artistic merits and contributions to culture, in 1981, he was appointed senator for life by the President of the Republic Sandro Pertini and was awarded two honorary degrees in literature from the University of Birmingham in 1977 and from the University of Rome La "Sapienza" in 1980. It was also proposed for the Nobel Prize for literature [2]. Eduardo is still today, together with Luigi Pirandello, Dario Fo and Carlo Goldoni, one of the most appreciated and represented Italian theater authors abroad He was born in Naples on May 24, 1900. Natural son of the actor and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta and of the theater dressmaker Luisa De Filippo, Eduardo and his brothers were recognized as children by their mother whose surname they took De Filippo. Eduardo Scarpetta, married on March 16, 1876 to Rosa De Filippo, with whom he had three children (Domenico, Maria and Vincenzo), had an extra-marital relationship with his granddaughter Luisa De Filippo (daughter of Luca, brother of Rosa De Filippo) from which Titina, Eduardo and Peppino were born.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Napoli, Campania, Italy
Birthday: May 24, 1900
Deathday: October 31, 1984
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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I Sing for You Alone
Overview: Marcello, a shy tenor, is afraid of singing in public. Two friends of his think of having an elegant youth on the stage pretending to be singing while Marcello dubs him behind the scenes. The scam is successful but after a while Marcello summons the courage to go on stage himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1933-04-02
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Side Street Story
Overview: A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-21
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Ghosts of Rome
Overview: An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-04-01
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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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Quei figuri di tanti anni fa
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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Il Cilindro
Overview: The comedy, centered on five characters (Rita, Rodolfo, Agostino, Bettina, and Don Attilio - "o viecchio pazzo"-), has as background the Italy of the 60s between the economic boom and the perennial unemployment crisis. The cylinder, well explained by "Agostino-Eduardo" in the comedy, is a representation of power, designed to intimidate the ignorant for its only evocative "power". It can also be seen as a sort of "Pirandellian mask", where the character of Augustine wears it to defend himself and represent something that he is not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Yvonne of the Night
Overview: Carlo Rutelli falls in love with the beautiful variety singer Yvonne la Nuit, but his father opposes the wedding. World War I breaks out and Carlo is killed while Yvonne has a son, but on orders from Carlo's father, she is told he is dead. Her career descends and only Nino, an art partner, remains close to her and helps her earn her living by singing in taverns.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-11-24
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A che servono questi quattrini?
Overview: Marquis Eduardo Parascandolo, after having squandered all his possessions for not having cared about his finances, spends his time professing to some young people his philosophy of life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-04-06
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Everybody Go Home!
Overview: When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Genres: Comedy War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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Traviata 53
Overview: An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-07
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Il fidanzato di mia moglie
Overview: Enrico breaks up his marriage to Renata because he discovers that in the registry office she is already married to a certain Giulio, an inhabitant of a country town. The couple leaves in search of the mysterious Giulio who is about to marry Marcella, but her wedding also ends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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The Gold of Naples
Overview: A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-03
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Three Girls from Rome
Overview: Three gorgeous seamstresses meet on the historic steps of the Piazza de Spagna in Rome to discuss one another's love lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-02-01
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Position Wanted
Overview: Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-03
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Ferdinand I King of Naples
Overview: The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises in search of love adventures. With the De Filippo brothers to complete.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-22
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Casanova farebbe così!
Overview: A country braggart bets that he can spend a night with a local beauty. When he is surprised by her husband, he is not only forced to pay his friends money but also challenged to come up with a new identity other than Casanova or Don Juan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-12-05
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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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Il sindaco del rione Sanità
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-04-29
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Peppino Girella
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-04-14
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Christmas at the Cupiello House
Overview: Luca Cupiello lives with the wife Concetta, the son Tommasino, and a brother, Pasquale. The son is wild, living by gimmicks and stealing from his uncle; the daughter Ninuccia does not get along with her husband Nicolino and plans to run away with her lover Vittorio; the wife tries to hide her family's troubles from her husband. Luca, who silently suffers the family situation, takes refuge in setting up the Nativity scene.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-01-15
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Bene mio e core mio
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-04-15
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Assunta Spina
Overview: Assunta, a commoner of Naples, is scarred by her lover Michele for jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-03-10
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La canzone del destino
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Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-11-13
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Neopolitans in Milan
Overview: Afterfive people die in crumbling Naples housing run by Northerners, the Southern relatives trek to Milan to sue for damages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-09-06
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Three Cornered Hat
Overview: A comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Sogno di una notte di mezza sbornia
Overview: Pasquale Grifone, who lives in Naples with his family, receives in a dream the visit of Dante Alighieri. The poet suggests to the man, clouded by the fumes of alcohol, four numbers to play.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-13
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I Do Not Move
Overview: Former batsman Carlo Mezzetti, who has been left homeless with his daughter Annuccia, takes advantage of favorable situations and legal loopholes to find temporary accommodation, illegally occupying vacant houses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-08-13
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Mia famiglia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-04-15
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De Pretore Vincenzo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-02
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La paura numero uno
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-18
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Ditegli sempre di sì
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-01-08
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La grande magia
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-19
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Le voci di dentro
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-03
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Due atti unici a colori
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Questi fantasmi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-01-29
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Sei atti unici in bianco e nero
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
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100 Years of Love
Overview: Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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Marito e Moglie
Overview: Two episode about the married life. In the first one a paralyzed man is forced by her wife to brood eggs while the mother hen is gone. In the second episode a good-willed man tries to escpape from the grey of the world that surround him
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-08
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Chi è cchiù felice 'e me
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Courtyard
Overview: A teenager escapes from a reformatory and is accused of theft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-27
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Non ti pago!
Overview: The owner of a lottery store refuses to pay a large sum won by one of his workers that he hates, because that man received the winning numbers in a dream.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-10-07
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I morti non fanno paura
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Il dono di Natale
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Friendship
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-07-14
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Filumena Marturano
Overview: Filumena, an ex-prostitute and for decades Domenico Soriano's lover, discovers that he intends to get married and so pretends to be on the verge of death in order to get him to marry her instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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La chiave di casa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Quei figuri di tanti anni fà
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Ragazze da marito
Overview: Oreste is known for his deliberation and caution in handling license forms at his office.But when he needs money to send his 3 girls off to Capri to find rich suitors, he is tempted to take bribes to put a license through more quickly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-19
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I Was to Blame
Overview: A comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with his brother's overbearing wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-04-01
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Eduardo ultima lezione, ultimo spettacolo: il punto di arrivo il punto di partenza
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
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The Lucky Five
Overview: Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-14
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Uno tra la folla
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-02-09
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Ti conosco, mascherina!
Overview: An unscrupulous theatrical agent introduces his latest "discovery" to an elderly baron who becomes infatuated with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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Life Begins Anew
Overview: A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-09-21
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In campagna è caduta una stella
Overview: An American starlet inflames two Italian peasants who forget about their respective fiance's. One of them even thinks of marrying her and begins to plan for the engagement banquet. When the girl decides to live the countryside harmony reigns again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-11-11
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Napoli milionaria
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Quei due
Overview: Adventures of two provincial actors looking for anyway done with something to eat. They are joined by a girl, Lili. They represent a magic number, but all I get are miscues and boos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-27
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L'uomo dai calzoni corti
Overview: Salvatore, known as "bread loaf", escapes from Caltanissetta's brewery to find his mother he never met. Before arriving in Venice, he stays in a small sea village where he meets people of various kinds.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-06-23
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Tre Calzoni Fortunati
Overview: Don Felice Sciosciammocca, a poor and simple man, goes to the day, hoping that sooner or later will come the right opportunity to change his life. A nice day at Don Felice comes a parcel from a dear cousin, which contains three pairs of old trousers. Apparently only common value objects, but they will create great surprises.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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'Na Santarella
Overview: Happy Sciosciammocca has a double life: he plays sacred music in the convent of Rondinelle and teaches music to the educators, at night he goes to Naples where he is known as the actor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-04-01
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Uomo e galantuomo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-26
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Fortunella
Overview: A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-14
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Li nepute de lu sinneco
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-31
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Non ti pago
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-11-20
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Miseria e Nobiltà
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-11-12
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Christmas at the Cupiello Household
Overview: Luca Cupiello, like every Christmas, prepares the crib, amid the disinterest of his wife Concetta and his son Tommasino. Ninuccia, the other daughter, writes a letter to her husband in which she communicates that she leaves him for her lover. The letter happens in the hands of Luca who hands it over to his son-in-law, who thus learns of his wife's betrayal. During lunch on Christmas Eve, the two rivals, who were confronted by Luca's carelessness, clash violently.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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My Name Is Anna Magnani
Overview: Traces the life of Anna Magnani, her creations, her successes, her triumphs, her boycotted career, her nonconformism, her anxieties, her generosity ... Punctuated with photos that tell her career in theater and cinema, Extracts of films, this documentary portrait also gives the floor to his friends and relatives, from Roberto Rossellini to Marcello Mastroianni, through Federico Fellini.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-30
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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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Raw Wind in Eden
Overview: Passengers struggle to survive after their plane crashes on a remote island. Director Richard Wilson's 1958 drama stars Esther Williams, Jeff Chandler and Rosanna Podesta.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-19
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Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
Overview: Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito, sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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L'abito nuovo
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-20
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Il contratto
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-04-06
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'o Tuono 'e Marzo
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-03
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L'arte della commedia
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-07-06
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Il medico dei pazzi
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-15
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Il sindaco del Rione Sanità
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-06-19
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Il berretto a sonagli
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-07-20
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Gli esami non finiscono mai
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-18
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La fortuna con l'effe maiuscola
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-17
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Lu Curaggio De Nu Pumpiero Napulitano
Overview: Thanks to the legacy of an English lord, the cobbler Andrea has become a baron and now has delusions of nobility: he wants a high-ranking marriage for his stepdaughter Virginia and does not recognize the brothers of his wife, Rosina and Michele, even after the latter has saved the his house from a fire. Virginia does not like her promised Marchese Alberto, but Felice Sciosciammocca, a shy and poor master of calligraphy, who reciprocates her. But when Felice learns that the girl will soon marry another, out of spite he accepts the court of the late Marquise Zoccola, Alberto's mother.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-07-19
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Gennareniello
Overview: Gennareniello, a crazy inventor, is married to Concettina and lives at home with his son Tommasino, full of tics, his spinster sister and with Matteo, a drawing master who makes plans for his inventions. Driven by his friends, the man courts the young teacher Anna and when his wife notices it, he is forced to run away from home, overwhelmed by the scorn of derision of friends and acquaintances who come to disguise him as a dandy, thus offending his dignity.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-19
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It Happened in the Park
Overview: Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-18
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Filumena Marturano
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-05
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Eduardo De Filippo, Lezioni Di Teatro All’università Sapienza Di Roma
Overview: De Filippo agreed to teach a series of drama classes to the students of the Università di Roma Sapienza, with whom he would continue to collaborate until his death in 1984. The lessons were all recorded and today are preserved in the Archivio Audiovisivo dello Spettacolo, at the Labs (Laboratorio Audiovisivo dello Spettacolo) run by Professor Stefano Locatelli.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2021-01-01
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Pericolosamente
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-06-30
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