Vira Silenti
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Napoli, Campania, Italy
Birthday: April 13, 1930
Deathday: November 01, 2014
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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House of Ricordi
Overview: The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Genres: History Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Domenica è sempre domenica
Overview: A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-04-05
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Winter Holidays
Overview: Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-18
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Totò cerca moglie
Overview: Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-03-15
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Tototarzan
Overview: Roaming the vast jungles of Congo with his best friend, Bongo the gorilla, Antonio della Buffas, a mysterious man whom the natives call the "white monkey", is utterly unaware that he is the long-lost son of a wealthy explorer. Then, three opportunists manage to capture and bring the white savage to civilisation, bent on getting their hands on his immense fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-10-31
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Deadly Sweet
Overview: Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but Jane thinks he has been killed because he was blackmailed for a picture of his second wife, Jane's mother in law. In the same Night Club Bernard finds the blackmailer corpse and Jane near him, but he believes she is innocent. So Bernard and Jane run away followed by a dwarf, the blackmailer's men, who believe Bernard killed their boss and of course, the Police. They believe that Jerome, Jane's brother, can help them to solve the case. But Jane doesn't know where he is, or so she says. Corpse after corpse, Bernard will find out the truth. But will the truth help him?
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-11-16
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The Witch's Curse
Overview: Maciste travels to Hell to find a witch and make her undo a curse she put on the surface world.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-11
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Atlas Against the Cyclops
Overview: Strongman Maciste must battle the one-eyed Cyclops monster that is ravaging the land of Sadok, while at the same time fending off the advances of the evil Queen Capys, who wants to do a little ravaging of her own.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-29
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Joseph and His Brethren
Overview: A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power - but shows forgiveness and compassion to his family through the strength of character given to him by God.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-23
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Son of the Red Corsair
Overview: Enrico di Ventimiglia, the Son of the Red Corsair, travels through the Spanish conquests of Central America in search of the stepsister he has never met.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-23
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Son of Samson
Overview: Maciste travels to Egypt, where he leads a revolt against an evil queen. In Son of Samson, Maciste (Mark Forrest) -- scion of the famed muscleman -- travels to the Egyptian city of Tanis to checkmate villainous Queen Smedes (Chelo Alonso), who's persecuting the citizenry.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-24
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Il gallo canta a mezzanotte
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-02-01
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Alla Prova
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-04-26
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Vietato ai minorenni
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-03-02
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Una notte dopo l'opera
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-05-06
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Dagli Appennini alle Ande
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-10-23
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Cab Number 13
Overview: To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is adopted by a coachman, and later, as secretary to the Minister of Justice, discovers the truth, punishes the bad guys, rewards the good ones and marries the daughter of another innocent man, unjustly accused by Claudia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-28
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Instinct
Overview: Giallo about a woman who rents a house where a murder occurred, and begins an affair with a gigolo who also seduced her sister.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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La nemica
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-26
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Suicide Commando
Overview: World War 2 - a British commando squad is tasked with attacking the "secret" German airfield from which German fighters have been attacking bombers which are trying to stop German tanks from reinforcing the D Day defences.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-09
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All for love
Overview: Louise of Habsburg-Lorraine, young and beautiful wife of the Crown Prince of Saxony, manifests democratic sentiments that make her pleasing to the people, but not to the court. In 1902 old King George would like to have her committed to an asylum, but she escapes to Florence where she meets and loves the musician Enrico Toselli. Theirs will be a dramatic affair, with the man's death and her madness.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-09
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Lo que nunca muere
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1955-01-13
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I Vitelloni
Overview: Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-09-17
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The Avenger of Venice
Overview: Rolando, who was close to marrying the daughter of the Doge, is condemned after a highly unfair judicial process and locked up in Venice. Digging a tunnel with the aid of his cellmate, Rolando succeeds to escape.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-16
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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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Passionate song
Overview: Lucia Spinelli, orphaned by both parents, is taken as a housekeeper in the house of Mrs. Carla Parodi, when she reaches the age of majority, the young woman is almost forced to marry Mrs. Carla's brother. After the marriage and the birth of the first child, Parodi's intrusions on the life of the two spouses continue.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-20
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Francis the Smuggler
Overview: A smuggler has to skip town at avoid the pursuing police. The he returns, he falls for the daughter of his disapproving boss - and soon he has murder in mind
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-06
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La Gioconda
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-19
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La storia del fornaretto di Venezia
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Ultimo amore
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-04-05
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Lasciateci in pace
Overview: A mild-mannered man is mistaken for a subversive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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