Gino Cervi
Also Known As: Luigi Cervi, Джино Черви, Luigi "Gino" Cervi
Biography: Gino Cervi (3 May 1901 - 3 January 1974) was an Italian actor of international fame. Cervi was born in Bologna. His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi. In 1928, he married Nini Gordini (one of his partners) and they had a son, Tonino Cervi. Gino Cervi later became the grandfather of actress Valentina Cervi and producer Antonio Levesi Cervi. Cervi was best known for his role of Giuseppe Bottazzi ("Peppone"), the Communist mayor in the Don Camillo movies of the 1950s and the 1960s. He shared great complicity and friendship with co-star Fernandel during the 15 years playing their respective roles in Don Camillo movies. At the end of his career, he played Commissioner Maigret for six years in the Italian version of those murder stories, which ended with a movie Maigret in Pigalle (Mario Landi, 1966), produced by his son Antonio Cervi. He died at Punta Ala in 1974. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gino Cervi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Birthday: May 03, 1901
Deathday: January 03, 1974
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Umanità
Overview: The meritorious assistance of a US institution, towards the inhabitants of a refugee camp, in the Italian post-war period, among the protagonists a doctor who tries to do everything possible to treat the population in critical health conditions. The doctor will fall in love with a girl particularly affected by the dramatic war period, but the return of the girl's boyfriend from captivity and the subsequent marriage will make the American doctor return to daily reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-01-10
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Le Olimpiadi dei mariti
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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The Return of Don Camillo
Overview: Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-06-05
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Don Camillo's Last Round
Overview: Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-29
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Don Camillo: Monsignor
Overview: Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-07
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Dappled Mare
Overview: Ruggero Pascoli, the father of poet Giovanni Pascoli, is killed by a corrupt officer. His body is brought back home by a mare that will, several years later, reveal the one responsible for the murder.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-23
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The Little World of Don Camillo
Overview: In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-28
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Voglio vivere con Letizia
Overview: Bebe, a handsome and rich young man, is getting engaged with Letizia, a young heir to a noble family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Roaring Years
Overview: In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-21
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Don Camillo in Moscow
Overview: Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-18
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Becket
Overview: Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-11
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It Happened in '43
Overview: 1943. The affair between Anna, unhappily married to wheelchair-bound Pino, and deserter Franco unfolds in foggy Ferrara, intertwining with the power struggle taking place within local Fascist ranks that culminates in a massacre of civilians, including Franco's father – Pino sees it all from his window, but will he tell anyone?
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-15
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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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Four Steps in the Clouds
Overview: A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-12-24
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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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The Iron Crown
Overview: In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince Arminio to beasts in the woods, but lions don't kill him and breed him as one of them.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-09-07
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Sans famille
Overview: The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his three dogs and a monkey. In the beginning Remi takes its new master, but a demanding and hard man, and the animals have not been too much with the clumsy boy. But gradually creates a bond between Remi and his new comrades, until their friendship is suddenly disrupted when Vasalis is arrested for vagrancy and sentenced. Then Remi, alone in the world, along with his animal friends in position to try to keep ...
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham, incurring the wrath of the Cardinal and exposing themselves to the cold cruelty of Milady de Winter. Also featured are the tender Mme Bonacieux, the hilarious Planchet, the Queen's ferrets and Bethune's executioner, against a backdrop of clanging swords.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-07
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Il coraggio
Overview: A wealthy trader saves the life of a poor suicidal man who then decides that his savior has the responsibility of taking care of him and his family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-24
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Il cardinale Lambertini
Overview: Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-23
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Frou-Frou
Overview: A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-06-19
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Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo
Overview: This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the roman traffic police. 'Guardia'(agent) Alberto Randolfi has a too strong inclination to fine everyone and is dreaming about learning French. 'Brigadiere' (sergeant) Pietro Spaziali is busy looking at his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is going to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they often do.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-04-20
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Indiscretion of an American Wife
Overview: While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-02
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Gangster Boss
Overview: In Paris, two scoundrels kidnap a wealthy man's preteen son, disguised as Indians, only to find he's a savvy detective, making their ransom plan much more complicated.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-20
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Wife for a Night
Overview: A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-07-12
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The Lady Without Camelias
Overview: A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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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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Good King Dagobert
Overview: Mr. Pelletan's rascal son Bébert son got another F for playing in class. His punishment is an essay on the Merovingian king Dagobert. All they know is he had eight wives and reunited Francia. The ignorant knave's irreverent imagination turns that into a harem and a ludicrous war without armies, loaded with anachronisms, in a race against rival king Charibert for the crown of Reims. The king's right hand, archbishop Eloi, the later patrons saint of carpentry, is portrayed as an inventor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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Biblioteca di Studio Uno: I tre moschettieri
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Naked Maja
Overview: A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-20
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Vacations in Majorca
Overview: Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surprise of his rival.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-14
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The Two Sergeants
Overview: Attempting to cover the fault of one of his subordinates, an officer of the Napoleonic army is condemned to death for treason.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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The Betrothed
Overview: Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before being reunited and being able to marry.
Genres: History Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-12-19
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Desert Warrior
Overview: Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages people to form an army and fight again to Ibrahim. The town gets excited and running quickly, while crossing the desert, they encounter the enemy caravans and raid without knowing that one of them is Fatima, daughter of Ibrahim, who poses as a singer of the harem. Said, dazzled by the beauty of the girl, released. But soon after, Fatima, who also doesn´t know the origin of the robber, sees him again, and among them born a strong attraction.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-10-31
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The Joy of Living
Overview: Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-05-11
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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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Don Cesare of Bazan
Overview: In Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched against the king by the French ambassador.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-10-04
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Castle of the Banned Lovers
Overview: The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But she has to face the jealousy of his violent and morbid father, and the hostility of his stepmother Lucrezia, who has a relationship with her other stepson, James. The stepmother and stepson-lover plan to kill Francesco. And when the latter dies accidentally, they decide to put the blame on Beatrice and Olimpio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-06
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Un'ombra su Maigret
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-27
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La grande avventura
Overview: The adventures of Count Angelo de Marchis as he tries to reach his besieged allies in Rome with much needed funds from England. Can he evade the pursuing "Contessa Sara Mondini" and her Milanese henchmen?
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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The Misery of Mr. Travet
Overview: The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr. Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-12-15
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The Revolt of the Slaves
Overview: A rich man's daughter (Rhonda Fleming) sides with a Christian rebel during the fall of the Roman Empire.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-30
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The Changing of the Guard
Overview: During WW2, it's not wise to be a mayor chosen by the fascists with the Americans' impending arrival.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-31
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The Eye of the Needle
Overview: Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-14
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Maddalena
Overview: The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-08-07
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Moglie e buoi...
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Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-10-23
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Ten Italians for One German
Overview: A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-31
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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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Aquila Nera
Overview: An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-09-21
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Crime Does Not Pay
Overview: Husband try to kill his wife with a help of the plan he saw in a film. But reality is not a film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-07-06
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I figli del marchese Lucera
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-01-01
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Il latitante
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-04
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Quarta pagina
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-12-17
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La regina di Navarra
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Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-03-30
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Maigret at the Pigalle
Overview: Maigret is about to leave for the holidays but a colleague asks him for help in investigating the mysterious murder of a stripper and a noblewoman, both of which took place in Pigalle.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-30
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Mistress of the World - Part I
Overview: Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military applications are already being thought of when Dr. Johansson is kidnapped by a group of profit-seeking mercenaries. Meanwhile, his daughter, Karin, finds herself having to consort with all manner of shady characters as she searches for her father.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-04-14
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Un figlio d'oggi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Vivere ancora
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Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-04-08
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Aldebaran
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-01-02
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Amore
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1935
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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An Adventure of Salvator Rosa
Overview: Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-12-16
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Una romantica avventura
Overview: Directed by Mario Camerini.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-09-06
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Full Hearts and Empty Pockets
Overview: A young German comes to Rome on vacation and is not slow to win female hearts. When the game become dangerous due to a possible marriage, the young man returns to his homeland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-27
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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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Cronaca nera
Overview: A mob boss seeks refuge from the police at the home of an ordinary family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-02-15
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Non c'è amore più grande
Overview: While her new husband is away looking for work, the wife loses the child she was expecting and uses another woman's baby as a substitute so she won't have to upset her spouse when he returns.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-08-06
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The Nun of Monza
Overview: Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's unable to resist a romance with the nobleman Gian Paolo Osio which will lead both to danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-05-10
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T'amerò sempre
Overview: Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-11-05
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Inventiamo l'amore
Overview: A young man from the provinces who inherited a certain sum, decides to go to Rome to devote himself to the cinematographic activity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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Love and Chatter
Overview: Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-01-31
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Lo sbaglio di essere vivo
Overview: Believed dead, a husband poses as his own brother, to cash in on an insurance policy.But when his former boss,a rich man, asks the so called brother for help in wooing the widow, the new fortune from the insurance loses some of its appeal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-12-05
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Farewell, My Beautiful Lady!
Overview: Guido and Cristina fall in love, but she is betrothed to a solider. When he is reported killed they hope to marry, but his reappearance without his limbs makes matters difficult for all concerned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-16
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Che distinta famiglia!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-10-03
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The Orderly
Overview: Colonels, majors, lieutenants: all of them live in the same building. Some of them have a wife or children or none, but everyone has his orderly. Major Penna is harassed by Osvaldo's mother. Lt. Martucci gets involved in the love affair between Antonio, his orderly, and Lauretta.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-03
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Sign of the Gladiator
Overview: Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1959-03-05
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Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Overview: An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-31
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Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
Overview: The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-01-21
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Racconti romani di una ex-novizia
Overview: A girl who entered the convent pushed by devotion is depraved, marries, betrays her husband and becomes a courtesan.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-21
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El pasado te acusa
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-06-16
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To Kill in Silence
Overview: Valeria and Gianni are students and soon begin a love affair. When she becomes pregnant, they have to face the decision to have the child or an abortion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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William Tell
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-04-08
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La Dame aux camélias
Overview: Young and handsome Armand Duval falls in love with Marguerite Gautier, a 'demi-mondaine'. He manages to persuade her to give up her life as a courtesan and they both settle down in the country. Tthe beginning of their idyll is like a dream but a short-lived one as their relationship is considered scandalous by Armand's family. During a secret visit to Marguerite, Armand's father convinces her to leave his son, which she does broken-heartedly but out of love for Armand. Her end will be doubly tragic; not only does she suffer from terminal tuberculosis but she is abandoned by everyone, including by Armand, who believes she has betrayed her. At long last, learning the truth, Armand rushes to her bedside and Marguerite has the joy to breathe her last in his arms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-06
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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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The Sinner
Overview: Seduced and abandonned by her fiance, Maria Ferrante leaves home to avoid any scandal. She is trying to find work and place to stay but one misfortune after another comes into her life Venice Film Festival 1940
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-01-10
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Furia
Overview: Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The young daughter of the household is later added to this mixture of passions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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Ambush in Tangier
Overview: An American police detective's investigation into a series of murders leads him to drug smugglers in North Africa.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Mistress of the World - Part II
Overview: Karin is now continuing her father's research and is also caught in the cross hairs of the mysterious opponents. Johanson himself retreats to a Cambodian monastery in order to escape the gangsters' shots and recover. Meanwhile, the international criminals manage to steal Johanson's energy formula. Karin then goes after the thieves, supported by Lundstrom. But he also has his own goals. The hunt takes them around the world. It soon turns out that a certain Madame Latour is behind the sinister machinations. Eventually old Johanson falls into her hands. In Southeast Asia, a showdown ensues between the kidnappers and Lundstrom and Karin.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-04-26
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Overview: Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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The Forbidden Christ
Overview: Freshly released from a Russian POW camp, Italian soldier Raf Vallone tries to discover who betrayed his brother to the Nazis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-06-08
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The Black Chapel
Overview: 1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-15
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O.K. Nero
Overview: Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-20
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L'argine
Overview: A ferryman assists a woman who had a car accident and falls in love with her. When she leaves suddenly, he sets out to find her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-31
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La sposa non può attendere
Overview: On his way to his own wedding, a young man saves a woman who attempted suicide by jumping into a river and falls for her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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The Flame that Never Dies
Overview: Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-09-21
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Islands in the Lagoon
Overview: A documentary about the Venetian lagoon, with the words of Diego Fabbri narrating scenes of strips of land swallowed up by the sea, of small boats sailing on the water, of men and women concentrating on their work in a world which is "a false sea and a false land."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-05-01
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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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Romantici a Venezia
Overview: This is a documentary film on the romantic and decadent atmosphere of Venice at the end of the 18th century. A vigorous comment by Jean Cocteau tells us of the sick souls and the sorrows of literary characters and musicians who lived the dream of this city. It is the Venice of Lord Byron, Alfred de Musset, George Sand, d'Annunzio; a Venice made of precious images, palaces reflected in the water, mysterious moonlights, little squares where unhappy lovers wander under the music of Richard Wagner.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Story of a Love Affair
Overview: A wealthy, possessive husband's investigation reignites his young wife's past love, leading them to plot against him. As obstacles fall away, their passion faces a new test.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-03
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Siege of Syracuse
Overview: Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle for power. The fate of Syracuse lies in the hands of its leader, the famed inventor and scientist Archimedes.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-17
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A Free Woman
Overview: Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she barely knows. So begins a series of romantic encounters in which Liana tries to find her freedom and happiness, but which will ultimately lead her to a tragic fate.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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Il caimano del Piave
Overview: It is 1917, the period of the First World War when Italy is fighting Austria-Hungary. Lucilla di Torrebruna leaves high school and returns to her father, a colonel in the cavalry, who lives at San Donà di Piave.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-03-07
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Revenge
Overview: A man comes home from the war and finds both his plant and his family destroyed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-04-21
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Eternal Melody
Overview: The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-12-03
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Quartetto pazzo
Overview: Elena invites her former husband Roberto to her country house with the aim of winning him back while her sister Monica invites her lover Filippo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-08-22
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Wild Love
Overview: Despite of (or perhaps because of ) its sparse production values and unpretentiousness, the Italian Gli Innamorati was feted at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. The bulk of the story takes place in a single Roman neighborhood. In the manner of the 1925 German classic A Joyless Street, director Mauro Bolognini studies the hopes, dreams, successes and failures of the neighborhood's various and sundry denizens. No one subplot dominates the proceedings, though a bit of extra time is afforded the story of a fickle seamstress and her seemingly meek-and-mild boyfriend. The cast is dotted with such reassuringly familiar faces as Nino Manfredi and Gino Cervi. Released in the US as Wild Love, Gli Innamorati was instrumental in bringing international fame to director Bolognini, whose career soon shifted into high drive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-06-17
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Daniele Cortis
Overview: The film follows the struggles of an idealistic Catholic politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-05-06
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The Blue Fleet
Overview: Italy's first flying film showed the strides that land had made in aviation, preparing for military action under Fascism.The 3 comrades of the plot have their differences but work together and 2 of them at least find romance back on earth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-12-01
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Tristi amori
Overview: Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-10-29
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Three Forbidden Stories
Overview: While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently come out of an unfortunate marriage to a wealthy but insensitive boor. And Gianna (Eleanore Rossi Drago), the daughter of a college professor, has ruined her life with narcotics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-29
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Sigillo rosso
Overview: An elderly lady, who has lost her only son in the war, turns her house into a pension. It is also the custody of a mysterious document that his son entrusted to him, and which is coveted by many people .
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Fratello ladro
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Gente dell’aria
Overview: Two half brothers, one a pilot, the other a repairman at the plane factory of their father, are in a disagreement due to the envy of the younger brother, son of the first wife of their father. Then both brothers fall in love with the same woman; this causes more conflict between the two, making worse an already tense situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-03-04
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Nero and the Burning of Rome
Overview: Pushed by his mother Agrippina, Neron seized power at the expense of Britannicus. His poetry makes him commit numerous crimes. He will die stabbed after having killed his wife, his mother, his advisers, his wife's lovers, and an incredible number of Christians ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-08-28
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Acque di primavera
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-11-12
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Fabiola
Overview: In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-03-03
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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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Gli uomini non sono ingrati
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Las aeroguapas
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-11-24
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Anna Karenina
Overview: Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-22
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Del vento tra i rami del Sassofrasso
Overview: Rockefeller is a tough and resilient man, who has spent his life as a cowboy in the Wild West, always without fear and without remorse. He is the head of a large family, which he leads with authority, sharp words and a passionate temperament. In the village, Rockefeller faces an alcoholic doctor, a wise wife, a generous-hearted girl and a sheriff who takes justice into his own hands.
Genres: Comedy Western TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-02-09
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