Luigi Pavese
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Asti, Piedmont, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: October 25, 1897
Age: 127 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 13, 1969
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My Police Granny
Overview: Tina, an old lady, is in town for the wedding of her grandson when a medallion left to her by her late husband disappears. Dissatisfied with the police effort to find it, she sets on the tracks of the thieves herself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-09-10
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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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Mina... fuori la guardia
Overview: A famous singer is drafted and gets the occasion of getting rid of his annoying girlfriend. He falls in love with a young student who finds out she is a singer herself.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-04-12
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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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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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Cinema of yesteryear
Overview: While filming in the Roman countryside, some of the workers damage the garden of Caterina. Going to ask for compensation, she meets the director Marcello, who propose her to star working in movies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-03
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Beatrice Cenci
Overview: Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-09
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Totò Looking for a House
Overview: Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-12-09
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Bellezze sulla spiaggia
Overview: A doctor running a health clinic by the sea is convinced that women are the cause of the disturbed behaviour of his (male) patients. We get to follow the adventures of the patients during a day on the beach.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-05
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Perfide.... ma belle
Overview: Michele, a young mechanic, is in love with Angela Antonia, beautiful but capricious: the girl's father, once he learns of the relationship, has him fired from the place where he works and is forced to move to Naples. He asks for hospitality from his aunt Carmela, concierge in a building, but she has no vacancies and arranges him as Donna Tecla, the owner of a pension who, having three young daughters eager to get married, hopes to arrange at least one. But the three girls are not the best of beauty and Michele, gifted with a beautiful voice, agrees to sing in a club on behalf of an impresario who becomes his friend.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-12
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Lost in the Dark
Overview: Naples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries to blackmail the father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-09
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Fame and the Devil
Overview: Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-11-18
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The Sword and the Cross
Overview: Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-13
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He Who Hesitates Is Lost
Overview: After their boss' death, two clerks eagerly await the arrival of the next one, each one of them hoping to become the apple of his eye. They compete in every possible way to impress him, which causes lots of trouble and many misunderstandings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-15
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Totò Looking for Wife
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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Totó in color
Overview: In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-04-08
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Totò d'Arabia
Overview: Toto, a former Italian military servant who works as a servant at the British Intelligence Service, is promoted to secret agent with the name of Agent 00Ø8 to convince the ruler of Shamara, Sheikh Ali El Buzur, to yield oil to UK.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-02-18
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Toto in Madrid
Overview: When the swindler La Spada and his accomplice José come out of jail in Madrid, they decide to pull a really great swindle: nothing less than to discover and sell a third picture of the famous Goya's Maya. They engage the renowed Scorcelletti who can imitate any picture and who lives in Rome. Afterwards, with the help of the beautiful Eva, they convince the celebrated art critic Francisco Montiel of the existance of a third Maya and let him find the picture. When the swindlers are on the point of selling the faked maya to an American millionaire, Scorcelli comes back from Rome to sell one of his six other maya pictures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-06
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Fifa e arena
Overview: In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-11-23
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Toto in Paris
Overview: Duclos's son, a worldly gangster, is compromised in a case of which he is innocent. The proof of this innocence is in the hands of a "competitor", the Marquis de Chemantel de Beauvoiron, a misguided aristocrat. He asked for $ 10 million to cede the document. Duclos will then imagine Chemantel contracting $ 10 million in life insurance for his son. As he discovered in Rome a tramp, a look-alike of the marquis, he will bring this man to Paris and arrange for him to die accidentally.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-10-23
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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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Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Overview: Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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Totò Double or Nothing?
Overview: The penniless Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o raddoppia", a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between themselves on his success and, alas, the Duke is kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-05-03
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Signori si nasce
Overview: Baron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-04-28
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Heart
Overview: A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by Enrico Bottini.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-03-10
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Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Overview: The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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Toto Tours Italy
Overview: A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-12-30
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May God Forgive You... But I Won't
Overview: While Cjamango is away from his ranch, bandits attack and kill his family. Disrupted by this tragedy, he sets out to take his revenge, helped by a Mexican who has seen the bandits. The writer of the western Cjamango directed this unofficial sequel to Cjamango.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-08-13
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Love and Larceny
Overview: Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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L'allegro fantasma
Overview: The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-03-16
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The Strange Type
Overview: Peppino, a slow-witted local villager of the Italian resort town of Amalfi, is bribed to impersonate famed rock and roll star Adriano Celentano for autographs and personal appearances. While Celentano tries to romance Emanuela Mazzolani, the daughter of a well-to-do resident who dissaproves of the union between his daughter and the man he thinks of as a "punk", Peppino, unaware of the true nature of his job to impersonate Celentano, tries to deal with his girlfriend's newborn baby which gets switched around between him and Celentano.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-28
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Mamma mia, che impressione!
Overview: Shy, clumsy and petulant, Alberto tries in every way to impress Margherita. With the hope of winning the first prize, he participates in a race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-04-07
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Totò le Mokò
Overview: Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-12-20
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The Band of Honest Men
Overview: Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-04-12
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La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna
Overview: To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-07
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Noi duri
Overview: Lieutenant Bombardone is in Paris to wipe out a gang of drug traffickers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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Mademoiselle Gobete
Overview: A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-04
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Totò diabolicus
Overview: The marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them, with the exception of Monsignor Antonino di Torre Alta, are killed by Diabolicus. The police are unable to solve the case, but when Antonino gives his inheritance to Pasquale Bonocore, illegitimate son of his father and Pasquale is in prison and therefore can't be the killer, all the clues are in the hand of the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-07
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Totòtruffa '62
Overview: Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-12
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2 Mobsters Against Al Capone
Overview: For a misunderstanding Franco and Ciccio, two Sicilian immigrants of very limited intellectual faculties, are enrolled in the police force in New York.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-04
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The Two Sans-culottes
Overview: The brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution, putting themselves in a lot of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-13
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Dying as Hierarchs
Overview: Now in bankruptcy, the industrialist Merletti seeks the help of Mr. Frioppi, a rich ex-fascist with a real mania for ancient castles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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Il capitano degli ussari
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-10-10
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Figaro qua... Figaro là
Overview: In the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-10-12
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Totò versus Maciste
Overview: Totokamen is an entertainer and an illusionist who performs in various Egyptian nightclubs assisted by his manager, Tarantenkamen. Taking advantage of cheesy tricks, Totokamen pretends to be the son of the god Amun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-28
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A Mink Coat
Overview: A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-08-21
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Lo scocciatore
Overview: A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics!
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-18
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Dad Becomes Mom
Overview: The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-26
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Friends More Than Before
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Tripoli, bel suol d'amore
Overview: The young Alberto Ruotolo leave the country cottage to go for the sharpshooter. But the command does not pull good air, three riflemen arrogant and unruly bear much disorder as anger Marshal Nero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-08-19
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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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I cinque dell'Adamello
Overview: The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-11-30
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Legs of Gold
Overview: Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a triumphant championship, is about to be promoted to Serie C.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-27
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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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La pattuglia sperduta
Overview: The adventures of Lieutenant Airoldi of Piedmont who is trying to gather intelligence for the Republic about the advancing Austrian armies near the river Ticino ahead of the battle of Novara.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-06-09
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Scandali al mare
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-11
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Malombra
Overview: A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-12-17
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Woman Trouble
Overview: Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person decides to steal a car from a garage guarded by a friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-10-17
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I pirati della Malesia
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-10-18
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L'uomo del romanzo
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-10-18
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Cose dell'altro mondo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Ferragosto in Bikini
Overview: Sun, Sea, Love and a beautiful Italian beach...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-31
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L'atleta di cristallo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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La famiglia Passaguai
Overview: When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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Enrico IV
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-11-26
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Ai vostri ordini, signora...
Overview: The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend. Then things change and the two fake boyfriends discover that they are really in love with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-02-15
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The Za-Bum Circus
Overview: Anthology comedy/romance film
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-03-11
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10 love songs to save
Overview: The plot concerns a songwriter, played by Jacques Sernas who leaves his sweetheart and publisher when he learns that he is going blind.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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A Sailor's Promises
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-07-07
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Pinocchio
Overview: The film was directed by Giuliano Cenci with assistance from his brother Renzo. During production, Carlo Collodis grandchildren Mario and Antonio Lorenzini were consulted. The subtle movements made by fidgeting children whilst speaking or under scrutiny were incorporated into Pinocchios movements, particularly when he lies to the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair over the fate of his gold coins. For the design of the Fairy, Italian portrayals of the Blessed Virgin Mary in art were used as starting points.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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Destiny Unknown
Overview: Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as railroad workers in turn-of-the-century South America. In addition to facing poverty, deprivation, and prejudice, the immigrants are also bedeviled by a raging fever epidemic. Finally achieving a measure of prosperity, the Italians are forced to confront tragedy once more when their grown children march off to WWI. Though Isa Miranda is top-billed, she has very little to do in comparison with male lead Filippo Scelso. Passaporto Rosso was released in the U.S. as Destiny Unknown.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-13
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I, Hamlet
Overview: The adventures of Hamlet who, following many adventures, manages to kill Claudio the usurper, marry Ophelia and be elected President of the Republic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-27
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Una lampada alla finestra
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-02-10
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La grande rinuncia
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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Silenzio, si gira!
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-10-02
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Io sono la Primula Rossa
Overview: Comedy with Renato Rascel
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-20
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Viva il cinema
Overview: Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-02-05
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Il tallone di Achille
Overview: Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-08-18
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Mamma mia, che impressione!
Overview: Shy, clumsy and petulant, Alberto tries in every way to impress Margherita. With the hope of winning the first prize, he participates in a race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-04-07
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Snow White and the Seven Thieves
Overview: A bizarre mechanic tells a traveler the story of a bank employee, Peppino Biancaneve, who with the help of a disc is trying to put together the words he would like to use to ask for the hand of the daughter of the jeweler Carlo Casertoni, but while he mulls over the sentences he should pronounce to his future father-in-law he comes across a strange individual who could be a bringer of bad luck: a jettatore.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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My Pal, Dr. Jekyll
Overview: Professor Fabius has found a way of transferring his personality to another person and he transfers his to the body of Giacinto Floria, a nice teacher in a women's college. Poor Giacinto becomes a sex maniac to the puzzlement of his girlfriend Mafalda.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-11
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La paura fa 90
Overview: A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good bloke and when he gets the occasion he helps a youth wrongly accused of murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-23
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How We Got Into Trouble with the Army
Overview: A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of another soldier who sings in a night club but due to series of misunderstandings the sergeant believes he is his own son, born from a former love story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-21
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Tombolo, paradiso nero
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-10-24
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Il vedovo allegro
Overview: An artist of variety, known in art with the name of Bebè, is a charlatan in Cannes, in a company with Zallos, a shady type.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-06-30
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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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The Iron Swordsman
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-11-01
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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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The Lovers of Manon Lescaut
Overview: In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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È caduta una donna
Overview: In Milan, an unwed mother, forced to flee from her town because of the scandal, meets a doctor who falls in love with her and marries her. But the couple's relationship breaks down almost immediately: the husband is unable to leave behind the woman's past and can not stand a son not his. So Dina, in an attempt to readjust the rapport, entrusts the child to the care of the mother of her seducer (meanwhile deceased). But the sacrifice is beyond her strength, and she's soon taken by the irresistible desire to get her child back: in damp and foggy night, on her way to the station...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-12-17
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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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Skyscrapers
Overview: During a party a drunken guest falls from the terrace, killing himself. The police inspector in charge of the investigation suspects all the participants in turn, and mysterious stories come to light.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-06-17
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Joe il Rosso
Overview: A precious painting suddenly disappears from the house of a noble Italian family. A relative from America investigates the mystery.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-12-07
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Tormento del passato
Overview: A gangster comes back to Rome after many years and meets his old flame and their daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-04-01
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Valeria ragazza poco seria
Overview: Two young men love the same girl and decide to fight for her. The winner realizes, however, that his feelings are not returned.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-29
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Una bruna indiavolata!
Overview: Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-21
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Anthony of Padua
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Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-03-20
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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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A Mink Coat
Overview: A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-08-21
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L'inafferrabile 12
Overview: Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-09-02
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4 girls dream
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-08-05
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Gli assi della risata
Overview: An anthology of several segments about everyday Italian life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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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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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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Soltanto un bacio
Overview: Italian film from 1942.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-05-14
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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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La cambiale
Overview: The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred thousand lire from the famous financier Bruscatelli, who ends up in prison immediately afterwards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-19
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Inviati speciali
Overview: An Italian film from 1943.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-04-27
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The Dream of Zorro
Overview: An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-26
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Beauties on bicycles
Overview: Two chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift, but the driver gets too fresh with them and they decide to continue the journey with any means of transport, including bicycles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-02-27
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Il cappello da prete
Overview: The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the body in an abandoned well. He continues his life of revelries and luxury, until the remorse for the crime trigger a process of self-destruction. The nightmares of the baron, tormented by the only evidence left of the murder, the hat of the priest ,drags him into a daring and hallucinated series of ups and downs to the brink of insanity and jail.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-11-10
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Cerasella
Overview: Cerasella escapes just before her marriage with Alfredo and meets Bruno, the son of a wealthy industrialist.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-11
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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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West and Soda
Overview: West and soda is a 1965 traditionally-animated Italian feature film directed by Bruno Bozzetto. It is a parody of the traditional American Western.
Genres: Animation Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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Io sono il capataz
Overview: The young Uguccione is mistaken for Rascelito Villa called "C6", a dangerous revolutionary, and then immediately sent to Parazuela where he leads the insurrectionist troops.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-02-28
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Loves of Three Queens
Overview: At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-24
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Engaged to Death
Overview: A tale of love, rivalry and passion set in the 50s, in the madcap world of motorcycle speed races, shot on the occasion of the main competitions of that time, such as Monza’s Moto GP and the last edition of the legendary Milano-Taranto race. With also very rare footage of the Moto Guzzi wind tunnel and factories. The film features, alongside popular actors Rik Battaglia and Sylva Koscina, many of the most important champions of those years: Geoffrey Duke, Libero Liberati, Bill Lomas, Enrico Lorenzetti, Reg Armstrong, Stanley Woods, Ken Cavanagh, Dickie Dale, Thomas Campbell, Pierre Monneret, Albino Milani, Walter Zeller, Bruno Francisci, all of them riding amazing Moto Guzzi, Gilera, Mondial and Norton bikes with the so charming and dangerous dustbin fairings that were going to be banned in 1958.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-04-13
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Eighteen Year Olds
Overview: Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-23
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Rocco e le sorelle
Overview: A Sicilian leaves for Milan, in search of fortune, with the four sisters he supervises fiercely.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-05-05
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
Overview: This is an Italian live action film with Alessandro Tomei as Pinocchio.
Genres: Fantasy Family Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-04-17
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La fanciulla di Portici
Overview: During the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him with a Spanish patrician against his wishes.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-10-27
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The Masseuses
Overview: Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-20
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Spiaggia libera
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-01-05
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I baccanali di Tiberio
Overview: Cassio, a tourist guide, and Primo, his bus driver, are taking a bus load of tourists to visit villa Jovis, at Capri island. Then they have an accident, and they knock their heads hard, losing conscience. They come awake in the times of the Roman Empire in Tiberius' villa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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The Fate of Two Queens
Overview: Anthology film in which Hedy Lamarr plays 2 queens during 2 different time periods. Ulmer directed the Genoveffa di Brabante part whereas Allégret was responsible for the empress Josephine section after he left due to artistic differences with Lamarr.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-24
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Freccia d'oro
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1935
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Sua altezza ha detto: no!
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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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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Venus in the Sun
Overview: Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some precious designs in it; in the second a worker keen on helping his boss gets him into trouble instead and in the third one a shy boy who tries to impress women pretending he is tough ends up in hospital and falls in love with a nurse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-24
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Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-05-06
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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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Le due tigri
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-11-29
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Il dottor Antonio
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-12-12
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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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Lulù
Overview: Mario, a student from a noble Milanese family, falls in love with Lulù, a young slender girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-06-10
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La fornarina
Overview: During Italian renaissance, young painter Raffaello Sanzio falls in love with Margherita, a maiden of the people, becomes her lover and lives with her. But this relationship arouses the jealousy of a beautiful aristocrat who secretly orders the kidnapping of the girl. Raffaello falls into a state of prostration and does everything he can to find Margherita...
Genres: Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-01
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Love I Haven't... But... But
Overview: Gina tries to commit suicide by jumping into the river but is saved by Teodoro, an innocent young man. Antonio, Teodoro's brother, tries in every way to seduce her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-07
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Il nemico
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-01-19
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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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I motorizzati
Overview: A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-11-30
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The Italians They Are Crazy
Overview: In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-04-05
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H2S
Overview: Young student runs away from a 1984-esque dictatorship, lives for a while with a crazy girl in a surrealistic “igloo” in snowy wilderness and then returns to lead a revolution against the oppressive system. Sci-fi tale consistent with the political climate of May 68.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-05
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Divorzio alla siciliana
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-15
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El hombre del paraguas blanco
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1958-05-01
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The Cheerful Squadron
Overview: The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-05
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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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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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La damigella di Bard
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1936
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-04
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Le magnifiche 7
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Guarany
Overview: Based on José de Alencar's novel, directed by Riccardo Freda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-01-02
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Of Life and Love
Overview: A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-03
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Ho visto brillare le stelle
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-03-17
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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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SuperTotò
Overview: Directed by Brando Giordani and Emilio Ravel
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-04-18
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