Mario Pisu
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montecchio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Birthday: May 21, 1910
Deathday: July 17, 1976
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Soldati e caporali
Overview: The army challenges the navy in a singing contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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The Sensuous Nurse
Overview: Greedy relatives hire a sensual caregiver to hasten the demise of a wealthy count suffering from a heart condition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-12-19
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The Gendarme in New York
Overview: Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-28
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The Rape of the Sabine
Overview: Ernesto is the teacher of the village, he is married and he is dominated by his wife. He has the passion of the theatre and he has written a drama in verse named "Il ratto delle Sabine". Unfortunately he has only an admirer and she is their servant Rosina. When the touring company of Prof. Tromboni arrives in the village, Ernesto decides to let them perform his play, though anonymously. So the day arrives and the theatre is sadly empty. But when the news that the author is the teacher spreads far and wide...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-11-21
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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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Made in Italy
Overview: A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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Emma Hamilton
Overview: The Making of a Lady: The Story of Lady Hamilton is a 1968 historical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Michèle Mercier, Richard Johnson and John Mills.[1] It was based on the novel La San-Felice by Alexandre Dumas and depicts the love affair between Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson. It was a co-production between Italy, West Germany, France and the United States.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-28
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Juliet of the Spirits
Overview: Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-22
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The Organizer
Overview: In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-25
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Lo smemorato di Collegno
Overview: A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is her husband and brings him home; then Mrs. Polacich recognizes him as her husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-07
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Blue Jeans
Overview: Tells the story of young Daniela ‘Blue Jeans’ Anselmi, a free-spirited drifter who makes her way in life by selling sexual favors and practicing petty-crime. After Daniela is arrested, the man who might be her long-lost father is called into her life to look after her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-17
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How We Robbed the Bank of Italy
Overview: Dim-wits Franco and Cicco try to come up with a plan to rob the safes of the Bank of Italy, but with one muddle after another, they find themselves empty-handed after each attempt to do so.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-18
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Totò Sexy
Overview: Two strange street musicians end up in jail and exchange sexy stories to while away time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-05
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Human Torpedoes
Overview: A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring attack on the port of Suda.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-05-07
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Adultery Italian Style
Overview: A betrayed wife decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson in this riotous farce. Marta (Catherine Spaak) discovers that husband Franco (Nino Manfredi) has been stepping out with her own best friend (Maria Grazia Buccella), and gets revenge by inventing an imaginary lover. Franco takes the bait, leading to improbable but hilarious complications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-25
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Professor, My Son
Overview: During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-12-09
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Violence and Love
Overview: The nature of love and marriage is studied in two episodes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-26
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Sorbole... che romagnola!
Overview: Due to a mistake by the travel agency she works for, a young woman finds herself deeply in debt and stranded in a tourist resort full of incredibly stuck-up travelers. As these tourists all insist they are all incredibly thin attractive people despite evidence to the contrary, she decides to open up a boutique in which she strives to transform them into beautiful people.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-07-07
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Margaret of Cortona
Overview: A Tuscan peasant girl in the 13th century overcomes sexual harassment, and the skepticism of her fellow citizens, as she saves plague victims, works miracles, and eventually becomes a saint.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-02-22
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First Love
Overview: Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-04
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L'abito nuovo
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-20
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Lettere al sottotenente
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-10-09
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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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Manovre d'amore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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Il nostro prossimo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-02-26
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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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Il giustiziere di mezzogiorno
Overview: Franco is abandoned by his wife and daughter who wrongly accuse him of being a wimp. Besides he's bossed around and sexually harassed at work. He decides to take justice into his own hands and get rough with the world. He soon gets his family's respect back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-20
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The Cossacks
Overview: Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this drama and adventure film focuses on the strife between the Circassian Muslims, led by Shamil and Czar Alexander.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-04
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Il canto della vita
Overview: During the German occupation, the only heir of a rich owner of the Roman countryside, in order to escape capture, lives hidden in a cave. To help him there is a young woman who has been in love with him for a long time. However, one day, during one of those daily visits, the boy abuses her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-12-15
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Appuntamento a Senlis
Overview: A young man wants to give an idealized image of himself and his family and so he introduces the girl he loves to two old actors who pretend to be his parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-06-09
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Morire gratis
Overview: A young artist, living and working in Rome, drives his car for a long trip to Paris. Into the car also his last work, a sculpture. During the trip he meets Michelle, young french woman. The artist in Paris hopes to sell his sculpture.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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Our Husbands
Overview: Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-21
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8½
Overview: Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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Zorro and the Three Musketeers
Overview: In the first half of the 1600's, France is at war with Spain. The cousin of the king of Spain, Isabella, is held captive in the French castle, and the Count of Seville is sent to France as a diplomat. While there, he is escorted by the Three Musketeers, who discover that he has secretly made a deal with Cardinal Richelieu to disclose Spanish military secrets in exchange for Isabella's release. However, he is merely bluffing and plans to take Isabella by force. When the musketeers discover this, they come to his aid, and together the four of them work at freeing the Countess. Meanwhile, the Count doubles as Zorro to free the Spanish court from a treacherous suitor.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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O.S.S. 117: Mission to Tokyo
Overview: After an American Navy base is annihilated by a secret weapon, Agent OSS 117 is sent to Japan to investigate the organization that's claiming responsibility, and threatening the US with another attack, if they don't pay.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-28
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We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Overview: A judge opens an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an MP.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-24
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Il diavolo in convento
Overview: March 1945: an air raid destroys a fishing village. The homeless are hosted by Brother Angelo in the convent of San Fruttuoso in Camogli: years pass but the houses are not rebuilt and when the prior dies, the convent is sold to the rich engineer Milone, determined to transform it into a holiday complex. To prevent the homeless from ending up on the streets, Brother Angelo devises every possible expedient, even a fake miracle while waiting for San Fruttuoso to perform a real one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-01-17
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Carnality
Overview: A corrupt businessman obtains a castle through surreptitious means. He has a series of affairs while his ill wife remains bed-ridden and after her death he marries one of his mistresses. But she was the daughter of the man from whom the castle was stolen and she has her own agenda...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-25
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Superstition
Overview: Short documentary about superstition in southern Italy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-11-01
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Zingara
Overview: Franco, singer in search of success, falls in love with Marisa. But she walks away from him to stay close to her sick cousin.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-08-06
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Money
Overview: On the theme "money is the driving force that drives man to commit follies to conquer them", this film presents a series of episodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-25
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The Sex Machine
Overview: The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of award-winning scientists succeeds in harnessing energy from the world’s oldest source of reciprocating motion.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-27
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Te lo leggo negli occhi
Overview: A girl from a country village goes to town and falls in love with a songwriter struggling for success. Soon however their life-paths go different ways and they split. Only for a short time naturally : a song he writes will help them to reunite.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-03-01
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Hannibal
Overview: A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-21
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The Sensual Man
Overview: The Catanese baron Paolo Castorini leaves the closed Sicilian environment and moves to Rome where he enters into erotic relationships with women of all classes. He, however, feels dissatisfied with a life of only the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. But is it too late for him?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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Totò all'inferno
Overview: After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-16
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Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Overview: A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a frenetic life divided between numerous lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-23
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Why
Overview: Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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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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Without Warning
Overview: A discredited police inspector is given a second chance, in the form of a dangerous assignment. Chosen because of his uncanny resemblance to a Lt. Revere, the inspector impersonates him in order to penetrate a group of mercenaries with orders to assassinate its leader.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-15
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Tutto Totò - La scommessa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-31
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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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Temptation
Overview: The young architect Guido maintains a relationship with Carla, wife of industrialist Veraldi that despite being aware of her infidelity does nothing to prevent it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-29
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The Looters
Overview: Morgan, a lapsed burglar, is drugged and shanghaied on board a yacht by beautiful Colleen. When he comes to, the athletic young man learns that Colleen and her friends want him to break open the vaults of a Carribean island where a ruthless dictator has deposited a treasure stolen from his people. Despite the way he has been treated, Morgan accepts the mission. The group, supported by local resistant fighters, storm the fortress, but Colleen's father gets killed during the attack. The treasure is finally retrieved and is returned to the people. Morgan and Colleen will say yes to each other for better or for worse.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-08
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Overview: Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-16
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Johnny Banco
Overview: A hustler of humble origins steals $200,000 from a gangster and heads to Monte Carlo.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-10
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Arms of the Avenger
Overview: Using Leonardo Da Vinci's innovative designs for weapons of war, flying engines and other machinery, three brothers join forces to fight a wicked and powerful Duke in early-Renaissance Italy.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-31
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La locandiera
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-12-01
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Nick the Sting
Overview: Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American businessman he thinks responsible for his friend's death. He succeeds in getting a hundred thousand swiss francs and uses them to carry out the second part of his plan.
Genres: Crime Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-14
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Orders Signed in White
Overview: After a phone call has been intercepted (an industrialist is going to receive a huge amount of money from a foreign bank), Mafioso Luca Albanese is assigned to set up a big robbery. He and his gang (three men and three women) then hide-out in a remote mountainous region, but soon at each other's throats. Moreover, someone is killing Albanese's men one by one, leaving white paint on the victim's faces...
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-13
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Il mago per forza
Overview: In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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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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Spia spione
Overview: Carlo Barlozzetti, a silly waiter, lives alone in an apartment located across a bank which a Professor and his followers try to robe. While The Professor intends to steal a ring packed with a precious and secret metal alloy guarded in A safety deposit box, his men want to take the money from the safe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-18
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Re di danari
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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L'amore è come il sole
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-06
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The Boss
Overview: A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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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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Mariti a congresso
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-11
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Io e lui
Overview: Rico is a not too successful screen-player. He is also a repressed sex addict. His life changes when he starts to talk to his own penis, which incredibly answers him! All his relationships and views about reality are seriously impacted by his new "friend", his penis! The "two" in fact, often have different opinions, and sometimes the personality of "it" is stronger than its owner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-19
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Di qua, di là del Piave
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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