Giuseppe Porelli
Also Known As: Giuseppe Porcelli
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Napoli, Italy
Birthday: November 24, 1897
Deathday: March 05, 1982
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Overview: The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-08
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Saluti e baci
Overview: Carlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if he does not find any new ones.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-08-13
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Il bacio del sole
Overview: The story of homeless boys on the streets of Naples and of a priest who uses unusual methods to try to help them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-07
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Heartbeat
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-01-13
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Bionda sottochiave
Overview: A famous American director is looking for a special type of girl he needs to play in his next film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-06-18
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Turbine
Overview: Giovanna leaves her husband and son for a short holiday and casually finds an old boyfriend in trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-10-24
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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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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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Primo amore
Overview: An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-10-05
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You'll See Me Returning
Overview: A young Italian sailor enrolled in the Italian Navy meets in Rome the Princess Liu, betrothed to a nobleman in Tokyo.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-08-07
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Ours are coming
Overview: A ruthless businessman wants to bring a penniless nobleman financially on his knees because he wants to marry the man's daughter. It is the family chauffeur who puts things right.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-03-07
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Napoli che non muore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-01-18
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Scampolo 53
Overview: A young girl meets by chance an engineer who lives with an unbearable mistress. After abandoning his mistress, the engineer has to leave for Sardinia. He decides to take the girl with him, who has been waiting for this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-03-08
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Unknown Men of San Marino
Overview: A mysterious man, who had lost his memory, arrives in San Marino among other refugees during the Second World War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-01-16
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House of Ricordi
Overview: The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Genres: History Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Mid-Century Loves
Overview: Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-18
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Sambo
Overview: A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of chance. Sent a messenger to Brazil to gamble, the two men go wild and run up debts. When they realize they have won nothing, they initially fall into total despair; however the coachman had played a coupon from the football pools on his own account. He will win and make things right.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Holidays at Silver Bay
Overview: Two formerly rich men try to get back on their feet, counting on their respective son and daughters marriage prospectives. The two youths meet and fall in love not knowing about their parents plan and even when the truth comes out and they are told to break the engagement because they are not rich, they fight to stay engaged and marry.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-25
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The King's Guerrillas
Overview: Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-03
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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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Fuochi d'artificio
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-12-01
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Scandalo per bene
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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Beach Casanova
Overview: Mr. Edmond is a middle-aged playboy, living by his wits on the Riviera. Among the women with whom Edmond dallies are three gorgeous ladies.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-22
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Stasera mi butto
Overview: Summer Late sixties, Want to sing, Of Sun. Of golden skin from tanning. Of endless beaches. And relaxing baths. For everyone: young and old. Singles and couples. In the endless consumption of flirtation and new knowledge, the musical background goes crazy with the famous screamer. Famous personalities like Lola Falana emerge from famous people. They get confused. They are inserted between these alleged stars. But above all, they have fun like crazy ...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-11-03
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I prepotenti
Overview: Cesare, from Rome, and Mimì, from Naples, don't agree with their children marriage, so the young couple runs away from their home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-07-25
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Trappola d'amore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-04-01
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Il viaggio del signor Perrichon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-08-02
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Neapolitan Carousel
Overview: Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-14
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Oggi sposi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1934-02-27
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Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1944-11-28
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Era lei che lo voleva!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-03-14
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The Last Judgment
Overview: The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-26
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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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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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A qualcuna piace calvo
Overview: Two girls (a secretary and a musician) disguise themselves as men in order to work for a famous bald actor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-30
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Damn the Taxes!!
Overview: Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-13
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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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L'Incantevole nemica
Overview: The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-06-14
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Nights of the Teddy Boys
Overview: An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-03
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Retroscena
Overview: Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while wooing his love interest.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-11-26
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Ti conosco, mascherina!
Overview: An unscrupulous theatrical agent introduces his latest "discovery" to an elderly baron who becomes infatuated with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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The Two Orphans
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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Napoli d'altri tempi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Rocambole
Overview: In London in 1903, during a reception at the German embassy, the legendary swindler Rocambole, thought to have died in the penal colony, helps the British secret service compromise a Prussian diplomat. His mission completed, Rocambole, under the identity of the Comte de Chamery, returns to Paris, where Baron Keller, an arms manufacturer in the service of the Kaiser, entertains the famous prima ballerina Cléo Santelli at Maxim's every evening, with whom he is madly in love. Despite her attentions, the young dancer falls in love with the false Chamery, who seems to have sworn the Baron's doom and ridicules him in the salons.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-03
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Il bazar delle idee
Overview: Annna, a rich lady, decides to finance in great secrecy a singular enterprise: the founding of a real center for the creation of ideas, directed by Mario Morelli, a poet and songwriter perpetually waiting for great success, and a painter, Enrico Bovio, who cannot find the inspiration or the model for a portrait of a woman he wants to finish. Both are short of money and, convinced of the brilliance of their ideas, wish to open that bizarre business, called precisely the "Bazaar of Ideas".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-06-30
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La mazurka di papà
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-02-12
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Holiday Island
Overview: Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Ricordati di Napoli
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Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-10-17
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Dove Sta Zaza?
Overview: The film is set in Naples. Two doubles, an American and a Neapolitan, alternate visiting Zaza, the maid of a magazine company, deceived by their resemblance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-28
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A Mistress for the Summer
Overview: Philippe, a little known artist, has a mistress, Viviane, a woman he does not love. When he learns the bailiffs are about to seize his paintings, Philippe decides to leave alone for the French Riviera and spend, as he regularly does, comfortable and carefree holidays in the luxurious villa of his friend Paule. But, on his way, he meets Manette, a beautiful but poor girl to whom he offers to become his companion for the Summer. Manette accepts the strange deal in exchange for bed and board. As Philippe always comes in the company of his mistress of the time, the presence of Manette does not pose a problem. But the young woman soon feels ill-at-ease in such a dubious environment. moreover, she realizes that she is falling in love with Philippe, who might not be so cynical as he wants to appear.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-26
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Two Millions For a Smile
Overview: An Italian industrialist who has made a fortune in America returns to Italy planning to make a film about a beautiful woman who smiled at him before he left his home country years before.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-08-07
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La casa del peccato
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-12-14
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Paris Is Always Paris
Overview: A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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La resa di Titì
Overview: A young diplomat falls in love with a lady he has followed in the street and in order to establish a relationship, he introduces her into her house proposing a connection between Titì, the lady's dog and her Pekingese. The husband of the woman, somewhat naive, lends itself to the game and the dongiovanni becomes a regular home. The lady knows how to resist the siege and, after the critical moment, speaks clearly to the young man who definitively desists from the enterprise.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-14
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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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Wir tanzen auf dem Regenbogen
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Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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Peddlin' in Society
Overview: Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She also becomes involved with some very dubious characters who profit from her ignorance and cheat her out of her money.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-12-21
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Legge di sangue
Overview: "Law of Blood" - Rosa has been engaged for years with Antonio. But Antonio is in the military service and Rosa is seduced by Alberto. Returning to the village, Antonio learns what happened during his absence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-03-13
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Siamo tutti inquilini
Overview: Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Noi cannibali
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-25
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Carousel of songs
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-18
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Donatella
Overview: Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handbag containing valuables and documents, and decides to return it to her owner, a wealthy American lady, who offers Donatella a job as a secretary as a reward: she has to manage the lady's villa during her absences. There, Donatella casually meets Maurizio, a rich, elegant and well-educated young man, and ends up falling in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-10-03
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Le sedicenni
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-24
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Daughters of Destiny
Overview: Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-01-21
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The operator
Overview: Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-07-31
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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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Gli assi della risata
Overview: An anthology of several segments about everyday Italian life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-11-01
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Melody of Love
Overview: A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can't elope because her father has an heart ailment and uses it to hold Maria. Giacomo misunderstands and takes off on a global singing tour.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-29
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Poverty and Nobility
Overview: Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-04-17
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Napoli d'altri tempi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Genitori in blue-jeans
Overview: Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-10
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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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Unexpected
Overview: An English teacher seduces a young student in the company of his wife to help him in an ambitious plan with the kidnapping of a newborn baby of a wealthy businessman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-04-20
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Felicita Colombo
Overview: In the center of Milan, Felicita Colombo successfully manages a delicatessen that has among its customers the best bourgeoisie of the city.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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30 Seconds of Love
Overview: A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-10-24
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Siamo ricchi e poveri
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-19
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Non canto più
Overview: A woman, a theatrical impresario, simulates the theft of a precious necklace for marketing purposes. A young singer living in the province is believed to be responsible for the theft and is arrested.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-09-30
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Cento lettere d'amore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-08-22
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