Nicola Di Pinto
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Naples, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: June 12, 1947
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Male
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Five Moons Plaza
Overview: Just the night before his retirement District Attorney Saracini is given a film showing the kidnapping of Aldo Moro. As the District Attorney takes on the case he along with his team finds more compelling and secretive evidences. Too many secrets are found that should stayed as secrets.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-05-09
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Amore e libertà - Masaniello
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-06-28
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Cinema Paradiso
Overview: A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-11-17
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I Fratelli De Filippo
Overview: The story of the De Filippo brothers, children of Eduardo Scarpetta.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-12-13
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Victory March
Overview: The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to take a romantic interest in him, he does not report her dangerous peculiarities to anyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-12
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Il Latitante
Overview: A Police Inspector hunts him down: Nicola, supported by the boss Cantalamessa, and protected by some criminal families, moves away from Naples, leaves his wife and children and becomes one of the many fugitives forced between hiding places and constant movements.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Sweet Dreams
Overview: Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-09-10
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Gli assassini vanno in coppia
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Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-01-03
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Regina dei fiori
Overview: a beautiful love story between a beautiful flower girl and a wealthy Roman north. He has sacrificed any sense of professional success, while for the heart it is ahead of the material issues. A relationship destined to spark. The film mixes humor, melodrama and a stunning formal beauty. One of those stories that leave a great impression.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-11-20
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Assunta Spina
Overview: Assunta Spina is a very attractive and passionate young, the only one that can read and write among all workers in the laundry room of Doña Rosa. She is married to a sailor who will be to the sea and will leave it. Then fall into the arms of Michele, a butcher who has always felt an uncontrollable, primitive passion towards her. But the passion and jealousy between the two love will be unbearable.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-10-08
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Off Season
Overview: A couple arrive in an off-season Cesenatico but they quickly split up after a bad argument. The girl then settles in an uninhabited flat with a photographer she met before and with whom she has an affair. His ex gets kidnapped by three amateur robbers. Both stories end with a dramatic and grotesque epilogue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-05-22
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A Virgin Named Mary
Overview: A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-11
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What if Gargiulo Finds Out?
Overview: Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-05-15
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The Stuff of Dreams
Overview: Members of the Camorra on the run and actors seeking for authority meet after a shipwreck on an island-prison. The theatre turns into a free zone where everyone may not be able to recover their social role but for sure their humanity. Somebody can even get love back. Shakespeare and Eduardo De Filippo blend together in a picaresque comedy full of coup de théâtre.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-12-01
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Secrets Secrets
Overview: Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thread linking the lives and fates of several other women. Each has her own secret, including the lawyer who listens to Laura as if in a ‘trance’: moments before, she discovered her husband was cheating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-03-15
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Ventitré
Overview: In a small village of Naples three friends, Francis, Mimmo and Lello, manage to get a meeting with three beautiful Bulgarian girls known on the Internet, scheduled for Christmas. The wives alarmed try to stir the spirits of the three hot husbands, but the whole thing is just a trick of three Bulgarians with intent to deprive the people of their assets in the country and that the girls will not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-01-21
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Vajont
Overview: On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, the higher dam in the world. The landslide formed a 250-meters wave and 50 million cubic meters of water completely destroied all the below towns, killing more than 2000 people. Planned by engineer Semenza, Vajont dam (263 meters) had to carry the electricity in all the houses of the country. Tina Merlin, a journalist from 'L'Unitá', tried for years to denounce the danger to build a dam near the Mount Toc and expecially to denounce all the omissions by the corrupted politicians and workers in charge of the dam construction. They preferred to trust in old geologist Dal Piaz instead to hear engineer Semenza young son's alarming analysis. No one seemed to understand the high danger until that October fatal night.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-10-12
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A Pure Formality
Overview: Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-15
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Follow the Shadows
Overview: The young Carabiniere Gatta is sent to barracks in the Naples area. It's 1946 and the war is still hanging in the air even if the small community doesn't seem to have been affected that much by it. Even so, certain suspicions take root in the brigadier's mind. The hotel in the town was the setting for unexplained deaths and crimes that had been covered up. Gatta decides to investigate. Fragments begin to emerge, killers and their victims take shape and speak to each other from different times. There's the hotel owner, a grief-striken mother, a weak son and long-suffering sister, an orphan and two woman who were violently killed. Pain, indifference and shame cast a shadow over everything.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-03-05
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The Ferrywoman
Overview: Giulì is a traveling puppeteer who meets Viola, a young ferrywoman who transports passengers on a raft. Giulì's desire is to have a child, so he builds one out of wood. One morning, in place of the puppet , he finds a child of flesh and blood.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-04-09
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Where's Picone?
Overview: During a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-01-12
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Il camionista
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-05-20
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Acqua di marzo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-04-20
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Flight of the Innocent
Overview: The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-10-09
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Bandits: Love and Liberty
Overview: In 1838 in the kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies, Malacarne, gamekeeper of Baron San Germano, kills the bandit Caruso, whose widow gives birth to Giovanni and at the same time becomes the nurse of Costanza, San Germano’s orphaned daughter. Thirteen years later, Giovanni and Costanza fall in love to the jealousy of her uncle, who shuts her in a convent, ordering Giovanni to be killed by Malacarne who has meanwhile become a bandit. Barely alive, Giovanni is taken away by Bourbon soldiers. After Garibaldi’s arrival in Sicily and its union with Italy, Costanza is freed from the convent and returns to San Germano. She is visited by Giovanni and although still loves him, rejects him since she wishes to become a nun. In the meantime, Giovanni kills Malacarne and takes his place. Costanza marries the rich Lo Turco and the next day departs for Naples, but during the journey the carriage is attacked by Giovanni’s band. Costanza flees with him and they leave for America.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-10-23
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Il Grande Fausto
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-10-29
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The Star Maker
Overview: The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-09-21
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The Unknown Woman
Overview: Irena, a Ukrainian woman, comes to Italy looking for a job as a maid. She does everything she can to become a beloved nanny for an adorable little girl, Thea. However, that is just the very beginning of her unknown journey.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-10-09
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Everybody's Fine
Overview: Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-09-19
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MeanMinds
Overview: Ciccio “O' Pazz” and Ciruzzo “Pesce bello”, are two powerful, blood-soaked Mafia characters. The legacy left to them is a violent, depraved narrative of murderous dominion over the weak. But still, enemies muscling their way into this realm of the wretched. These apparently harmless enemies are nevertheless viewed as potential usurpers by Ciccio and Ciruzzo, who, alienated by their imposed surroundings, develop a deep paranoia towards two animals: Severino, leader of the famous donkeys of Campu Perdu, and Piero, top boar around the Olive field area. The day of reckoning is near. There has to be a showdown. They have to get rid of the two animals. There's no way around it. A letter is delivered. A Pinter-like ultimatum with a crystal-clear demand: it's you or us. Men or animals. Coexistence is out of the question. Power has room for only one big chief. The final, inevitable apocalypse draws near.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-09-05
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Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
Overview: Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-09-08
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Il caso Moro
Overview: On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual account of what happened in between.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-11-20
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La stella dei re
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2007-01-07
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Il compagno
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-02-04
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Rino Gaetano - Ma il cielo è sempre più blu
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Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-06-02
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Bianca
Overview: Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he feels more alone than ever. Then, out of the blue, a new French teacher called Bianca arrives at school. Amongst uncertainties and contradictions, the two start dating. In the meantime, a series of homicides take place and a police officer begins to suspect that Michele is involved. Bianca will save him providing an alibi at the right moment, but then, everything goes wrong again.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-02-23
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The Legend of 1900
Overview: The story of a virtuoso piano player who lives his entire life aboard an ocean liner. Born and raised on the ship, 1900 learned about the outside world through interactions with passengers, never setting foot on land, even for the love of his life. Years later, the ship may be destroyed, and a former band member fears that 1900 may still be aboard, willing to go down with the ship.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-10-28
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Bakunin's Son
Overview: Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, singer, union organizer, rebel...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-10-03
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Scugnizzi
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-10-12
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Two Friends
Overview: Two Sicilian friends, Nunzio and Pino, share the same apartment in Turin. Nunzio works in a factory but is laid off because of his illness. Pino, on the other hand, is a mysterious man and he is always traveling because of his work. Nunzio would very much like to know what his friend is doing for a living but Pino will not tell him. Nunzio spends his free time the best he can in his friend's absences. He ends up falling in love with Maria, a commercial employee, whereas his health condition deteriorates...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-03-20
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Oltremare - Non è l'America
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Bidoni
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-09-02
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Holy Money
Overview: Anthony's family runs a small Italian restaurant in London. When his childhood friend, Dario, dies in a suspicious accident, Anthony inherits a vineyard in Sant'Angelo, the village his parents came from in Italy. Surprised by the large sum of money offered to him by a curious Italian "Master of Wine" for the land he just inherited, and considering the mysterious circumstances surrounding Dario's death, Anthony decides to drive down to Sant'Angelo. Anthony soon feels he's in the middle of something he doesn't understand and wants to leave, but... He gets tangled up in "Love's" web and suddenly finds himself the target of a crazy manhunt.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-09-16
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Tomato
Overview: Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the Naples region and works in extreme conditions to be able to pay his brother's studies. But to Kwaku's dismay, Job has disappeared. The young student then decides to do everything he can to trace missing Pummarò.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-25
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La bambina dalle mani sporche
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-01-15
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Salvo D'Acquisto
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-21
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The Professor
Overview: An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-09-12
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