Pino Ferrara
Also Known As: Giuseppe Ferrara
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Padua, Veneto, Italy
Birthday: March 11, 1929
Deathday: August 08, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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La compagna di viaggio
Overview: A ruined noble decides to organize a robbery on a luxury train. He decides to get help from a busty starlet that should distract passengers ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-01-03
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Raul - Right to Kill
Overview: In a fascist Rome anxiously awaiting Hitler's visit, Raul is a young man not aligned with the regime and beset by debts. In May 1938, Raul kills an old usurer and her sister: not out of necessity, but to investigate the concept of the "right to kill" ... who can motivate it and assume the right?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2005-04-15
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The Scent of the Night
Overview: A former policeman turns full-time robber and goes on a downward spiral of crime in 1970s Rome.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-09-11
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Ubalda, All Naked and Warm
Overview: During the Middle Ages, a clumsy knight returns home where his wife awaits him. Sensuous and beautiful, she has attracted several male admirers during his absence, but her chastity belt has maintained her faithfulness. Now is her chance to wrest the key from him and enjoy herself. The knight’s portly friend has a similar problem with his equally gorgeous wife. And to top it off, both men have designs on the other’s wife — leading them to devise painful methods to discourage the other from trespassing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-12
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Gran varietà
Overview: A musical comedy divided into five segments: Mariantonia, Cuttica, Il Fine Dicitore, Fregoli and Il Censore.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-13
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The Winsome Widow
Overview: After the death of Salvatore in a car accident, his beautiful wife Catherine is preparing to collect the enormous legacy but, because the deceased did not make a will and when he was alive was sterile, his wife’s legacy will benefit only if, within three hundred days established by law, she will give birth to a son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-12
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Karate, Fist and Beans
Overview: Sam and Buddy, two highway robbers, join with Colonel Quint, a big crook, who sold his services to Morgan, the banker, in order to free Baby, the banker's daughter, abducted by Espartero and his killers gang. A plan to 'sell' fake dollars to Espartero goes awry, but the two sons of the forger join Quint, and so does Mokaiko, a brave Japanese cook. The rag-tag band of Quinlan meets Espartero in several scraps, and then a climactic confrontation. All are ugly, bad, and dirty (except Baby), and fight accordingly.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-19
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I terribili sette
Overview: Some kids find by chance an infant in swaddling clothes left in a meadow. Initially, after having led in their lair, they think of selling it to a caravan of gypsies.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-07-04
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Kidnap
Overview: This crime drama follows an Italian police commissioner as he races to rescue the 6-year-old daughter of an important businessman. Also hoping to save her is Frank Salvatore, the old-school Mafia don accused of the crime. Caprile leans on a low-level thug for information and is led to Salvatore, who considers children to be off-limits as targets and hopes to restore his reputation
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-13
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Amore vuol dir gelosia
Overview: A dentist is married to frigid Licia, has two daughters and three other women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-09
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I Casi Sono Due
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Perdutamente tuo... mi firmo Macaluso Carmelo fu Giuseppe
Overview: Son of a poor Sicilian sharecropper committing suicide (he owed half a million lire to Baron Lamia), 35-year-old Carmelo Macaluso returns to the Sicilian town, after 15 years of hard work in Germany, with a Mercedes, 100 million in his briefcase and the ambitious plan to buy the respect of the villagers ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-13
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Dear Father
Overview: In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to perfection by Risi's favorite leading man, Vittorio Gassman). Risi paints his portrait against a backdrop of an Italy where the new permissiveness has run rampant, traditional socio-cultural values have been usurped by consumerism, and the streets have become an open battleground for politically extremist groups (the '70s were dubbed "The Years of Lead" due to the great number of terrorist acts, and politically motivated assassinations).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-11
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Satiricosissimo
Overview: Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-21
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Il sergente Rompiglioni
Overview: A satire of army life in which a tough army sergeant who loves opera clashes with his soldiers who love rock music and have formed a band.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-19
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Latin Lovers
Overview: An episodic film based on letters to agony columns, showing the effect of sex on the lives of women.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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Star Odyssey
Overview: Earth is attacked by an intergalactic villain and his army of robotic androids.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-10-26
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The Secret of Santa Vittoria
Overview: During World War II, Italian villagers hide their wine from the German army.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-02
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Decameroticus
Overview: Five episodes :1) A husband has taken the place of the confessor to find out about his wife's betrayals and while he spends the night at the door of the house, the woman can freely receive her lover. 2) Judge Volfardo, to take revenge for the constant pranks of Lambertuccio, head of the guards, invites Leonetto, a young man whom women yearn for, to take advantage of his wife. But everything is resolved to their own damage 3) While Domitilla's husband sends the boy into his bed to be able to sleep with his lover. 4) Don Casimiro has Don Ciccillo treat his wife who will use a very intimate therapy. 5) Messer Ciccio and Messer Gerbino exchange confidences on how not to be betrayed by their wives, so that...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Carambola!
Overview: Coby is an ex-soldier and billiard champion. He and his friend Len accept the sum of 50,000 dollars to investigate the trafficking of arms across the Mexican border, but the pair come across a new revolutionary revolver.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-13
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Fantozzi Retires
Overview: After thirty years in the big corporation, Ugo Fantozzi retires. Suddenly, he needs things to do in everyday life and he tries a number of activities: helping Pina shopping; babysitting grand-daughter Uga; a trip to Venice; learning golf. He then fakes documents to get a new job, but in the end he becomes a hypochondriac and doesn't even take a long-awaited chance with Miss Silvani.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-12-22
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Violent Naples
Overview: Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and organized crime, and tries to force the syndicate out of town with any means necessary.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-07
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Il bandolero stanco
Overview: A comedy centered on the character of Pepito. It is an Italian western made before the Spaghetti western era and it is at the same time a parody of the western genre.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-22
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Attanasio cavallo vanesio
Overview: A jockey buys his favorite horse.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-09-03
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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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Messalina, Messalina!
Overview: Adventure comedy directed by Bruno Corbucci.
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-11
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Robin Hood, Arrow, Beans and Karate
Overview: Robin Hood fights the evil Sheriff of Nothingham. Friar Tuck brings his friend Moi Kato, a Kung Fu master. Medival movie meets Italo Eastern.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-15
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The Big Family
Overview: Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-03
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The Criminals Attack. The Police Respond
Overview: Returning from Switzerland to Rome, the boss prof. Salviati, called 'The Prince', finds his business compromised by Rudy, a small local bandit full of presumption, audacity and men ready to kill. Commissioner Baldi a young and brave employee, will fight against them with the help of an ex-employee Rampelli.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-23
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Pierino medico della SAUB
Overview: Alvaro Gasperoni, alias Peter returned to Rome with their families from Addis Ababa, where he received his bachelor's degree in medicine. Helped by his father through a recommendation from the P2 Lodge, he manages to get in a hospital in Rome as assistant to the primary. Here begins the struggle with other colleagues to buy up the post of deputy prime. As any good doctor is measured by the number of patients who, the whole family and all his friends are hospitalized; He, in this way, comes from the league winner. The fatal destiny wants its affair is discovered by an inspector of the Ministry of Health, and Peter will be dismissed from the hospital. This will not deter the protagonist by the medical profession; who continue to indulge in a private clinic run "family".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-12-23
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The New Godfathers
Overview: A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on getting it to the US. They decide to run the drug through an unsuspecting network of good-natured, local smugglers in Naples, while an international anti-narcotics agent rushes to shut their operation down. Betrayals and divided loyalties lead to a final, bloody confrontation in America.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-08-24
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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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The Four Monks
Overview: Four petty criminals pretend to be friars escaped from communist Hungary and go and live in a Sicilian convent
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-08-31
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Alvaro piuttosto corsaro
Overview: Alvaro hunts for a treasure, of which he owns only half the map.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-05
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L'inquilina del piano di sopra
Overview: Exasperated by the great racket coming from Miss Aurora Trabocchetti's apartment, the neighbors give Professor Canestrari a mandate to deliver an ultimatum to the young woman. Too bad the teacher takes a liking to Aurora and agrees to give her private lessons. In fact, the girl aspires to marry the scion of a noble family and to try to crown her dream she must improve her culture.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Don Juan in Sicily
Overview: Giovanni Percolla lives in Catania surrounded by the attentive cares of his three sisters. He permanently acts like a Don Giovanni to hide his real poor "knowledge" of women. With his friend he moves also to Rome but women still continues to remain part of his fantasies. But Giovanni succeeded to build anyway a fame of "tombeur de femmes". One day he meets the real love of Maria Antonietta and decides to marry. Will things change?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-04-21
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On the Day of the Lord
Overview: Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-18
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The Bang-Bang Kid
Overview: Guy Madison has a high old time as a would be feudal baron in the Wild West. No one is willing to stand up to Madison and his henchmen, no one that is, except mild-mannered inventor Tom Bosley. It seems that Bosley has welded together a robot gunslinger, whom he calls "The Bang Bang Kid". Only trouble is, the "Kid" breaks down at the darnedest times. The film goes off in too many directions, but generally delivers the goods laugh-wise. (Source: SWDB)
Genres: Adventure Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-14
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A Pocketful of Chestnuts
Overview: A TV producer cultivates a somewhat reserved and protective young woman after interviewing her for one of his programs.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-10-30
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Rome, the Other Face of Violence
Overview: Four bandits commit a robbery in a villa. The maid calls the police and Commissioner Carli immediately orders patrols to chase them.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-07-27
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