Marcello Pagliero
Also Known As: Marcel Pagliero
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Marcello Pagliero (15 January 1907 – 18 October 1980) was an Italian film director, actor, and screenwriter. Pagliero was born in London and died in Paris. He is perhaps best known for his performance in the Roberto Rossellini film Rome, Open City (1945). He moved to France in 1947, and continued to work in film until 1960 and in French television after that. In 1949, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay an as a co-writer for the Rossellini film Paisà. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marcello Pagliero, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: January 15, 1907
Deathday: December 09, 1980
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Gender: Male
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Rome, Open City
Overview: In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-10-08
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Naked Autumn
Overview: Milan is an ex Formula One driver and now he lives with his wife Roberte in a small country town. But Milan is not satisfied, so Roberte encourages a love-story between Milan and Helene, a young woman. Milan can't decide and at last the tragedy comes. Then Milan returns to drive in Formula One.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-05-17
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La Voix du rêve
Overview: Laura has lost her fiancé. Immediately after, an accident happens to her and she becomes blind. Eve, her sympathetic sister, and an understanding doctor imagine having a newcomer, Marcel, play the delicate role of the missing fiance, because their voices are identical. Laure marvels and regains a taste for life. But Marcel falls in love with Eve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-05-13
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The Red Rose
Overview: The Jacques Brothers, their temporary replacements, Yves Gérard and his troupe, as well as a famous movie star looking for a new partner, Evelyne Dorsey, are causing disruption at the "La Rose rouge" cabaret, the most famous cellar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, to the delight of regulars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-02-06
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Dedee
Overview: Dedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy, until she meets Francesco, an italian sailorman. They fall in love and Dedee begins to dream about an escape of her daily dullness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-03
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Tourbillon
Overview: Taking advantage of the shooting of a film, gangsters stage a hold -up. A black man, Selim, is unfairly accused.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-02
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Hail! Mafia
Overview: A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-10
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L'Altra
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-07-06
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Les Gauloises bleues
Overview: The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two cannot get along and constantly fight. Things get worse when the husband resumes his criminal activities and gets caught. The two are about to divorce when the woman gets pregnant. The time comes for their baby to be born and while sitting in the waiting room, the husband reflects upon his past activities, which are revealed via flashback.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-06-07
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La nuit bulgare
Overview: A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office. A government contract is being sought for a businessman who is in danger of bankruptcy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-04-20
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Le Bel Âge
Overview: Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging field of exercises and experiments.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-10
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Symphony for a Massacre
Overview: A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-08-02
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The Chips Are Down
Overview: "Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a second chance at life if they can prove their love is real or be doomed to roam the earth as ghosts.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-07-01
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Cast the Same Shadow
Overview: In Cambodia in 1943, a family is massacred by the Japanese, before the eyes of the eldest son who manages to escape. His four-year-old sister is taken in by a Cambodian family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-14
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Nick Carter and Red Club
Overview: A secret agent uncovers four atomic rockets with a lethal gas warhead which have been stolen from a secret factory, and a dastardly plot.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-26
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Disorder
Overview: Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-02
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