Roberto Risso
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Genève, Switzerland
Birthday: November 22, 1925
Deathday: November 16, 2010
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Desperate Women
Overview: The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Nobody Has Betrayed
Overview: A retiring teacher tells a young teacher the story of two old pupils, who once the war begins they will become enemies ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-05-21
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A Breath of Scandal
Overview: A European princess jeopardizes her crown when she falls for an American millionaire.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-16
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The Suitcase of Dreams
Overview: In the movie La valigia dei sogni (The Suitcase of Dreams, Italy, 1953) directed by Luigi Comencini, some sequences from Cenere are inserted. The protagonist is a former silent film actor who has saved old movies of his time from destruction, and uses them to set up recreational performances at schools. After an accidental fire and the risk of prison, he meets a rich producer who helps him to build a film museum.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-29
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Bread, Love and Dreams
Overview: When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-22
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Frisky
Overview: The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-06
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The Devil's Daughter
Overview: Garibaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to be a patriot who has returned to Italy to take part in the fight but a degraded Bourbon official who has been promised rehabilitation if he can succeed as a spy. Tucci discovers old Sereni's second wife is one of his former lovers and persuades her to murder her husband so as to gain his inheritance. She does indeed cause the count to die, by withholding his heart medicine, but not before he destroys his will.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-27
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Gladiator of Rome
Overview: A warrior protecting a slave girl, who is really a princess, winds up as a gladiator in the Roman arenas.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-13
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The Valiant
Overview: Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held prisoner whist the crew try and discover the nature of their mission!
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-13
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Le signorine dello 04
Overview: The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-02-09
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Francis the Smuggler
Overview: A smuggler has to skip town at avoid the pursuing police. The he returns, he falls for the daughter of his disapproving boss - and soon he has murder in mind
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-06
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Un figlio d'oggi
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Revenge of the Pirates
Overview: A pirate tries to lead his followers in vengeance against a corrupt governor.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-18
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Il raccomandato di ferro
Overview: An Italian clerk has been helped to his position by a fake kickback letter from a politician who, meanwhile has become a state secretary. His colleagues thus send him to Rome to settle an important matter with the powerful character. The poor fellow goes hoping the truth will not come out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-08
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Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!
Overview: A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-17
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Il capitano nero
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-03-15
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Adorable and Lying
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-07
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Operazione Mitra
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Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-02-23
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Angel in a Taxi
Overview: Marietto is a very lively and creative orphaned child, housed in a boarding school of nuns. One day, while browsing a newspaper, he sees a photo of a beautiful opera house dancer, Camilla, and is convinced that she is her mother.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-09-04
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Revenge of the Musketeers
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Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-09
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The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue
Overview: Having been warned in dreams that Snow White is in danger, the Seven Dwarfs set out to rescue the princess from the evil Prince of Darkness.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-29
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Paris, Palace Hôtel
Overview: On Christmas Eve, a manicurist pretends to be a wealthy man's daughter after meeting a young garage worker who falsely claims to own a luxury car. Their deceptions intertwine as they grow closer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-10-18
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Si le roi savait ça
Overview: Pascal's life should have been normal and happy. A shepherd in his native Provence, he was a friendly young man who very naturally fell in love with Vivette, the daughter of a rich farmer. But that was without counting with Marcellin, a spiteful, jealous man who coveted Vivette and wanted her for himself.The traitor managed to have Pascal enrolled in Napoleon's army. Pascal came close to death in Russia but miraculously survived. And fifteen years later vengeance would be his. Reunited with Vivette and the child he had given her, time had come for happiness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-07-09
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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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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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A Mink Coat
Overview: A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-08-21
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The Rival
Overview: The love triangle between a Countess, a soldier and a younger woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-11-07
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Angels of Darkness
Overview: When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their livelihood. The girls must now find honest work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-27
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Domani è un altro giorno
Overview: A doctor rescues a young woman who is about to throw herself into the river and takes her to the hospital. The woman learns of three very sad stories revolving around suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-01-24
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The Fury of Achilles
Overview: In the tenth year of the Trojan War, tensions between Achilles and Agamemnon divide the Greek camp while giving hope to the Trojans.
Genres: War Adventure Drama Romance Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-23
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Cocagne
Overview: As the driver of a garbage truck in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife, Mélanie, and their two children. When Amédée's "Fanny" is stolen from the bouliste club, Marc-Antoine offers to repaint another one. As soon as the work is finished, he becomes a local celebrity and, intoxicated by his new-found fame, leaves his family to go with Hélène, the young waitress, to his friend Septime's house in the Camargue to take up painting. Eventually, Marc-Antoine realizes that he is dissatisfied and that his success seems dishonest. He realizes that happiness awaits him with his wife, children and friends, and resumes his simple life without remorse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-08
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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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Three Forbidden Stories
Overview: While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently come out of an unfortunate marriage to a wealthy but insensitive boor. And Gianna (Eleanore Rossi Drago), the daughter of a college professor, has ruined her life with narcotics.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-29
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Toys and perfumes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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La moglie è uguale per tutti
Overview: Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-10-21
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Hate Thy Neighbor
Overview: Ken Dakota's search for the murderer of his brother, killed by bandit Gary Stevens, at the behest of land owner Chris Malone. Dakota attempts to bring the men responsible for his brothers death to justice.
Genres: Western Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-07-26
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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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Songs from all over Italy
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Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Il campanile d'oro
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-11-18
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The Shortest Day
Overview: Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Genres: Comedy History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-14
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Il leone di Amalfi
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-10-11
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