Franca Marzi
Also Known As: Франка Марци
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: August 18, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 06, 1989
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Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-08-20
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Dappled Mare
Overview: Ruggero Pascoli, the father of poet Giovanni Pascoli, is killed by a corrupt officer. His body is brought back home by a mare that will, several years later, reveal the one responsible for the murder.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-23
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Salvate mia figlia
Overview: A farmer steals some jewelry, desperately looking for money to allow his sick daughter to be operated by a famous surgeon.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Fame and the Devil
Overview: Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-11-18
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Two Little Orphans
Overview: In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-26
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Fifa e arena
Overview: In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-11-23
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Totò le Mokò
Overview: Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-12-20
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Toto the Third Man
Overview: In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-23
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The Island Monster
Overview: An Italian government agent is assigned to break up a drug smuggling ring on the island of Ischia but his daughter is kidnapped by the gang.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-02
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Nights of Cabiria
Overview: Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-10-03
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Il medico dei pazzi
Overview: Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-19
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L'isola de Montecristo
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-09-07
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Figaro qua... Figaro là
Overview: In the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-10-12
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Lasciateci in pace
Overview: A mild-mannered man is mistaken for a subversive.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Ritrovarsi all'alba
Overview: Elba mine manager "Marco" meets, falls in love with, and marries "Paola" only to discover that her ex "André" is still keen.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-05-04
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The Boatman of Amalfi
Overview: "Antonio" leaves his family to live a prosperous life with Cristina. Her family live in a slum where their lives are complicated by young love and jealousy. A letter from a local priest that implicates "Antonio" in the murder of an English nobleman comes to light and soon they are all before the King.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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The Glorious Avenger
Overview: Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge is an Italian adventure film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-24
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My Heart Sings
Overview: Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-08
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La contessa azzurra
Overview: Loreley looks back to the happy times when she became a silent movie star with the huge success of "La Contessa Azzurra", directed by Don Salvatore and produced by Don Peppino, the owner of a Café Chantant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-16
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Psycosissimo
Overview: Two bumbling actors get wrapped up in a scheme to murder a rich man's wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-11
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Beauties on bicycles
Overview: Two chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift, but the driver gets too fresh with them and they decide to continue the journey with any means of transport, including bicycles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-02-27
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Vendetta... sarda
Overview: A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds out he has to avenge his death instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-02-21
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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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The Man Who Burnt His Corpse
Overview: Adriano Prosperi, a bank teller working in Milan, has spent years planning to steal a large sum of money and then disappear without leaving any trace of his existence.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-05-19
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Santa Lucia Luntana...
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Love on the Riviera
Overview: It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-27
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Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba!
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-01-14
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La paura fa 90
Overview: A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good bloke and when he gets the occasion he helps a youth wrongly accused of murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-23
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Tombolo, paradiso nero
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-10-24
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Gastone
Overview: During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-26
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Verginità
Overview: Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franco, a salesman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-04
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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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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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Tragico ritorno
Overview: Marco, returning home to Livorno after having spent eight years in prison, finds his wife Giovanna married to another man, who the son believes is his real father. He decides to commit suicide but then he meets Elisa, who dissuades him and he begins to live with her and her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-06-12
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Una lettera all'alba
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-10-13
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The Lovers
Overview: After an astrologer has foretold him he will die at an early age if he does not avoid a romantic entanglement, Alessandro Stradella, a well-known composer decides to leave Rome for the North of Italy. Written by Guy Bellinger
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-24
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The Apartment
Overview: A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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I Piombi di Venezia
Overview: An Italian historical melodrama
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-02-10
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Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
Overview: A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-18
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The Pirates of Capri
Overview: A group of men calling themselves 'The Pirates of Capri", headed by Captain Sirroco, who is really Count Amalfi, are trying to restore freedom to the people of Naples. The Queen is advised of the pirate's assault of a member of her court and she seeks to escape to Palermo. But, she is advised it would be good politics for her to attend a ball Amalfi is giving for his fiancée, Mercedes, who is unaware of the dual role Amalfi is playing.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-25
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Delitto al luna park
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Eran trecento
Overview: Set in 1857, it's the story of a band of revolutionaries fighting against the Borbones.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-17
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Fermi tutti... arrivo io!
Overview: A private detective and a girl obsessed with thriller novels investigate the murder of a rich entrepreneur.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-09-05
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Ghosts of Rome
Overview: An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-04-01
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Revenge of the Black Eagle
Overview: When a soldier returns home from the wars, he finds that a local landowner has been terrorizing his family. He disguises himself as a bandit known as "The Black Eagle" and begins taking revenge on the landowner by ravaging his "empire". However, things take a different turn when he falls for the landowner's beautiful daughter
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-25
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I morti non pagano tasse
Overview: The accountant Marco Vecchietti, a modest civil servant, leads a miserable life amidst the ferocious jokes of his colleagues, the reproaches of his mother-in-law, taxes, debts and citations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-17
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Here We for Example...
Overview: Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the culprit, a photographer nicknamed 'Click' and takes up residence with him until he either gets his money back or his poetry published.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-28
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Le tardone
Overview: A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-29
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Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Overview: A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a frenetic life divided between numerous lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-23
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Doomed
Overview: Barbara Florian is in love with Renalto Baldini. After the latter goes off to a distant job to make enough money to marry her, the girl discovers she is going to have a baby. Marco (Otello Toso), posing as a friend, exploits the situation to his own gain, and uses the situation to shock the girl's ailing father to his death. Marco then marries the widow, Valeria (Franca Marzi), the girl's stepmother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-22
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Streets of Sorrow
Overview: A magistrate saves a young woman from drowning and they fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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Mad About Opera
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-08-10
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Milano miliardaria
Overview: The Milanese Luigi Pizzigoni, photographer, and the Neapolitan barber Peppino Avallone, resident in Milan, are opponents in the sports field. The first is a proud Inter supporter, while the second is from Napoli.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-08-04
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Fortunella
Overview: A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-14
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Love I Haven't... But... But
Overview: Gina tries to commit suicide by jumping into the river but is saved by Teodoro, an innocent young man. Antonio, Teodoro's brother, tries in every way to seduce her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-07
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When Love Calls
Overview: Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's burning jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-28
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Tizio, Caio, Sempronio
Overview: A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-15
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I Sing for You
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-20
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La trovatella di Milano
Overview: Love story set in Milan during the Five Days of 1848.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-06-04
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Napoli eterna canzone
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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