Carlo Duse
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 05, 1898
Deathday: August 09, 1956
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Beatrice Cenci
Overview: Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-09
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The Rape of the Sabines
Overview: A early film adaptation of "The Rape of the Sabines" which is an episode in the legendary history of Rome, traditionally said to have taken place in 750 BC, in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families. The English word "rape" is a conventional translation of Latin raptio, which in this context means "abduction" rather than its prevalent modern meaning in English language of sexual violation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1910-02-10
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The Little Adventurers
Overview: During the Ethiopian war, thirteen boys embark clandestinely on a merchant ship bound for Africa. Following the shipwreck, they are castaway on a desert island...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-01-30
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Battles in the Shadow
Overview: Foreign spies steal the formula for a revolutionary explosive created by an Italian scientist and to decrypt the secret code they kidnap his secretary who knows about it.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-03-20
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Red Shirts - Anita Garibaldi
Overview: The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-08-15
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Toto the Sheik
Overview: Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-30
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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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Night of Love
Overview: Brigitte Bardot stars in this romantic thriller about love and high treason in WWI-era Italy. Matinee idol-turned-filmmaker Mario Bonnard directs this opus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-09-04
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Giarabub
Overview: The Italian troops at Giarabub defend themselves against the British.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-05-08
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Before Him All Rome Trembled
Overview: An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-10-02
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Ginevra degli Almieri
Overview: Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-12-01
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Pazzo d'amore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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The Siege of the Alcazar
Overview: Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-01-02
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Il conte di Bréchard
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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The Little World of Don Camillo
Overview: In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-28
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Girl of the Golden West
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Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-02-09
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Tempesta sul golfo
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-03-13
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Il signore a doppio petto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-03-13
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100 of these days
Overview: Count Agostino di Montecorvo's nephew and niece pretend they get married for his hundredth birthday since the old man has had this wish for a long time. But when the count wants them to beget a child as well they are forced to present him with a fake one. But then the child's mother wants it back...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Musica in piazza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-03-04
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La valle del diavolo
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-04-06
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The Knight of Kruja
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1940
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-10
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Villa da vendere
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-11-24
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Puccini
Overview: Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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Don Cesare of Bazan
Overview: In Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched against the king by the French ambassador.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-10-04
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Overview: A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-08-04
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Retroscena
Overview: Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while wooing his love interest.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-11-26
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An Adventure of Salvator Rosa
Overview: Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-12-16
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The Two Orphans
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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Il padrone sono me
Overview: In Romagna, an Italian district, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the owners of an estate are the professor Edoardo, always lost in reveries, and his wife Maria. They have a son, Robertino, who has a friend: Zvanin. Zvanin is the son of Mingòn and Marianna, two peasants. Dolly is an american cousin and every summer she comes in Romagna. The movie narrates their stories over the years until the post I World War period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-11-17
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Romola
Overview: In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar. Tito becomes acquainted with several other Florentines, including Nello the barber and a young girl named Tessa. He is also introduced to a blind scholar named Bardo de' Bardi, and his daughter Romola. As Tito becomes settled in Florence, assisting Bardo with classical studies, he falls in love with Romola.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-12-06
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Il bravo di Venezia
Overview: Marco Fuser, an outlaw. returns to Venice after many years. His son who works in the studio of a celebrated painter is unaware of his father's history. Arrested by the Doge's men, Marco agrees to become a bravo in the service of the city's ruler and kill his enemies. He enjoys some success at this, until he finds he has been tasked with killing his son.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-09-17
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Montevergine
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1939
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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Don Camillo's Last Round
Overview: Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-29
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The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Overview: The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
Genres: Music Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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Bengasi
Overview: The film is set in 1941 during the Second World War, when the city of Benghazi in Italian-ruled Libya was occupied by British forces. Italian inhabitants of Benghazi work to resist the British and discover their military plans. One man, Captain Enrico Berti, appears to be collaborating with the British but is in fact working undercover for Italian intelligence. The film ends with the city being recaptured by Italian troops and their Nazi German allies.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-01-10
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Inviati speciali
Overview: An Italian film from 1943.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-04-27
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Traversata nera
Overview: "Black Crossing" - In an Oriental port a group of people embarks a trader designated for Europe. One of them, a shady individual, entrusts the captain with a box of valuables to be kept until the end of the journey.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-08-12
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Under the Southern Cross
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1938
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-01-08
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Eternal Melody
Overview: The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-12-03
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La compagnia della teppa
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-05-06
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The Affairs of Messalina
Overview: A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-04
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Il feroce saladino
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-09-23
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Ettore Fieramosca
Overview: ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic fervor and pride in the Italian nation, and it contributed to a revival of Italian nationalism.
Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-12-28
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La fanciulla di Portici
Overview: During the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him with a Spanish patrician against his wishes.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-10-27
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Fanfulla da Lodi
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-02-17
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