Romolo Valli
Also Known As: Ромоло Валли
Biography: Romolo Valli (7 February 1925 – 1 February 1980) was an Italian actor. Valli was born in Reggio Emilia. He was one of the best known Italian actors from the 1950s to his death. He worked for both the stage and the silver screen. Among the directors he collaborated with were Vittorio De Sica, Sergio Leone, Roman Polanski, Roger Vadim, and Luchino Visconti, who cast Valli in three feature films (Il Gattopardo, Morte a Venezia, Gruppo di famiglia in un interno) and the episode Il lavoro of Boccaccio '70. Valli died in a car accident, less than one week before his 55th birthday. Source: Article "Romolo Valli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Birthday: February 07, 1925
Deathday: February 01, 1980
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Gender: Male
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Duck, You Sucker
Overview: At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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The Leopard
Overview: As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-27
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1900
Overview: The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-08-28
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Overview: In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friends for tennis and parties at their villa. As anti-Semitism intensifies under Fascism, they must ultimately face the horrors of the Holocaust.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-04
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Womanlight
Overview: Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-29
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Death in Venice
Overview: Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-05
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Bobby Deerfield
Overview: Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-29
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Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Overview: Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Policarpo, and falls in love with her. Policarpo sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to be a count, sees with very bad eyes that his son meets a girl from such a different social position, and does just the opposite. But the efforts made by both parties will be of no use, since Celeste has fallen in love with Mario Marquetti, a "specialized mechanic" (typist) who is giving private lessons in the offices of the businessman Franquinet .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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Boccaccio '70
Overview: An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-23
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Benito Mussolini
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-01-21
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Girl with a Suitcase
Overview: Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgirl, Aida, whom his older brother has mistreated. In extending kindness and standing up for her, he comes of age. But, is there anything he can do that will alter Aida's situation or her prospects?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-09
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What?
Overview: A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-07
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The Story of Romance and Knife
Overview: The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-18
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An Average Little Man
Overview: A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his goal.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-03-17
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Conversation Piece
Overview: A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-12-20
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Un metro lungo cinque
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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Complexes
Overview: In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-15
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Right You Are (if you think so)
Overview: Absurdism’s king of comedy, Luigi Pirandello, adapted a 1915 short story he wrote titled “Signora Frola and Signor Ponza, Her Son-in-Law” into a play two years later. Right You Are (If You Think Are) was presented in dramatic form as a “A Parable in Three Acts.” As in any instructive parable, the characterization is put fully into the service of delivering the lesson and thus creates mysteries about motivation that remain unresolved by the conclusion.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Rules of the Game
Overview: Leone, a very rational man, silently accepts that his wife Silia is cheating on him with Guido. When a well-known swordsman offends Silia, the woman asks her husband to make amends by challenging him to a duel; Leone accepts, but sends Guido in his place.
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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The Lovemakers
Overview: The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full control over the dead man's property. But Ferdinando's nephew Amerigo holds out. Amerigo's stance is weakened when he heads for Florence and meets prostitute Bianca.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-06-13
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A Day for Lionhearts
Overview: September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-05
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Don't Sting the Mosquito
Overview: Rita, a vivacious co-ed flees her boarding school with her music teacher, who is also engaged to her. She wants to take part in a singing contest but her father who is dead against it has her kidnapped. He finally gives in when his wife threatens to sing in the contest herself.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-03-24
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The Visit
Overview: Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-06
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The Constancy of Reason
Overview: Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals — instilled by Millo, a father figure and family friend in love with Bruno's widowed mother Ivana — are an obstacle. His relationship with Lori, a beautiful and tormented young woman who has just returned from Milan, reshapes his convictions. Freely adapted from a minor novel by Vasco Pratolini.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-11-27
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The Great War
Overview: Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
Genres: Comedy War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-28
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The Mandrake
Overview: A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-18
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Silence the Witness
Overview: De Luca is killed by Marchetti's chauffeur. Marchetti ordered the murder because he was to be accused by De Luca. The two have a car accident while going home to get an alibi. There is a witness, Sironi, who calls the police. But when the police arrive the car has gone and so have the two men. Inspector Santi and young judge Novelli look into the strange case. Marchetti, however, is a powerful man and Sironi and his family begin to be obsessed first by threats then by assaults.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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The Devil's Advocate
Overview: A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being canonized.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1977-10-26
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Check to the Queen
Overview: Silvia is young, beautiful and rich. When her husband goes on a business trip, she starts working as a secretary for Margaret, a famous film star. Margaret appears to have no problems giving her what she wants and turns her into a sex slave- little by little, she subjects herself to increasingly serious humiliations in a masochistic relationship.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-12-07
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My Dear Nephews
Overview: 1936. In a village in the Bassa Padana, a beautiful and shapely forty-year-old girl is aunt of some boys in the middle of their sexual maturity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Boom!
Overview: Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniless poet who has nothing but the ability to fill a wealthy woman's needs.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-26
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Una storia milanese
Overview: Milan, one winter in the early sixties. Valeria, a free young woman who usually goes from one man to another, falls in love with Giampiero. This time, this is a serious relationship to the point that she contemplates marriage. All the more since she gets pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-06
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Outlaws of Love
Overview: This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absence of a divorce law. Five scenarios with different actors portray realistic situations where divorce is clearly warranted but, because marriage was strictly in the purview of the Catholic Church at that time, which strictly forbade divorce, these people are shown to suffer the consequences in their daily lives. Italy got its first civilian divorce law in 1970.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-03
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Barbarella
Overview: In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-10
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Holocaust 2000
Overview: An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Overview: Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the cuckhold, but.. it always seems to work out for lucky Ignazio!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
Overview: Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore is an Italian staged filmmaking of the play of the same name, written by Luigi Pirandello about the relationship between authors, their characters and theater practitioners. The story follows six characters: Il Padre (Romolo Valli), la Figliastra (Rossella Falk), la Madre (Elsa Albani), Il Figlio (Piero Sammataro), la bambina (Patrizia Ponzelli) and Il giovinello(Paolo Figna) that invading a essay by a theater company looking for an author.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-25
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The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Overview: Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-28
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Five Branded Women
Overview: Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-15
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Memories of a Young Pianist
Overview: Interview with the italian composer Claudio Gizzi about his lifetime and work as part or the extras of the Blu-Ray edition from What? (Che?) (1972) from Roman Polanski
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-11-03
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Ciao, Federico!
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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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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Sweet and Sour
Overview: Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-09-04
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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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Paulina 1880
Overview: In 1880's Italy, young Paulina must join a monastery to escape a doomed relationship with a married count. However, neither she, nor the count can just move on and all elements for a tragedy are there.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-09
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Abicinema
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-09
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Peccati d'estate
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-06-26
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