Luciano Bonanni
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 21, 1927
Deathday: August 11, 1997
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Gender: Male
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Ginger and Fred
Overview: Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety show.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-01-13
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The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina
Overview: Sabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German police have to solve a recent robbery. Teo is a photographer looking for a pair of beautiful legs to participate in a photo contest. When he secretly takes a photo of Sabrina's legs, including the telltale moles, Sabrina has to get it back at any cost, something which brings her into dangerous proximity with the smitten Teo. Romance and assorted hijinx ensue.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-11-21
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Fantozzi: White Collar Blues
Overview: A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-27
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The Taming of the Shrew
Overview: Italy, 16th century. Petruchio, a choleric, lying and poor rural landowner from Verona, arrives in Padua in search of fortune and a wife, while Baptista, a wealthy merchant, announces that he will not allow Bianca, his youngest daughter, to marry until the temperamental and unruly Katherina, his eldest daughter, does.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-03-08
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It Can Be Done Amigo
Overview: An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless as it first appears.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-31
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Vengeance
Overview: A man tracks down the five outlaws who murdered his brother, all the while being shadowed by a mysterious Pinkerton detective.
Genres: Western Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-19
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Execution Squad
Overview: Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-25
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I due vigili
Overview: Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-13
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The Fascist
Overview: 1944. Primo Arcovazzi is a fanatical and dim-witted Fascist Party militiaman who accepts to escort an opponent of the regime to Rome in the hope of be promoted — still oblivious as ever to the forthcoming fall of the regime.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-05
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Soldati e capelloni
Overview: An Italian music promoter has engaged an English rock band who wear their hair short, and since it is the 1960s, people don't like them. The band and the promoter wait for the hair to grow, but in the meantime the lads are called for military service and have their hair cut again. They decide to call themselves I Galeotti (the convicts).
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-03-23
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The Policeman on Horseback
Overview: A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-07-29
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The Employee
Overview: Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-20
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My Wife's Enemy
Overview: Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and make him impossible to keep a job for a long time: that's why the young couple keeps arguing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-28
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Il tassinaro
Overview: Pietro Marchetti, a mature Roman taxi driver, has countless and interesting meetings while he is on duty with his car "Zara 87".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-12-21
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The Last Italian Tango
Overview: A woman feeds her husband with scraps and gives the best food to her lover, whom she hides in the attic. The husband abandons her and goes and lives with a young girl who drags him into a sadomasochistic relationship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Horse Fever
Overview: Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-29
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Fun Is Beautiful
Overview: Three stories set in summer Rome, three characters all played by Verdone: an awkward young man meets a Spanish tourist; another one plans a trip towards East with a suitcase full of stockings and biro pens; a hippie is visited by his father, who tries to convince him to get back home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-01-19
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Be Sick… It's Free
Overview: Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-24
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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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Ladies' Doctor
Overview: Dr. Lo Bianco, debt load, flees abroad and the headquarters avviatissimo study gynecological colleague Giovannaldi. These are adept at gaining the trust of high society and, thanks to the relationship established with the wife of a wealthy manufacturer (enough to get her pregnant), she becomes finance, own the cuckolded husband, a luxury clinic. And there will be a prize for Lobianco.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-09-13
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Lobster for Breakfast
Overview: Marco is married to Carla, a rich businesswoman. She's off to Geneva for two days; he has a tryst with Monique, a Swedish air hostess. Carla's flight is canceled, so she heads home about to catch Mario en flagrant. Mario's salvation is Enrico, an old school mate and hapless salesman who shows up to beg Mario to buy toilets so he won't lose his job. Mario signs an order in exchange for Enrico's posing as Monique's husband. Carla invites them to stay overnight and join a business dinner party catered by Enrico's wife, Matilde. Enrico spends the evening trying to avoid her, Mario spends it chasing the willing Monique, and Carla wants to close a deal. Can this farce end happily?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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To Love Ophelia
Overview: Although he is in his thirties, Orlando still feels like a child. He is terrified of the outside world and is stuck in an obsessive relationship with his mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-25
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1870
Overview: Rome, 1870. Opponents of the church power are being sent to prison. Some of the exhausted prisoners are asking for the mercy of Pope. Others, like Augusto Parenti, prefer to fight for their rights until the end. His wife, Teresa is a simple woman, who gets involved with the rebels.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-07
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La sai l'ultima sui matti?
Overview: Jokes, rough jokes and spicy adventures set in a psychiatric clinic, naturally managed by an experienced doctor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-01-22
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They Called Him Bulldozer
Overview: The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-09-15
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Department Store
Overview: A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-06-06
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I Know That You Know That I Know
Overview: The investigations of a private eye shake up the almost broken marriage of a middle aged couple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-08-29
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White Fang to the Rescue
Overview: Set at the end of the 19th century in Canada's gold rush Klondike area, wolf-dog White Fang teams up with a prospector when his master is killed. Together they try to avenge his death.
Genres: Western Family Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-09
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Sedotti e bidonati
Overview: Two rich Sicilian cousins sell their farm because they want to help two fake Siamese twins separate and then marry them. After the operation the girls are thought to be dead but then they reappear to con more money out of the two gullible men. Will they manage to do so?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-14
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Tutti possono arricchire tranne i poveri
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-29
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Troppo forte
Overview: Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-01-30
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Love Italian Style
Overview: Anthology comedy structured in 10 episodes (The Exam, Blue Bloods, Too Easy, Love Italian Style, Sunday Story, Wedding Present, Gold Fischer, The Tuxedo, Railway Courtesy, Play Boy). Whimsical exploration of the mores, customs and vices of Italy at that time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-02
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Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Overview: Fresh out prison, Tiberio reconnects with his old partners in crime, Michele Ferribote and Peppe the Panther, only to realise that a lot has changed--including crime--after twenty years. Can he cope with this new reality?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-12-25
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The New Monsters
Overview: A 1977 Italian comedy film composed of 14 episodes, directed by Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-12-15
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Thrilling
Overview: An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-10-21
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Il lupo e l'agnello
Overview: Leon de Paris is a modest dog-barber in Paris. In search of more satisfaction. Thanks to the economic helps of Fanny (his terrible mother in law), he succeeds to set up in Roma a very stylish "Coiffeur pour homme". But due to this, his life with Fanny isn't funny, and more, Leon has to dissimulate homosexuality for job reasons. He decides to stop this nightmare engaging "Er Cuculo" (the cuckoo) a B-gangster to simulate a robbery. In fact the plan is to take all Fanny's money, share it among them and escape in Montecarlo. Will the strange couple succeed?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-08
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Easy Love
Overview: Five episodes: A professor decides to murder her husband to win a woman. A hotelier seduces a boarder. A man convinces a friend to marry his lover, so as not to arouse his wife's suspicions. A man borrows money from a loan shark to pay for the services of his wife. Two couples try in vain to take a trip to the seaside.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-03
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Geppo il folle
Overview: Italian rockstar Geppo has to learn English in order to perform with Barbra Streisand in the US, but falls in love with his beautiful female tutor, Gilda.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-01
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The Art of Getting Along
Overview: In this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous guy, nephew of the mayor of Catania, and he's always ready to take sides with anyone who can help him. He switches from socialism to fascism; he changes his political faith the same way he changes women. He even tries to found his own party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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Coup D'Etat
Overview: Italy, 1972. Political elections are taking place and Christian Democrat victory is expected; but the electronic computer of the Ministry of the Interior reveals that the party with the highest number is the Italian Communist Party.
Genres: Comedy Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-15
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La banda del buco
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-09
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Cops and Robbers
Overview: Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-29
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The Bang-Bang Kid
Overview: Guy Madison has a high old time as a would be feudal baron in the Wild West. No one is willing to stand up to Madison and his henchmen, no one that is, except mild-mannered inventor Tom Bosley. It seems that Bosley has welded together a robot gunslinger, whom he calls "The Bang Bang Kid". Only trouble is, the "Kid" breaks down at the darnedest times. The film goes off in too many directions, but generally delivers the goods laugh-wise. (Source: SWDB)
Genres: Adventure Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-14
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The Union
Overview: A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-29
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The Two Parachutists
Overview: Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from. Afterwards they become big shots in the States but their dream comes to an end : they are sent to fight in Vietnam
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-12-24
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Il mondo dei miracoli
Overview: An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-25
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...e continuavano a mettere lo diavolo ne lo inferno
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Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Paolo il freddo
Overview: A baron, nicknamed Paolo il caldo (Paul the Hot One) because of his womanizing, asks his son, on his deathbed, to leave women alone and only think about work. The son tries hard but only gets into trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-11
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Il Figlioccio del padrino
Overview: A mafioso falls in love with his boss's daughter. Since the girl has already been widowed four times her father takes good care that this does not happen again.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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I'll Die for Vengeance
Overview: A Mexican gang headed by vicious Pedro terrorizes the land between New Mexico and Arizona. Jeff a youth whose father has been killed by Pedro seeks revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-10
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Totò vs the Four
Overview: The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-07
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Panic Button
Overview: A businessman comes up with a scheme to make money by financing a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" that's destined to fail, thus giving him some major tax breaks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-10
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We All Loved Each Other So Much
Overview: Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-12-21
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