Mario Mazza
Also Known As: Mario Ciotola
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Napoli, Italy
Birthday: December 12, 1895
Deathday: September 20, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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La ragazza di Via Veneto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-28
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Esterina
Overview: Esterina, a young war orphan, joins two truck drivers, Gino and Piero, on their trips along Northern Italy. She wants to find her luck in the big city, but her dreams turn into disappointing experiences. She falls in love with Gino but he is not interested in her, until she disappears...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Times Gone By
Overview: A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-28
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Terra di nessuno
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-04-17
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Il cardinale Lambertini
Overview: Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-23
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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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High Time
Overview: The historic clock of a small town needs to be repaired but there is no money in the town coffers to pay for it. Don Paolo (Peppino Spadaro), the Priest, raises the money by lottery and thinks the surplus should go to the poor. The Communists and Socialists object because they are afraid the priest will get the credit and they claim it as "the people's money." The democratic mayor (Arturo Brogaglia) can think of no solution other than organizing committees and sub-committees. Finally, Rocchetti (Paola Stoppi), the town mechanic who has no answers for town problems and hates the clergy and politicians alike, comes forward and repairs the clock for the sheer joy of work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-04-12
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Cose dell'altro mondo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Resurrection
Overview: A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-05-30
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Dogs and Cats
Overview: In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business away him. Unbeknownst to them a romance is developing between the younger generation of the families.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-15
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Easy Years
Overview: A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-12
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Nerone
Overview: Depictions of the Emperor Nero and the Great Fire of Rome (64). Anachronisms are used for comedy, such as Nero telephoning the fire brigade.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1930-11-01
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Gatta ci cova
Overview: Italian film from 1937 directed by Gennaro Righelli.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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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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Welcome Reverend!
Overview: A disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight immediately after WWII.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-02-15
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A Free Woman
Overview: Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she barely knows. So begins a series of romantic encounters in which Liana tries to find her freedom and happiness, but which will ultimately lead her to a tragic fate.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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Petrolini
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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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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Non scherzare con le donne
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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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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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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Land of Fire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-01-24
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Don Pasquale
Overview: In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-09-16
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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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Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto
Overview: Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai and Lamberto Picasso. Nazzari portrays the painter Caravaggio as a wayward genius. It was one of his favourite screen roles.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-06-02
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The Iron Crown
Overview: In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince Arminio to beasts in the woods, but lions don't kill him and breed him as one of them.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-09-07
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Nero's Mistress
Overview: Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-13
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The Secret Conclave
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-09-17
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