Riccardo Garrone
Also Known As: Ricardo Garone, Richard Garrett, Rick Garrett, Richard Garrone, Dick Regan
Biography: Riccardo Garrone (1 November 1926 – 14 March 2016) was an Italian actor, voice actor and director. Garrone began his acting career in 1949 and attended the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts. He appeared in more than 140 films from 1949 until his retirement in 2014. He made his debut in the film Adam and Eve directed by Mario Mattoli. He also worked in several theatre productions alongside other actors such as Vittorio Gassman, Diana Torrieri and Elena Zareschi. Garrone often portrayed characters with persuasive, polite personalities in a variety of B movie comedies, spaghetti-westerns and horrors. In the 1980s, he made frequent stage collaborations with Antonella Steni and he made more appearances on television. One of his most popular television roles was on Un medico in famiglia in which he portrayed Nicola Solari. He also had a recurring role on Amico mio starring Massimo Dapporto. Garrone was married to Grazia Maria Verità and they had one daughter, Francesca. Garrone was also the younger brother of director Sergio Garrone. He retired in 2014. Garrone died in Milan on 14 March 2016 at the age of 89. Description above from the Wikipedia article Riccardo Garrone (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Birthday: November 01, 1926
Deathday: March 14, 2016
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Gender: Male
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Laura nuda
Overview: Laura, a young woman from the Verona bourgeoisie, seeks to emancipate herself, but is desperately confronted with what she considers to be the hypocrisy of men and the conformism of a society that only considers women if they marry and procreate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-05
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Madigan's Millions
Overview: When a deported gangster dies in Italy, the U.S. Treasury Department is very interested in the one million dollars Madigan owed the government, but managed to take to Italy with him. They send Agent Jason Phister over to Italy to nose out the million. His criteria for the job is that no one would ever guess he's an agent of the United States government.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-30
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Captain Fracasse
Overview: A ruined Baron Philippe de baron, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors led by Herod. Attracted by the one who plays the role of the ingenue: Isabella, and by the dynamism and enthusiasm of his companions, he takes the place of the deceased poet of the troupe. And during performances, Philippe became the captain Sunder. For his part, Isabelle loves Philip, but does not consider marriage, nobility him missing, she refuses to harm the career of Baron. And one day, the Duke of Vallombrosa, seduced by Isabella, finds himself challenged to a duel by Philippe for touching the girl. Defeated, he launched his men against Sunder, then removes Isabelle. The actors throw themselves then to storm the castle where she is being held. This time Vallombrosa was seriously injured, and the duke's own father, rushed to the scene, Isabelle discovers the girl he had once been an actress. Nothing stands now the union of Sunder and Isabella, under the tender gaze of the actors Herod and Scapin.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-04-21
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Three Bites of the Apple
Overview: A tour guide wins a large sum of money at a casino and a beautiful woman schemes at have it, but love complicates her plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-24
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The Swordsman of Siena
Overview: A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-19
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The Night Child
Overview: The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child who was a murderess.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-04-22
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4 Crazy Draftees at the Army
Overview: Our four incompetent types thrown into the field whether they liked it or not....They preferred to run the other way, but can never get there act together! How will they win the war' How can they get out of this mess'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-21
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Amore 14
Overview: Come ogni 14enne Carolina, detta Caro,è impegnata a districarsi tra la scuola, gli amici e il rapporto spesso conflittuale con i genitori, si trova improvvisamente alle prese con i turbamenti legati al primo amore che ha il nome e il volto di Massimiliano. Ad aiutarla nel suo cammino verso la scoperta delle gioie e dei dolori sentimentali ci saranno le sue amiche del cuore e la sua famiglia
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-10-30
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The Swindle
Overview: Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-10-07
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The Traffic Policeman
Overview: An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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Don't Play with Tigers
Overview: A stories of three really unlucky characters are discovered during the trial.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-01-15
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A Girl in Australia
Overview: The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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Terror-Creatures from the Grave
Overview: An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the castle at that very moment. Soon occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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Venice, the Moon and You
Overview: The "casanova" gondolier Bepi struggles to accept his future monogamous life, being Venice a hub of attracting tourists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-10-03
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Signori si nasce
Overview: Baron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-04-28
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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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Rugantino
Overview: A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-25
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Poor Girl, Pretty Girl
Overview: Romolo and Salvatore look for jobs to impress their girlfriends, but things get complicated when their old flame Giovanna reappears.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist
Overview: A vengeful criminal targets the inspector who put him away, but the inspector survives and fakes his death. Ignoring orders to flee, he sets out to bring the fugitive back to justice.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-03
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Woman of Rome
Overview: During the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong. She meets Mino, a partisan who falls in love with her and wants to redeem her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-27
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Amarsi un po'...
Overview: In an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one another. Cristiana confesses only later that she is a genuine princess. For Marco it is not a problem, but for Cristiana's parents it is a very big problem. The two must separate. When one evening Cristiana calls Marco and lets him know about her forthcoming wedding, Marco with the car races toward Paris and has an accident...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-10-05
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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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Simpatici & antipatici
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-02-20
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Eva
Overview: Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier. He falls for her instantly, despite already having wedding plans with Francesca Ferrara. Winning Eva's affection proves elusive; she's more interested in money than in love. But Tyvian remain steadfast in his obsession, going after Eva with a fervor that threatens to destroy his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-03
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The Odd Squad
Overview: Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of attacks. Both the army decides to definitively destroy it before the opponent does. But to the chaotic mad American platoon is opposed an Italian military band exchanged for a terrible special commando. Probably the bridge will survive another 2000 years!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Father Jackleg
Overview: A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the mine is worthless, and teams up with a partner in a scheme to unload it on some unsuspecting chumps. However, the other members of his family discover that the gold mine is actually worth a lot of money, and they set out to take it from him before he realizes what he has.
Genres: Action Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-05
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2 mattacchioni al Moulin Rouge
Overview: A dancer has been murdered in a striptease joint but the body seems to have disappeared.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-17
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Giovannona Long-Thigh
Overview: When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they discover the judge has a predilection for married women, the owner employs a prostitute to pose as his wife in an attempt to seduce the judge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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I fobici
Overview: Four stories about phobias, manias and other complexes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-01-26
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Death Knocks Twice
Overview: When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail ...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-25
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Confessions of a Lady Cop
Overview: Gianna Amicucci works in the house of the head of her hometown police force and enters the academy with a kickback from him. She is a beautiful woman (she generously sheds clothes during the film) and has to overcome her male colleagues prejudices, but she gains their respect through a series of brilliant operations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-12
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Naughty Nun
Overview: To spite her father, a young woman enters a convent. However, the woman's old boyfriend shows up and tries to win her back.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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The Avenger, Zorro
Overview: The young Flem Mascaslim it be a hindrance to Bill Warner and, like his father did, try to get rid of it to take over his ranch. Along with his manager devises a plan: will be arrested on suspicion of robbing a bank and present false witnesses to his sentence. But the Fox manages to free the boy, putting him safely home of a friend and her daughter.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-06-23
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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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If You Want to Live... Shoot!
Overview: A young cowboy, Johnny, playing in a rigged poker game is forced to shoot one of the other players. The cowboy takes quick leave as he is accused of murder and a reward for his capture is posted. After being wounded, he finds refuge on a ranch and becomes involved with the family. While he is away, a gang of Mexicans kills the McGowan family except for Sally, who manages to escape and find Johnny who is now out for revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-07
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The Reunion
Overview: Two members of a former group of friends find themselves after many years by chance through the streets of Milan; after a moment, memories of the past resurface.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-19
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The Return of Halleluja
Overview: Ramirez, the general of the Mexican revolution against Maximilian who has been appointed king of Mexico, organizes his forces to attack the king's General, Miranda. Ramirez realizes that the Aztec Indians would be allies of great value, so he offers to return to them an idol statue that has been stolen from them. Only Alleluja is capable of retrieving the idol from the thieves.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-30
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Basta guardarla
Overview: Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-27
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I terribili sette
Overview: Some kids find by chance an infant in swaddling clothes left in a meadow. Initially, after having led in their lair, they think of selling it to a caravan of gypsies.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-07-04
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Il successo
Overview: Giulio has a faithful wife and a true friend, but he is convinced that only with money can one be happy. So he devotes himself to dangerous real estate speculation in Sardinia, even though he does not have the capital to deal with it. To find the necessary money, he is willing to give up even his dignity. And slowly, he alienates his most beloved ones from himself....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-24
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Manhunt
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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The Dove Must Not Fly
Overview: An undercover Nazi in Libya aims to steal fuel and deliver it to a specific location in the desert where an Italian bomber would refuel on its way to Allied target.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-11
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Ti voglio bene Eugenio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-01-18
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Il divorzio
Overview: Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-04-20
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You Are Always In My Mind
Overview: Carlo is a successful singer, married to Livia; the two also have a son, Maurizio. Carlo decides to accept a tour in the USA but, shortly before departure, together with his agent Puglisi has a sentimental adventure with two women. Livia, having discovered what had happened, leaves home with Maurizio.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-11-28
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Lazzarella
Overview: Luciano, who studies at the university, falls in love with Sandra, a high school student, who returns his love. If her family is very rich, his family is of modest extraction; however, the difference in condition does not seem to be a problem, and Luciano's degree increases the hope of a happy future. However, following a sudden financial collapse, Sandra's family business failed: so, to help her parents, the girl accepted the kindness of a very rich childhood friend, deciding to marry him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-11-27
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Pontius Pilate
Overview: The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, the Procurator of Judea who unwillingly condemned Christ to death. Based on the biblical Gospel of John.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-15
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The Third
Overview: A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed sentimental life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-22
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Day by Day, Desperately
Overview: The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-11-23
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I ragazzi di Bandiera Gialla
Overview: A group of beatnik students rent a garage and turn it into a club. One of them leaves because of love rivalry but then goes back on his steps and the club becomes a huge success.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-06-15
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The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn
Overview: Distressed that her wayward husband, Gianni (Alberto Lionello), forsakes her favors and seduces a series of other women, drop-dead gorgeous Gioia (Edwige Fenech) turns to handsome lothario Patrizio (Ray Lovelock) to help her get revenge. Will her enthusiastic affair help Gianni see the error of his ways? Luciano Martino directs this saucy comedy that also stars Aldo Maccione, Alvaro Vitali and Olga Bisera.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-03
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La città invisibile
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-07-30
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Al momento giusto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-10-27
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Fra' Manisco cerca guai...
Overview: Father Pacifico is a genuine friar with a brisk manner, for this reason he is nicknamed Father Manisco. The religious finds himself grappling with a thorny case, as Don Liborio, a Neapolitan lord, dominates all local events, including the love choices of his young daughter. Father Pacifico manages to restore harmony and order despite a thousand difficulties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-12-30
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Madri pericolose
Overview: A great Party is given by the rich family of Improta. Every kind of intrigue gets around this party. The purpose of every plan is to find a husband or a wife with a quality: wealth.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-08-06
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Maigret at the Pigalle
Overview: Maigret is about to leave for the holidays but a colleague asks him for help in investigating the mysterious murder of a stripper and a noblewoman, both of which took place in Pigalle.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-30
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The Killer Likes Candy
Overview: Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiristan. Snell's sole weakness is his sweet tooth; he leaves candy wrappers at the scene of his every crime. It's up to no-nonsense CIA agent Mark Stone to find Snell and stop him before it's too late.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-12
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Il ragazzo che sorride
Overview: Giorgio, a young mining engineer, moved to work in Africa. His wife does not want to follow him and he suspects a betrayal. In the cast also Rocky Roberts singing two songs.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-07
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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
Overview: During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-25
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The Warrior Empress
Overview: The poetess Sappho led an uprising against the corrupt government of the island of Lesbos.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-24
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Rene the Cane
Overview: "René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming after "Le Trio Infernal" (1974) and before "La Banquière" (1980). His film is an adaptation of a story by Roger Borniche about the gangster René Girier and relates the fantastic adventures of a flamboyant mobster (René/Gérard Depardieu) and a maverick police inspector (Fernand la Sournoise/Michel Piccoli), through the 1940s.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-02-16
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Two Idiots at Fort Alamo
Overview: During the War of Succession, Franco and Ciccio are arrested for being accused of desertion from the Northern army. Rather than condemn them to death for his carelessness, they will be chosen for a special mission: to infiltrate as expert officers on a delicate espionage action.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-08-13
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Love and Chatter
Overview: Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-01-31
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Sexy Sinners
Overview: During the early Italian Renaissance and the Black Death epidemic, a group of young men and women, seeking refuge in a secluded villa just outside the city of Florence, shares different stories of adultery and forbidden love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-04
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How to Kill 400 Duponts
Overview: Dorellik, an Italian contract killer that lives on the French Riviera, accepts a job to kill everyone with the surname Dupont that lives in France for a rich customer which supposedly would allow him to obtain a large inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-07
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La traversata
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-09-01
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The Crazy Bunch
Overview: Tricky Dicky is after a gold treasure with his companion. He tracks the treasure down in insane asylums, Ku Klux Klan rallies, and finally, the outlaw's hideout.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-04-27
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Killer Rules
Overview: Two adoptive brothers -- one a mob hit man, the other a Department of Justice investigator -- who are unaware of each other's existence until they become involved with the same woman, end up in a deadly triangle in this thriller.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-24
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The Most Wonderful Moment
Overview: Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she prepares for the upcoming childbirth
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-03-21
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Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo
Overview: This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the roman traffic police. 'Guardia'(agent) Alberto Randolfi has a too strong inclination to fine everyone and is dreaming about learning French. 'Brigadiere' (sergeant) Pietro Spaziali is busy looking at his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is going to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they often do.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-04-20
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L'eredità dello zio buonanima
Overview: When a rich uncle dies, giving him a great inheritance, Franco will clash with other grandchildren and lawyers.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-12-21
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La Legge è Uguale per Tutti... Forse
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-02-27
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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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Peccatori di provincia
Overview: Rich and respected Emanuele Lo Curcio dies leaving all his possessions to his natural daughter Domitilla, actually a nun, whose relatives, including his brother and Mayor Angelo Lo Curcio, ignored the existence of hers. The disappointment and anger of his numerous relatives, indebted up to their necks, pushes them to try with all sorts of scams to strip off Domitilla's legacy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-17
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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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The Last Violence
Overview: Raped during the war by a stranger, Anna is forced by their parents to pretend that that her daughter Lisa is her sister. When she is about to marry the new doctor in the country, her jealous brother resorts to threats of blackmail in an attempt to keep them apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-09-12
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La rossa
Overview: Amelia, a beautiful and irrepressible girl known as "La Rossa", returns from Paris to her country, a small seaside town in southern Italy, where her father is the lighthouse keeper. To her father and her fellow villagers, she gives the impression that she is married to a rich gentleman. In reality she is only the friend of Pierre Dupont, an elegant Parisian bandit. Dupont, however, actually gives the girl a certain economic comfort. Later Pierre arrives in the country incognito, being wanted for a large theft of jewels in Paris, and Amelia, her lover and accomplice, helps him to hide.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-15
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The Dinner
Overview: An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life. The camera, just like the people, moves constantly from table to table, into the kitchen and the back room to observe the staff's petty jealousies and frustrations -- until two hours later it's time for everybody to go home.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-09-03
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Two Nights with Cleopatra
Overview: Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she's the real monarch.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-02-04
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Father's Trip
Overview: Determined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go to Lyon to look for his daughter, now a hairdresser, who, busy with her work, hasn't been back to the village for two years. In a few days, it will be Denise's birthday, the youngest of his daughters, and, urged on by his wife, he sets off, determined to bring the prodigal son back to the family celebration. But Denise is now living off her charms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-09-16
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Tormento del passato
Overview: A gangster comes back to Rome after many years and meets his old flame and their daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-04-01
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We Are All in Temporary Liberty
Overview: A judge opens an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an MP.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-24
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Grazie zio, ci provo anch'io
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-03
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How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
Overview: Playboy magazine darling (and one-time playmate of Hugh Hefner) Barbi Benton is Naughty Cheerleader Lynne Keefe, a small-town, small-brained babe who gets caught up big-time in the sex business. As a high school cheerleader who can really twirl a baton back in hometown Scranton, Lynne gets knocked up by a horny hunk on a motorcycle who then dumps her, sending her into a sexual spiral that takes her to The Catskills, Boston, New York, Miami and Rome.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-15
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Fantozzi Still Suffers
Overview: After a hard day at work and a condominium-board meeting, accountant Ugo Fantozzi goes on a trip with his family. Unfortunately, he will face a nasty surprise upon his return.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-12-22
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Beach Casanova
Overview: Mr. Edmond is a middle-aged playboy, living by his wits on the Riviera. Among the women with whom Edmond dallies are three gorgeous ladies.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-22
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Fathers and Sons
Overview: The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-02-21
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Christmas Holidays
Overview: Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man, Donatone, but in the past she had a flirt with Billo, who wants to reignite the flame.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-12-22
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No Room to Die
Overview: Mexican's are being smuggled over the border to work as cheap labour for wealthy land baron Fargo. His gang is made up of known criminals with bounties on their heads, this greatly interests two bounty hunters who may have to team up to achieve their goals.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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A Girl Called Jules
Overview: After his Western triumphs, Valerii stepped out of the shadow of Sergio Leone with this distinctly Bergmanesque sexual melodrama.Dionisio is perfect in the title role and this remains her best film, Valerii turns up along the way too. Just when the film hits a period of auto pilot John Steiner turns up in the final reel for a climax that is quite unforgettable. A bit difficult to trace but well worth the effort.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-07-25
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Se devi dire una bugia dilla grossa
Overview: Palace Hotel, Rome, the story begins with the Demitri couple, who turn out to be in a marital crisis due to their not having sex for quite some time. The husband says he has no time for that because it has to go to the interior of the Quirinal offices, but in secretly he has a date with a married woman, Mrs. Rolandi.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-05-12
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Hell Raiders of the Deep
Overview: A crack team of Italian naval divers plan to attach high explosives to the hulls of Royal navy warships anchored in Gibraltar harbour.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-01-16
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Decameroticus
Overview: Five episodes :1) A husband has taken the place of the confessor to find out about his wife's betrayals and while he spends the night at the door of the house, the woman can freely receive her lover. 2) Judge Volfardo, to take revenge for the constant pranks of Lambertuccio, head of the guards, invites Leonetto, a young man whom women yearn for, to take advantage of his wife. But everything is resolved to their own damage 3) While Domitilla's husband sends the boy into his bed to be able to sleep with his lover. 4) Don Casimiro has Don Ciccillo treat his wife who will use a very intimate therapy. 5) Messer Ciccio and Messer Gerbino exchange confidences on how not to be betrayed by their wives, so that...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Money
Overview: On the theme "money is the driving force that drives man to commit follies to conquer them", this film presents a series of episodes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-25
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What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
Overview: In the beginning of the 20th. century Italian actor Guido Guidi, more enthusiastic than talented, and his ensemble tour Texas. The mysterious and obviously rich Peppino Garibaldi gives them an offer, they can’t deny: For a large amount of dough they should play “Richard III.” in the Mexican town Vera Cruz. But Peppino is not really interested in cultural affairs: He supports “La Revolución” and “General” Carasco, who utilizes the feastful premiere of “Richard III.” to raid Vera Cruz for Comandante Zapata. But shortly after the Mexican Army shows up with some canons in tow to sort things out. Guidi and Padre Albino, Italian like him, succeed to flee and save Carasco accidentially from the firing squad. Whereas the latter coninues his revolutionary fight, Guidi and Albino start an odyssey through the struggling Mexico, which lets them fall one time in the hands of Carasco the other time in those of Herrera or even in the clutches of “hand-taking” bandidos.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-19
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Kiss of a Dead Woman
Overview: The Countess Clara is in love with Andrea Valverde but agrees to marry the Count Guido when he learns that Andrew is his brother from his mother's side.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-02
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Two Public Enemies
Overview: Two two-bit crooks get in the way of a criminal ring and cause a hold up to fail. The two flee to Paradise avoiding a reprisal and try and steal Saint Peter's halo.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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Il fidanzamento
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-28
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Oh, Grandmother's Dead
Overview: Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-09
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What the Chambermaid Saw
Overview: Country bumpkin Maria Rosa becomes the new maid in a second-rate Roman hotel. A hole in the wall behind the mirror in her room turns her and a horny bellboy into voyeurs
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-05-07
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Siege of Terror
Overview: Finding himself unwittingly involved in a love triangle with his unfaithful wife and her lover sends a man over the edge.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-04-03
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A Girl in Australia
Overview: The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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The Young Bride
Overview: A shop assistant in a record shop falls in love with a young writer, who loves classical music but can not find a publisher who publishes his first novel.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-21
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My First 40 Years
Overview: Marina is a woman who never says no...to men, money and fame! Determined to climb the social ladder, she works her way up from a marriage of a millionaire prince. At last, she's living the life of wealth and glamour she's always dreamed of. Then Love comes along and ruins everything! A starving artist steals her heart and seduces her away to his bohemian world. Will Marina manage to stay happy living a lifestyle out of the fast lane?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-11-05
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Un inverno freddo freddo
Overview: Film about the romantic involvements and every day life of four women working in the financially troubled Guya Valentina Beauty Salon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-02-15
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The Cricket
Overview: An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-04-18
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Fiasco in Milan
Overview: The usual gang of robbers are hired by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will hinder the success of the operation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-12-19
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La mafia mi fa un baffo
Overview: A two bit actor is a dead ringer for a mafia boss who has been killed by a rival gang. He's hired by the dead man's gang to take his place in public.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Nel blu dipinto di blu
Overview: Turi, a young Sicilian, makes ends meet by doing some occasional work and singing in taverns in a popular district of Rome.
Genres: Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-11
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Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth
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Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-11-12
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L'amico del giaguaro
Overview: A grown man named Augusto escapes from an orphanage and after several unsuccessful attempts at holding down a job, decides to start a gang and make a living by stealing from the rich.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-03
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Doctor and the Healer
Overview: Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-04
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Il prezzo della gloria
Overview: A destroyer departs from the port of Taranto with orders to take a load of petrol to Tobruk at all costs.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-10-24
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A Man Called Sledge
Overview: James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-14
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
Overview: One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the car for his wife as an anniversary present. The next owner is Paolo Maltese, a mafioso who purchases the car during a trip to Italy and leaves it with his girlfriend while he returns to Chicago. Finally, the car is owned by American widow Gerda, who joins the Yugoslavian resistance against the invading Nazis.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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The Loves of Salammbo
Overview: During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to fight against the Roman empire, but when the city's ruler is unable to fulfill the promised payment made to the mercenaries, they attack the African settlement, where Salammbô --the king's daughter and high priestess of goddess Tanit- tries to settle the matter when the Barbarian leader who has fallen for her steals the sacred veil of Carthage from the temple, without taking into account the evil schemes of a powerful member of the council of wise men.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-24
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Corporal of the day
Overview: A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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Campagnola bella
Overview: In a small village in central Italy all the notables, instead of dedicating themselves to contingent problems, try to have fun with the available women on duty, one of whom is the prostitute Felicetta, another the young Letizia. The two, initially at the mercy of their lecherous fellow villagers, later take revenge by binding themselves to two young and handsome soldiers camped near the town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-06-06
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Degueyo
Overview: Ramon and his bandit gang launch an attack on Danger City, searching for rumoured hidden treasure and unable to find the loot either kill or take as hostage all the men, leaving only the women and children to produce the treasure or face 'Deguello' - an attack with no quarter. Four men arrive in town searching for Ramon and agree to help protect the town from the bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-04
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Il treno del sabato
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-02-20
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Spiaggia libera
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-01-05
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Trastevere
Overview: A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-11-13
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Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-05-06
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La vuole lui... lo vuole lei
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-06-01
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La Dolce Vita
Overview: Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-05
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The Silk Worm
Overview: Smeralda Amadier, a retired singer, lives in an isolated villa with her secretary Marcella and her lover Didier (but throws out the latter after catching him with another woman). Smeralda has huge debts and when creditors threaten her with bankruptcy she decides to sell her valuable jewels. That evening, she meets Costas, a handsome young man who seduces her. Next morning, there is no sign of him or the jewels. He was apparently a penniless gigolo, but who was his secret partner in the theft?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-03-01
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The Railroad Man
Overview: Train operator Andrea Marcocci has to witness the suicide of a desperate man who jumps in front of his train. Under the influence of this shock he starts making mistakes. A check up by a doctor reveals that he's at the brink of becoming an alcoholic. Due to this evaluation he is degraded and must accept a salary cut.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-11-21
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Commando
Overview: A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
Genres: War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1962-11-14
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La Pupa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-10-19
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Let's Talk About Women
Overview: Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-28
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Scusi, si potrebbe evitare il servizio militare?... No!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-15
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Cacciatori di dote
Overview: Manlio from Guatemala and Carlo the nobleman are both looking forward to settling down by marrying rich.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-01-28
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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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Goodbye dreams of glory
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-02-20
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Il fischio al naso
Overview: In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets. When his nose starts to whistle uncontrollably, he checks into a clinic to resolve the problem. What begins as a minor affliction worsens, and Giuseppe is placed on a different floor as his ailments multiply. The sicker he gets, the higher he goes up in the floors of the clinic, until he is near death's door.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-06
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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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Aggiungi un posto a tavola
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-03-09
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Windsurf - Il vento nelle mani
Overview: A romantic comedy about teen surfers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-09-20
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Una voce, una chitarra, un po' di luna
Overview: A musician loses his job after he is seriously injured in a car crash. After his wife leaves him to pursuit an acting career, he is forced to take care of his mother and his daughter by himself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-10-31
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Paprika
Overview: Mimma starts working in Madame Colette’s brothel to help her boyfriend financially. There she is rechristened “Paprika,” and falls in love with her first client, naval officer Franco. Despite this attraction, she begins her climb through the sex trade, residing in Italy’s most illustrious brothels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-02-13
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La cento chilometri
Overview: During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Idoli controluce
Overview: Having been assigned by his publisher to write a biography of Omar Sivori, the great footballer, Ugo Sanfelice heads for Torino. Given he is not very knowledgeable about soccer, Ugo tries -several times but in vain - to obtain an appointment from Sivori. Forced to fall back upon persons being or having been in contact with the elusive star, he gets to know young forward-center Moretti and soon becomes friendly with him. The young man confides in him and tells him the whole truth about his own "career" : the training in a small provincial team, the promising debut alongside Sivori, the desertion of his fiancée, the premature decline due to a dissolute life. When Sanfelice finally meets Sivori, he finds that the star is no match - humanely at least - for Moretti and he gives up writing the book at all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-12
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