Mario Siletti
Also Known As: Марио Силетти
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: July 22, 1903
Age: 121 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 19, 1964
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Porca miseria!
Overview: Two friends, Giacomino and Carletto, have no job and no money and are looking for a job, or any device that will help them to meet expenses and especially will give them the opportunity to fill their stomachs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-09-12
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Kansas City Confidential
Overview: An ex-convict sets out to uncover who framed him for an armored car robbery.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-11
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La maschera di Cesare Borgia
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-09-27
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Headlights in the Fog
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-02-15
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The Reformer and the Redhead
Overview: A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-05
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Four Steps in the Clouds
Overview: A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-12-24
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The House on Telegraph Hill
Overview: Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-12
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Black Hand
Overview: In turn-of-the-century New York, an Italian seeks vengeance on the mobsters who killed his father.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-12
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È arrivata la parigina
Overview: An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-06-26
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Thunder Bay
Overview: Shrimpers and oilmen clash when an ambitious wildcatter begins constructing an off-shore oilrig.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-21
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Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Overview: A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-30
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Figaro qua... Figaro là
Overview: In the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-10-12
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House of Strangers
Overview: Gino Monetti is a ruthless Italian-American banker who is engaged in a number of criminal activities. Three of his four grown sons refuse to help their father stay out of prison after he's arrested for his questionable business practices. Three of the sons take over the business but kick their father out. Max, a lawyer, is the only son that stays loyal to his father.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-01
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Hot News
Overview: An ex-prize fighter -- now reporter -- tries to expose a gambling ring after an uneven bout in the ring kills a pugilist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-11
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Napoleone
Overview: A historical farce about Napoleon.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-04-17
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Cinque a zero
Overview: Sports comedy film inspired by a 5–0 victory by A.S. Roma against their rivals Juventus in 1931.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-11-01
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East Side, West Side
Overview: A vain businessman puts strains on his happy marriage to a rich, beautiful socialite by allowing himself to be seduced by a former girlfriend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-22
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Captain Pirate
Overview: In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Hilary Evans arrives and arrests him on a piracy charge. Somebody has been raiding the islands, and making it appear it was Captain Blood. In order to prove his innocence, Captain Blood has to sail again under the "Jolly Roger."
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-27
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The Naked Street
Overview: To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of prison. But Regal’s meddling deeds soon backfire.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-01
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Belles on Their Toes
Overview: The "Cheaper by the Dozen" crew is back, sans Clifton Webb. Lillian is struggling to make ends meet without her husband's income, while Anne, Martha, and even Ernestine find romance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-02
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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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In amore si pecca in due
Overview: Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-01-09
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The Misery of Mr. Travet
Overview: The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr. Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-12-15
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Eugenia Grandet
Overview: Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugenia's inexperience leads her to fall in love with an unworthy man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-09-10
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I due compari
Overview: Giovanni peddles useless pens in the streets of Rome with his sidekick Francesco, but his college-student daughter thinks he is a rich industrialist. She falls in love with a rich guy and when her father tells her the trust about their financial situation she drops her fiance and refuses food. Luckily, the guy's parents give their consent to the marriage anyway.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-10-06
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Clash by Night
Overview: An embittered woman seeks escape in marriage, only to fall for her husband’s best friend.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-30
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Sambo
Overview: A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of chance. Sent a messenger to Brazil to gamble, the two men go wild and run up debts. When they realize they have won nothing, they initially fall into total despair; however the coachman had played a coupon from the football pools on his own account. He will win and make things right.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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Piccolo alpino
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Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-10-20
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Pazzo d'amore
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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La maestrina
Overview: In a small mountain town, a new teacher arrives, Maria Bini, who, with her extreme confidentiality, arouses people's curiosity and gossip. The young mayor of the village feels attracted to the girl and begins to court her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-10-08
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Casta diva
Overview: As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-27
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Hell's Island
Overview: Down-on-his-luck Mike Cormack is hired to fly to a Caribbean island to retrieve a missing ruby. On the island, possibly involved with the ruby's disappearance, is his ex-girlfriend.
Genres: Adventure Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-06
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Piccola mia
Overview: A woman leaves her husband and her young daughter after she falls for a rally driver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1933-11-25
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Piccola mia
Overview: A woman leaves her husband and her young daughter after she falls for a rally driver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1933-11-25
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Capitan Fracassa
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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The Man Who Cheated Himself
Overview: A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-26
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Musketeers of the Sea
Overview: Three pirates are saved from a shipwreck and seize a galleon bound for Maracaibo, where they will save the governor from a conspiracy. Italian adventure movie directed by Steno.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-23
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Il viaggio del signor Perrichon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-08-02
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Lasciate ogni speranza
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Al calar del sipario
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-11-26
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Silenzio, si gira!
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-10-02
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Johnny Cool
Overview: A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-02
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Piccola posta
Overview: Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-12-22
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Wings of the Hawk
Overview: Gringo miner Gallager is caught up in the Mexican revolution of 1910-11 when corrupt administrator Ruiz appropriates his mine. Gallager saves the life of guerilla leader Raquel, then finds there's a price on his head; he becomes romantically involved with her in the course of a series of rescues and ambushes, leading up to Orozco's march on Ciudad Juarez.
Genres: Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-26
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Taxi
Overview: A New York cab driver helps an Irish immigrant with a baby locate her missing husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-21
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Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone
Overview: The owner of a cosmetics factory has made a contract with Radio Sibilla for the transmission of an evening program in which the products of his company are advertised.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-04-19
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Man in the Shadow
Overview: In a modern cow town, the powerful ranch owner’s henchmen kill a ranch hand, prompting the sheriff to investigate despite facing strong opposition. He finds an unlikely ally in the rancher's overprotected daughter, but their quest for justice puts them both in danger.
Genres: Thriller Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-12
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Il microfono è vostro
Overview: Bored with her bourgeois life, the young Maria Variani, daughter of a professor, meets Bruno, who is part of an amateur jazz group, and allows herself to be persuaded to join the band that plays during the radio program "The microphone is yours".
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-09
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Amore mio
Overview: A man wants to leave his wife for another woman, but this other woman decides not to live with him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-13
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L'Incantevole nemica
Overview: The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-06-14
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Sins of Casanova
Overview: 1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-22
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Eravamo sette vedove
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-10-03
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Dagli Appennini alle Ande
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Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-10-23
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La casa senza tempo
Overview: A captain, a well-known flying ace, is developing his own device which will make a notable contribution to the prestige of his country's air force. One evening he occasionally meets a girl who strikes him with her mysterious behavior. In fact, he witnesses some completely inexplicable events that disturb him and take away the necessary serenity of mind to attend to his work, from which he feels detached. An explosion in the laboratory brings to the attention of an entire espionage network that was working to prevent the realization of the project.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-10-25
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East of Eden
Overview: In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their father. Cal is frustrated at every turn, from his reaction to the war, how to get ahead in business and in life, and how to relate to his estranged mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-10
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We will get married in Capri
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Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-06
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Thieves' Highway
Overview: Nick Garcos comes back from his tour of duty in World War II planning to settle down with his girlfriend, Polly Faber. He learns, however, that his father was recently beaten and burglarized by mob-connected trucker Mike Figlia, and Nick resolves to get even. He partners with prostitute Rica, and together they go after Mike, all the while getting pulled further into the local crime underworld.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-20
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San Giovanni decollato
Overview: Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy friend and he does not want him to marry her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-12-12
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Bring Your Smile Along
Overview: Nancy Willows (Constance Towers), pretty blonde high school teacher, writes song lyrics which spark the careers of struggling young pianist-composer Martin Adams (Keefe Brasselle')and would-be singer Jerry Dennis (Frankie Laine). When Nancy and Martin fall in love but quarrel over her old flame, David Parker (William Leslie), Nancy returns to her teaching job. Jerry reunites Nancy and Martin and, in turn, succumbs to the charms of his new secretary Marge Stevenson (Lucy Marlow).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-22
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O.K. Nero
Overview: Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-20
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Il pirata sono io!
Overview: In Santa Cruz, in the second half of the eighteenth century. The Governor of the island, to ingratiate himself with the Viceroy, contrives to make assaulting the island from a mock pirate ship and, with a mock battle, defeat the aggressors and throw them back into the sea.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-10-20
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Your Money or Your Life
Overview: Daniele, a stockbroker, learns that he has lost a large sum entrusted to him by his friend Giovanni Bensi and he does not have the nerve to tell it in person, so he writes a letter to his friend, telling him that he may collect his life insurance, as he is going to commit suicide - but he can not tell, because he will find a way to make it appear as a misfortune. The insurance policy is valid until midnight, but does not cover suicide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1932-12-31
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Theodora, Slave Empress
Overview: Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Teodora seeks justice for her people, and revolution and armed conflict erupt in both Byzantium and Rome.
Genres: History Romance Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-07-02
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Don Camillo's Last Round
Overview: Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-29
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Don Camillo: Monsignor
Overview: Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-10-07
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Big Leaguer
Overview: John Lobert runs a training camp in Florida for the New York Giants. Every year, he evaluates the 18-22 year old hopefuls to pick the best for a minor league contract.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-19
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Anne of the Indies
Overview: After buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle and recruits him into her pirate crew, their growing attraction is tested when Captain Blackbeard reveals LaRochelle's true identity as a former French navy officer.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-18
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Rosso e nero
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-27
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The Little World of Don Camillo
Overview: In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-28
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Our Dreams
Overview: Leo (Vittorio De Sica) is young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of a big firm to accompany for one night the daughter of the firm's accountant, Titi (María Mercader). Leo pretends then to be the son of a tycoon, and takes her in a luxurious restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-09-27
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Miliardi, che follia!
Overview: After his plane makes an emergency landing, a kidnapped millionaire assumes the identity of a poor man.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-09-03
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A Lady Without Passport
Overview: An undercover U.S. Immigration agent falls in love with an immigrant attempting to enter the United States through Havana, Cuba in an illegal smuggling ring.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-03
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The Enforcer
Overview: After years of investigation, Assistant District Attorney Martin Ferguson has managed to build a solid case against an elusive gangster whose top lieutenant is about to testify.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-24
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I Kill, You Kill
Overview: Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-03-25
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Serenade
Overview: A wealthy woman discovers a vineyard worker with a beautiful operatic singing voice. She helps make him a star but then breaks his heart. He flees in misery to Mexico where he meets a sweet farm girl.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-23
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When in Rome
Overview: An American fugitive flees to Rome and tries to elude capture by masquerading as a priest.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-11
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Il romanzo della mia vita
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Genres: Comedy Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-12-18
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Il mago per forza
Overview: In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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My Cousin Rachel
Overview: A young man plots revenge against the woman he believes murdered his cousin, but his plans are shaken when he comes face to face with the enigmatic beauty.
Genres: Mystery Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-25
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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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Stop That Cab
Overview: Sid Melton stars as a taxi driver dealing with nutty passengers and a nagging wife. Comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-30
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When Love Calls
Overview: Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's burning jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1947-11-28
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Arrivederci, papà!
Overview: Two little angels, a boy and a girl, come down on earth to choose their parents prior to birth. They choose the daughter of a retired general as their future mother and an opera singer as their dad. But making the two chosen ones meet, fall in love and marry will prove to be anything but easy.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-09-14
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La bisarca
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-04
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Half a Century of Song
Overview: Through a series of scenes inspired by famous songs, various episodes of Italian life in the last fifty years are recalled.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Aquila Nera
Overview: An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-09-21
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Scampolo
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1941-10-02
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4 for Texas
Overview: In the 1870s, two rival businessmen, Zack Thomas and Joe Jarrett, on a stagecoach heading to Galveston, Texas, must pull together to protect $100,000 from an outlaw named Matson. Once in Galveston, however, their rivalry continues, as Thomas joins up with Elya Carlson and Jarret with Maxine Richter. But Matson is still on the loose, and a scheming banker threatens both Thomas and Jarrett.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-21
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The Great Caruso
Overview: Enrico Caruso's only passion is to sing. For that, he leaves his hometown of Naples, Italy, and travels to America to sing for the Metropolitan Opera. At first, his lack of education and poor background make him an outcast in the high-class opera world. Eventually, his voice wins him both fans and the hand of his love, Dorothy. But his nonstop pace and desire to perform at any cost eventually take their toll on the singer's health.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-16
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