Antonio Petrocelli
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montalbano Jonico, Matera
Adult: No
Birthday: September 18, 1963
Age: 61 years old
Gender: Male
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El Alamein
Overview: War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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An Eyewitness Account
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Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-02-07
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The Son's Room
Overview: A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-03-09
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Once I'll Be a Child
Overview: Six stories about childhood, set in six different decades, from the 50s to today, bound to each other by a mystery.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-03-15
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Dear Diary
Overview: Nanni Moretti recalls in his diary three slice of life stories characterized by a sharply ironic look: in the first one he wanders through a deserted Rome, in the second he visits a reclusive friend on an island, and in the last he has to grapple with an unknown illness.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-11-12
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The Pool Hustlers
Overview: Francesco, nicknamed 'Toscano', is a very good pool player but he never wins when he plays for money. He meets Chiara, a saxophone player, on a late night bus by swapping his case containing the cue with her one, containing the sax. The two fall in love, but in the meantime Francesco loses a big amount of money playing versus 'Scuro', the long-time Italian champion. His only chance to pay the debt is to win the Italian Championships.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-03-11
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Mr. Fifteen Balls
Overview: Francesco is a Tuscan who is very good at playing American pool, so much so that he is nicknamed "Mr. Quindicipalle", for the time he performed the unlikely feat of pocketing fifteen (quindici) balls (palle) in one shot, using the wooden handle of a broom as his cue stick. Francesco is also an experienced womanizer, like his recently deceased father. Indeed, Francesco meets the woman of his dreams at his father's funeral – a prostitute who calls herself Sissi. The two fall in love, and so Francesco thinks she might be a lucky charm for him, in his training for a big pool tournament. But Sissi frequently infuriates Francesco, compromising his skill and his training for the tournament.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-09-25
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Sud
Overview: During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-10-17
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It's Happening Tomorrow
Overview: 1848, Tuscan countryside. Edo and Lupo are two peasants running away after having robbed their boss. Chased by mercenaries, they'll meet bandits, damsels in distress, eccentric nobles, and revolutionaries along the way.
Genres: Adventure Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-05-18
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Uomo d'acqua dolce
Overview: Antonio takes a hit on his head when he's out to buy a jar of mushrooms for his wife, and loses his memory. He reappears five years later unaware that time has passed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-02-14
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Il prete bello
Overview: In 1939 Vicenza, a young petty thief befriends the local priest. Based on the novel by Goffredo Parise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Caruso Pascoski (di padre polacco)
Overview: Psychiatrist Caruso is arguably as nutty as his patients. He can remember at two years old being completely besotted by the charms of a naked girl. Even today, he can think of little else besides sex, sex, sex.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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Palombella rossa
Overview: Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Donne con le gonne
Overview: Renzo falls in love with feminist Margherita, too emancipated for him: they start a troubled relationship until he kidnaps her, forcing her to be an housewife devoted to her husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-12-20
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The Second Time
Overview: A convicted terrorist out on parole meets the man she nearly killed 15 years before without recognizing him. He does so but decides to keep quiet and starts to spend time with her — desperate to know the motivation behind her violent acts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-10-26
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Ribelli per caso
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-04-20
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Male, Female, Flower, Fruit
Overview: A pair of twins, Anna and Tony, leave their country to go to Rome to make their fortune. Anna knows how to sing and Tony knows how to dance. They suffer many setbacks, but they are willing to go the distance in order to succeed.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-11-07
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La provinciale
Overview: In 1950s Italy, a young woman from a poor background strives for a better life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-04-25
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Metronotte
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-03-31
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Mai con le donne
Overview: Gino Chelli spends his days between work, his friend Beppe and his contentious girlfriend Tea. He spends the nights dreaming about her former classmate Liza, who now is a famous star. One day, she comes back in town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-09-27
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Secrets Secrets
Overview: Young terrorist Laura shoots both a judge and a comrade, and over time her violent act becomes a thread linking the lives and fates of several other women. Each has her own secret, including the lawyer who listens to Laura as if in a ‘trance’: moments before, she discovered her husband was cheating.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-03-15
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Notte italiana
Overview: Otello Morsiani, a north-eastern-italian lawyer, takes the job of estimating land holdings on the Po Delta, which are intended to be expropriated to make way for a national park. The lawyer soon discovers that in that area, once target of methane extraction, the soil is now at risk to sink, due to hydrogeological disturbance: in the meanwhile, he also digs out a mystery tied to a death dating back twenty years before.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-09-04
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I Carabbinieri
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-04-24
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Weddings and Other Disasters
Overview: Romantically disillusioned woman finds herself organising her sister's wedding. Cue romantic mismatching and shenanigans...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-04-23
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Scordato
Overview: The life of Orlando, a gentle piano tuner, tormented by back pain, changes when he meets Olga, a charming physiotherapist, who diagnoses him with an emotional contracture and asks him to bring her a photo of himself as a young man, so that she can help him resolve his problems. The unusual request will push Orlando to travel and to relive, almost like a spectator, the events of his life that made him the solitary and contracted man he has become.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-04-13
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Uscio e bottega
Overview: A criticized anchor-man, a lively octogenarian guest on a tv show that spares no one, friends from home watching it on TV, with an unpredictable ending.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-04-14
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Scream for Help
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-03-13
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Caruso, zero in condotta
Overview: Lorenzo Caruso is a piscologist who lives in a provincial town with his daughter Giulia, the only company since the death of his wife. Suddenly Lorenzo's life is upset by the discovery that Giulia is part of a baby gang: she steals in supermarkets, she has already collected several complaints. Everything Lorenzo has always believed in: communication, understanding, freedom with your daughter is in crisis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-09-03
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Bad Inclination
Overview: When a bloodthirsty serial killer begins murdering women with a carpenter’s set square, the story becomes a media sensation, inspiring kooks from all over the city to attempt to cash in on the publicity.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-09-26
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Vesna Goes Fast
Overview: Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-09-04
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Francesco Nuti… e vengo da lontano
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-11-05
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Let Yourself Go
Overview: Depressed Jewish shrink Elia one day meets Claudia, a young and eccentric personal trainer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-04-13
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Willy Signori e vengo da lontano
Overview: Willy is involved in a fatal car accident. Willy takes on the responsibility of supporting the dead man's pregnant girlfriend and the child, after it's birth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-12-20
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The Lieutenant of the Carabinieri
Overview: Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge of investigating fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is linked with his case. Things get more complicated when the main suspected, Lorenzini, is killed. Moreover, Cordelli villa is blown up and the evidence points to the conclusion the whole case could be solved only by flying to London.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-02-13
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Who Killed Pasolini?
Overview: November 2, 1975: Pier Paolo Pasolini is murdered in the outskirts of Rome. The suspect, a 17-year-old hustler, pleads to have acted in self-defense, citing Pasolini's notorious sexual habits as proof. However, many inconsistencies start to undermine his version, pointing to him not having acted alone or even being assaulted in the first place. Was Pasolini also killed for another reason?
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-09-03
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An Almost Perfect Country
Overview: Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to disappear. Its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic do not give up and, believing that the opening of a factory may be the solution to all their troubles, they want to make sure that the project is successful ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-03-24
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Man on Fire
Overview: Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-04
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Outlaw!
Overview: The movie is based on the autobiography of Horst Fantazzini. Son of an anarchist, he was known in Northern Italy as “the gentleman bandit” because he robbed banks without violence, with only a toy gun. After many convictions and jailbreaks, in the summer of 1973 he's being held in Fossano, Piedmont when he tries to escape again. This time things get messy and he has to use a real gun and take two prison guards as hostages.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-04-23
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Il barbiere di Rio
Overview: Matteo is a Roman barber whose business is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister's invitation to Brazil.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-10-18
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The Yes Man
Overview: Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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Azzurro
Overview: 75-year-old Giuseppe De Metrio has spent 30 years in Geneva, as foreign worker for the Broyer company. Upon retirement, he returned to Puglia, Italy, where his family had continued to live. His only grandchild, 7-year-old Carla, is blind. The whole family looks forward hopefully to the day when Carla's sight can be restored by means of a cornea transplantation. After a heart attack, Giuseppe decides to wait no longer and returns to Switzerland to ask his former boss Mr. Broyer for the money necessary for the operation, as an old promise binds the two men. Intended as a 48-hour trip, Giuseppe and Carla's visit in Switzerland becomes a journey that both grandfather and granddaughter never dreamt of...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-08-12
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La scuola
Overview: In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-04-06
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Johnny The Partisan
Overview: After the 8th September 1943 north of Italy is occupied by Germans. Italian army collapsed and the soldiers are escaped to the mountains trying to set up a resistance. Many civilians did the same and Johnny, an English literature student, is among them. Johnny avoids to band together the red partisans (communists) and tries to be part of the azure bands (former regular soldiers). But in both cases he is deluded by the partisan bands and discovers that the partisan war is less poetic and genuine that he thought. At one point anyway the partisans free Alba from Germans. When the city falls again in German hands Johnny escape with Ettore and Pierre. But, one after another, German army and Italian fascists captures the partisans and Johnny will pass the winter alone and isolated. He then finds the way to participate to one of the last attack to occupants, in fact the war will be over two months later.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-11-17
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The Eyes, the Mouth
Overview: A rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and pregnant lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-09-10
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Strana la vita
Overview: A psychologist acquires wife and lover of a friend of him. But he has two more relationships yet. What will he do with four women following him?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-03-11
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Santo Stefano
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-08-28
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Welcome Back Mr. President
Overview: Peppino, a provincial librarian who became the accidental President of Italy, is now a father and has returned to a peaceful, happy life as a woodsman. That is, until his wife Janis decides to return to politics. Peppino is forced to abandon his home in the mountains and return to Rome to win back his love and help her defeat a speculative plot intended to damage Italy. Together, they must fight against social media attacks of the opposition and get the country back on its feet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2019-03-28
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Lupo mannaro
Overview: Police chief Romeo becomes convinced that affluent professional Velasco is a serial killer known for mauling his victims with his teeth, but nobody believes him. The investigation slowly turns into a personal challenge between obsessive Romeo and stone-faced Velasco, an individual above suspicion — he murders people not because he has to, but simply because he can.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-12-07
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Working Slowly (Radio Alice)
Overview: Bologna, 1976. The paths of two aimless young friends intertwine with those of Radio Alice, a pirate radio politically aligned with the leftist student movement.
Genres: Drama Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-10-01
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The Caiman
Overview: Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-03-24
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La notte più lunga dell'anno
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-01-27
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