Marcello Giorda
Also Known As: Марчелло Джорда
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Birthday: January 19, 1890
Deathday: April 21, 1960
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Messalina
Overview: Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-12
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Beatrice Cenci
Overview: Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-09
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Don Pasquale
Overview: In the eighteenth-century Rome, Don Pasquale Corneto, wants his young nephew Ernesto, dedicated to a wasteful social life, to marry a rich spinster, both to save on the expenses of his maintenance and to increase the family heritage.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-09-16
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Fra' Diavolo
Overview: The leader of a band of mountain bandits defending Naples against the French plays a dual role as a police official. Our romantic hero pivots as well between two women, the sister of a royalist and a lady spy.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1942-01-23
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Il marito
Overview: Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister who live with the married couple. Alberto is also experiencing financial problems and hopes for the help of a rich widow who is however interested in his sexual favours. Naturally Elena puts obstacles in his way and everything goes wrong. Alberto decides to change job then and becomes a sweets sales representative. Disillusioned with marital life he also changes his attitude towards women: he tells every woman he meets he is single.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-02-06
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Traviata 53
Overview: An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-10-07
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The Revenge of Baccarat
Overview: In Paris, in the middle of the 19th century, the Comte de Chamery died of poisoning, leaving a considerable fortune to his long-dead son. Sir William, the count's murderer, hires a young rogue, Rocambole, to pretend to be the deceased's son. The two accomplices have the Count's fortune handed over to them. But their trickery is discovered by an intriguer, Baccarat, who finds the real Count of Chamery, a young painter without fortune, in love with Carmen de Montevecchio. Rocambole, who stops at nothing, kills Sir William, gets rid of Armand and makes Carmen love him. But Baccarat is determined not to let him continue his villainies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-23
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Il prigioniero del re
Overview: Giorgio Venturini's take on the classic "Man in the Iron Mask" story.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-07-29
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La campana di San Giusto
Overview: The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-04-01
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The Last Days of Pompeo
Overview: The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Processo contro ignoti
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Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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Albergo Luna, camera 34
Overview: A young music teacher, after her house is burned down by a raid, has to go to a refugee camp with her old and sick mother. She is forced to sell everything she owns, while she is looking for a job as a singer. One night, tired and frustrated, she meets a man who invites her out for a drink. She accepts the invitation, stunned by the bunch of banknotes in his wallet. The man takes her to his room at the hotel Luna and seduces her. Before leaving, she robs him of his money and then walks hastily home, but in the meantime her mother has died. She meets a young maestro, who wants her to sing his songs. She seems to begin a happy, though hard, life together with the young maestro who wishes to marry her. The wicked man suddenly reappears and menaces to reveal their old encounter and that she is a thief, but he is later killed. The unfortunate lady is suspected of the crime, but at the end she is cleared of it and she can happily marry her maestro
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-22
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Night of the Storm
Overview: Melodrama, about a father and son sharing the love for the same charming girl. A dramatic night storm leads to jealousy and loss of honor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-11-21
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Il tallone di Achille
Overview: Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-08-18
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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Overview: A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-08-04
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The Doll that Took the Town
Overview: A struggling model concocts a story of being raped and beaten by three strangers and soon becomes a media darling. Complications arise when the police eventually arrest three suspects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-02-06
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Flucht in die Dolomiten
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Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1955-12-30
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The Law
Overview: A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-25
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Una parigina a Roma
Overview: Riccardo, a brilliant pianist studying in Rome, falls in love with Germaine, a young and pretty French tourist.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-11-11
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Rigoletto
Overview: This tragic story revolves around the licentious Duke of Mantua, his hunch-backed court jester Rigoletto, and Rigoletto's beautiful daughter Gilda. The opera's original title, La maledizione (The Curse), refers to the curse placed on both the Duke and Rigoletto by a courtier whose daughter had been seduced by the Duke with Rigoletto's encouragement. The curse comes to fruition when Gilda likewise falls in love with the Duke and eventually sacrifices her life to save him from the assassins hired by her father.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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The Great War
Overview: Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
Genres: Comedy War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-10-28
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Il fabbro del convento
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-12-24
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An American in Rome
Overview: Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-10
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Torna a Sorrento
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1945-11-07
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Rocambole
Overview: In the 19th century, a thug from the slums of Paris pretends to be a young aristocrat, but is unmasked by a demi-mondaine, from the same background as him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-08
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Rita da Cascia
Overview: Biographical film about Saint Rita da Cascia, who lived in Umbria in the 14th century.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-31
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The Black Chapel
Overview: 1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-15
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Il nemico
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-01-19
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The Seducer
Overview: Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-29
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La mano della morta
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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The Nun of Monza
Overview: Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's unable to resist a romance with the nobleman Gian Paolo Osio which will lead both to danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-05-10
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Vacations in Majorca
Overview: Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surprise of his rival.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-08-14
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The Sword and the Cross
Overview: Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.
Genres: History Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-13
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Campo di Maggio
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Genres: History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1935-03-04
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L'albero di Adamo
Overview: Based on the comedy Il successo by Alfredo Testoni.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1936-01-19
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Ha da venì... don Calogero!
Overview: A good-natured priest inherits a large sum of money from a former student at his elementary school and must decide wisely on how to use it best.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-04
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I due misantropi
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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L'angelo bianco
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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