Virgilio Riento

Virgilio Riento

Born: November 29, 1889
Died: September 7, 1959
in Roma, Italy

Movies for Virgilio Riento...

Simpatico mascalzone
Title: Simpatico mascalzone
Character: Onofrio
Released: June 27, 1959
Type: Movie
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Il mondo dei miracoli
Title: Il mondo dei miracoli
Character: Oscaretto - il suggeritore
Released: June 25, 1959
Type: Movie
An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.
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Prepotenti più di prima
Title: Prepotenti più di prima
Character: maresciallo
Released: March 11, 1959
Type: Movie
Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan.
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Perfide.... ma belle
Title: Perfide.... ma belle
Character: Gaspare
Released: December 12, 1958
Type: Movie
Michele, a young mechanic, is in love with Angela Antonia, beautiful but capricious: the girl's father, once he learns of the relationship, has him fired from the place where he works and is forced to move to Naples. He asks for hospitality from his aunt Carmela, concierge in a building, but she has no vacancies and arranges him as Donna Tecla, the owner of a pension who, having three young daughters eager to get married, hopes to arrange at least one. But the three girls are not the best of beauty and Michele, gifted with a beautiful voice, agrees to sing in a club on behalf of an impresario who becomes his friend.
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È arrivata la parigina
Title: È arrivata la parigina
Released: June 26, 1958
Type: Movie
An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.
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El hombre del paraguas blanco
Title: El hombre del paraguas blanco
Character: El cura
Released: May 1, 1958
Type: Movie
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Domenica è sempre domenica
Title: Domenica è sempre domenica
Released: April 5, 1958
Type: Movie
A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.
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Napoli sole mio
Title: Napoli sole mio
Released: March 18, 1958
Type: Movie
Lorella must marry Dr. Matteini, but when she goes to Naples to meet him, she meets Michele, who sings in restaurants. The fateful spark is ignited, and although Michele is poor, Lorella decides to marry him against his mother's wishes.
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La zia d'America va a sciare
Title: La zia d'America va a sciare
Character: Eugenio
Released: February 13, 1958
Type: Movie
Tecla Cammarano, following a financial crisis that has made her situation precarious, leaves America and comes to Italy with her two lovely grandchildren.
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Il cocco di mamma
Title: Il cocco di mamma
Character: Achille, padre di Aldo
Released: December 5, 1957
Type: Movie
Aldo, Vasco and "Smilzo" (Slim) are friends. They live with their parents and are training for boxing. But their real interest is in women. When casually Aldo meets Laura and falls for her. Will he succeed in winning her love?
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Doctor and the Healer
Title: Doctor and the Healer
Character: Umberto
Released: December 4, 1957
Type: Movie
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".
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Poor But Beautiful
Title: Poor But Beautiful
Character: Giovanna's father
Released: January 23, 1957
Type: Movie
Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna.
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Guaglione
Title: Guaglione
Character: Rocco, chitarrista
Released: December 15, 1956
Type: Movie
This is an Italian Romance starring Terence Hill
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Donatella
Title: Donatella
Character: Nicola, zio di Donatella
Released: October 3, 1956
Type: Movie
Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handbag containing valuables and documents, and decides to return it to her owner, a wealthy American lady, who offers Donatella a job as a secretary as a reward: she has to manage the lady's villa during her absences. There, Donatella casually meets Maurizio, a rich, elegant and well-educated young man, and ends up falling in love.
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Time of Vacation
Title: Time of Vacation
Character: Brother Serafino
Released: September 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojourn and love stories begin and end.
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Cantando sotto le stelle
Title: Cantando sotto le stelle
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A man finds out that he won the lottery and travels to Rome to retrieve the other half of his winning ticket.
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Eighteen Year Olds
Title: Eighteen Year Olds
Character: Il portiere del collegio
Released: December 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him.
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Scandal in Sorrento
Title: Scandal in Sorrento
Character: Don Emidio
Released: December 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
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Il campanile d'oro
Title: Il campanile d'oro
Released: November 18, 1955
Type: Movie
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The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Title: The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Released: October 27, 1955
Type: Movie
A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after the miller's wife Carmela. The miller himself plans to avenge his honor by seducing the wife of the governor.
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Sing with us
Title: Sing with us
Character: Pasquale
Released: August 10, 1955
Type: Movie
The old friends Nicola and Pasquale meet in the city after many years. The two, now married and with their children, try to marry their four children, but it soon becomes more difficult than expected.
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Le vacanze del Sor Clemente
Title: Le vacanze del Sor Clemente
Character: Angelino
Released: June 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa he's left in the company of a friend and a butler.
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The White Angel
Title: The White Angel
Character: Il dottor Marini
Released: April 6, 1955
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Nobody's Children, Guido still longs for former lover Luisa, who has become a nun. Then he meets Lina, a chorus dancer who is a dead ringer for Luisa.
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The Sign of Venus
Title: The Sign of Venus
Character: Padre di Agnese
Released: March 12, 1955
Type: Movie
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
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Frisky
Title: Frisky
Character: Don Emidio
Released: December 6, 1954
Type: Movie
The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
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Piccola santa
Title: Piccola santa
Character: Nicola
Released: November 27, 1954
Type: Movie
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I tre ladri
Title: I tre ladri
Character: Commissario Zannini
Released: September 27, 1954
Type: Movie
Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.
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Singing Café
Title: Singing Café
Character: Zio Angelino
Released: June 15, 1954
Type: Movie
Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
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100 Years of Love
Title: 100 Years of Love
Character: The Police Commissioner (segment "Nozze d'Oro")
Released: February 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
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A Day in Court
Title: A Day in Court
Character: Virgilio
Released: January 28, 1954
Type: Movie
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
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Bread, Love and Dreams
Title: Bread, Love and Dreams
Character: Don Emidio
Released: December 22, 1953
Type: Movie
When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
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Viva il cinema
Title: Viva il cinema
Character: Gambalesta
Released: February 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen.
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Lasciateci in pace
Title: Lasciateci in pace
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered man is mistaken for a subversive.
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Sangue sul sagrato
Title: Sangue sul sagrato
Character: Dovelli
Released: December 13, 1952
Type: Movie
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È arrivato l'accordatore
Title: È arrivato l'accordatore
Character: Bartolomeo Porretti
Released: October 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches.
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I, Hamlet
Title: I, Hamlet
Character: Anturio
Released: September 27, 1952
Type: Movie
The adventures of Hamlet who, following many adventures, manages to kill Claudio the usurper, marry Ophelia and be elected President of the Republic.
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Menzogna
Title: Menzogna
Character: Il brigadiere Sante
Released: September 27, 1952
Type: Movie
A young widow flees from her small town and moves to the seaside, where she falls for a fisherman.
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Dad Becomes Mom
Title: Dad Becomes Mom
Character: Ambrogio
Released: September 26, 1952
Type: Movie
The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.
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Totó in color
Title: Totó in color
Character: Tiburzi
Released: April 8, 1952
Type: Movie
In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
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La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna
Title: La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna
Character: Cosimo Pedrozza
Released: March 7, 1952
Type: Movie
To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
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Giovinezza
Title: Giovinezza
Character: Matteo
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
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Tizio, Caio, Sempronio
Title: Tizio, Caio, Sempronio
Character: Caio
Released: December 15, 1951
Type: Movie
A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.
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Stasera sciopero
Title: Stasera sciopero
Character: Augusto
Released: December 14, 1951
Type: Movie
A scientist combines two brains during an operation to create one perfect mind.
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Love I Haven't... But... But
Title: Love I Haven't... But... But
Character: Il contadino alla bilancia
Released: December 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Gina tries to commit suicide by jumping into the river but is saved by Teodoro, an innocent young man. Antonio, Teodoro's brother, tries in every way to seduce her.
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Una bruna indiavolata!
Title: Una bruna indiavolata!
Character: Cameriere
Released: November 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...
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Beauties in Capri
Title: Beauties in Capri
Character: maresciallo
Released: November 10, 1951
Type: Movie
The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.
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La paura fa 90
Title: La paura fa 90
Character: Barsilio, guardiano in seconda
Released: October 23, 1951
Type: Movie
A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good bloke and when he gets the occasion he helps a youth wrongly accused of murder.
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Porca miseria!
Title: Porca miseria!
Character: maggiordomo
Released: September 12, 1951
Type: Movie
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.
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È l'amor che mi rovina
Title: È l'amor che mi rovina
Character: Proprietario Negozio
Released: September 7, 1951
Type: Movie
A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.
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Io sono il capataz
Title: Io sono il capataz
Character: Il Guardiano
Released: February 28, 1951
Type: Movie
The young Uguccione is mistaken for Rascelito Villa called "C6", a dangerous revolutionary, and then immediately sent to Parazuela where he leads the insurrectionist troops.
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Beauties on bicycles
Title: Beauties on bicycles
Character: Il padre di Marco
Released: February 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Two chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift, but the driver gets too fresh with them and they decide to continue the journey with any means of transport, including bicycles.
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Miracle in Milan
Title: Miracle in Milan
Character: Il sergente delle guardie
Released: February 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Once upon a time an old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Toto, enters an orphanage. Toto leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. The squatters discover oil in the land and Toto sees a vision of the old woman who gives him a magic dove that will grant him anything he wishes.
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Ha fatto 13
Title: Ha fatto 13
Character: Cav. Brusaglia
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
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La bisarca
Title: La bisarca
Character: Il capo della banda di Arcachon
Released: November 4, 1950
Type: Movie
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The King's Guerrillas
Title: The King's Guerrillas
Character: Brother Marco
Released: November 3, 1950
Type: Movie
Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.
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I cadetti di Guascogna
Title: I cadetti di Guascogna
Character: Angelo Danati
Released: September 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in the staging of a show in the military barracks.
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Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone
Title: Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone
Character: Scipione
Released: April 19, 1947
Type: Movie
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.
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Lo sciopero dei milioni
Title: Lo sciopero dei milioni
Released: March 1, 1947
Type: Movie
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Peddlin' in Society
Title: Peddlin' in Society
Character: Don Nicola
Released: December 21, 1946
Type: Movie
Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She also becomes involved with some very dubious characters who profit from her ignorance and cheat her out of her money.
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Down with Misery!
Title: Down with Misery!
Character: Gaetano Schioppa
Released: December 27, 1945
Type: Movie
The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.
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Non canto più
Title: Non canto più
Character: Roberto
Released: September 30, 1945
Type: Movie
A woman, a theatrical impresario, simulates the theft of a precious necklace for marketing purposes. A young singer living in the province is believed to be responsible for the theft and is arrested.
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Chi l'ha visto?
Title: Chi l'ha visto?
Character: Emilio
Released: September 1, 1945
Type: Movie
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Vivere ancora
Title: Vivere ancora
Released: April 8, 1945
Type: Movie
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Anything for a Song
Title: Anything for a Song
Character: L'industriale
Released: December 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Rather than renouncing his artistic dreams and working in his father's company, a young man, who is vocally equipped, is content to perform at street corners. This allows him to know and fall in love with a beautiful blind girl.
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Gli assi della risata
Title: Gli assi della risata
Released: November 1, 1943
Type: Movie
An anthology of several segments about everyday Italian life.
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I Do Not Move
Title: I Do Not Move
Released: August 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Former batsman Carlo Mezzetti, who has been left homeless with his daughter Annuccia, takes advantage of favorable situations and legal loopholes to find temporary accommodation, illegally occupying vacant houses.
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La vita è bella
Title: La vita è bella
Character: Matteo Boccaloni
Released: May 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Count Alberto has lost his wealth at the gaming table, he wants to commit suicide but is stopped by a doctor who offers him an exchange, a week of life with how much money he wants and then be a guinea pig for a new drug (and maybe die).
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L'avventura di Annabella
Title: L'avventura di Annabella
Character: Il padre di Roberto
Released: March 31, 1943
Type: Movie
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Gente dell’aria
Title: Gente dell’aria
Character: Pacini, il maresciallo della sussistenza
Released: March 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Two half brothers, one a pilot, the other a repairman at the plane factory of their father, are in a disagreement due to the envy of the younger brother, son of the first wife of their father. Then both brothers fall in love with the same woman; this causes more conflict between the two, making worse an already tense situation.
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Il nostro prossimo
Title: Il nostro prossimo
Character: Il sacristano
Released: February 26, 1943
Type: Movie
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La zia di Carlo
Title: La zia di Carlo
Character: Casimiro, il tutore
Released: January 2, 1943
Type: Movie
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La maestrina
Title: La maestrina
Character: Pallone, il bidello
Released: October 8, 1942
Type: Movie
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.
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There's Room Up Ahead
Title: There's Room Up Ahead
Character: Il controllore
Released: August 30, 1942
Type: Movie
A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.
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Finalmente soli
Title: Finalmente soli
Character: il cugino Michele
Released: March 17, 1942
Type: Movie
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Arriviamo noi!
Title: Arriviamo noi!
Character: Gestore del "Castello delle streghe"
Released: February 27, 1942
Type: Movie
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If I Was Honest
Title: If I Was Honest
Character: direttore del carcere
Released: February 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
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Teresa Venerdì
Title: Teresa Venerdì
Character: Antonio Perticone
Released: November 24, 1941
Type: Movie
A comedy of errors in which the sweetly incompetent Dr. Pietro Vignali (de Sica) has been run deep into debt by his girlfriend, Loletta Prima (Magnani). After his creditors threaten to sell his belongings, he takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay his debts and ends up engaged to wealthy Lilli, daughter of a mattress tycoon, and chased after by the orphan Teresa Venerdí, while trying to keep his life in order.
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Due cuori sotto sequestro
Title: Due cuori sotto sequestro
Character: L'uffiziale giudiziario
Released: September 5, 1941
Type: Movie
An Italian comedy released in 1941.
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L'attore scomparso
Title: L'attore scomparso
Character: Il trovarobe
Released: June 2, 1941
Type: Movie
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Miseria e Nobiltà
Title: Miseria e Nobiltà
Character: Don Felice
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
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Sette giorni all'altro mondo
Title: Sette giorni all'altro mondo
Character: Uomo sul treno
Released: April 15, 1940
Type: Movie
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Il bidello dei mari
Title: Il bidello dei mari
Character: Il bidello
Released: March 6, 1940
Type: Movie
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Allegri masnadieri
Title: Allegri masnadieri
Released: December 2, 1939
Type: Movie
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Il socio invisibile
Title: Il socio invisibile
Character: Il maggiore
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
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Department Store
Title: Department Store
Character: Gaetano
Released: June 3, 1939
Type: Movie
In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.
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I, His Father
Title: I, His Father
Character: Il cavaliere
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.
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Per uomini soli
Title: Per uomini soli
Character: Pasqualino Pappalardo
Released: December 16, 1938
Type: Movie
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Il trovatello
Title: Il trovatello
Character: Pasquale
Released: October 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind.
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Mister Max
Title: Mister Max
Character: Pepe
Released: November 13, 1937
Type: Movie
Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with.