Claudio Amendola

Claudio Amendola

Born: February 16, 1963
in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Claudio Amendola (born 16 February 1963) is an Italian actor, director and television presenter. He starred in the 1993 film The Escort, which was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.

Born in Rome and the son of actors and voice dubbers Ferruccio Amendola and Rita Savagnone, Amendola started his movie career during the 1980s, playing comic roles in some Italian comedies directed by Carlo Vanzina. In 1987 he played his first dramatic role in Soldati - 365 all'alba, directed by Marco Risi, and in the following decade he confirmed his dramatic skills in some movies like Ultrà (1990) and The Escort (1993), both directed by Ricky Tognazzi. During the 2000s Amendola became a very popular television actor, acting in the popular fiction I Cesaroni, the Italian version of Los Serrano.

Amendola is married to actress Francesca Neri and they have a son together, Rocco. He also has two daughters from a previous marriage. One of them is voice actress Alessia Amendola.

Source: Article "Claudio Amendola" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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I 400 giorni - Funamboli e maestri
Title: I 400 giorni - Funamboli e maestri
Character: Sé stesso
Released: November 27, 2023
Type: Movie
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Title: The Patriarch
Character: Nemo Bandera
Released: April 14, 2023
Type: TV
Nemo Bandera (Amendola) is one of the most influential businessmen in Puglia. His assets originate from illicit trafficking whose proceeds were invested in Deep Sea, the profitable company inherited from his father-in-law and used as a cover. One day, all of Nemo’s certainties collapse: he discovers that he is suffering from Alzheimer’s. Shocked by the news, he decides to hide it while choosing who will inherit his empire.
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Like a Cat on a Highway 2
Title: Like a Cat on a Highway 2
Character: Sergio
Released: August 14, 2021
Type: Movie
Three years after her relationship with Giovanni, Monica is in prison and has to ask his ex for help.
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Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
Title: Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
Character: Self
Released: April 12, 2020
Type: Movie
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Abbi fede
Title: Abbi fede
Character: Adamo
Released: January 15, 2020
Type: Movie
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Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
Title: Carlo Vanzina - Il cinema è una cosa meravigliosa
Character: Self
Released: October 25, 2019
Type: Movie
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Title: Carlo & Malik
Character: Carlo Guerrieri
Released: November 19, 2018
Type: TV
Inspector Carlo Guerrieri, a veteran police officer from Rome, finds himself partnered with a rookie who was born in Ivory Coast but raised in the capital.
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Hotel Gagarin
Title: Hotel Gagarin
Character: Elio
Released: May 24, 2018
Type: Movie
An highly heterogeneous group of people go to Armenia to make a movie, all ignoring what will happen to each of them.
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Title: Belve
Character: Self
Released: March 14, 2018
Type: TV
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Like a Cat on a Highway
Title: Like a Cat on a Highway
Character: Sergio
Released: December 28, 2017
Type: Movie
The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.
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The Furlough
Title: The Furlough
Character: Luigi
Released: March 30, 2017
Type: Movie
The story of four inmates during their 48 hours furlough, of their reality and how it has brought them behind bars. The characters are described with realism, with their contradictions, their desperation, the temptation of an escape, but the cornerstone of the movie is the sincerity of the positive feelings of each and everyone of them: the love of a father for his son, the love for a woman, for friends, and most of all the pursuit of a lost (if ever had) personal dignity and pride. Four characters of different ages and extractions, three man and a woman: Luigi, Donato, Rossana and Angelo.
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Title: Lampedusa - Dall'orizzonte in poi
Character: 1º Mar. Lgt. NP Marco Serra
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: TV
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Suburra
Title: Suburra
Character: Samurai
Released: October 14, 2015
Type: Movie
A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
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The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles
Title: The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles
Character: Sergio
Released: February 19, 2015
Type: Movie
Five down-on-their luck strangers meet by chance while looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford. They decide to join forces and risk everything to turn it into a B&B, only for the local mafia to show up demanding their "fair" share.
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Cha cha cha
Title: Cha cha cha
Character: Torre
Released: June 20, 2013
Type: Movie
An accident involving a 16-years old prompts private eye Corso to an investigation that will unearth a deep web of corruption in today's Rome.
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Bar Sport
Title: Bar Sport
Character: avventore
Released: October 21, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: Dov'è mia figlia
Character: Claudio Valle
Released: September 8, 2011
Type: TV
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La fisica dell'acqua
Title: La fisica dell'acqua
Character: Claudio
Released: April 30, 2010
Type: Movie
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Title: Tutti per Bruno
Character: Chief Inspector Bruno Miranda
Released: January 8, 2010
Type: TV
Tutti per Bruno is an Italian television series.
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Title: I Cesaroni
Character: Giulio Cesaroni
Released: September 7, 2006
Type: TV
I Cesaroni is an Italian television series produced since 2006 by Publispei and Mediaset RTI. The series is transmitted not only in Italy but also in Portugal, in the Czech Republic, Greece and Turkey. It is inspired by the Spanish series "Los Serrano". In Italy, the series is now in its fifth season and has been renewed for a sixth season.
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Fratella e sorello
Title: Fratella e sorello
Character: Serpente
Released: June 1, 2005
Type: Movie
The story of an unlikely friendship between two men: Giocondo, a wealthy upper middle class man passionately in love with Nono, a black strip-teaser who has ruined him; and the Snake, a male strip-teaser who has traveled all over the world on cruising boats, a tough guy made tougher after a treachery by one of his friends. They meet in jail, where they are kept for different reasons and a strong, brotherly link is born between them.
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Il ritorno del Monnezza
Title: Il ritorno del Monnezza
Character: Rocky Giraldi
Released: April 15, 2005
Type: Movie
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Title: Cefalonia
Character: Mikis
Released: April 11, 2005
Type: TV
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Cefalonia
Title: Cefalonia
Character: Mikis
Released: April 11, 2005
Type: Movie
Cefalonia tells the real story about what happened in September 1943 on the Greek island of Kefalonia (Cefalonia in Italian), when the 12,000 men in the Italian 33rd Acqui Infantry Division, following Italy's surrender to the Allied, refused to put themselves under German command and also refused to surrender their weapons. The local German force, supported by Stuka dive-bombers and additional troops, attacked the Italians and after several days of combat the Italians surrendered, having lost 1,300 men. As punishment, the German High Command ordered that all surviving Italians should be executed. Some 5,000 were executed during a week of killings. A handful were rescued by locals and the Greek guerrilla, while the rest were shipped off as prisoners, whereof 3,000 drowned when their ships hit mines. The film "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" is based on a novel about the Italian occupation of Cefalonia, but the massacre was much toned down in the Hollywood version.
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La caccia
Title: La caccia
Character: Pietro Sacco
Released: January 16, 2005
Type: Movie
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Ho visto le stelle
Title: Ho visto le stelle
Character: Renato
Released: December 19, 2003
Type: Movie
The young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.
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Marcinelle
Title: Marcinelle
Character: Antonino
Released: November 23, 2003
Type: Movie
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Title: Marcinelle
Character: Antonino
Released: November 23, 2003
Type: TV
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Caterina in the Big City
Title: Caterina in the Big City
Character: Manlio Germano
Released: October 24, 2003
Type: Movie
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself at sea with an environment where students sort themselves by social class and their parents' political affiliation.
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Title: Napoleon
Character: Maréchal Joachim Murat
Released: October 7, 2002
Type: TV
A masterful soldier, tactician and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte's courage and love for his country sees him rise from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe, then his fall, and exile.
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Sottovento
Title: Sottovento
Character: Paolo
Released: June 15, 2001
Type: Movie
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L'attentatuni
Title: L'attentatuni
Character: Cardine
Released: May 20, 2001
Type: Movie
The investigations of the Italian Police antimafia Branch searching the murderers of judge Giovanni Falcone.
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Domenica
Title: Domenica
Character: Inspector Sciarra
Released: February 2, 2001
Type: Movie
Police inspector Sciarra, struggling with an identity crisis, and Domenica, an orphan who would like to know about her mother, spend one day together along the streets of Naples. It's Sciarra's last day of work and he has to take Domenica to the morgue, to identify a man who might have raped her. To Domenica, Sciarra is a father she never had, to him she is the daughter he couldn't have.
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Johnny the Partisan
Title: Johnny the Partisan
Character: Nord
Released: November 17, 2000
Type: Movie
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.
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Il grande botto
Title: Il grande botto
Character: Antonio Nunziante
Released: April 7, 2000
Type: Movie
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La carbonara
Title: La carbonara
Character: Lupone
Released: February 11, 2000
Type: Movie
Cecilia is a commoner who runs an inn, where the specialty is the "spaghetti alla carbonara". Moreover, the woman is tied to the movement of young patriots, named "Carbonari", who want a united Italy, and are struggling against the power of the pope. Cecilia believes she lost her husband in a fatal accident, and has made a new lover: Fabrizio, who is also a patriot. One day the guy's saved by a monk, when he is about to be imprisoned by the soldiers of Cardinal Rivarola. The monk is the husband of Cecilia, not dead in the accident, and now he helps her to fight against the power of Rome with the Carbonari.
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Title: C'è posta per te
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 2000
Type: TV
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Jesus
Title: Jesus
Character: Barrabas
Released: December 5, 1999
Type: Movie
Jesus, a carpenter living a simple life, discovers his destiny as the biblical Messiah.
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Title: Chi ha incastrato Peter Pan?
Character: Ospite
Released: April 2, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Ciao Darwin
Character: Presidente di giuria
Released: October 3, 1998
Type: TV
Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.
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Title: Ciao Darwin
Character: Capitano Trattorie
Released: October 3, 1998
Type: TV
Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.
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Open Sea
Title: Open Sea
Character: Edoardo
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
For personal and humanitarian reasons, Edoardo, a Ligurian sea captain, agrees to run a shipment of arms to Bosnian rebels for a shady Russian in Toulon who calls himself Riffaud. Edoardo's lover Clara wants him to quit the sea and Riffaud's wife warns Edoardo not to trust her husband, but Edoardo takes the job anyway. Sailing up the Adriatic, the crew threatens mutiny when they learn they must dock in a war zone. Once in port, little goes as Riffaud promised, and Edoardo must travel with a translator to the rebels' mountain stronghold to get payment for the crew. The war is all around them as Clara waits at home and the translator begs passage to Italy.
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Title: Le Iene
Released: September 22, 1997
Type: TV
Comedy/satirical show, with sketches and reports into political affairs and consumer issues. Recurring features of the show, besides the reportage, are the double interviews in which two famous people are asked the same questions, and are edited together on a split screen, side by side so that they answer one after the other.
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Altri uomini
Title: Altri uomini
Character: Michele Croce
Released: August 29, 1997
Type: Movie
In 1985 in Milan Michele Croce is now in prison and decides to answer the magistrate's questions, telling how in the seventies he became the ruler of the Milanese underworld.
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Santo Stefano
Title: Santo Stefano
Character: Nicola
Released: August 28, 1997
Type: Movie
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Strong Arms
Title: Strong Arms
Character: Dario Campisi
Released: April 9, 1997
Type: Movie
This tense thriller begins in the office of Claudia, a psychoanalyst whose sister was killed in a terrorist attack. Her newest client is Tancredi. He says that he is a journalist and that he suffers from having witnessed numerous atrocities in Bosnia. The events he describes sound just like those of Brescia, and Claudia, who still grieves for her sister, begins to wonder if Tancredi is telling the truth. Her investigation proves that he is lying, but it leads her to wonder why he has chosen her as his psychoanalyst. After talking to her husband, Claudia visits her old mentor who suggests she continue working with Tancredi but warns her not to call in the police. After that the story frequently jumps to 1998. By then Claudia and her newborn baby have become part of the witness protection program and she is preparing to testify against those involved in covering up government-sponsored terrorist activity.
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An Eyewitness Account
Title: An Eyewitness Account
Character: Sandro Nardella
Released: February 7, 1997
Type: Movie
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La mia generazione
Title: La mia generazione
Character: Braccio
Released: September 27, 1996
Type: Movie
Italy, early 80's. A political terrorist is being transferred northward from Sicily for a conjugal visit; during the journey, a police captain tries to make him cooperate.
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The Horseman on the Roof
Title: The Horseman on the Roof
Character: Maggionari
Released: September 20, 1995
Type: Movie
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
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Who Killed Pasolini?
Title: Who Killed Pasolini?
Character: "Trepalle"
Released: September 3, 1995
Type: Movie
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?
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Poliziotti
Title: Poliziotti
Character: Lorenzo Ferri / Lazzaro
Released: February 10, 1995
Type: Movie
When young cop Andrea is assigned to keep watch over dangerous Godfather Sante, who's in hospital after a fake suicide attempt, the stage is set for disaster.
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Bandits: Love and Liberty
Title: Bandits: Love and Liberty
Character: Giovanni
Released: October 23, 1994
Type: Movie
In 1838 in the kingdom of Naples and the Two Sicilies, Malacarne, gamekeeper of Baron San Germano, kills the bandit Caruso, whose widow gives birth to Giovanni and at the same time becomes the nurse of Costanza, San Germano’s orphaned daughter. Thirteen years later, Giovanni and Costanza fall in love to the jealousy of her uncle, who shuts her in a convent, ordering Giovanni to be killed by Malacarne who has meanwhile become a bandit. Barely alive, Giovanni is taken away by Bourbon soldiers. After Garibaldi’s arrival in Sicily and its union with Italy, Costanza is freed from the convent and returns to San Germano. She is visited by Giovanni and although still loves him, rejects him since she wishes to become a nun. In the meantime, Giovanni kills Malacarne and takes his place. Costanza marries the rich Lo Turco and the next day departs for Naples, but during the journey the carriage is attacked by Giovanni’s band. Costanza flees with him and they leave for America.
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Queen Margot
Title: Queen Margot
Character: Coconnas
Released: May 13, 1994
Type: Movie
Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
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The Heroes
Title: The Heroes
Character: Fabio
Released: February 18, 1994
Type: Movie
Roman TV technicians Fabio and Enzo have been unable to find decent jobs. They decide to crack a safe at a jewelry in Milan. To get the layout of the store, they enlist a beautiful but unsophisticated young woman, Deborah. To find underground access to the store, they get help from a sewage worker. An obese trapeze artist is called for disarm the store alarms. The clever Mrs. Motta, old hotelier, is also involved. Will they succeed?
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The Escort
Title: The Escort
Character: Angelo Mandolesi
Released: April 15, 1993
Type: Movie
The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politicians, working hand-in-hand with the Mafia, will stop at nothing to prevent exposure of their rackets.
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Un'altra vita
Title: Un'altra vita
Character: Mauro
Released: September 8, 1992
Type: Movie
Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a Russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.
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Title: Scherzi a Parte
Character: Conduttore
Released: February 9, 1992
Type: TV
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Ultrà
Title: Ultrà
Character: Principe
Released: March 1, 1991
Type: Movie
The "Brigatte Veneno" is a fan group from the soccer club "AS Roma". The next match is against "Juventus Turin", the classic prestige duel. Principe, the former leader of the group, has been dismissed from jail a few days before. He has to realize that his best friend Red has not only taken over control of the group, but also has started an affair with his girlfriend. The rivalry between the hot-blooded Principe and the sensible Red causes an anxious mood within the group. When Smilzo, a member of the group, dies during a street fight with another fan group, Red knows that Principe is to be blamed for this catastrophe.
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Title: Felipe ha gli occhi azzurri
Character: Commissioner Antonio Stasi
Released: February 24, 1991
Type: TV
Felipe ha gli occhi azzurri is an Italian television series.
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The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
Title: The Voyage of Captain Fracassa
Character: Agostino il brigante
Released: October 31, 1990
Type: Movie
Serafina, Pulcinella and Isabella are three lusty, beautiful members of a traveling theatrical troupe touring the French countryside in the 17th century, leaving in their wake a crop of broken hearts. This picaresque romantic comedy is based on the 1863 novel Le Capitaine Fracasse by Theophile Gauthier. In the story, the company stops at a castle owned by the scruffy young Baron de Sigognac, who is deeply smitten with the charms of the middle-aged (and somewhat morose) beauty Serafina. He decides to travel with the company, and Serafina perversely tries to get him to woo the youngest of the company, the newly bereaved Isabella.
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Il colore della vittoria
Title: Il colore della vittoria
Character: Attilio Ferraris
Released: April 22, 1990
Type: Movie
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Mary Forever
Title: Mary Forever
Character: Pietro Giancona
Released: May 4, 1989
Type: Movie
A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial poetry, encouraging them to stand up for their rights, finding out about their histories. Natale, in for murder, enamoured of the Mafia, the King Rat within the group; Mery, a drag queen, arrested for assault when defending himself, in love with Mario and, in daylight, rejected by all; Pietro, illiterate, muscular, believing his destiny is set; the callow Claudio, vulnerable, learning to harden himself. What can Mario learn and do in such a short time?
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Days of Inspector Ambrosio
Title: Days of Inspector Ambrosio
Character: Luciano
Released: October 20, 1988
Type: Movie
A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house.
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Title: Professione vacanze
Character: Antonio Palombelli
Released: April 16, 1987
Type: TV
Enrico Borghini is an entertainer who finds himself becoming the director of a tourist village in crisis. Helped by the village staff, who are initially hostile to him, he manages to revive the fortunes of the structure.
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L'ombra nera del Vesuvio
Title: L'ombra nera del Vesuvio
Character: Nini Sposito
Released: February 22, 1987
Type: Movie
Two families of the neapolitan camorra fight for the power.
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Soldati - 365 all'alba
Title: Soldati - 365 all'alba
Character: Claudio
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Claudio Scanna is a private in the Italian army: during his first night in a new military base he gets in a fight with senior recruits. Lieutenant Fili, Claudio's commanding officer, is denied a promotion because his superiors discover he was absent without justification during the night of the fight. Fili blames Claudio and vows to make his remaining months in the service a living hell...
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The Venetian Woman
Title: The Venetian Woman
Character: Bernardo
Released: April 4, 1986
Type: Movie
Venice, sixteenth century. Giulio, a foreign gentleman spends a memorable night in the city where he meets and beds two beautiful women. They are Angela, a widowed lady, and Valeria, whose husband has left for Florence.
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Vacanze in America
Title: Vacanze in America
Character: Alessio Liberatore
Released: December 21, 1984
Type: Movie
A group of students from the San Crispino school for boys take a holiday in the United States, traveling from New York to Los Angeles. Young Father Don Buro has great difficulty controlling the youngsters, especially trouble making ex-student Peo, and finds himself distracted by the attractive single mother of one of the boys.
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Amarsi un po'...
Title: Amarsi un po'...
Character: Marco
Released: October 5, 1984
Type: Movie
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...
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Christmas Holidays
Title: Christmas Holidays
Character: Mario Marchetti
Released: December 22, 1983
Type: Movie
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.
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Lontano da dove
Title: Lontano da dove
Character: Mario
Released: September 21, 1983
Type: Movie