Franco Fabrizi

Franco Fabrizi

Born: February 15, 1926
Died: October 18, 1995
in Cortemaggiore - Piacenza - Emilia-Romagna - Italy
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Franco Fabrizi (Cortemaggiore, 15 February 1926 - Cortemaggiore, 18 October 1995) was an Italian actor.

Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, was a soap opera photo actor, for example, the fotoromanzo Arizona Kid, in the newspaper Avventuroso Film. When he was 24 years old, with a few experience in cinema, has got a small important roll in Chronicle of a Love (Cronaca di un amore) (1950), Michelangelo Antonioni's long film debut.

Federico Fellini offers him the starring role in I vitelloni. In Italy, he was considerated the Cary Grant all'italiana.

Movies for Franco Fabrizi...

Ricky & Barabba
Title: Ricky & Barabba
Character: Ing. Salvetti
Released: December 19, 1992
Type: Movie
A wealthy millionaire decided to commit suicide but meets a homeless with whom he experiences a lot of funny adventures until finally makes order in his life.
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The Little Devil
Title: The Little Devil
Character: Monsignore
Released: July 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Father Maurice, a priest living in a residential college for priests in Rome, is called out one day to "exorcise" the devil from someone. The devil turns out to be in the form of a fun-loving man called Giuditta. What Father Maurice doesn't know is that this type of devil will turn his life around.
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Department Store
Title: Department Store
Character: Ingegner Zambuti
Released: June 6, 1986
Type: Movie
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
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Carefree Giovanni
Title: Carefree Giovanni
Released: March 18, 1986
Type: Movie
In this entertaining drama, "Carefree Giovanni" (Sergio Castellitto) is the beleaguered last heir to a dukedom closely associated with the great artist Leonardo da Vinci. As the curtain opens, one of Giovanni's ancestors drops dead when he hears that Leonardo has died. Cut to the present, and the last duke in this line, Giovanni, is miserable in a home shared by two older women who browbeat and badger him without mercy. Giovanni's one solace is to go up on the rooftop and gaze out at the world around him as he daydreams. He has a special passion for the lovely Claire (Eleonora Girogi) who lives next door. To show his sincerity, he zooms off paper airplanes in her direction. However, these missiles are made from actual letters written by the great Leonardo himself. Could this man be last link in the lineage that started 400 years earlier?
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Ginger and Fred
Title: Ginger and Fred
Character: Aurelio, "Ed Ecco A Voi" Host
Released: January 13, 1986
Type: Movie
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety show.
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Mussolini and I
Title: Mussolini and I
Character: Navarra
Released: April 14, 1985
Type: Movie
A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler to the betrayal of his son-in-law and untimely demise.
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Sue Me
Title: Sue Me
Character: chirurgo interista
Released: January 17, 1985
Type: Movie
Judge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always ordinary people, suffering from a wide range of problems.
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Uno scandalo perbene
Title: Uno scandalo perbene
Character: Count Guarienti
Released: October 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Based on a real-life mystery in the newspapers after World War I, this conventional, straightforward story is about a poorly-dressed man who is brought into the police station in Turin for stealing flower pots from the cemetery. He is rather brutally interrogated, and then because he has no idea who he is or where he belongs, he is put into an asylum for the mentally disturbed. After his photograph is published in the newspapers, a woman shows up at the institution claiming that he is Professor Canella, her missing and wealthy husband. The news obtains the release of the amnesiac, but his claim is quickly and hotly contested by another family, arguing that the man is an imposter. As a result, his case goes back to court and in the meantime, the "professor" is put in jail. As the courtroom drama continues, there are various clues that suggest whether or not the amnesiac has been accurately identified and by whom.
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Aurora
Title: Aurora
Character: Guelfo
Released: February 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A single mother is trying to trace previous partners in order to help her fund a life changing operation for her blind son.
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Fellini nel cestino
Title: Fellini nel cestino
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Habibi, amor mío
Title: Habibi, amor mío
Released: March 2, 1981
Type: Movie
Young Stefano falls in love with a Spanish girl, Habibi. The two become engaged, but after a happy period, Stefano will discover the girl's betrayals. This will lead the protagonists to drift apart and seek new paths; this will be an opportunity for them to reflect on themselves and the loss of values in life.
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Action
Title: Action
Character: The Producer
Released: January 4, 1980
Type: Movie
Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is Garibaldi and a woman he believes is Ophelia. Bruno watches helplessly as she later jumps from a window.
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Stato interessante
Title: Stato interessante
Released: July 27, 1977
Type: Movie
Three women are together in a clinic to abort; those who do it reluctantly, those with determination.
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The Flower in His Mouth
Title: The Flower in His Mouth
Character: Dottore Sanguedolce
Released: October 30, 1975
Type: Movie
A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the town is hiding some very sinister secrets.
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Act of Aggression
Title: Act of Aggression
Character: Sauguet
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: Movie
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang, a man sets out to take revenge.
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Late Night Trains
Title: Late Night Trains
Character: The Voyeur on the Train
Released: April 9, 1975
Type: Movie
A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.
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Killer Cop
Title: Killer Cop
Character: Luigi Balsamo
Released: March 27, 1975
Type: Movie
The investigation of the bombing of a hotel lobby as seen through the eyes of a young detective.
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Il generale dorme in piedi
Title: Il generale dorme in piedi
Character: Col. Beltrami
Released: October 5, 1974
Type: Movie
A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up.
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Title: What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Character: Bruno Paglia
Released: August 10, 1974
Type: Movie
An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. It transpires that a private detective, Ruggero Pollente, was hired by Silvia's mother because the latter was concerned about her activities. As a conspiracy begins to emerge, Pollente's body is found dismembered and his girlfriend is subsequently attacked by a machete-wielding killer clad in motorcycle gear...
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Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
Title: Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
Character: Franco De Rosa
Released: April 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a genius idea: to make a play on the love story of Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci.
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Don't Touch the White Woman!
Title: Don't Touch the White Woman!
Character: Tom (as Franco Fabrizzi)
Released: January 23, 1974
Type: Movie
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
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The Lady Has Been Raped
Title: The Lady Has Been Raped
Character: fotografo
Released: November 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Good bourgeois damage unintentionally life of a drug-party, during which the mistress of the house is raped without recognizing the aggressor. Both she and her husband come into crisis and try to figure out who it was. The truth comes to the surface slowly, and it is unexpected.
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Società a responsabilità molto limitata
Title: Società a responsabilità molto limitata
Character: Don Celestino
Released: October 10, 1973
Type: Movie
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Cake in the Sky
Title: Cake in the Sky
Released: February 28, 1973
Type: Movie
This movie is an adaptation of a book by Rodari, a famous Italian poet and writer of children literature. A group of children in the outskirts of Rome bump into a spaceship that landed nearby. Soon the event draws the attention of the media, the military and rich entrepreneurs. The spaceship is pointed as the evil to fight against by the authorities, and nobody trusts the kids, who on the other hand try to preserve the spaceship (which is actually a harmless space-cake). –IMDb
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Ancora una volta prima di lasciarci
Title: Ancora una volta prima di lasciarci
Character: Marco
Released: February 16, 1973
Type: Movie
Two spouses, whose marriage is shipwrecked, recall during a last meeting, scenes and episodes of their life as a couple.
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The Night of the Last Day
Title: The Night of the Last Day
Character: Sergio Varzi
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A film director wants to make a politically charged movie, but is hampered by his producer. At the same time, a friend of his commits suicide, and he goes insane.
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The Italian Connection
Title: The Italian Connection
Character: Enrico Moroni
Released: September 2, 1972
Type: Movie
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.
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Shadows Unseen
Title: Shadows Unseen
Character: Commissioner Resta
Released: March 24, 1972
Type: Movie
When a journalist is murdered Inspector Micheli begins to investigate. Although someone comes forward to confess to the crime, Micheli doesn't believe he acted alone and keeps investigating despite coming under pressure to close the case.
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Execution Squad
Title: Execution Squad
Character: Bettarini
Released: February 25, 1972
Type: Movie
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full
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Roma bene
Title: Roma bene
Character: Nino Rappi
Released: October 8, 1971
Type: Movie
A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
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Il provinciale
Title: Il provinciale
Character: Colombo, un cliente di Giulia
Released: July 8, 1971
Type: Movie
The young Giovanni, who grew up in the provinces, arrives in Rome with the dream of becoming a famous journalist, but no newspaper is willing to hire him. Waiting for better times, the boy finds a job as a gas station attendant. One day he becomes the victim of an accident with the beautiful Giulia, who runs over him with her car. A relationship will arise between the two but Giovanni, in her naivety, has not yet understood that she works as a luxury prostitute.
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Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Title: Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Character: principe Gondrano Pantegani del Cacco
Released: July 5, 1971
Type: Movie
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Death in Venice
Title: Death in Venice
Character: Barber
Released: March 2, 1971
Type: Movie
Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with the stunning beauty of an adolescent Polish boy named Tadzio who is staying with his family at the same Grand Hôtel des Bains on the Lido as Aschenbach.
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A Pocketful of Chestnuts
Title: A Pocketful of Chestnuts
Character: Bernardi
Released: October 30, 1970
Type: Movie
A TV producer cultivates a somewhat reserved and protective young woman after interviewing her for one of his programs.
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Ciao, Federico!
Title: Ciao, Federico!
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1970
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
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The One Man Band
Title: The One Man Band
Character: le fiancé de Françoise (as Franco Fabrizzi)
Released: September 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The latter get their revenge by presenting Evans’ nephew Philippe, the only male member of the group, with a baby and a note claiming he is the father…
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The Degenerates
Title: The Degenerates
Character: Ascilto
Released: March 27, 1969
Type: Movie
A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. Like the more famous version made by Federico Fellini, an adaptation of Petronius' Satyricon.
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Dismissed on His Wedding Night
Title: Dismissed on His Wedding Night
Character: Chauffeur
Released: November 14, 1968
Type: Movie
A businessman is nicknamed "L'avvocato" and his driver, Oscar, is a yes-man. When L'avvocato has a crash while driving his car, Oscar is put in jail in his place. When Oscar gets out, he finds himself married to the beautiful Maria, but he can't even touch her: she is l'avvocato's lover. Afterwards Oscar is appointed manager, but he can't manage a dime. At the end he shall find himself again in jail, hoping that his "sissignore" (yessir) will let him have, sometime, a driver to send to prison in his place. —
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Madigan's Millions
Title: Madigan's Millions
Character: Caronda
Released: May 30, 1968
Type: Movie
When a deported gangster dies in Italy, the U.S. Treasury Department is very interested in the one million dollars Madigan owed the government, but managed to take to Italy with him. They send Agent Jason Phister over to Italy to nose out the million. His criteria for the job is that no one would ever guess he's an agent of the United States government.
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The Little Bather
Title: The Little Bather
Character: Marcello Cacciaperotti
Released: March 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
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Anyone Can Play
Title: Anyone Can Play
Character: Luisa's lover
Released: September 21, 1967
Type: Movie
In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.
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Bang Bang
Title: Bang Bang
Character: Mario Raffaelli
Released: May 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Sheila's uncle has just died; many of his relatives come, but,much to their displeasure, it's his niece who inherits his private detective agency. But she must first go through a training in a school: gymnastic, assault course, machine gun shooting; she must also learn how to cheat at card games .Her first mission is to find back gangster La Rafale's fiancee, Genevieve, who ran away with another gang. She meets a handsome Interpol lieutenant she falls in love with.
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The Viscount
Title: The Viscount
Released: April 4, 1967
Type: Movie
Inspector for a major insurance company, Clint de La Roche, known as "le vicomte", is enjoying a pleasant vacation on the Spanish coast with a few pretty girls and his assistant, Billette, when he is urgently called back to Paris to investigate a bank robbery. The bank manager has had the key to the security system stolen by a certain Tania. But Tania is killed in a car bomb attack. However, Clint soon discovers that behind this case lies a rivalry between the gangs of Rico Barone and Marco Demoygne, who are fighting for control of the drug market.
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Che notte, ragazzi!
Title: Che notte, ragazzi!
Character: D. Luis
Released: September 30, 1966
Type: Movie
Lawyer Tony Green has to pay a two-million-dollar check as compensation to the widow of a wealthy businessman who died as a result of an explosion on the plane immediately after take-off. Tony has to reach the widow who is currently abroad.
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The Postman Goes to War
Title: The Postman Goes to War
Released: August 10, 1966
Type: Movie
The unsuspecting Parisian postman Thibon accepts a transfer as army mailman in Indochina. In the hospital, after his mail van is blown up by a mine, he falls in love with his Indochinese nurse Vang.
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El misterioso señor Van Eyck
Title: El misterioso señor Van Eyck
Released: March 10, 1966
Type: Movie
A treasure sinks into the sea with the body of Charles Van Eyck, killed during a fight on a yacht by one of the sailors.
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A Matter of Honor
Title: A Matter of Honor
Character: Egidio Porcu
Released: February 24, 1966
Type: Movie
Efisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with colleagues in strength with the game "head against head". In the village the Sanna and Porcu families' conflict has lasted over a century.
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The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
Title: The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
Character: Lino Benedetti
Released: February 10, 1966
Type: Movie
An anthology film that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the first story, a husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair. In the second, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them. In the third, men of the town all seduce a promiscuous teenager, but her father eventually reveals that she is underage, and they face prosecution for statutory rape.
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Le Reflux
Title: Le Reflux
Character: Rizzi
Released: December 31, 1965
Type: Movie
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I Knew Her Well
Title: I Knew Her Well
Character: Paganelli
Released: December 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
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Complexes
Title: Complexes
Character: Francesco Martello (III)
Released: August 15, 1965
Type: Movie
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
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The Maniacs
Title: The Maniacs
Character: L'impiegato insolente
Released: March 28, 1964
Type: Movie
An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
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The Commandant
Title: The Commandant
Character: Sandrelli
Released: December 23, 1963
Type: Movie
The retired general Antonio Cavalli is a nuisance to his family: to his wife Francesca who still works, to his son and to his daughter-in-law. Then he finds a job in a building firm. Only by chance Cavalli finds out that his salary is paid by his wife to keep him busy. But the general is well known as a very reliable man, and Sandrelli, the firm's owner, uses him and his name to win a valuable contract. When Sandrelli is arrested, the general finds the money to honour his debt but he is robbed while he is going to the bank...
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Casablanca, Nest of Spies
Title: Casablanca, Nest of Spies
Character: Barón Max von Stauffen
Released: October 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Casablanca 1942. While French Police Chief Maurice Desjardins is busy having careless fun with some loose girls, members of the French Resistance kill a man at the harbor and steal his briefcase full of important documents from the Third Reich. At an apartment building in the distance, Andre Kuhn watches the whole operation through his powerful binoculars. He is posing as a businessman but actually working as a spy for the Germans a fact totally ignored by his live-in girlfriend Teresa Villar, a beautiful Spanish singer who works at El Dorado Night Club. Andre telephones Max von Stauffen, the head of German Intelligence in Casablanca, to inform him of what he has just witnessed. Max tells him to stay put until he arrives in order to get the information personally but, by the time he reaches Andres apartment, he finds him dead with a gun shot on his temple.
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Gli onorevoli
Title: Gli onorevoli
Character: Roberto Cicconetti
Released: October 10, 1963
Type: Movie
Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.
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Rat Trap
Title: Rat Trap
Character: Paul
Released: June 8, 1963
Type: Movie
This South American adventure drama finds Charles (Charles Aznavour), a youthful Frenchman traveling to Paraguay to start a new life. Seeking out a rich uncle, the idealistic nephew is rejected by his miserly relation, and he goes on to get involved with a shady woman and a band of gun runners who supply arms for the revolution of the week. Charles and his new girlfriend head for the border after a shootout with federal troops, and a kindly railroad worker hides the couple in an abandoned copper mine. Charles is later thrown in prison while the girl becomes a concubine, but her violator is killed when Charles escapes to rescue her and exact revenge. A pretty harrowing composition could be written by the young couple on "How I Spent My Summer Vacation."
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Scarlet Eye
Title: Scarlet Eye
Character: Manuel Da Costa
Released: May 30, 1963
Type: Movie
A valuable ruby ​​disappears during an earthquake. Professor Ferlach is tasked with excavating the buried temple. Mysterious things are happening during the excavation and strangers are trying to stop them. The archaeologist Prof. Ferlach gets unexpected help from the animal catcher Larry Stone and his daughter Helga, who actively help with the research and excavations.
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La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
Title: La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
Character: Paolo (segment "Bagnino lover")
Released: February 21, 1963
Type: Movie
Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.
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The Shortest Day
Title: The Shortest Day
Character: Ferito con la borsa del ghiaccio (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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Copacabana Palace
Title: Copacabana Palace
Released: November 3, 1962
Type: Movie
For three days at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, amorous cross-fertilizations are intertwined with petty tricks against the backdrop of the famous carnival festivities. Three (sympathetic) accomplices are beaten to a punch in the hotel vault; three charming stewardesses are looking for entertainment, but their three Carioca host, musicians Tom Jobim, Luiz Bonfá, and João Gilberto, are married; a man, separated from his wife, wants to catch her in the act of adultery.
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Una domenica d'estate
Title: Una domenica d'estate
Released: March 10, 1962
Type: Movie
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Desert War
Title: Desert War
Character: Lieutenant Zecchini
Released: March 3, 1962
Type: Movie
A woman is discovered in a shelled-out truck in the Libyan Desert by a small group of soldiers.
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A Difficult Life
Title: A Difficult Life
Character: Franco Simonini
Released: December 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
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Duel of Champions
Title: Duel of Champions
Character: Curazio
Released: October 19, 1961
Type: Movie
A Roman nobleman, Horatius leads an imperial legion during the long and bloody war between the Romans and the Albans. A desperate arrangement is agreed on how to settle the war. Three valiant brothers are chosen from each side to fight one last fierce and bloody duel...
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Three Faces of Sin
Title: Three Faces of Sin
Character: Philippe Guerbois
Released: September 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her. Before they can leave town on a weekend getaway together, Renee's teenage daughter Daniele quits school and unexpectedly shows up. Laurent and Daniele fall for each other immediately and end up getting married. The film follows the disastrous situation created by the jealous mother and her daughter's immature husband.
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I soliti rapinatori a Milano
Title: I soliti rapinatori a Milano
Character: Franco
Released: September 2, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Wastrel
Title: The Wastrel
Character: Rudi Veronese
Released: February 24, 1961
Type: Movie
A wealthy and self-serving man, sets out on a perilous ocean voyage with his son. An unexpected incident with the vessel causes him to reflect on his not so perfect life.
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La moglie di mio marito
Title: La moglie di mio marito
Character: Giorgio
Released: January 27, 1961
Type: Movie
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Run with the Devil
Title: Run with the Devil
Character: Giosuè
Released: August 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Stefano is a talented painter, devoted to his art but not interested in promoting himself, while many of his fellow artists are far more adept at selling their persona than creating art.
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Genitori in blue-jeans
Title: Genitori in blue-jeans
Character: Gianni
Released: February 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.
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The Surprises of Love
Title: The Surprises of Love
Character: Battista Crispi
Released: December 2, 1959
Type: Movie
This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers. The script includes witty dialogue and humorous situations; most of all on display is the ridiculousness of the human compulsion to pair up. - timlin-4
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The Facts of Murder
Title: The Facts of Murder
Character: Il cugino
Released: October 24, 1959
Type: Movie
A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation.
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The Black Chapel
Title: The Black Chapel
Character: Graf Emanuele Rossi
Released: October 15, 1959
Type: Movie
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.
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The Moralist
Title: The Moralist
Character: Giovanni
Released: June 30, 1959
Type: Movie
The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "immoral" – from nudity in movies to nightclubs – to hide a rather unseemly double life.
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Witness in the City
Title: Witness in the City
Character: Lambert
Released: May 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.
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Wild Cats on the Beach
Title: Wild Cats on the Beach
Character: Nicola Ferrara
Released: May 5, 1959
Type: Movie
Various short stories. Giovanna arrives from Rome with her husband Alberto for a film audition. The journalist Gino comes to interview the great industrial Signore Carsoli. The famous American actress Rita is in search of her umpteenth husband. Leopoldo and Angelina from Sicily are on vacation in Rome where they meet the street smart Nicola.
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The Nights of Lucretia Borgia
Title: The Nights of Lucretia Borgia
Character: Cesare Borgia
Released: March 19, 1959
Type: Movie
Federico, a virtuous nobleman from an impoverished family, is brought into service by autocrat Cesare Borgia. His promiscuous sister Lucrezia seems to have an amorous interest in Federico and wants him as her lover though Federico is in love with Diana, the Duke of Alva's daughter, whom he has saved from being raped. When he learns about Diana's feud against the Borgia clan, he becomes aware of their infamous deeds.
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Love on the Riviera
Title: Love on the Riviera
Character: Sandro Morandi
Released: November 27, 1958
Type: Movie
It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.
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Dangerous Women
Title: Dangerous Women
Character: Bruno
Released: November 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny instead is married to a ugly woman. Ornella is Bruno's wife, she is very jealous and maintains that all men are deceitful, granted the opportunity, while Claudine, Federico's wife, maintains the contrary point of view. So they bet that Tosca, a former dancer, will succeed in seducing Federico.
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The Third
Title: The Third
Character: Amleto Bettini
Released: August 22, 1958
Type: Movie
A clothing merchant Ofelia, a naïve housewife Rina, and the outspoken nurse Edna meet at a police station and discover that they share a failed sentimental life.
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Adorable and Lying
Title: Adorable and Lying
Character: Geronti
Released: August 7, 1958
Type: Movie
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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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Husbands in the City
Title: Husbands in the City
Character: Alberto
Released: December 18, 1957
Type: Movie
In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.
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Anyone Can Kill Me
Title: Anyone Can Kill Me
Character: Karl Herman
Released: December 6, 1957
Type: Movie
The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four accomplices must secure an alibi. What better place than a prison cell? As a result the five gangsters have themselves arrested on minor charges and start waiting until they are released. Unfortunately three of them die mysteriously, another one is openly murdered. The only man still alive, Tony, is scared. Easy to understand why...
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Goodbye Forever
Title: Goodbye Forever
Character: Armando
Released: November 15, 1957
Type: Movie
A man discovers his wife's infidelity and kills her lover.
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Nights of Cabiria
Title: Nights of Cabiria
Character: Giorgio (uncredited)
Released: October 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
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No Sun in Venice
Title: No Sun in Venice
Character: Busetti
Released: May 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger.
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The Doll that Took the Town
Title: The Doll that Took the Town
Character: Aldo
Released: February 6, 1957
Type: Movie
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.
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Noi siamo le colonne
Title: Noi siamo le colonne
Character: Aldo Perego
Released: December 29, 1956
Type: Movie
The adventures of three university students who live in the same boarding house. Ugo, the most serious one, is in love with Lea, daughter of the lodger. Aldo is a practical joker, Bartolozzi is the shiest. Ugo and Lea's love story becomes stormy because of Aldo.
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Peccato di castità
Title: Peccato di castità
Character: Peppino Maggi
Released: October 18, 1956
Type: Movie
Adventures of a young married couple during their honeymoon trip.
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The Rocket from Calabuch
Title: The Rocket from Calabuch
Character: Langosta
Released: September 28, 1956
Type: Movie
Professor Hamilton, a naive Nuclear scientist who once thought bombs were good for humanity, realizes his mistake and runs away from his inventions. He hides in Calabuch, a beautiful seaside town where people still believe in humor and friendship.
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A Mink Coat
Title: A Mink Coat
Character: Francipane
Released: August 21, 1956
Type: Movie
A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever.
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Roman Tales
Title: Roman Tales
Character: Alvaro Latini
Released: December 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?
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Le Amiche
Title: Le Amiche
Character: Cesare Pedoni, the Architect
Released: November 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Clelia, a self-made woman coming from humble means, travels back to Turin, her hometown, to scout locations for the successful Roman atelier she works for. At the hotel, she encounters some upper middle-class women and she finds herself drawn into their friendships.
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The Swindle
Title: The Swindle
Character: Roberto
Released: October 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Aging small-time conman Augusto works with two younger men: Roberto, who desires to become the Italian Johnny Ray, and Bruno, nicknamed Picasso. Through a series of mishaps and personal entanglements, things go badly for Augusto.
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Camilla
Title: Camilla
Character: Gianni
Released: November 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Camilla, a middle-aged Venetian widow, arrives in Rome to take up service as a maid for the Rossetti family, who are not prosperous. With her discreet presence, she is an element of cohesion for them thru tensions and misfortunes.
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In the Eddy of Sin
Title: In the Eddy of Sin
Character: Filippo
Released: October 30, 1954
Type: Movie
After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.
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Woman of Rome
Title: Woman of Rome
Character: Gino
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: Movie
During the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong. She meets Mino, a partisan who falls in love with her and wants to redeem her.
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The Slave of Sin
Title: The Slave of Sin
Character: Carlo
Released: May 8, 1954
Type: Movie
A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult.
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Human Torpedoes
Title: Human Torpedoes
Character: Antonio
Released: May 7, 1954
Type: Movie
A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring attack on the port of Suda.
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Torna!
Title: Torna!
Character: Giacomo Marini
Released: March 31, 1954
Type: Movie
Cousins James and Robert are in love with Susanna. When Robert and Susanna announce their engagement, James vows to ruin their happiness.
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Vortice
Title: Vortice
Character: Viaggiani
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Elena, after a date with his boyfriend Guido, comes home finding his father tried to kill himself with gas because he lost a lot of money due to some wrong investments.
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Farewell, My Beautiful Lady!
Title: Farewell, My Beautiful Lady!
Character: Marco
Released: October 16, 1953
Type: Movie
Guido and Cristina fall in love, but she is betrothed to a solider. When he is reported killed they hope to marry, but his reappearance without his limbs makes matters difficult for all concerned.
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The Barbarians
Title: The Barbarians
Released: September 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Rome, 1527. Massimo Colonna is in love with Angela, a member of the Orsinis, the Colonnas'arch enemies. As she is officially engaged to Tancredi Serra, the latter, a faithless individual, has Massimo accused of the murder of Prince Orsini whereas he himself has woven it. Massimo is rejected by an outraged Angela and banned from Rome.Meanwhile the Eternal City has to face a brutal attack by armed invaders from Spain. The Spaniards are about to storm Rome when Massimo and his troops appear. The invading forces are defeated and Massimo is acclaimed by the crowd. After clearing his name, he can marry Angela.
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I Vitelloni
Title: I Vitelloni
Character: Fausto Moretti
Released: September 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
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Heroic Charge
Title: Heroic Charge
Character: Captain Franchi
Released: November 25, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1941 an Italian regiment known as the Savoy Cavalry is sent by Mussolini to Russia to assist the German invasion. After crossing an extensive area of Soviet territory the men arrive at a village that seems deserted. A patrol sent on reconnaissance comes under machine-gun fire from the top of a bell-tower.
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Ragazze da marito
Title: Ragazze da marito
Released: November 19, 1952
Type: Movie
Oreste is known for his deliberation and caution in handling license forms at his office.But when he needs money to send his 3 girls off to Capri to find rich suitors, he is tempted to take bribes to put a license through more quickly.
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The Woman Who Invented Love
Title: The Woman Who Invented Love
Released: August 2, 1952
Type: Movie
The Woman Who Invented Love (Italian: La donna che inventò l'amore) is a 1952 Italian historical melodrama film
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The Mistress of Treves
Title: The Mistress of Treves
Released: February 6, 1952
Type: Movie
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Story of a Love Affair
Title: Story of a Love Affair
Character: Fashion show presentator (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1950
Type: Movie
Paola (Lucia Bose) is the beautiful and jealously-guarded younger wife of a shady factory owner, Enrico Fontana (Massimo Girotti). In order to investigate her romantic history he hires a private detective, which ironically brings Paola back into contact with former lover Guido, with whom she resurrects a lost passion. Dogged by the suspicions of their respective mates, they are drawn closer to each other in the face of adversity, and begin to plot Enrico's demise. But when the challenge of being together falls away, will the passion start to wane? A masterpiece of intensity and finely-wrought emotion.