Luigi Pavese

Luigi Pavese

Born: October 25, 1897
Died: December 13, 1969
in Asti, Piedmont, Italy

Movies for Luigi Pavese...

Amici più di prima
Title: Amici più di prima
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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Pinocchio
Title: Pinocchio
Character: Tonno / Contadino (voce)
Released: December 20, 1972
Type: Movie
The film was directed by Giuliano Cenci with assistance from his brother Renzo. During production, Carlo Collodis grandchildren Mario and Antonio Lorenzini were consulted. The subtle movements made by fidgeting children whilst speaking or under scrutiny were incorporated into Pinocchios movements, particularly when he lies to the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair over the fate of his gold coins. For the design of the Fairy, Italian portrayals of the Blessed Virgin Mary in art were used as starting points.
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H2S
Title: H2S
Character: The Professor (voice)
Released: September 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Young student runs away from a 1984-esque dictatorship, lives for a while with a crazy girl in a surrealistic “igloo” in snowy wilderness and then returns to lead a revolution against the oppressive system. Sci-fi tale consistent with the political climate of May 68.
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May God Forgive You... But I Won't
Title: May God Forgive You... But I Won't
Character: Stuart
Released: August 13, 1968
Type: Movie
While Cjamango is away from his ranch, bandits attack and kill his family. Disrupted by this tragedy, he sets out to take his revenge, helped by a Mexican who has seen the bandits. The writer of the western Cjamango directed this unofficial sequel to Cjamango.
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Title: Il Conte di Montecristo
Character: Morrel
Released: November 6, 1966
Type: TV
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I due sanculotti
Title: I due sanculotti
Character: Francois
Released: August 13, 1966
Type: Movie
The brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution, putting themselves in a lot of trouble.
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For a Few Dollars Less
Title: For a Few Dollars Less
Character: Il padre del messicano
Released: August 11, 1966
Type: Movie
A bank clerk and his cousin, a "general", join forces to track down a Mexican outlaw.
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2 Mobsters Against Al Capone
Title: 2 Mobsters Against Al Capone
Character: Comandate di polizia
Released: March 4, 1966
Type: Movie
For a misunderstanding Franco and Ciccio, two Sicilian immigrants of very limited intellectual faculties, are enrolled in the police force in New York.
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Spiaggia libera
Title: Spiaggia libera
Character: Il Colonnello
Released: January 5, 1966
Type: Movie
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West and Soda
Title: West and Soda
Character: Ursus (voice)
Released: October 1, 1965
Type: Movie
West and soda is a 1965 traditionally-animated Italian feature film directed by Bruno Bozzetto. It is a parody of the traditional American Western.
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How We Got Into Trouble with the Army
Title: How We Got Into Trouble with the Army
Character: gen. MacKee
Released: August 21, 1965
Type: Movie
A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of another soldier who sings in a night club but due to series of misunderstandings the sergeant believes he is his own son, born from a former love story.
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Totò d'Arabia
Title: Totò d'Arabia
Character: Lo sceicco di Shamara (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Toto, a former Italian military servant who works as a servant at the British Intelligence Service, is promoted to secret agent with the name of Agent 00Ø8 to convince the ruler of Shamara, Sheikh Ali El Buzur, to yield oil to UK.
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Veneri al sole
Title: Veneri al sole
Character: Raimondo's father (segment "Come conquistare le donne")
Released: December 24, 1964
Type: Movie
Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some precious designs in it; in the second a worker keen on helping his boss gets him into trouble instead and in the third one a shy boy who tries to impress women pretending he is tough ends up in hospital and falls in love with a nurse.
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Title: La Cittadella
Character: Con Boland
Released: February 9, 1964
Type: TV
La Cittadella is a 1964 Italian miniseries based on A. J. Cronin's 1937 novel, The Citadel, and produced by Radiotelevisione Italiana. It was directed by Anton Giulio Majano and stars Alberto Lupo as Dr. Manson and Anna Maria Guarnieri as his wife, Christine. Other television versions include an American, another Italian, and two British adaptations.
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Le tardone
Title: Le tardone
Character: Cionci (episode "L'armadio")
Released: January 29, 1964
Type: Movie
A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women.
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Divorzio alla siciliana
Title: Divorzio alla siciliana
Character: Luigi Pavese
Released: March 15, 1963
Type: Movie
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The Strange Type
Title: The Strange Type
Character: M. Mazzolani
Released: February 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Peppino, a slow-witted local villager of the Italian resort town of Amalfi, is bribed to impersonate famed rock and roll star Adriano Celentano for autographs and personal appearances. While Celentano tries to romance Emanuela Mazzolani, the daughter of a well-to-do resident who dissaproves of the union between his daughter and the man he thinks of as a "punk", Peppino, unaware of the true nature of his job to impersonate Celentano, tries to deal with his girlfriend's newborn baby which gets switched around between him and Celentano.
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The Shortest Day
Title: The Shortest Day
Character: Giudice della corte marziale (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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I motorizzati
Title: I motorizzati
Character: Il capo ufficio
Released: November 30, 1962
Type: Movie
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
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The Masseuses
Title: The Masseuses
Character: Manzini
Released: September 20, 1962
Type: Movie
Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?
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Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Title: Totò e Peppino divisi a Berlino
Character: Un generale russo
Released: September 8, 1962
Type: Movie
Antonio goes to West Berlin and meets Giuseppe. But Antonio looks like Canarinis, a wanted war criminal, So the daughter of the criminal pays Antonio to impersonate him.
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Totò diabolicus
Title: Totò diabolicus
Character: Commissario di polizia
Released: April 7, 1962
Type: Movie
The marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them, with the exception of Monsignor Antonino di Torre Alta, are killed by Diabolicus. The police are unable to solve the case, but when Antonino gives his inheritance to Pasquale Bonocore, illegitimate son of his father and Pasquale is in prison and therefore can't be the killer, all the clues are in the hand of the police.
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Il mio amico Benito
Title: Il mio amico Benito
Character: Pieroni
Released: March 3, 1962
Type: Movie
A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life.
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Totò contro Maciste
Title: Totò contro Maciste
Character: Proprietario del locale
Released: February 28, 1962
Type: Movie
Totokamen is an entertainer and an illusionist who performs in various Egyptian nightclubs assisted by his manager, Tarantenkamen. Taking advantage of cheesy tricks, Totokamen pretends to be the son of the god Amun.
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Gerarchi si muore
Title: Gerarchi si muore
Character: Ambrogio Merletti
Released: December 22, 1961
Type: Movie
Now in bankruptcy, the industrialist Merletti seeks the help of Mr. Frioppi, a rich ex-fascist with a real mania for ancient castles.
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Le magnifiche 7
Title: Le magnifiche 7
Character: Olivieri
Released: December 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Orderly
Title: The Orderly
Character: Colonnello Terenzi
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Colonels, majors, lieutenants: all of them live in the same building. Some of them have a wife or children or none, but everyone has his orderly. Major Penna is harassed by Osvaldo's mother. Lt. Martucci gets involved in the love affair between Antonio, his orderly, and Lauretta.
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I soliti rapinatori a Milano
Title: I soliti rapinatori a Milano
Released: September 2, 1961
Type: Movie
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Totòtruffa '62
Title: Totòtruffa '62
Character: Terlizzi, il padrone di casa
Released: August 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.
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Bellezze sulla spiaggia
Title: Bellezze sulla spiaggia
Character: padre di Franco
Released: August 5, 1961
Type: Movie
A doctor running a health clinic by the sea is convinced that women are the cause of the disturbed behaviour of his (male) patients. We get to follow the adventures of the patients during a day on the beach.
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Rocco e le sorelle
Title: Rocco e le sorelle
Character: sua Eccellenza
Released: May 5, 1961
Type: Movie
A Sicilian leaves for Milan, in search of fortune, with the four sisters he supervises fiercely.
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Mina... fuori la guardia
Title: Mina... fuori la guardia
Character: il colonnello
Released: April 12, 1961
Type: Movie
A famous singer is drafted and gets the occasion of getting rid of his annoying girlfriend. He falls in love with a young student who finds out she is a singer herself.
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Scandali al mare
Title: Scandali al mare
Character: Salvatore Pecchia
Released: March 11, 1961
Type: Movie
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Ferragosto in Bikini
Title: Ferragosto in Bikini
Character: commendator Cazzaniga
Released: December 31, 1960
Type: Movie
Sun, Sea, Love and a beautiful Italian beach...
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He Who Hesitates Is Lost
Title: He Who Hesitates Is Lost
Character: Cesare Santoro
Released: December 15, 1960
Type: Movie
After their boss' death, two clerks eagerly await the arrival of the next one, each one of them hoping to become the apple of his eye. They compete in every possible way to impress him, which causes lots of trouble and many misunderstandings.
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Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
Title: Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today
Character: Il commendator La Sarta
Released: August 18, 1960
Type: Movie
A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
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My Pal, Dr. Jekyll
Title: My Pal, Dr. Jekyll
Character: Colonnello Rolando
Released: August 11, 1960
Type: Movie
Professor Fabius has found a way of transferring his personality to another person and he transfers his to the body of Giacinto Floria, a nice teacher in a women's college. Poor Giacinto becomes a sex maniac to the puzzlement of his girlfriend Mafalda.
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I piaceri del sabato notte
Title: I piaceri del sabato notte
Character: Baldoni
Released: May 4, 1960
Type: Movie
Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.
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Signori si nasce
Title: Signori si nasce
Character: Bernasconi
Released: April 28, 1960
Type: Movie
Baron Zazà, always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother.
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Noi duri
Title: Noi duri
Character: Doganiere
Released: February 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Bombardone is in Paris to wipe out a gang of drug traffickers.
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Love and Larceny
Title: Love and Larceny
Character: L'industriale
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
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I baccanali di Tiberio
Title: I baccanali di Tiberio
Character: Vinicio
Released: January 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Cassio, a tourist guide, and Primo, his bus driver, are taking a bus load of tourists to visit villa Jovis, at Capri island. Then they have an accident, and they knock their heads hard, losing conscience. They come awake in the times of the Roman Empire in Tiberius' villa.
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Cerasella
Title: Cerasella
Character: Bruno Coscia
Released: December 11, 1959
Type: Movie
Cerasella escapes just before her marriage with Alfredo and meets Bruno, the son of a wealthy industrialist.
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La cambiale
Title: La cambiale
Character: propriétaire
Released: November 19, 1959
Type: Movie
The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred thousand lire from the famous financier Bruscatelli, who ends up in prison immediately afterwards.
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La cento chilometri
Title: La cento chilometri
Character: Sor Eliseo
Released: September 9, 1959
Type: Movie
During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations
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Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
Title: Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
Character: Industrialist Branca
Released: May 6, 1959
Type: Movie
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Toto in Madrid
Title: Toto in Madrid
Character: Capo della polizia
Released: February 6, 1959
Type: Movie
When the swindler La Spada and his accomplice José come out of jail in Madrid, they decide to pull a really great swindle: nothing less than to discover and sell a third picture of the famous Goya's Maya. They engage the renowed Scorcelletti who can imitate any picture and who lives in Rome. Afterwards, with the help of the beautiful Eva, they convince the celebrated art critic Francisco Montiel of the existance of a third Maya and let him find the picture. When the swindlers are on the point of selling the faked maya to an American millionaire, Scorcelli comes back from Rome to sell one of his six other maya pictures.
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Perfide.... ma belle
Title: Perfide.... ma belle
Character: The Police Commissioner
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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Toto in Paris
Title: Toto in Paris
Character: Calogero Tempesta
Released: October 23, 1958
Type: Movie
Duclos's son, a worldly gangster, is compromised in a case of which he is innocent. The proof of this innocence is in the hands of a "competitor", the Marquis de Chemantel de Beauvoiron, a misguided aristocrat. He asked for $ 10 million to cede the document. Duclos will then imagine Chemantel contracting $ 10 million in life insurance for his son. As he discovered in Rome a tramp, a look-alike of the marquis, he will bring this man to Paris and arrange for him to die accidentally.
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Mia nonna poliziotto
Title: Mia nonna poliziotto
Released: September 10, 1958
Type: Movie
Tina, an old lady, is in town for the wedding of her grandson when a medallion left to her by her late husband disappears. Dissatisfied with the police effort to find it, she sets on the tracks of the thieves herself.
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Legs of Gold
Title: Legs of Gold
Character: Commendatore Renzoni
Released: August 27, 1958
Type: Movie
Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a triumphant championship, is about to be promoted to Serie C.
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A Sailor's Promises
Title: A Sailor's Promises
Character: nostromo Tortora
Released: July 7, 1958
Type: Movie
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El hombre del paraguas blanco
Title: El hombre del paraguas blanco
Character: Don Antonio
Released: May 1, 1958
Type: Movie
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The Italians They Are Crazy
Title: The Italians They Are Crazy
Character: Maggiore Masi
Released: April 5, 1958
Type: Movie
In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours.
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Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Title: Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Character: Capo dell'agenzia investigativa
Released: December 23, 1957
Type: Movie
The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.
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Engaged to Death
Title: Engaged to Death
Character: Lorenzo
Released: April 13, 1957
Type: Movie
A tale of love, rivalry and passion set in the 50s, in the madcap world of motorcycle speed races, shot on the occasion of the main competitions of that time, such as Monza’s Moto GP and the last edition of the legendary Milano-Taranto race. With also very rare footage of the Moto Guzzi wind tunnel and factories. The film features, alongside popular actors Rik Battaglia and Sylva Koscina, many of the most important champions of those years: Geoffrey Duke, Libero Liberati, Bill Lomas, Enrico Lorenzetti, Reg Armstrong, Stanley Woods, Ken Cavanagh, Dickie Dale, Thomas Campbell, Pierre Monneret, Albino Milani, Walter Zeller, Bruno Francisci, all of them riding amazing Moto Guzzi, Gilera, Mondial and Norton bikes with the so charming and dangerous dustbin fairings that were going to be banned in 1958.
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The Sword and the Cross
Title: The Sword and the Cross
Character: Publius Cornelius
Released: December 13, 1956
Type: Movie
Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.
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A Mink Coat
Title: A Mink Coat
Character: Store manager
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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A Mink Coat
Title: A Mink Coat
Character: Proprietaro
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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Totò Double or Nothing?
Title: Totò Double or Nothing?
Character: Anastasio
Released: May 3, 1956
Type: Movie
The penniless Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o raddoppia", a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between themselves on his success and, alas, the Duke is kidnapped.
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The Band of Honest Men
Title: The Band of Honest Men
Character: Rag. Casoria
Released: April 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.
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Eighteen Year Olds
Title: Eighteen Year Olds
Character: Il professore di greco
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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The Lovers of Manon Lescaut
Title: The Lovers of Manon Lescaut
Character: Il mercante premuroso
Released: December 28, 1954
Type: Movie
In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil.
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Loves of Three Queens
Title: Loves of Three Queens
Character: Romani (segment "Framing Story")
Released: December 24, 1954
Type: Movie
At a wedding party involving three beautiful women, a young man should choose the most charming. But a professor intervenes to prevent the verdict, remembering the troubles caused by Paris in a similar situation.
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The Fate of Two Queens
Title: The Fate of Two Queens
Released: December 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Anthology film in which Hedy Lamarr plays 2 queens during 2 different time periods. Ulmer directed the Genoveffa di Brabante part whereas Allégret was responsible for the empress Josephine section after he left due to artistic differences with Lamarr.
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Io sono la Primula Rossa
Title: Io sono la Primula Rossa
Character: James
Released: December 20, 1954
Type: Movie
Comedy with Renato Rascel
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The Cheerful Squadron
Title: The Cheerful Squadron
Character: Il capitano medico
Released: December 5, 1954
Type: Movie
The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.
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I cinque dell'Adamello
Title: I cinque dell'Adamello
Character: (Voice dubbing for Nino Marchesini)
Released: November 30, 1954
Type: Movie
The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later.
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Tripoli, bel suol d'amore
Title: Tripoli, bel suol d'amore
Released: August 19, 1954
Type: Movie
The young Alberto Ruotolo leave the country cottage to go for the sharpshooter. But the command does not pull good air, three riflemen arrogant and unruly bear much disorder as anger Marshal Nero.
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La pattuglia sperduta
Title: La pattuglia sperduta
Character: (Voice dubbing)
Released: June 9, 1954
Type: Movie
The adventures of Lieutenant Airoldi of Piedmont who is trying to gather intelligence for the Republic about the advancing Austrian armies near the river Ticino ahead of the battle of Novara.
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Of Life and Love
Title: Of Life and Love
Character: Colonnello Franco Alonzo
Released: February 3, 1954
Type: Movie
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
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La grande avventura
Title: La grande avventura
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
The adventures of Count Angelo de Marchis as he tries to reach his besieged allies in Rome with much needed funds from England. Can he evade the pursuing "Contessa Sara Mondini" and her Milanese henchmen?
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Cinema of yesteryear
Title: Cinema of yesteryear
Character: il produttore
Released: December 3, 1953
Type: Movie
While filming in the Roman countryside, some of the workers damage the garden of Caterina. Going to ask for compensation, she meets the director Marcello, who propose her to star working in movies.
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Sua altezza ha detto: no!
Title: Sua altezza ha detto: no!
Character: Luigi Rovere - L'impresario
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
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Lo scocciatore
Title: Lo scocciatore
Character: Capo ufficio
Released: November 18, 1953
Type: Movie
A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics!
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Farewell, My Beautiful Lady!
Title: Farewell, My Beautiful Lady!
Character: Giuseppe
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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L'Incantevole nemica
Title: L'Incantevole nemica
Character: Doublage italien de Nerio Bernardi
Released: June 14, 1953
Type: Movie
The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter.
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Lulù
Title: Lulù
Released: June 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Mario, a student from a noble Milanese family, falls in love with Lulù, a young slender girl.
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Viva il cinema
Title: Viva il cinema
Character: himself
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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10 love songs to save
Title: 10 love songs to save
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
The plot concerns a songwriter, played by Jacques Sernas who leaves his sweetheart and publisher when he learns that he is going blind.
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Mademoiselle Gobete
Title: Mademoiselle Gobete
Character: Tricoin, il presidente
Released: October 4, 1952
Type: Movie
A singer and operetta dancer works in a small french town where the authorities want to expel her because of her scandalous conduct and performance. When a puritan judge closes the show, the woman will take revenge involving the judge in an affair before the selfsame Justice minister. From that moment on, a series of diversions and misunderstandings will play out leading the main characters to the city of Paris.
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I, Hamlet
Title: I, Hamlet
Character: Re Claudio / Fantasma del padre
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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Dad Becomes Mom
Title: Dad Becomes Mom
Character: Il mago Bhormah
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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Il tallone di Achille
Title: Il tallone di Achille
Character: Dottor Paridi
Released: August 18, 1952
Type: Movie
Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal.
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Totó in color
Title: Totó in color
Character: Tiscordi
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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Tormento del passato
Title: Tormento del passato
Character: Bianchi
Released: April 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A gangster comes back to Rome after many years and meets his old flame and their daughter.
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The Dream of Zorro
Title: The Dream of Zorro
Character: Don Garcia Fernandez
Released: March 26, 1952
Type: Movie
An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.
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La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna
Title: La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna
Character: Il padrone di casa
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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La famiglia Passaguai
Title: La famiglia Passaguai
Character: Alberto
Released: December 20, 1951
Type: Movie
When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare.
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Love I Haven't... But... But
Title: Love I Haven't... But... But
Character: Antonio Scutipizzo
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: Commissario
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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La paura fa 90
Title: La paura fa 90
Character: L'impresario
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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La grande rinuncia
Title: La grande rinuncia
Released: September 1, 1951
Type: Movie
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Mamma mia, che impressione!
Title: Mamma mia, che impressione!
Character: Commissario sportivo
Released: April 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Shy, clumsy and petulant, Alberto tries in every way to impress Margherita. With the hope of winning the first prize, he participates in a race.
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Mamma mia, che impressione!
Title: Mamma mia, che impressione!
Character: Il giudice di gara
Released: April 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Shy, clumsy and petulant, Alberto tries in every way to impress Margherita. With the hope of winning the first prize, he participates in a race.
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Io sono il capataz
Title: Io sono il capataz
Character: Erasmo
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: Radiocronista
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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Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Title: Le sei mogli di Barbablù
Character: Lucas
Released: November 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.
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Tototarzan
Title: Tototarzan
Character: Il procuratore generale
Released: October 31, 1950
Type: Movie
Roaming the vast jungles of Congo with his best friend, Bongo the gorilla, Antonio della Buffas, a mysterious man whom the natives call the "white monkey", is utterly unaware that he is the long-lost son of a wealthy explorer. Then, three opportunists manage to capture and bring the white savage to civilisation, bent on getting their hands on his immense fortune.
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Figaro qua... Figaro là
Title: Figaro qua... Figaro là
Character: Pedro
Released: October 12, 1950
Type: Movie
In the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden.
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L'inafferrabile 12
Title: L'inafferrabile 12
Released: September 2, 1950
Type: Movie
Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery.
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Il vedovo allegro
Title: Il vedovo allegro
Character: Il commissario Durot
Released: June 30, 1950
Type: Movie
An artist of variety, known in art with the name of Bebè, is a charlatan in Cannes, in a company with Zallos, a shady type.
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Totò cerca moglie
Title: Totò cerca moglie
Character: Il signor Bellavista
Released: March 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.
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Totò le Mokò
Title: Totò le Mokò
Character: François
Released: December 20, 1949
Type: Movie
Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.
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Totò cerca casa
Title: Totò cerca casa
Character: capufficio
Released: December 9, 1949
Type: Movie
Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment.
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Fame and the Devil
Title: Fame and the Devil
Character: Soviet Delegate
Released: November 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.
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The Iron Swordsman
Title: The Iron Swordsman
Released: November 1, 1949
Type: Movie
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Antonio di Padova
Title: Antonio di Padova
Character: Don Luigi
Released: March 20, 1949
Type: Movie
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The Za-Bum Circus
Title: The Za-Bum Circus
Character: (segment "Galop finale al circo")
Released: March 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Anthology comedy/romance film
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Snow White and the Seven Thieves
Title: Snow White and the Seven Thieves
Character: il commendator Carlo Casertoni
Released: January 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A bizarre mechanic tells a traveler the story of a bank employee, Peppino Biancaneve, who with the help of a disc is trying to put together the words he would like to use to ask for the hand of the daughter of the jeweler Carlo Casertoni, but while he mulls over the sentences he should pronounce to his future father-in-law he comes across a strange individual who could be a bringer of bad luck: a jettatore.
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Toto Tours Italy
Title: Toto Tours Italy
Character: Enrico
Released: December 30, 1948
Type: Movie
A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl.
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Fifa e arena
Title: Fifa e arena
Character: Il medico
Released: November 23, 1948
Type: Movie
In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena....
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Woman Trouble
Title: Woman Trouble
Character: Il commendatore Giulio Carocci
Released: October 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Driven by the constant quarrels with his wife and humiliated by a rich Milanese industrialist after asking him for a job, an unemployed person decides to steal a car from a garage guarded by a friend.
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Heart
Title: Heart
Character: Master Lari
Released: March 10, 1948
Type: Movie
A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by Enrico Bottini.
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Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
Title: Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris
Character: Thenardier
Released: January 21, 1948
Type: Movie
The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris.
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Les Misérables - Manhunt
Title: Les Misérables - Manhunt
Character: Thénardier
Released: January 10, 1948
Type: Movie
Jean Valjean, pursued through the years for a minor infraction by the implacable policeman Javert, attempts to create a life for himself and for his adopted daughter Cosette amid the revolutionary struggles of France.
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Guarany
Title: Guarany
Character: Papà Gomez
Released: January 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Based on José de Alencar's novel, directed by Riccardo Freda.
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Sperduti nel buio
Title: Sperduti nel buio
Released: November 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Naples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries to blackmail the father.
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Tombolo, paradiso nero
Title: Tombolo, paradiso nero
Character: maresciallo Pugliesi
Released: October 24, 1947
Type: Movie
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
Title: The Adventures of Pinocchio
Character: Kirsche / Mastro Ciliegia
Released: April 17, 1947
Type: Movie
This is an Italian live action film with Alessandro Tomei as Pinocchio.
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Cronaca nera
Title: Cronaca nera
Released: February 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A mob boss seeks refuge from the police at the home of an ordinary family.
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Aquila Nera
Title: Aquila Nera
Character: Un servo
Released: September 21, 1946
Type: Movie
An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
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L'atleta di cristallo
Title: L'atleta di cristallo
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
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The Misery of Mr. Travet
Title: The Misery of Mr. Travet
Character: Il capo sezione
Released: December 15, 1945
Type: Movie
The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr. Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief.
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Il cappello da prete
Title: Il cappello da prete
Character: Judge Pavese
Released: November 10, 1944
Type: Movie
The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the body in an abandoned well. He continues his life of revelries and luxury, until the remorse for the crime trigger a process of self-destruction. The nightmares of the baron, tormented by the only evidence left of the murder, the hat of the priest ,drags him into a daring and hallucinated series of ups and downs to the brink of insanity and jail.
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La fornarina
Title: La fornarina
Character: Sebastiano Del Piombo
Released: October 1, 1944
Type: Movie
During Italian renaissance, young painter Raffaello Sanzio falls in love with Margherita, a maiden of the people, becomes her lover and lives with her. But this relationship arouses the jealousy of a beautiful aristocrat who secretly orders the kidnapping of the girl. Raffaello falls into a state of prostration and does everything he can to find Margherita...
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Enrico IV
Title: Enrico IV
Character: Il conte Tito Belcredi
Released: November 26, 1943
Type: Movie
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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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Silenzio, si gira!
Title: Silenzio, si gira!
Character: Il signore stonato
Released: October 2, 1943
Type: Movie
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I Do Not Move
Title: I Do Not Move
Character: Commendatore Strabotta
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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4 girls dream
Title: 4 girls dream
Released: August 5, 1943
Type: Movie
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Skyscrapers
Title: Skyscrapers
Character: Pietro Stoll
Released: June 17, 1943
Type: Movie
During a party a drunken guest falls from the terrace, killing himself. The police inspector in charge of the investigation suspects all the participants in turn, and mysterious stories come to light.
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Inviati speciali
Title: Inviati speciali
Character: Un colonnello
Released: April 27, 1943
Type: Movie
An Italian film from 1943.
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Gente dell’aria
Title: Gente dell’aria
Character: Il maggiore Arnaldi
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 nemico
Title: Il nemico
Character: Chief Inspector Pietro Stoll
Released: January 19, 1943
Type: Movie
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Malombra
Title: Malombra
Character: Il professore Binda
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.
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Soltanto un bacio
Title: Soltanto un bacio
Character: Volitor, l'equilibrista
Released: May 14, 1942
Type: Movie
Italian film from 1942.
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È caduta una donna
Title: È caduta una donna
Character: Fabbri, imprenditore
Released: December 17, 1941
Type: Movie
In Milan, an unwed mother, forced to flee from her town because of the scandal, meets a doctor who falls in love with her and marries her. But the couple's relationship breaks down almost immediately: the husband is unable to leave behind the woman's past and can not stand a son not his. So Dina, in an attempt to readjust the rapport, entrusts the child to the care of the mother of her seducer (meanwhile deceased). But the sacrifice is beyond her strength, and she's soon taken by the irresistible desire to get her child back: in damp and foggy night, on her way to the station...
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Le due tigri
Title: Le due tigri
Character: Sandokan
Released: November 29, 1941
Type: Movie
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I pirati della Malesia
Title: I pirati della Malesia
Released: October 18, 1941
Type: Movie
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Beatrice Cenci
Title: Beatrice Cenci
Character: Catalano
Released: September 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.
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L'allegro fantasma
Title: L'allegro fantasma
Character: Temistocle
Released: March 16, 1941
Type: Movie
The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.
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Eternal Melody
Title: Eternal Melody
Character: Leopoldo Mozart
Released: December 3, 1940
Type: Movie
The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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La fanciulla di Portici
Title: La fanciulla di Portici
Released: October 27, 1940
Type: Movie
During the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him with a Spanish patrician against his wishes.
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L'uomo del romanzo
Title: L'uomo del romanzo
Character: Zio Giulio
Released: October 18, 1940
Type: Movie
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Il capitano degli ussari
Title: Il capitano degli ussari
Released: October 10, 1940
Type: Movie
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Una lampada alla finestra
Title: Una lampada alla finestra
Character: Max
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
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Cose dell'altro mondo
Title: Cose dell'altro mondo
Character: Cook
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
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Ai vostri ordini, signora...
Title: Ai vostri ordini, signora...
Character: Maitre d'hotel
Released: February 15, 1939
Type: Movie
The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend. Then things change and the two fake boyfriends discover that they are really in love with each other.
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Il dottor Antonio
Title: Il dottor Antonio
Character: Aubrey
Released: December 12, 1937
Type: Movie
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Joe il Rosso
Title: Joe il Rosso
Character: Stefano of Sandelle-Lafitte
Released: December 7, 1936
Type: Movie
A precious painting suddenly disappears from the house of a noble Italian family. A relative from America investigates the mystery.
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La damigella di Bard
Title: La damigella di Bard
Character: Avvocato Palmieri
Released: January 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Venice Film Festival 1936
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Destiny Unknown
Title: Destiny Unknown
Released: November 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as railroad workers in turn-of-the-century South America. In addition to facing poverty, deprivation, and prejudice, the immigrants are also bedeviled by a raging fever epidemic. Finally achieving a measure of prosperity, the Italians are forced to confront tragedy once more when their grown children march off to WWI. Though Isa Miranda is top-billed, she has very little to do in comparison with male lead Filippo Scelso. Passaporto Rosso was released in the U.S. as Destiny Unknown.
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Freccia d'oro
Title: Freccia d'oro
Character: Ambasciatore Ellis
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Venice Film Festival 1935