Mario Passante

Mario Passante

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Adultero lui, adultera lei
Title: Adultero lui, adultera lei
Character: cliente dell'albergo
Released: July 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Lina, a young woman now tired of the constant betrayals from her husband, decides to cheat on him with a mutual friend, Piero.
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I Am Semiramis
Title: I Am Semiramis
Character: Naval Constructor
Released: March 22, 1963
Type: Movie
Semiramis, a powerful and beautiful Assyrian queen, oversees the construction of the luxurious city of Babylon. She falls in love with Kir, a fallen prince turned into a slave who corresponds to her love. But a palace conspiracy will make the two lovers separate and confront each other.
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The Four Truths
Title: The Four Truths
Character: Le restaurateur
Released: December 21, 1962
Type: Movie
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.
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The Swordsman of Siena
Title: The Swordsman of Siena
Released: October 19, 1962
Type: Movie
A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas finds himself drawn to both the fiancee and the rebels side.
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Getting Away with It the Italian Way
Title: Getting Away with It the Italian Way
Released: May 4, 1962
Type: Movie
Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed.
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Roaring Years
Title: Roaring Years
Character: commerciante fascista
Released: April 21, 1962
Type: Movie
In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
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Accroche-toi, y'a du vent!
Title: Accroche-toi, y'a du vent!
Released: April 20, 1962
Type: Movie
A self-taught amateur detective who learned his trade from a book finds himself caught between two gangs in Milan, trying to recover a wooden leg full of drugs. He is accompanied by an unlikely trio: a deaf secretary, an undertaker and a monkey.
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Boccaccio '70
Title: Boccaccio '70
Character: Sacristan (segment "Le tentazioni del dottor ...") (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1962
Type: Movie
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
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The Last Judgment
Title: The Last Judgment
Released: October 26, 1961
Type: Movie
The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color.
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Black City
Title: Black City
Character: Il ministro Razzullo
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: Movie
A charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police inspector.
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The Thief of Baghdad
Title: The Thief of Baghdad
Released: March 23, 1961
Type: Movie
When Karim impersonates a prince Osman, he steals the heart of Amina the Sultans daughter. The real prince intends to get Amina back by giving her a love potion. But his plan backfires and Amina becomes deathly ill. Karim must make it through 7 doors to retrieve the only thing that can save his love-a mystical blue rose. A timeless, enchanting story!
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Robin Hood and the Pirates
Title: Robin Hood and the Pirates
Character: Brooks' friend
Released: December 23, 1960
Type: Movie
On his way to (or from) the Crusades, Robin Hood is shipwrecked but saved by pirates who plan to return him home in order to ransom him to his father.
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The Traffic Policeman
Title: The Traffic Policeman
Character: il comm. Marinetti
Released: November 16, 1960
Type: Movie
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
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La contessa azzurra
Title: La contessa azzurra
Character: Don Ciccio
Released: September 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Loreley looks back to the happy times when she became a silent movie star with the huge success of "La Contessa Azzurra", directed by Don Salvatore and produced by Don Peppino, the owner of a Café Chantant.
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Caccia al marito
Title: Caccia al marito
Character: impiegato dell'agenzia di collocamento
Released: August 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Italy, Sixties. A four-storey beach resort, and they look for the man of their life. Will they succeed?
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Black Sunday
Title: Black Sunday
Character: Nikita - Coachman
Released: August 11, 1960
Type: Movie
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant, Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
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Valley of the Doomed
Title: Valley of the Doomed
Released: April 8, 1960
Type: Movie
1860, the great Duchess of Parma, Maria Luisa, wants to provide her little state with train tracks, in spite of the opposition she gets from certain noble people.
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I piaceri dello scapolo
Title: I piaceri dello scapolo
Released: March 30, 1960
Type: Movie
Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings.
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Ferdinand I King of Naples
Title: Ferdinand I King of Naples
Released: December 22, 1959
Type: Movie
The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises in search of love adventures. With the De Filippo brothers to complete.
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The Widower
Title: The Widower
Character: Comm. Lambertoni
Released: November 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.
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Perfide.... ma belle
Title: Perfide.... ma belle
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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Il romanzo di un giovane povero
Title: Il romanzo di un giovane povero
Released: March 29, 1958
Type: Movie
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Il marito
Title: Il marito
Released: February 6, 1958
Type: Movie
Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother and sister who live with the married couple. Alberto is also experiencing financial problems and hopes for the help of a rich widow who is however interested in his sexual favours. Naturally Elena puts obstacles in his way and everything goes wrong. Alberto decides to change job then and becomes a sweets sales representative. Disillusioned with marital life he also changes his attitude towards women: he tells every woman he meets he is single.
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Love and Chatter
Title: Love and Chatter
Released: January 31, 1958
Type: Movie
Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...
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Nights of Cabiria
Title: Nights of Cabiria
Character: Uncle of Amleto
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: Inspecteur
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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Parola di ladro
Title: Parola di ladro
Character: altro impresario
Released: February 13, 1957
Type: Movie
Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in the jewelry store of Gabriele Bertinori, and with this position he plans to rob the place.
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Mi permette babbo!
Title: Mi permette babbo!
Released: December 6, 1956
Type: Movie
While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.
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Incatenata dal destino
Title: Incatenata dal destino
Character: Michele Capasso
Released: February 24, 1956
Type: Movie
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The Bigamist
Title: The Bigamist
Character: Avvocato dei Fornaciari
Released: February 17, 1956
Type: Movie
A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.
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The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Title: The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Character: Capitano dei gendarmi
Released: October 27, 1955
Type: Movie
A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after the miller's wife Carmela. The miller himself plans to avenge his honor by seducing the wife of the governor.
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La moglie è uguale per tutti
Title: La moglie è uguale per tutti
Character: Tiburzio (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
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The Swindle
Title: The Swindle
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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Are We Men or Corporals?
Title: Are We Men or Corporals?
Character: The German sergeant
Released: August 26, 1955
Type: Movie
These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, suffering the harassment of Colonel Hammler, a Nazi cruel and despotic.
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Le vacanze del Sor Clemente
Title: Le vacanze del Sor Clemente
Released: June 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa he's left in the company of a friend and a butler.
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Good night… lawyer!
Title: Good night… lawyer!
Released: March 16, 1955
Type: Movie
A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tries to escape from her jealous husband. Fascinated by the beauty of the unexpected guest, the lawyer is determined to conquer her, in vain. But when the woman leaves, she discovers that she has been stolen some money.
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Totò all'inferno
Title: Totò all'inferno
Character: Il padre di Antonio
Released: March 16, 1955
Type: Movie
After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.
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The Seducer
Title: The Seducer
Character: Commendatore lawyer
Released: December 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.
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Too Bad She's Bad
Title: Too Bad She's Bad
Character: Il commissario
Released: December 28, 1954
Type: Movie
When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences.
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Casta diva
Title: Casta diva
Character: Re Ferdinando I
Released: December 27, 1954
Type: Movie
As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
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Napoli terra d'amore
Title: Napoli terra d'amore
Released: December 8, 1954
Type: Movie
The story of an honest young man entangled by a night singer in the Camorra.
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The Gold of Naples
Title: The Gold of Naples
Character: Giovanni - the Butler (segment "I giocatori")
Released: December 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of six Napolitean episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster; an inconstant pizza seller (Sofia) losing her husband's ring; the funeral of a dead child; the gambler Count Prospero B. defeated by a kid; the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute; the "professor" Ersilio Micci, a "wisdom seller".
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It Happened at the Police Station
Title: It Happened at the Police Station
Character: Bartolomeo, lover of Silvana
Released: October 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish.
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La Strada
Title: La Strada
Character: Waiter (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1954
Type: Movie
When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus strongman Zampanò to be his wife and partner, she loyally endures her husband's coldness and abuse as they travel the Italian countryside performing together. Soon Zampanò must deal with his jealousy and conflicted feelings about Gelsomina when she finds a kindred spirit in Il Matto, the carefree circus fool, and contemplates leaving Zampanò.
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Love song
Title: Love song
Released: September 2, 1954
Type: Movie
An aspiring singer is torn between the love for a devious ex-flame, the affection of a simple girl and the loyalty to his paralyzed best friend.
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Lettera napoletana
Title: Lettera napoletana
Character: Waiter
Released: July 11, 1954
Type: Movie
Warehouseman "Franco" is set up by the son of his boss for robbery and cigarette smuggling. Can he prove his innocence and rescue his relationship with "Anna"?
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Desiderio 'e sole
Title: Desiderio 'e sole
Character: amico de Sonia
Released: April 13, 1954
Type: Movie
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The Anatomy of Love
Title: The Anatomy of Love
Character: Passeggero dell'autobus
Released: March 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
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It Happened in the Park
Title: It Happened in the Park
Character: Commendator Mocchetti
Released: December 18, 1953
Type: Movie
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
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Passionate song
Title: Passionate song
Character: impresario Vitale
Released: November 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Lucia Spinelli, orphaned by both parents, is taken as a housekeeper in the house of Mrs. Carla Parodi, when she reaches the age of majority, the young woman is almost forced to marry Mrs. Carla's brother. After the marriage and the birth of the first child, Parodi's intrusions on the life of the two spouses continue.
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I'll See You on the Balcony
Title: I'll See You on the Balcony
Character: Padrone del teatrino
Released: November 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Ignazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with an exceptional voice.
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The She-Wolf
Title: The She-Wolf
Character: Don Pietro Imbornone
Released: September 25, 1953
Type: Movie
A woman in her thirties is a single mother of a teenager daughter, and both are in love with the same young soldier. Mother sacrifices herself for Maricchia's marriage, but ultimately falls to her own passion, leading to family disruption.
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Neapolitan Turk
Title: Neapolitan Turk
Character: Peppino
Released: September 16, 1953
Type: Movie
Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.