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I due sergenti (1936)
Character: Luisa
Attempting to cover the fault of one of his subordinates, an officer of the Napoleonic army is condemned to death for treason.
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Lacrime di sposa (1956)
Character: Gianni's mother
While working as a restaurant singer to make ends meet, a young man is pushed to pursuing a musical career in spite of his girlfriend's disapproval.
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Il barcaiolo di Amalfi (1954)
Character: Serafina
"Antonio" leaves his family to live a prosperous life with Cristina. Her family live in a slum where their lives are complicated by young love and jealousy. A letter from a local priest that implicates "Antonio" in the murder of an English nobleman comes to light and soon they are all before the King.
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Ho scelto l'amore (1953)
Character: Elisabetta, la zia di Marisa
A satire of the Cold War, Italian style. Soviet flunkey Boris Popovitc is sent on a goodwill mission to Rome, where he is to deliver a symbolic dove of peace to a group of WW II freedom fighters. Somehow, Boris winds up in Venice minus the dove. As he searches up street and down canal for the missing bird, he meets and falls in love with luscious flower-girl Maria.
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30 secondi d'amore (1936)
Character: La zia Giovanna Siriani
A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.
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L'ultimo ballo (1941)
Character: La vedova Jurika
A good lady, taken by the fear of getting old, gives herself to the frivolities of worldly life.
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Ti ho sempre amato! (1953)
Character: suor Margherita
A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune. This she will be able to temporarily make the two young men go away but the man makes his girlfriend understand that her is true love; he realizes that he has been the victim of a scam and will bring the woman he has always loved to the altar.
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Peccato che sia una canaglia (1954)
Character: Elsa, moglie di Michele
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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Prepotenti più di prima (1959)
Character: signora Norma
Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan.
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Io, suo padre (1939)
Character: Amalia, mamma di Masetto
An ex-boxer has trained his own son and leads him on to win the middle-weight championship of Italy. But the boy falls easy prey to a woman of light morals and renounces the hard work of sport to follow her to a winter luxury resort and at a certain moment, offers to marry her but she, not wanting to give up an advantageous connection, turns him down, advising the youth to not change the nature of their relationship. Then, the boy feeling the entire baseness of his situation, returns home to his parents who welcome him back with joy and takes up again a commitment to sport.
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La fortuna di essere donna (1956)
Character: Mirella Fontanisi
A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.
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Le infedeli (1953)
Character: Marisa's Mother
A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others.
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