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Amanti del passato (1953)
Character: N/A
Past Lovers (Italian: Amanti del passato) is a 1953 Italian melodrama film that was directed by Adelchi Bianchi and starring Lia Amanda, Vittorio Sanipoli and Irene Genna.
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La ladra (1955)
Character: Il maggiordomo
Whistle is an orphaned boy, raised in an environment unsuitable for a budding child and thief. A shady lawyer, an accomplice of thieves and fences, entrusts him to Nino, the leader of a gang that is preparing a particularly valuable coup.
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La bisbetica domata (1942)
Character: Battista, Catina's father
A modern retelling of The Taming of the Shrew shot in wartime Italy.
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Il bacio del sole (1958)
Character: Il vescovo
The story of homeless boys on the streets of Naples and of a priest who uses unusual methods to try to help them.
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Montevergine (1939)
Character: Bartolomeo
A blacksmith from Montevergine, accused of murder, flees to Argentina. Years later, a mute witness testifies to his innocence, leading to his acquittal. Just before returning home, an Argentine woman plants opium in his luggage, resulting in a ten-year prison sentence. After his release, he finds his daughter engaged to a wealthy landowner who had falsely accused him. Enraged, he plans to kill the man but is moved by grace at the Marian Shrine, lays down his weapon, and makes peace with his enemy.
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La statua vivente (1943)
Character: N/A
A sailor, Paolo, falls in love with a girl named Luisa. The two decides to get married, but on the day of the marriage the woman is involved in a serious car accident.
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Fiamme sulla laguna (1951)
Character: Antonio
After the death of his father, Anna starts working in the navy where he falls in love with a navy man.
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Il tallone di Achille (1952)
Character: Ingegnere Felix
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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Centomila dollari (1940)
Character: Stefano Zilay
On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.
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Vogliamoci bene! (1950)
Character: Guerrieri
The historic clock of a small town needs to be repaired but there is no money in the town coffers to pay for it. Don Paolo (Peppino Spadaro), the Priest, raises the money by lottery and thinks the surplus should go to the poor. The Communists and Socialists object because they are afraid the priest will get the credit and they claim it as "the people's money." The democratic mayor (Arturo Brogaglia) can think of no solution other than organizing committees and sub-committees. Finally, Rocchetti (Paola Stoppi), the town mechanic who has no answers for town problems and hates the clergy and politicians alike, comes forward and repairs the clock for the sheer joy of work.
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In cerca di felicità (1944)
Character: Peppino
Two young people fall in love and run away from home. They soon run out of money and he, who has a decent voice, finds work in a low-class variety show, where he is captivated by the charms of a dancer.
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Ha da venì... don Calogero! (1952)
Character: Evaristo, il farmacista
A good-natured priest inherits a large sum of money from a former student at his elementary school and must decide wisely on how to use it best.
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L'uomo dal guanto grigio (1948)
Character: N/A
A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy.
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Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice (1953)
Character: oste
Roberto Biasetti and a friend are unjustly sentenced to sixteen years in prison for murder. The true perpetrator of the crime is a man named Maremmano, who happens to be in the same cell. Released after a partial pardon, he feels indebted to the two men and to Roberto's girlfriend. He returns to prison and confesses his guilt.
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I promessi sposi (1941)
Character: Ambrogio Fusella
Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before being reunited and being able to marry.
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Prima comunione (1950)
Character: cliente che compra l'uovo pasquale
The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
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Casa Ricordi (1954)
Character: Carlotti
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
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Alina (1950)
Character: Paolo
A woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner.
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Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto (1941)
Character: Zio Nello
Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto is a 1941 Italian historical drama film directed by Goffredo Alessandrini and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Clara Calamai and Lamberto Picasso. Nazzari portrays the painter Caravaggio as a wayward genius. It was one of his favourite screen roles.
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Amori di mezzo secolo (1954)
Character: Teacher (segment "Guerra 1915-18")
Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.
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La Gorgona (1942)
Character: Il fedele servo di Spina
1017 AD. The Republic of Pisa is organizing a fleet to drive out the Saracens who are infesting the Mediterranean. While the forces are away "The Gorgon," the young daughter of a Pisan nobleman who has been heroically killed, comes to be solemnly invested as the figurehead virgin who will maintain a lantern to celebrate the men's victorious return. In charge of the home guard is an ambitious young Florentine who feels deprived of the forthcoming honour and glory, and who seeks revenge by violating the sacred person of the virgin. He gains access to her well guarded quarters, but when the Gorgon falls helplessly in love with him, his desire for vengeance falls away. His plot exposed, he commits suicide rather than invoke the wrath of the Pisans. The Gorgon too takes her life by throwing herself from a high tower. Meanwhile, the victorious Pisan vessels return.
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Ai vostri ordini, signora... (1939)
Character: Cameriere d'albergo
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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Abbasso la miseria! (1945)
Character: Commendator Trombetti
The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.
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La figlia del diavolo (1952)
Character: Il farmacista
Garibaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to be a patriot who has returned to Italy to take part in the fight but a degraded Bourbon official who has been promised rehabilitation if he can succeed as a spy. Tucci discovers old Sereni's second wife is one of his former lovers and persuades her to murder her husband so as to gain his inheritance. She does indeed cause the count to die, by withholding his heart medicine, but not before he destroys his will.
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Casta diva (1954)
Character: Giacinto Monti
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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Sambo (1950)
Character: Orseolo Orsetto, il conte
A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of chance. Sent a messenger to Brazil to gamble, the two men go wild and run up debts. When they realize they have won nothing, they initially fall into total despair; however the coachman had played a coupon from the football pools on his own account. He will win and make things right.
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4 passi fra le nuvole (1942)
Character: The conductor on the train
Travelling family man Paolo agrees to pose as husband to an unwed pregnant girl he meets on a train. However, once faced with her father, things do not go as planned.
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Questa è la vita (1954)
Character: L'amministratore
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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Goha (1959)
Character: Taj-el-Ouloum
As far as can be determined, Goha was Tunisia's first entry in the Cannes Film Festival. Omar Sharif stars as a naïve young man who is taken for granted by friends and family. Little do they know that he has more intelligence, tenacity and imagination than all of them put together. The story takes an unexpectedly dramatic turn when the man falls in love with the young wife of his village's elderly "wise man". Based on an ancient Tunisian folk tale, Goha boasts impressive production values and sure-handed direction (by Jacques Baratier).
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Sul ponte dei sospiri (1953)
Character: Il banchiere
Coming of age, a girl is told the truth about her dead father: he is alive, but imprisoned for several crimes he did not commit... With the help of an old noble lady and a young count (who doubles as a daring sea captain), she will fight for the truth, and justice. Her opponent is the State Town's Inquisitor himself, who set her father's up to escape his own crimes.
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Lo sai che i papaveri... (1952)
Character: preside
A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.
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Bellezze a Capri (1951)
Character: Don Camillo
The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.
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Oltre l'amore (1940)
Character: Il conte Sabelli-Catanzaro, ministro di polizia
Set in the Papal States in the first half of the 19th century, it tells the story of the Roman noblewoman Vanina Vanini and her secret love for the Carbonaro Pietro Mirilli. The latter, given his commitments in the underground struggle, decides to abandon his young lover, who is nevertheless willing to marry him. Left alone, Vanina is unable to escape her despair and tries in every way to reunite with her companion, even going so far as to denounce the Carbonari to the Cardinal of Romagna, naming them all except Pietro and revealing the hiding place where they meet. Pietro, learning of Vanina's betrayal, casts her out. Only then does Vanina realize the gravity of her actions and decides to join the Carbonari, even participating in combat operations, during one of which she is wounded. This brings the two young people closer together forever.
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Siamo tutti inquilini (1953)
Character: Avv. Sassi
Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
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L'età dell'amore (1953)
Character: il vice preside
In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.
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Abbasso la ricchezza! (1946)
Character: Il commandatore Bardacò
Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She also becomes involved with some very dubious characters who profit from her ignorance and cheat her out of her money.
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Pellegrini d'amore (1954)
Character: Capitano peschereccio
In this farce Madame Dalia (Alda Mangini) is a mature countess/pseudo-spiritualist grifter who has rented a villa by the sea and, avoiding police surveillance, runs a clandestine gambling den. In town for a peace conference two suitors, one American and one German, go to the gambling house in an attempt to win over Giulietta (Sophia Loren) Madame Dalia’s supposed niece, a woman they believe was the subject of a portrait they became enamoured with during the war.
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Il sicario (1961)
Character: N/A
An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in person, he hired his former employee who needs money.
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La Rosa di Bagdad (1949)
Character: Gran Kadi (voice) / Zirko (voice)
Princess Zeila, daughter of Caliph Oman III, is preparing to review the nobles who aspire to her hand. The sinister Prince Jafar plots in the shadows: the young musician Amin will see to it that love can triumph, with the help of the Genie of the Lamp.
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La resa di Titì (1945)
Character: N/A
A young diplomat falls in love with a lady he has followed in the street and in order to establish a relationship, he introduces her into her house proposing a connection between Titì, the lady's dog and her Pekingese. The husband of the woman, somewhat naive, lends itself to the game and the dongiovanni becomes a regular home. The lady knows how to resist the siege and, after the critical moment, speaks clearly to the young man who definitively desists from the enterprise.
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Io, suo padre (1939)
Character: Sardella
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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Domani è troppo tardi (1950)
Character: Signor Giusti
Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with one another and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom.
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Noi siamo le colonne (1956)
Character: il signor Bonci
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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Il cielo è rosso (1950)
Character: The shoemaker
Daniele, a 16 year old boy, runs away from boarding school after a catastrophic bombing, only to find his home destroyed and his parents dead. Alone in the world he meets Tullio, a disbanded boy who lives in an abandoned area with some girls, Carla, an eighteen year old girl who works as a prostitute, Giulia, younger and sick of tuberculosis, and a girl, Maria.
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Il mondo vuole così (1946)
Character: padre di Carla
Accused of having stolen 3 million liras, a bank employee serves five years in prison. Having served his sentence and believed to be rich, he was showered with care and attention by everyone, even his wife. When the real perpetrator of the theft is found, he is despised and mocked. Then he actually steals some money and runs away with his wife.
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Imputato, alzatevi! (1939)
Character: L'uomo dagli schiaffi
Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.
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La cena delle beffe (1942)
Character: Il Trinca
In Florence, at the time of Lorenzo de Medici, known also as Lorenzo the Magnificent, the aristocrat brothers Chiaramantesi rule with an iron fist the streets of the city. Ruthless and fierce, the two brothers have chosen as their special victim the innocent and harmless Giannetto. Even though determined to not react to the cruel pranks of the brothers, Giannetto is forced to take a stand when Ginevra, a beautiful girl that works in the Chiaramantesi household, is dragged into the game. To defend his honor and protect the girl, Giannetto works out a fiendish plot that will end in blood and madness.
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Le Confident de ces dames (1959)
Character: Le President
A veterinarian in Figarolo, Giuliano Goberti has also been providing care to the villagers since the death of Dr. Lofal, but the arrival of a luscious replacement for the vacant doctor precipitates events. While she prescribes drugs, Giuliano orders the bedridden Countess to eat well and exercise. A Roman journalist reports on the miraculous results. Soon the quiet little Italian town is invaded by a motley crew of imaginary patients, who have to bring an animal with them to save the vet from trouble for practicing medicine illegally. In the end, the brave Giuliano marries the lovely doctoress, thus curing their celibacy.
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I tre ladri (1954)
Character: Il procuratore
Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.
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Preludio d'amore (1947)
Character: Valentino
After returning from the war Davide, a fisherman from Liguria, discovers that his girl Anna has been courted and compromised by a sailor named Rocco. Rocco’s other girl, Tea, takes revenge by denouncing him to the police. In remorse she commits suicide by drowning herself.
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Un burattino di nome Pinocchio (1972)
Character: Grillo Parlante (voice)
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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La banda degli onesti (1956)
Character: Andrea
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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