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La cento chilometri (1959)
Character: Il corridore superstizioso
During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations
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Stasera sciopero (1951)
Character: N/A
A scientist combines two brains during an operation to create one perfect mind.
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Mina... fuori la guardia (1961)
Character: il tenente
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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Una donna senza nome (1989)
Character: L'allevatore
A wheelchair bound woman's life is at stake as her maid and chauffeur plot her murder in order to gain an inheritance.
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Carica eroica (1952)
Character: Soldato di cavalleria
In 1941 an Italian regiment known as the Savoy Cavalry is sent by Mussolini to Russia to assist the German invasion. After crossing an extensive area of Soviet territory the men arrive at a village that seems deserted. A patrol sent on reconnaissance comes under machine-gun fire from the top of a bell-tower.
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Champagne in paradiso (1983)
Character: Director
Musical, in the style of GREASE, with dance numbers and entertainment. Set in a high school, about the ups and downs in the love affair between Paola, the class mischief maker, and Marco, a substitute teacher.
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Fantozzi (1975)
Character: Filini
A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.
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Fra' Manisco cerca guai... (1960)
Character: Franceschiello
Father Pacifico is a genuine friar with a brisk manner, for this reason he is nicknamed Father Manisco. The religious finds himself grappling with a thorny case, as Don Liborio, a Neapolitan lord, dominates all local events, including the love choices of his young daughter. Father Pacifico manages to restore harmony and order despite a thousand difficulties.
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Gli innamorati (1955)
Character: Annibale
Despite of (or perhaps because of ) its sparse production values and unpretentiousness, the Italian Gli Innamorati was feted at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. The bulk of the story takes place in a single Roman neighborhood. In the manner of the 1925 German classic A Joyless Street, director Mauro Bolognini studies the hopes, dreams, successes and failures of the neighborhood's various and sundry denizens. No one subplot dominates the proceedings, though a bit of extra time is afforded the story of a fickle seamstress and her seemingly meek-and-mild boyfriend. The cast is dotted with such reassuringly familiar faces as Nino Manfredi and Gino Cervi. Released in the US as Wild Love, Gli Innamorati was instrumental in bringing international fame to director Bolognini, whose career soon shifted into high drive.
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Fantozzi alla riscossa (1990)
Character: Rag. Renzo Filini
Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.
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Anna di Brooklyn (1958)
Character: Berardo
A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.
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Ferdinando I° Re di Napoli (1959)
Character: N/A
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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Il secondo tragico Fantozzi (1976)
Character: Rag. Renzo Filini
The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.
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Fantozzi - Il ritorno (1996)
Character: Ragionier Filini
Ugo Fantozzi has been ejected from Heaven and is sent back to Earth for a short period of time until the staff in Heaven can get Fantozzi a place there. Fantozzi goes through a variety of unfortunate experiences, such as rescuing his retro punk granddaughter Uga, and having to pay a vast telephone bill due to frequent chat line conversations. He ends up getting arrested instead of his ex-boss, who was originally charged with corruption. Just as he is about to enjoy the World Cup Final with Italy, he is called back into Heaven. Can he find peace once again?
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Cafè Express (1980)
Character: Antonio Cammarota
An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.
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Il vedovo (1959)
Character: avocat Girondi
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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Mi faccia causa (1985)
Character: avvocato dei due romanisti
Judge Pennisi deals with a lot of citizens every day, some of them criminals, but almost always ordinary people, suffering from a wide range of problems.
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Zingara (1969)
Character: il Cavaliere
Franco, singer in search of success, falls in love with Marisa. But she walks away from him to stay close to her sick cousin.
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Il tifoso, l'arbitro e il calciatore (1983)
Character: Commendator Pecorazzi
Two soccer stories: Alvaro Presutti is a referee who seems to be the last to know about his wife having an affair with a German soccer star. Amedeo Amedei has to please both his father, a die hard Roma supporter and his future father in law, who supports Lazio.
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Fracchia contro Dracula (1985)
Character: Rag. Filini
Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house with at least five bathrooms within three days or his boss will fire him. Incredibly, he and his pal Filini manage to find the perfect house, a castle in Transylvania owned by some count Vlad... things get even worse when they meet the Count and his sister, who has a crush on Fracchia and decides to marry him!
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Ma che musica maestro (1971)
Character: Benedetto, padre di Giulietta
The love story between two youths born in rival villages is hindered by the other inhabitants.
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L'emigrante (1973)
Character: marito della madre di Peppino
Movie starts with a small boy watching his father boarding a ship to America. Years later, all grown up and in colour, Pippolo Cavallo (Adriano Celentano) takes the same route (dressed as a woman) to search for his father and begin a new life.
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Parigi o cara (1962)
Character: Il Portinaio
Parigi O Cara is probably the most camp in the history of Italian cinema, certainly a favourite with the GLBT community who quote its lines by heart. Unique as it's the only film where Franca Valeri (now 90) is the unquestioned star, in the role of Delia, a snobbish, stingy prostitute who is moving to Paris looking for greener and more lucrative pastures. An anti-neorealist, amoral, almost abstract comedy, which anticipates Almodóvar, a ferocious, though gentle, non-moralistic portrayal of the 60's boom and its broken dreams. The dialogue between Delia and her brother (played by Fiorenzo Fiorentini), when he does (or does not) tell her he is a homosexual, is memorable, a primordial coming-out, a masterpiece of allusions. But what makes it one of the first examples of a film with a "gay point of view" is the approach: perceptive, non-conformist, caustically witty. A film ahead of its times, still unbeaten.
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Rag. Arturo De Fanti, bancario precario (1980)
Character: Willy
The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.
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L'oro di Napoli (1954)
Character: Don Peppino's friend (segment "Pizze a credito") (uncredited)
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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Fracchia la belva umana (1981)
Character: Madre della Belva Umana
The world's greatest criminal and the world greatest loser share the same face... now they'll share the same life!
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Lo chiamavano Bulldozer (1978)
Character: Curatolo
The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees.
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Superfantozzi (1986)
Character: Filini
Superfantozzi (1986) is an Italian film from 1986. It is the fifth film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio. In this film, Fantozzi is portrayed in a surreal historical journey, from Genesis to 1980s.
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Pane, amore e gelosia (1954)
Character: Ricuccio
The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
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Vieni avanti cretino (1982)
Character: L'uomo dal dentista
Pasquale Baudaffi, on amnesty, comes out of prison and starts looking for a job with the help of his cousin Gaetano. But first he goes to what was once a brothel, but, unbeknownst to our hapless hero, has been taken over and rented as a dental office. Pasquale finds himself at the center of endless misunderstandings. He tries to be a gamekeeper but that's not okay, he tries to be a waiter in a bar: he immediately gets his orders wrong and he is fired. His performance as a garage keeper was negative. The very latest experience is in an electronics company but its insertion into the futuristic mechanism triggers the craziest complications. The encounter with a lost dog allows him to get to know his mistress and thus discover the woman of his life.
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Bellezze in bicicletta (1951)
Character: N/A
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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Made in Italy (1965)
Character: The Tobacconist (segment "4 'Cittadini, stato e chiesa', episode 1")
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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Grandi magazzini (1986)
Character: Detenuto Nardini / Piazzista del Robot
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
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Le quattro giornate di Napoli (1962)
Character: Partigiano (voice)
September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, most people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon realize Germans are still in control—and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, the Neapolitan civilians spontaneously rise up en masse against their occupants—and overwhelming odds, driving them from the city after four days of fighting.
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Riavanti… Marsch! (1979)
Character: Colonel Luigi Placidi
Five forty-year-old boys, who had been soldiers together, find themselves, once again in uniform, for a forty-day update period, during which they should learn the use of a new NATO-supplied missile.
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Fantozzi contro tutti (1980)
Character: Rag. Filini
The third film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio.
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Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone (1983)
Character: Pellecchia
Marino Stroppaghetti is a breadwinner in a layoff fund who, in order to make some money, arranges himself by doing small tailoring jobs at home. Desperate for having received the eviction, he turns to the City of Rome, where he discovers that there are as many as 80 thousand questions before his. How to do?
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Satiricosissimo (1970)
Character: oste
Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.
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Una bruna indiavolata! (1951)
Character: Cameriere bar stazione (uncredited)
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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Stazione Termini (1953)
Character: Bridegroom from Abruzzo (uncredited)
While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?
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Il... Belpaese (1977)
Character: Alfredo, marito di Elena
After many years working abroad, Guido comes back to Milan. His dream is to set up a clock-shop but Italy is much changed while he was abroad. Robbery and bombs are daily events and to go out for a walk in the evening is risky. He succeeds however in setting up his shop only to see it destroyed by gangsters. But he meets a girl who calls herself Mia and he falls for her.
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La bella di Roma (1955)
Character: Luigi
Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman.
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Fantozzi va in pensione (1988)
Character: Rag. Filini
After thirty years in the big corporation, Ugo Fantozzi retires. Suddenly, he needs things to do in everyday life and he tries a number of activities: helping Pina shopping; babysitting grand-daughter Uga; a trip to Venice; learning golf. He then fakes documents to get a new job, but in the end he becomes a hypochondriac and doesn't even take a long-awaited chance with Miss Silvani.
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Il Grande Cocomero (1993)
Character: Prof. Turcati
An epileptic 12-year-old girl, Pippi, is hospitalized in the psychiatric ward instead of the neurological ward, due to an administration error. Out of this mistake begins the difficult journey towards being cured.
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Il giudizio universale (1961)
Character: il pazzariello
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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Fantozzi in paradiso (1993)
Character: Filini
One by one, with a sweet but inexorable rate, Ugo's colleagues, go to a better life. When Ugo is attending at one of the innumerable funerals, he and the priest remain involved in an accident. The doctor says that Ugo as only one week left to live
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Dove vai in vacanza? (1978)
Character: Dottor Panunti (episodio "Si Buana")
In three vignettes, two exes, a tour guide and a married couple struggle to overcome a series of misadventures during their vacations.
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Quando la coppia scoppia (1982)
Character: Piergiorgio Martini
A woman takes advantage of the fact that her husband allowed himself to be praised for divorce to demand immediate separation.
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Pane, amore e fantasia (1953)
Character: Ricuccio
When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
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Fantozzi subisce ancora (1983)
Character: Ragionier Filini
After a hard day at work and a condominium-board meeting, accountant Ugo Fantozzi goes on a trip with his family. Unfortunately, he will face a nasty surprise upon his return.
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La Califfa (1970)
Character: Le serveur
La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
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