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In cerca di felicità (1944)
Character: Cesarino
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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Finalmente libero (1953)
Character: Enrico Rossi
Enrico Rossi is accused of polygamy for having married six different women over the years.
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Tentazioni proibite (1965)
Character: N/A
Italian documentary film shot in several European towns (Berlin, Hamburg, London, Paris, Venice) as well as in Rome's De Paolis Studios. The movie features a series of strip-tease numbers intermixed with real-life scenes and interviews.
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Giove in doppiopetto (1955)
Character: Giove
Jupiter decides to spend his 3,000th birthday on earth amongst the humans. Mercury suggests he take the place of a newly married politician so he can have some fun with the man's new wife - but nothing goes to plan!
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Canzoni di mezzo secolo (1952)
Character: N/A
Through a series of scenes inspired by famous songs, various episodes of Italian life in the last fifty years are recalled.
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Baracca e burattini (1954)
Character: N/A
An inhabitant of the Moon, crashed on the Earth due to the violent shock caused by an atomic experiment, remains amazed by the discovery of this planet and gives life to a puppet, begging him to introduce him into the world of men.
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Quelli belli... siamo noi (1970)
Character: Luigi 'Gino' Castrosalvo
Amateur songwriter falls in love with a Sicilian girl, but her father has already promised her to another.
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Donne proibite (1954)
Character: Vittorio
When "Tamara" throws herself from the window of their brothel, her colleagues are made to realise that a new law will close down the source of their livelihood. The girls must now find honest work.
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Lo scocciatore (1953)
Character: Avvocato Tancredo Tancredi
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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Tango blu (1987)
Character: maestro Zaniboni
Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing photographer and a porter who works in a slaughterhouse.
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La famiglia (1987)
Character: Giulio as an old man
"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
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Fortunella (1958)
Character: Un attore della Compagnia
A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.
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Accadde al commissariato (1954)
Character: Antonio Badimenti
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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Nel giorno del signore (1970)
Character: Comandante Guardie Svizzere
Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent?
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Polvere di stelle (1973)
Character: himself
The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style. Effectively, they perform up to their expectations. However, as the army men have to march northward, their moment of glory finishes heartlessly.
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Ci troviamo in galleria (1953)
Character: Ignazio Panizza detto Gardenio
Ignazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with an exceptional voice.
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Viva il cinema (1953)
Character: Ferdinando d'Alba
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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Il vedovo allegro (1950)
Character: Bebè
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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Lisa dagli occhi blu (1969)
Character: Agostino il giardiniere
A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard industrialist, whom he fell in love with. But Lisa's father, unfortunately, already has in mind for her a marriage with a very rich suitor ...
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La moglie è uguale per tutti (1955)
Character: Porphyry of the Walnut
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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I pompieri di Viggiù (1949)
Character: Carlo Dapporto
In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.
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La presidentessa (1952)
Character: Cipriano Gaudet, il ministro
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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