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Sempre più difficile (1943)
Character: Don Ignazio D'Azevegno
Sicily, early 1900s. An impoverished prince settles into the house of a rich shipowner and becomes his counselor.
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Arriva la banda (1959)
Character: N/A
Love is born between Anna, daughter of Alfonso, a wealthy farmer, and Luigi, a drum player in a musical band, who live in two different villages-Square on the Piano and Casalieta. This feeling is thwarted by her father, who would like to give her in marriage to Nicolino, a law student and son of a landowner, who has seen the girl only once and was struck by her beauty. Ahead of a party, her father prevents Anna from going out into the square where the band is scheduled to perform; the girl then comes up with the idea of delivering a note to Rosetta, the innkeeper's sister and a great friend of hers, finding mediation from Marcellino.
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La schiava del peccato (1954)
Character: cancelliere del tribunale
A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult.
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Lazzarella (1957)
Character: Professor Avallone
Luciano, who studies at the university, falls in love with Sandra, a high school student, who returns his love. If her family is very rich, his family is of modest extraction; however, the difference in condition does not seem to be a problem, and Luciano's degree increases the hope of a happy future. However, following a sudden financial collapse, Sandra's family business failed: so, to help her parents, the girl accepted the kindness of a very rich childhood friend, deciding to marry him.
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Terza liceo (1954)
Character: Scandurra, il professore di Storia
It's the last year of highschool of a group of teenagers, and now they have to face their final exam, and the loves, happy or not, that sprung during those years of school.
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Legione straniera (1953)
Character: Gennaro
Alberto Gherardi, a sailor is wrongly suspected of murder, flied and enroll into the Foreign Legion. His unfaithful fiancee Irene goes to look for him with his young brother Enrico, but the latter is killed. Will she still manage to free her lover?
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1860 - I mille di Garibaldi (1934)
Character: un altro cittadino siciliano
The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.
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In nome della legge (1949)
Character: Don Fifì
A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.
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Urlatori Alla Sbarra (1960)
Character: senatore Bucci
Follows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire jiving from some of Rome's citizens, and bitter complants from others which inspire a group of corrupt officials determined to a bring the group down.
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Il sole negli occhi (1953)
Character: Macaluso
A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.
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Buonanotte... avvocato! (1955)
Character: nonno di Bianca Maria
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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Anni facili (1953)
Character: N/A
A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.
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Mi permette babbo! (1956)
Character: Il nonno di Gianni
While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.
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Questa è la vita (1954)
Character: Zi' Dima, mastro del paese
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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Un giorno in pretura (1954)
Character: Il cancelliere
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
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Accadde al commissariato (1954)
Character: Cannizzaro, il vecchio della penna
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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3 straniere a Roma (1958)
Character: Turiddu
Three girls from Milan dreaming of a holiday in Rome arrive in the city by train and decide to pretend to be rich Danish girls to attract three nice guys... Three guys looking for easy-going girls offer them a guided tour through the most beautiful places of the city. The girls accept and make the guys spend a fortune, but one evening they get drunk and one of them incidentally reveals she's just from Milan. The guys get upset and set up a sort of revenge, but in the end they make it up.
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Roma città aperta (1945)
Character: Grandfather (uncredited)
In WWII-era Rome, underground resistance leader Manfredi attempts to evade the Gestapo by enlisting the help of Pina, the fiancée of a fellow member of the resistance, and Don Pietro, the priest due to oversee her marriage. But it’s not long before the Nazis and the local police find him.
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Gambe d'oro (1958)
Character: sindaco
Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a triumphant championship, is about to be promoted to Serie C.
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La moglie è uguale per tutti (1955)
Character: Beretta
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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Siamo tutti inquilini (1953)
Character: Cavalier Terzetti
Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
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Giuseppe Verdi (1953)
Character: Pawnbroker (uncredited)
The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas.
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Scuola elementare (1954)
Character: Salvatore Serafini
Dante Trilli, who has been teaching in his village school for about twenty years, wins a competition for Milan. Waiting for him is his childhood friend, where he is the janitor in the school where Trilli will teach.
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Processo alla città (1952)
Character: Ragioniere Filippetti
Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.
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La vecchia signora (1932)
Character: N/A
An elderly chestnut vendor lives in poverty but once a month puts on a show with silk and a carriage to impress her daughter in a convent. One day she is robbed of her meager savings.
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L'arte di arrangiarsi (1954)
Character: Detenuto
In this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous guy, nephew of the mayor of Catania, and he's always ready to take sides with anyone who can help him. He switches from socialism to fascism; he changes his political faith the same way he changes women. He even tries to found his own party.
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Noi peccatori (1953)
Character: Il collega vecchio
A man and a woman love each other, but they can’t marry because he’s ashamed of his unjustly incarcerated mother. What’s more, he loses his eyesight in an accident.
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Cento anni d'amore (1954)
Character: Veterinario di Monterotondo (segment "Garibaldina")
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
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Racconti romani (1955)
Character: The Bespectacled Customer at Barber's (uncredited)
Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?
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Le signorine dello 04 (1955)
Character: N/A
The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant.
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Arrivano i dollari! (1957)
Character: N/A
A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance...
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Bravissimo (1955)
Character: N/A
The master Impallato takes care of the boys in a suburban after-school. Here he discovers a pupil with an extraordinary baritone voice.
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Una pelliccia di visone (1956)
Character: Grandfather of Gabriella
A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever.
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