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L'ingiusta condanna (1952)
Character: N/A
Carlo, a young doctor, occasionally meets Anna, the daughter of professor Valli. Carlo falls in love with Anna, who returns his feelings; but her father longs a brilliant marriage for her.
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Piedino il questurino (1974)
Character: Polpetti, il sequestrato
Petralia, a Neapolitan policeman casually makes friends with Maria, a girl engaged in the smuggling of cigarettes and belonging to the family of Ferdinando Il Barone.
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Il magnate (1973)
Character: N/A
The engineer Furio Cicerone came up from nothing and entered the circle of the great industrialists; he is married to Clara, but has a series of adventures with other women. Gianni is part of the powerful from birth and is used to having everything he wants and wants Clara. But Clara does not want him. Then there is an opportunity: Furio wins an important foreign contract, but needs to have immediately 500 million while the bank can not give it to him before five days. Gianni will lend him money, without interest for five days but for every day of blackberry Furio will have to give him Clara. Furio and Clara accept the contract.
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Il tallone di Achille (1952)
Character: N/A
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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Brutti di notte (1968)
Character: Portiere dell'albergo
Franco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The doctor prescribes a very special treatment for the patient: an intense love life. The man's wife, aware that she is part of the problem, decides to get a facial and to meet her husband in disguise.
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La bolognese (1975)
Character: Primo - father of Secondo
Softcore melodrama about a young woman who becomes a prostitute with the hopes of raising enough money to start a career as a model for romantic fumetti books
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La segretaria privata (1931)
Character: N/A
During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man.The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him.
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Vogliamoci bene! (1950)
Character: Capo Banda
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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Ma chi te lo fa fare? (1948)
Character: Il portiere d'albergo
In Amalfi, a young man loves a girl who prefers the organizer of a beauty contest. The rejected lover finds an unexpected ally in the girl's aunt, an elderly dramatic actress who lives in the memory of a suitor who she believes committed suicide for her (instead, he survived and is present in the same tourist resort).
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Figaro, il barbiere di Siviglia (1955)
Character: Il notaio
Cinematic version of Rossini's opera in which Count Almaviva wins the heart of beautiful Rosina with the help of Figaro, the barber of Seville.
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Tua per la vita (1955)
Character: Il direttore della casa di moda Primavera
A humble young woman takes care of his sister's child while also hiding her feelings towards her sister's lover.
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Ripudiata (1955)
Character: N/A
A young countess is wrongly accused of adultery and shunned by her husband. She leaves and becomes a successful opera singer and when war comes returns to face her accusers, see her son and clear her name.
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Pazza di gioia (1940)
Character: il barbiere
A modest accountant wins a utility vehicle in a contest and publishes an ad looking for a companion to share expenses on a vacation trip. An attractive young lady answers the ad, but at the meeting place, the girl mistakes the accountant for a millionaire, who of course, leaves with her...
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Resurrectio (1931)
Character: Spettatore al concerto
A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.
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Validità giorni dieci (1940)
Character: Un cameriere dell'albergo
After finding a train ticket on the ground, the young Paolo decides to go by train to Venice, where he meets Clara, a beautiful girl.
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Casa Ricordi (1954)
Character: Ambrogi
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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Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto (1941)
Character: Mauro
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: (uncredited)
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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Contro la legge (1950)
Character: Peppino
A young bourgeois who launders money for the mafia gets accused of murder.
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Au-delà des grilles (1949)
Character: N/A
After murdering his mistress and being hunted by the authorities in France, Pierre stows away aboard a ship bound for Genoa. Though he's immediately robbed after arriving, things look up for Pierre when he meets kindhearted Cecchina, who introduces him to her mother, Marta. Pierre and Marta fall in love, but police are closing in and the new couple may not have much time left.
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La soldatessa alle grandi manovre (1978)
Character: Pepito
Doctor Eva Marini takes up a position at an army base to investigate the sexual behavior of the Italian male soldier and soon finds out she's taken on more than she bargained for.
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Storia di karatè, pugni e fagioli (1973)
Character: Morgan
Sam and Buddy, two highway robbers, join with Colonel Quint, a big crook, who sold his services to Morgan, the banker, in order to free Baby, the banker's daughter, abducted by Espartero and his killers gang. A plan to 'sell' fake dollars to Espartero goes awry, but the two sons of the forger join Quint, and so does Mokaiko, a brave Japanese cook. The rag-tag band of Quinlan meets Espartero in several scraps, and then a climactic confrontation. All are ugly, bad, and dirty (except Baby), and fight accordingly.
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Amore e chiacchiere (1958)
Character: N/A
Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...
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La prima notte del dottor Danieli, industriale, col complesso del... giocattolo (1970)
Character: Hotel Manager
Carlo Danieli, an industrialist of Sicilian origins, manages a French fries company. The man marries Elena, his girlfriend for years, who has decided to remain a virgin until the wedding day. The man is a great womanizer and is surprised by the revelation, so much so that on the first night he is unable to consummate the relationship. The word soon spread and the mother of the bride, Donna Virginia, urged her son-in-law to apply. Carlo then tries to find a solution before it's too late and his mother-in-law thinks that throwing him into the arms of a professional is the ideal ploy.
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Quelli della montagna (1943)
Character: Un alpino
Andrea Fontana is a lawyer who meets a girl and then marries her. But it is not long before he is called to serve in the war.
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Come September (1961)
Character: Man (uncredited)
Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.
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Il vetturale del Moncenisio (1954)
Character: N/A
During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness.
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Sambo (1950)
Character: Il matto che si crede imperatore
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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Terza ipotesi su un caso di perfetta strategia criminale (1972)
Character: Vicenzino Rocca
Carlo, a young photographer, is making love with his girlfriend at the beach when he witnesses a murder being feebly staged to look like a car accident. Carlo takes incriminating shots of the murderers (the victim turns out to be the local public prosecutor) and attempts to sell them to various interested parties, including a gangster and a newspaper owner. One of the murderers' accomplices, a lowlife criminal, is gunned down by a black-gloved assassin, while another is stabbed to death...
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La canzone dell'amore (1930)
Character: N/A
A young woman takes care of the just-born child of her late mother. Sacrificing her engagement and studies along the way.
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Voltati Eugenio (1980)
Character: Father of Giancarlo
The film begins when Eugenio, a 14 year old child, is conduced from his grandparents home outside Rome, to Giancarlo (his father) in the city, by Giancarlo's friend (called "Moustache"). As Eugenio is bothering Moustache, he threatens Eugenio with leaving him in the middle of the country. He finally does it. When Giancarlo finds out, they return for Eugenio, but he is now lost. Meanwhile we're told the story of the child and his relation with the family, and why he feels unwanted.
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Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza (1969)
Character: N/A
A noble family assigns their younger son to the convent. The youngster has an affair with a novice, who becomes pregnant. The brothers, exasperated by his arrogance, denounce him to the Inquisition. As a punishment, the boy is walled up alive and released after fifty years. Due to a mysterious miracle, however, he remained as he is, just like the novice he impaled.
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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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Caporale di giornata (1958)
Character: N/A
A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice.
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Il sentiero dell'odio (1950)
Character: L'avvocato Cundari
A love story along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, set in Calabria: two young lovers belong to two families who have always been enemies of each other.
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L'Esorciccio (1975)
Character: Monsignor Evaristo
A satire on the American film "The Exorcist," but with an Italian twist.
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Io, io, io... e gli altri (1966)
Character: Usher
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
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Canzone proibita (1956)
Character: Portiere del teatro
A married woman is startled by the return of her former fiancé, whom she thought was killed during the war.
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Don Franco e Don Ciccio nell'anno della contestazione (1970)
Character: Cavaliere Giacomo Bellinzoni
Italy's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and San Antonio. Did Franco crash his bike through Ciccio's new stained glass window on purpose or was he just in town for their mutual confession? Their main beef with each other concerns their opposing football teams and this feud takes up a great deal of the picture.
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Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera (1970)
Character: Don Felice, il parroco
A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl is only interested in his title and plans a divorce, but after a while she also grows fond of him.
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Che botte ragazzi! (1975)
Character: N/A
A sinister town boss called Pat Barnes has exploited almost everyone in the town. If they don't succumb to his demands they normally end up dead. Barnes is finally brought down by Shanghai Joe and a smooth-talking snake-oil salesman.
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Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima (1971)
Character: Giovanni, the servant in Catania
Doctor Gaudenzi, a real Sicilian manly man living in Rome, Italy, married the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. One day, his wife is about to die, and being very religious, she asks for a cardinal to perform the last rites and further demands that her husband pledges not to marry or be with other women after she dies. Constrained by the cardinal's presence, Gaudenzi promises, and she promptly dies. Later, as soon as he is about to fall in temptation when looking at sexy girls, strange things happen, finally convincing him that his jealous wife is watching from "out there". Gaudenzi decides to give up on his lusty life: he's returning to his Sicily home and, to be on the sure side, he asks to be injected with female hormones. That's when he meets a sexy woman no man can resist...
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Quando le donne si chiamavano 'Madonne' (1972)
Character: il cerusico
When women were called Madonna is a film of 1972 directed by Aldo Grimaldi . The film is one of the first Italian erotic comedies in which a licentious bursting Edwige Fenech struggles with the nagging demands of three suitors.
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Arrivederci, papà! (1948)
Character: N/A
Two little angels, a boy and a girl, come down on earth to choose their parents prior to birth. They choose the daughter of a retired general as their future mother and an opera singer as their dad. But making the two chosen ones meet, fall in love and marry will prove to be anything but easy.
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Quel gran pezzo dell'Ubalda tutta nuda e tutta calda (1972)
Character: Il medico
During the Middle Ages, a clumsy knight returns home where his wife awaits him. Sensuous and beautiful, she has attracted several male admirers during his absence, but her chastity belt has maintained her faithfulness. Now is her chance to wrest the key from him and enjoy herself. The knight’s portly friend has a similar problem with his equally gorgeous wife. And to top it off, both men have designs on the other’s wife — leading them to devise painful methods to discourage the other from trespassing.
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Bella, ricca, lieve difetto fisico, cerca anima gemella (1973)
Character: l'anziano nemico del signor Fiore
Michele, married to Rosaria, is a distinguished Neapolitan who "by profession" contacts only wealthy women, making her believe she wants to marry her to get money to disappear with. With this method he feeds his family.
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Luci del varietà (1950)
Character: Hotelkeeper
In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.
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Armiamoci e partite! (1971)
Character: N/A
Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French citizenship, the First World War breaks out between Germany and France and all citizens are forced to enlist.
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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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Franco e Ciccio sul sentiero di guerra (1970)
Character: N/A
Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's republican troops. They end up in the Far West with the army fighting the Indians and with their ineptitude they contribute to the army's defeat.
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Todo modo (1976)
Character: Michelozzi
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
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Io, Caterina (1957)
Character: fra' Raimondo da Capua
The story of the life of St. Catherine of Siena
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Il mondo dei miracoli (1959)
Character: Un giornalista
An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.
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Angeli senza paradiso (1970)
Character: Schultz
Al Bano and Romina bring to the big screen the unhappy love between the composer Franz Schubert and the Hungarian Countess Anna Rostkov. Al Bano sings the immortal 'Ave Maria'.
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Un caso di coscienza (1970)
Character: Peppino, l'impiegato postale
Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her.
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Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza (1975)
Character: Arnaldo
A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head. But after the superticous Nicosia has an encounter with an elderly gypsy aunt, and a business trip to Romania results in another encounter with a suave vampire, named Count Dragalescu, Nicosia returns with blood-sucking like qualities which makes him re-examine his life and existence.
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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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Un borghese piccolo piccolo (1977)
Character: direttore del cimitero
A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his goal.
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Il vizio di famiglia (1975)
Character: Monsignor
When Giacomo D'Amato is released from jail he is immediately employed by Magda, in a plot to secure her the heritage of the count. But there are other players in this game too, and Giacomo has his own agenda.
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Zorro contro Maciste (1963)
Character: N/A
The king of Nogara dies, leaving behind a will naming one of his nieces as his successor. Will it be blonde and virtuous Isabella or evil, dark-haired Malva? Each woman relies on a hero to locate the will. Malva hires the bare-chested strongman Samson while Isabella relies on the masked El Toro (a.k.a. Zorro) even though her heart belongs to the mild-mannered poet, Ramon. Malva's ruthless desire for the throne soon alienates Samson and he and El Toro then team up to bring about a proper resolution to the Nogara succession. Meanwhile, Isabella learns El Toto's true identity, an identity which both surprises and pleases her.
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Spogliamoci così, senza pudor... (1976)
Character: Porter (segment "La visita")
Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.
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I 2 deputati (1969)
Character: Commendator Frascati
Francesco and Franco are brothers in law but, since their respective wives can't stand each other, are always arguing. When Francesco decides to run for Parliament, Franco is kidnapped by his opposing party and forced to run as well. The clashes between the two in-laws will continue in Parliament.
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Il mio nome è Mallory… “M” come morte (1971)
Character: Doctor
Retired Colonel Harper wishes to retire to his ranch, but the malicious Bart Ambler also has an interest in the property. Harper and his partner, half-breed Larry Mallory, now have a fight on their hands.
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Il richiamo nella tempesta (1950)
Character: Stefano
A paralyzed young woman falls in love with her cousin's boyfriend without ever seeing him, only through his relative's descriptions. After her death, the girl comes down to earth to spend an evening with her lover. The latter promises to follow her soon.
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Continuavano a chiamarli... er più e er meno (1972)
Character: Battista
A penniless Prince and a petty thief become associates in a con game and when they end up in prison, the Prince, who is a compulsive gambler, loses all his money to the other and becomes his servant.
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