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Pazzo d'amore (1999)
Character: N/A
Two teenagers, secretly in love with each other, spend their holidays with their families in the same seaside resort.
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Tempo di Roma (1963)
Character: Pia
After WWII, a young man without perspective arrives in Rome. Living in a loft, he gradually discovers the city becoming a tour guide.
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La canzone del cuore (1955)
Character: N/A
A widow is unjustly imprisoned for theft and her daughter is sent to live with her grandmother.
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Squillo (1965)
Character: Madame Chery
A naive girl moves to Rome and falls for a mature man.
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Auferstehung (1958)
Character: Bockowa
Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the prostitute Maslova was accused of the crime. Nechljudov recognizes in the woman the maid of the aunts he had seduced and abandoned years before and tries to convince the authorities of her of his innocence but to no avail. Convinced that he is responsible for her moral fall, he follows her to Siberia where she must serve her sentence.
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Loca juventud (1965)
Character: la mère de Johnny
Johnny Durán, who is seventeen years old and son of a multimillionaire, arrives to Madrid for hollidays. In the capital he become friend of a group of boys and girls with whom he shares great moments; but soon he realice that they are a clan of thugs and decides to distance themselves. He also meets Paula, daugther of an italian family that is travelling, and they both feel atracted by each other. Since then, started happening a serie of unexpected events which the guy will have to solve with tenacity and responsibility.
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Qualcosa di biondo (1984)
Character: Teresa
A single mother is trying to trace previous partners in order to help her fund a life changing operation for her blind son.
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A pugni nudi (1974)
Character: Amalia, Paolo's Mother
A young man comes out of a reform school properly reformed, but life outside will bring him to the underworld again. His second reform will be short-lived.
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Ergastolo (1952)
Character: Jeannette
Rosa Lulli, has an illegitimate 20-year-old son, named Stefano, who lives with her in the house of Professor Arlotta. Stefano is in love with Lydia, the granddaughter of the professor. The couple has a gambling addiction: the need to obtain a large sum to meet gambling debts, which pushes him to accept the loving invitation of Jeannette, owner of a dance school, where Stefano goes to play.
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Il bacio del sole (1958)
Character: Carmela Spada
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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Gli amori di Manon Lescaut (1954)
Character: Elisa
In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil.
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L'albero dalle foglie rosa (1974)
Character: N/A
Little Marco suffers from his parents' divorce. He runs away from home and is hit by a car. He drags on but eventually dies under a tree with pink leaves, remembering a story his grandmother told him.
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L'altra donna (1980)
Character: Olga's Mother
Wealthy woman and her Ethiopian maid form a friendship.
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Lo zappatore (1950)
Character: N/A
A poor farmer who has struggled to advance his son's career as a lawyer is spurned by the ungrateful offspring when he visits him in the big city, to convey the news that the mother is dying.
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Cortile (1955)
Character: madre di Nando
A teenager escapes from a reformatory and is accused of theft.
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Il maschio ruspante (1973)
Character: Madre Giustina / Marcella - la prostituta
Romulus, a rough but genuine country man, finds, on the occasion of a religious festival, a girl, Rema, already his kindergarten companion. In love with her since then, he welcomes with joy the invitation to follow her to Rome, convinced that the young woman wants to marry him.
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Io, Amleto (1952)
Character: Regina Gertrud
The adventures of Hamlet who, following many adventures, manages to kill Claudio the usurper, marry Ophelia and be elected President of the Republic.
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Il tallone di Achille (1952)
Character: Zizì
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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Stasera sciopero (1951)
Character: Gemma
A scientist combines two brains during an operation to create one perfect mind.
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Les combinards (1966)
Character: Rosaria
Léo and Claude, two penniless friends turned con artists, answer matrimonial classified ads to trap women. But one of the friends soon finds his own game turned against him.
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Vacanze sulla neve (1999)
Character: Countess Eloisa Verrupa degli Strozzi
The love story between a singer and a beautician is disrupted when an old flame shows up.
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Le ambiziose (1961)
Character: Mrs. Letizia Proietti
Thirty girls arrive in a seaside town to participate in a beauty contest. Marina has no ambitions of victory: she only wants to have the sewing machine promised to each participant.
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Toutes folles de lui (1967)
Character: Allegra
Mathieu is a mild-mannered man engaged to a woman whose father is involved in running a house of prostitution. When the father dies, Mathieu inherits the bordello and is unprepared for his new position. He overcomes his shyness and becomes a sexual dynamo when his workers feed him some powerful amphetamines.
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Nerone '71 (1962)
Character: Signora Peretti
A family from the province goes to CinecittÃ, hoping that their daughter will be assigned a part in the blockbuster Nero 71 .
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Cani e gatti (1952)
Character: donna Filomena
In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business away him. Unbeknownst to them a romance is developing between the younger generation of the families.
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Se fossi deputato (1949)
Character: Olga Olghis
A young dare-devil goes to Rome in search of fortune, with the blessings and money of his loving aunts. While in the city, he is a victim of a series of mishaps. His aunts hear about a man of the same name who is a candidate for Parliament; they think that he is their nephew and organize a series of celebrations. So, the youngster gets the idea of trying to replace the real candidate, but gets found out. The aunts forgive him.
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Finalmente libero (1953)
Character: donna che difende Enrico in tribunale
Enrico Rossi is accused of polygamy for having married six different women over the years.
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Vivere a sbafo (1950)
Character: N/A
Italian comedy starring Peppino De Filippo, Mischa Auer, Dolores Palumbo and Virginia Belmont. Rosa Auricchio (Dolores Palumbo) and her daughter (Virginia Belmont) inherit a large fortune which they use to purchase a luxury hotel, then learning the hotel has never been successful. They meet a knight (Mischa Auer) who specializes in relaunching businesses. He fills the hotel with fake guests in order to attract real ones, and hires a broke baron (Peppino De Filippo) to relaunch the hotel.
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Western, Italian Style (1968)
Character: Self
A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that particular point in time. Contains behind-the-scenes footage from the films "Il Grande Silenzio" "Vado, Vedo e Sparo" "Ammazza Tutti e Torna Solo" and "Corri, Uomo, Corri" and interviews with their directors and cast.
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Porta un bacione a Firenze (1955)
Character: sora Rosa
After a difficult eye operation, Simonetta, an Italian-American girl, returns for a vacation in Florence, the home town of her family. Here he meets Alberto, a sculptor.
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Amori e veleni (1950)
Character: Orsola di Ripetta
Christina of Sweden, in exile in Rome, takes a handsome Italian officer as her lover. But he is in love with the very young wife of an elderly count. After many adventures, duels, settling of old scores, the officer and the countess get married. Former Queen Christina finds herself another captain of the guard.
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Oh, Serafina! (1976)
Character: Madre di Augusto
Augusto Valle is a successful young industrialist who weds Palmira, the girl working in his factory, and the two have a child despite the infant's uncertain legitimacy. Scheming to control her husband's fortune, Palmira has affairs with both the mayor and the judge to have Augusto committed to a mental institution. While there, he falls in love with Serafina Vitali, a young woman who was also put away.
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Impariamo ad amarci: guida all'educazione sessuale (1985)
Character: N/A
Ignorance and inexperience in sexual relations afflict many couples. The film aims to deal with a kind of conductor that lists and exposes situations and problems, gradually illustrated that engage several pairs.
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Ti ho sempre amato! (1953)
Character: Lucia
A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune. This she will be able to temporarily make the two young men go away but the man makes his girlfriend understand that her is true love; he realizes that he has been the victim of a scam and will bring the woman he has always loved to the altar.
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Top Secret (1978)
Character: Rosa Tattaglia
A hip American agent and his foxy associate try to recover a hundred pounds of stolen plutonium in Italy before it can be used by terrorists.
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Donne... botte e bersaglieri (1968)
Character: Mrs Jole
Tony and some friends put together a rock band to do some concerts and earn some money. Unfortunately the military service is incumbent, but fortunately the boys will find themselves in the same barracks.
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Fra' Manisco cerca guai... (1960)
Character: Carmela
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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Cornetti alla crema (1981)
Character: Zaira, la madre di Marianna
Mariana and Domenico are on the run from her jealous boyfriend who just happens to be an over-jealous professional football player.
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La garçonnière (1960)
Character: Pupa
A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.
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Tempo di villeggiatura (1956)
Character: Margherita Pozzi
Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojourn and love stories begin and end.
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Non commettere atti impuri (1971)
Character: Madre di Maria Teresa
Pino is a young man who lives in Assisi with his father Damiano, a communist revolutionary, and his partner Nadine. One day Pino sees Maria Teresa studying Latin and starts giving her some lessons. Soon they fall in love.
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La chica del trébol (1963)
Character: Rosalía
Rocio is a young deliverer of a fashion house who walks the streets of Madrid delivering dresses to clients. Until one day, because a model does not arrive to a parade, there arises an opportunity to replace her to save the situation. Therefore Rocío becomes a model overnight. A new work that opens unsuspected horizons about relationships and friendships.
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Stangata in famiglia (1976)
Character: Aida
Sexy Comedy Italian 70's Style - Must See Performance By Femi Benussi as well as Cristea Avram.
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Les bidasses s'en vont en guerre (1974)
Character: Paulette Brugnon
A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attempts to whip them into shape but the conflict spirals out of control.
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Gli altri, gli altri e noi (1966)
Character: 'Sora Italia'
An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman.
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Teste di cocco (2000)
Character: Nonna
Tommaso and Pietro are two brothers who, shortly after their father's funeral, discover that the coffin is actually empty. To find out more they leave for Malaysia, where the man died, but a series of misunderstandings and false clues will take them around the world to discover other empty coffins and a father yet to be found and perhaps to know.
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La bidonata (1977)
Character: Maria
Crime Comedy starring Walter Chiari, Maurizio Arena and Ettore Manni. Directed by Luciano Ercoli in 1977, but shelved when producer Niccolo De Nora was kidnapped... ironically the theme of the movie. A band of criminals plan one final heist, to kidnap a wealthy French businessman.
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Il Bigamo (1956)
Character: Enza Masetti
A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.
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Il grande silenzio (1968)
Character: Regina
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.
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Ladro lui, ladra lei (1958)
Character: Marialele
Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.
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Un amore (1965)
Character: Ermelina
The love life of an aging architect used to love affairs with call girls, who in the end settles down with a girl of his class but still longs for the life he has led so far, which ends in disillusion.
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Il tifoso, l'arbitro e il calciatore (1983)
Character: Mother of Manuela
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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La ragazza in prestito (1964)
Character: Regina
In this romance, a middle-aged playboy finds himself running his father's fur business after his father's death. He continues to allow his papa's mistress to run the business. The playboy's fiancee gets pregnant and he refuses to marry her. She dumps him in favor of his best friend. Soon the selfish man finds himself deserted by all his friends. He winds up involved with his father's patiently waiting lover.
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Ricky e Barabba (1992)
Character: Madre di Barabba
A wealthy millionaire decided to commit suicide but meets a homeless with whom he experiences a lot of funny adventures until finally makes order in his life.
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An einem Freitag um halb zwölf (1961)
Character: Frau Mandini
An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck bound for Marseilles. However, things don't go exactly as planned.
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Il mantenuto (1961)
Character: Amalia
Stefano Garbelli is employed by a pharmaceutical company. One evening Daniela, a young independent prostitute, approaches Stefano pretending to be a nurse. They get together, but Daniela has a sinister plan.
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Vacanze a Ischia (1957)
Character: N/A
Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
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La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna (1952)
Character: La contessa
To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
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Destinazione Piovarolo (1955)
Character: Sara
Antonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising. Later he marries a jewish woman. He has career ambitions but can not reach them.
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Liane: Die weiße Sklavin (1957)
Character: Schwester
The sequel to 1956's "Liane, Jungle Goddess" finds the title character still a jungle goddess, but captured by slave traders.
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Io, mammeta e tu (1958)
Character: donna Amalia
In 1950s Naples, a couple struggles to be together against the will of the mother-in-law. In the end, not only will they be together, but the mother-in-law-to-be, a widow, finds love as well.
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Roma città libera (1946)
Character: Mara
In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.
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ll medico e lo stregone (1957)
Character: Mafalda
Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer".
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Le dolci zie (1975)
Character: Fiorella
An anarchist grandfather has custody of his nephew Free, but three aunts, two of which still handsome, they get the help of a priest and the police. So take possession of the child and cover it with lust
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Liane, die Tochter des Dschungels (1961)
Character: N/A
A German expedition is in the African jungles on an unidentified misson. During this mission one of the German explorers, Thoren, is attacked and captured by the local natives called the Botos.
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Io, io, io... e gli altri (1966)
Character: Lady on the telephone
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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Die Hölle von Macao (1967)
Character: Madame Vulcano
Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful villains in this quest for an ancient Chinese treasure when he accidentally acquires the key to its location, the Peking medallion.
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La cento chilometri (1959)
Character: Angela, moglie di Cesare
During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations
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La vendetta (1962)
Character: La Postière
Arbella is a charming village in Corsica. It's such a pleasant place to live that Monsieur Lauriston has decided to spend his old age there with his wife Marthe. Encouraged by Giuseppe, the owner of the Napoleon bar, he is promoted to mayor. This brings him the wrath of Captain Bartoli, owner of the Café Bonaparte, a self-styled pirate and navigator who has long aspired to this honorable position. Further complications arise when Lauriston's nephew romances Antonia, the daughter of Amoretti, the last bandit of honor in the area and the town's main tourist attraction.
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Pane, amore e gelosia (1954)
Character: Annarella
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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Tutti Innamorati (1959)
Character: Jolanda
Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra.
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I mostri (1963)
Character: Paola Fioravanti (segment "Testimone volontario")
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
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Mio padre Monsignore (1971)
Character: Tosca
Against the backdrop of the Unification of Italy, two men have the dream of being recognized by their respective, illustrious, fathers: a bishop and the King.
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Mia moglie torna a scuola (1981)
Character: The principal
Aristide Buratti is a wealthy grocer married to attractive Valentina. Although they seem to have a happy marriage, Valentina feels herself culturally inferior because she is a high school dropout. Despite her husband's objections, she enrolls at a private boarding school.
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Mutande pazze (1992)
Character: Alessia's aunt
Four ambitious women are ready to do anything to make a name in show business.
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Gian Burrasca (1982)
Character: Zia Bettina
Giannino Stoppani, called Gian Burrasca, is a boy who loves bad taste jokes. A series of actions will lead him to be detested by everyone except his mother.
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Totò cerca moglie (1950)
Character: Luisa, la modella
Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.
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Gli eroi della domenica (1952)
Character: Lucy
Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.
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Il vigile (1960)
Character: Amalia Celletti
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
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L'imperatore di Capri (1949)
Character: La baronesa von Krapfen
Beautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law. A lucky series of circumstances actually does transform him into the prince of the island.
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Viva il cinema (1953)
Character: attrice del muto
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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Padri e figli (1957)
Character: Ines
The adventures of a young couple of high school students: her father is not opposed to their love, but the other, a doctor of prestige, is not at all happy about it.
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Lisa dagli occhi blu (1969)
Character: Wife of the telegraph operator
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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Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone (1983)
Character: Moglie di Maciste
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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Il mondo dei miracoli (1959)
Character: Franca
An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.
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Colpo gobbo all'italiana (1962)
Character: Nunziata
Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed.
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Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca) (1970)
Character: Silvana
Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often goes to communist rallies, and enjoys the filthy beaches of Ostia. Will the hostile environment pave a way to jealousy?
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La seconda notte di nozze (2005)
Character: Eugenia Ricci
When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance scattered across the countryside finds a new purpose in his lonely life.
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Pierino contro tutti (1981)
Character: Chiromante
In a school where the meeting seems more complete sampling of teachers and professors stupid airhead, there is the class of Peter, repeating in life, which is the "grandfather" to the far more young companions concerning jokes and vulgarity. Even outside the school walls, in the family or in the streets of the village where he lives, Peter is not far behind and his antics continue to freewheel.
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La mazzetta (1978)
Character: Elena Miletti
Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.
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Anna perdonami (1953)
Character: Luisa
After years of imprisonment in the U.S., an Italian man comes back to Rome to live with his sister.
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Le massaggiatrici (1962)
Character: Bice Petroni
Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?
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Juke Box - Urli d’amore (1959)
Character: Marisa Loreto
After serving a conviction for fraud Mario tries to continue with his life and promises Marisa to marry her...
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Akiko (1961)
Character: Ottavia Colasanto
The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Japanese girl knocks at her door, claiming to be the daughter of her late husband, an Italian military officer who went to Japan on a secret mission during WWII and reportedly killed in action there.
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Le signorine dello 04 (1955)
Character: Vera Colasanti
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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Mariti in città (1957)
Character: Aida
In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.
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Il momento più bello (1957)
Character: Margherita Rosati
Pietro is in love with a nurse; they keep their affair secret until she falls pregnant. Worried that marriage will affect his career, she prepares for the upcoming childbirth
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Il giudizio universale (1961)
Character: una madre
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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Villa Ada (1999)
Character: N/A
Sunday in a large Roman public park, Villa Ada, from dawn to dusk. But it could be any park in any large Italian or European city. Here the story follows the events of the day, from the joggers and keep fit fanatics to the aerobic lessons, the family picnics and football games, the family rows, missing children and bag snatchers, confessions and invasive television interview crews, a suicide attempt, to mention but a few……
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Totò cerca casa (1949)
Character: patronessa
Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment.
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La moglie in vacanza... l'amante in città (1980)
Character: Valeria's Mother
Andrea Damiani sends his wife Valeria off on a skiing holiday so he can spend time with his demanding mistress, Giulia. Little does he suspect that Valeria is having a rendezvous with a Count she recently met. However, Valeria does not know that 'Count' Giovanni is really just a manager's assistant, namely, Andrea's.
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Le impiegate stradali (1976)
Character: Zaira
Femi is accused of being a prostitute and is thrown into jail with the rest of the clan. Their she befriends the prostitutes and decides to set up an organization for prostitutes' rights.
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Altri tempi - Zibaldone n. 1 (1952)
Character: Lady in the open car (segment "Il carrettino dei libri vecchi")
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
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Stasera niente di nuovo (1942)
Character: Ospite dell'istituto
A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the accusation of prostitution.
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Le ali della vita (2000)
Character: N/A
The end of the 1950s: Rosanna returns as a music teacher to the claustrophobic confines of the convent boarding school from which she escaped as a young girl. Her happy, understanding ways, unconventional teaching methods and deep love of music soon win her the hearts of her girl pupils. Vithold, a nice young doctor, is also fascinated by Rosanna and gradually manages to convince her of his deep feelings for her. Rosanna encounters rejection and hatred from Alberta, the Mother Superior, who has a deep belief in strict discipline and order, as well as from her close associate Sister Federica, who is severe to the point of inhumanity.
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Pane, amore e fantasia (1953)
Character: Annarella
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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