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Cavalleria (1936)
Character: Sottotenente Rolla
Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitation and become an aviator.
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La tua donna (1954)
Character: N/A
During WWII, Sandro Ademari (Massimo Girotti), head of a group of Italian partisans, to escape from a Nazi catch, hides himself by a farm. Here he knows Luisa (Lea Padovani) and soon the two married and have a baby. After the war, Sandro, now a solicitor, succeeded also to be elected in Rome's parliament. Here he starts an extramarital affair with Germana (Patricia Neal). Sandro, now deep involved with Germana, tries all the way to leave Luisa (divorce wasn't legal during the '50s in Italy). But Luisa is determined to save her marriage and arrives in Rome to discuss with the two. The tragedy is behind the corner.
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Tristi amori (1943)
Character: Ragioniere Adriano Ranetti
Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.
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Ti conosco, mascherina! (1943)
Character: Liborio
An unscrupulous theatrical agent introduces his latest "discovery" to an elderly baron who becomes infatuated with her.
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Pesci d'oro e bikini d'argento (1961)
Character: Cardelli, il notaio a Portofino
People who take part in a telephone radio quiz get a golden fish as first prize and a silver bikini as second one.
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Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeo (1937)
Character: Pompeo Quarantini
The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success.
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Amicizia (1938)
Character: Roberto Sandi
After falling in love with his friend's wife, a young man prefers to move to another place on a long trip. After several years he returns and reunites with the woman he loved and this time she will confess her love for him. The woman's husband will begin to suspect something.
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30 secondi d'amore (1936)
Character: Dr. Tulio Siriani
A married woman hits a pedestrian with her car who requests that she must perform a particular punishment as a penance.
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10 canzoni d'amore da salvare (1953)
Character: N/A
The plot concerns a songwriter, played by Jacques Sernas who leaves his sweetheart and publisher when he learns that he is going blind.
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Mi vedrai tornare (1966)
Character: Ammiraglio Aleardi
A young Italian sailor enrolled in the Italian Navy meets in Rome the Princess Liu, betrothed to a nobleman in Tokyo.
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Il microfono è vostro (1951)
Character: Commendator Michele Variani
Bored with her bourgeois life, the young Maria Variani, daughter of a professor, meets Bruno, who is part of an amateur jazz group, and allows herself to be persuaded to join the band that plays during the radio program "The microphone is yours".
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Mina... fuori la guardia (1961)
Character: il dottore
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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Cose da pazzi (1954)
Character: Il professore Ruiz
When young Dalia is mistakenly admitted to a mental institution, she is declared sane - but by a truly mad person pretending to be a doctor. The real doctor thinks she is insane - how can she escape this madness?
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Prima comunione (1950)
Character: L'uomo del filobus
The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
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Non ti conosco più (1936)
Character: Paolo Malpieri
After an argument with her husband, an unsatisfied wife suffers from selective amnesia. She doesn't recognize the man she married and calls her doctor husband instead.
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Gli ultimi cinque minuti (1955)
Character: Francesco
Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in the center of Rome with amazing views both want it and strike the compromise of marrying each other platonically to get it. The woman still hopes for true love and the man agrees to step aside should that special someone come along but he is secretly smitten with her and surreptitiously makes her various suitors look like fools. All goes well until he comes up against Rosanno Brazzi and finds him a tough challenge to overcome.
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Donne e briganti (1950)
Character: Cardinal Ruffo
Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.
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Ai vostri ordini, signora... (1939)
Character: Paolo Vernisset
The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend. Then things change and the two fake boyfriends discover that they are really in love with each other.
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Due milioni per un sorriso (1939)
Character: Mister Giacomo Perotti / Martino Bo
An Italian industrialist who has made a fortune in America returns to Italy planning to make a film about a beautiful woman who smiled at him before he left his home country years before.
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Non son degno di te (1965)
Character: Colonnello Enzo
In the sequel of "In ginocchio da te", the engagement of Gianni and Carla is threatened by Giorgio.
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I milanesi a Napoli (1954)
Character: Professor Clemente Simoni
Some Neapolitans help a firm from Milan to establish two factories in Naples: one produces TV dinner pizzas the other manufactures lace. The owner of a pizza joint and a woman who makes lace at home are against the project.
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È arrivato il Cavaliere (1950)
Character: Il Ministro
A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.
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Il cappello a tre punte (1935)
Character: Garduna
A comedy about a governor who wants a miller's wife and tries to fix a night with her by putting the miller in jail.
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La dama bianca (1938)
Character: Attila Savelli
The lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia.
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4 passi fra le nuvole (1942)
Character: Magnaschi - the pharmaceutical representative
A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents that she's not married. She asks Paolo to play the role of her husband and he accepts....
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Io uccido, tu uccidi (1965)
Character: Marchese Ciccillo Pozzuoli (segment "La danza delle ore")
Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
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Destinazione Piovarolo (1955)
Character: De Fassi
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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Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962)
Character: Il Ministro
A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is her husband and brings him home; then Mrs. Polacich recognizes him as her husband.
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Villa Borghese (1953)
Character: The engineer - client of Elvira (segment: Concorso di bellezza)
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
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Tempo massimo (1934)
Character: Alfredo Martinelli
A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.
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Siamo tutti inquilini (1953)
Character: Avv. Sassi
Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
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I vitelloni (1953)
Character: Signor Rubini
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
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Amo te sola (1935)
Character: L'avvocato Piccoli
Florence in 1848. There is a strong political tension in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Giovanni, a young Neapolitan composer who has just arrived in the city, accidentally comes into contact with some liberals and is convinced to compose the hymn of the Volunteers.
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Stasera mi butto (1967)
Character: N/A
Summer Late sixties, Want to sing, Of Sun. Of golden skin from tanning. Of endless beaches. And relaxing baths. For everyone: young and old. Singles and couples. In the endless consumption of flirtation and new knowledge, the musical background goes crazy with the famous screamer. Famous personalities like Lola Falana emerge from famous people. They get confused. They are inserted between these alleged stars. But above all, they have fun like crazy ...
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Perdono (1966)
Character: Enrico
Federico, his girlfriend Laura and her cousin, Caterina, are three young people full of hope, united by a great friendship that seems indissoluble. The three work in a department store but, when Caterina decides to attempt a musical career, given her vocal skills, everything changes. Caterina becomes a successful singer and Federico falls in love with her. Caterina, who however does not want to make her cousin Laura suffer, pretends not to reciprocate the young man by making him put his head in order. Meanwhile, the plots of various secondary characters evolve, in particular the fresh marriage between the security guard Antonio and the secretary of the department stores Adelina.
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Gli eroi della domenica (1952)
Character: Cerchio
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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La ragazza del palio (1957)
Character: Il zio di Piero
A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but things come to a crazy conclusion when he tries to bribe a horse to win a race at the Palio racing grounds.
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In ginocchio da te (1964)
Character: Colonnello Enzo
During his military service, the young singer Gianni Traimonti falls in love with Carla, the marshal's daughter.
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Era lui, sì, sì! (1951)
Character: Dott. Furgoni
Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy women, but just as he is about to win them over, a youngster comes on the scene and steals them from under his nose.
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Stazione Termini (1953)
Character: Cheerful Telegram Man (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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La maschera e il volto (1942)
Character: N/A
A husband states that a possible betrayal of his wife, he would kill her without mercy. The case is that his hypothesis turns into a presumed reality.
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Botta e risposta (1950)
Character: il prestigiatore
Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music hall star to bring her the gown she is to wear on stage. The two men get stolen by Cleo, a charming thief. Once in Rome, the painter finds himself penniless and the dresser without the gown...
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Cameriera bella presenza offresi... (1951)
Character: L'amico di Marchetti
Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
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Bionda sottochiave (1939)
Character: N/A
A famous American director is looking for a special type of girl he needs to play in his next film.
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Noi due soli (1952)
Character: il presidente
A man and his girlfriend struggle to find some time for themselves.
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Carosello napoletano (1954)
Character: Idominatore #4
Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family.
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Se non avessi più te (1965)
Character: The Colonel
A young singer secretly gets married since he does not want to let his fans down. After a while the gutter press make up a love story which seriously worries his young bride.
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Le bellissime gambe di Sabrina (1958)
Character: Il commendatore
Sabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German police have to solve a recent robbery. Teo is a photographer looking for a pair of beautiful legs to participate in a photo contest. When he secretly takes a photo of Sabrina's legs, including the telltale moles, Sabrina has to get it back at any cost, something which brings her into dangerous proximity with the smitten Teo. Romance and assorted hijinx ensue.
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Il giorno più corto (1963)
Character: Erede siciliano (uncredited)
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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