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Le stagioni del nostro amore (1966)
Character: Carlo Di Giusti aka Tancredi
Vittorio is a 40-year-old journalist who reaches a mid-life crisis. His wife nags him constantly for ignoring her and their child. After his mistress dumps him, Vittorio returns to the town where he spent his childhood to reflect on the state of his life. Flashbacks are used to tell of Vittorio’s relationship with his parents as a child and the effects World War II had on his development.
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La moglie giapponese (1968)
Character: Accountant Taddei
The accountant Taddei, an employee of an import company, travels to Tokyo for work and discovers that the colleague he has replaced has married a Japanese woman. His journey to the Far East brings him into contact with situations of extreme poverty that will deeply disturb him.
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Si salvi chi vuole (1980)
Character: Stefano
The daughter of a bourgeoisified Communist MP and a permissive housewife brings home her latest boyfriend, a Neapolitan scoundrel.
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La notte è fatta per... rubare (1967)
Character: Commissario Simon
A young widow, her nephew and various other characters attempt to steal the jewels contained in a supposedly inviolable safe.
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La violenza: Quinto potere (1972)
Character: Colonnesi, defense attorney
Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.
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Les Ritals (1991)
Character: Louvi
This 2-part TV film, adapted from an autobiography, tells the childhood of writer François Cavanna, son of an Italien emigrant and a French mother.
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Pájaros de ciudad (1983)
Character: N/A
After committing a murder, an ordinary man escapes from the police with the help of his ex-wife. A vigilante state will not allow them to relive their love story.
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Italian Secret Service (1968)
Character: L'avvocato Ramirez
A war hero turned unemployed is hired by a British man whose life he saved during the war, for a secret mission: to kill a neo-nazi.
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Il delitto Matteotti (1973)
Character: Filippo Turati
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
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Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte (1971)
Character: Giambattista Manteghin
Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which happens to have been designed by Manteghin.
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I racconti fantastici di Edgar Allan Poe (1979)
Character: The Judge
Four Edgar Allan Poe adaptations running an hour apiece, including "Night in the House of Usher," "Ligeia Forever," "The Delusion of William Wilson" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Originally made for Italian TV.
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Anni ruggenti (1962)
Character: Carmine Passante
In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
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Le fate (1966)
Character: Dr. Aldini ("Fata Armenia")
Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting infidelity, and a wealthy woman's drunken escapades with her butler.
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I cento cavalieri (1964)
Character: Frate Carmelo
Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.
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Donne con le gonne (1991)
Character: avvocato Carabba
Renzo falls in love with feminist Margherita, too emancipated for him: they start a troubled relationship until he kidnaps her, forcing her to be an housewife devoted to her husband.
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7 uomini d'oro (1965)
Character: Adolf (l'allemand)
After bungling a job in London, Albert, an international thief, masterminds a plan to rob a Geneva bank of 7 tons of gold. Assisted by the seductive Giorgia, who works from within the bank, and six other accomplices, Albert sets himself up in an expensive hotel with a battery of electronic devices to supervise the operation.
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Dove vai tutta nuda? (1969)
Character: President
Totally drunk, a young banker marries a girl who has strange habits: she walks around the house completely naked.
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Du mou dans la gâchette (1967)
Character: Jo Laguerre
Nicolas Pappas and Léon Dubois, two particularly calamitous killers, arrive in Paris, where a gangster boss in need of "staff", Jo Laguerre, hires them to cover the escape of the perpetrators of a hold-up. They get away with it as best they can and then find themselves in charge of liquidating a certain "Magnum"...
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Rimini Rimini - Un anno dopo (1988)
Character: Teseo Formigoni
Four episodes set on the beaches of Rimini: a womanizer pretends to be homosexual in order to gain the favors of a beautiful woman who ignores him. A mature beachgoer suffers from indigestion. A businessman unknowingly finances his wife's infidelities. Two wives from the south are forced to exchange partners.
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La compagna di viaggio (1981)
Character: The Baron
A ruined noble decides to organize a robbery on a luxury train. He decides to get help from a busty starlet that should distract passengers ...
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Signore e signori (1966)
Character: Osvaldo Bisigato
An anthology film that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the first story, a husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair. In the second, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them. In the third, men of the town all seduce a promiscuous teenager, but her father eventually reveals that she is underage, and they face prosecution for statutory rape.
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Concerto per pistola solista (1970)
Character: Sgt. Aloisius Thorpe
An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are dismayed to find that everything has been left to Barbara, the deceased's favourite daughter. The butler is soon found stabbed to death and Sergeant Thorpe, the local bobby, telephones Scotland Yard for assistance. Inspector Grey arrives and he and Barbara narrowly escape being shot. Cousin Ted and his wife Pauline are both killed. Sergeant Thorpe recalls some photos which Ted asked to have developed...
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La Rimpatriata (1963)
Character: Toro
Two members of a former group of friends find themselves after many years by chance through the streets of Milan; after a moment, memories of the past resurface.
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L'erotomane (1974)
Character: Rodolfo Persichetti
Rodolfo Persichetti has reached the maximum of his career and at the same time the minimum of his sexual capacities. A famous psychiatrist helps him in regaining his lost virility by mean of a new therapy.
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Amici miei - Atto II° (1982)
Character: Il Melandri - Architetto Rambaldo Melandri
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
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L'Harem (1967)
Character: Gianni
A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.
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La visita (1963)
Character: Renato Gusso
Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village where she lives, Pina places an ad in the newspaper. She gets a response from Adolfo, who agrees to travel from his residence in Rome to visit her. As flashbacks shed light on both their pasts, suspense builds about how they will relate to one another.
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Amici miei (1975)
Character: Rambaldo Melandri
Four middle-aged friends in Florence organize together idle pranks (called zingarate, "gypsy shenanigans") in a continuous attempt to prolong childhood during their adult life.
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Che gioia vivere (1961)
Character: le curé
Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him).
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Una spina nel cuore (1986)
Character: dottor Trigona
Guido, a young idler with a gambling problem falls in love with Caterina a mysterious girl. A torrid affair follows thereafter. When Caterina leaves him Guido investigates her past and learns she had a lot of lovers.
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Amore in quattro dimensioni (1964)
Character: Il marito (segment "Amore e vita")
Young Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love. "Love and Language," the first tale, centers on the difficulties of a Sicilian immigrant who is unable to master proper Italian. the second tale "Love and Life" centers on a jealous and unhappy wife who becomes so desperate to be free of her constantly philandering husband she takes on a lover of her own. "Love and Art" a nearly exhausted screenwriter hires a secretary to help manage his typing. She's a pretty lass and this makes his insecure wife crazy until he fires the female and hires a male secretary. "Love and Death," the final episode centers on the love affair between a middle-aged widower and the grieving young widow he meets at the cemetery. Unfortuantely for his bank statement, the young, impoverished beauty isn't as bereaved as she seems.
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Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1959)
Character: Alfredo
The usual gang of robbers are hired by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will hinder the success of the operation.
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Paolo il caldo (1973)
Character: Uncle Edmondo
The Catanese baron Paolo Castorini leaves the closed Sicilian environment and moves to Rome where he enters into erotic relationships with women of all classes. He, however, feels dissatisfied with a life of only the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. But is it too late for him?
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Il vendicatore mascherato (1964)
Character: Doge Pietro Gradenigo
Massimo returns to Venice after years of fighting against the Turks. He finds his beloved Elena, who in the meantime has married the doge who is tyrannizing the city.
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Extraconiugale (1964)
Character: Luigi (segment "La doccia")
Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.
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Amici miei - Atto III° (1985)
Character: Architetto Melandri
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
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Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente (1971)
Character: Metello Bottazzi
Two spouses discover a corpse that mysteriously disappears and then reappear in their suitcase. This is stolen by a couple of teens who are suspected, like the first two, of murder.
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Gli specialisti (1969)
Character: Sheriff
Hud Dixon returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob.
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L'amore difficile (1962)
Character: Maresciallo (segment "Il serpente")
A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
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Tiro al piccione (1961)
Character: Pasquini
Young man Marco Laudato, after the '8/9/1943's WW2 armistice, enlists in the Italian Social Republic army, attending the last days of the old regime in decay.
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Sissignore (1968)
Character: L'avvocato
A businessman is nicknamed "L'avvocato" and his driver, Oscar, is a yes-man. When L'avvocato has a crash while driving his car, Oscar is put in jail in his place. When Oscar gets out, he finds himself married to the beautiful Maria, but he can't even touch her: she is l'avvocato's lover. Afterwards Oscar is appointed manager, but he can't manage a dime. At the end he shall find himself again in jail, hoping that his "sissignore" (yessir) will let him have, sometime, a driver to send to prison in his place. —
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I promessi sposi (1964)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are two poor farmers who are in love, but they are hampered by the wickedness of the powerful Don Rodrigo, who secretly loves Lucia. The two run away from Lake Como where they live, and take refuge inland.
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Mio padre Monsignore (1971)
Character: Don Alvaro
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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Com'è dura l'avventura (1987)
Character: Oreste Raccà
In order to get some money Gianni Zappi tries to organize an insurance fraud by drowning his yacht.
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The Godfather Part II (1974)
Character: Don Fanucci
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
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Mogliamante (1977)
Character: Vincenzo
A vineyard's manager marries the owner's very young daughter; father dies. Deceit, infidelity. The husband is forced to watch from a distance as his wife blossom socially in his absence; then the plot thickens.
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Il successo (1963)
Character: Il Cognato di Giulio
Giulio has a faithful wife and a true friend, but he is convinced that only with money can one be happy. So he devotes himself to dangerous real estate speculation in Sardinia, even though he does not have the capital to deal with it. To find the necessary money, he is willing to give up even his dignity. And slowly, he alienates his most beloved ones from himself....
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Squadra volante (1974)
Character: Marsigliese
A ruthless Interpol agent goes after the man who killed his wife in Stelvio Massi's crime thriller. A gutsy robber named Marseilles pulls off a tricky heist, but he's no match for agent Ravelli, a maverick who can't control his bloodlust. And this time, it's personal: Years earlier, the daring thief murdered the operative's wife in cold blood.
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Il fornaretto di Venezia (1963)
Character: Consigliere Garzone
Il Fornaretto di Venezia (US TV title: The Scapegoat) is a 1963 Italian film directed by Duccio Tessari who co-wrote screenplay with Marcello Fondato, based on novel by Francesco Dall'Ongaro. It tells the story of 16th century's Venice where a young worker is sentenced to death on the suspicion of attacking a noble.
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The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic (1981)
Character: Don Fanucci
The Godfather 1901–1959: The Complete Epic is a reduced, 386-minute version of the 1977 television miniseries, "Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television," released to video in 1981. Unlike the miniseries, which was presented in four segments (each with opening and closing credits), the Epic is presented as a single segment. In January 2016, HBO aired the Epic in its uncut and uncensored format, later making it available on its streaming platforms. The HBO showing contained most of the known deleted scenes, thereby lengthening the runtime of the Epic from its video release to 423 minutes.
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I magi randagi (1996)
Character: Don Gregorio
Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there are no children. That night a comet runs across the sky, so the three decide to follow it to search for the new Messiah.
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Sette volte sette (1968)
Character: Benjamin Burton
A gang of prison inmates escape and rob the Royal Mint. They then sneak back to prison.
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La rivale (1956)
Character: Marco Riccitelli
The love triangle between a Countess, a soldier and a younger woman.
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Fiorina la vacca (1972)
Character: Ruzante
Plenty of fun erotic stories in the spirit of the "Decameron", united by one constant hero - unlucky cow Fiorina.
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Poliziotto senza paura (1978)
Character: Karl Koper
A low-rent private investigator and former cop is sent to Austria on a job, and while there sees a number of seemingly unrelated coincidences that lead him into a strange web of corruption and decadence.
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Diamonds Are a Man's Best Friend (1966)
Character: Mr. Houster, the Boss
Amazing Italian movie written and directed by Vittorio Sala and starring Félix Marten, Liana Orfei and Gastone Moschin. An adventurer steals a valuable diamond known as "Mountain of Light" from the museum. A band of gangsters gets on his trail to take his loot. It's going to be a long battle.
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Commissariato di notturna (1974)
Character: Commissario Emiliano Borghini
Rome police headquarters. A new commissioner, promoted by the political team at "night", has to deal with the case of a girl seriously injured at Villa Borghese.
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Milano Calibro 9 (1972)
Character: Ugo Piazza
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
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Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi (1972)
Character: Don Camillo
Mayor Peppone might very well lose the elections and Don Camillo makes sure that the mayor's delinquent son gets his act together while his own niece makes Peppone think she is pregnant by his son.
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Lion of the Desert (1981)
Character: Major Tomelli
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
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Causa di divorzio (1972)
Character: Lawyer
A couple is short of money and got marital problems. Sylverte knows Enrica and intent to marry her but before he needs divorce from his wife.
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Une femme à sa fenêtre (1976)
Character: Primoukis
Greece, 1936. An aristocratic woman engages in a series of loveless affairs before finding herself falling for a political activist.
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Il conformista (1970)
Character: Manganiello
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
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Roma bene (1971)
Character: il monsignore
A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
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