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Italian Secret Service (1968)
Character: Natale Tartufato aka Capellone
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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Un difetto di famiglia (2002)
Character: Francesco Gammarota
A runaway coffin, a conservative wedding, an eccentric older man, two transsexuals, the police and an adorable puppy, collide on a humorous and heartwarming journey through the picturesque South of Italy. The "unexpected" death of 103 year-old Rosa creates an awkward family reunion the evening before what was to be a lush and opulent wedding. Rosa's grand-daughter, Chiara Gammarota, is set to marry the son of a wealthy general, much to the excitement of her conservative father, Nicolo. Francesco, Nicolo's "eccentric" brother caused a town scandal when he revealed his homosexuality 40 years earlier. He has returned for the wedding-turned-funeral and the two polar opposites see each other for the first time in decades. Acting on the final wishes of their mother the conflicting brothers reluctantly embark on drive through the countryside to bury their mother in their hometown; forcing them to confront family secrets...
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Le avventure di Pinocchio (1972)
Character: Geppetto
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.
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Carmela è una bambola (1958)
Character: Totò Improta
Carmela defies her father who wants her to marry Baron Prospero and sleepwalks every night to Toto's room.
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Gli innamorati (1955)
Character: Otello, hairdresser
Despite of (or perhaps because of ) its sparse production values and unpretentiousness, the Italian Gli Innamorati was feted at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. The bulk of the story takes place in a single Roman neighborhood. In the manner of the 1925 German classic A Joyless Street, director Mauro Bolognini studies the hopes, dreams, successes and failures of the neighborhood's various and sundry denizens. No one subplot dominates the proceedings, though a bit of extra time is afforded the story of a fickle seamstress and her seemingly meek-and-mild boyfriend. The cast is dotted with such reassuringly familiar faces as Nino Manfredi and Gino Cervi. Released in the US as Wild Love, Gli Innamorati was instrumental in bringing international fame to director Bolognini, whose career soon shifted into high drive.
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C'eravamo tanto amati (1974)
Character: Antonio
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
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Lo chiameremo Andrea (1972)
Character: Paolo Antonazzi
Paolo and Maria are two elementary teachers, who love each other, but can not have a child.
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Anni ruggenti (1962)
Character: Omero Battifiori
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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Il padre di famiglia (1967)
Character: Marco
A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.
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Tempo di villeggiatura (1956)
Character: Carletto
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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In nome del Papa re (1977)
Character: Monsignor Colombo
In 1867, with Garibaldi's forces close to bringing Rome into the Italian kingdom, Monsignor Colombo da Priverno, a world-weary judge on the papal court, wants to resign, disgusted by the violence to which the papacy resorts to hold secular power.
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Questo e quello (1983)
Character: dottore / Alessandro "Sandro" Cipollini
Two episodes. The 1st is 'Amore impossibile' (Impossible love). Giulio is a comic book draftsman. He is passing through a creativity depressed period. One day his editor makes him meet a blond nice girl. Immediately Giulio fall in love and starts to draw his impossible love story into a new comic book. The 2nd is 'Quello dal basco rosso' (the one with the red beret). Sandro, a mature man, meets one of his former girlfriend and her daughter Daniela. Daniela couldn't have sex with her boyfriend because of a childhood remembrance. In fact she always remember her mother having sex with a man wearing a red beret. She discovers that man is Sandro, makes love with him and soon recovers from her obsession.
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Controsesso (1964)
Character: Sandro Cioffi (segment "Cocaina di domenica") / Spadini (segment "Una donna d'affari")
A vivid assortment consisted of three acts taken from the lives of modern 1960s Italians, always in orbit around the restless theme of sexual inhibition and the pursuit of pleasure in sex.
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Cafè Express (1980)
Character: Michele Abbagnano
An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.
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Contestazione generale (1970)
Character: Beretta
Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
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Il tenente dei carabinieri (1986)
Character: Colonnello Vinci
Carabinieri's lieutenant Duilio Cordelli is in charge of investigating fake banknotes traffic. He discovers that a 60 billion lira bank robbery is linked with his case. Things get more complicated when the main suspected, Lorenzini, is killed. Moreover, Cordelli villa is blown up and the evidence points to the conclusion the whole case could be solved only by flying to London.
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Le pillole di Ercole (1960)
Character: Doctor Nino Pasqui
A doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an acquaintance's wife.
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Il carabiniere a cavallo (1961)
Character: Franco Bartolomucci
A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it.
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Monastero di Santa Chiara (1949)
Character: Enrico
Rudolf a nazi officer falls in love with Ester a jewish singer and tries to save her from deportation hiding her in the Monastery of Santa Chiara.
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Nudo di donna (1981)
Character: Sandro
Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during Carnival. As he enters midlife, he argues with his wife of sixteen years more often than they laugh or make love. She's had enough of his moods, so they separate so he can sort out his mind. His first night away, he sees a photograph of a nude; the image resembles his wife. He searches for the model, whose name is Riri. He finds her, and she looks exactly like his wife, except that Riri is a gaily attired prostitute and Laura is a self-contained antiquarian bookseller. Are they two women, are they one, and in the masquerade of Carnival, what is real?
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Nell'anno del Signore (1969)
Character: Cornacchia
Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola and Colonel Nardoni are in charge of suppressing the liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions.
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La notte di Pasquino (2003)
Character: Pasquino
Rome, 1870. On the eve of the breach of Porta Pia a kidnapping shakes the Jewish Ghetto: a child disappears.
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Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa? (1968)
Character: Oreste Sabatini
A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa, in search of his brother-in-law who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of topless, shapely wives. They are going to return to civilisation, but will their friend come with them?
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La parmigiana (1963)
Character: Nino Meciotti
Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino.
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Mima (1991)
Character: Grandpa
Mima and her Italian family live in France. When her grandfather is killed, she discovers that they have a long-running family feud with the mafia.
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Questa volta parliamo di uomini (1965)
Character: Federico / il lanciatore di coltelli / Raffaele / il contadino
An industrial exploiter, an old knife thrower, a cynical professor, and an ungrateful husband depict the selfishness and superficiality of the male gender.
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Le Bambole (1965)
Character: Giorgio (segment "La telefonata")
This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.
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Pane e cioccolata (1974)
Character: Giovanni 'Nino' Garofoli
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?
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Io la conoscevo bene (1965)
Character: Cianfanna
A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
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La carbonara (2000)
Character: Cardinale
Cecilia is a commoner who runs an inn, where the specialty is the "spaghetti alla carbonara". Moreover, the woman is tied to the movement of young patriots, named "Carbonari", who want a united Italy, and are struggling against the power of the pope. Cecilia believes she lost her husband in a fatal accident, and has made a new lover: Fabrizio, who is also a patriot. One day the guy's saved by a monk, when he is about to be imprisoned by the soldiers of Cardinal Rivarola. The monk is the husband of Cecilia, not dead in the accident, and now he helps her to fight against the power of Rome with the Carbonari.
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In nome del popolo sovrano (1990)
Character: Ciceruacchio
1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try to bring back the Pope to Rome.
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Alta infedeltà (1964)
Character: Francesco
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
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Susanna tutta panna (1957)
Character: Romoletto, il ladro
A young woman gets closely watched by her jealous fiance while she is trying to deliver cakes to customers' houses.
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Brutti, sporchi e cattivi (1976)
Character: Giacinto Mazzatella
Giacinto lives with his wife, their ten children and various other family members in a shack on the hills of Rome. Some time ago he has lost his left eye while at work, and got a consistent sum of money from the insurance company, which he keeps hidden from the rest of the family. His whole life is now based on defending the money he sees as his own, while the rest of the family tries to kill him.
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Attenti al buffone (1975)
Character: Marcello Ferrari
Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who covets another man's wife (Mariangela Melato) as his own. He gets what he wants, but Ras wants more: in this case, to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined by leaving his cat and taking his wife. He forces Marcello to seek an annulment to his marriage through the Vatican. Ras gets everything, but Marcello's wife, Giulia, and Marcello have other ideas.
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El verdugo (1963)
Character: José Luis Rodríguez, el enterrador
An undertaker gets married to an old executioner's daughter and, although he doesn't like it, must continue the profession of his father-in-law after his retirement.
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Guardia, ladro e cameriera (1958)
Character: Otello Cucchiaroni
Otello, an amateur thief, tries a burglary on New Year Eve but he finds the maid Adalgisa in the supposedly empty house. Adalgisa likes Otello who, all things considered, is a good guy, unlike Amerigo the night watchman who tries to profit from the situation.
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Vedo nudo (1969)
Character: Cacopardo / Angelo Perfili / Ercole / il voyeur / operaio dei telefoni / Maurizio / Nanni
Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.
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Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti (1959)
Character: Ugo "Piede amaro" Nardi
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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De vliegende Hollander (1995)
Character: Campanelli
Late 16th century, persecuted protestantism and general dissatisfaction with the Catholic Habsburg rule in the Netherlands lead to large-scale plundering and vandalizing of churches, only harshening the Spanish Inquisition, sparkling the Eighty Years War.
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Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo (1956)
Character: Paolo
This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the roman traffic police. 'Guardia'(agent) Alberto Randolfi has a too strong inclination to fine everyone and is dreaming about learning French. 'Brigadiere' (sergeant) Pietro Spaziali is busy looking at his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is going to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they often do.
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Testa o croce (1982)
Character: Beduino
Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi.
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Girolimoni, il mostro di Roma (1972)
Character: Gino Girolimoni
In Mussolini's Rome a murderer is targeting young girls. The movie explores how the fascist mind works, how it plays its values off the sentiment of the masses and explores the role of the press in creating a unified narrative.
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Io, io, io... e gli altri (1966)
Character: Millevache
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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Il gaucho (1964)
Character: Stefano
An italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.
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Totò, Fabrizi e i giovani d'oggi (1960)
Character: voice
A boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
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Il giocattolo (1979)
Character: Vittorio Barletta
A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he seeks revenge.
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Lo scapolo (1955)
Character: Peppino
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?
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Per grazia ricevuta (1971)
Character: Benedetto
Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.
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L'amore difficile (1962)
Character: Il soldato (segment "L'avventura di un soldato")
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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I motorizzati (1962)
Character: Nino Borsetti
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
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Basta che non si sappia in giro!.. (1976)
Character: Enzo Lucarelli / Paolo Gallizzi
Three episodes of casual erotic character: a porn scriptwriter and his secretary, a man locked up among homosexuals, and a shy man who decides to hire a prostitute over the phone.
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Made in Italy (1965)
Character: Attilio Lamborecchia (segment "4 'Cittadini, stato e chiesa', episode 1")
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
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Grandi magazzini (1986)
Character: Marco Salviati, attore pubblicitario
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
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La luz prodigiosa (2003)
Character: Galápago
Joaquin comes back to Granada in the eighties trying to find out about something happened when he was a child and the Spanish Civil War was going on. He helped an unknown man who survived after being executed. He finds the man, Galapago, who is now quite old, poor and with almost no memory. Joaquin takes care of him and finds hints that point to Galapago as Federico García Lorca.
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Caporale di giornata (1958)
Character: Corporal Enea Serafini
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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Signore e signori, buonanotte (1976)
Character: Felicetto de li Caprettari
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
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Trastevere (1971)
Character: Carmelo Mazzullo, aka Nestore Di Cosimo
A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
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Secondo Ponzio Pilato (1987)
Character: Ponzio Pilato
The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate.
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Viva il cinema (1953)
Character: amico di Tonino
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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Adulterio all'italiana (1966)
Character: Franco
To get her husband more interested in her, the wife invents a lover. The husband will collect every hint trying to figure out who is the lover.
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Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (1987)
Character: Grandpa
Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi with a briefcase full of money, but unfortunately for Alex's money stolen and a group of gangsters are at the nape of the two. Soon it comes to shooting, and when the two men being killed, is good advice costly for the beleaguered driver.
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Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina (1956)
Character: Raffaele
Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).
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L'impiegato (1960)
Character: Nando Guida
Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy world.
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Una rosa per tutti (1967)
Character: The doctor
A vivacious woman tries to please all of her lovers but finds she can't handle the jealousy that erupts among them.
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Crimen (1960)
Character: Quirino
Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.
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Spaghetti House (1982)
Character: Domenico Ceccacci
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
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Alberto Express (1990)
Character: Alberto's father
A young Italian, living in Paris with his French wife, is about to become a father. Before the baby is born, Alberto must repay his father for every expense from his own birth until he left home.
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Femmine tre volte (1957)
Character: Nando Martinoni
The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in Rome. Upon arriving at the 'Eternal City', the Russian athletes find ways to evade the strict surveillance and meet some Italian guys. After many persecutions, the Russians are confined by their guardians under the promise that, if they win, they can stay and live in Italy. But as they conquer the championship, their guards forget the promises and put them on a plane to Moscow.
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La mazzetta (1978)
Character: Sasà Iovine
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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Straziami ma di baci saziami (1968)
Character: Marino Balestrini
When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life. But once love is found, it is a matter of spreading it and here the difficulties begin: first the father who opposes it; then, after the death of his father, the gossips who make Marino believe that Marisa was a little good, so much so that Marisa runs away. Repentant, Marino searches in vain and then, almost by accident, finds her again, Mrs. Ciceri. But love admits no obstacles, not even that of a deaf and dumb husband.
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Venezia, la luna e tu (1958)
Character: Toni
The "casanova" gondolier Bepi struggles to accept his future monogamous life, being Venice a hub of attracting tourists.
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Ridere! Ridere! Ridere! (1954)
Character: Signore che non vuole pagare
A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents.
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A cavallo della tigre (1961)
Character: Giacinto Rossi
Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.
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Camping (1958)
Character: Nino
Two young lovers, Tao and Valeria, decide to go and enjoy a beautiful holiday in privacy, away from the daily routine and their parents. After a journey full of adventures, aboard a sidecar, they find themselves in a campsite populated by Germans.
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I complessi (1965)
Character: Quirino Raganelli
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
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Il giudizio universale (1961)
Character: Waiter
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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Thrilling (1965)
Character: Nanni Galassi (segment "Il vittimista")
An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
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Anema e core (1951)
Character: Enrico
Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer.
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Roma bene (1971)
Character: commissario Quintilio Tartamella
A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
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I picari (1987)
Character: The blind wanderer
The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.
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