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Il bacio del sole (1958)
Character: commissario
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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Legge di sangue (1948)
Character: Corrado
"Law of Blood" - Rosa has been engaged for years with Antonio. But Antonio is in the military service and Rosa is seduced by Alberto. Returning to the village, Antonio learns what happened during his absence.
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I piaceri del sabato notte (1960)
Character: Il commendator Paolo Iavecchia
Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.
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Turbine (1941)
Character: N/A
Giovanna leaves her husband and son for a short holiday and casually finds an old boyfriend in trouble.
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Io, Amleto (1952)
Character: Polonio
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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Ti conosco, mascherina! (1943)
Character: Luigi
An unscrupulous theatrical agent introduces his latest "discovery" to an elderly baron who becomes infatuated with her.
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A qualcuna piace calvo (1959)
Character: Peppino, padre di Marcella
Two girls (a secretary and a musician) disguise themselves as men in order to work for a famous bald actor.
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Non canto più (1945)
Character: Adolfo
A woman, a theatrical impresario, simulates the theft of a precious necklace for marketing purposes. A young singer living in the province is believed to be responsible for the theft and is arrested.
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30 secondi d'amore (1936)
Character: Avv. Ferrini
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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L'Incantevole nemica (1953)
Character: Giovanni, le majordome
The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter.
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Felicita Colombo (1937)
Character: Nicolino
In the center of Milan, Felicita Colombo successfully manages a delicatessen that has among its customers the best bourgeoisie of the city.
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Une fille pour l'été (1960)
Character: Jérôme
Philippe, a little known artist, has a mistress, Viviane, a woman he does not love. When he learns the bailiffs are about to seize his paintings, Philippe decides to leave alone for the French Riviera and spend, as he regularly does, comfortable and carefree holidays in the luxurious villa of his friend Paule. But, on his way, he meets Manette, a beautiful but poor girl to whom he offers to become his companion for the Summer. Manette accepts the strange deal in exchange for bed and board. As Philippe always comes in the company of his mistress of the time, the presence of Manette does not pose a problem. But the young woman soon feels ill-at-ease in such a dubious environment. moreover, she realizes that she is falling in love with Philippe, who might not be so cynical as he wants to appear.
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Avventura al motel (1963)
Character: statuina di porcellana di Capodimonte
A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary.
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Casa Ricordi (1954)
Character: Carlotti (uncredited)
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
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Cronaca nera (1947)
Character: N/A
A mob boss seeks refuge from the police at the home of an ordinary family.
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Amori di mezzo secolo (1954)
Character: N/A
Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.
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Donne e briganti (1950)
Character: Ferdinando King of Borbonne
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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Il bazar delle idee (1940)
Character: N/A
Anna, a rich lady, decides to finance in great secrecy a singular enterprise: the founding of a real center for the creation of ideas, directed by Mario Morelli, a poet and songwriter perpetually waiting for great success, and a painter, Enrico Bovio, who cannot find the inspiration or the model for a portrait of a woman he wants to finish. Both are short of money and, convinced of the brilliance of their ideas, wish to open that bizarre business, called precisely the "Bazaar of Ideas".
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Due milioni per un sorriso (1939)
Character: Spinelli, il segretario
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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Saluti e baci (1953)
Character: N/A
Carlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if he does not find any new ones.
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Retroscena (1939)
Character: N/A
Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while wooing his love interest.
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Sambo (1950)
Character: Il poliziotto brasiliano
A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of chance. Sent a messenger to Brazil to gamble, the two men go wild and run up debts. When they realize they have won nothing, they initially fall into total despair; however the coachman had played a coupon from the football pools on his own account. He will win and make things right.
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Vacanze a Ischia (1957)
Character: The judge
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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Sperduti nel buio (1947)
Character: Giovanni
Naples of the early twentieth century. A thug keeps a girl completely submissive and, having discovered that she is the daughter of a nobleman, tries to blackmail the father.
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I prepotenti (1958)
Character: Commissario
Cesare, from Rome, and Mimì, from Naples, don't agree with their children marriage, so the young couple runs away from their home.
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Scampolo 53 (1955)
Character: N/A
A young girl meets by chance an engineer who lives with an unbearable mistress. After abandoning his mistress, the engineer has to leave for Sardinia. He decides to take the girl with him, who has been waiting for this.
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L'imprevisto (1961)
Character: N/A
An English teacher seduces a young student in the company of his wife to help him in an ambitious plan with the kidnapping of a newborn baby of a wealthy businessman.
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Città canora (1952)
Character: Don Raffaele Scotto
A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can't elope because her father has an heart ailment and uses it to hold Maria. Giacomo misunderstands and takes off on a global singing tour.
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Noi duri (1960)
Character: N/A
Lieutenant Bombardone is in Paris to wipe out a gang of drug traffickers.
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Accidenti alle tasse!! (1951)
Character: Conte Raffaele Borracciolo
Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.
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Siamo tutti inquilini (1953)
Character: Inquilino Ammalato
Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
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Parigi è sempre Parigi (1951)
Character: Raffaele D'Amore
A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.
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Abbasso la ricchezza! (1946)
Character: L'amministratore Bonifazio
Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She also becomes involved with some very dubious characters who profit from her ignorance and cheat her out of her money.
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Miseria e nobiltà (1954)
Character: Ottavio
Eugene, a young nobleman, asks two penniless idlers to impersonate his noble relatives to help him marry Gemma, the daughter of an enriched cook.
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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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Destinées (1954)
Character: Gorgias (segment "Lysistrata")
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.
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La resa di Titì (1945)
Character: N/A
A young diplomat falls in love with a lady he has followed in the street and in order to establish a relationship, he introduces her into her house proposing a connection between Titì, the lady's dog and her Pekingese. The husband of the woman, somewhat naive, lends itself to the game and the dongiovanni becomes a regular home. The lady knows how to resist the siege and, after the critical moment, speaks clearly to the young man who definitively desists from the enterprise.
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Il mio amico Benito (1962)
Character: Il capo divisione
A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to exploit the situation pretending he is a dear friend of his. When he finds out who Mussolini really is he changes his mind and goes back to his bleak life.
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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez (1964)
Character: Harper aka Ferguson
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
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Dove sta Zaza? (1947)
Character: N/A
The film is set in Naples. Two doubles, an American and a Neapolitan, alternate visiting Zaza, the maid of a magazine company, deceived by their resemblance.
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Stazione Termini (1953)
Character: Gallant Traveler
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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Arrivano i nostri (1951)
Character: Barone Ropelli
A ruthless businessman wants to bring a penniless nobleman financially on his knees because he wants to marry the man's daughter. It is the family chauffeur who puts things right.
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Primo amore (1941)
Character: Peppino Percoppo
An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
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Vacanze alla baia d'argento (1961)
Character: Barone Onofrio Onofri
Two formerly rich men try to get back on their feet, counting on their respective son and daughters marriage prospectives. The two youths meet and fall in love not knowing about their parents plan and even when the truth comes out and they are told to break the engagement because they are not rich, they fight to stay engaged and marry.
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Il giudizio universale (1961)
Character: l'accompagnatore delle personalità
In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on that day. What follows is a series of vignettes depicting various people's reactions (or lack thereof) to the announcement.
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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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Mi vedrai tornare (1966)
Character: Il duca
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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T'amerò sempre (1943)
Character: Alessandri
Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her daughter.
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Rocambole (1963)
Character: N/A
In London in 1903, during a reception at the German embassy, the legendary swindler Rocambole, thought to have died in the penal colony, helps the British secret service compromise a Prussian diplomat. His mission completed, Rocambole, under the identity of the Comte de Chamery, returns to Paris, where Baron Keller, an arms manufacturer in the service of the Kaiser, entertains the famous prima ballerina Cléo Santelli at Maxim's every evening, with whom he is madly in love. Despite her attentions, the young dancer falls in love with the false Chamery, who seems to have sworn the Baron's doom and ridicules him in the salons.
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La telefonista (1932)
Character: Carlo
Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.
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Donatella (1956)
Character: Pasquale
Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handbag containing valuables and documents, and decides to return it to her owner, a wealthy American lady, who offers Donatella a job as a secretary as a reward: she has to manage the lady's villa during her absences. There, Donatella casually meets Maurizio, a rich, elegant and well-educated young man, and ends up falling in love.
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Carosello napoletano (1954)
Character: Il fotografo
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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