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Giuramento (1982)
Character: Raffaele Fefè
Due to their dire economic circumstances, Salvatore and Concetta cannot get married, nor can they afford to have her mother's blindness operated on. To remedy the situation, the woman decides to leave with her brother Nino for the United States to ask a wealthy aunt for help. Before leaving, Concetta swears eternal fidelity to Salvatore. But after a while, the man has no news from her. He then leaves for the United States, where he discovers that Concetta has broken their pact by marrying a mafia boss.
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Vergine, e di nome Maria (1975)
Character: Simone
A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..
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Savage Breed (1980)
Character: don Peppino
Mario lives in Turin with his sister Michelina. He works in the factory. He meets a young Turin man running a night club frequented by unsavory people related to drug trafficking.
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Bene mio e core mio (1964)
Character: N/A
Lorenzo, a restorer, and Chiarina, his unmarried and God-fearing sister, live in their deceased parents' house. When Lorenzo returns from America, where he has been on a business trip, he finds Chiarina pregnant and intending to marry Filuccio, the child's father. The couple asks Lorenzo for four rooms and a warehouse as a wedding gift so they can start a fruit shop. Soon, however, the restorer realizes that the two are driven by greed and acts accordingly.
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L'anello matrimoniale (1979)
Character: Ernesto
Monica, the young wife of a luminary plastic surgeon, and the mother of a little girl, is tempted to sleep with a handsome neighbor: Giorgio, the owner of a beauty salon and the father of a boy. Since she is very much in love with her husband, she asks him for permission to yield to Giorgio, very insistent on her point. The surgeon, tolerant, gives her permission ...
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Tre calzoni fortunati (1959)
Character: N/A
Don Felice Sciosciammocca, a poor and simple man, goes to the day, hoping that sooner or later will come the right opportunity to change his life. A nice day at Don Felice comes a parcel from a dear cousin, which contains three pairs of old trousers. Apparently only common value objects, but they will create great surprises.
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Faccia da schiaffi (1969)
Character: Greengrocer
A child runs away from a orphanage and meets a man, who takes him with him: the adult also dedicates himself to courting tourists to get food. However, his love for a girl leads the boy to boycott this bond, getting his protector into trouble and ending up in prison.
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Orazi e Curiazi 3 - 2 (1977)
Character: Sempronia
Predictable parody of the legendary chapter of history of ancient Rome. The Orazi champions of the Central-South indolent clash with the Curiazi of Alba Longobarda, a hard-working northern city.
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Sgarro alla camorra (1973)
Character: Vincenzo
Andrea leaves the prison in advance through Cecere who wants to use him for his shady dealings. Tidied a boat, would be given to the fishing with his friend Peter, but first must do justice.
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Le volpi della notte (1986)
Character: Commissario Antonio Esposito
Elena, Miriam and Anna, the foxes of the night, are three beautiful women but they are also three special agents of the police headquarters in Rome. One evening they are given the task of participating in a high fashion show: a tip-off has arrived on a drug game that should be exchanged there. At the fashion show everything happens regularly, except for the attempt to snatch a beauty case from one of the models. The next morning, however, Daniela, the wearer affected by the snatch, is found dead and it turns out that the snatcher was the guardian of Eng. Mauro De Mauro, rich builder. Foxes begin to investigate.
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La fortuna con l'effe maiuscola (1959)
Character: N/A
In a miserable, freezing two-room apartment on the first floor of a building, the Ruòppolo family lives in complete poverty. Giovanni, a clerk, struggles against a thousand difficulties to make ends meet, while his wife, Cristina, takes care of the housework.
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Favola (1996)
Character: Guglielmo
Teresa, a young saleswoman of a music shop, meets Alfonso, with whom she falls in love.
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Il soldato di ventura (1976)
Character: Bracalone da Napoli
Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore bides his time to determine which side is the winning one. This is at first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.
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Le avventure di Pinocchio (1972)
Character: N/A
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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Un amore in prima classe (1980)
Character: prete
A man from Milan, Carmelo, is forced to take his young son Malcolm, on a trip down South so his mother, who usually takes care for the boy, can go on vacation with her Moroccan boyfriend. Carmelo, who obviously is not too often at home, has no clue about how to deal with young children, even the most basic chores a father should know to tend the restless imp thrown in his care. The crowded train traveling from Milan to Reggio, Calabria, is packed in the second class section where Carmelo and Malcom have a hard time getting a seat. When they finally do, young Malcolm decides to disappear from his compartment. He goes to the first class car, where eventually Carmelo decides to sit and pay the extra supplement. He is lucky to find more space, and the companionship of Beatrice, a woman that is bringing the skeleton of a rare animal. Carmelo finds a way to interest the lady. Their ride is certainly bumpy, complicated when he decides to leave the mischievous Malcolm at an intermediate stop.
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L'inquilina del piano di sopra (1978)
Character: Pasqualin
Exasperated by the great racket coming from Miss Aurora Trabocchetti's apartment, the neighbors give Professor Canestrari a mandate to deliver an ultimatum to the young woman. Too bad the teacher takes a liking to Aurora and agrees to give her private lessons. In fact, the girl aspires to marry the scion of a noble family and to try to crown her dream she must improve her culture.
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Piedone a Hong Kong (1975)
Character: Inspector Caputo
Inspector Rizzo is accused of drug trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department.
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Quel movimento che mi piace tanto (1976)
Character: Salvatore Siniscalchi
Noblewoman Livia and her friend Marquis Cecco Ottobuoni take revenge against politician Fabrizio Siniscalchi, Livia's lover who dumped her for political reasons, by setting him up with a young prostitute Anna to cause a scandal.
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Mari del sud (2001)
Character: Sciallero
A businessman is leaving for his family vacation in the South Pacific when he finds out that a rival has emptied his bank account. To save face he and his family lock themselves in the house, pretending to have gone on their trip, but it is not so easy to hide from the outside world.
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La sai l'ultima sui matti? (1982)
Character: Spermatozoo, matto n. 5
Jokes, rough jokes and spicy adventures set in a psychiatric clinic, naturally managed by an experienced doctor.
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Taxi Girl (1977)
Character: Commissario Angelini
Marcella inherits a taxi business from her father and now sets out on the job of her life. With each new fare she becomes involved with sex and crime, all done up 70's Italian comedy style.
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Condannato a nozze (1993)
Character: Porter
A neurotic lawyer is split between the desire to stay faithful to his fiancée and the one to cheat on her. Things take a turn for the literal when one night he splits into two different versions of himself, a soon-to-be-married one and a confirmed bachelor one.
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La discoteca (1983)
Character: Ghitler
Hired as a pizza chef in a resort town, Nino tries to resist the advances of a hotel owner’s daughter while his true love back home awaits his return.
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Leoni al sole (1961)
Character: N/A
The endless summer of a group of thirty-something neapolitans at Positano.
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Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective (1979)
Character: Giuseppe Marchini
After graduating in correspondence detective, Riccardo Finzi arrives in Milan. The first case he deals with is the death of a young maid. Cockpit in a surreal yellow from a novel by Luciano Secchi.
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Il tifoso, l'arbitro e il calciatore (1983)
Character: Sposito
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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Napoli si ribella (1977)
Character: Sergeant Nicola Capece
A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives from Milan to help clean-up Naples. His mission – find the drugs and stop the killing.
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Liquirizia (1979)
Character: Custode
Two groups of students - the third-class high school students and the matured accountants - decide to perform a show to celebrate the last day of school.
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Per grazia ricevuta (1971)
Character: Paziente 'sano' della clinica
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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Un jeans e una maglietta (1983)
Character: Vincenzo
Nino is a young and poor boy who meets Annamaria, a rich spoiled girl who's on holiday with his father in Capri.
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Sabato, domenica e lunedì (1990)
Character: Don Antonio
Rosa, a mature mother of several children, is concerned that her beloved husband Don Peppino is losing interest in her, and does his best to provoke some jealousy in him. She is a masterful cook, and if her romantic charms are fading, her culinary skills are not. By one means and another, and after some amusing confrontations, she succeeds in keeping her husband from taking her for granted and harmony is restored.
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É forte un casino! (1982)
Character: Michele
Some friends in an earl's mansion (where one of them works), try to get rich quick by scamming an Arab sheik and then invite a rich Californian heiress to Rome, interested in weaving a relationship with an Italian nobleman.
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Se lo scopre Gargiulo (1988)
Character: padre di Teresa
Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?
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Natale in casa Cupiello (1962)
Character: N/A
Luca Cupiello lives with the wife Concetta, the son Tommasino, and a brother, Pasquale. The son is wild, living by gimmicks and stealing from his uncle; the daughter Ninuccia does not get along with her husband Nicolino and plans to run away with her lover Vittorio; the wife tries to hide her family's troubles from her husband. Luca, who silently suffers the family situation, takes refuge in setting up the Nativity scene.
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La signora gioca bene a scopa? (1974)
Character: Peppino
A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appears to be perfectly content with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy writer. The gambler gets the idea that if he can get this woman into bed, it will change his luck at the gambling tables.
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Sogno di una notte di mezza sbornia (1959)
Character: Il pescivendolo
Pasquale Grifone, who lives in Naples with his family, receives in a dream the visit of Dante Alighieri. The poet suggests to the man, clouded by the fumes of alcohol, four numbers to play.
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Una vacanza del cactus (1981)
Character: Giuseppe Zerboni
A group of five people is going to vacation on the island of Rhodes: among them is the good-natured Augusto, who intends to bring a cactus to the grave of his uncle Michael.
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Squadra antigangsters (1979)
Character: Salvatore Esposito
Now an agent of Interpol undercover, the former Inspector Giraldi, goes to New York to find his friend Salvatore Esposito, aspiring restaurateur in Little Italy, suffocated by debts with the usurers headed by Don Gerolamo. He will remove the gang and assure her of justice, but she will suffer the advances of the Boss's daughter, the ugly Maria Sole.
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Il trafficone (1974)
Character: Gennarino
Neapolitan Vincenzo LoRusso lives of expedients in Rome, as he tries to sell at an intersection a faux suede jacket, accidentally meets Laura, a beautiful woman who invites him to her house.
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Amici miei - Atto III° (1985)
Character: Cav. Ferrini
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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Casta e pura (1981)
Character: Don Bottazzi
Antonio is married to a very wealthy woman but the sole heir of the family fortune is his daughter. He induce his dying wife to swear in the daughter of remaining "chaste and pure" ( so that she cannot marry ) until his own death.
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Piedone l'africano (1978)
Character: Caputo
Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the South African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his young son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.
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Cose di Cosa Nostra (1971)
Character: N/A
A young man unwantedly gets caught up in an international gang war in this humorous crime farce!
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La settimana bianca (1980)
Character: Enzo Ercolani
A group of employees, on a winter vacation, rather than skiing, spend their time in an attempt to impress the beautiful Angela and a sexy servant girl.
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Trastevere (1971)
Character: Straccaletto
A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
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Stasera mi butto (1967)
Character: Waiter
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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Il suo nome è Donna Rosa (1969)
Character: Gennarino
Andrea falls in love with the beautiful Rosetta, but the girl's father pushes her into the arms of the rich Giorgio. Al Bano and Romina in a musicarello of extraordinary success.
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Cara sposa (1977)
Character: Salamore
Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence discovers that his wife Adelina no longer wishes to live with him.
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Squadra antimafia (1978)
Character: Salvatore Esposito
Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squadron back in Italy a bad name.
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Operazione San Gennaro (1966)
Character: Gaetano
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Gennaro, in Napoli.
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Le quattro giornate di Napoli (1962)
Character: Partigiano
September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in control — and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, civilians rise up en masse against the invaders — and overwhelming odds.
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La liceale (1975)
Character: Osvaldo
Loredana is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes there are more important things to life than teasing men.
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Piedone d'Egitto (1980)
Character: Caputo
Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.
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Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone (1983)
Character: Ermenegildo Esposito
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 Paramedico (1982)
Character: avvocato Generoso Gallina
At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes
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Le vie del Signore sono finite (1987)
Character: Papà di Camillo
Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves.
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Il casinista (1980)
Character: Don Totonno
Pippo Caciotta is an actor looking for a role. His manager wants to renew his repertoire. Caciotta then, with the help of the brother Poldo and a camera, go around the city to find new ideas.
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L'affittacamere (1976)
Character: Maresciallo Pasquale Esposito
Giorgia and her sister inherit a villa and decide to turn it into a pension. When the sister orders the advertising, the brochure, together with the name, Pension Paradise, leads people to believe it is a whore house.
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Camorra (1972)
Character: Nicola Cafiero, detto "Sciancato"
The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".
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Il sindaco del rione Sanità (1964)
Character: N/A
Antonio Barracano is an old Camorra member who administers justice according to his own unique criteria. Magnanimous and tough, severe and affectionate, he is recognized as the 'mayor' by all the dispossessed of the Sanità district. His particular brand of justice towards the poor leads him to sacrifice his own life in order to solve the financial problems of Rafiluccio and Rita, a couple expecting a child and overwhelmed by debt.
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Pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto (1993)
Character: Gaetano
Life in Naples is tough, so Neapolitans invent ways to get by. Whatever works, conning mostly, tricking the IRS, the university, the landlord, cruise ship passengers, even conning victims three times with the same ruse.
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La casa del sorriso (1991)
Character: Lawyer
A septuagenarian couple are attracted to each other in a retirement home but find the institution and their fellow patients frown on their relationship.
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Alfredo, Alfredo (1972)
Character: Alfredo's Lawyer
Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.
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Bianco, rosso e... (1972)
Character: Quinto
A strange love story between a devoted young nun and a young Marxist determined to help run the hospital wards where the nun is the head nurse.
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Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?... (1971)
Character: Mortaretto
Libero Sbardelloni, newly married, cannot find work in Rome, so he moves to Naples, where Baron Gaetano Gargiulo, his wife Marcella's uncle, lives. The baron, however, is a penniless nobleman who lives by swindling and petty theft, constantly going in and out of prison.
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Il ragazzo di campagna (1984)
Character: Blind Man
A man is forced to completely change his habits when he decides to move from the country to the city.
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Il domestico (1974)
Character: Salvatore Sperato
A butler for wealthy clients has a problem--he can't seem to stop getting sexually involved with the wives and daughters of his bosses.
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Ho visto le stelle (2003)
Character: Prete
The young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.
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Attenti al buffone (1975)
Character: Lolò
Biting, sadistic satire punctuates this dark comedy about a feckless musician named Marcello Ferrari (Nino Manfredi) whose wife Giulia (Mariangela Melato) and kids are stolen away by the domineering, fascist madman Cesare (Eli Wallach).
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Gegè Bellavita (1979)
Character: Gennarino's Friend
Pregnant with their 10th child, Agata discovers that her lazy husband Gennaro betrays her cheerfully.
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Delitto al ristorante cinese (1981)
Character: Vincenzo Quagliarulo
The officer Nico Giraldi investigates a homicide which has taken place in a Chinese restaurant in Rome. His wife and his son are kidnappeded by the murderer in the course of the inquiry. In the end the case is worked out.
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Le comiche (1990)
Character: Il prete
Two silent movie actors escape from their film. Forced to find a way to survive in the real world, they will only cause troubles to the people they will meet along the way.
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Roma bene (1971)
Character: agente Tognon
A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
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John Travolto... da un insolito destino (1979)
Character: Caruso
Gianni, a hotel cook, is frustratingly in love with the sexy blonde DJ at the nightclub "John's Fever" but he can't dance. When one of the cook's coworkers draws a mustache and beard on a poster of John Travolta everyone somehow finally notices that Gianni looks exactly like Travolta and the game is on.
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C'era una volta (1967)
Character: N/A
A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, when she meets the ill- tempered Spanish Prince Rodrigo Ferrante y Davalos. The King of Spain has ordered Rodrigo to choose a wife among seven Italian Princesses, but he is smitten by the lowly peasant.
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Man spricht deutsh (1988)
Character: Paolo
A very middle-class Bavarian family spend the last day of their Mediterranean vacation on the beach, day-dreaming and muttering racist remarks about Italian people.
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L'Insegnante (1975)
Character: Peppino
A rich Sicilian, Fefè Mottola, decides to call a wealthy girl graduate: Giovanna, who is about to become a teacher, because his son needs repetitions. The boy, named Franco, is shocked by the physical beauty of the teacher, and so to restrain himself decides to pose as gay. But the deception does not last long, because the sexual impulses of Alfredo explode.
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Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988)
Character: Spaccafico
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
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