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Seconda B (1934)
Character: Professore Monti
A school teacher falls in love with one of his female colleague, who teaches gymnastics. She returns his love, but this discovered by his students who try and sabotage their relationship.
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L'ingiusta condanna (1952)
Character: N/A
Carlo, a young doctor, occasionally meets Anna, the daughter of professor Valli. Carlo falls in love with Anna, who returns his feelings; but her father longs a brilliant marriage for her.
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I sogni nel cassetto (1957)
Character: Lucia's Father
The difficulties of a young married couple, since the husband has to prepare for his examinations during his wife's pregnancy.
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Inventiamo l'amore (1938)
Character: Borghetti
A young man from the provinces who inherited a certain sum, decides to go to Rome to devote himself to the cinematographic activity.
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La segretaria privata (1931)
Character: L'usciere Otello
During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man.The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him.
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Giù il sipario (1940)
Character: Il capocomico, signor Cirillo
A playwright, a troop of actors, a director, and the playwright's uncle scheme against each other for their own interests regarding the success or failure of the play
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Validità giorni dieci (1940)
Character: Maurizio
After finding a train ticket on the ground, the young Paolo decides to go by train to Venice, where he meets Clara, a beautiful girl.
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O la borsa o la vita (1932)
Character: Daniele
Daniele, a stockbroker, learns that he has lost a large sum entrusted to him by his friend Giovanni Bensi and he does not have the nerve to tell it in person, so he writes a letter to his friend, telling him that he may collect his life insurance, as he is going to commit suicide - but he can not tell, because he will find a way to make it appear as a misfortune. The insurance policy is valid until midnight, but does not cover suicide.
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Porta un bacione a Firenze (1955)
Character: maggiordomo
After a difficult eye operation, Simonetta, an Italian-American girl, returns for a vacation in Florence, the home town of her family. Here he meets Alberto, a sculptor.
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Cenerentola e il signor Bonaventura (1941)
Character: Il dottore
Cinderella manages to marry the prince and move to the palace, where she is well-liked and loved by everyone. However, her evil stepsisters devise a way to get her kicked out.
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La colonna infame (1973)
Character: Il presidente del senato
Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.
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Lohengrin (1936)
Character: Giulio
The monotonous life of a bourgeois family is disturbed by the announcement of the imminent return from America of Mr. Lohengrin, who had left Italy years earlier, leaving behind the reputation of being an irresistible womanizer. Lohengrin's cousin, worried about the stability of his marriage, convinces some relatives who live in the countryside to welcome the dreaded guest into their home and then, to avoid meeting him, leaves. Meanwhile, in the country house everyone eagerly awaits Lohengrin, and envy and spite are unleashed during the wait. In particular, while the young landlady prepares the house, the woman's husband begins to be tormented by jealousy. But the arrival of the long-awaited guest will be a huge disappointment for everyone: the once seductive man is now just an aged, with glasses and a prominent belly.
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Il re di poggioreale (1961)
Character: Il contente Pignatelli
A charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police inspector.
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Casa Ricordi (1954)
Character: Cesarini Sforza
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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Il padre di famiglia (1967)
Character: Amedeo, padre di 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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Partner (1968)
Character: Professor Petrushka
The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.
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Il fidanzato di mia moglie (1943)
Character: giudice Torriani
Enrico breaks up his marriage to Renata because he discovers that in the registry office she is already married to a certain Giulio, an inhabitant of a country town. The couple leaves in search of the mysterious Giulio who is about to marry Marcella, but her wedding also ends.
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Contestazione generale (1970)
Character: il vescovo
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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Toh, è morta la nonna! (1969)
Character: Grandfather
Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.
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Una famiglia impossibile (1940)
Character: Maggiordomo
A wealthy young woman falls in love with a radio singer without ever having seen him. She forces her strange family (forgetful father, mother with ideas of grandeur, three sisters with a passion for singing and another who takes care of abandoned children) to go to the EIAR headquarters to be able to meet him.
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Rugantino (1973)
Character: Michele Sacconi
A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice.
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Puccini (1953)
Character: Giulio Ricordi
Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.
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Se io fossi onesto (1942)
Character: Vittorio, il maggiordomo
The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
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Stasera alle undici (1937)
Character: Colonnello Muffon
A comedy poking fun at earlier 1930s American crime films: A society lady goes after a gang of outlaws and lands up becoming involved romantically with a gangster.
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La maschera e il volto (1942)
Character: N/A
A husband states that a possible betrayal of his wife, he would kill her without mercy. The case is that his hypothesis turns into a presumed reality.
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La bella di Roma (1955)
Character: Agostino
Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman.
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Il cardinale Lambertini (1954)
Character: Canonico Peggi
Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna.
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La telefonista (1932)
Character: tenore Alfredo Bàttigo
Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.
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La costanza della ragione (1964)
Character: N/A
Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals — instilled by Millo, a father figure and family friend in love with Bruno's widowed mother Ivana — are an obstacle. His relationship with Lori, a beautiful and tormented young woman who has just returned from Milan, reshapes his convictions. Freely adapted from a minor novel by Vasco Pratolini.
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Follie del secolo (1939)
Character: Il barone Giorgio
An aging count courts a beautiful singer who is also wooed by his son-in-law.
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