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Il principe dalla maschera rossa (1955)
Character: Ser Gaspare
Duke Altichieri rises to power, after his associate, Cpt. Alberico, kills governor Conte Filippo della Scala. 10 harsh years of tyranny follow, until a mysterious figure appears out of nowhere, helping people in their struggle against the regime. He is known by the name Red-Masked Prince, but who is he?
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Alina (1950)
Character: Andrea
A woman takes her ill husband's place in a smuggling ring and steals the heart of his partner.
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Patto col diavolo (1950)
Character: N/A
The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensively produced period piece is more along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, with young love threatened by warring families. In his first Italian film, Hollywood veteran Eduardo Cianelli goes through his usual villainous paces as the scheming father of the male lead (Jacques Francois). The most fascinating performance is rendered by Umberto Spadaro, as the village idiot, or is he? Patto col Diavolo makes the most of the visual dynamics of Italy's mountainous Calabrian region.
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Wanda, la peccatrice (1952)
Character: Avvocato Morelli
Wrongly accused of his wife's death, a marine officer is forced to resign and sees his life fall apart.
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Guai ai vinti (1954)
Character: N/A
A young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman discover they are pregnant. After a suicide attempt, one has an abortion the other keeps her child - and both faces struggles with friends and family as they return to their homes.
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La statua vivente (1943)
Character: N/A
A sailor, Paolo, falls in love with a girl named Luisa. The two decides to get married, but on the day of the marriage the woman is involved in a serious car accident.
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Porto (1934)
Character: Mastro Vanni
Directed by Amleto Palermi
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Gente Così (1950)
Character: Don Candido
A respectable small town in Lombardy, whose inhabitants live peacefully together with smugglers, is disturbed by the arrival of an independent female teacher. She falls in love with a smuggler and elopes with him to Milan; she becomes pregnant and returns to the town. He is mortally wounded by the frontier guards and they get married just before he dies.
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Furia (1947)
Character: Priest
Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The young daughter of the household is later added to this mixture of passions.
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Tre uomini in frak (1933)
Character: le journaliste
Marcello, a shy tenor, is afraid of singing in public. Two friends of his think of having an elegant youth on the stage pretending to be singing while Marcello dubs him behind the scenes. The scam is successful but after a while Marcello summons the courage to go on stage himself.
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Cintura di castità (1950)
Character: N/A
In a castle, some actors are guests of a duke. It happens that a precious chastity belt, family heritage, disappears by a thief.
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Gli ultimi giorni di Pompeo (1937)
Character: Il banchiere
The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success.
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Abuna Messias - Vendetta africana (1939)
Character: N/A
The film takes place at the end of the 19th century. The Cardinal Guglielmo Massaia has spent 20 years in Ethiopia to convert people to the Catholic Church. He comes back to Italy and he tries to get the help of the government of Piedmont. The Count Cavour, although he appreciates the Cardinal's deeds in Africa, cannot grant his Cabinet's support to the Cardinal's plans. The missionary man, trusting the Divine Providence, goes back to Africa by himself. The Cardinal, who is known among the people as Abuna Messias, becomes a friend of king Menelik. The support of the king is fundamental to spread his word and accomplish his mission. The Head of the Coptic Church, Abuna Attanasio, does whatever he can to prevent Massaia from reaching his goals and to get him exiled from Ethiopia. Menelik refuses to help Abuna Attanasio, who decides to address the Emperor, thus igniting a war between the Emperor and his subject Menelik. In order to end the war, the Cardinal decides to leave Africa.
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Il corsaro della mezzaluna (1957)
Character: Barone Alfonso di Camerlata
Gianna Maria Canale as the Duchess who is offered a banquet and requests for a hard-boiled egg. The stingy Spanish lord, who used his last gunpowder to fire a salute to the noble lady and thus has no more when a bunch of pirates, led by Nadir, launches an attack against his castle. Nadir is the dashing fiery hero.
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L'Albergo Degli Assenti (1939)
Character: Laplace
The young lady-in-waiting of a millionairess is kidnapped, in her stead, by people who had an interest in the disappearance of the rich heiress. The girl is entrusted to a shady figure who has, for years, organized a special "hotel" where - in rigorous segregation - he holds prisoners the people entrusted to him by those who, for reasons of interest, have decreed their disappearance.
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Pietro Micca (1938)
Character: Il capitano Bovolino
An 1938 Italian historical war film that portrays the life and death of Pietro Micca who was killed in 1706 at the Siege of Turin while fighting for the Duchy of Savoy against France in the War of the Spanish Succession.
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La Gorgona (1942)
Character: Marcello Finquinaldo, padre di Lamberto
1017 AD. The Republic of Pisa is organizing a fleet to drive out the Saracens who are infesting the Mediterranean. While the forces are away "The Gorgon," the young daughter of a Pisan nobleman who has been heroically killed, comes to be solemnly invested as the figurehead virgin who will maintain a lantern to celebrate the men's victorious return. In charge of the home guard is an ambitious young Florentine who feels deprived of the forthcoming honour and glory, and who seeks revenge by violating the sacred person of the virgin. He gains access to her well guarded quarters, but when the Gorgon falls helplessly in love with him, his desire for vengeance falls away. His plot exposed, he commits suicide rather than invoke the wrath of the Pisans. The Gorgon too takes her life by throwing herself from a high tower. Meanwhile, the victorious Pisan vessels return.
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I mariti (1941)
Character: N/A
In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.
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Retroscena (1939)
Character: Parsifal Bernocchio
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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Casta diva (1954)
Character: Rettore del conservatorio
As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
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Abbandono (1940)
Character: Moran
In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in which he is captain.
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L'avventuriera del piano di sopra (1941)
Character: Bernardino Rossi
A comedy in which a young lawyer, with a very jealous wife, ends up hosting a woman from his building for a night, with strange consequences
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La canzone dell'amore (1930)
Character: Alberto Giordani, il padre
A young woman takes care of the just-born child of her late mother. Sacrificing her engagement and studies along the way.
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Erode il grande (1959)
Character: gran sacerdote
Angry at his wife and defeated in battle, the king of Judea is taken prisoner. After being spared by the Romans, King Herod comes to believe he's been a victim of court plotting.
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Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
Character: Antonio Barezzi
The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
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Tempo massimo (1934)
Character: Maggiordomo
A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.
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Il passatore (1947)
Character: Il conte Gigiazzo Ghilardi
The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor.
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Lorenzino de' Medici (1935)
Character: Duca Alessandro de' Medici
Lorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca.
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Giuseppe Verdi (1953)
Character: Antonio Barezzi
The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas.
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Il grande appello (1936)
Character: Giovanni Bertani
An Italian proprietor of a squalid Djibouti bar collaborated in selling arms to Ethiopians fighting his own country's invasion but after finding his long lost son on the Fascist front he decides to choose patriotism over selfish profit.
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Il tradimento (1951)
Character: Industriale Soldani
A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.
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Penne nere (1952)
Character: Zef Cossutti, il nonno
In the last days of the world war II a young Alpine soldier trys to find his way back home after the army was disbanded. In his village the soldiers, with the townspeople, become engaged in an effort to prevent the Germans from blowing up a dam.
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Cinque a zero (1932)
Character: Vice di Augusto
Sports comedy film inspired by a 5–0 victory by A.S. Roma against their rivals Juventus in 1931.
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Giuditta e Oloferne (1959)
Character: Belial
A beautiful girl plans to seduce, then murder, the brutal conqueror who has taken over her city.
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La vecchia signora (1932)
Character: Il commissario
An elderly chestnut vendor lives in poverty but once a month puts on a show with silk and a carriage to impress her daughter in a convent. One day she is robbed of her meager savings.
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Tradita (1954)
Character: Don Eugenio - il parroco
Brigitte Bardot stars in this romantic thriller about love and high treason in WWI-era Italy. Matinee idol-turned-filmmaker Mario Bonnard directs this opus.
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La schiava del peccato (1954)
Character: Il commissario Agnelli
A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult.
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Messalina (1951)
Character: Ottavio
A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
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Rossini (1942)
Character: Domenico Barbaia
The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his operas up to the unfortunate day she lost her voice.
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Traversata nera (1939)
Character: Captain Dixon
"Black Crossing" - In an Oriental port a group of people embarks a trader designated for Europe. One of them, a shady individual, entrusts the captain with a box of valuables to be kept until the end of the journey.
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Marco Polo (1962)
Character: Grand Khan
Italian explorer rescues the daughter of the Mongol leader Kublai Khan, meets a hermit who has invented gunpowder and builds a cannon.
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Il ladro di Venezia (1950)
Character: Ammiraglio Pisani
A beautiful tavern-keeper finds herself getting caught up in a war between Italy and Turkey.
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Scipione l'africano (1937)
Character: Hannibal
A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build an army to battle Hannibal, that climaxes with the battle of Zama.
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Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi (1950)
Character: Diomède
In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to make Lycias drink a love potion, but a young slave threatens to reveal everything. The high priest, unable to silence her, kills her and arranges to have Lycias accused...
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I tre ladri (1954)
Character: Presidente del tribunale
Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.
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