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Dancing Paradise (1982)
Character: L'angelo
Set in a fantastic site, the film tells the story of a mythical musician named Dancing Paradise and of his son William who, accompanied by an angel, retraces his father's career to repeat it.
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La ladra (1955)
Character: Bebè
Whistle is an orphaned boy, raised in an environment unsuitable for a budding child and thief. A shady lawyer, an accomplice of thieves and fences, entrusts him to Nino, the leader of a gang that is preparing a particularly valuable coup.
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Sait-on jamais... (1957)
Character: Jeannot
Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger.
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Ho ritrovato mio figlio (1954)
Character: Membro della banda
A young boy, about to take his first communion, must wrestle with his familial loyalty and his conscience when there is a fire at their local cinema where his brother works and it is clear that he is involved in the theft of the projector. Determined to right the wrong done by his sibling, he attempts to make amends.
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Il tenente Giorgio (1952)
Character: Il postiglione (uncredited)
A lieutenant spends a night of love with a mysterious woman. After a few years he discovers that the woman was married to an invalid and that the meeting had been organized to ensure an heir for the family
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Quanto sei bella Roma (1959)
Character: Carletto
Claudio and Maurizio, two young and reckless taxi drivers in a Roman gas station meet two American tourists, daughters of a Spanish man that has oil wells in America. Maurizio and Claudio walk the tourists to the Eternal City and forget their girlfriends Patricia and Lorella. The brides, aware of their wanderings,begin to pay them with the same currency.
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Un ladro in paradiso (1952)
Character: N/A
After ending up in jail, a thief in Naples with a beautiful fiance and a good friend has to decide which path his life should take.
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Los locos vecinos del 2° (1980)
Character: N/A
Fermin and Julio are two married men whose wives, Justina and Mireya, are political leaders. While Justine is part of a conservative party, Mireya leads one that is feminist. Their husbands have become something completely different to what is generally expected in that is it they who are responsible for caring for their children, cleaning the house, etc...though of course they also get into trouble with women. Fermin and Julio are regulars at a whorehouse who runs Encarna, but it's unusual in that in addition to its main function, it also servers as a nursery.
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Nerone '71 (1962)
Character: Emilio
A family from the province goes to CinecittÃ, hoping that their daughter will be assigned a part in the blockbuster Nero 71 .
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Serenatella Sciuè Sciuè (1958)
Character: N/A
Two women, Tina, who is a pizza chef, and Lisa, who runs a shop, can't stand each other, but they have a nephew and a daughter respectively, who love each other.
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Io sono il capataz (1951)
Character: Popolano (uncredited)
The young Uguccione is mistaken for Rascelito Villa called "C6", a dangerous revolutionary, and then immediately sent to Parazuela where he leads the insurrectionist troops.
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Quando gli angeli piangono (1958)
Character: N/A
After the end of World War II, a man comes back to his former fiancée and finds out that she is married to an older man.
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Un amore americano (1994)
Character: Carlo
Angelo Fossalto teaches literature at the University of Urbino and leads a quiet life. the man is about to leave for the United States to give a series of lectures, but he will meet a girl who will make him lose his head ...
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Il sasso in bocca (1970)
Character: (uncredited)
The "stone in the mouth" is the scar that the mafia makes on betrayal's corpse. The modern mafia has the historical and sociological roots into the birth of the american capitalism at the time of Roosevelt. The American "Cosa Nostra" applies the similar methods as the sicilian mafia: same apparatus, same "omertà", same power and same terror. Giuseppe Ferrara, journalist and writer, uses fragments footage, film clips, and current news to make this film.
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Lady Barbara (1970)
Character: N/A
A young man tries to take his first steps in the world of song. He meets a beautiful girl he falls in love with, but her noble aunt is opposed to their relationship in every way
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Passi furtivi in una notte boia (1976)
Character: Pasquale Licata detto Galera
tory of a valet waitress. In order to become the owner of the bar where he works, he agrees to rob a bank. Good for the first time, not the second.
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L'amico del giaguaro (1959)
Character: "Pecorino"
A grown man named Augusto escapes from an orphanage and after several unsuccessful attempts at holding down a job, decides to start a gang and make a living by stealing from the rich.
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Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza (1968)
Character: Giovane garzone
Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza.
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Una gita scolastica (1983)
Character: Prof. Carlo Balla
Italy, 1914. Two teachers take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence.
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La rivincita di Natale (2004)
Character: Antonio Santelia
Fifteen years after the card game on Christmas Eve in which he lost 550 million lire, Franco Mattioli returns to Bologna because he learned that his friend Lele - a film critic by profession, present at the fateful game (he managed to win 500 thousand lire) - has an incurable disease. In all these years Franco has continually thought about the match and now he knows that the time for revenge has arrived. For this reason he decides to convince the people present in 1986 (in addition to Lele, Ugo Cavara, Stefano Bertoni and Antonio Santelia) to play again.
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L'arcangelo (1969)
Character: Ninetto
Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Gloria Bianchi to defend her from the alleged murder of her lover.
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Divisione Folgore (1954)
Character: N/A
In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front.
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Fortunella (1958)
Character: Riccardino
A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.
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Ladro lui, ladra lei (1958)
Character: 'Gnaccheretta'
Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.
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I pappagalli (1955)
Character: Il caporale
Sunday is the only day off that house maids use to date the young men who cross their paths: doormen, soldiers, sailors, timid virgins and lurid husbands, or even a doctor.
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Un mandarino per Teo (1960)
Character: stagnaro
Teo, a young theatre stand in, is offered a faustian pact by the devil: if he pushes a button a Chinese mandarin will die and leave his money to him. Teo seems to be tempted by the offer...
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Sette canzoni per sette sorelle (1957)
Character: Camillo
The six daughters of the mayor are not concerned with their six boyfriends because they are all infatuated with Claudio Villa. When this really comes to the village, everything happens, but as in Cinderella's fable, Claudio Villa falls in love with the seventh daughter, who is actually a child, and everything settles.
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La famiglia Passaguai fa fortuna (1952)
Character: Pecorino, figlio di Giuseppe
To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
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Lacrime d'amore (1970)
Character: Ovidio
An English singer thinks his Italian wife has cheated on him and goes back to England. He is then involved in drug trafficking and ends up in jail. Luckily enough after a while the real culprit is revealed and he can go back to Italy and his wife.
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La grande speranza (1954)
Character: Ciccio
During WWII, handsome young Italian sub commander and his crew torpedo Allied freighters and transport ships for the Axis then rescue the occasional survivor and treat them humanely while seeking a safe place to put them ashore.
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Caccia al marito (1960)
Character: Romolo
Italy, Sixties. A four-storey beach resort, and they look for the man of their life. Will they succeed?
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Mamma mia, che impressione! (1951)
Character: Testa di triangolo
Shy, clumsy and petulant, Alberto tries in every way to impress Margherita. With the hope of winning the first prize, he participates in a race.
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Nessun messaggio in segreteria (2005)
Character: Walter
Alarmed by the news that for each working Italian there's a retiree, 70-year-old Walter decides to do his part by helping "a young person who's working for him." He chooses Piero, a model worker and upstanding citizen so shy that he can't bring himself to declare his feelings for night-time street cleaner Francesca. Walter starts giving him some old-hand advice on the matter.
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Bellezze a Capri (1951)
Character: Peppino
The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.
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Tutti defunti... tranne i morti (1977)
Character: Dante
Dante arrives at the castle of the recently deceased Marquis Zanetti to sell a book which contains a prophecy that the death of nine members of the Zanetti family will reveal a hidden treasure.
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La signora gioca bene a scopa? (1974)
Character: Tonino
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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La famiglia Passaguai (1951)
Character: Pecorino, figlio di Giuseppe
When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare.
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La ragazza di Piazza San Pietro (1958)
Character: Marcuccio
Armando Conforti, his family and his friends have a business: they sell souvenirs near St. Peter's, in Rome, they change dollars, in short they get along.
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Il Monaco di Monza (1963)
Character: N/A
Pasquale takes all of his 12 children and runs away from Monza, looking for a house of a wealthy and generous awning. Having met on the way impoverished peasant, Pasquale takes him also, having granted the rank of "Half-Monk" and thus having gained rustic, but a reliable friend.
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Dichiarazioni d'amore (1994)
Character: Superintendent
A young, introverted boy falls in love with a more mature and captivating classmate. As the story unfolds through flashbacks, he reflects on the events leading to her tragic death, while dealing with jealousy, obsession, and the lasting emotional consequences of their complicated relationship.
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Bellezze sulla spiaggia (1961)
Character: Romolo
A doctor running a health clinic by the sea is convinced that women are the cause of the disturbed behaviour of his (male) patients. We get to follow the adventures of the patients during a day on the beach.
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Festa di laurea (1985)
Character: Vanni Porelli
The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman.
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I cavalieri che fecero l'impresa (2001)
Character: Giovanni da Cantalupo
In 1271, five young knights journey to Thebes in Greece to recover the Sacred Shroud and deliver it back to France and into the hands of the royal family.
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Chi salverà le rose? (2017)
Character: Avv. Giulio Santelia
The melting love story between two old men, one of them is sick and stays in bed all day, the other is a gambler who takes care of him, visit him everyday and has a hard relationship with his daughter. Sometimes love is the only solution but we realize it when it's too late.
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Walter e i Suoi Cugini (1961)
Character: Carlo "Marx"
Walter Chiari as a Pugliese who lives in Milan. He has two cousins identical to him. The two arrive in the city to find work and twist their lives.
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Veneri al sole (1964)
Character: Oreste (segment "Intrigo al mare")
Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some precious designs in it; in the second a worker keen on helping his boss gets him into trouble instead and in the third one a shy boy who tries to impress women pretending he is tough ends up in hospital and falls in love with a nurse.
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Un americano a Roma (1954)
Character: Cicalone Romolo
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
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Gli italiani e le donne (1962)
Character: Giulio Panzironi, detto Mustafà
A group of vignettes about men, mostly married, scheming to get women and the funny ways the schemes play out.
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Perdono (1966)
Character: Carlo
Federico, his girlfriend Laura and her cousin, Caterina, are three young people full of hope, united by a great friendship that seems indissoluble. The three work in a department store but, when Caterina decides to attempt a musical career, given her vocal skills, everything changes. Caterina becomes a successful singer and Federico falls in love with her. Caterina, who however does not want to make her cousin Laura suffer, pretends not to reciprocate the young man by making him put his head in order. Meanwhile, the plots of various secondary characters evolve, in particular the fresh marriage between the security guard Antonio and the secretary of the department stores Adelina.
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Guardie e ladri (1951)
Character: Libero Esposito
Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
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Teresa la ladra (1973)
Character: Carlo Occhilustri
Teresa gets her first taste of crime -- and its consequences -- when, during World War II, she is nabbed for robbing an apartment. But being poor and perpetually starving, the pretty petty thief doesn't give up her quest for ill-gotten gains and soon turns to pick-pocketing. Despite her questionable thieving skills, the bumbling crook tries scheme after scheme, pilfering from strangers and dodging the law as she searches for a way to fund an adequate meal.
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Totò contro i 4 (1963)
Character: Pecorino
The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him.
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Domani è troppo tardi (1950)
Character: Enzo
Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with one another and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom.
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Noi tre (1984)
Character: Conte Pallavicini
1770. Young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is hosted in a villa near Bologna, where he has to graduate. There he gets in touch with “normal” boys, falls in love for the first time and tries to escape his destiny of young genius.
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Papà diventa mamma (1952)
Character: Pecorino, figlio di Giuseppe
The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.
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Tickets (2005)
Character: Professor
A train travels across Italy toward Rome. On board is a professor who daydreams a conversation with a love that never was, a family of Albanian refugees who switch trains and steal a ticket, three brash Scottish soccer fans en route to a match, and a complaining widow traveling to a memorial service for her late husband who's accompanied by a community-service volunteer who's assisting her. Interactions among these Europeans turn on class and nationalism, courtesy and rudeness, and opportunities for kindness.
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Canzoni, bulli e pupe (1964)
Character: Carlo
In order to promote a plumcake an adman associates with a mad scientist who has found a way to interfere with TV broadcasts.
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Le strelle nel fosso (1979)
Character: Bracco
A father and his four sons during the 18th century have their lives thrown into turmoil with the arrival of a woman at their villa. She quickly takes on multiple roles of sister, mother, confidant and lover to all, plunging the men into confusion and leading to an almost mythic ending.
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Regalo di Natale (1986)
Character: Antonio Santelia
On Christmas night, four estranged friends reunite for a game of poker to rip off a rich businessman—but old grudges get in the way.
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Totò e Cleopatra (1963)
Character: Cesarione
Mark Antony has a brother-lookalike, Totonno, a sinister slave trader. Totonno secretly replaces Mark Antony in the most delicate moments.
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L'uomo, la bestia e la virtù (1953)
Character: Studente
Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant.
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L'Insegnante (1975)
Character: Professor Cali
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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Cuore (1948)
Character: Garoffi
A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by Enrico Bottini.
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