
Birthday:
03-26-1923
Deathday:
11-25-1987 (64 years)
Birthplace:
Genova, Liguria, Italia
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Dark Eyes
event1987 star_border 6.8
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Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.
Seven Murders for Scotland Yard
Act like Commissioner Henry Campbell
event1972 star_border 4.2
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Several murders have taken place in London. All the victims are prostitutes and the murderer is using the same techniques as Jack the Ripper. Peter Dockerman, an ex-acrobat and husband of one of the victims is the prime suspect. But whoever the killer is has cannibalistic tendencies and if Scotland Yard doesn't solve the murders quickly the evidence just might be eaten!
The Con Artists
Act like Sarto
event1976 star_border 7.1
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Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that moment on the two will join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicate when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.
The Teasers
Act like Professor Mancinelli
event1975 star_border 4.9
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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.
Il gatto mammone
Act like l'urologo
event1975 star_border 4.5
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Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida) at an orphanage for unwed mothers (who has already given an illegitimate child up for adoption). They hire her as a maid, but she is under the impression they're going to adopt her, leading to some quasi-incestual misunderstandings...
No One Will Notice You're Naked
Act like Gustav Larsen
event1971 star_border 5.3
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Rosario Trapanese is determined to show he is not the typical old-fashion Sicilian. When his firm sends him to Denmark, a more sexual liberated nation than Italy, he immediately adopts the Danish "free-sexual-taboo" way of life. He meets and married Karen and succeeded to come back in Italy. Once here, he discovers Karen did a porn movie and his determination on being open minded is over. The typical Sicilian jealousy drives him crazy. Anyway, after a while, Rosario understands that what his wife did before to meet him it has not to be an issue for him. Karen confesses Rosario she signed a contract for a second movie and she could refuse only by paying a fine. The couple doesn't have enough money so they need to find a solution. And what a solution!
Il provinciale
Act like cliente di Giulia
event1971
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The young Giovanni, who grew up in the provinces, arrives in Rome with the dream of becoming a famous journalist, but no newspaper is willing to hire him. Waiting for better times, the boy finds a job as a gas station attendant. One day he becomes the victim of an accident with the beautiful Giulia, who runs over him with her car. A relationship will arise between the two but Giovanni, in her naivety, has not yet understood that she works as a luxury prostitute.
Caprice Italian Style
Act like L'Automobilista / Principe Consorte
event1968 star_border 6.2
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The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
Lo sgarbo
Act like Lord Walley
event1975 star_border 1
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A glamorous playboy thug's brutal trail of murder, terrorism and sexual blackmail across Las Vegas, Rome, Paris and London quickly wins him a prominent place in the Rome syndicate loosely run by an aging and decrepit Mafia Don. He even wins over the Don's much younger wife.
Patroclooo!... e il soldato Camillone, grande grosso e frescone
Act like colonnello
event1973 star_border 4
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The thief Bruno Camillone would like to escape abroad, but he needs a false passport and identity, which are obtained by a friend. Unfortunately, under his real name, Salvatore Bruschetta, he receives the postcard for military service, which he will have to perform in Puglia. In a barracks that is practically a madhouse...
Transplant
event1970 star_border 5.5
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To satisfy his wife, an elderly man has to have a penis transplant and is willing to pay a lot to do so. Three men are selected, who, for different reasons, are forced to accept; but giving up one's manhood can be more complicated than expected.
Dirty Weekend
Act like Franco
event1973 star_border 5.3
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A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.
Il divorzio
Act like Marco
event1970 star_border 6.5
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Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Act like Telecronista (uncredited)
event1976 star_border 6.7
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An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
The Witches
Act like Lady's Date (segment "Senso civico") (uncredited)
event1967 star_border 6.1
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Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.
Death Rage
Act like Doctor
event1976 star_border 5.5
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A professional killer is lured into a deadly double-cross when he agrees to assassinate a Mafia kingpin.
High School Girl
Act like Father of Sonia
event1974 star_border 4.9
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A shy schoolboy's life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer.
La bellissima estate
Act like Pietro - the chauffeur
event1974
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A mother keeps making excuses for why her son's father has not returned home. Jon Marco, just celebrating his ninth birthday, concludes his parents have separated and develops a plan to place himself in dad's care. Along with a new friend they run away to Milan to search for Marco's father. Once executed, our little hero learns the truth about his famous race-car driving father. Can mom and his pals help him deal with the trauma?
Alfredo, Alfredo
Act like Doctor
event1972 star_border 6.2
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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.
Concorde Affair
Act like Martinez - Milland's Advisor
event1979 star_border 6.6
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A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.
La Presidentessa
Act like turista scozzese
event1977 star_border 5
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Gobette, a young avant-garde dancer, finds herself unemployed after the closure of the provincial club where she performs. By pure coincidence, Cipriano Gaudet, Minister of Justice, meets her at a judge's house and, convinced that she is the wife of the subordinate, gives promotions to the unsuspecting representative of the law in order to remove him from the woman and be able to get married with the soubrette. ..
A Common Sense of Modesty
Act like 'Lady Chatterley' Director
event1976 star_border 5.8
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The film is divided into four episodes that blends sex and comedy.
Sugar, Honey and Pepper
Act like Aurelio Battistini
event1980 star_border 6.1
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Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. In the third episode, Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.
Divorce Italian Style
Act like Communist Party Activist (uncredited)
event1961 star_border 7.9
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Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.
Operation Snafu
event1970 star_border 5.5
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World War II soldiers enter Sicily to seize German arms supply only to discover there is not a gun in sight.
Fiorina the Cow
Act like Massaro di Beolco
event1972 star_border 4.4
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Plenty of fun erotic stories in the spirit of the "Decameron", united by one constant hero - unlucky cow Fiorina.
Yuppies
Act like marito di Françoise
event1986 star_border 5.5
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Willy, Giacomo, Lorenzo and Sandro are 4 young yuppies rampant in the "Milano da bere" of the 80s, who live in the myth of Lawyer Gianni Agnelli and Silvio Berlusconi; their only purpose in life is to appear rather than be. Giacomo is an advertiser, Lorenzo is a notary, Sandro is a dentist, and Willy is a car salesman.
We Want the Colonels
Act like Tenente Branzino
event1973 star_border 6.6
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Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
Cannibal Apocalypse
Act like Dr. Morris (uncredited)
event1980 star_border 5.6
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Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.
Le Guignolo
Act like Le bijoutier de Venise
event1980 star_border 6.1
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After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane, a stranger asks him to look after his briefcase until after they have landed. Alexandre agrees, but the stranger is shot dead soon after and Alexandre himself becomes the target of enemy agents who are keen to recover the briefcase...
Brancaleone at the Crusades
Act like Finogamo
event1970 star_border 7.2
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After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.
Eye of the Cat
event1975 star_border 4.5
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Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who covets another man's wife (Mariangela Melato) as his own. He gets what he wants, but Ras wants more: in this case, to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined by leaving his cat and taking his wife. He forces Marcello to seek an annulment to his marriage through the Vatican. Ras gets everything, but Marcello's wife, Giulia, and Marcello have other ideas.
Three Tigers Against Three Tigers
Act like Il Marito Di Giada Nardi
event1977 star_border 5.2
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Don Cimbolano - a priest in a small town. Oscar - a offender escaped from prison. Philip - attorney loser. They don't lose heart and find ways out of the most incredible situations.
That's How We Women Are
event1971 star_border 6.5
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The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.
Pleasant Nights
Act like Friend of Luca
event1966 star_border 6.3
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A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.
Life Is Tough, Eh Providence?
Act like The Priest
event1972 star_border 5.6
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An eccentric bounty hunter named Providence captures and sets free a criminal in order to collect the same bounty over and over again in different states, until they discover that a local sheriff is up to something crooked.
Made in Italy
Act like The Snob (segment "1 'Usi e costumi', episode 1")
event1965 star_border 6
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A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Act like Receiver
event1973 star_border 5
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There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.
Charleston
Act like Anwalt Morris
event1977 star_border 5.5
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Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises the style of the film The Sting.
Without Family
Act like Cesare Maccaresi (uncredited)
event1972 star_border 7.3
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Released from the orphanage at the age of thirty, a man dreams of finding his mother.
Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Act like Funeral Exhibition Attendant (uncredited)
event1971 star_border 6.5
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Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders.
Controsesso
Act like Corrado Fracassi (segment "Cocaina di domenica")
event1964 star_border 6.4
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A vivid assortment consisted of three acts taken from the lives of modern 1960s Italians, always in orbit around the restless theme of sexual inhibition and the pursuit of pleasure in sex.
Il trafficone
Act like Conte Everardo
event1974 star_border 4.5
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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.
Gun Moll
Act like Client of nightclub
event1975 star_border 5.2
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A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.
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