Birthday:
12-16-1915
Deathday:
10-01-2004 (88 years)
Birthplace:
Toulouse, France
Biography
Paolo Moffa was a French-born Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He began his career in the Italian film industry as an assistant director and production manager in the late 1930s. Moffa made his directorial debut with Il cavaliere del sogno (1947), a biographical film about the poet Theodor Körner. He directed several films, including The Corsican Brothers (1961) and The Avenger (1962). Moffa also worked as a producer and screenwriter, contributing to various Italian films across different genres. His career reflects a commitment to storytelling and cinematic craftsmanship.
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I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death
Producer
event1969 star_border 6.3
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Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.
The Island Princess
Screenplay
event1954 star_border 4.5
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1470. The Canary Islands try to resist the Spanish invaders. Their inhabitants are divided, their chief and his daughter Guayarmina (for whom a Spanish officer has fallen in love) wanting the peace, while the priest and resistance leader are for war. After several battles the islanders are chased to Tirma mountain by the Spanish army.
Il matrimonio
Production Manager
event1954 star_border 6.5
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An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton Chekhov.
Bury Them Deep
Director
event1968 star_border 5.8
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Clive Norton is a young captain ordered by his superior to recover two shipments of stolen army payroll gold. Clive enlists the help of Ted Hunter, a condemned prisoner whom he has released. They soon discover that two different gangs are responsible for the robberies...
The Lady in White
Assistant Director
event1938 star_border 6.8
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The lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia.
Il trovatello
Assistant Director
event1938
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A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind.
4 Dollars of Revenge
Producer
event1966 star_border 5.3
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Bandits ambush Capt. Roy Dexter of the U.S. Cavalry while he and his men escort a fortune in Confederate gold coins. Only Dexter survives the attack. He's subsequently sentenced to life in prison on the false belief he masterminded the ambush. Escaping from prison, Dexter sets about tracking down and exposing the true culprits.
Sunstroke
Producer
event1968
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One Sunday in summer a mixed crowd pours on to a beach near Rome. A few tourists who had hoped to spend a relaxing day, find themselves involved in a series of unpleasant experiences instead.
Johnny Colt
Producer
event1966 star_border 6.8
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Starblack is a hero who dresses in black and his face is covered by a black scarf and he carries in his shirt a black star, which he always leaves at the scene of his enterprises, as a symbol of justice. Soucre: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
First Communion
Production Manager
event1950 star_border 6.1
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The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
Bellissima
Production Manager
event1952 star_border 7.8
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Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.
The Testimony
Production Manager
event1946 star_border 6.5
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A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace of mind.
Sunday in August
Production Manager
event1950 star_border 6.3
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The plot weaves several episodes with several groups of people, Roman families, youth gangs and young love couples, who spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia.
The City Stands Trial
Production Manager
event1952 star_border 5.7
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Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.
The Vanquished
Production Manager
event1953 star_border 6.4
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Three tales of privileged youth entangled in murder: French students kill for money, an Italian student smuggles cigarettes, and an English poet exploits a grim discovery.
Marito e Moglie
Production Manager
event1952 star_border 7
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Two episode about the married life. In the first one a paralyzed man is forced by her wife to brood eggs while the mother hen is gone. In the second episode a good-willed man tries to escpape from the grey of the world that surround him
Imputato, alzatevi!
First Assistant Director
event1939 star_border 8.3
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Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.
Lo vedi come sei...lo vedi come sei?
Second Assistant Director
event1939
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Cousins Michele and Tommaso are told by a notary that a distant uncle has left a large sum of money for them.
A che servono questi quattrini?
First Assistant Director
event1942 star_border 7
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Marquis Eduardo Parascandolo, after having squandered all his possessions for not having cared about his finances, spends his time professing to some young people his philosophy of life.
The Children Are Watching Us
Assistant Director
event1943 star_border 7.6
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In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst
Producer
event1983 star_border 5.5
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Investigative journalist Emanuelle breaks into a home to find a microfilm, which leads her to an "international expedition" in Hong Kong. This film was made entirely of footage from Joe D'Amato films released between 1976 and 1980, quickly becoming popular within the bootleg video market.
Empty Eyes
Production Manager
event1953 star_border 7
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A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.
The World Condemns Them
Production Manager
event1953 star_border 1
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Forced by her lover to sell her body, Renata is saved from a suicide attempt by Paolo Martelli, an engineer. She asks him to help her find a job. When Paolo's wife humiliates her, Renata gains revenge by seducing the woman's husband.
The Gate of Heaven
Assistant Director
event1945 star_border 6.7
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Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto.
The Seven Deadly Sins
Production Manager
event1952 star_border 6
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A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
Goliath and the Vampires
Producer
event1961 star_border 5.7
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Maciste's village is attacked by pirates. The women, including Maciste's fiancee Guja, are carried off to Salmanak, where dwells the lair of the blood drinking Kobrak. Maciste vows to rescue them.
The Last Days of Pompeii
Director
event1950 star_border 5
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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...
The Cheerful Squadron
Director
event1954 star_border 5.7
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The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.
Felicita Colombo
First Assistant Director
event1937
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In the center of Milan, Felicita Colombo successfully manages a delicatessen that has among its customers the best bourgeoisie of the city.
The Last Days of Pompeii
Executive Producer
event1959 star_border 6.1
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Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.
The Revolt of the Slaves
Producer
event1960 star_border 5.6
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A rich man's daughter (Rhonda Fleming) sides with a Christian rebel during the fall of the Roman Empire.
Lulù 77
Director
event1980 star_border 1
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Antonio, a Neapolitan merchant in Istanbul, knows the prostitute Linda, known as Lulu, in Paris, ignoring his profession. After robbing his patron, Ciro, of a fine little bundle, the girl embarks the young man on a ship bound for Turkey, after having been drugged, and, on waking, makes him believe that he married him. —Ulf Kjell Gür
Man from Canyon City
Executive Producer
event1965 star_border 6
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Red and Carraucho, after escaping from jail, reach the border to Mexico and are hired by Morgan, a rich silvermine owner. Disgusted by the latter's cruelty, especially against the local peones, the two support a revolt organized with the aid of Mrs. Vivian, wife of the ruthless tyrant.
Teresa Venerdì
Assistant Director
event1941 star_border 6.6
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A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending girlfriend Loletta, only to end up mistakenly engaged with Lilli, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and pursued by lovestruck 18-year-old orphan Teresa Venerdì.
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