
Birthday:
03-23-1922
Deathday:
10-27-1990 (68 years)
Birthplace:
Cremona, Lombardy, Italy
Biography
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Ugo Tognazzi (23 March 1922 - 27 October 1990) was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter,
Ugo Tognazzi (23 March 1922 - 27 October 1990) was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter,
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Lady Caliph
Act like Annibale Doberdò
event1970 star_border 5.5
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La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
La Grande Bouffe
Act like Ugo
event1973 star_border 7.2
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Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
La Cage aux Folles
Act like Renato Baldi
event1978 star_border 6.8
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Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the drag club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.
My Friends
Act like Raffaello Mascetti
event1975 star_border 8.1
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Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno
Act like Bertoldo
event1984 star_border 6.9
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During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdness and acumen save him from any unfortunate situation...
La Cage aux Folles II
Act like Renato Baldi
event1980 star_border 6
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In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm. Now on the run from ruthless agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm, with Albin posing as Renato's wife. Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these relentless spies or does he have to sustain this charade - as a woman - forever?
My Friends Act II
Act like Il Conte Mascetti - Raffaello "Lello" Mascetti
event1982 star_border 7.6
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The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
My Friends Act III
Act like Conte Mascetti
event1985 star_border 6.5
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This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
Barbarella
Act like Mark Hand
event1968 star_border 6
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In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand. Along the way she encounters various unusual people.
Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man
Act like Primo Spaggiari
event1981 star_border 6.6
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The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory.
The Last Minute
Act like Walter Ferroni
event1987 star_border 6.1
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Walter Ferrari is an Italian soccer coach fired on the eve of the playoffs by club President Di Carlo.
Where Are You Going on Holiday?
Act like Enrico (episodio "Sarò tutta per te")
event1978 star_border 5.8
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In three vignettes, two exes, a tour guide and a married couple struggle to overcome a series of misadventures during their vacations.
The Ape Woman
Act like Antonio Semola
event1964 star_border 7.3
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A modest Neapolitan man meets a young woman with excessive hairiness. He exhibits her at fairs and marries her. It is after marriage that he receives a tempting offer from a French manager.
The Bishop's Bedroom
Act like Orimbelli
event1977 star_border 5.6
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Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat, and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde. Mario confesses his love for Matilde and so ensues a love triangle.
Il pollo ruspante
Act like Togni
event1963 star_border 6
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Gregoretti's Il pollo ruspante ("Free Range Chicken") shows an Italian middle-class family with two children traveling via an autostrada (highway) to the site of a real-estate project where they could be interested in buying a detached house.
Pugni, pupe e marinai
Act like Capo Campana
event1961 star_border 4.7
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Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure.
Good King Dagobert
Act like La pape Honorius et son sosie
event1984 star_border 4.1
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King's Dagobert I intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his royal caravan then barely makes it to Rome to personally give thanks to the Pope. After he arrives at the Vatican, he becomes involved in the battle between two contenders for the papacy and has to face the machinations of a ruthless Byzantine princess.
Come Home and Meet My Wife
Act like Giulio Blasetti
event1974 star_border 7.3
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50 year old Giulio and his 17 year old goddaughter, Vincenzina, fall madly in love with each other and soon are wed. Unfortunately for Giulio he walks in on his friend and Vincenzina upon a return from a trip. His jealousy and anger get the best of him and he kicks his wife out of the house. Years pass and Giulio decides to rekindle the lover affair with Vincenzina.
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
Act like Ernesto
event1961 star_border 6.6
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A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.
The New Monsters
Act like il marito/il cuoco/il figlio
event1977 star_border 6.9
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A 1977 Italian comedy film composed of 14 episodes, directed by Dino Risi, Ettore Scola and Mario Monicelli. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963.
Petomaniac
Act like Joseph Pujol
event1983 star_border 5.8
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The real story of a French man who was able to control his own farts.
Duck in Orange Sauce
Act like Livio
event1975 star_border 6.2
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When his wife wants a divorce -- in preference of a romantic Frenchman -- husband Livio seemingly accepts. But when he sets up a last weekend together with his secretary and his wife's lover, the trip turns out to be part of an elaborate plan to win his wife back.
The Fascist
Act like Federale Primo Arcovazzi
event1961 star_border 6.8
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1944. Primo Arcovazzi is a fanatical and dim-witted Fascist Party militiaman who accepts to escort an opponent of the regime to Rome in the hope of be promoted — still oblivious as ever to the forthcoming fall of the regime.
The Conjugal Bed
Act like Alfonso
event1963 star_border 6.5
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A forty-year-old employee marries a seemingly quiet girl who turns into a mantis after the wedding.
Pigsty
Act like Herdhitze
event1969 star_border 7.1
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Two dramatic stories. In an undetermined past, a young cannibal (who killed his own father) is condemned to be torn to pieces by some wild beasts. In the second story, Julian, the young son of a post-war German industrialist, is on the way to lie down with his farm's pigs, because he doesn't like human relationships.
We Want the Colonels
Act like On. Giuseppe Tritoni
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!
The Master and Margarita
Act like Nikolaj Afanasijevic Maksudov 'Maestro'
event1972 star_border 5.3
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Maestro Nikolai Masoudov, a talented writer, and his assistant Margaret, are working on a biblical story of Pontius Pilate. The Satan — Woland, and his lieutenants, are harassing Master by surveillance, by killing his friend, and sending another friend to Gulag prison in Siberia. Victimized by their harassment, Master becomes paranoid, and is locked up in a mental institution. Margaret is trying to save him regardless of the danger.
The Audience
Act like Aureliano Diaz
event1972 star_border 6.7
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Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.
Droit de Réponse
Act like Self
event1981 star_border 10
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"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel, presented by Michel Polac and produced by Maurice Dugowson. Broadcast live on a weekly basis, on Saturdays from 8.30 p.m., the right of reply has been the source of many controversies, due to the various speakers who have come to present their point of view on the show (which leads to famous scandals , remained in the memory of viewers), but also for the variety and relevance of the topics covered, which ensured the success of the program on the air for several years. On French television, this program is considered by some observers as a “pioneer program in terms of controversy-show or clash, in modern language”.
First Love
Act like Ugo
event1978 star_border 5.6
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Ugo is an old actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the rules of the other old people so he escapes with a young girl.
It's a Hard Life
Act like Luciano Bianchi
event1964 star_border 6.5
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Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in the small town of Guastalla. As an intellectual and bibliophile, he works as head of cultural initiatives at a mining plant.
Totò nella Luna
Act like Achille Paoloni
event1958 star_border 5.6
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Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further.
Controsesso
Act like The professor (segment "Il professore")
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.
Don't Touch the White Woman!
Act like Mitch
event1974 star_border 5.6
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A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
Domenica è sempre domenica
Act like Ugo
event1958 star_border 6.4
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A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.
Traffic Jam
Act like Professor
event1979 star_border 6.8
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A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.
Come Have Coffee with Us
Act like Emerenziano Paronzini
event1970 star_border 6.3
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At age 50, tax inspector Emerenziano decides to settle down and aims to the three Tettamanzi sisters, who, though not young or pretty by any means, have recently inherited a large amount of money.
Evil Thoughts
Act like Mario Marani
event1976 star_border 5.8
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Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milan, with a wonderful wife and a high social life. But Mario has a problem: every time he sees his wife talking to one of their friends he immediately visualises them in a hot affair. His jealousy spirals out of control, until a young man who hides inside their flat crosses his path.
Beach House
Act like Alfredo Cerquetti
event1977 star_border 6.6
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Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time.
La cambiale
Act like Alfredo Balzarini
event1959 star_border 6.5
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The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred thousand lire from the famous financier Bruscatelli, who ends up in prison immediately afterwards.
March on Rome
Act like Umberto Gavazza
event1962 star_border 7.4
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March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts
Complexes
Act like Prof. Gildo Beozi
event1965 star_border 7
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In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding
Act like Renato Baldi
event1985 star_border 5.1
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Third and final version of the La Cage aux Folles series has Renato's drag queen lover Albin learning that he can inherit a vast fortune from a distant relative. But the catch is that Albin must marry (a woman) and produce a heir within a year or the whole inheritance will be forfeited.
The Terrace
Act like Amedeo
event1980 star_border 7.2
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Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-to-gather. They discuss about their past, present and future.
Ro.Go.Pa.G.
Act like Togni (segment "Il pollo ruspante")
event1963 star_border 7.2
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Four short films by four different directors dealing with the principles of modern life.
Our Husbands
Act like Umberto Codegato
event1966 star_border 5.8
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Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.
The Woman's Confidant
Act like Cesar
event1959 star_border 5.1
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A veterinarian in Figarolo, Giuliano Goberti has also been providing care to the villagers since the death of Dr. Lofal, but the arrival of a luscious replacement for the vacant doctor precipitates events. While she prescribes drugs, Giuliano orders the bedridden Countess to eat well and exercise. A Roman journalist reports on the miraculous results. Soon the quiet little Italian town is invaded by a motley crew of imaginary patients, who have to bring an animal with them to save the vet from trouble for practicing medicine illegally. In the end, the brave Giuliano marries the lovely doctoress, thus curing their celibacy.
5 marines per 100 ragazze
Act like sergente Imparato
event1961 star_border 5.6
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Five GIs end up in a female college during their military manouvers. They are very welcome by the girls and since one of them has also a beautiful voice they take part in a show organized by the college.
Police Chief Pepe
Act like Commissario Antonio Pepe
event1969 star_border 5.8
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A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a lesbian and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
Splendori e miserie di Madame Royale
Act like Alessio / Madame Royale
event1970 star_border 6.3
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A gay man who is trying to protect his wayward ward runs afoul of criminals.
The Wedding March
Act like Avvocato / Michele / Frank / Igor Savoia
event1966 star_border 6.6
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Satirical film in four episodes about family and marriage.
The Joy of Living
Act like Anarchist
event1961 star_border 6.2
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Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him).
I Mostri [Episodi Inediti]
event1963
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Unreleased episodes from "I Mostri" with Ugo Tognazzi as protagonist.
The Career of a Chambermaid
Act like Adelmo
event1976 star_border 4.9
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This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.
Crazy Desire
Act like Ing. Antonio Berlinghieri
event1962 star_border 6.5
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A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.
Plato's Banquet
event1989 star_border 5.2
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At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial.
The Baron's Mazurka
Act like Baron Anteo Pellacani
event1975 star_border 6.9
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A fig tree located in the lands of a baron of the lower Po valley has for many centuries been the subject of worship. The baron, crippled and an atheist, one day sees a girl lying on the fig tree in a benevolent attitude and exchanges for the Saint Who was martyred there in the Middle Ages. Immediately the aristocrat converts and decides to give his belongings to a religious institute. In fact, he was a victim of a cheating and the "santa" is a prostitute who has given up on rage.
Ridere! Ridere! Ridere!
Act like Dottore
event1954
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A series of comical sketches featuring a doctor, a travelling salesman and some posh gents.
Sunday Lovers
Act like Armando (sketch 'Le carnet d'Armando')
event1980 star_border 6
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A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy"
His Women
Act like Stefano
event1961 star_border 5.6
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Stefano Garbelli is employed by a pharmaceutical company. One evening Daniela, a young independent prostitute, approaches Stefano pretending to be a nurse. They get together, but Daniela has a sinister plan.
The Magnificent Cuckold
Act like Andrea Artusi
event1964 star_border 6.6
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Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he starts to become obsessed with his wife's fidelity. Since she is one of the most desired women in town, he worries that it would be very easy for her to cheat on him. Now every time a man looks at his wife, Andrea goes crazy. Meanwhile, Maria finds out about her husband's affair and decides to plan her revenge.
Risate all'italiana
event1964 star_border 5.9
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A sort of best of popular comedy skits from previous films by various directors.
Noi siamo 2 evasi
Act like Bernardo Cesarotti
event1959 star_border 4.7
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Two inmates escape prison changing clothes with a couple of businessmen. They'll be taken by the financiers and find themselves surrounded by wealth and beautiful women.
The Sheriff
Act like Colorado Joe
event1959 star_border 6.5
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A gang of outlaws terrorizes Rio Ciuccio. When they kill the sheriff his wife, an old neapolitan lady, takes his place.
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Act like Ugo La Strizza
event1971 star_border 6.2
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Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which happens to have been designed by Manteghin.
Pleasant Nights
Act like Uguccione de' Tornaquinci
event1966 star_border 6.3
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A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.
The Climax
Act like Sergio Masini
event1967 star_border 6.2
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A violin player is going to be father of a sixth child by his second mistress, Marisa. Quite nervous about that, he does not leave the clinic... except to drive Giulia, his legitimate wife, along with his legitimate kids to the station as they leave for a vacation at the seaside.
Arrivederci e grazie
Act like Carlo
event1988 star_border 4.8
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Tired of married life and of his profession, Carlo decides to leave the company he owns in the hands of his wife and leaves home to move to a rented house in the heart of old Rome. The man's son, Paolo, is a playwright looking for a coveted success and he too is looking for a new apartment: due to a mistake by the agency, they both end up sharing the same room. However, the two have an irreconcilable character and soon their differences come to light, with the situation taking a further unexpected turn with the arrival of the second son Giacomo and his wife Francesca, who is expecting a child.
The Payoff
Act like Il Commissario Assenza
event1978 star_border 6.4
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Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.
Baby Doll
Act like Giulio Broggini
event1968 star_border 7.1
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A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.
The Head of the Family
Act like Remo
event1967 star_border 6.7
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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.
Marinai, donne e guai
Act like Capo Campana
event1958 star_border 5
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Four sailors are off duty in Barcelona. Capo Campana ordered them to remain together when in the city. But Mario, one of them, falls for Manuela and leaves the other three.
L'Incantevole nemica
Act like Colombo, l'adjoint du directeur de la fromagerie
event1953 star_border 7
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The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter.
The Superwitness
Act like Marino Bottecchia detto 'Mocassino'
event1971 star_border 5.6
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A pimp is suspected of murdering his lover. He is convicted based on the testimony of a single witness. The woman begins doubting her memory of the event and then, her feelings towards the convict...
Dismissed on His Wedding Night
Act like Oscar Pettini
event1968 star_border 5.4
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A businessman is nicknamed "L'avvocato" and his driver, Oscar, is a yes-man. When L'avvocato has a crash while driving his car, Oscar is put in jail in his place. When Oscar gets out, he finds himself married to the beautiful Maria, but he can't even touch her: she is l'avvocato's lover. Afterwards Oscar is appointed manager, but he can't manage a dime. At the end he shall find himself again in jail, hoping that his "sissignore" (yessir) will let him have, sometime, a driver to send to prison in his place. —
Psycosissimo
Act like Ugo Bertolazzi
event1961 star_border 6.4
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Two bumbling actors get wrapped up in a scheme to murder a rich man's wife.
I viaggiatori della sera
Act like Orso Banti
event1979 star_border 5.7
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A famous radio announcer is being retired at the top of his career and in full professional maturity. But for him and his wife life is not over now, he has more plans.
Days of Inspector Ambrosio
Act like Giulio Ambrosio
event1988 star_border 6.4
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A few days before Inspector Ambrosio's holiday, a bank robbery takes place opposite his house.
The Hours of Love
Act like Gianni
event1963 star_border 5
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In "The Hours of Love," Gianni and Marietta's spark ignites as passionate lovers, yet dims in their marriage. Seeking rekindling, they dare to step outside their vows, exploring love's complexities and the heart's yearning against societal expectations.
Menage Italian Style
Act like Carlo Vignola Federico Valdesi
event1965 star_border 6
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In Italy in the 60's it is difficult to get a divorce. Carlo gets a visit from his Swedish wife, but he is already remarried. Every time he meets a new woman, he vanishes away from the last wife.
A Matter of Honor
Act like Efisio Mulas
event1966 star_border 6
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Efisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with colleagues in strength with the game "head against head". In the village the Sanna and Porcu families' conflict has lasted over a century.
This Kind of Love
Act like Federico / Federico's father
event1972 star_border 5.5
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Hoping to avoid the fate of his anti-Fascist father, an Italian leaves his community to marry a nobleman's daughter.
The Conspirators
Act like Cardinal Agostino Rivarola
event1969 star_border 7.6
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Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola and Colonel Nardoni are in charge of suppressing the liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions.
Lonely Hearts
Act like Stefano
event1970 star_border 5.9
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The marriage of a bored upper class couple gets in a crisis.
The Degenerates
Act like Trimalchione
event1969 star_border 6.7
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A series of bawdy and satirical episodes written during the reign of the emperor Nero and set in imperial Rome. Like the more famous version made by Federico Fellini, an adaptation of Petronius' Satyricon.
The Maids
Act like Mario
event1959 star_border 7
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Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to jail. Some other maids organize a search party for the real thief who seems to be a moustached youth who continually sings a popular song.
I magnifici tre
Act like Domingo
event1961 star_border 5.1
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Pablo, Domingo and Jose, three idiots, gunmen exchanged for large liberate a village in the republic of "Nonduras" from the oppression of dictator Bonarios. Parody of The Magnificent Seven, five writers got together for an anemic script that exploits a repertoire mixture with the song "A man alive"by Gino Paoli.
Un dollaro di fifa
Act like Alamo
event1960 star_border 5.4
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Two conmen, Alamo and Mike, find shelter in Paradise City, which is full of jokers like themselves, who assume them to be lawmen and are almost hanged.
The Key
Act like drunk
event1983 star_border 6
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Art professor Nino Rolfe attempts to break down his wife Teresa's conventional modesty. Noticing her affection for their daughter's fiancé, Nino instigates her sexual interest in him - setting off a chain of unexpected events and emotional complications...
Il generale dorme in piedi
Act like Col. Umberto Leone
event1974 star_border 5.8
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A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up.
La paura fa 90
Act like Anastasio Lapin / Saverio Bompignac
event1951 star_border 5.8
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A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good bloke and when he gets the occasion he helps a youth wrongly accused of murder.
Kiss the Other Sheik
Act like Man With Car (segment "L'uomo dei 5 palloni") (uncredited)
event1965 star_border 6.6
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Italian comedy film in three segments
Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
Act like Gino Pistone
event1974 star_border 4
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Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a genius idea: to make a play on the love story of Benito Mussolini and Claretta Petacci.
Gli altri, gli altri e noi
Act like 'Cavalier Mele'
event1966
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An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman.
Portrait Of My Father
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2010 star_border 7.3
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A labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks back on the life work of her father.
La Pica sul Pacifico
Act like Roberto De Nobel
event1959 star_border 5
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Adelaide takes possession of an island in the Pacific inherited from her deceased husband. She is opposed by the chieftain and a convict. To get the island's citizenship she tries to marry the convict, but he prefers to turn himself in.
Property Is No Longer a Theft
Act like The Butcher
event1973 star_border 7.2
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A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business unscrupulously.
I motorizzati
Act like Achille Pestani
event1962 star_border 5.8
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A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
Love, the Italian Way
Act like Ugo Lemeni
event1960 star_border 4.4
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A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other.
We Are Cinema
Act like Self (archive footage)
event2021 star_border 9.5
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An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Act like Generale / Menelao Guardiaferri
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.
Non perdiamo la testa
Act like Tony Cuccar
event1959 star_border 5.2
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A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.
Tolérance
Act like Marmant
event1989 star_border 2
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An English hermit Rupert Everett) has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior to the Napoleonic Era, a period (1795-1799) known as "The Directory." He eventually comes down out of his tree into a chateau owned by an Italian nobleman (Ugo Tognazzi) and his wife. Before long, the hermit has washed and bathed and become quite presentable, even charming. However, his appearance in their midst is like a sentence of death for many of those who associate with him.
Una bruna indiavolata!
Act like Carlo Soldi
event1951 star_border 6
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Carlo wins some money and decides to go to Rome to celebrate, but he gets his money stolen on the train. He tries to find a friend of his for a loan. Unfortunately, he is at his wedding at the church. When Carlo goes there he met his runaway bride...
Mia nonna poliziotto
Act like Lucio
event1958
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Tina, an old lady, is in town for the wedding of her grandson when a medallion left to her by her late husband disappears. Dissatisfied with the police effort to find it, she sets on the tracks of the thieves herself.
I Knew Her Well
Act like Gigi Baggini
event1965 star_border 7.4
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A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit
Act like onorevole De Andreis
event1983 star_border 5.5
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The Minister of the Interior gets stuck in his ultra-technological car and a rival Member of Parliament tries desperately to help him, while chaos spreads around them.
Unfaithfully Yours
Act like Carlo Reani
event1982 star_border 5.5
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An omnibus of two different stories: In the first a divorced couple (actress wife and director husband) refresh their old passions via their common flat. In the second a well-to-do dentist-wife is attacked by her petty bourgeois family when she writes a sex novel.
Outlaws of Love
Act like Vasco Timballo
event1963 star_border 5
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This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to the absence of a divorce law. Five scenarios with different actors portray realistic situations where divorce is clearly warranted but, because marriage was strictly in the purview of the Catholic Church at that time, which strictly forbade divorce, these people are shown to suffer the consequences in their daily lives. Italy got its first civilian divorce law in 1970.
The Girl of a Thousand Months
Act like Maurizio d'Alteni
event1961 star_border 2
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A fashion designer rents his villa to a woman before leaving to go abroad. The daughter of the woman is forced to pretend to be handicapped in a dark conspiracy aimed to prevent the man from leaving.
Run for Your Wife
Act like Riccardo
event1965 star_border 6.2
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Riccardo, an unhappily married middle aged Italian working for a shoe factory, goes to America on a four day business trip.
The Harem
Act like Himself
event1967 star_border 5.5
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A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.
Singing Café
Act like Se stesso
event1954 star_border 5
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Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
A Very Handy Man
Act like Liolà
event1964 star_border 9
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In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.
I'm Photogenic
Act like Ugo Tognazzi (uncredited)
event1980 star_border 5.4
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Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to further their own careers.
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
Act like Himself (segment "La luna di miele")
event1963 star_border 4.9
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Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.
We Like It Cold
Act like Ugo Bevilacqua
event1960 star_border 6.5
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A farcical account of the happenings in Rome in 1943 when the allied army and the partisans fight the nazis.
I cadetti di Guascogna
Act like Ugo Bossi
event1950 star_border 6
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Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in the staging of a show in the military barracks.
Yiddish Connection
Act like Mosche
event1986 star_border 8
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Two middle-aged Jewish merchants plot to crack a safe with a clergyman and some neighbors in Paris.
The Man with the Balloons
Act like Man With Car
event1967 star_border 6.7
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Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting.
Aces to the fore
event1954
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The director of a detective agency discovers a jewellery thief likes to attends the theatre. So he hires two clumsy and bumbling detectives to guard all the theatres in the area. The two investigators now go from one venue to another attending various Italian magazine shows.
High Infidelity
Act like Cesare
event1964 star_border 5.3
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Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
Nenè
Act like Barber "Baffo" (uncredited)
event1977 star_border 4.9
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In the Catholic and traditionalist Italy, two teenagers covertly discover new prohibited games.
Weak Spot
Act like Georgis
event1975 star_border 6.3
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Greece 1974 - during the brutal era of the military government, and innocent tourist manager (Ugo Tognazzi) is accused of being a member of the illegal resistance movement. Two secret agents (Michel Piccoli and Mario Adorf) are bringing the innocent victim to Athens. During their trip, their car breaks down, and they're stopping in a small village. From now on, everybody is fighting against each other, and a psychological cat-and mouse-play is starting...
Formula 1 - Speed fever
Act like Self
event1978 star_border 7
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Interspersed with interviews that the actress Sydne Rome gives to some of the most famous "Formula 1" champions - from Lauda to Regazzoni, from Andretti to Fittipaldi, from Villeneuve to Reutemann - the film shows some moments of the races on the most famous tracks of the world, and above all, the accidents that have caused it.
I baccanali di Tiberio
Act like Primo
event1960 star_border 5.4
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Cassio, a tourist guide, and Primo, his bus driver, are taking a bus load of tourists to visit villa Jovis, at Capri island. Then they have an accident, and they knock their heads hard, losing conscience. They come awake in the times of the Roman Empire in Tiberius' villa.
Guardatele ma non toccatele
Act like maresciallo la Notte
event1959 star_border 5.5
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An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crash lands in an Italian air base to the delight of the Italian soldiers.
The Cat
Act like Amedeo Pecoraro
event1977 star_border 6.3
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Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer...
In the Name of the Italian People
Act like Mariano Bonifazi
event1971 star_border 7.2
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An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?
Fantasmi e ladri
Act like Gaetano
event1959 star_border 6
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Tina, an old lady and detective stories buff, moves to town in the house of a god-daughter of hers whose husband is a private dick. She thinks she will be able to help him with his inquests. He does not agree with her and tries to discourage her by any possible means.
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Act like Il professore, cliente della stireria (uncredited)
event1959 star_border 7.3
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Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Policarpo, and falls in love with her. Policarpo sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to be a count, sees with very bad eyes that his son meets a girl from such a different social position, and does just the opposite. But the efforts made by both parties will be of no use, since Celeste has fallen in love with Mario Marquetti, a "specialized mechanic" (typist) who is giving private lessons in the offices of the businessman Franquinet .
Tipi da spiaggia
Act like Pasubio Giovinezza
event1959 star_border 6.3
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Four penniless friends wich Belong to a small commedy theatre go to taormina a famous Italian beach resort willing to marry Barbara a famous multimillionaire cosmetic firm owner and forget their troubles. After a series of adventures the four youths go back to Rome with four new girlfriends.
Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses
Act like Umberto Ciceri
event1968 star_border 6.8
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When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life. But once love is found, it is a matter of spreading it and here the difficulties begin: first the father who opposes it; then, after the death of his father, the gossips who make Marino believe that Marisa was a little good, so much so that Marisa runs away. Repentant, Marino searches in vain and then, almost by accident, finds her again, Mrs. Ciceri. But love admits no obstacles, not even that of a deaf and dumb husband.
Arrivano i bersaglieri
Act like Don Prospero
event1980 star_border 6.1
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In the year 1870 Rome, then governed by the Pope, was captured by the Italian General La Marmora's troops. After the armistice, the Italian soldier Alfonso killed a Pope's soldier, the son of Don Prospero. Then he sought refuge in the house of Don Prospero himself. There Costanza and Olimpia, respectively the wife and the daughter of Don Prospero, fall for him. Then Gustavo, who knew that Alfonso had killed Don Prospero's son arrived in the house... Some things are going to happen
I milanesi a Napoli
Act like Franco Baraldi
event1954 star_border 5
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Some Neapolitans help a firm from Milan to establish two factories in Naples: one produces TV dinner pizzas the other manufactures lace. The owner of a pizza joint and a woman who makes lace at home are against the project.
La moglie è uguale per tutti
Act like Ugo
event1955 star_border 6.7
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Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
Genitori in blue-jeans
Act like Renzino
event1960 star_border 6.3
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Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Act like Self - Actor (archive footage)
event2017 star_border 6.9
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A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers of his time and has built a dazzling career of remarkable merit and success, focusing on his work during the 1970s and his professional relationship with Claude Sautet, Romy Schneider, Marco Ferreri and Luis Buñuel.
Pleased To See You Again
Act like Mario Aldara
event1976 star_border 5
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Based on the novel 'Ritratto Di Provincia In Rosso' by Paolo Levi .Mario Aldara, a Ministry of the Intenal Affairs officer and former police inspector, is sent to his native town, Bologna to investigate the alleged suicide of Cesare Bonfigli, of a powerful local family linked to politics but also the church dealing in real estate business and welfare. Aldara may be pleased to see there Viviana again. Viviana is the widow of the dead man and used to be Aldara's girlfriend twenty years before
The Shortest Day
Act like Pecoraio
event1963 star_border 6.2
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Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Greetings and sons!
Act like Mario fidanzato di Luciana
event1951 star_border 6
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Three friends, a mechanic, a clockmaker, and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They convince their future father-in-law to buy three little flats for them but the man buys them from a swindler and the friends run the risk of going to prison.
Always on Sunday
event1962
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A roving Roman's weekend becomes a nightmare of traffic mix-ups, marital mix-ups and hilarious make-ups.
E il Casanova di Fellini?
Act like Self
event1975
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During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.
Il fischio al naso
Act like Giuseppe Inzerna
event1967 star_border 5.8
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In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets. When his nose starts to whistle uncontrollably, he checks into a clinic to resolve the problem. What begins as a minor affliction worsens, and Giuseppe is placed on a different floor as his ailments multiply. The sicker he gets, the higher he goes up in the floors of the clinic, until he is near death's door.
My Pal, Dr. Jekyll
Act like Giacinto Floria
event1960 star_border 7
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Professor Fabius has found a way of transferring his personality to another person and he transfers his to the body of Giacinto Floria, a nice teacher in a women's college. Poor Giacinto becomes a sex maniac to the puzzlement of his girlfriend Mafalda.
FBI – Francesco Bertolazzi investigatore
Act like Francesco Bertolazzi (6 ep.)
event1970
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FBI – Francesco Bertolazzi investigatore is an Italian television series.
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Act like Self (5 ep.)
event1975 star_border 6
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A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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