
Birthday:
09-17-1909
Deathday:
11-19-1992 (83 years)
Birthplace:
Cento, Ferrara
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Il Sorpasso
Act like Il Commendatore
event1962 star_border 8.2
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Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.
The Infernal Trio
event1974 star_border 5.4
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Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...
In the Name of the Father
event1971 star_border 6.5
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In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.
Fellini's Casanova
Act like Papa
event1976 star_border 7
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Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he really alive?
Arturo's Island
event1962 star_border 5.9
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A lonely teenage boy, living isolated on an island, idolizes his distant father. Complications arise when his father brings home a young new wife, whom the boy falls for, and a recently released criminal, entangled in a web of complex relationships.
È caduta una donna
Act like Montarone, figurinista
event1941
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In Milan, an unwed mother, forced to flee from her town because of the scandal, meets a doctor who falls in love with her and marries her. But the couple's relationship breaks down almost immediately: the husband is unable to leave behind the woman's past and can not stand a son not his. So Dina, in an attempt to readjust the rapport, entrusts the child to the care of the mother of her seducer (meanwhile deceased). But the sacrifice is beyond her strength, and she's soon taken by the irresistible desire to get her child back: in damp and foggy night, on her way to the station...
The Hotel of the Absent
Act like The doctor
event1939 star_border 6
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The young lady-in-waiting of a millionairess is kidnapped, in her stead, by people who had an interest in the disappearance of the rich heiress. The girl is entrusted to a shady figure who has, for years, organized a special "hotel" where - in rigorous segregation - he holds prisoners the people entrusted to him by those who, for reasons of interest, have decreed their disappearance.
The Automobile
Act like Il cameriere
event1971 star_border 5.7
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An ex-prostitute, feeling an emptiness in her life, decides to fill it by buying a car.
Gatta ci cova
Act like Zaro
event1937
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Italian film from 1937 directed by Gennaro Righelli.
The Eroticist
Act like il generale
event1972 star_border 5.6
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Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
Act like Zagarella
event1971 star_border 6.8
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Arrested on suspicion of a hit and run, a succesful architect is put in prison awaiting trial or release. Whilst there he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.
High Infidelity
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.
Chi dice donna, dice donna
Act like Vecchio architetto
event1976 star_border 5.7
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Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb and a priestess who gives herself as wife to an emigrant.
One Way or Another
Act like Caudo
event1976 star_border 7.6
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Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
Medicine Italian Style
Act like un paziente
event1969 star_border 6.6
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Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
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.
Dirty Weekend
Act like Father-in-law of Giulio
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.
Without Family
Act like Cesarina
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.
Double Murder
Act like The 'Debosciato', nephew of Prince Dell'Orso
event1977 star_border 2
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Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat and a worker are struck by lightning inside a fancy mansion. The incident would be relegated to freak accidents, but Baldassare's attention is drawn to the strangeness of the events and he begins to investigate.
Ettore Fieramosca
Act like Servo di Graiano
event1938 star_border 6.3
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ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic fervor and pride in the Italian nation, and it contributed to a revival of Italian nationalism.
The Clowns
Act like Clown
event1970 star_border 7
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Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns still live in these countries. He also meets Anita Ekberg trying to buy a panther in a circus.
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