Alberto Sordi

Alberto Sordi

Birthday: 1920-06-15

Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy

Biography: Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 25 February 2003) was an Italian actor. He was also a film director and the dubbing voice of Oliver Hardy in the Italian version of the Laurel & Hardy films.

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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,0...

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Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno
Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno

During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away wit...

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The Swindlers
The Swindlers

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. Whe...

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Troppo forte
Troppo forte

Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and...

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The Marquis of Grillo
The Marquis of Grillo

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all s...

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I Vitelloni
I Vitelloni

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto...

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Mafioso
Mafioso

When a good-natured factory supervisor living in Milan with his Northern wife returns to his native ...

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Il tassinaro
Il tassinaro

Pietro Marchetti, a mature Roman taxi driver, has countless and interesting meetings while he is on ...

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The Traffic Policeman
The Traffic Policeman

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous...

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Where Are You Going on Holiday?
Where Are You Going on Holiday?

In three vignettes, two exes, a tour guide and a married couple struggle to overcome a series of mis...

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Il conte Max
Il conte Max

Alberto, a newspaper man, tries a one-time shot of living the good life with the help of his pennile...

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The White Sheik
The White Sheik

In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of R...

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Smoke Over London
Smoke Over London

Dante Fontana is an antique dealer from Perugia infatuated with the culture of the British upper cla...

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I'll See You on the Balcony
I'll See You on the Balcony

Ignazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with ...

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A Girl in Australia
A Girl in Australia

The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wi...

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The Dollars Are Coming!
The Dollars Are Coming!

A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews a...

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Oh! What a Mambo
Oh! What a Mambo

Miguel foils a bank robbery and becomes a successful nightclub singer, but he doesn't know that his ...

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Help Me, My Love
Help Me, My Love

Giovanni and Raffaella are happily married from ten years, but their relationship goes into crisis w...

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The Teacher from Vigevano
The Teacher from Vigevano

Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to ...

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Il passatore
Il passatore

The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor....

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It Happened at the Police Station
It Happened at the Police Station

Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, howe...

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The New Monsters
The New Monsters

A comedy film composed of 14 episodes. It is a sequel to I mostri, made in 1963. 1. The Finch of Va...

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It Happened in the Penitentiary
It Happened in the Penitentiary

A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives....

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Close Up
Close Up

More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferenc...

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Journey with Papa
Journey with Papa

Armando is the daddy, Cristiano is the adult son. Each of them lives his life in a different way res...

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Made in Italy
Made in Italy

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants....

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Venice, the Moon and You
Venice, the Moon and You

The "casanova" gondolier Bepi struggles to accept his future monogamous life, being Venice a hub of ...

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All for the Moral Majority!
All for the Moral Majority!

The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/pol...

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Everybody Go Home!
Everybody Go Home!

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to ret...

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1960
1960

By presenting archive footage along with his own life story, filmmaker Gabriele Salvatores mediates ...

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The Best of Enemies
The Best of Enemies

During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met up...

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He Thief, She Thief
He Thief, She Thief

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in...

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Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?
Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?

A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa, in ...

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Catherine and I
Catherine and I

Enrico Melotti, a middle-aged businessman, has a difficult relationship with his wife, maid and secr...

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Strange Occasion
Strange Occasion

Three sexy and comic episodes....

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A Farewell to Arms
A Farewell to Arms

An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but t...

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Toto and the Kings of Rome
Toto and the Kings of Rome

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination....

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The Boom
The Boom

Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to sa...

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The Witness
The Witness

An Italian painter, Antonio Berti, pays a visit to Reims to his friend Robert Maurisson, a banker wi...

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Love on the Riviera
Love on the Riviera

It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigull...

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The Moralist
The Moralist

The newly appointed head of a censorship board uses his uncompromising stance against everything "im...

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Nero's Mistress
Nero's Mistress

Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is prepar...

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A Day in Court
A Day in Court

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and...

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Hypochondriac
Hypochondriac

During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servan...

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While There's War There's Hope
While There's War There's Hope

Alberto Sordi directs and interprets a corrosive comedy, another "story of an Italian" that makes yo...

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Gran varietà
Gran varietà

A musical comedy divided into five segments: Mariantonia, Cuttica, Il Fine Dicitore, Fregoli and Il ...

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Il marito
Il marito

Alberto's marriage is a complete failure: his wife Elena is a hard woman influenced by her mother an...

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Medicine Italian Style
Medicine Italian Style

Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is pri...

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The Seducer
The Seducer

Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time....

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The Bachelor
The Bachelor

Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when ...

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The Art of Getting Along
The Art of Getting Along

In this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous...

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The Miser
The Miser

Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on co...

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Mamma mia, che impressione!
Mamma mia, che impressione!

Shy, clumsy and petulant, Alberto tries in every way to impress Margherita. With the hope of winning...

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A Taxi Driver in New York
A Taxi Driver in New York

The Roman taxi driver Pietro Marchetti finds himself to witness a mafia crime. Having to testify at ...

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Domenica è sempre domenica
Domenica è sempre domenica

A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will kno...

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Taste of Life
Taste of Life

Elvio Battistini works as a ticket taker in the local cinema of the small town where he lives. He ha...

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The Virtuous Bigamist
The Virtuous Bigamist

The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his qua...

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An Average Little Man
An Average Little Man

A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring...

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Traffic Jam
Traffic Jam

A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more tha...

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A Common Sense of Modesty
A Common Sense of Modesty

The film is divided into four episodes that blends sex and comedy....

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I pappagalli
I pappagalli

Sunday is the only day off that house maids use to date the young men who cross their paths: doormen...

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Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo
Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo

This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed ...

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Wild Cats on the Beach
Wild Cats on the Beach

Various short stories. Giovanna arrives from Rome with her husband Alberto for a film audition. The...

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Il presidente del Borgorosso Football Club
Il presidente del Borgorosso Football Club

Benito Fornaciari, a pale, devoutly Catholic, Upper Middleclass Italian inherits a minor-league foot...

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Why
Why

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Swiden, gets arrested at the border while going back ...

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Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Pardon, Are You for or Against?

A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons,...

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La fuggiDiva
La fuggiDiva

Mockumentary about the life and career of the actress Monica Vitti....

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Stardust
Stardust

The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town ...

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A Difficult Life
A Difficult Life

Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vit...

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The Scopone Game
The Scopone Game

An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the car...

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The Widower
The Widower

Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose fact...

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Piccola posta
Piccola posta

Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's ...

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The Sign of Venus
The Sign of Venus

Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with m...

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The Great War
The Great War

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve t...

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Position Wanted
Position Wanted

Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job...

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I Know That You Know That I Know
I Know That You Know That I Know

The investigations of a private eye shake up the almost broken marriage of a middle aged couple....

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Be Sick… It's Free
Be Sick… It's Free

Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it....

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The Last Judgment
The Last Judgment

In Naples, a voice from the skies announces one morning that the final judgment will be at 6 p.m. on...

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The Three Faces
The Three Faces

Italian comedy film made of three segments directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Mauro Bolognini and F...

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Complexes
Complexes

In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beo...

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Mid-Century Loves
Mid-Century Loves

Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients...

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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life

A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on...

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Mi permette babbo!
Mi permette babbo!

While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law....

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Good night… lawyer!
Good night… lawyer!

A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tri...

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The Anatomy of Love
The Anatomy of Love

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom....

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I Am an ESP
I Am an ESP

Roberto Razzi, skeptical and convinced atheist, is the conductor of the Futuro program, in which he ...

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Let's Have a Riot
Let's Have a Riot

Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a f...

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A Hero of Our Times
A Hero of Our Times

Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and h...

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The Story of a Poor Young Man
The Story of a Poor Young Man

Two neighbors, young Vincenzo and old Mr. Bartoloni, are utterly unhappy. On the one hand Vincenzo m...

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Our Husbands
Our Husbands

Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships....

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Winter Holidays
Winter Holidays

Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, ...

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Vacations in Majorca
Vacations in Majorca

Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laugh...

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In nome del popolo sovrano
In nome del popolo sovrano

1849 - Ciceruacchio declares the Independent Republic of Rome, but the French and the Austrians try ...

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The Couples
The Couples

Three episodes. Episode 1 - The Refrigerator (Monicelli). A married couple of two poor emigrant work...

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...And Suddenly It's Murder!
...And Suddenly It's Murder!

Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo....

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The Police Commissioner
The Police Commissioner

Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective polic...

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Flesh Will Surrender
Flesh Will Surrender

Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when ...

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Fellini nel cestino
Fellini nel cestino

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My Wife
My Wife

Five comedic episodes, all starring Alberto Sordi and Silvana Mangano....

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RomAmor: Alberto Sordi, from Rome to the whole world
RomAmor: Alberto Sordi, from Rome to the whole world

If Rome is the capital of the world, then Alberto Sordi is his true son. He absorbed all the vices a...

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Incontri proibiti
Incontri proibiti

Armando Andreoli, a well-known engineer of almost 80 years, is approached by Federica, an assistant ...

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An Italian in America
An Italian in America

Giuseppe, an Italian gas station attendant, is invited to the United States to reconcile with his fa...

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The Misery of Mr. Travet
The Misery of Mr. Travet

The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr. Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chi...

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The Queens
The Queens

Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a...

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Doctor and the Healer
Doctor and the Healer

Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province ...

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The Witches
The Witches

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels t...

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La notte delle beffe
La notte delle beffe

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La bella di Roma
La bella di Roma

Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic police...

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The Conspirators
The Conspirators

Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola and Colonel Nardoni are in charge of suppressing the liberal revolution....

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L'Incantevole nemica
L'Incantevole nemica

The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one o...

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Bravissimo
Bravissimo

The master Impallato takes care of the boys in a suburban after-school. Here he discovers a pupil wi...

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Tre ragazze cercano marito
Tre ragazze cercano marito

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The Za-Bum Circus
The Za-Bum Circus

Anthology comedy/romance film...

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Le signorine della villa accanto
Le signorine della villa accanto

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Seventh Heaven
Seventh Heaven

"Le septième ciel" became Raymond Bernard's last film; a black comedy about a female brewery owner w...

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Nestore, l'ultima corsa
Nestore, l'ultima corsa

Gaetano works in the historic center of Rome. During the summer months he keeps his nephew Aurelio, ...

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My Brother Anastasia
My Brother Anastasia

Don Salvatore Anastasia, a priest in a seminary in Tropea, Calabria (Italy), gets a ticket to visit ...

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Princess Tarakanova
Princess Tarakanova

A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova....

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To Bed or Not to Bed
To Bed or Not to Bed

An Italian fur merchant who is going to Sweden for the first time to attend the annual fur auctions ...

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Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone
Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone

The owner of a cosmetics factory has made a contract with Radio Sibilla for the transmission of an e...

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I tre aquilotti
I tre aquilotti

At the Royal Air Force Academy of Caserta, three students, Mario, Marco and Filippo become great fri...

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Assolto per aver commesso il fatto
Assolto per aver commesso il fatto

A former inspector of the SIAE, focusing everything on his cunning and stubbornness, tries to grab (...

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Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal
Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal

A story of the Second Punic Wars, beginning with Scipio's futile pleas to the Roman Senate to build ...

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Gastone
Gastone

During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone ...

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It Happened in Rome
It Happened in Rome

Three girls are on a hitchhiking trip through northern Italy, the riviera, Venice, Pisa and Rome....

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Two Nights with Cleopatra
Two Nights with Cleopatra

Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite a...

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Sant'Elena, piccola isola
Sant'Elena, piccola isola

The last days of Napoleon on the island of Saint Helena....

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Giovinezza
Giovinezza

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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...

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We Are Cinema
We Are Cinema

An Italian documentary about Italian cinema....

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È arrivato l'accordatore
È arrivato l'accordatore

Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happ...

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Lo scocciatore
Lo scocciatore

A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer...

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Di che segno sei?
Di che segno sei?

Four episodes. A pilot is ready to change sex, but the doctor made an error. A woman is searching a ...

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Il feroce saladino
Il feroce saladino

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Una parigina a Roma
Una parigina a Roma

Riccardo, a brilliant pianist studying in Rome, falls in love with Germaine, a young and pretty Fren...

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Fellini dice...
Fellini dice...

A story about the mythical film director...

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Tutto Sordi
Tutto Sordi

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Casanova farebbe così!
Casanova farebbe così!

A country braggart bets that he can spend a night with a local beauty. When he is surprised by her h...

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The Flying Saucer
The Flying Saucer

An exasperated police inspector receives different eyewitness accounts surrounding a downed saucer a...

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Vittorio D.
Vittorio D.

A documentary about Vittorio de Sica with clips of his films and testimonials from friends and famil...

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Thrilling
Thrilling

An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes....

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Fortunella
Fortunella

A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince....

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Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca

Anthological movie with some of the most famous movie sequences in Italian cinema produced by glorio...

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Che tempi!
Che tempi!

Anna, only daughter of Felice Pastorino, a rich Genoese merchant, falls in love with a young sailor,...

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Giarabub
Giarabub

The Italian troops at Giarabub defend themselves against the British....

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Tripoli, bel suol d'amore
Tripoli, bel suol d'amore

The young Alberto Ruotolo leave the country cottage to go for the sharpshooter. But the command does...

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Christmas Vacation '91
Christmas Vacation '91

This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among ...

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Il matrimonio
Il matrimonio

An Italian historical comedy film consisting of three segments, based on three stage plays by Anton ...

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Roma
Roma

A virtually plotless, gaudy, impressionistic portrait of Rome through the eyes of one of its most fa...

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The Cheerful Squadron
The Cheerful Squadron

The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by m...

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Hell in the City
Hell in the City

A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends...

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Alberto il grande
Alberto il grande

Docu-film directed by Carlo and Luca Verdone realized on 2013 in occasion of the tenth anniversary f...

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An American in Rome
An American in Rome

Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American....

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First Communion
First Communion

The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dress...

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Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. ...

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Chi l'ha visto?
Chi l'ha visto?

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Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?
Siamo tutti Alberto Sordi?

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Alberto Sordi, un italiano come noi
Alberto Sordi, un italiano come noi

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Under the Sun of Rome
Under the Sun of Rome

A lovely, incisive portrait of adolescents in the crowded San Giovanni quarter of Rome during the la...

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Cavalcade of Song
Cavalcade of Song

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E il Casanova di Fellini?
E il Casanova di Fellini?

During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him...

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