Ruggero Maccari — Playwright (19)
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Un italiano en la Argentina (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Il gaucho
director: Dino Risi actor: Vittorio Gassman / Amedeo Nazzari …
other title: Il gaucho / Il Gaucho
Marco (Vittorio Gassman) es un agente de prensa que encabeza una delegación italiana que viaja a Buenos Aires para participar en el festival de cine del Mar del Plata. El grupo será recibido por un emigrante italiano que ha hecho fortuna con el comercio de carne vacuna. Pero Marco conocerá también la otra cara de la emigración italiana en Argentina de la mano de un viejo amigo, Stefano (Nino Manfredi).
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First Love (1978) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Primo amore
director: Dino Risi actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Ornella Muti …
other title: Primo amore / Ein Sack voll Flöhe …
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.
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Love and Larceny (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Il mattatore
director: Dino Risi actor: Vittorio Gassman / Anna Maria Ferrero …
other title: Il mattatore / Der Meistergauner …
Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
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Macaroni (1985) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Maccheroni
director: Ettore Scola actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Jack Lemmon …
other title: Maccheroni / Macarrones …
A businessman from the United States returns to Italy for the first time in four decades only to discover that an old girlfriend of his, along with her brother, have involved him in a massive hoax.
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Police Chief Pepe (1969) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Il commissario Pepe
director: Ettore Scola actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Giuseppe Maffioli …
other title: Il commissario Pepe / Le Fouineur …
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.
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The Family (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
La famiglia
director: Ettore Scola actor: Vittorio Gassman / Fanny Ardant …
other title: La famiglia / Die Familie …
"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
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The Bachelor (1955) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Lo scapolo
director: Antonio Pietrangeli actor: Alberto Sordi / Sandra Milo …
other title: Lo scapolo / O Solteirão …
Paolo Anselmi is a happily single man. He lives in a flat with a friend but is forced to leave when the friend gets married. He then goes to a boarding house where he flirts with a girl but ditches her when she proposes marriage. When he goes and visits his mother he finds out that she is also trying to find the right girl for him. Is he going to surrender this time?
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The Girl from Parma (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
La parmigiana
director: Antonio Pietrangeli actor: Nino Manfredi / Catherine Spaak …
other title: La parmigiana / Das Mädchen aus Parma …
Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino.
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Portrait of a Nude Woman (1981) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Nudo di donna
director: Nino Manfredi / Alberto Lattuada actor: Nino Manfredi / Eleonora Giorgi …
other title: Nudo di donna / Die nackte Frau …
Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during the Carnival. After sixteen years of marriage, Sandro can no longer reconcile his spontaneous and lively character with that of his wife Laura, a cultured and composed Venetian woman. Yet another argument prompts him to leave her and seek refuge at the home of a painter friend. Among his many paintings, he notices one depicting a naked woman who bears an incredible resemblance to his wife. Are they two women or one, and in the masquerade of the Carnival, what is real?
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Let's Talk About Women (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Se permettete parliamo di donne
director: Ettore Scola actor: Vittorio Gassman / Sylva Koscina …
other title: Se permettete parliamo di donne / Frivole Spiele …
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.
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Ghosts of Rome (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Fantasmi a Roma
director: Antonio Pietrangeli actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Belinda Lee …
other title: Fantasmi a Roma / Das Spukschloß in der Via Veneto …
An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.
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The Visitor (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La visita
director: Antonio Pietrangeli actor: Sandra Milo / François Périer …
other title: La visita / Der Ehekandidat …
Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village where she lives, Pina places an ad in the newspaper. She gets a response from Adolfo, who agrees to travel from his residence in Rome to visit her. As flashbacks shed light on both their pasts, suspense builds about how they will relate to one another.