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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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In the Name of the Italian People (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
In nome del popolo italiano
director: Dino Risi actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Vittorio Gassman …
other title: In nome del popolo italiano / Abend ohne Alibi …
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?
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The Best of Enemies (1961) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
The Best of Enemies
director: Guy Hamilton actor: David Niven / Alberto Sordi …
other title: I due nemici / Liebenswerte Gegner …
During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met upon by an enemy Italian patrol that allows them to go free. But, when the Brits are given orders to attack the Italians, lots of problems ensue.
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The Teacher from Vigevano (1963) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Il maestro di Vigevano
director: Elio Petri actor: Alberto Sordi / Claire Bloom …
other title: Il maestro di Vigevano / Il Maestro di Vigevano
Primary school teacher Mr. Mombelli, nevertheless satisfied with his life, is driven by his wife to resign and starting a new activity. He invest all his goodwill setting up a footwear little factory.
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Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa? (1968) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa?
director: Ettore Scola actor: Alberto Sordi / Bernard Blier …
other title: Riusciranno i nostri eroi a ritrovare l'amico misteriosamente scomparso in Africa? / Nos héros réussiront-ils à retrouver leur ami mystérieusement disparu en Afrique ? …
A rich businessman is fed up with work, family, society, and goes with his accountant to Africa, in search of his brother-in-law who had vanished there in mysterious circumstances. They will find him alright - as a tribal chief, surrounded with lots of topless, shapely wives. They are going to return to civilisation, but will their friend come with them?
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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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Double Murder (1977) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Doppio delitto
director: Steno actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Agostina Belli …
other title: Doppio delitto / Vom Blitz getroffen …
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.
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The Police Commissioner (1962) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Il Commissario
director: Luigi Comencini actor: Alberto Sordi / Alessandro Cutolo …
other title: Il commissario / Le Commissaire …
Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the unlikely name of Dante Lombardozzi, in this entertaining comedy-murder mystery by director Luigi Comencini.
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A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit (1983) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Scherzo del destino in agguato dietro l'angolo come un brigante da strada
director: Lina Wertmüller actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Renzo Montagnani …
other title: Scherzo del destino in agguato dietro l'angolo come un brigante da strada / A Joke of Destiny
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.
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On the Tiger's Back (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
A cavallo della tigre
director: Luigi Comencini actor: Nino Manfredi / Mario Adorf …
other title: A cavallo della tigre / Vergewaltigt in Ketten …
Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.
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The Terrace (1980) [Movie] NeoDB
La terrazza
director: 埃托尔·斯科拉 actor: 维托里奥·加斯曼 / 乌戈·托尼亚齐 …
other title: 露台 / La terrazza
Expensive vines, tables filled with food, but emptiness inside. Everyone has stopped developing, and fastened in their roles. Hurtful, but still funny story about human development.