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Totò le Mokò (1949) [Movie] TMDB
Totò le Mokò
director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia actor: Totò / Carla Calò …
Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.
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Funniest Show on Earth (1953) [Movie] TMDB
Il più comico spettacolo del mondo
director: Mario Mattoli actor: Totò / May Britt …
other title: Il più comico spettacolo del mondo
A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealousy of three women and even by a policeman.
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The Two Marshals (1961) [Movie] TMDB
I 2 marescialli
director: Sergio Corbucci actor: Totò / Vittorio De Sica …
other title: I 2 marescialli / Los dos oficiales
September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.
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Totò cerca moglie (1950) [Movie] TMDB
Totò cerca moglie
director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia actor: Totò / Ave Ninchi …
Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.
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Neapolitan Turk (1953) [Movie] TMDB
Un turco napoletano
director: Mario Mattoli actor: Totò / Isa Barzizza …
other title: Un turco napoletano
Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.
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Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy (1956) [Movie] TMDB
Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina
director: Camillo Mastrocinque actor: Totò / Peppino De Filippo …
other title: Totò, Peppino e la... malafemmina / Tòtò, Peppino und das leichte Mädchen …
Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).
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An American in Rome (1954) [Movie] TMDB
Un americano a Roma
director: Steno actor: Alberto Sordi / Maria Pia Casilio …
other title: Un americano a Roma / Ein Amerikaner in Rom …
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
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A Day in Court (1954) [Movie] TMDB
Un giorno in pretura
director: Steno actor: Peppino De Filippo / Silvana Pampanini …
other title: Un giorno in pretura / Drei Sünderinnen …
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
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The Cheerful Squadron (1954) [Movie] TMDB
Allegro squadrone
director: Paolo Moffa actor: Vittorio De Sica / Daniel Gélin …
other title: Allegro squadrone / Les Gaietés de l'escadron
The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.
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Donatella (1956) [Movie] TMDB
Donatella
director: Mario Monicelli actor: Elsa Martinelli / Gabriele Ferzetti …
other title: Donatella – Junge Liebe in Rom
Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handbag containing valuables and documents, and decides to return it to her owner, a wealthy American lady, who offers Donatella a job as a secretary as a reward: she has to manage the lady's villa during her absences. There, Donatella casually meets Maurizio, a rich, elegant and well-educated young man, and ends up falling in love.
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Hercules and the Captive Women (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide
director: Vittorio Cottafavi actor: Reg Park / Fay Spain …
other title: Ercole alla conquista di Atlantide / Herkules erobert Atlantis …
King Androcles of Thebes commands a ship in search of a threat to Greece, predicted by an atmospheric oracle. Hercules is part of the crew, but the strongman falls overboard in a thick fog. Washed ashore, he saves a young Ismene from Proteus, an evil, shape-shifting creature. Ismene takes Hercules to Atlantis, where he discovers that her mother, Queen Antinea, has captured Androcles. Hercules schemes to rescue him and thwart Antinea's dream of world conquest.
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The Maids (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Le cameriere
director: Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia actor: Giovanna Ralli / Valeria Moriconi …
other title: Le cameriere
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.
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Tiffany Memorandum (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Tiffany Memorandum
director: Sergio Grieco actor: Ken Clark / Irina Demick …
other title: Il mistero dell'ombra / Komm Gorilla, schlag zu! …
1967 film by Sergio Grieco
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Murder by Music (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Las trompetas del apocalipsis
director: Julio Buchs actor: Romina Power / Brett Halsey …
other title: I caldi amori di una minorenne / Mortelle Symphonie …
Katharine Milford commits suicide by jumping out the window. Her brother, Richard refuses to believe the police story about suicide, and when it is discovered that more people had contact with Katharine died in the same way he starts a private investigation, which leads the man into Londons 'dirtiest hippie clubs. It seems that music is the common factor in all suicide - or was it murder?
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The Legend of Blood Castle (1973) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Ceremonia sangrienta
director: Jorge Grau actor: Lucia Bosè / Espartaco Santoni …
other title: Le vergini cavalcano la morte / Cérémonie sanglante …
Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.