Paolo Stoppa — Actor (16)
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The Cape of Hope (1951) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Le Cap de l'Espérance
director: Raymond Bernard actor: Edwige Feuillère / Frank Villard …
other title: Le Cap de l'Espérance / Le Cap de l'espérance
Lyria, a faded beauty who runs a seedy waterfront bar, is madly in love with Bob, a crooked attorney. Bob can't bring himself to confess his love for Minnie, the pretty daughter of Simon, a safe cracker. In order to run away with her, Bob, one of the masterminds of a big-time robbery, betrays his friends. But Lyria, who has found out what is happening, makes Minnie fall into a deadly trap.
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Escape by Night (1960) IMDb TMDB
Era notte a Roma
director: Roberto Rossellini actor: Leo Genn / Giovanna Ralli …
other title: Era notte a Roma / Era Noite em Roma …
In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.
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The City Stands Trial (1952) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Processo alla città
director: Luigi Zampa actor: Amedeo Nazzari / Silvana Pampanini …
other title: Processo alla città / Les Coupables …
Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.
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The Payoff (1978) WikiData IMDb TMDB
La mazzetta
director: Sergio Corbucci actor: Nino Manfredi / Paolo Stoppa …
other title: La mazzetta / El abogado de paja …
Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.
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Behold a Pale Horse (1964) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Behold a Pale Horse
director: Fred Zinnemann actor: Gregory Peck / Anthony Quinn …
other title: ...e venne il giorno della vendetta / Chegou a Hora da Vingança …
Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez.
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The Menace (1961) IMDb TMDB
La Menace
director: Gérard Oury actor: Robert Hossein / Marie-José Nat …
other title: La minaccia / Die Drohung …
Josepha is on the verge eighteen living with her drunken washed up actor uncle. She longs for the companionship of a group of her mo-ped riding peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line. In order to get the semi-delinquent group to accept her, Josepha runs to the police with a tall tale about the local druggist, Savary. The police are looking for a sex murderer, and Josepha insists Savary is their man. What she does not know, however, can do her considerable damage.
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The Love of a Woman (1953) IMDb TMDB
L'Amour d'une femme
director: Jean Grémillon actor: Micheline Presle / Massimo Girotti …
other title: Die Liebe einer Frau / L'Amour d'une femme
Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an Italian engineer.
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Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Stazione Termini
director: Vittorio De Sica actor: Jennifer Jones / Montgomery Clift …
other title: Stazione Termini / Med natekspres Rom-Paris …
While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?
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The Most Wanted Man (1953) WikiData IMDb TMDB
L'Ennemi public n°1
director: Henri Verneuil actor: Fernandel / Zsa Zsa Gabor …
other title: Il nemico pubblico n° 1 / Staatsfeind Nr.1 …
A nearsighted clerk gets fired after embarrassing mishaps. He mistakenly takes a gangster's raincoat, finds a gun inside, and is arrested as Public Enemy No. 1. Chaos erupts as both the police and the mob pursue him.
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Marcella (1937) IMDb TMDB
Marcella
director: Guido Brignone actor: Emma Gramatica / Caterina Boratto …
Una fanciulla francese che si è compromessa per salvare il fratello fugge in Italia e diventa accompagnatrice di una nobildonna. Il figlio della vecchia vorrebbe sposarla, ma l'eco dello scandalo è giunto in Italia e la ragazza, benché si dichiari innocente, preferisce andarsene. La nobildonna, però, scopre le prove della sua onestà.