Alberto Sordi — Actor (19)
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The Widower (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Il vedovo
director: Dino Risi actor: Alberto Sordi / Franca Valeri …
other title: Il vedovo / O Viúvo …
Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.
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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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The Swindlers (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
I magliari
director: Francesco Rosi actor: Alberto Sordi / Belinda Lee …
other title: I magliari / Auf St. Pauli ist der Teufel los …
Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.
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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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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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Flesh Will Surrender (1947) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo
director: Alberto Lattuada actor: Roldano Lupi / Aldo Fabrizi …
other title: Il delitto di Giovanni Episcopo / Le Crime de Giovanni Episcopo …
Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Giovanni did what he should never have done: he associated himself with the crook. Giulio soon laid hands on Giovanni's money, ruined his career and manhandled him into marrying his own mistress, the beautiful Ginevra. It was of course an unhappy marriage but Giovanni found a little solace when his son Ciro was born. Seven years later though, Wanzer resurfaced...
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The Witness (1978) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Le Témoin
director: Jean-Pierre Mocky actor: Alberto Sordi / Philippe Noiret …
other title: Il testimone / Der Zeuge …
An Italian painter, Antonio Berti, pays a visit to Reims to his friend Robert Maurisson, a banker with political views on the town hall, who hides, under an affable air and an irreproachable dignity, a libertine and cynical temperament. Charged by the notable with the restoration of paintings exhibited in the cathedral, the artist calls on Cathy, a young girl from the choir, to serve as his model. The young girl will be found dead a few hours after their interview, near one of Robert's properties.
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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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Venice, the Moon and You (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Venezia, la luna e tu
director: Dino Risi actor: Alberto Sordi / Marisa Allasio …
other title: Venezia, la luna e tu / Der Windhund von Venedig …
Bepi, a gondolier with a girl in every port becomes entangled in too many romances. While Bepi is overly focused on a pair of gamine American tourists, fellow motor-boatman, Toni, threatens to steal away his childhood sweetheart.
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The Sign of Venus (1955) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Il segno di Venere
director: Dino Risi actor: Sophia Loren / Franca Valeri …
other title: Il segno di Venere / Im Zeichen der Venus …
Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
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Nero's Mistress (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Mio figlio Nerone
director: Steno actor: Alberto Sordi / Vittorio De Sica …
other title: Mio figlio Nerone / Neros tolle Nächte …
On seaside holiday, Nero, Poppea, Seneca and their friends and family prepare a great show where Nero will star. When his mother Agrippina arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she's asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.
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Smoke Over London (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Fumo di Londra
director: Alberto Sordi actor: Alberto Sordi / Fiona Lewis …
other title: Fumo di Londra / Un italiano en Londres
Dante Fontana is an antique dealer from Perugia infatuated with the culture of the British upper classes. His wife and relatives mock him and snub him, seeing him as a silly daydreamer doing no serious work. Unfussed, Dante plans a vacation to London to learn more about the culture he so admires. However, once in London, he struggles to fit in, is awkward, often makes mistakes betraying his Italian origins, attracting the scorn of the British upper classes he would like to impress.