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Gino Cervi

Gino Cervi

Gino Cervi (3 May 1901 - 3 January 1974) was an Italian actor of international fame.

Cervi was born in Bologna. His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi. In 1928, he married Nini Gordini (one of his partners) and they had a son, Tonino Cervi. Gino Cervi later became the grandfather of actress Valentina Cervi and producer Antonio Levesi Cervi.

Cervi was best known for his role of Giuseppe Bottazzi ("Peppone"), the Communist mayor in the Don Camillo movies of the 1950s and the 1960s. He shared great complicity and friendship with co-star Fernandel during the 15 years playing their respective roles in Don Camillo movies.

At the end of his career, he played Commissioner Maigret for six years in the Italian version of those murder stories, which ended with a movie Maigret in Pigalle (Mario Landi, 1966), produced by his son Antonio Cervi.

He died at Punta Ala in 1974.

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Movies Starring Gino Cervi (119)

Racconti romani di una ex-novizia (1973)

A girl who entered the convent pushed by devotion is depraved, marries, betrays her husband and becomes a courtesan. ...

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To Kill in Silence (1972)

Valeria and Gianni are students and soon begin a love affair. When she becomes pregnant, they have to face the decision to have the child or an abortion. ...

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Maigret at the Pigalle (1966)

Maigret is about to leave for the holidays but a colleague asks him for help in investigating the mysterious murder of a stripper and a noblewoman, both of which took place in Pigalle. ...

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Gli altri, gli altri e noi (1966)

An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman. ...

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Don Camillo in Moscow (1965)

Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union. ...

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Becket (1964)

Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church. ...

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Full Hearts and Empty Pockets (1964)

A young German comes to Rome on vacation and is not slow to win female hearts. When the game become dangerous due to a possible marriage, the young man returns to his homeland. ...

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Good King Dagobert (1963)

Mr. Pelletan's rascal son Bébert son got another F for playing in class. His punishment is an essay on the Merovingian king Dagobert. All they know is he had eight wives and reunited Francia. The ignorant knave's irreverent imagination turns that into a h ...

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Gli onorevoli (1963)

Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy. ...

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The Eye of the Needle (1963)

Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim. ...

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The Shortest Day (1963)

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle. ...

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Avventura al motel (1963)

A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary. ...

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The Changing of the Guard (1962)

During WW2, it's not wise to be a mayor chosen by the fascists with the Americans' impending arrival. ...

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Crime Does Not Pay (1962)

Husband try to kill his wife with a help of the plan he saw in a film. But reality is not a film. ...

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The Nun of Monza (1962)

Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's unable to resist a romance with the nobleman Gian Paolo Osio which will lead both to danger. ...

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Roaring Years (1962)

In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their ...

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Ten Italians for One German (1961)

A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt. ...

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The Orderly (1961)

Colonels, majors, lieutenants: all of them live in the same building. Some of them have a wife or children or none, but everyone has his orderly. Major Penna is harassed by Osvaldo's mother. Lt. Martucci gets involved in the love affair between Antonio, hi ...

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Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)

Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry. ...

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The Joy of Living (1961)

Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him). ...

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Un figlio d'oggi (1961)

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The Revolt of the Slaves (1960)

A rich man's daughter (Rhonda Fleming) sides with a Christian rebel during the fall of the Roman Empire. ...

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Love, the Italian Way (1960)

A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other. ...

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Long Night in '43 (1960)

1943. The affair between Anna, unhappily married to wheelchair-bound Pino, and deserter Franco unfolds in foggy Ferrara, intertwining with the power struggle taking place within local Fascist ranks that culminates in a massacre of civilians, including Fran ...

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Mistress of the World - Part II (1960)

Karin is now continuing her father's research and is also caught in the cross hairs of the mysterious opponents. Johanson himself retreats to a Cambodian monastery in order to escape the gangsters' shots and recover. Meanwhile, the international criminals ...

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Mistress of the World - Part I (1960)

Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military applications are already being thought of when Dr. Johansson is kidnapped ...

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Siege of Syracuse (1960)

Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle ...

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The Black Chapel (1959)

1933 in Germany. The rise of Nazism fears war and some officers, concerned the fate that hostilities would reserve to their country, organize an anti-Nazi group. They send a reporter, Golder, to communicate the plan of the German offensive allies. ...

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Vacations in Majorca (1959)

Ugly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surpris ...

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Gangster Boss (1959)

In Paris, two scoundrels kidnap a wealthy man's preteen son, disguised as Indians, only to find he's a savvy detective, making their ransom plan much more complicated. ...

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Sign of the Gladiator (1959)

Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio. ...

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The Naked Maja (1958)

A historical fiction based on the lives of artist Goya and the Duchess of Alba ...

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Love and Chatter (1958)

Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage dest ...

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Sans famille (1958)

The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his three dogs and a monkey. In the beginning Remi takes its new master, but a demanding and hard man, and th ...

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Desert Warrior (1957)

Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages people to form an army and fight again to Ibrahim. The town gets excited and running quickly, while crossing the desert, they encounter the enemy caravans and ra ...

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Ambush in Tangier (1957)

An American police detective's investigation into a series of murders leads him to drug smugglers in North Africa. ...

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Castle of the Banned Lovers (1956)

The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But she has to face the jealousy of his violent and morbid father, and the hostility of his stepmother Lucrezia, who has a relationship with her other stepson, James ...

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Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo (1956)

This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for ...

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Il coraggio (1955)

A wealthy trader saves the life of a poor suicidal man who then decides that his savior has the responsibility of taking care of him and his family. ...

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Don Camillo's Last Round (1955)

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him. ...

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Non c'è amore più grande (1955)

While her new husband is away looking for work, the wife loses the child she was expecting and uses another woman's baby as a substitute so she won't have to upset her spouse when he returns. ...

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Frou-Frou (1955)

A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career. ...

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Wild Love (1955)

Despite of (or perhaps because of ) its sparse production values and unpretentiousness, the Italian Gli Innamorati was feted at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. The bulk of the story takes place in a single Roman neighborhood. In the manner of the 1925 Germa ...

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A Free Woman (1954)

Liana, an architecture graduate, is about to get married until she is confronted with the fact she is sacrificing the rest of her life for a man she barely knows. So begins a series of romantic encounters in which Liana tries to find her freedom and happin ...

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Il cardinale Lambertini (1954)

Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna. ...

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Maddalena (1954)

The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant. ...

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Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which t ...

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La grande avventura (1954)

The adventures of Count Angelo de Marchis as he tries to reach his besieged allies in Rome with much needed funds from England. Can he evade the pursuing "Contessa Sara Mondini" and her Milanese henchmen? ...

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La Dame aux camélias (1953)

Young and handsome Armand Duval falls in love with Marguerite Gautier, a 'demi-mondaine'. He manages to persuade her to give up her life as a courtesan and they both settle down in the country. Tthe beginning of their idyll is like a dream but a short-live ...

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Dappled Mare (1953)

Ruggero Pascoli, the father of poet Giovanni Pascoli, is killed by a corrupt officer. His body is brought back home by a mare that will, several years later, reveal the one responsible for the murder. ...

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Farewell, My Beautiful Lady! (1953)

Guido and Cristina fall in love, but she is betrothed to a solider. When he is reported killed they hope to marry, but his reappearance without his limbs makes matters difficult for all concerned. ...

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The Three Musketeers (1953)

The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham, incurring the wrath of the Cardinal and exposing themselves to the cold cruelty of Milady de Winter. Also fe ...

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Nero and the Burning of Rome (1953)

Pushed by his mother Agrippina, Neron seized power at the expense of Britannicus. His poetry makes him commit numerous crimes. He will die stabbed after having killed his wife, his mother, his advisers, his wife's lovers, and an incredible number of Chri ...

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The Return of Don Camillo (1953)

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone. ...

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Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953)

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 st ...

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The Lady Without Camelias (1953)

A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role in a prominent producer's romantic drama. ...

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The Queen of Sheba (1952)

The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else. ...

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Three Forbidden Stories (1952)

While recuperating from their injuries in a hospital, three young women flash back to the events leading up to the catastrophe. Remata (Lia Amando) has spent her entire life trying to overcome a childhood rape. Annamaria (Antonella Lualdi) has recently com ...

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Wife for a Night (1952)

A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage. ...

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The Little World of Don Camillo (1952)

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing t ...

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O.K. Nero (1951)

Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero. ...

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Position Wanted (1951)

Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfai ...

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The Forbidden Christ (1951)

Freshly released from a Russian POW camp, Italian soldier Raf Vallone tries to discover who betrayed his brother to the Nazis. ...

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Il caimano del Piave (1951)

It is 1917, the period of the First World War when Italy is fighting Austria-Hungary. Lucilla di Torrebruna leaves high school and returns to her father, a colonel in the cavalry, who lives at San Donà di Piave. ...

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Sigillo rosso (1950)

An elderly lady, who has lost her only son in the war, turns her house into a pension. It is also the custody of a mysterious document that his son entrusted to him, and which is coveted by many people . ...

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Story of a Love Affair (1950)

A wealthy, possessive husband's investigation reignites his young wife's past love, leading them to plot against him. As obstacles fall away, their passion faces a new test. ...

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Women Without Names (1950)

This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for displaced women after the end of World War II. Among them, Anna, a Yugoslav, who has seen her husband killed in Trieste by political enemies. She is pregnant an ...

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Yvonne of the Night (1949)

Carlo Rutelli falls in love with the beautiful variety singer Yvonne la Nuit, but his father opposes the wedding. World War I breaks out and Carlo is killed while Yvonne has a son, but on orders from Carlo's father, she is told he is dead. Her career desce ...

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La sposa non può attendere (1949)

On his way to his own wedding, a young man saves a woman who attempted suicide by jumping into a river and falls for her. ...

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The Flame that Never Dies (1949)

Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself. ...

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Fabiola (1949)

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of t ...

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Islands in the Lagoon (1948)

A documentary about the Venetian lagoon, with the words of Diego Fabbri narrating scenes of strips of land swallowed up by the sea, of small boats sailing on the water, of men and women concentrating on their work in a world which is "a false sea and a fal ...

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Anna Karenina (1948)

Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. ...

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Les Misérables - Storm Over Paris (1948)

The story of Jean Valjean, still pursued by Javert, continues with a love developing between Cosette and radical student Marius, a blackmailing attempt by suspicious innkeeper Thenardier, and a climax on the barricades of Paris. ...

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Les Misérables (1948)

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France. ...

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Romantici a Venezia (1948)

This is a documentary film on the romantic and decadent atmosphere of Venice at the end of the 18th century. A vigorous comment by Jean Cocteau tells us of the sick souls and the sorrows of literary characters and musicians who lived the dream of this city ...

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Daniele Cortis (1947)

The film follows the struggles of an idealistic Catholic politician. ...

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Furia (1947)

Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The young daughter of the household is later added to this mixture of passions. ...

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Cronaca nera (1947)

A mob boss seeks refuge from the police at the home of an ordinary family. ...

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Aquila Nera (1946)

An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher. ...

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Revenge (1946)

A man comes home from the war and finds both his plant and his family destroyed. ...

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Umanità (1946)

The meritorious assistance of a US institution, towards the inhabitants of a refugee camp, in the Italian post-war period, among the protagonists a doctor who tries to do everything possible to treat the population in critical health conditions. The docto ...

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The Misery of Mr. Travet (1945)

The ordinary life of the prudent employee Mr. Travet accelerates as he and her wife meet his new chief. ...

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Lo sbaglio di essere vivo (1945)

Believed dead, a husband poses as his own brother, to cash in on an insurance policy.But when his former boss,a rich man, asks the so called brother for help in wooing the widow, the new fortune from the insurance loses some of its appeal. ...

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Quartetto pazzo (1945)

Elena invites her former husband Roberto to her country house with the aim of winning him back while her sister Monica invites her lover Filippo. ...

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T'amerò sempre (1943)

Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her daughter. ...

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Tristi amori (1943)

Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband. ...

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Gente dell’aria (1943)

Two half brothers, one a pilot, the other a repairman at the plane factory of their father, are in a disagreement due to the envy of the younger brother, son of the first wife of their father. Then both brothers fall in love with the same woman; this cause ...

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Four Steps in the Clouds (1942)

A family man travelling for work, Paolo Bianchi, meets on a train a lonely girl, Maria. He sees her again on a bus and she reveals him that she's in troubles: she's pregnant, her baby's father has left her and she doesn't know how to tell to her parents th ...

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Don Cesare of Bazan (1942)

In Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched against the king by the French ambassador. ...

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The Betrothed (1941)

Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to ...

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The Iron Crown (1941)

In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince Arminio to beasts in the woods, but lions don't kill him and breed him as one of them. ...

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Eternal Melody (1940)

The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ...

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Una romantica avventura (1940)

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The Sinner (1940)

Seduced and abandonned by her fiance, Maria Ferrante leaves home to avoid any scandal. ...

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An Adventure of Salvator Rosa (1939)

Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country. ...

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Inventiamo l'amore (1938)

A young man from the provinces who inherited a certain sum, decides to go to Rome to devote himself to the cinematographic activity. ...

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Ettore Fieramosca (1938)

ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current ...

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L'argine (1938)

A ferryman assists a woman who had a car accident and falls in love with her. When she leaves suddenly, he sets out to find her. ...

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Voglio vivere con Letizia (1937)

Bebe, a handsome and rich young man, is getting engaged with Letizia, a young heir to a noble family. ...

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The Two Sergeants (1936)

Attempting to cover the fault of one of his subordinates, an officer of the Napoleonic army is condemned to death for treason. ...

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Amore (1936)

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The Blue Fleet (1932)

Italy's first flying film showed the strides that land had made in aviation, preparing for military action under Fascism.The 3 comrades of the plot have their differences but work together and 2 of them at least find romance back on earth. ...

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