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Emilio Petacci

Emilio Petacci

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#1In campagna è caduta una stella

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Il padre di Clotilde

9.0 / 10
Comedy

An American starlet inflames two Italian peasants who forget about their respective fiance's. One of them even thinks of marrying her and begins to plan for the engagement banquet. When the girl decides to live the countryside harmony reigns again.

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#2Small Hotel

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as usciere dell'hotel

7.0 / 10
Drama

Piccolo Hotel (aka Small Hotel) uses the titular establishment to weave together a vast tapestry of subplots, a la Grand Hotel. The guests include a domineering mother (Lola Braccini), her petulant daughter (Bianca Doria) and the daughter's gigolo boyfriend (Guido Notari). Also on hand is a worldly vamp (Laura Nucci) who also falls for the boyfriend, and the chronic-gambler son (Andrea Checchi) of the hotel's self-sacrificing landlady (Emma Grammatica). Though the film is set in Budapest, the characters are more Mediterranean than mittel-European. Piccolo Hotel was one of the entries in the Vienna Biennial Film Festival.

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#3L'invasore

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
DramaRomance

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#4In cerca di felicità

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • as Il commissario

10.0 / 10
Comedy

Two young people fall in love and run away from home. They soon run out of money and he, who has a decent voice, finds work in a low-class variety show, where he is captivated by the charms of a dancer.

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#5100 Years of Love

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Vincenzo, Massimo's Secretary (segment "Amore 1954")

7.5 / 10
ComedyDrama

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.

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#6The Miller's Beautiful Wife

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

5.4 / 10
RomanceComedy

A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after the miller's wife Carmela. The miller himself plans to avenge his honor by seducing the wife of the governor.

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#7Il cardinale Lambertini

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Costanzo

6.5 / 10
HistoryComedy

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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#8Lust of the Vampire

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as L'antiquario (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
HorrorMysterySci-Fi

A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess.

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#9Heartbeat

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Romance

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#10La memoria dell'altro

Movie - 1913, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
RomanceDrama

Young aviatrix Lyda spurns the advances of the Prince of Sèvre and falls in love with journalist Mario, who, although engaged to Cesarina, goes to Lyda's home. Cesarina sees them and manages to persuade Mario to leave Lyda.

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#11Luce nelle tenebre

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Il portiere

8.0 / 10
DramaRomance

Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notorious and frivolous Clara who falls for him immediately.

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#12The Sword and the Cross

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

5.4 / 10
HistoryAction

Sold as slaves to a wealthy Roman, Lea and Esther, two Carthaginian sisters, are offered as gifts to the ambitious daughter of a proconsul and end up involved in spite of themselves in a dangerous game of power.

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#13Luna rossa

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
DramaRomance

A sailor's girlfriend is courted by the same man who also seduced his sister.

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#14Anna

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as colonnello Zenner

7.3 / 10
DramaRomance

The life story of a nun who started out as a bar singer, then took the veil because she couldn't choose between two men, and now devotes herself to nursing.

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#15Cavalier in Devil's Castle

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as Priore

9.0 / 10
Adventure

A mysterious horseman, called the Dark Knight, sets himself up as a masked vigilante and decides to free the duchet of Valgrado from the grip of a terrible tyrant.

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#16Felicita Colombo

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Fattore

9.0 / 10
Comedy

In the center of Milan, Felicita Colombo successfully manages a delicatessen that has among its customers the best bourgeoisie of the city.

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#17Paura d'amare

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#18Il conte di Matera

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as il duca Bressi

7.0 / 10
Adventure

Rambaldo Tramontana, a count who went into battle backed by the French, returns to Matera to take revenge once he is victorious, but the city is deserted and he begins to commit abuses and violence.

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#19Tempesta sul golfo

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Don Pietro, il medico

8.0 / 10
DramaHistory

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#20I'll Give a Million

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Uno degli ospiti sullo yacht

6.8 / 10
Comedy

A comedy about a hobo and a millionaire who swap roles after the millionaire rescues the hobo from a suicide attempt.

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#21L'allegro fantasma

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Anatolio

5.3 / 10
Comedy

The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.

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#22San Giovanni decollato

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Prosecutor Lanzetti

6.7 / 10
Comedy

Mastr'Antonio Miciaccio caretaker and shoemaker is devoted to Saint John Beheaded and is trying to find out who has been stealing the oil that keeps the candle to the saint burning. He also does not approve of his daughter's boy friend and he does not want him to marry her.

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#23Toto and the Kings of Rome

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Filippini

7.0 / 10
Comedy

An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.

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#24La freccia nel fianco

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m • as Commendator Dossena

6.5 / 10
Drama

A married woman fights her strange attraction to an aristocratic young pianist from her past.

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#25Forse eri tu l'amore

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
ComedyRomance

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#26Anime in tumulto

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Giuseppe, il maggiordomo

7.0 / 10
Drama

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#27The Devil's Daughter

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Girolamo

7.0 / 10
Drama

Garibaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to be a patriot who has returned to Italy to take part in the fight but a degraded Bourbon official who has been promised rehabilitation if he can succeed as a spy. Tucci discovers old Sereni's second wife is one of his former lovers and persuades her to murder her husband so as to gain his inheritance. She does indeed cause the count to die, by withholding his heart medicine, but not before he destroys his will.

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#28Gli uomini non sono ingrati

Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Marito geloso

9.0 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#29Love Everlasting

Movie - 1913, 2h 15m • as Col. Theubner

5.8 / 10
RomanceDrama

Grand Duchy of Wallenstein. Elsa Holbein is the young beautiful daughter of General Julius, the Chief of the General Staff. After a spy named Moise Sthar steals military documents, Julius is accused of betrayal. He kills himself while Elsa is forced to leave. Homeless, she begins wandering the streets until, on the Riviera, she starts her performing career under the pseudonym of Diana Cadouleur and becomes a successful actress and singer. One day, in a small church, she meets an elegant young man and she falls in love with him. But during a tour on the Lucarno Lake she runs into Sthar who, rejected by Elena, spreads rumors about Prince Massimiliano’s behavior.

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#30Non è vero... ma ci credo!

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Il dottore

10.0 / 10
Comedy

A young man in love with a girl whose father--his employer--does not approve of him, disguises himself as a hunchback to get into the father's good graces.

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#31The Prisoner of Santa Cruz

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Il medico

9.0 / 10
Drama

A sea captain forbids his daughter to marry the man whose father he had killed many years before.

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#32Female Three Times

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Commissario sportivo detto 'Sua Eccellenza'

8.0 / 10
Comedy

The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in Rome. Upon arriving at the 'Eternal City', the Russian athletes find ways to evade the strict surveillance and meet some Italian guys. After many persecutions, the Russians are confined by their guardians under the promise that, if they win, they can stay and live in Italy. But as they conquer the championship, their guards forget the promises and put them on a plane to Moscow.

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#33Giorno di nozze

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Fornitore del bar

8.0 / 10
Comedy

A daughter discovers her parents are far from being the rich bourgeois she thought they were.

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#34Fra' Diavolo

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Ministro del re

6.7 / 10
HistoryAdventure

The leader of a band of mountain bandits defending Naples against the French plays a dual role as a police official. Our romantic hero pivots as well between two women, the sister of a royalist and a lady spy.

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#35Beatrice Cenci

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

5.4 / 10
DramaHistory

Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.

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#36Giù il sipario

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Attore della compagnia teatrale

6.0 / 10
Comedy

A playwright, a troop of actors, a director, and the playwright's uncle scheme against each other for their own interests regarding the success or failure of the play

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#37The Knight of Kruja

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Operaio

10.0 / 10
AdventureRomance

Young Italian journalist Stefano Andriani travels to Albania, where he falls in love with Eliana, a local girl, and she with him. One day, Andriani comes across the tribal chief Hasslan Haidar, an opponent of King Zog's regime, wounded by the royal guards. He saves him, taking him to his village, and makes a "blood pact" with him, which makes them brothers. Later, the journalist accidentally discovers that the tribal chief is Eliana's brother, and he must therefore give up his plans for marriage. In addition, the chief of police in Tirana tries to exploit the situation to turn Hasslan against Andriani. The arrival of Italian troops, who conquer Albania, resolves everything and allows the misunderstanding to be cleared up.

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#38Imputato, alzatevi!

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as L'usciere dell'ospedale

8.0 / 10
Comedy

Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.

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#39Montevergine

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
Drama

A blacksmith from Montevergine, accused of murder, flees to Argentina. Years later, a mute witness testifies to his innocence, leading to his acquittal. Just before returning home, an Argentine woman plants opium in his luggage, resulting in a ten-year prison sentence. After his release, he finds his daughter engaged to a wealthy landowner who had falsely accused him. Enraged, he plans to kill the man but is moved by grace at the Marian Shrine, lays down his weapon, and makes peace with his enemy.

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#40La bocca sulla strada

Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Il notaio

9.0 / 10
Drama

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#41Destiny Unknown

Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Il console italiano

8.0 / 10
Drama

Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as railroad workers in turn-of-the-century South America. In addition to facing poverty, deprivation, and prejudice, the immigrants are also bedeviled by a raging fever epidemic. Finally achieving a measure of prosperity, the Italians are forced to confront tragedy once more when their grown children march off to WWI. Though Isa Miranda is top-billed, she has very little to do in comparison with male lead Filippo Scelso. Passaporto Rosso was released in the U.S. as Destiny Unknown.

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#42Ballo al castello

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
RomanceDrama

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#43Sette giorni all'altro mondo

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Francesco

8.0 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#44Joe il Rosso

Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Detective Agenore Champol

10.0 / 10
CrimeComedy

A precious painting suddenly disappears from the house of a noble Italian family. A relative from America investigates the mystery.

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#45Mater dolorosa

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Un socio del circolo

9.0 / 10
DramaHistory

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#46Lascia cantare il cuore

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as cameriere

7.0 / 10
Music

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#47L'angelo bianco

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Il conte, padre di Clara

8.0 / 10
Drama

A young woman who has been seduced and abandoned is led to believe by her former in-laws that their son, whom they sent to an orphanage, is dead. She takes her vows and returns to her homeland after years of missionary work. She learns that her former lover has been killed in a duel and barely has time to see her dying son before he passes away.

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#48Se quell'idiota ci pensasse...

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#49La prima donna che passa

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Lagrange

7.0 / 10
Drama

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#50L'eredità in corsa

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

9.0 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#51Antonio Meucci

Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Sam Cloton

8.8 / 10
DramaHistory

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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