Acting

Renzo Marignano

Born — Died

1923-03-26 — 1987-11-25

Place of birth

Genova, Liguria, Italia

Known for

Acting

Credits

49 titles

Known for

The Con Artists poster
7.1

Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organizes his jail break. But instead of Philip, it is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, who escapes. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He succeeds and the two join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicated when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.

The Con Artists

1976

Divorce Italian Style poster
7.9

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.

Divorce Italian Style

1961

The Witches poster
6.0

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.

The Witches

1967

Le Guignolo poster
6.0

After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane, a stranger asks him to look after his briefcase until after they have landed. Alexandre agrees, but the stranger is shot dead soon after and Alexandre himself becomes the target of enemy agents who are keen to recover the briefcase...

Le Guignolo

1980

The Teasers poster
5.0

Loredana is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes there are more important things to life than teasing men.

The Teasers

1975

Alfredo, Alfredo poster
6.3

Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.

Alfredo, Alfredo

1972

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

Le Guignolo poster
6.0

After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane, a stranger asks him to look after his briefcase until after they have landed. Alexandre agrees, but the stranger is shot dead soon after and Alexandre himself becomes the target of enemy agents who are keen to recover the briefcase...

Le Guignolo

1980

Cannibal Apocalypse poster
5.5

Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human flesh. A city is terrorised... as they stalk the inhabitants to satisfy their primitive appetites.

Cannibal Apocalypse

1980

Sugar, Honey and Pepper poster
5.9

Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. In the third episode, Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.

Sugar, Honey and Pepper

1980

Dark Eyes poster
6.7

Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.

Dark Eyes

1987

Yuppies poster
5.6

Willy, Giacomo, Lorenzo and Sandro are 4 young yuppies rampant in the "Milano da bere" of the 80s, who live in the myth of Lawyer Gianni Agnelli and Silvio Berlusconi; their only purpose in life is to appear rather than be. Giacomo is an advertiser, Lorenzo is a notary, Sandro is a dentist, and Willy is a car salesman.

Yuppies

1986

1970s · 38 titles

The Con Artists poster
7.1

Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organizes his jail break. But instead of Philip, it is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, who escapes. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He succeeds and the two join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicated when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.

The Con Artists

1976

The Teasers poster
5.0

Loredana is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes there are more important things to life than teasing men.

The Teasers

1975

Alfredo, Alfredo poster
6.3

Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.

Alfredo, Alfredo

1972

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony poster
4.6

There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

1973

Fiorina the Cow poster
4.5

Plenty of fun erotic stories in the spirit of the "Decameron", united by one constant hero - unlucky cow Fiorina.

Fiorina the Cow

1972

Four Flies on Grey Velvet poster
6.5

Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders.

Four Flies on Grey Velvet

1971

Charleston poster
5.7

Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises the style of the film The Sting.

Charleston

1977

Brancaleone at the Crusades poster
7.2

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.

Brancaleone at the Crusades

1970

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen poster
6.7

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

1976

Gun Moll poster
5.2

A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.

Gun Moll

1975

Dirty Weekend poster
5.2

A man and his mistress have just taken off for a weekend romp when they're kidnapped by a trio of bank robbers. They wind up becoming media "stars" as police and reporters follow them. They all wind up at the beat-up shack of a cranky old codger, with the police surrounding them and the robbers threatening to kill everybody.

Dirty Weekend

1973

Death Rage poster
5.4

A professional killer is lured into a deadly double-cross when he agrees to assassinate a Mafia kingpin.

Death Rage

1976

Three Tigers Against Three Tigers poster
5.1

Don Cimbolano - a priest in a small town. Oscar - a offender escaped from prison. Philip - attorney loser. They don't lose heart and find ways out of the most incredible situations.

Three Tigers Against Three Tigers

1977

That's How We Women Are poster
6.3

The film consists of twelve episodes, all with Monica Vitti as the protagonist.

That's How We Women Are

1971

Concorde Affair poster
6.4

A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have them decommissioned.

Concorde Affair

1979

High School Girl poster
4.5

A shy schoolboy's life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer.

High School Girl

1974

No One Will Notice You're Naked poster
4.9

Rosario Trapanese is determined to show he is not the typical old-fashion Sicilian. When his firm sends him to Denmark, a more sexual liberated nation than Italy, he immediately adopts the Danish "free-sexual-taboo" way of life. He meets and married Karen and succeeded to come back in Italy. Once here, he discovers Karen did a porn movie and his determination on being open minded is over. The typical Sicilian jealousy drives him crazy. Anyway, after a while, Rosario understands that what his wife did before to meet him it has not to be an issue for him. Karen confesses Rosario she signed a contract for a second movie and she could refuse only by paying a fine. The couple doesn't have enough money so they need to find a solution. And what a solution!

No One Will Notice You're Naked

1971

Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? poster
5.6

An eccentric bounty hunter named Providence captures and sets free a criminal in order to collect the same bounty over and over again in different states, until they discover that a local sheriff is up to something crooked.

Life Is Tough, Eh Providence?

1972

A Common Sense of Modesty poster
5.8

The film is divided into four episodes that blends sex and comedy.

A Common Sense of Modesty

1976

The Beautiful Summer poster
9.0

A mother keeps making excuses for why her son's father has not returned home. Jon Marco, just celebrating his ninth birthday, concludes his parents have separated and develops a plan to place himself in dad's care. Along with a new friend they run away to Milan to search for Marco's father. Once executed, our little hero learns the truth about his famous race-car driving father. Can mom and his pals help him deal with the trauma?

The Beautiful Summer

1974

The Divorce poster
6.7

Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.

The Divorce

1970

Without Family poster
7.3

Released from the orphanage at the age of thirty, a man dreams of finding his mother.

Without Family

1972

Amore e ginnastica poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amore e ginnastica

1973

Seven Murders for Scotland Yard poster
4.5

Several murders have taken place in London. All the victims are prostitutes and the murderer is using the same techniques as Jack the Ripper. Peter Dockerman, an ex-acrobat and husband of one of the victims is the prime suspect. But whoever the killer is has cannibalistic tendencies and if Scotland Yard doesn't solve the murders quickly the evidence just might be eaten!

Seven Murders for Scotland Yard

1972

Il gatto mammone poster
4.6

Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before artificial insemination, means Buzzanca will have to impregnate the surrogate the "old-fashioned" way. After a mishap involving a VERY unattractive but fertile widow, Buzzanca sets his sights on young girl (Gloria Guida) at an orphanage for unwed mothers (who has already given an illegitimate child up for adoption). They hire her as a maid, but she is under the impression they're going to adopt her, leading to some quasi-incestual misunderstandings...

Il gatto mammone

1975

Il brigadiere Pasquale Zagaria ama la mamma e la polizia poster
5.5

A bumbling police officer suffers a series of demotions, but is determined to prove his worth. At last, he is assigned to an important case—or so he believes, since his colleagues are actually using him as bait. Despite everything, his contribution proves decisive, but even more decisive is that of his wife, a formidable karate champion, amid mistaken identities, brawls, and other complications. To display the long-awaited recognition he has earned, however, the police sergeant has to award it to himself, with the help of a porter.

Il brigadiere Pasquale Zagaria ama la mamma e la polizia

1973

We Want the Colonels poster
6.7

Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!

We Want the Colonels

1973

Eye of the Cat poster
4.3

Biting, sadistic satire punctuates this dark comedy about a feckless musician named Marcello Ferrari (Nino Manfredi) whose wife Giulia (Mariangela Melato) and kids are stolen away by the domineering, fascist madman Cesare (Eli Wallach).

Eye of the Cat

1975

How Colonel Buttiglione Became a General poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

How Colonel Buttiglione Became a General

1974

Patroclooo!... e il soldato Camillone, grande grosso e frescone poster
4.4

The thief Bruno Camillone would like to escape abroad, but he needs a false passport and identity, which are obtained by a friend. Unfortunately, under his real name, Salvatore Bruschetta, he receives the postcard for military service, which he will have to perform in Puglia. In a barracks that is practically a madhouse...

Patroclooo!... e il soldato Camillone, grande grosso e frescone

1973

Transplant poster
6.8

To satisfy his wife, an elderly man has to have a penis transplant and is willing to pay a lot to do so. Three men are selected, who, for different reasons, are forced to accept; but giving up one's manhood can be more complicated than expected.

Transplant

1970

Due sul pianerottolo poster
8.0

In the Roman guesthouse of Maria Boccioni Stagno, a failed opera singer, several picturesque figures coexist, including Professor Luigi Savoia, a violinist who also has no hope of a career ...

Due sul pianerottolo

1976

La giacca verde poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La giacca verde

1979

Il trafficone poster
4.6

Neapolitan Vincenzo LoRusso lives of expedients in Rome, as he tries to sell at an intersection a faux suede jacket, accidentally meets Laura, a beautiful woman who invites him to her house.

Il trafficone

1974

Operation Snafu poster
6.7

World War II soldiers enter Sicily to seize German arms supply only to discover there is not a gun in sight.

Operation Snafu

1970

La Presidentessa poster
5.6

Gobette, a young avant-garde dancer, finds herself unemployed after the closure of the provincial club where she performs. By pure coincidence, Cipriano Gaudet, Minister of Justice, meets her at a judge's house and, convinced that she is the wife of the subordinate, gives promotions to the unsuspecting representative of the law in order to remove him from the woman and be able to get married with the soubrette. ..

La Presidentessa

1977

The Slight poster
3.3

A glamorous playboy thug's brutal trail of murder, terrorism and sexual blackmail across Las Vegas, Rome, Paris and London quickly wins him a prominent place in the Rome syndicate loosely run by an aging and decrepit Mafia Don. He even wins over the Don's much younger wife.

The Slight

1975

Il provinciale poster
9.0

The young Giovanni, who grew up in the provinces, arrives in Rome with the dream of becoming a famous journalist, but no newspaper is willing to hire him. Waiting for better times, the boy finds a job as a gas station attendant. One day he becomes the victim of an accident with the beautiful Giulia, who runs over him with her car. A relationship will arise between the two but Giovanni, in her naivety, has not yet understood that she works as a luxury prostitute.

Il provinciale

1971

1960s · 6 titles