
Acting
Armando Migliari
Born — Died
1887-04-29 — 1976-06-15
Place of birth
Frosinone, Lazio, Italy
Known for
Acting
Credits
61 titles
Known for
7.5In 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 the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
The Little World of Don Camillo
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Una piccola moglie
1943
9.0A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
David Copperfield
1965
6.9Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle their friendly rivalry.
Don Camillo: Monsignor
1961
7.6In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
The Children Are Watching Us
1943
6.4Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with one another and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom.
Tomorrow Is Too Late
1950
Film credits
1950s · 10 titles
7.5In 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 the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
The Little World of Don Camillo
1952
6.4Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with one another and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom.
Tomorrow Is Too Late
1950
7.0A magistrate saves a young woman from drowning and they fall in love.
Streets of Sorrow
1950
6.3Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches.
È arrivato l'accordatore
1952
7.3In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
Totó in color
1952
6.5Papal 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.
Il cardinale Lambertini
1954
8.8No synopsis available yet.
The Secret Conclave
1952
7.0Rambaldo 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.
Il conte di Matera
1957
8.3Maria 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 unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
Position Wanted
1951
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Santo disonore
1950
1940s · 31 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Una piccola moglie
1943
7.6In his first collaboration with renowned screenwriter and longtime partner Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica examines the cataclysmic consequences of adult folly on an innocent child. Heralding the pair’s subsequent work on some of the masterpieces of Italian neorealism, The Children Are Watching Us is a vivid, deeply humane portrait of a family’s disintegration.
The Children Are Watching Us
1943
7.4Travelling family man Paolo agrees to pose as husband to an unwed pregnant girl he meets on a train. However, once faced with her father, things do not go as planned.
Four Steps in the Clouds
1942
8.5The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
If I Was Honest
1942
7.0A biopic of soprano Maria Malibran (1808–1836). A beautiful singer, Maria Malibran, is forced to turn to the stage after her husband takes to gambling, and goes to Paris where she falls in love with a famous violinist. When her money-seeking husband reappears, the couple go to London, where they find happiness. A composer falls in love with Maria but when his affections are unrequited, he becomes broken, takes to drinking and dies.
The Genius and the Nightingale
1943
6.2A young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters addressed to an imaginary recipient from Vienna. One day, the love letter the woman writes to this non-existent man is accidentally sent by one of her students –and falls into the hands of a real person.
Maddalena, Zero for Conduct
1940
10.0Paris, second half of the 20th century. Countess Diana de Simerose has been evading the legitimate rights of her husband, who married her without love, since their wedding day. Fed up with the protracted abnormal situation, the count leaves on a journey, perhaps never to return.
L'amico delle donne
1943
8.0A captain, a well-known flying ace, is developing his own device which will make a notable contribution to the prestige of his country's air force. One evening he occasionally meets a girl who strikes him with her mysterious behavior. In fact, he witnesses some completely inexplicable events that disturb him and take away the necessary serenity of mind to attend to his work, from which he feels detached. An explosion in the laboratory brings to the attention of an entire espionage network that was working to prevent the realization of the project.
La casa senza tempo
1945
7.0A singer saves a heavy alcoholic journalist. Fate has a new meeting for them: the two are found in a police station where she was brought with the accusation of prostitution.
Stasera niente di nuovo
1942
9.0No synopsis available yet.
La gerla di papà Martin
1940
6.7A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending girlfriend Loletta, only to end up mistakenly engaged with Lilli, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and pursued by lovestruck 18-year-old orphan Teresa Venerdì.
Teresa Venerdì
1941
6.6A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by Enrico Bottini.
Heart
1948
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Giacomo l'idealista
1943
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Il viaggio del signor Perrichon
1943
10.0During the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him with a Spanish patrician against his wishes.
La fanciulla di Portici
1940
No synopsis available yet.
Una volta alla settimana
1942
10.0A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy.
The Man with the Grey Glove
1948
10.0To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is adopted by a coachman, and later, as secretary to the Minister of Justice, discovers the truth, punishes the bad guys, rewards the good ones and marries the daughter of another innocent man, unjustly accused by Claudia.
Cab Number 13
1948
No synopsis available yet.
La fabbrica dell'imprevisto
1942
7.0The yearnings of three young women: one is concerned about her weight, another aspires to write poems, and the last is already prepared for love and marriage.
Signorinette
1942
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Il fiore sotto gli occhi
1944
9.0A good lady, taken by the fear of getting old, gives herself to the frivolities of worldly life.
L'ultimo ballo
1941
6.4A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for the affection of her man.
Angelina
1947
10.0A detective investigates on the death of a factory owner.
L'ispettore Vargas
1940
6.5An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.
A Garibaldian in the Convent
1942
Italian film from 1942.
Soltanto un bacio
1942
8.0An Italian comedy from 1943.
Music on the Run
1943
7.0Alberto, who has a beautiful voice but is afraid to sing in public, and the shy Anna, daughter of a very rich shoe manufacturer, take "lessons of courage" in a school for the shy and end up falling in love. Their shyness doesn't seem to heal but due to a misunderstanding Alberto becomes terribly jealous, deciding to face the girl first and then the public who will give him an enthusiastic success.
La scuola dei timidi
1941
7.0After his plane makes an emergency landing, a kidnapped millionaire assumes the identity of a poor man.
Miliardi, che follia!
1942
8.0A daughter discovers her parents are far from being the rich bourgeois she thought they were.
Giorno di nozze
1942
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Alessandro, sei grande!
1940
1930s · 18 titles
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Heartbeat
1939
9.0The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend. Then things change and the two fake boyfriends discover that they are really in love with each other.
Ai vostri ordini, signora...
1939
10.0The Turin noblewoman Maria Clotilde di Bard, the sole and elderly heir to an ancient Savoyard title, is reduced to living in the attics of the palace due to the embezzlement of a dishonest administrator. The young lady, who has always been alone due to a great love that never led to marriage with Baron Nigra, befriends the daughter of the palace owner, who tells her about her love for an aeronautical engineer: an unhappy love, because her father is against it. Maria Clotilde discovers that the young man is her brother's illegitimate son, taken away at an early age and never recognized, and therefore the sole heir to the Bard name. The shady administrator also ruins the new owners, who find themselves penniless. But in a trunk kept by the damsel there is years of correspondence between her and Baron Nigra, whose immense historical value restores the Bard family to its former glory and thus allows for a happy ending with the marriage of the two young people.
The Bard's Damsel
1936
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Il conte di Bréchard
1938
9.0An 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.
In campagna è caduta una stella
1939
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Il marchese di Ruvolito
1939
9.0No synopsis available yet.
The Man Who Smiles
1937
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Nina, non far la stupida
1938
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Napoli che non muore
1939
10.0No synopsis available yet.
I figli del marchese Lucera
1939
8.0No synopsis available yet.
I fratelli Castiglioni
1937
10.0Cousins Michele and Tommaso are told by a notary that a distant uncle has left a large sum of money for them.
Lo vedi come sei...lo vedi come sei?
1939
7.0The title refers to a character named Pompeo Quarantini; an attorney tries to prevent marriage between an heiress and a musician, but without success.
The Last Days of Pompeo
1937
8.0A young man with no solid income is rejected by a wealthy industrialist when he dares to ask for his daughter's hand. After 20 yeas he has become a wealthy financier in America; he returns to his homeland and starts to track down the girl of his dreams.
L'amor mio non muore!
1938
No synopsis available yet.
Le due madri
1938
4.7A comedy about an unemployed fellow who goes to live with his brother and runs into trouble with his brother's overbearing wife.
I Was to Blame
1937
8.0Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.
Imputato, alzatevi!
1939
5.2Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to find a way to win over the audience and the critics, while wooing his love interest.
Retroscena
1939
