
Acting
Amedeo Girardi
Born 1893-02-14 · Naples, Campania, Italy
Acting credits
6.9An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair.
Boccaccio '70
1962
7.6Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.
Totòtruffa '62
1961
5.3Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.
Seduction Of The South
1961
5.5No synopsis available yet.
Tutto Totò - Totò a Napoli
1967
6.8This is an Italian Romance starring Terence Hill
Guaglione
1956
6.3After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.
Totò all'inferno
1955
6.5The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he supports Victor Emmanuel II of Italy who achieves a lasting unification under the aegis the House of Savoy. Roberto Rossellini has said he was prouder of this film than of any other film he ever made.
Viva l'Italia!
1961
7.5Two episode about the married life. In the first one a paralyzed man is forced by her wife to brood eggs while the mother hen is gone. In the second episode a good-willed man tries to escpape from the grey of the world that surround him
Marito e Moglie
1952
6.8Cerasella escapes just before her marriage with Alfredo and meets Bruno, the son of a wealthy industrialist.
Cerasella
1959
7.0An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.
Toto and the Kings of Rome
1952
7.3Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.
Neapolitan Turk
1953
5.3An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.
Love and Marriage
1964
8.0After ending up in jail, a thief in Naples with a beautiful fiance and a good friend has to decide which path his life should take.
Un ladro in paradiso
1952
7.1Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.
Il medico dei pazzi
1954
6.0Some Neapolitans help a firm from Milan to establish two factories in Naples: one produces TV dinner pizzas the other manufactures lace. The owner of a pizza joint and a woman who makes lace at home are against the project.
I milanesi a Napoli
1954
9.0Rosa Lulli, has an illegitimate 20-year-old son, named Stefano, who lives with her in the house of Professor Arlotta. Stefano is in love with Lydia, the granddaughter of the professor. The couple has a gambling addiction: the need to obtain a large sum to meet gambling debts, which pushes him to accept the loving invitation of Jeannette, owner of a dance school, where Stefano goes to play.
Ergastolo
1952
7.0Combining musical and dance numbers with comedy sketches (performed by members of The Armando Curcio Company and The Gauthier Ballet Troupe)without any plot, this is more of a revue than a movie, along the lines of The Ed Sullivan television series in the U.S.
Tarantella napoletana
1953
An American journalist, Barbara, goes to Italy to interview Roi, the country's most notorious outlaw when she imagines to be some kind of modern-day Robin Hood. Through local contacts and friends, she arranges a meeting and finds that her "robin-hood'" is just a hood, hoodlum and ruthless criminal. The police are about to capture him but he uses her as an hostage to make his escape but they are marooned for a night in a country farm house. It becomes a harrowing night for her and the poor farmers.
La strada finisce sul fiume
1950
8.0A young marquis seduces a farmer's daughter and then leaves her while she's pregnant with his child. Many years later he comes back and seduces the girl's sister.
Le due sorelle
1950