Paolo Paoloni

Acting

Paolo Paoloni

Born 1929-07-15 · Bodio , Italy

Acting credits

Cannibal Holocaust poster
6.3

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.

Cannibal Holocaust

1980

Double Team poster
5.3

A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and sets out to find the terrorist and rescue the agent's family. Together they're a two-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world.

Double Team

1997

Ripley's Game poster
6.4

Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?

Ripley's Game

2002

Inferno poster
6.6

A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.

Inferno

1980

Medicine Italian Style poster
6.5

Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.

Medicine Italian Style

1969

And the Ship Sails On poster
7.2

In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and camaraderie abound until the ship is descended upon by an Austrian flagship. The Serbians are forced to board it, but naturally they resist, igniting a skirmish that ends in destruction.

And the Ship Sails On

1983

Excellent Cadavers poster
6.3

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.

Excellent Cadavers

1999

The Second Tragic Fantozzi poster
7.5

The frustrating adventures of a humble employee who all the time has to fullfill the wishes and desires of his bosses.

The Second Tragic Fantozzi

1976

Tesoromio poster
4.4

Playwright irreparable failure is betrayed by a concubine with the lawyer that finances the charade. But one day arrives at his house Honey, Eastern African domestic workers to first service, to boot, is a billionaire and of royal blood.

Tesoromio

1979

Dirty Linen poster
6.2

The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth.

Dirty Linen

1999

Ambaradan poster
NR

Ambaradan is the story of a need: the need to feel accepted, integrated, and acknowledged by others - Luca has only one belief - hate - he does not recognize the color of his skin, but only the "black" of his ideology. His life is an ambaradan, a chaos of violence and hypocrisy.

Ambaradan

2017

Where Are You Going on Holiday? poster
5.8

In three vignettes, two exes, a tour guide and a married couple struggle to overcome a series of misadventures during their vacations.

Where Are You Going on Holiday?

1978

The King's Whore poster
4.8

Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire court to succumb to his wishes.

The King's Whore

1990

Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair poster
5.2

The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.

Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair

1990

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues poster
7.8

A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly going on a difficult situations, but never lose his mood.

Fantozzi: White Collar Blues

1975

Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven poster
7.3

One of the most popular saints of all time, St. Philip Neri was widely known for his great charity, deep prayer life, and tremendous humor. Hoping to join St. Ignatius of Loyola's new order of Jesuits and be a missionary to India, Philip was instead guided by Providence to seek out the poor and abandoned youth of Rome to catechize them in the faith and help them find a better life. He became the founder of the religious congregation, the Oratory, that worked with the youth and also labored to re-evangelize a decadent Rome.

Saint Philip Neri: I Prefer Heaven

2010

Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot poster
5.0

A lusty young woman decides to use her sexual powers to "tame" the evil and murderous Dr. Jekyll.

Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot

1979

The Haunting of Helena poster
5.7

After a divorce, Sophia moves to the south of Italy with her daughter, Helena. Their new home, an apartment within an austere building of the fascist age, is a chance for them to start a new life. But inside an old storage room hides a mysterious closet and a buried secret. After the loss of Helena’s first baby tooth, a chilling obsession begins and an apparition haunts her sleep...

The Haunting of Helena

2013

The Miser poster
6.3

Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.

The Miser

1990

The Precarious Bank Teller poster
5.4

The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.

The Precarious Bank Teller

1980

Vieni avanti cretino poster
6.9

Pasquale Baudaffi, on amnesty, comes out of prison and starts looking for a job with the help of his cousin Gaetano. But first he goes to what was once a brothel, but, unbeknownst to our hapless hero, has been taken over and rented as a dental office. Pasquale finds himself at the center of endless misunderstandings. He tries to be a gamekeeper but that's not okay, he tries to be a waiter in a bar: he immediately gets his orders wrong and he is fired. His performance as a garage keeper was negative. The very latest experience is in an electronics company but its insertion into the futuristic mechanism triggers the craziest complications. The encounter with a lost dog allows him to get to know his mistress and thus discover the woman of his life.

Vieni avanti cretino

1982

An Average Little Man poster
7.9

A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring, willing to go to great lengths to achieve his goal.

An Average Little Man

1977

In the Name of the Italian People poster
7.2

An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?

In the Name of the Italian People

1971

Christmas Vacation '91 poster
5.0

This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives intersect are a widowed artist honeymooning with his second wife, a gay man traveling with his son and his lover (and hiding each from the other), a snobbish couple from Milan who have been forced to share a suite with a pair of crass Romans, etc.

Christmas Vacation '91

1991