
Acting
Mario Frera
Born 1924-12-02 · Naples, Campania, Italy
Acting credits
7.8A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
Two Women
1960
8.1Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
The Great War
1959
7.1Young Franco is imprisoned for murder and rises to become the feared and powerful 'Professor', taking control of Naples' underworld from behind bars.
The Professor
1986
7.4The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
The Monsters
1963
7.0In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
Complexes
1965
7.2Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
Love and Larceny
1960
7.4An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
The Traffic Policeman
1960
6.2Alfredo, 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
7.6When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Everybody Go Home!
1960
7.5A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.
Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!
1958
4.1The Decameron forbidden is a 1972 Italian comedy, directed by Carlo Infascelli. The film, which counts among the starring actors such as Orchidea De Santis, Gabriella Giorgelli, nut Crostarosa and Carlo De Carvalho, is inspired by Boccaccio's fourteenth-century novels. In particular, it is the film adaptation of that novel starring frà Pepin, a young native of Florence, which was discovered and arrested for his relationship with Mona Fawaz, a married woman. Thanks to the help of his friends painters, manages to escape..
The Forbidden Decameron
1972
5.6Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his scheme to spark an international war by zombifying all government employees in this Italian spoof of the James Bond movies.
The Amazing Doctor G
1965
6.8Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
The Divorce
1970
6.3Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot.
I due vigili
1967
5.0A low-rent private investigator and former cop is sent to Austria on a job, and while there sees a number of seemingly unrelated coincidences that lead him into a strange web of corruption and decadence.
Magnum Cop
1978
7.0Lemmy Caution has been assigned by Interpol to work as a double agent. Little does he know how many spies are on to this deception and how dangerous his assignment has become.
Destination Fury
1961
7.4A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker
Side Street Story
1950
5.0Series of tales. The framing story: a group of women are doing their laundry and begin to tell lusty tales.
The Sexbury Tales
1973
5.1Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?
The Masseuses
1962
4.6Ricciardetto is a fourteenth-century playboy who wants at all costs to sleep with the wife of the mayor of Montelupone. He succeeds, but is caught between the covers with the woman and sentenced to death. He will be saved by a kind of pilgrim saint who is in love with him.
Put Your Devil Into My Hell
1973
8.0No synopsis available yet.
The Black Invaders
1962
6.0During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches.
Gastone
1960
6.0Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.
Our Husbands
1966
6.1In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. In reality however this is not simple salad vegetables but marijuana; the two bungling fools and friends do not realize it at first.
I due toreri
1964
