Mario Frera

Acting

Mario Frera

Born — Died

1924-12-02 — 1987-12-22

Place of birth

Naples, Campania, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 10 titles

The Forbidden Decameron poster
4.1

The 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

Magnum Cop poster
5.1

A 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

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

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

Put Your Devil Into My Hell poster
4.6

Ricciardetto 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

The Divorce poster
6.7

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

The Divorce

1970

The Sexbury Tales poster
5.0

Series of tales. The framing story: a group of women are doing their laundry and begin to tell lusty tales.

The Sexbury Tales

1973

Le mille e una notte all'italiana poster
3.0

Two young friends - one poet, the other a sculptor - have fun conquering the wives of others.

Le mille e una notte all'italiana

1972

...e continuavano a mettere lo diavolo ne lo inferno poster
4.5

No synopsis available yet.

...e continuavano a mettere lo diavolo ne lo inferno

1973

The Black Hand poster
4.8

Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.

The Black Hand

1973

1960s · 19 titles

The Monsters poster
7.4

The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.

The Monsters

1963

Complexes poster
7.0

In 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

Two Women poster
7.8

A 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

I due toreri poster
6.1

In 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

The Masseuses poster
5.1

Two 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

I due vigili poster
6.2

Two traffic policemen help capture a dangerous robber after unwittingly contributing to his making off with the loot.

I due vigili

1967

Everybody Go Home! poster
7.6

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

Everybody Go Home!

1960

Love and Larceny poster
7.2

Gerardo, 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

The Amazing Doctor G poster
5.6

Nefarious 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

Io non protesto, io amo poster
6.5

Caterina, a young teacher, has a hobby of singing and occasionally delights her students.

Io non protesto, io amo

1967

The Traffic Policeman poster
7.3

An 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

Gastone poster
6.0

During 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

Fists, Girls and Sailors poster
5.3

Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure.

Fists, Girls and Sailors

1961

A Monster and a Half poster
6.0

A thief steals a suitcase but it contains a corpse and the thief is sentenced, but is released by the robbed doctor, who then subjects him to a facial plastic that makes him equal to a criminal.

A Monster and a Half

1964

The Two Mafiosi poster
5.8

Two clumsy mobsters on a mission in Paris.

The Two Mafiosi

1964

La contessa azzurra poster
6.0

Loreley looks back to the happy times when she became a silent movie star with the huge success of "La Contessa Azzurra", directed by Don Salvatore and produced by Don Peppino, the owner of a Café Chantant.

La contessa azzurra

1960

Our Husbands poster
6.0

Three episodes about Italian husbands and their relationships.

Our Husbands

1966

Destination Fury poster
7.0

Lemmy 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

The Black Invaders poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Black Invaders

1962

1950s · 7 titles

The Great War poster
8.1

Italy, 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

Tuppe tuppe, Marescià! poster
7.5

A 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

Side Street Story poster
7.4

A 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

La nipote Sabella poster
6.7

Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles".

La nipote Sabella

1958

Husbands in the City poster
7.0

In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.

Husbands in the City

1957

Dogs and Cats poster
8.0

In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business away him. Unbeknownst to them a romance is developing between the younger generation of the families.

Dogs and Cats

1952

Tarantella napoletana poster
7.0

Combining 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

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