Mario De Simone

Acting

Mario De Simone

Known for

Acting

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Big Deal on Madonna Street poster
8.1

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958

Scaramouche poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Scaramouche

1965

Hercules, Samson & Ulysses poster
5.3

Two strongmen set out to hunt down a murderous sea monster. Their ship is wrecked and they end up in the Holy Land where Hercules is assumed to be Samson who is a wanted man. The two team up to survive.

Hercules, Samson & Ulysses

1963

Hate for Hate poster
6.0

After being captured during a bank robbery, a cowboy is sent to a prison located in a swamp, where he contracts malaria. He soon escapes and, with the help of a Mexican, sets out to track down his partner, who escaped from the bank robbery with all the money.

Hate for Hate

1967

The Sanremo Case poster
NR

An ironic and comic trial, in five episodes, of the history of the Sanremo Festival, demystifying the most solemn musical event on Italian television. The "judge" Renzo Arbore presides, together with "Prosecutor" Michele Mirabella and "Defense attorney" Lino Banfi.

The Sanremo Case

1990

Six Days a Week poster
7.2

Maria, a young belle, expertly juggles three suitors at once by posing as her airline-hostess roommate, Silvana. Using fake flight schedules and carefully crafted lies, she keeps each man convinced he has her to himself. But when unexpected news about the real Silvana surfaces, Maria's carefully balanced double life spirals into a whirlwind of increasingly outrageous schemes to keep the truth from coming out.

Six Days a Week

1965

Film credits

1960s · 31 titles

Hercules, Samson & Ulysses poster
5.3

Two strongmen set out to hunt down a murderous sea monster. Their ship is wrecked and they end up in the Holy Land where Hercules is assumed to be Samson who is a wanted man. The two team up to survive.

Hercules, Samson & Ulysses

1963

Hate for Hate poster
6.0

After being captured during a bank robbery, a cowboy is sent to a prison located in a swamp, where he contracts malaria. He soon escapes and, with the help of a Mexican, sets out to track down his partner, who escaped from the bank robbery with all the money.

Hate for Hate

1967

Six Days a Week poster
7.2

Maria, a young belle, expertly juggles three suitors at once by posing as her airline-hostess roommate, Silvana. Using fake flight schedules and carefully crafted lies, she keeps each man convinced he has her to himself. But when unexpected news about the real Silvana surfaces, Maria's carefully balanced double life spirals into a whirlwind of increasingly outrageous schemes to keep the truth from coming out.

Six Days a Week

1965

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars poster
5.9

Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestrials incognito, but end up getting involved in the Roman "dolce vita".

The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars

1964

Ringo and Gringo Against All poster
5.7

Two bumbling southern soldiers are still trying to fight the Civil War unaware of its conclusion and encouraged by two southern belles who are trying to hope those who wish to continue the conflict.

Ringo and Gringo Against All

1966

Twist, lolite e vitelloni poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Twist, lolite e vitelloni

1962

Gli italiani e le donne poster
7.5

A group of vignettes about men, mostly married, scheming to get women and the funny ways the schemes play out.

Gli italiani e le donne

1962

Gli onorevoli poster
6.8

Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.

Gli onorevoli

1963

James Tont Operation U.N.O. poster
5.7

The diabolical Goldsinger, enraged at being excluded from the UN, hatches a plot to blow up the assembly while all the heads of the state participate. Luckily, inept agent James Tont discovers the plot and sets out to stop Goldsinger.

James Tont Operation U.N.O.

1965

James Tont Operation T.W.O. poster
4.8

A dangerous criminal group wants to destroy St. Peter's Basilica and the secret agent James Tont is the only one who can help it.

James Tont Operation T.W.O.

1966

The Seventh Floor poster
6.0

In this unusual offbeat black comedy directed by Ugo Tognazzi, Giuseppe (Tognazzi) is a middle-aged industrialist obsessed with gadgets. When his nose starts to whistle uncontrollably, he checks into a clinic to resolve the problem. What begins as a minor affliction worsens, and Giuseppe is placed on a different floor as his ailments multiply. The sicker he gets, the higher he goes up in the floors of the clinic, until he is near death's door.

The Seventh Floor

1967

Scandal Nudes poster
5.5

A theater manager wants to stage a striptease act but his jealous wife puts a lot of obstacles on his way.

Scandal Nudes

1963

Venus in the Sun poster
5.1

Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some precious designs in it; in the second a worker keen on helping his boss gets him into trouble instead and in the third one a shy boy who tries to impress women pretending he is tough ends up in hospital and falls in love with a nurse.

Venus in the Sun

1964

Totò vs the Four poster
6.7

The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him.

Totò vs the Four

1963

Love Italian Style poster
6.9

Anthology comedy structured in 10 episodes (The Exam, Blue Bloods, Too Easy, Love Italian Style, Sunday Story, Wedding Present, Gold Fischer, The Tuxedo, Railway Courtesy, Play Boy). Whimsical exploration of the mores, customs and vices of Italy at that time.

Love Italian Style

1966

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

Getting Away with It the Italian Way poster
6.6

Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed.

Getting Away with It the Italian Way

1962

The Two Marshals poster
7.2

September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.

The Two Marshals

1961

Con rispetto parlando poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Con rispetto parlando

1965

Siamo tutti pomicioni poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Siamo tutti pomicioni

1963

L'assassino si chiama Pompeo poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'assassino si chiama Pompeo

1962

Scandali al mare poster
6.5

No synopsis available yet.

Scandali al mare

1961

Le Olimpiadi dei mariti poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Le Olimpiadi dei mariti

1960

The Sons of the Leopard poster
5.9

Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and marries a rich woman. The mistress tries to have her rights established with the help of her sons.

The Sons of the Leopard

1965

Ecco poster
4.7

A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long needles through his body, reindeer being castrated, and footage of lesbians and strippers.

Ecco

1963

Le magnifiche 7 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le magnifiche 7

1961

Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak poster
5.9

Toto participates in various samples in a study of cinema, first going in a studio where there's shooting a spy movie, then in a western scenario, where he has to play a cruel and uncouth bandit who must challenge him to a duel a cowboy.

Tutto Totò - Totò Ciak

1967

The Swindlers poster
6.2

A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.

The Swindlers

1963

Romeo e Giulietta poster
7.3

Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.

Romeo e Giulietta

1964

Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro

1967

Perdono poster
5.4

Federico, his girlfriend Laura and her cousin, Caterina, are three young people full of hope, united by a great friendship that seems indissoluble. The three work in a department store but, when Caterina decides to attempt a musical career, given her vocal skills, everything changes. Caterina becomes a successful singer and Federico falls in love with her. Caterina, who however does not want to make her cousin Laura suffer, pretends not to reciprocate the young man by making him put his head in order. Meanwhile, the plots of various secondary characters evolve, in particular the fresh marriage between the security guard Antonio and the secretary of the department stores Adelina.

Perdono

1966

1950s · 10 titles

Big Deal on Madonna Street poster
8.1

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958

The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina poster
8.3

Sabrina is a beautiful thief, one who happens to have seven moles on her thigh, forming the constellation Ursa Minor; this is the only clue German police have to solve a recent robbery. Teo is a photographer looking for a pair of beautiful legs to participate in a photo contest. When he secretly takes a photo of Sabrina's legs, including the telltale moles, Sabrina has to get it back at any cost, something which brings her into dangerous proximity with the smitten Teo. Romance and assorted hijinx ensue.

The Beautiful Legs of Sabrina

1958

Sette canzoni per sette sorelle poster
6.5

The six daughters of the mayor are not concerned with their six boyfriends because they are all infatuated with Claudio Villa. When this really comes to the village, everything happens, but as in Cinderella's fable, Claudio Villa falls in love with the seventh daughter, who is actually a child, and everything settles.

Sette canzoni per sette sorelle

1957

L'amico del giaguaro poster
6.5

A grown man named Augusto escapes from an orphanage and after several unsuccessful attempts at holding down a job, decides to start a gang and make a living by stealing from the rich.

L'amico del giaguaro

1959

Marisa poster
5.8

For the 17-year-old Mariza, there is no other house than the train station in Civitavecchia. Here, an orphaned girl lives early after the death of her father, a railwayman; here she earns additionally at the station buffet, selling ice cream to passengers of passing trains. Beautiful and brisk, she was accustomed to the admiration of others and perfectly mastered the art of coquetry, but Marise’s heart remains calm until the young sailor Angelo, who is in a hurry on her first voyage, leaves the train on the platform on a sunny Sunday morning.

Marisa

1957

La cento chilometri poster
7.0

During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations

La cento chilometri

1959

Due soldi di felicità poster
7.0

A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.

Due soldi di felicità

1955

La ragazza di Via Veneto poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

La ragazza di Via Veneto

1955

The Tanks of El Alamein poster
4.9

Italian move on the battle of El Alamein

The Tanks of El Alamein

1957

Maid, Thief and Guard poster
7.8

Otello, an amateur thief, tries a burglary on New Year Eve but he finds the maid Adalgisa in the supposedly empty house. Adalgisa likes Otello who, all things considered, is a good guy, unlike Amerigo the night watchman who tries to profit from the situation.

Maid, Thief and Guard

1958

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