
Acting
Roberto Caporali
Acting credits
5.6Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.
Messalina
1960
7.2In 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
5.4A cursed country estate is besieged by horny houseguests, undead Etruscans, and the unusual relationship between a mother and her young son.
Burial Ground
1981
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ténor
1988
6.1In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm. Now on the run from ruthless agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm, with Albin posing as Renato's wife. Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these relentless spies or does he have to sustain this charade - as a woman - forever?
La Cage aux Folles II
1980
5.3Third chapter of the Comic saga, with Paolo Villaggio and Renato Pozzetto. Four different gags. From two electricians who combine all kinds of things during a theatrical performance, to competing for the attention of a beautiful girl during a campsite, to hired bodyguards of a judge threatened by the mafia, and finally as the adoptive parents of a newborn found outside the door of the house.
The New Comics
1994
4.0No synopsis available yet.
Il sommergibile più pazzo del mondo
1982
9.0In the basement of a hypothetical ministry, a man has set up a public office where he intends, for a fee, to solve any bureaucratic problem. His life becomes complicated the day he realizes that someone is persistently spying on him.
The Commissioner
1983
4.2A microcosm of people lost in search of an artificial happiness, which leads them to steal and prostitute themselves for the short ecstasy of a squirt of heroin in the veins. Marco and Pina live in this world of drugs, prostitution and violence, and they must fight for their survival. One day one of their friend dies during a holdup. Marco and Pina are helpless and will do anything to escape, but fate does not want a similar world. Between bites of heroin and sidewalk they are in a deadly trance.
Fatal Fix
1980
5.6Three thugs commandeer a couple of cars on a moving train and spread terror among the passengers.
Terror Express
1980
6.6Mark Terzi goes to Genoa to take on the case of a serial killer who calls himself "The Sphinx".
Mark Shoots First
1975
5.1The movie is basically two unrelated comedic features: the first one features the travails of a man who stutters and tries to woo a woman he wants to date. The second features the wonderful Renato Pozetto as a gay man who lives with a partner, but finds himself falling for a woman, and not knowing how to tell his partner, who is prone to melodrama.
Culo e camicia
1981
4.2A teachers’ union congress is underway at a grand hotel to elect a new president. Among the candidates, Professor Corradini appears to be the favorite, but she must contend with Professor Liberti, who is helped in his hunt for votes by his beautiful and accommodating wife. The arrival of the archbishop, the current president’s identical twin brother, adds a new twist to the story.
Il marito in vacanza
1981
5.1Attenti a quei P2 (Beware of those P2s) is a satirical parody of the judicial affair concerning the P2 Masonic lodge.
Attenti a quei P2
1982
6.3A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
The Repenter
1985
7.1The endearing efforts of a divorced, simple baker to capture the attentions of a bourgeois society woman.
Graduation Party
1985
6.5Francesco Improta is an honest fruit and vegetable peddler who lives with his elderly mother Assunta and daughter Fiorella. His wife Lucia left home two years earlier, as, in order to help the family, she did not hesitate to give herself to the boss Peppino Ascalone, with whom she is now forced to live together.
Inmate
1981
5.3Jokes, rough jokes and spicy adventures set in a psychiatric clinic, naturally managed by an experienced doctor.
Do you know the latest on the crazy ones?
1982
8.3A humble organ grinder is married to a barren woman. The pair would like to adopt a child but are too poor. Suddenly a miracle seems to happen: she's pregnant. Unfortunately the baby dies and the man is forced, through hardship, to buy one from a chorus girl who wants to get rid of him. After a short time even his wife dies and the poor man brings up the child on his own, singing in taverns to make ends meet. The father and son's humble life is upset when the real father of the boy reappears and wants his child back. The two men fight to get the custody of the boy.
Children are Pieces of Your Heart
1981
10.0Gloria Fontanesi is a girl who works as a factory worker but carries within her a great passion: dancing! Success comes one night, when due to a delay by Renato Zero, the stage is finally hers.
Baila Guapa
1979