Renato Malavasi

Acting

Renato Malavasi

Born — Died

1904-08-08 — 1998-10-07

Place of birth

Verona, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

63 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 26 titles

The Soldier with Great Maneuvers poster
4.9

Doctor Eva Marini takes up a position at an army base to investigate the sexual behavior of the Italian male soldier and soon finds out she's taken on more than she bargained for.

The Soldier with Great Maneuvers

1978

One Way or Another poster
7.7

Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.

One Way or Another

1976

Love in 4 Easy Lessons poster
3.7

Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.

Love in 4 Easy Lessons

1976

The Family Vice poster
5.3

When Giacomo D'Amato is released from jail he is immediately employed by Magda, in a plot to secure her the heritage of the count. But there are other players in this game too, and Giacomo has his own agenda.

The Family Vice

1975

Ubalda, All Naked and Warm poster
5.3

During the Middle Ages, a clumsy knight returns home where his wife awaits him. Sensuous and beautiful, she has attracted several male admirers during his absence, but her chastity belt has maintained her faithfulness. Now is her chance to wrest the key from him and enjoy herself. The knight’s portly friend has a similar problem with his equally gorgeous wife. And to top it off, both men have designs on the other’s wife — leading them to devise painful methods to discourage the other from trespassing.

Ubalda, All Naked and Warm

1972

My Name Is Mallory... M Means Death poster
3.9

Retired Colonel Harper wishes to retire to his ranch, but the malicious Bart Ambler also has an interest in the property. Harper and his partner, half-breed Larry Mallory, now have a fight on their hands.

My Name Is Mallory... M Means Death

1971

The Lovemakers poster
5.2

Carlo Danieli, an industrialist of Sicilian origins, manages a French fries company. The man marries Elena, his girlfriend for years, who has decided to remain a virgin until the wedding day. The man is a great womanizer and is surprised by the revelation, so much so that on the first night he is unable to consummate the relationship. The word soon spread and the mother of the bride, Donna Virginia, urged her son-in-law to apply. Carlo then tries to find a solution before it's too late and his mother-in-law thinks that throwing him into the arms of a professional is the ideal ploy.

The Lovemakers

1970

When Women Were Called Virgins poster
5.7

When women were called Madonna is a film of 1972 directed by Aldo Grimaldi . The film is one of the first Italian erotic comedies in which a licentious bursting Edwige Fenech struggles with the nagging demands of three suitors.

When Women Were Called Virgins

1972

Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima poster
6.3

Doctor Gaudenzi, a real Sicilian manly man living in Rome, Italy, married the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. One day, his wife is about to die, and being very religious, she asks for a cardinal to perform the last rites and further demands that her husband pledges not to marry or be with other women after she dies. Constrained by the cardinal's presence, Gaudenzi promises, and she promptly dies. Later, as soon as he is about to fall in temptation when looking at sexy girls, strange things happen, finally convincing him that his jealous wife is watching from "out there". Gaudenzi decides to give up on his lusty life: he's returning to his Sicily home and, to be on the sure side, he asks to be injected with female hormones. That's when he meets a sexy woman no man can resist...

Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima

1971

Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why? poster
7.2

Carlo, a young photographer, is making love with his girlfriend at the beach when he witnesses a murder being feebly staged to look like a car accident. Carlo takes incriminating shots of the murderers (the victim turns out to be the local public prosecutor) and attempts to sell them to various interested parties, including a gangster and a newspaper owner. One of the murderers' accomplices, a lowlife criminal, is gunned down by a black-gloved assassin, while another is stabbed to death...

Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?

1972

Languidi baci... perfide carezze poster
7.0

Italian romance starring Giovanna Ralli, Gigi Proietti and Cristiano Censi

Languidi baci... perfide carezze

1976

Symphony of Love poster
6.4

Al Bano and Romina bring to the big screen the unhappy love between the composer Franz Schubert and the Hungarian Countess Anna Rostkov. Al Bano sings the immortal 'Ave Maria'.

Symphony of Love

1970

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

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza poster
6.2

A boorish, snobish toothpaste factory owner, Constantino Nicosia, gives his wife and everyone a hard time having let success and wealth go to his head. But after the superticous Nicosia has an encounter with an elderly gypsy aunt, and a business trip to Romania results in another encounter with a suave vampire, named Count Dragalescu, Nicosia returns with blood-sucking like qualities which makes him re-examine his life and existence.

Il cav. Costante Nicosia demoniaco, ovvero Dracula in Brianza

1975

They Were Still Called... The Most and the Least poster
6.4

A penniless Prince and a petty thief become associates in a con game and when they end up in prison, the Prince, who is a compulsive gambler, loses all his money to the other and becomes his servant.

They Were Still Called... The Most and the Least

1972

Return of Shanghai Joe poster
5.8

A sinister town boss called Pat Barnes has exploited almost everyone in the town. If they don't succumb to his demands they normally end up dead. Barnes is finally brought down by Shanghai Joe and a smooth-talking snake-oil salesman.

Return of Shanghai Joe

1975

Un caso di coscienza poster
6.0

Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her.

Un caso di coscienza

1970

Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera poster
6.9

A prince who has become poor accepts a marriage to the daughter of an American tycoon. The girl is only interested in his title and plans a divorce, but after a while she also grows fond of him.

Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera

1970

Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest poster
5.6

Italy's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and San Antonio. Did Franco crash his bike through Ciccio's new stained glass window on purpose or was he just in town for their mutual confession? Their main beef with each other concerns their opposing football teams and this feud takes up a great deal of the picture.

Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest

1970

Karate, Fist and Beans poster
5.0

Sam and Buddy, two highway robbers, join with Colonel Quint, a big crook, who sold his services to Morgan, the banker, in order to free Baby, the banker's daughter, abducted by Espartero and his killers gang. A plan to 'sell' fake dollars to Espartero goes awry, but the two sons of the forger join Quint, and so does Mokaiko, a brave Japanese cook. The rag-tag band of Quinlan meets Espartero in several scraps, and then a climactic confrontation. All are ugly, bad, and dirty (except Baby), and fight accordingly.

Karate, Fist and Beans

1973

Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate poster
4.5

Michele, married to Rosaria, is a distinguished Neapolitan who "by profession" contacts only wealthy women, making her believe she wants to marry her to get money to disappear with. With this method he feeds his family.

Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate

1973

Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras? poster
5.6

A defense counsellor and a judge are at loggerheads and the latter thinks his liver condition depends on the lawyer's ploys to get his clients acquitted.

Will the Lawyer Franco Benenato Be Able to Defeat his Arch Enemy the Magistrate Ciccio De Ingras?

1971

The Clan of the Two Borsalini poster
6.7

Italian comedy

The Clan of the Two Borsalini

1971

Let's Arm Ourselves and Go! poster
6.3

Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French citizenship, the First World War breaks out between Germany and France and all citizens are forced to enlist.

Let's Arm Ourselves and Go!

1971

The Exorciccio poster
6.0

A satire on the American film "The Exorcist," but with an Italian twist.

The Exorciccio

1975

The Inheritance of Uncle Goodsoul poster
6.0

When a rich uncle dies, giving him a great inheritance, Franco will clash with other grandchildren and lawyers.

The Inheritance of Uncle Goodsoul

1974

1960s · 5 titles

Come September poster
6.8

Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.

Come September

1961

Me, Me, Me... and the Others poster
6.2

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

1966

Ugly at Night poster
5.2

Franco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The doctor prescribes a very special treatment for the patient: an intense love life. The man's wife, aware that she is part of the problem, decides to get a facial and to meet her husband in disguise.

Ugly at Night

1968

Samson and the Slave Queen poster
6.8

The king of Nogara dies, leaving behind a will naming one of his nieces as his successor. Will it be blonde and virtuous Isabella or evil, dark-haired Malva? Each woman relies on a hero to locate the will. Malva hires the bare-chested strongman Samson while Isabella relies on the masked El Toro (a.k.a. Zorro) even though her heart belongs to the mild-mannered poet, Ramon. Malva's ruthless desire for the throne soon alienates Samson and he and El Toro then team up to bring about a proper resolution to the Nogara succession. Meanwhile, Isabella learns El Toto's true identity, an identity which both surprises and pleases her.

Samson and the Slave Queen

1963

Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza poster
8.0

A noble family assigns their younger son to the convent. The youngster has an affair with a novice, who becomes pregnant. The brothers, exasperated by his arrogance, denounce him to the Inquisition. As a punishment, the boy is walled up alive and released after fifty years. Due to a mysterious miracle, however, he remained as he is, just like the novice he impaled.

Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza

1969

1950s · 16 titles

Variety Lights poster
6.9

In Italy, Checco Dal Monte manages a troupe of traveling performers with plenty of heart but minimal talent. At a small town engagement, he encounters the starry-eyed, gorgeous Lily Antonelli, and hires her as a dancer on the show. Vivacious Lily quickly sells out crowds and earns the resentment of Checco's mistress, Melina Amour, but the fledgling performer has far bigger ambitions and soon sets her sights on a higher-profile role.

Variety Lights

1950

Mid-Century Loves poster
5.2

Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.

Mid-Century Loves

1954

House of Ricordi poster
6.3

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.

House of Ricordi

1954

Il mondo dei miracoli poster
8.0

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.

Il mondo dei miracoli

1959

Against the Law poster
6.5

A young bourgeois who launders money for the mafia gets accused of murder.

Against the Law

1950

Il vetturale del Moncenisio poster
9.0

During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness.

Il vetturale del Moncenisio

1954

I am Catherine poster
8.0

The story of the life of St. Catherine of Siena

I am Catherine

1957

Forbidden song poster
9.0

A married woman is startled by the return of her former fiancé, whom she thought was killed during the war.

Forbidden song

1956

La campana di San Giusto poster
NR

The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.

La campana di San Giusto

1954

Il tallone di Achille poster
9.0

Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal.

Il tallone di Achille

1952

High Time poster
10.0

The historic clock of a small town needs to be repaired but there is no money in the town coffers to pay for it. Don Paolo (Peppino Spadaro), the Priest, raises the money by lottery and thinks the surplus should go to the poor. The Communists and Socialists object because they are afraid the priest will get the credit and they claim it as "the people's money." The democratic mayor (Arturo Brogaglia) can think of no solution other than organizing committees and sub-committees. Finally, Rocchetti (Paola Stoppi), the town mechanic who has no answers for town problems and hates the clergy and politicians alike, comes forward and repairs the clock for the sheer joy of work.

High Time

1950

Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains) poster
3.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)

1959

Half a Century of Song poster
10.0

Through a series of scenes inspired by famous songs, various episodes of Italian life in the last fifty years are recalled.

Half a Century of Song

1952

Tua per la vita poster
7.0

A humble young woman takes care of his sister's child while also hiding her feelings towards her sister's lover.

Tua per la vita

1955

Love and Chatter poster
6.3

Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...

Love and Chatter

1958

Prigionieri delle tenebre poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Prigionieri delle tenebre

1952

1940s · 8 titles

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