
Acting
Virgilio Riento
Born — Died
1889-11-29 — 1959-09-07
Place of birth
Roma, Italy
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Known for
7.2The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
Frisky
1954
7.3Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
Miracle in Milan
1951
6.8Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Scandal in Sorrento
1955
7.0When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
Bread, Love and Dreams
1953
6.8Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
The Sign of Venus
1955
8.5The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
If I Was Honest
1942
Film credits
1950s · 44 titles
7.2The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
Frisky
1954
7.3Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
Miracle in Milan
1951
6.8Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.
Scandal in Sorrento
1955
7.0When a veteran marshal is sent to a small town, he quickly falls for two women: a midwife and an earthy young woman nicknamed "Frisky".
Bread, Love and Dreams
1953
6.8Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.
The Sign of Venus
1955
8.0A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.
È l'amor che mi rovina
1951
6.0Love and jealousy in a female public school. Most of the co-eds are in love with professor La Rovere. One, Anna, accuses Maria to have an affair with him.
Eighteen Year Olds
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Martin Toccaferro
1953
6.5Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in the staging of a show in the military barracks.
I cadetti di Guascogna
1950
6.7Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna.
Poor But Beautiful
1957
7.0Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa he's left in the company of a friend and a butler.
Le vacanze del Sor Clemente
1955
6.4In this sequel to Nobody's Children, Guido still longs for Luisa, who has become a nun. Then he meets Lina, a chorus dancer who is a dead ringer for his former lover.
The White Angel
1955
8.0An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.
Il mondo dei miracoli
1959
5.4A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after the miller's wife Carmela. The miller himself plans to avenge his honor by seducing the wife of the governor.
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
1955
8.0A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.
Tizio, Caio, Sempronio
1951
7.1Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer".
Doctor and the Healer
1957
6.5Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child.
The King's Guerrillas
1950
6.3A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
A Day in Court
1954
6.5Aldo, Vasco and "Smilzo" (Slim) are friends. They live with their parents and are training for boxing. But their real interest is in women. When casually Aldo meets Laura and falls for her. Will he succeed in winning her love?
Il cocco di mamma
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
El hombre del paraguas blanco
1958
6.6A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good bloke and when he gets the occasion he helps a youth wrongly accused of murder.
La paura fa 90
1951
7.3In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
Totó in color
1952
6.5A man finds out that he won the lottery and travels to Rome to retrieve the other half of his winning ticket.
Cantando sotto le stelle
1956
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Simpatico mascalzone
1959
6.1Gina tries to commit suicide by jumping into the river but is saved by Teodoro, an innocent young man. Antonio, Teodoro's brother, tries in every way to seduce her.
Love I Haven't... But... But
1951
7.5Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
100 Years of Love
1954
6.9The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them.
Dad Becomes Mom
1952
6.8This is an Italian Romance starring Terence Hill
Guaglione
1956
9.0The old friends Nicola and Pasquale meet in the city after many years. The two, now married and with their children, try to marry their four children, but it soon becomes more difficult than expected.
Sing with us
1955
6.7A television broadcast launches a proclamation for amateurs: "If you know how to speak, you will know how to sing". The award mirage lured many person, with ambitions or financial problems, to enroll in the competition.
Domenica è sempre domenica
1958
6.3Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches.
È arrivato l'accordatore
1952
7.0Tecla Cammarano, following a financial crisis that has made her situation precarious, leaves America and comes to Italy with her two lovely grandchildren.
La zia d'America va a sciare
1958
8.0Artist Pietro Leoni is preoccupied with feminine beauty. While walking near an old castle in Italy, he sees a young woman dive in the water from a rock and becomes determined to sculpt her from memory. He rents a house near the spot and falls in love with the mentally disturbed daughter, Francesca, of the castle's owner, W. C. Hutton, while becoming involved with her sister, Marisa unaware of her identity.
Rapture
1952
10.0An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life.
È arrivata la parigina
1958
7.0Two friends, Giacomino and Carletto, have no job and no money and are looking for a job, or any device that will help them to meet expenses and especially will give them the opportunity to fill their stomachs.
Porca miseria!
1951
5.3Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's handbag containing valuables and documents, and decides to return it to her owner, a wealthy American lady, who offers Donatella a job as a secretary as a reward: she has to manage the lady's villa during her absences. There, Donatella casually meets Maurizio, a rich, elegant and well-educated young man, and ends up falling in love.
Donatella
1956
5.4Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
Singing Café
1953
6.5Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen.
Viva il cinema
1953
6.3Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojourn and love stories begin and end.
Time of Vacation
1956
6.5Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.
The Three Thieves
1954
8.0The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.
Beauties in Capri
1951
6.0To get ahead after he answers a newspaper ad for a business proposition, Passaguai borrows the more impressive apartment of a retired actor and arranges an elaborate luncheon there.
The Passaguai Family Gets Rich
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Donne, amore e matrimoni
1956
A scientist combines two brains during an operation to create one perfect mind.
Stasera sciopero
1951
1940s · 12 titles
8.5The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
If I Was Honest
1942
5.8In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena.
Fabiola
1949
No synopsis available yet.
Arriviamo noi!
1942
6.6The owner of a cosmetics factory has made a contract with Radio Sibilla for the transmission of an evening program in which the products of his company are advertised.
Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone
1947
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Lo sciopero dei milioni
1947
6.5Former batsman Carlo Mezzetti, who has been left homeless with his daughter Annuccia, takes advantage of favorable situations and legal loopholes to find temporary accommodation, illegally occupying vacant houses.
I Do Not Move
1943
7.0An anthology film of several segments about everyday Italian life. This is the first episodic film in the history of Italian cinema during the sound era; it consists of six sketches titled: “The Lost Umbrella,” “The Triumph of Poppea,” “Enjoy Your Meal!,” "Dont call me Dodo!", “My Soccer Ball,” and “Time Off.”
Gli assi della risata
1943
8.0A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.
There's Room Up Ahead
1942
5.7Thanks to wartime smuggling Gioconda Perfetti, a roman fruit vendor, becomes very rich. She leaves her shop and moves to a magnificent villa which once belonged to a count. She also becomes involved with some very dubious characters who profit from her ignorance and cheat her out of her money.
Peddlin' in Society
1946
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Il nostro prossimo
1943
8.0No synopsis available yet.
La zia di Carlo
1943
No synopsis available yet.
Chi l'ha visto?
1945
1930s · 4 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Il marchese di Ruvolito
1939
6.5Gianni is a poor, young newspaper salesman in Rome. However, during his vacations he poses as Count Max Varaldo, an aristocrat. Once, on a cruise in Naples, he meets Donna Paola, a wealthy snob, and her shy maid Lauretta. After trying to establish a relationship with Donna Paola, Gianni, disappointed, decides to drop his alter ego Max and propose to Lauretta. However, she now believes that he is a Count, which leads to a series of comic misunderstandings.
Mister Max
1937
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Allegri masnadieri
1939
6.0In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.
Department Store
1939
