Virgilio Riento

Acting

Virgilio Riento

Born — Died

1889-11-29 — 1959-09-07

Place of birth

Roma, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 44 titles

Frisky poster
7.2

The 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

Miracle in Milan poster
7.3

Once 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

Scandal in Sorrento poster
6.8

Back to his hometown, a former marshal finds his house occupied by a young woman working as a fishwife.

Scandal in Sorrento

1955

Bread, Love and Dreams poster
7.0

When 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

The Sign of Venus poster
6.8

Agnese 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

È l'amor che mi rovina poster
8.0

A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.

È l'amor che mi rovina

1951

Eighteen Year Olds poster
6.0

Love 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

Martin Toccaferro poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Martin Toccaferro

1953

I cadetti di Guascogna poster
6.5

Two 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

Poor But Beautiful poster
6.7

Salvatore 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

Le vacanze del Sor Clemente poster
7.0

Sor 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

The White Angel poster
6.4

In 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

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

The Miller's Beautiful Wife poster
5.4

A 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

Tizio, Caio, Sempronio poster
8.0

A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire.

Tizio, Caio, Sempronio

1951

Doctor and the Healer poster
7.1

Francesco, 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

The King's Guerrillas poster
6.5

Diavolo'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

A Day in Court poster
6.3

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.

A Day in Court

1954

Il cocco di mamma poster
6.5

Aldo, 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

El hombre del paraguas blanco poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

El hombre del paraguas blanco

1958

La paura fa 90 poster
6.6

A 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

Totó in color poster
7.3

In 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

Cantando sotto le stelle poster
6.5

A 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

Simpatico mascalzone poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Simpatico mascalzone

1959

Love I Haven't... But... But poster
6.1

Gina 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

100 Years of Love poster
7.5

Six 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

Dad Becomes Mom poster
6.9

The 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

Guaglione poster
6.8

This is an Italian Romance starring Terence Hill

Guaglione

1956

Sing with us poster
9.0

The 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

Domenica è sempre domenica poster
6.7

A 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

È arrivato l'accordatore poster
6.3

Achille 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

La zia d'America va a sciare poster
7.0

Tecla 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

Rapture poster
8.0

Artist 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

È arrivata la parigina poster
10.0

An 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

Porca miseria! poster
7.0

Two 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

Donatella poster
5.3

Donatella 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

Singing Café poster
5.4

Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.

Singing Café

1953

Viva il cinema poster
6.5

Tonino, 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

Time of Vacation poster
6.3

Holiday 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

The Three Thieves poster
6.5

Tapioca, 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

Beauties in Capri poster
8.0

The 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

The Passaguai Family Gets Rich poster
6.0

To 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

Donne, amore e matrimoni poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Donne, amore e matrimoni

1956

No artwork available
10.0

A scientist combines two brains during an operation to create one perfect mind.

Stasera sciopero

1951

1940s · 12 titles

If I Was Honest poster
8.5

The 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

Fabiola poster
5.8

In 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 artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Arriviamo noi!

1942

Il vento m'ha cantato una canzone poster
6.6

The 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

Lo sciopero dei milioni poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lo sciopero dei milioni

1947

I Do Not Move poster
6.5

Former 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

Gli assi della risata poster
7.0

An 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

There's Room Up Ahead poster
8.0

A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.

There's Room Up Ahead

1942

Peddlin' in Society poster
5.7

Thanks 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

Il nostro prossimo poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il nostro prossimo

1943

La zia di Carlo poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

La zia di Carlo

1943

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Chi l'ha visto?

1945

1930s · 4 titles