Enzo Cannavale

Acting

Enzo Cannavale

Born — Died

1928-04-05 — 2011-03-18

Place of birth

Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

Vincenzo "Enzo" Cannavale (5 April 1928 – 18 March 2011) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films since 1949, including Cinema Paradiso, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990. He was awarded the Nastro d’Argento for Best Supporting Actor in 32 dicembre (December 32nd) by Luciano De Crescenzo. Source: Article "Enzo Cannavale" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 22 titles

Cinema Paradiso poster
8.4

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Cinema Paradiso

1988

Flatfoot in Egypt poster
6.2

Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.

Flatfoot in Egypt

1980

Il sommergibile più pazzo del mondo poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il sommergibile più pazzo del mondo

1982

The Paramedic poster
4.5

At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes

The Paramedic

1982

The Country Boy poster
6.8

A man is forced to completely change his habits when he decides to move from the country to the city.

The Country Boy

1984

L'amante tutta da scoprire poster
5.5

Erika and George are two crooks hired by a rich lady to get rid of her philandering husband.

L'amante tutta da scoprire

1981

Love in First Class poster
4.2

A man from Milan, Carmelo, is forced to take his young son Malcolm, on a trip down South so his mother, who usually takes care for the boy, can go on vacation with her Moroccan boyfriend. Carmelo, who obviously is not too often at home, has no clue about how to deal with young children, even the most basic chores a father should know to tend the restless imp thrown in his care. The crowded train traveling from Milan to Reggio, Calabria, is packed in the second class section where Carmelo and Malcom have a hard time getting a seat. When they finally do, young Malcolm decides to disappear from his compartment. He goes to the first class car, where eventually Carmelo decides to sit and pay the extra supplement. He is lucky to find more space, and the companionship of Beatrice, a woman that is bringing the skeleton of a rare animal. Carmelo finds a way to interest the lady. Their ride is certainly bumpy, complicated when he decides to leave the mischievous Malcolm at an intermediate stop.

Love in First Class

1980

Per favore, occupati di Amelia poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Per favore, occupati di Amelia

1981

Il marito in vacanza poster
4.2

A 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

What if Gargiulo Finds Out? poster
6.0

Teresa is a nurse and does not have an easy life: her husband plays poker and next to her she sleeps only and the father organizes the illegal lot among the sick. So one night Teresa is involved, in spite of herself, in a whirlwind of ambiguous situations, together with Ferdinando and Friariello, met by chance, between camorristi, dog races and a bingo of which he unknowingly becomes the prize. But "has to pass" to "nuttata", this is certain, but how?

What if Gargiulo Finds Out?

1988

My Friends Act III poster
6.4

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.

My Friends Act III

1985

The Ways of the Lord are Finite poster
7.3

Set in Italy during the 1920s, a barber is in a wheelchair because of a psychosomatic illness after he lost the woman he loves.

The Ways of the Lord are Finite

1987

Girls Will Be Girls poster
4.0

A group of employees, on a winter vacation, rather than skiing, spend their time in an attempt to impress the beautiful Angela and a sexy servant girl.

Girls Will Be Girls

1980

Chaste and Pure poster
4.5

Antonio is married to a very wealthy woman but the sole heir of the family fortune is his daughter. He induce his dying wife to swear in the daughter of remaining "chaste and pure" ( so that she cannot marry ) until his own death.

Chaste and Pure

1981

Vacanze d'estate poster
4.2

No synopsis available yet.

Vacanze d'estate

1985

Le volpi della notte poster
7.0

Elena, Miriam and Anna, the foxes of the night, are three beautiful women but they are also three special agents of the police headquarters in Rome. One evening they are given the task of participating in a high fashion show: a tip-off has arrived on a drug game that should be exchanged there. At the fashion show everything happens regularly, except for the attempt to snatch a beauty case from one of the models. The next morning, however, Daniela, the wearer affected by the snatch, is found dead and it turns out that the snatcher was the guardian of Eng. Mauro De Mauro, rich builder. Foxes begin to investigate.

Le volpi della notte

1986

Stormtroopers II poster
5.1

A group of misfits form an army in an absurd war.

Stormtroopers II

1982

The Week at the Beach poster
4.5

On holiday with his son, a father discover he is not so timid.

The Week at the Beach

1981

Do you know the latest on the crazy ones? poster
5.3

Jokes, 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

32nd of December poster
7.1

Three episodes about the relativity of time.

32nd of December

1988

Savage Breed poster
6.5

Mario lives in Turin with his sister Michelina. He works in the factory. He meets a young Turin man running a night club frequented by unsavory people related to drug trafficking.

Savage Breed

1980

Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone poster
5.9

Marino Stroppaghetti is a breadwinner in a layoff fund who, in order to make some money, arranges himself by doing small tailoring jobs at home. Desperate for having received the eviction, he turns to the City of Rome, where he discovers that there are as many as 80 thousand questions before his. How to do?

Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone

1983

1970s · 26 titles

My Father's Private Secretary poster
5.2

Ponziani Armando, the owner of a thriving chemical industry, lives in a beautiful villa on Lake Como with his wife and his son Franco Ersilia.

My Father's Private Secretary

1976

Flatfoot in Hong Kong poster
6.2

Inspector Rizzo is accused of drug trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department.

Flatfoot in Hong Kong

1975

Alfredo, Alfredo poster
6.3

Alfredo, a timid young Italian, lusts after and woos the beautiful Maria Rosa. But when he manages to marry her, he discovers life is not nearly so blissful as he expected.

Alfredo, Alfredo

1972

Soldier of Fortune poster
6.3

Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore bides his time to determine which side is the winning one. This is at first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.

Soldier of Fortune

1976

The Teasers poster
5.0

Loredana is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes there are more important things to life than teasing men.

The Teasers

1975

The Knock Out Cop poster
6.5

Inspector “Flatfoot” Rizzo investigates crime and corruption in Naples.

The Knock Out Cop

1973

Roma bene poster
6.0

A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.

Roma bene

1971

Flatfoot in Africa poster
6.2

Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the South African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his young son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.

Flatfoot in Africa

1978

The School Teacher poster
5.5

A rich Sicilian, Fefè Mottola, decides to call a wealthy girl graduate: Giovanna, who is about to become a teacher, because his son needs repetitions. The boy, named Franco, is shocked by the physical beauty of the teacher, and so to restrain himself decides to pose as gay. But the deception does not last long, because the sexual impulses of Alfredo explode.

The School Teacher

1975

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover poster
5.4

Alberto deceived by his wife, goes to some place in the mountains to escape. There he meets a woman who was there for the same reasons that he was.

How to Lose a Wife and Find a Lover

1978

Taxi Girl poster
5.4

Marcella inherits a taxi business from her father and now sets out on the job of her life. With each new fare she becomes involved with sex and crime, all done up 70's Italian comedy style.

Taxi Girl

1977

Mafia Things poster
6.6

A young man unwantedly gets caught up in an international gang war in this humorous crime farce!

Mafia Things

1971

The Adventures of Pinocchio poster
7.5

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company.

The Adventures of Pinocchio

1972

Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?... poster
5.2

Libero Sbardelloni, newly married, cannot find work in Rome, so he moves to Naples, where Baron Gaetano Gargiulo, his wife Marcella's uncle, lives. The baron, however, is a penniless nobleman who lives by swindling and petty theft, constantly going in and out of prison.

Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...

1971

Poker in Bed poster
4.4

A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appears to be perfectly content with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy writer. The gambler gets the idea that if he can get this woman into bed, it will change his luck at the gambling tables.

Poker in Bed

1974

Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective poster
5.9

After graduating in correspondence detective, Riccardo Finzi arrives in Milan. The first case he deals with is the death of a young maid. Cockpit in a surreal yellow from a novel by Luciano Secchi.

Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective

1979

White Sister poster
6.0

A strange love story between a devoted young nun and a young Marxist determined to help run the hospital wards where the nun is the head nurse.

White Sister

1972

L'imbranato poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'imbranato

1979

The Landlord poster
5.4

Giorgia and her sister inherit a villa and decide to turn it into a pension. When the sister orders the advertising, the brochure, together with the name, Pension Paradise, leads people to believe it is a whore house.

The Landlord

1976

Little Italy poster
6.2

Undercover cop Nico Giraldi travels to New York and Las Vegas to find a crooked cop who gave his squadron back in Italy a bad name.

Little Italy

1978

The Face with Two Left Feet poster
6.3

Gianni, a hotel cook, is frustratingly in love with the sexy blonde DJ at the nightclub "John's Fever" but he can't dance. When one of the cook's coworkers draws a mustache and beard on a poster of John Travolta everyone somehow finally notices that Gianni looks exactly like Travolta and the game is on.

The Face with Two Left Feet

1979

Gegè Bellavita poster
6.4

Pregnant with their 10th child, Agata discovers that her lazy husband Gennaro betrays her cheerfully.

Gegè Bellavita

1979

Midnight of Love poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Midnight of Love

1970

Sweetheart poster
4.9

Alfredo, jailed for theft and fraud, after having served the sentence discovers that his wife Adelina no longer wishes to live with him.

Sweetheart

1977

Between Miracles poster
7.2

Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.

Between Miracles

1971

The Gang That Sold America poster
5.6

Now an agent of Interpol undercover, the former Inspector Giraldi, goes to New York to find his friend Salvatore Esposito, aspiring restaurateur in Little Italy, suffocated by debts with the usurers headed by Don Gerolamo. He will remove the gang and assure her of justice, but she will suffer the advances of the Boss's daughter, the ugly Maria Sole.

The Gang That Sold America

1979

1960s · 8 titles

The Treasure of San Gennaro poster
7.4

A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Gennaro, in Napoli.

The Treasure of San Gennaro

1966

More Than a Miracle poster
5.9

A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, when she meets the ill- tempered Spanish Prince Rodrigo Ferrante y Davalos. The King of Spain has ordered Rodrigo to choose a wife among seven Italian Princesses, but he is smitten by the lowly peasant.

More Than a Miracle

1967

The Four Days of Naples poster
7.6

September 1943. After Italy surrenders to the Allies, people in Naples believe the war is finally over, but soon they realize Germans are still in control — and as ruthless as ever. Armed with makeshift weapons, civilians rise up en masse against the invaders — and overwhelming odds.

The Four Days of Naples

1962

Leoni al sole poster
5.1

The endless summer of a group of thirty-something neapolitans at Positano.

Leoni al sole

1961

Il sindaco del rione Sanità poster
8.0

Antonio Barracano is an old Camorra member who administers justice according to his own unique criteria. Magnanimous and tough, severe and affectionate, he is recognized as the 'mayor' by all the dispossessed of the Sanità district. His particular brand of justice towards the poor leads him to sacrifice his own life in order to solve the financial problems of Rafiluccio and Rita, a couple expecting a child and overwhelmed by debt.

Il sindaco del rione Sanità

1964

Zum Zum Zum 2 poster
5.7

While happily engaged to Rosalia, Tony has the misfortune of falling for a vibrant pilot named Valeria — and that’s just the beginning of his problems.

Zum Zum Zum 2

1969

Il suo nome è Donna Rosa poster
7.2

Andrea falls in love with the beautiful Rosetta, but the girl's father pushes her into the arms of the rich Giorgio. Al Bano and Romina in a musicarello of extraordinary success.

Il suo nome è Donna Rosa

1969

Song That's Playing In My Head (Zum Zum Zum) poster
6.4

The sons of a music-loving insurance broker take extreme measures to find happiness for themselves and others, with some help from the power of music.

Song That's Playing In My Head (Zum Zum Zum)

1969

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