
Acting
Carlo Romano
Born — Died
1908-05-08 — 1975-10-16
Place of birth
Livorno, Tuscany, Italy
Known for
Acting
Credits
86 titles
Known for
7.7Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
I Vitelloni
1953
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Il Signor Rossi cerca la felicità
1976
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
5.3Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.
Seduction Of The South
1961
9.0A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
David Copperfield
1965
7.5At some point, somewhere in the relentless events of the Second World War: A submarine returns from a long, successful patrol. Shortly before their native coast, however, they are bombarded by enemy aircraft. The submarine sinks and for the men begins a fight for survival at 110 meters depth.
Wolves in the Abyss
1959
Film credits
1970s · 2 titles
5.9Little Dick, the well-endowed dwarf servant of Master Limpcock is being pursued by Nymphomania, an ugly witch who must have 69 orgasms to turn herself beautiful again.
King Dick
1973
7.7Where? Far from home,from work and his boss, far from city traffic and his alarm clock, far from the monotony of his life... The farthest away possible. Travelling against time, visiting places of other centuries. How? Thanks to a magic whistle given him by "Fairy Sicura" the most nutty, thoughtless, happy fairy still to be seen around. A golden whistle which can catapult him back into prehistory, or in ancient Rome, in Medieval time, on a desert island, in Fairy tale land, in ancient Egypt, in the far West or in the future.With whom? He travels with Gastone, his boss'dog, tiny,naive and a little bit spoiled : after many adventures he will realize how much more valuable a friend is rather than a cream pie. Will he find it? Yes, but not in the past, not in other centuries, full of incredible and miserable adventures for him. Happiness was much closer,at hand's reach. He only had to think about it... Isnt that right, Mr Rossi?
Mr. Rossi Looks for Happiness
1976
1960s · 7 titles
6.8A greedy villain tries to coerce a woman into marrying him so he can take over her land, when a stranger rides into town intent on taking down the bad guys.
West and Soda
1965
6.2In a valley, two groups of little ants - the organized and efficient Red ones and the lazy and defenseless Yellow ones - go into a war.
Perils of Problemina
1968
6.1In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. In reality however this is not simple salad vegetables but marijuana; the two bungling fools and friends do not realize it at first.
I due toreri
1964
6.2Sicily 1943 to avoid war, Franco and Ciccio are hiding in the mountains. Two American paratroopers steal their clothes leaving him in exchange uniforms, so our "heroes" are captured by the Germans and deported to Germany. Evade, take refuge on a farm and will be involved in mishaps chain. After the war, they thought dead, are safe and sound, up there in Germany.
Guess Who's Coming for a Snack?
1969
7.0Documentary footage (from the 1950s) and accompanying commentary to attempt to answer the existential question, Why are our lives characterized by discontent, anguish, and fear? The film is in two completely separate parts, and the directors of these respective sections, left-wing Pier Paolo Pasolini and conservative Giovanni Guareschi, offer the viewer contrasting analyses of and prescriptions for modern society. Part I, by Pasolini, is a denunciation of the offenses of Western culture, particularly those against colonized Africa. It is at the same time a chronicle of the liberation and independence of the former African colonies, portraying these peoples as the new protagonists of the world stage, holding up Marxism as their "salvation", and suggesting that their "innocent ferocity" will be the new religion of the era. Guareschi's part, by contrast, constitutes a defense of Western civilization and a word of hope, couched in traditional Christian terms, for man's future.
La Rabbia
1963
8.0Carmen, wife of a certain Vincenzo detained for theft, chooses Antonio as a friend. When the husband is released from prison, he accepts the relationship in progress and continues to use the woman in his shady businesses.
Carmen di Trastevere
1962
A comedy of misunderstandings caused by words. Walter Chiari is a stage actor who tries to cash a check at a public office.
L'idolo delle scene
1967
1950s · 26 titles
7.7Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
I Vitelloni
1953
6.5Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish.
It Happened at the Police Station
1954
6.9In 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
5.7A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others.
The Unfaithfuls
1953
6.4Progressive schoolteachers Landi and Anna have a profound influence on two of their young students, Mirella and Franco. The two kids are enamored with one another and decide to experiment with some of the knowledge they've gleaned in the classroom.
Tomorrow Is Too Late
1950
9.0A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can't elope because her father has an heart ailment and uses it to hold Maria. Giacomo misunderstands and takes off on a global singing tour.
Melody of Love
1952
7.0A magistrate saves a young woman from drowning and they fall in love.
Streets of Sorrow
1950
6.3A mysterious woman takes her daughter on vacation after they've been separated for several months. There, she meets some of the richest and most eccentric people, who are hiding just as much as she is.
The Boarder
1954
6.5In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
Toto the Third Man
1951
6.4A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.
Of Life and Love
1954
6.5A grown man named Augusto escapes from an orphanage and after several unsuccessful attempts at holding down a job, decides to start a gang and make a living by stealing from the rich.
L'amico del giaguaro
1959
7.0A private detective and a girl obsessed with thriller novels investigate the murder of a rich entrepreneur.
Fermi tutti... arrivo io!
1953
6.5Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna.
Il cardinale Lambertini
1954
6.2A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.
It Happened in the Penitentiary
1955
6.2In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine.
Good Folk's Sunday
1953
7.4Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow?
The Lucky Five
1952
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Cavalcata d'eroi
1950
6.3The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
First Communion
1950
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Siamo ricchi e poveri
1954
7.0A gangster comes back to Rome after many years and meets his old flame and their daughter.
Tormento del passato
1952
6.0Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their way to marital bliss, their car chooses to break down and the lovebirds find themselves stranded in the village of Montigny. And instead of bathing in ecstasy as expected, Jacques and Gisèle become unwillingly entangled in the conflict that tears the villagers apart : should they continue to tolerate the presence of an American Army unit on municipal territory ?
Jeunes mariés
1953
8.0In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business away him. Unbeknownst to them a romance is developing between the younger generation of the families.
Dogs and Cats
1952
6.5Back from the war, a man discovers that his daughter has died and his wife has left their house. He searches for the girlfriend of a fellow soldier and falls for her.
Gli innocenti pagano
1952
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
3.0No synopsis available yet.
Hello, Hello Baby! (Rains)
1959
6.8Two chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift, but the driver gets too fresh with them and they decide to continue the journey with any means of transport, including bicycles.
Beauties on bicycles
1951
1940s · 18 titles
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Senza cielo
1940
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Perdizione
1942
7.4Travelling family man Paolo agrees to pose as husband to an unwed pregnant girl he meets on a train. However, once faced with her father, things do not go as planned.
Four Steps in the Clouds
1942
No synopsis available yet.
Arriviamo noi!
1942
7.6Princess Zeila, daughter of Caliph Oman III, is preparing to review the nobles who aspire to her hand. The sinister Prince Jafar plots in the shadows: the young musician Amin will see to it that love can triumph, with the help of the Genie of the Lamp.
The Rose of Baghdad
1949
8.0An American composer moves to Italy and falls for a local country girl right before the start of World War II.
Sinfonia fatale
1947
6.2Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.
Campane a martello
1949
No synopsis available yet.
Il capitano degli ussari
1940
6.7The leader of a band of mountain bandits defending Naples against the French plays a dual role as a police official. Our romantic hero pivots as well between two women, the sister of a royalist and a lady spy.
Fra' Diavolo
1942
Movie adaptation of the Leoncavalo's famous opera. A troupe of traveling actors is being welcomed by villagers in Calabria in the summer of 1866.
Laugh Pagliacci
1943
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Un marito per il mese di aprile
1941
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Il ponte di vetro
1940
8.0A compelling portrayal of postwar Rome
Life Begins Anew
1945
8.0A captain, a well-known flying ace, is developing his own device which will make a notable contribution to the prestige of his country's air force. One evening he occasionally meets a girl who strikes him with her mysterious behavior. In fact, he witnesses some completely inexplicable events that disturb him and take away the necessary serenity of mind to attend to his work, from which he feels detached. An explosion in the laboratory brings to the attention of an entire espionage network that was working to prevent the realization of the project.
La casa senza tempo
1945
6.8The Italian troops at Giarabub defend themselves against the British.
Giarabub
1942
8.0Accused of having stolen 3 million liras, a bank employee serves five years in prison. Having served his sentence and believed to be rich, he was showered with care and attention by everyone, even his wife. When the real perpetrator of the theft is found, he is despised and mocked. Then he actually steals some money and runs away with his wife.
Il mondo vuole così
1946
10.0No synopsis available yet.
L'elisir d'amore
1941
8.0Claudio and Anna Tancredi, opera singers, are husband and wife. Their married life, however, is often disturbed by small misunderstandings and Anna's burning jealousy.
When Love Calls
1947
1930s · 7 titles
6.6Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live without her. Though she has done nothing, she is punished for his act.
Everybody's Woman
1934
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Voce senza volto
1939
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Papà per una notte
1939
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Le sorprese del divorzio
1939
8.0Two partners return from the war to find their coffee plantation in the hands of an unscrupulous overseer. One is attracted to an exotic native girl that the overseer has at the plantation.
Under the Southern Cross
1938
10.0No synopsis available yet.
I figli del marchese Lucera
1939
NRNo synopsis available yet.
La voce senza volto
1939
Series credits
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Il Signor Rossi cerca la felicità
1976
9.0A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
David Copperfield
1965
Set in a retirement home, the drama studies components, manias, small and large dramas of retirees.
Le cinque stagioni
1976
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Le avventure di Ciuffettino
1969
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Il mattatore
1959
Italian crime series
Più rosa che giallo
1962
Behind the camera
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
5.3Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.
Seduction Of The South
1961
7.5At some point, somewhere in the relentless events of the Second World War: A submarine returns from a long, successful patrol. Shortly before their native coast, however, they are bombarded by enemy aircraft. The submarine sinks and for the men begins a fight for survival at 110 meters depth.
Wolves in the Abyss
1959
6.2Sandro 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
4.5We follow the Journal reporter Paulo whose close friend mysteriously been taken out of the way and it's now up to Paulo to figure out who the culprits are. The film is set in a drug-scented and "swinging" Los Angeles, where orgies and violence seem to be commonplace, and it soon appears that Paulo is on someone's hit list.
Carnal Circuit
1969
5.0The industrialist Carlo arrives at his villa in the Piacenza area to spend his holidays with his wife Piera and his daughter Francesca. They will soon be joined by their nephew Milo who will woo and seduce all the women of villa including the busty cook Doris lover of uncle Carlo.
Scandal in the Family
1975
4.01760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married.
Sins of Casanova
1954
6.6Rossella, a beautiful young girl that lives in a family of popular class, looks for a job every day but soon discovers that the "greasy pole", which is the economic miracle, is only an illusion, and the world is far more ruthless than she could believe. But fate brings together Giuliano, the only man who did not ask for anything and who - like her - is not inclined to compromise.
La cuccagna
1962
10.0Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married, but he drowns while bathing in the river. From that moment the woman is unable to love anyone else because, at the most beautiful, the ghost of her fiancé appears to her who, in the end, will be able to be followed in the other world.
Soldier's Girl
1967
8.3In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.
A Very Handy Man
1964
7.1A middle-aged plumber quits his job and questions his life after seeing somebody his own age suddenly die from a heart attack on his way to work.
His Days Are Numbered
1962
10.0Documentary directed by Alessandro Blasetti.
I Love, You Love
1962
7.0The innocent love of two young students is hindered by their families. The two meet in a squalid apartment where they will perhaps decide their future. At the exit, however, are arrested for a kiss exchanged on the road.
All the Other Girls Do!
1964
6.5Nicola Peccoli has always nurtured his niece Giovanna, an orphan since the age of two and now of age, but he does not look favorably on her beloved Mario because he is just a simple employee and a lower class of society.
Men and Noblemen
1959
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Desideri d'estate
1964
7.0Marcello is engaged to Gina, the daughter of the boarding house where he lives, but he is undecided whether to marry her or not.
The Inveterate Bachelor
1958
6.0A comedy centered on the character of Pepito. It is an Italian western made before the Spaghetti western era and it is at the same time a parody of the western genre.
Il bandolero stanco
1952
8.0Believing that his death is near, a millionaire who lives in Argentina brings three girls to benefit them in his will and they end up falling in love with three Argentines.
Vacanze in Argentina
1966
8.0Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to jail. Some other maids organize a search party for the real thief who seems to be a moustached youth who continually sings a popular song.
The Maids
1959
No synopsis available yet.
The Dream of Icarus
1948
