Anita Durante

Acting

Anita Durante

Born 1897-09-26 · Rome, Lazio, Italy

Acting credits

Double Cross poster
6.7

A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.

Double Cross

1951

Roaring Years poster
6.8

In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.

Roaring Years

1962

Roman Tales poster
6.2

Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?

Roman Tales

1955

Granada, addio! poster
10.0

Mario Valli has a good voice, he is a widow and has a daughter, Paoletta, whom he loves very much. He lives by singing in petty night-clubs. A day arrives when he has his chance: a contract in Madrid. But in Madrid, with his friend Silvio, he finds out that the producer has gone bankrupt. Mario is discouraged and after another producer, Linares, doesn't meet him, the two friends go to see a bullfight. There Mario meets by chance Consuelo who refuses to tell him her surname. When Mario finds out that the surname is Linares, he goes back to Rome, but...

Granada, addio!

1967

Granada, addio! poster
10.0

Mario Valli has a good voice, he is a widow and has a daughter, Paoletta, whom he loves very much. He lives by singing in petty night-clubs. A day arrives when he has his chance: a contract in Madrid. But in Madrid, with his friend Silvio, he finds out that the producer has gone bankrupt. Mario is discouraged and after another producer, Linares, doesn't meet him, the two friends go to see a bullfight. There Mario meets by chance Consuelo who refuses to tell him her surname. When Mario finds out that the surname is Linares, he goes back to Rome, but...

Granada, addio!

1967

An American in Rome poster
7.1

Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.

An American in Rome

1954

Noi peccatori poster
8.0

A man and a woman love each other, but they can’t marry because he’s ashamed of his unjustly incarcerated mother. What’s more, he loses his eyesight in an accident.

Noi peccatori

1953

Saranno uomini poster
5.0

After leaving the reformatory where they spent their childhood, three boys begin their journey in life. The protagonist ends up becoming a criminal, but is finally redeemed by another of his former classmates, who has become a priest.

Saranno uomini

1957

Made in Italy poster
6.1

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

Made in Italy

1965

He Thief, She Thief poster
6.2

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.

He Thief, She Thief

1958

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

White Voices poster
4.8

In 18th-century Rome, a young man in a choir of castrati falls for the beautiful wife of a powerful aristocrat.

White Voices

1964

Count Tacchia poster
6.1

In 1900 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized component of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows the cynical and ruthless Prince Torquato Terenzi, disappointed by life and progress, and also falls in love with the beautiful Duchess Elisa. When Prince Terenzi dies, Francesco realizes that he's not enriched for nothing with the inheritance, because the noble family is broke; so he enlistes himself for the war in Libya, but quickly returnes to Italy, disgusted by the atrocities of the fighting. His dream is to be a singer, and so he goes to America with the Duchess Elisa.

Count Tacchia

1982

The Last Wagon poster
6.8

Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with Roberto, a young taxi driver. But it is Roberto who helps him when he gets into trouble with a former client, Mary Dunchetti (Anna Magnani), an arrogant singer.

The Last Wagon

1943

Hell in the City poster
7.4

A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.

Hell in the City

1959

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

The Story of Romance and Knife poster
5.7

The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.

The Story of Romance and Knife

1971

Of Life and Love poster
6.4

A 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

Courtyard poster
9.0

A teenager escapes from a reformatory and is accused of theft.

Courtyard

1955

The Bigamist poster
6.6

A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.

The Bigamist

1956

Adorable and Lying poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Adorable and Lying

1958

Siamo tutti pomicioni poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Siamo tutti pomicioni

1963

Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo poster
6.4

This is the (funny) story of four agents of Roma traffic police in the '50s. Their life are crossed in affairs that often retire from mere job relationships. 'Guardia scelta' (special agent) Giuseppe tries to be a composer, he wants to write the anthem for the roman traffic police. 'Guardia'(agent) Alberto Randolfi has a too strong inclination to fine everyone and is dreaming about learning French. 'Brigadiere' (sergeant) Pietro Spaziali is busy looking at his little son Tonino and daughter Maria who is going to marry a boxer. The 'Maresciallo' (Marshal) tries to manage and solve all the troubles they often do.

Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo

1956

Genitori in blue-jeans poster
6.6

Some middle-aged Italian men try to have affairs with much-younger girls.

Genitori in blue-jeans

1960