Dorian Gray
Actor · 1928 – 2011 · Bolzano, Italy
Maria Luisa Mangini (2 February 1928 – 15 February 2011), better known as Dorian Gray, was an Italian actress. Gray made her stage debut in 1950. After five years she left the theater world and devoted herself to the cinema. The role she played most often in films was that of a seductive sex kitten. She played the titular "bad girl" in Totò, Peppino e la malafemmina. She also appeared in Michelangelo Antonioni's Il grido. In 1957, she took part in The Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini. On February 15, 2011, Gray committed suicide by gunshot at her home in Torcegno. She was 83 years old; however, some media reported her age as 75, since she claimed to have been born in 1936.
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Movie8.0DramaComedyRome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
Movie6.5ComedyThree couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.
Movie6.2WarA French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
Movie8.0ComedyRomanceAntonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).
Movie4.8ActionAdventureTwo muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.
Movie7.2ComedyGerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
Movie7.5DramaA sugar-refinery worker flees his Northern Italy town after a woman refuses his marriage proposal.
Il Grido
1957 · 172 votes
Movie9.0DocumentaryA documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
Movie5.4ComedyRomanceIt is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.
Movie6.8ComedyA black comedy anthology about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes: a teacher, obsessed with the idea that his wife is unfaithful, goes to a shrink; a wife has her husband dress himself with a comic character costume; and a man has to spend the night in a mysterious hotel after his car breaks down.
Thrilling
1965 · 6 votes
Movie4.3CrimeA group of drug dealers clashes with the police several times between December 28th and New Year's Eve.
Movie6.8MusicRomanceThis is an Italian Romance starring Terence Hill
Guaglione
1956 · 2 votes
Movie7.0ComedyThe penniless Duke decides to participate in "Lascia o raddoppia", a TV quiz show, in order to win five million lira. Then two gangsters bet between themselves on his success and, alas, the Duke is kidnapped.
Movie7.6ComedyAntonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.
Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge
1956 · 115 votes
Movie5.5DramaThe Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.
Movie6.3ComedyA high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.
Movie6.5ComedyThis is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers. The script includes witty dialogue and humorous situations; most of all on display is the ridiculousness of the human compulsion to pair up.
Movie10.0ComedyIn the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.
Il mago per forza
1951 · 1 votes
Movie6.6ComedyAlberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel.
Movie7.3ComedyRoberto Maldi, a young scientist, is trying to find a serum capable of giving courage but he unwittingly invents a serum which transforms any man in a womanizer. His boss scents a good business and wants to produce the serum on industrial basis, but Roberto does not agree.
Io piaccio
1955 · 3 votes
Movie5.9ComedyRomanceUgly, persistent, and (initially) annoying admirer pursues a beautiful actress. At first he is laughed of, especially by his ultra handsome rival, but with his firm insistence, and gradually emerging charm, he seduces the lady, to the total shocked surprise of his rival.
Movie6.7ComedyA 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 · 5 votes
Movie6.5ComedyPeccati d'estate
1962 · 2 votes
Movie8.0ComedyFinden Sie, daß Constanze sich richtig verhält?
1962 · 1 votes