
Corrado Gaipa
Actor · 1924 – 1989 · Palermo, Sicily, Italy
Corrado Gaipa was an Italian actor and voice actor. Born in Palermo, Sicily, Gaipa enrolled in the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1946. He appeared in many Italian films, notably playing Don Tommasino in Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather. Also active on stage, radio and television, he was mainly active as a voice actor and a dubber. He was in a wheelchair. At the time of his death, he had just signed to reprise the role of Don Tommasino in The Godfather Part III.
Movies23
Movie8.7DramaCrimeSpanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
The Godfather
1972 · 23K votes
Movie5.6ComedySenator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.
Nonostante le apparenze... e purchè la nazione non lo sappia... all'onorevole piacciono le donne
The Eroticist
1972 · 26 votes
Movie7.4ComedyThe myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Movie5.6WesternActionChino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unwelcome almost everywhere he goes. One day, a young runaway named Jimmy shows up at his door looking for work and a roof over his head. Reluctantly, Chino agrees to take him in and teach him the art of raising, breaking and breeding horses, until the pair finally begin to accept each other.
Movie4.9DramaA beautiful but poor young girl finds all the money and material goods she never had when she becomes the girlfriend of a crime boss, but soon learns that there is a price to be paid for that kind of life.
Movie6.8CrimeActionA hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
Movie7.2ComedyDramaConstruction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, a cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often goes to communist rallies, and enjoys the filthy beaches of Ostia. Will the hostile environment pave a way to jealousy?
Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca)
A Drama of Jealousy (and other things)
1970 · 234 votes
Movie7.6DramaWarSeptember 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.
Movie6.1ActionCrimeA mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.
Tony Arzenta
1973 · 69 votes
Movie7.1CrimeThrillerAn unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. Conspiracies and horrors pile up, as do the body parts.
Movie6.5ThrillerMysteryFollowing the mysterious decapitation of an insurance investigator, Police Inspector Peretti is put onto the case, but all the clues lead to an unsolved case of kidnapping and murder.
Movie4.5DramaThis film traces the prison life of a group of women who-rather than being prepared to reenter society-are brought to the limits of depravity. Martine, wrongly imprisoned will bear the scars of a prison system wrongly based on punishment rather than rehabilitation.
Movie5.4RomanceDramaIn the most traditional Sicilian, a 18 year old is in full arousal. His relationship with breathtaking mature woman will create a great controversy in the retrograde Sicilian society.
Movie6.6MysteryThrillerA journalist finds himself on the trail of a murderer who's been targeting people around him, while the police are considering him a suspect in their investigation.
Movie7.4AnimationComedyA satire of modern society or perhaps just a funny tale for children, depending on your age, mood or liking. Recounting the adventures of the last in a line of Supermen, the film pokes fun at the processes that lie behind advertising, politics and our consumer society.
Movie6.7ThrillerA detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
Movie6.2AnimationIn a valley, two groups of little ants - the organized and efficient Red ones and the lazy and defenseless Yellow ones - go into a war.
Movie4.7DramaMysteryA state senator is murdered outside his home, and the police arrest a strange man described as having "icy eyes" for the crime. An Italian reporter finds a stripper who claims to have been an eyewitness to the assassination and saw the man with the icy eyes commit it. At his trial she testifies against him, and he's sentenced to death. However, the reporter soon begins to find holes in the stripper's story, and other circumstances arise which makes him believe that the wrong man may have been convicted
Movie6.4DramaFleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in Venice. But the Roman Inquisition, fearing his influence in Europe, wants to bring him on trial for 'heresy'.
Giordano Bruno
1973 · 55 votes
Movie5.8DramaThe story of a young man of the working class, who has grown up practically an orphan due to his father’s repeated jailings for anarchistic activism. Struggling with life in 19th-century Italy, Metello Salani is determined to change his situation for the better - but love, marriage and politics complicate things considerably...
Metello
1970 · 22 votes
Movie4.4DramaHorrorLucita has been locked away in a convent by her family in order to keep her away from her lover, Esteban. The pair make plans to elope, but Esteban is accused of heresy before Lucita can escape. Hiding in the convent, Esteban discovers the horrifying depravity of the covent's abbess, Sister Incarnation. Can Esteban rescue his love from this madhouse before the inquisitor discovers what is going on and has everyone executed?
Movie6.9CrimeDramaBertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full
Movie4.5ActionDramaAn illustrious group of German industrialists plot to overthrow Hitler by negotiating a peace treaty with England. Disgraced, but dedicated Nazi officer Colonel Werner von Uhland is assigned by his superiors to ferret out these deceitful dissidents and stop them before it's too late. von Uhland recruits a bunch of beautiful women to seduce these traitors and undermine their conspiracy
Series5
TV6.8DramaAction & AdventureThe life of the 13th-century Venetian explorer who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.
Marco Polo
1982 · 30 votes
TV7.0DramaThe miniseries tells the story of Marina di Malombra, a languid heroine with a morbid, decadent sensibility.
Malombra
1974 · 2 votes
TVWar & Politics
TV7.0Sci-Fi & FantasyTest driver Luigi Certaldo meets Elisa at a party. They go to Volterra in Tuscany and meet Alberto Certaldo, Luigi's cousin. In the house is a painting that portrays a veiled woman whose face is identical to Elisa's. Strange events follow one another and an Etruscan funerary urn Is found that seems to contain indication to find an Etruscan necropolis full of treasures. Two people die. Luigi and Elisa are afraid. They meet a strange child-medium and a creepy old men called "Nebbia". Something terrible is about to happen.
Ritratto di Donna Velata
1975 · 3 votes
TVWar & PoliticsA 1971 three-part miniseries about the birth of the Italian Republic, directed by Sandro Bolchi, Vittorio De Sica, and Ermanno Olmi