Armando Francioli
Actor · 1919 – 2020 · Roma, Lazio, Italia
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Movie5.3AdventureDramaKing's swordsman Captain Buridan, hero of the Flanders campaign, returns to Paris to find it in a grip of fear -a "vampire/witch" in the "Tower of Sin" is luring young men to their deaths by offering them a night of sexual ecstasy followed by savage slaughter. Buridan is holding secrets of his own and his battle to save France from an evil Chancellor, an impotent King and a lascivious, wanton Queen make the battlefields of war seem like child's play.
Movie5.1ComedyCarolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.
Movie6.7DramaA businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.
Movie7.1DramaHistoryMarguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the League and the Huguenots. In fact, it was an opportunity to bring all the Huguenots to Paris and kill them all at once. King Charles IX fails in his attempt on Coligny's life. Queen Margot tries to save her husband from the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre by preventing the annulment of his marriage, forcing Henri to share her bed. Two knights from opposing camps are wounded and, saved în extremis, are hidden together by the queen and her cousin. Margot falls in love with one of them, but has to run to warn her husband of a new attack...
Movie6.9DramaThrillerAuguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...
Movie5.4ComedyRomanceA poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
Movie8.0AdventureHistoryA beautiful girl and a young physician fall in love in the midst of a family, and power struggle between rival princes of Upper and Lower Egypt. When all seems to turn to the better, a dejected woman gets her revenge, and the couple's destruction.
Movie7.7DramaThe story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic accident.
Movie6.7DramaA rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
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Movie7.0ComedyA country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.
Due soldi di felicità
1955 · 1 votes
Movie6.5AdventureIn the mid-1500s, a ship containing Spanish prisoners being sent to a Spanish penal colony in the Caribbean sinks at sea, but some of the prisoners manage to survive and make it to shore at a nearby island. They organize themselves under the leadership of Juan Olivares (dynamically played by charismatic singer-actor Johnny Desmond), manage to take over a ship with some cargo that they barter for supplies, and eventually are asked to fight on behalf of the Spanish crown against the English... or is the request sincere?
Movie6.8DramaHistoryAn official, betrayed by his lady servant, joins musketeers such as Athos, while she turns into a countess and a spy that will eventually be executed.
Movie6.9DramaAn engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family.
Traviata 53
1953 · 11 votes
Movie10.0ComedySe vincessi cento milioni
1953 · 1 votes
Movie6.2ThrillerCrimeA young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate protests of his sister arouse the compassion of Za la Mort, who promises to help the girl.
Movie5.1AdventureThe bandit Kriminal by pure chance finds a fragment of a map in an old porcelain statue indicating the location of two precious paintings hidden by a notorious outlaw before he was executed. Kriminal immediately begins searching for the three other statuettes, similar to the one in their possession, containing the fragments needed to complete the map .
Movie6.9RomanceAdventureAn evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
Aquila Nera
1946 · 11 votes
Movie5.9RomanceComedyItalian racing film
Movie5.7ComedyDramaThe incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society?
Movie8.0ComedyIn 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.
Movie7.3ComedyIn Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched against the king by the French ambassador.
Movie8.0ComedyThe love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.
Movie7.0DramaGuido and Cristina fall in love, but she is betrothed to a solider. When he is reported killed they hope to marry, but his reappearance without his limbs makes matters difficult for all concerned.