Anita Durante
Actor · 1897 – 1994 · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Movies24
Movie6.2ComedyAlvaro 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?
Movie6.1ComedyA group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Made in Italy
1965 · 19 votes
Movie6.7DramaA businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.
Movie6.2ComedyCencio, 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.
Movie7.1ComedyNando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
Movie6.8ComedyIn 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.
Movie5.7ComedyDramaThe story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.
Movie6.8RomanceComedyAgnese 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.
Movie6.4ComedyThis 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 · 29 votes
Movie7.4DramaA 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.
Movie4.8ComedyIn 18th-century Rome, a young man in a choir of castrati falls for the beautiful wife of a powerful aristocrat.
Movie7.4ComedyPolicarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Policarpo, and falls in love with her. Policarpo sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to be a count, sees with very bad eyes that his son meets a girl from such a different social position, and does just the opposite. But the efforts made by both parties will be of no use, since Celeste has fallen in love with Mario Marquetti, a "specialized mechanic" (typist) who is giving private lessons in the offices of the businessman Franquinet .
Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
1959 · 16 votes
Movie6.4ComedyA 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.
Movie6.0Comedy
Movie7.0ComedyA funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength.
Movie5.0DramaAfter 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 · 4 votes
Movie6.5DramaA young woman, her sister-in-law and her ten year old daughter are violently traumatised by invading Austrian soldiers. Later, in Verona, both woman discover they are pregnant. After a suicide attempt, one has an abortion the other keeps her child - and both faces struggles with friends and family as they return to their homes.
Guai ai vinti
1954 · 2 votes
Movie4.4ComedyA pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a handsome younger man are amongst the lodgers.
Movie9.0AdventureDramaDuring 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 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaA 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 · 1 votes
Movie10.0ComedySe vincessi cento milioni
1953 · 1 votes
MovieFamilyDramaA short film made by Umberto Lenzi as his graduation project at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (CSC)
Movie9.0ComedySiamo tutti pomicioni
1963 · 1 votes
Movie6.0ComedyLina, a young woman now tired of the constant betrayals from her husband, decides to cheat on him with a mutual friend, Piero.
Adultero lui, adultera lei
1963 · 5 votes