
Totò
Oyuncu · 1898 – 1967 · Naples, Campania, Italy
Totò was born Antonio Clemente in a poor district of Naples, the illegitimate son of Anna Clemente from Sicily and Marquis Giuseppe De Curtis from Naples. Nicknamed “il principe della risata’ (the prince of laughter), he was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter, and widely considered one of the greatest Italian artists of the 20th century. While he first gained his popularity as a comic actor, his dramatic roles, poetry, and songs are all of cultural import; his style and a number of his recurring jokes and gestures have become universally known memes in Italy. As a comic actor, Totò is classified as an heir of the Commedia dell'Arte tradition, and has been compared to such figures as Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin. At the age of 15, he was already acting as a comedian in small theatres, under the pseudonym "Clerment". His early repertoire mostly consisted in imitations of Gustavo De Marco's characters. He served in the army during World War I and then went back to acting to develop the trademarks of his style. In 1937, he appeared in his first movie "Fermo con le mani", and later starred in 96 more films, many of which are still frequently broadcast on Italian television. In his vast cinematographic career, Totò had the opportunity to act side by side with virtually all major Italian actors of the time. Totò's unmistakable figure, with his peculiarly irregular face (due to an accident in his teen years), and his unique trademark ability to disarticulate his body like a marionette, soon became very popular and his comic gags became part of the Italian culture. Totò died at the age of 69 in Rome after a series of heart attacks. Due to overwhelming popularity there were three funeral services: the first in Rome, and the second and third in Naples. Totò's birth home has been recently opened to the public as a museum.
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Film8.1KomediSuçCosimo, bir araba çalmaya çalışırken polise yakalanır. Hapisten erken çıkmak için dışarıdaki suç ortaklarından kendisine bir "günah keçisi" bulmalarını ister - hapse onun yerine girecek birini. Pepe adında, başarısız bir boksör çıkagelir ve hapishane müdürüne suçu üstlendiğini söyler. Ancak müdür akıllıca bir hamle yapar: ikisini de hapse atar! Hapisteyken, Cosimo Pepe'ye "kusursuz" vurgun planını anlatır. Bu planı, hapisten çıktıktan sonra kendisi gerçekleştirmeyi düşünmektedir. Ancak işler ters gider: Pepe beklenenden erken tahliye olur ve Cosimo'nun ortaklarıyla birlikte vurgunu kendi başına yapmaya kalkar!
Film7.2RomantikKomediA boy and a girl fall in love but their fathers take a strong dislike to each other, clashing repeatedly during the preparations for the upcoming marriage.
Film6.4KomediTarihTwo jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Film6.2KomediIn the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden.
Figaro qua... Figaro là
1950 · 17 votes
Film6.0KomediDramFive short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.
Film6.5KomediDramA barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocrisy of his own relatives and decides to return behind bars.
Film7.3DramKomediA tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.
Film6.2KomediAlvaro 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?
Film9.0BelgeselA documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
Film7.2Komediİtalya-Fransa sınırında bir kasabanın yarısı İtalya'ya, diğer yarısı Fransa'ya aittir. Bir Fransız Jandarmasını canlandıran Fernandel, İtalya tarafında kaçakçılık ve bar işletmeciliği yapan Totò'nun yasadışı işlerini engellemeyi ve sınırı geçerken yakalamayı kendine özel bir iş olarak edinmiştir. Çünkü Kanun Kanundur. Ama her zaman işler istendiği gibi gitmez.
Film7.0KomediAntonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returned. Amalia has to choose between two husbands.
Letto a tre piazze
1960 · 60 votes
Film6.6KomediA psychiatric-clinic medical director runs some tests on two patients, the Ragionier Antonio Vignanelli and Cavalier Peppino Caprioli, so they must retrieve some memories of family life in order to understand their mental illness.
Totò, Peppino e le fanatiche
1958 · 50 votes
Film6.7KomediA petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.
Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare
1961 · 41 votes
Film6.4KomediMüzikNine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Film6.1KomediThe film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
Film7.4KomediSuçA pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Gennaro, in Napoli.
Film7.0KomediAn aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.
Film5.9KomediThe explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst of one of his researches.
Film6.2KomediA clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealousy of three women and even by a policeman.
Film6.1KomediTutto Totò - Il tuttofare
1967 · 7 votes
Film7.3BelgeselTarihCinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.
Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
2021 · 6 votes
Film5.4KomediYoung swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.
Le sei mogli di Barbablù
1950 · 17 votes
Film7.5MaceraKomediTongue-in-cheek adventure tale of an American attempting to free sailors held as hostages and becoming involved in middle-East tribal wars.
Slave Girl
1947 · 2 votes
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Dizi8.7BelgeselAileCinépanorama
1956 · 3 votes