Fausto Tozzi

Fausto Tozzi

Fausto TozziFausto Tozzi (29 October 1921 – 10 December 1978) was an Italian film actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 70 films between 1951 and 1978. He wrote the script for The Defeated Victor, which was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. He also directed one film, Trastevere. Born in Rome, after graduating in accountancy Tozzi made several humble jobs, including peddler and bird taxidermist. He was introduced in the cinema industry by Sergio Amidei, for whom he worked as a stenographer. Through Amidei, Tozzi met Renato Castellani, with whom he collaborated as a screenwriter for Professor, My Son (1946) and Under the Sun of Rome (1948, based on a Tozzi's original story). In the early 1950s, he also started working as an assistant director and as an actor, sometimes being cast in main roles. His typical roles were of hardmen and villains. He was also active on stage, where he is best known for the role of Gnecco in Rugantino, and on television, in which he is well known for his performance as Menelaus in L'Odissea. Tozzi died of respiratory failure, aged 57. Source: Article "Fausto Tozzi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Fausto Tozzi
  • Popularity: 2.134
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1921-10-29
  • Place of Birth: Roma, Italy
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  • Also Known As: Фаусто Тоцци
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Fausto Tozzi Movies

  • 1964
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    The Spy

    The Spy

    3 1964 HD

    The British Admiralty is worried: several cargo ships carrying troops have mysteriously jumped off Gibraltar. The Admiralty calls in the Intelligence...

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  • 1962
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    The Swordsman of Siena

    The Swordsman of Siena

    2.5 1962 HD

    A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less than eager, fiancee (Sylva Koscina) from rebels. Thomas...

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  • 1968
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    Odissea

    Odissea

    7.7 1968 HD

    Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.

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  • 1952
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    The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo

    The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo

    6.3 1952 HD

    In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the hills against the bandits who are holding their...

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  • 1966
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    Knives of the Avenger

    Knives of the Avenger

    6.3 1966 HD

    A mysterious knife-throwing viking warrior protects a young peasant woman and her young son from the clutches of a evil regent bent on claiming the...

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  • 1976
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    Street People

    Street People

    4.9 1976 HD

    A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian...

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  • 1970
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    The Demise of Father Mouret

    The Demise of Father Mouret

    4.3 1970 HD

    Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by...

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  • 1974
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    Crazy Joe

    Crazy Joe

    6 1974 HD

    The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.

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  • 1965
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    Mercenaries of the Rio Grande

    Mercenaries of the Rio Grande

    5.8 1965 HD

    Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the...

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  • 1976
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    Oh, Serafina!

    Oh, Serafina!

    5.286 1976 HD

    Augusto Valle is a successful young industrialist who weds Palmira, the girl working in his factory, and the two have a child despite the infant's...

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  • 1973
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    Chino

    Chino

    5.4 1973 HD

    Chino 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...

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  • 1969
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    The Appointment

    The Appointment

    5.5 1969 HD

    Lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one of Rome's highest paid call-girls.

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  • 1957
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    The Tanks of El Alamein

    The Tanks of El Alamein

    4.4 1957 HD

    Italian move on the battle of El Alamein

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  • 1976
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    Fear in the City

    Fear in the City

    5.4 1976 HD

    The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night...

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  • 1974
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    Cry of a Prostitute

    Cry of a Prostitute

    6 1974 HD

    The gangster Tony Aniante in the middle of a feud between two mafia families. He manipulates both families into believing he is on their side and are...

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  • 1963
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    Scheherazade

    Scheherazade

    7.7 1963 HD

    Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from...

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  • 1956
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    Castle of the Banned Lovers

    Castle of the Banned Lovers

    6 1956 HD

    The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But she has to face the jealousy of his violent and morbid...

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  • 1967
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    The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid

    The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid

    5.6 1967 HD

    This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Billy becomes innocently an outlaw...

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  • 1951
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    The City Defends Itself

    The City Defends Itself

    5.9 1951 HD

    Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately from the police.

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  • 1954
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    I cinque dell'Adamello

    I cinque dell'Adamello

    1 1954 HD

    The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche. Their bodies were found several years later.

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  • 1972
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    The Sicilian Connection

    The Sicilian Connection

    6 1972 HD

    A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.

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  • 1965
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    The Agony and the Ecstasy

    The Agony and the Ecstasy

    7.07 1965 HD

    During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes...

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  • 1955
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    La ladra

    La ladra

    1 1955 HD

    Whistle is an orphaned boy, raised in an environment unsuitable for a budding child and thief. A shady lawyer, an accomplice of thieves and fences,...

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  • 1954
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    In the Eddy of Sin

    In the Eddy of Sin

    6 1954 HD

    After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother, with his mistress Germaine.

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  • 1952
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    Brothers of Italy

    Brothers of Italy

    1 1952 HD

    Capodistria, 1915. Captain Nazario Sauro, an officer in the Austrian Navy, is one of those patriots who militate for Italy to enter World War I. When...

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  • 1961
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    The Return of Dr. Mabuse

    The Return of Dr. Mabuse

    6.3 1961 HD

    The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter,...

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  • 1979
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    The Black Stallion

    The Black Stallion

    7 1979 HD

    While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he...

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  • 1965
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    Pyramid of the Sun God

    Pyramid of the Sun God

    5.517 1965 HD

    Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his...

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  • 1958
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    Quando gli angeli piangono

    Quando gli angeli piangono

    1 1958 HD

    After the end of World War II, a man comes back to his former fiancée and finds out that she is married to an older man.

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  • 1959
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    Quai des illusions

    Quai des illusions

    1 1959 HD

    Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves her to escape from the police. Nevertheless, she...

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  • 1959
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    The Night of the Great Attack

    The Night of the Great Attack

    4 1959 HD

    In 15th century Romagna rules violence and fright. Cesare Borgia wants to incorporate the duchy of Catherine Sforza. But in between is the...

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  • 1960
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    Questo amore ai confini del mondo

    Questo amore ai confini del mondo

    1 1960 HD

    Argentinian-Italian western features a rancher and landowner who makes a common mistake - he marries the wrong woman, a dazzling showgirl.

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  • 1954
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    Divisione Folgore

    Divisione Folgore

    6.4 1954 HD

    In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long...

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  • 1970
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    The Deserter

    The Deserter

    6 1970 HD

    A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter...

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  • 1972
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    The Valachi Papers

    The Valachi Papers

    6.422 1972 HD

    When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful...

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  • 1959
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    Dagli Appennini alle Ande

    Dagli Appennini alle Ande

    5.7 1959 HD

    A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.

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  • 1954
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    Casta diva

    Casta diva

    6 1954 HD

    As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.

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  • 1961
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    Constantine and the Cross

    Constantine and the Cross

    5 1961 HD

    Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence,...

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  • 1965
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    The Agony and the Ecstasy

    The Agony and the Ecstasy

    7.07 1965 HD

    During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes...

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  • 1975
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    The Left Hand of the Law

    The Left Hand of the Law

    6 1975 HD

    After a couple of 'special squad' cops are gunned down while chasing some kidnappers, the head of the squad takes it really personally! His violent...

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  • 1973
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    The Bloody Hands of the Law

    The Bloody Hands of the Law

    6.7 1973 HD

    When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the...

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  • 1976
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    Big Pot

    Big Pot

    1 1976 HD

    A gang of robbers takes possession of a load of diamonds.. Only one of them, Mark Lemmon, is arrested and sentenced to life imprisonment. But before...

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  • 1961
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    Saint-Tropez Blues

    Saint-Tropez Blues

    5.3 1961 HD

    With her parents away, Anne-Marie drops her studies to spend eight days in Saint-Tropez with her friend Jean-Paul. They are soon caught up in the...

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  • 1953
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    The Hunt

    The Hunt

    1 1953 HD

    A young poacher is wrongly accused of killing the father of the woman he loves.

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  • 1971
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    Between Miracles

    Between Miracles

    7.091 1971 HD

    Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and...

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  • 1970
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    A Man Called Sledge

    A Man Called Sledge

    6.1 1970 HD

    James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get...

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  • 1961
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    El Cid

    El Cid

    6.858 1961 HD

    Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still...

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  • 1955
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    La ciudad perdida

    La ciudad perdida

    5 1955 HD

    Rafa, a Communist Republican exiled after the Spanish Civil War, returns to his hometown to carry out an attack against the imposed tyrannical...

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  • 1971
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    Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

    Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

    5.5 1971 HD

    During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...

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  • 1973
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    Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

    Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

    5 1973 HD

    There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of...

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  • 1973
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    The Funny Face of the Godfather

    The Funny Face of the Godfather

    2 1973 HD

    The Godfather Don Vito Monreale knows, by chance, the Italian-American singer Nick Bouillon. Since the two are alike, Don Vito decided to exploit...

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  • 1964
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    The Visit

    The Visit

    7 1964 HD

    Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and...

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  • 1971
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    Trastevere

    Trastevere

    6.8 1971 HD

    A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.

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  • 1961
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    The Wonders of Aladdin

    The Wonders of Aladdin

    5.1 1961 HD

    Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie.

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  • 1950
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    Women Without Names

    Women Without Names

    6.3 1950 HD

    This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for displaced women after the end of World War II. Among...

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  • 1955
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    The Red Cloak

    The Red Cloak

    1 1955 HD

    Cosimo de' Bardi is assassinated by a gentleman called the Flemish. Time passes and at some point a masked knight wearing a red cloak enters the...

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  • 1962
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    Commando

    Commando

    6.3 1962 HD

    A 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...

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  • 1959
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    Un uomo facile

    Un uomo facile

    1 1959 HD

    The changing fortunes of two boxers are explored in this interesting drama by Paolo Heusch, seen from the point of view of the women the boxers love....

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  • 1955
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    Songs from all over Italy

    Songs from all over Italy

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1954
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    House of Ricordi

    House of Ricordi

    6.2 1954 HD

    The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other...

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  • 1963
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    The Shortest Day

    The Shortest Day

    5.8 1963 HD

    Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

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  • 1958
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    Il cielo brucia

    Il cielo brucia

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1953
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    Siempre Carmen

    Siempre Carmen

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1955
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    Un po' di cielo

    Un po' di cielo

    1 1955 HD

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  • 1948
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    Under the Sun of Rome

    Under the Sun of Rome

    7.1 1948 HD

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  • 1948
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    Under the Sun of Rome

    Under the Sun of Rome

    7.1 1948 HD

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  • 1949
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    Heaven Over the Marshes

    Heaven Over the Marshes

    5.4 1949 HD

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  • 1971
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    Trastevere

    Trastevere

    6.8 1971 HD

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  • 1971
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    Trastevere

    Trastevere

    6.8 1971 HD

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  • 1952
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    The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo

    The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo

    6.3 1952 HD

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  • 1960
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    Questo amore ai confini del mondo

    Questo amore ai confini del mondo

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1946
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    Professor, My Son

    Professor, My Son

    6.8 1946 HD

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  • 1946
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    Professor, My Son

    Professor, My Son

    6.8 1946 HD

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  • 1946
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    Professor, My Son

    Professor, My Son

    6.8 1946 HD

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  • 1952
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    Three Girls from Rome

    Three Girls from Rome

    6 1952 HD

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  • 1959
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    L'amico del giaguaro

    L'amico del giaguaro

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1949
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    Heaven Over the Marshes

    Heaven Over the Marshes

    5.4 1949 HD

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  • 1953
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    The Hunt

    The Hunt

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1959
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    Un uomo facile

    Un uomo facile

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1965
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    I Spy

    I Spy

    6.5 1965 HD

    A pair of intelligence agents posing as a tennis pro and his coach go on secret missions around the world.

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  • 1976
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    Origins of the Mafia

    Origins of the Mafia

    1 1976 HD

    Mini series about the origins of the Italian mafia

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  • 1968
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    The Odyssey

    The Odyssey

    8.9 1968 HD

    Italian miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey.

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