Furio Scarpelli — Playwright (49)
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Double Murder (1977)
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Steno actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Agostina Belli …
other title: Vom Blitz getroffen / Enquête à l'italienne …
Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat and a worker are struck by lightning inside a fancy mansion. The incident would be relegated to freak accidents, but Baldassare's attention is drawn to the strangeness of the events and he begins to investigate.
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Hotel Room (1981)
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Mario Monicelli actor: Vittorio Gassman / Monica Vitti …
other title: Chambre d'hôtel / Cuarto de hotel …
A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people living their life. They get in touch with old and money-tight producer Mengaroni to edit their movie, but while they contact the accidental actors for gathering authorization, he starts to manipulate their work.
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Roman Tales (1955)
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贾尼·弗兰乔利尼 actor: Antonio Cifariello / Franco Fabrizi …
other title: Vier Herzen in Rom / Cuentos de Roma …
Alvaro 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?
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The Law Is the Law (1958)
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Christian-Jaque actor: Totò / Fernandel …
other title: Gesetz ist Gesetz / La loi c'est la loi …
Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.
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Totó in color (1952)
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斯蒂诺 actor: Totò / Isa Barzizza …
other title: Totò a colori / 托托的色彩美学观 …
In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
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Complexes (1965)
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佛朗哥·罗西 / Luigi Filippo D'Amico … actor: Nino Manfredi / Ugo Tognazzi …
other title: Einmal zu wenig, einmal zu viel / Les Complexés …
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
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The Band of Honest Men (1956)
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Camillo Mastrocinque actor: Totò / 佩皮诺·德·菲利波 …
other title: Die Bande der Ehrlichen / La banda de los honrados …
Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.