Roberto Villa

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I mariti
4.5

I mariti

Jan 10, 1941
In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.
Comedy
Giorno di nozze
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Giorno di nozze

Sep 28, 1942
Les Bonotti, famille romaine très modeste, envoient leur fille, Mariella, dans un collège de grand luxe et lui cachent leur pauvreté. Elle ne tarde pas à se fiancer au fils d'un riche financier. Les Bonotti vont alors tout faire pour ne pas dévoiler leurs origines.
Comedy
Il grande appello
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Il grande appello

Jan 02, 1936
An Italian proprietor of a squalid Djibouti bar collaborated in selling arms to Ethiopians fighting his own country's invasion but after finding his long lost son on the Fascist front he decides to choose patriotism over selfish profit.
Drama
Luciano Serra, pilota
4.8

Luciano Serra, pilota

Jan 02, 1938
Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In the 30s, his son in Italy wants also to become a pilot, and Luciano accepts an offer of a double dealing agent for a flight from Rio to Rome, but his plane crashes in the Atlantic. For the world Luciano Serra is missing, but he has entered the Italian army under a new name to fight in Ethiopia. The train in which his unit travels is attacked by Ethiopian soldiers, his son flying a reconasaince mission is shot down and wounded by the same attacking enemies. Will Luciano be able to fly the plane back, to get close air support for the outnumbered Italian troups?
War
Albergo Luna, camera 34
1
A young music teacher, after her house is burned down by a raid, has to go to a refugee camp with her old and sick mother. She is forced to sell everything she owns, while she is looking for a job as a singer. One night, tired and frustrated, she meets a man who invites her out for a drink. She accepts the invitation, stunned by the bunch of banknotes in his wallet. The man takes her to his room at the hotel Luna and seduces her. Before leaving, she robs him of his money and then walks hastily home, but in the meantime her mother has died. She meets a young maestro, who wants her to sing his songs. She seems to begin a happy, though hard, life together with the young maestro who wishes to marry her. The wicked man suddenly reappears and menaces to reveal their old encounter and that she is a thief, but he is later killed. The unfortunate lady is suspected of the crime, but at the end she is cleared of it and she can happily marry her maestro
Romance
Il medico delle donne
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Il medico delle donne

Mar 30, 1962
Ambrogio Carugati, a perpetually failing graduate student, turns to a former university classmate, the gynecologist Roberto Setti, to escape the arranged marriage with Gabriella, a girl he doesn't like.
Comedy
Divieto di sosta
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Divieto di sosta

Nov 20, 1941
A wealthy widow becomes infatuated with an adventurer posing as a poet and, forgetting her responsibilities as a mother and her no longer young age, falls prey to a love frenzy in her family that puts her at odds with her daughter, who has just left boarding school, and her own brother, who is all about scientific research. The girl, who has learned of the alleged poet's less-than-honest intentions, tries every means to drive him away and restore her mother's sentimental balance. For this she pretends to be in love with him who, attracted by her youth and rich dowry, proposes that she elope.
Comedy
La fortuna viene dal cielo
1
The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer, trying to earn an extension. The lawyer grants it to him, but he gets too close, even physically. She wants to defend herself, but his power dominates the impotence of the woman.
Romance
La vispa Teresa
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La vispa Teresa

Sep 04, 1943
Alberto, son of a rich engineer, falls in love with Luisa, a ruthless manicurist who is only after his money. His parents offer him a holiday in Venice because they hope he will forget her. Alberto however leaves for Venice with Luisa, who has asked a friend of hers to take her place at the beauty parlour. Alberto's parents go there and mistake Teresa for Luisa. A series of misunderstandings ensues...
Comedy
Totò all'inferno
6.2

Totò all'inferno

Mar 16, 1955
After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.
Comedy
La fanciulla di Portici
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During the Spanish occupation of Naples, the people led by Tommaso Aniello - known as "Masaniello" - plot against the Viceroy. The Viceroy's son, under another name, has a son from Masaniello's sister, but his father has already planned a marriage for him with a Spanish patrician against his wishes.
History
Il ventesimo duca
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Il ventesimo duca

Jul 15, 1945
Le film est basé sur une pièce de théâtre de 1925 d'Ugo Falena qui avait précédemment été tourné à deux reprises The Last Lord (1926) et La femme habillée en homme (1932). Le seul parent survivant d'un vieux duc, sa petite-fille, prétend être un homme afin de le convaincre que la ligne de succession est sûre.