Аватар персоны Maurizio Arena

Maurizio Arena

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26-12-1933

Birthday

Capricorn

Zodiac Sign

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Genres

74

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Rome, Italy

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

74 Works

producer

1 Works

director

6 Works

writer

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other

2 Works

Le bon, la brute et les zombies

Le bon, la brute et les zombies

Hordes of zombies invade a western town.
4.7

Year:

2004

Natale in India

Natale in India

Destinies intertwined for two antithetical people who meet during a trip to India, where lots of misunderstandings and funny situations will take place.
4.9

Year:

2003

Fists, Dollars and Spinach

Fists, Dollars and Spinach

Fists of Dollars & Spinach is a 1978 film directed by Emimmo Salvi. It is the first flesh-and-blood film about the adventures of Popeye, anticipating the Disney film Popeye (1980) by Robert Altman by two years
0.0

Year:

1978

The Rip-Off

The Rip-Off

Crime Comedy starring Walter Chiari, Maurizio Arena and Ettore Manni. Directed by Luciano Ercoli in 1977, but shelved when producer Niccolo De Nora was kidnapped... ironically the theme of the movie. A band of criminals plan one final heist, to kidnap a wealthy French businessman.
4.0

Year:

1977

Puttana galera!

Puttana galera!

The presence of mafia boss Vangelli's yacht in front of the island of Ventotene brings a group of prisoners of the penitentiary close.
2.0

Year:

1977

The Mistress is Served

The Mistress is Served

A bankrupt Italian count commit suicide and one of his creditors takes over his family villa but he allows the widow, the mother, and the three adult sisters to stay on. The creditor is a wealthy businessman, but also basically an uncouth peasant (who fancies himself an opera singer). Still, the dimwitted, sex-crazed sisters try to seduce both him and his shy, virginal son who accompanies him.
3.3

Year:

1976

Atti impuri all'italiana

Atti impuri all'italiana

The village doctor of Montecatini Terme dies and Dr. Elijah Bonvicini arrives that everyone takes by surprise by the fact of being a young and attractive woman. The municipal clinic is being rushed by a lot of women and men who are all sick of frustrated sexuality.
4.9

Year:

1976

Vai col liscio

Vai col liscio

Federico Altarini is a Dancer of Southern Italy that teaches the smooth in Emilia Romagna countries. Celeste Cucustella will ask for private dance lessons to conquer a man in a dance competition. But someone tries to enrapture two issues of patrimony.
0.0

Year:

1976

The Career of a Chambermaid

The Career of a Chambermaid

This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.
4.9

Year:

1976

Romulus and Remus: The Story of Two Sons of a Wolf

Romulus and Remus: The Story of Two Sons of a Wolf

The history of Rome revisited by the group of Bagaglino (Franco, Montesano, Castellacci and Pingitore). Romulus kills Remus, but also manages to get rid of him. The sister continues to bother him in the ghost robes. When Romulus founded Rome and abducted the Sabine, dies, hell, he is received, needless to say, the petulantissimo Remo.
3.0

Year:

1976

Hallucination Strip

Hallucination Strip

The story is about a youth named Massimo Monaldi, who, living in Rome, is a part-time college student who has some involvement in the protests that occur at his university. Massimo is also involved with drugs and he sometimes steals to make a living and support his habit (the theft of a tobacco box is very important to the story). Among his associates are his girlfriend, Cinzia, who comes from a wealthy family, and he has a wealthy male friend named Rudy who is very naive as well as strangely pampered by his overly-doting mother. Both families don't approve of their relationship with Massimo.
5.2

Year:

1975

Dream of Zorro

Dream of Zorro

3.2

Year:

1975

Loaded Guns

Loaded Guns

An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.
5.1

Year:

1975

The Balloon Vendor

The Balloon Vendor

A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father.
7.0

Year:

1974

To Love Ophelia

To Love Ophelia

Although he is in his thirties, Orlando still feels like a child. He is terrified of the outside world and is stuck in an obsessive relationship with his mother.
5.2

Year:

1974

The Assassination of Matteotti

The Assassination of Matteotti

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
6.6

Year:

1973

Storia de fratelli e de cortelli

Storia de fratelli e de cortelli

Rome, early 1900s. Gigi, a young populace, falls in love with the rich Mara and, to satisfy the woman's desires, begins to steal.
5.7

Year:

1973

Il Figlioccio del padrino

Il Figlioccio del padrino

A mafioso falls in love with his boss's daughter. Since the girl has already been widowed four times her father takes good care that this does not happen again.
5.6

Year:

1973

Story of Fear and a Knife

Story of Fear and a Knife

A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength.
6.3

Year:

1972

Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?

Even If I Wanted to Work, What Do I Do?

In Lazio, four young people named Riccetto, Girasole, Lallo and Tombarolo try to make a living by stealing what they find in the tombs of the rich buried. Being inexperienced, they often find themselves in trouble or pursued by the police.
4.0

Year:

1972

The Story of Romance and Knife

The Story of Romance and Knife

The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.
5.5

Year:

1971

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
5.5

Year:

1971

They Came to Rob Las Vegas

They Came to Rob Las Vegas

After successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of the diverse members of the intrepid criminal gang collide, causing undesirable consequences.
5.7

Year:

1968

The Corrupt Ones

The Corrupt Ones

Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful villains in this quest for an ancient Chinese treasure when he accidentally acquires the key to its location, the Peking medallion.
5.5

Year:

1967

Gli altri, gli altri e noi

Gli altri, gli altri e noi

An unemployed youth tries different jobs such as waiter, hairdresser, porter, salesman and when desperate, he goes to sleep in a flop-house, where he finds a job as a night watchman.
0.0

Year:

1966

The Dolls

The Dolls

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.
5.7

Year:

1965

The Escape

The Escape

A young married woman who is desperately unhappy is tempted into a lesbian relationship with an interior decorator.
5.1

Year:

1964

Via Veneto

Via Veneto

A young man who lives on scams and deceptions manages to convince a wealthy industrialist who has come from the province to finance a film. Having received an adequate advance, he begins to lead an expensive life among luxury cars and beautiful women.
0.0

Year:

1964

The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
6.2

Year:

1963

Commando

Commando

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 longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.
6.3

Year:

1962

Le magnifiche 7

Le magnifiche 7

0.0

Year:

1961

Pugni, pupe e marinai

Pugni, pupe e marinai

Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Saved from the shipwreck by a fishing boat, they have to get back to the island before their commander knows about their adventure.
4.7

Year:

1961

The Policeman on Horseback

The Policeman on Horseback

A soldier has his horse stolen on his wedding day and spends the first day of his honeymoon looking for it.
5.8

Year:

1961

Fra' Manisco cerca guai...

Fra' Manisco cerca guai...

Father Pacifico is a genuine friar with a brisk manner, for this reason he is nicknamed Father Manisco. The religious finds himself grappling with a thorny case, as Don Liborio, a Neapolitan lord, dominates all local events, including the love choices of his young daughter. Father Pacifico manages to restore harmony and order despite a thousand difficulties.
6.0

Year:

1960

Il principe fusto

Il principe fusto

0.0

Year:

1960

Terror of Oklahoma

Terror of Oklahoma

Italian Western comedy in black-and-white. The movie intended to be a parody of the American western as even the title shows, being a hybrid between the original title of the movie The Oklahoma Kid and its rendering for the Italian audience, "Il terrore dell'Ovest".
0.0

Year:

1959

The Magistrate

The Magistrate

Emilia Bonelli is an overly ambitious and driven woman. This dominant personality trait has its effects on her henpecked husband Luigi, and her daughter Carla. Circumstances ultimately lead to the courtroom and an aloof judge in the persona of Andrea Morandi.
6.2

Year:

1959

La duchessa di Santa Lucia

La duchessa di Santa Lucia

Zì Carmela, the owner of a famous restaurant in Naples, wants her niece to marry an English peer and doesn't like her love story with Carlo the son of a baker. When the English lord comes to Naples with his family she throws a magnificent party during which however class differences come out. Will this convince her and stop her from being castles in the air?
0.0

Year:

1959

Noi siamo 2 evasi

Noi siamo 2 evasi

Two inmates escape prison changing clothes with a couple of businessmen. They'll be taken by the financiers and find themselves surrounded by wealth and beautiful women.
4.7

Year:

1959

Poor Millionaires

Poor Millionaires

After a series of misunderstandings and other unfortunate incidents, the honeymoon of two young couples ends sooner than planned. Back at their starting point, the ensuing conflict leads to one of the couples separating. Salvatore, who moves away, is hit in the street by a car and loses his memory: he has lost his memories of his friends and family - until he meets his wife Marisa, in which he falls in love again ...
5.9

Year:

1959

Un uomo facile

Un uomo facile

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. One of the pugilists is a rookie on the rise and his sister has married the reigning champion. Now the champ is getting older and less able to hold his own against the newcomers -- including his brother-in-law. As his fortunes begin to decline, his wife whom he married while affluent is slowly forced to deal with the difficulties of poverty. This Italian drama was an entry in the 1959 Berlin Film Festival.
0.0

Year:

1959

Adventure in Capri

Adventure in Capri

A young French girl, Yvonne, having won a competition, goes to Capri for a short break. There she meets Baron Vanvutelli, an old-fashioned old man, Mario, a Roman student, who came to spend the Sunday at Capri, along with two friends, Renato and Julius.
4.0

Year:

1959

Love and Troubles

Love and Troubles

Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart.
5.9

Year:

1958

Marinai, donne e guai

Marinai, donne e guai

Four sailors are off duty in Barcelona. Capo Campana ordered them to remain together when in the city. But Mario, one of them, falls for Manuela and leaves the other three.
5.0

Year:

1958

Valeria ragazza poco seria

Valeria ragazza poco seria

Two young men love the same girl and decide to fight for her. The winner realizes, however, that his feelings are not returned.
0.0

Year:

1958

Corporal of the day

Corporal of the day

A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice.
6.7

Year:

1958

The Italians They Are Crazy

The Italians They Are Crazy

In a German prison camp, some Italian prisoners bet with the commander that they will be able to build a church in two hours.
0.0

Year:

1958

Napoli sole mio

Napoli sole mio

Lorella must marry Dr. Matteini, but when she goes to Naples to meet him, she meets Michele, who sings in restaurants. The fateful spark is ignited, and although Michele is poor, Lorella decides to marry him against his mother's wishes.
0.0

Year:

1958

Poor Girl, Pretty Girl

Poor Girl, Pretty Girl

Romolo and Salvatore look for jobs to impress their girlfriends, but things get complicated when their old flame Giovanna reappears.
6.8

Year:

1957

Holiday Island

Holiday Island

Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
6.1

Year:

1957

Il cocco di mamma

Il cocco di mamma

Aldo, Vasco and "Smilzo" (Slim) are friends. They live with their parents and are training for boxing. But their real interest is in women. When casually Aldo meets Laura and falls for her. Will he succeed in winning her love?
4.0

Year:

1957

The Black Devil

The Black Devil

The Spaniards under Charles V aim to occupy all of Italy with the help of traitorous allies like Don Lorenzo. Lorenzo conspires to marry off his supposed niece Isabella to Charles V’s nephew, Prince Rodriguez, to confirm Spain’s dominance. The Black Devil, a heroic masked avenger, falls in love with the fake Isabella and takes vengeance on Lorenzo with the help of his friend Ruggerio and his men.
4.0

Year:

1957

Poor But Beautiful

Poor But Beautiful

Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna.
6.7

Year:

1957

Time of Vacation

Time of Vacation

Holiday time in Corniolo, a resort 40 kilometres from Rome. In a recently opened hotel various characters sojourn and love stories begin and end.
6.2

Year:

1956

Processo all'amore

Processo all'amore

0.0

Year:

1956

Roman Tales

Roman Tales

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?
5.9

Year:

1955

Un giglio infranto

Un giglio infranto

0.0

Year:

1955

The Sign of Venus

The Sign of Venus

Agnese 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.
6.9

Year:

1955

Toto and Carolina

Toto and Carolina

During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.
6.5

Year:

1955

Tripoli, bel suol d'amore

Tripoli, bel suol d'amore

The young Alberto Ruotolo leave the country cottage to go for the sharpshooter. But the command does not pull good air, three riflemen arrogant and unruly bear much disorder as anger Marshal Nero.
5.8

Year:

1954

A Day in Court

A Day in Court

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
6.3

Year:

1954

It Happened in the Park

It Happened in the Park

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
6.4

Year:

1953

Roman Holiday

Roman Holiday

Overwhelmed by her suffocating schedule, touring European princess Ann takes off for a night while in Rome. When a sedative she took from her doctor kicks in, however, she falls asleep on a park bench and is found by an American reporter, Joe Bradley, who takes her back to his apartment for safety. At work the next morning, Joe finds out Ann's regal identity and bets his editor he can get exclusive interview with her, but romance soon gets in the way.
7.9

Year:

1953

Siamo tutti inquilini

Siamo tutti inquilini

Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
6.0

Year:

1953

The Devil's Daughter

The Devil's Daughter

Garibaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to be a patriot who has returned to Italy to take part in the fight but a degraded Bourbon official who has been promised rehabilitation if he can succeed as a spy. Tucci discovers old Sereni's second wife is one of his former lovers and persuades her to murder her husband so as to gain his inheritance. She does indeed cause the count to die, by withholding his heart medicine, but not before he destroys his will.
0.0

Year:

1952