Acting

Tano Cimarosa

Born January 1, 1922 · Messina, Sicily, Italy

Died May 24, 2008 · aged 86

Tano Cimarosa, real name Gaetano Cisco, (1 January 1922 – 24 May 2008) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He participated in more than fifty movies. He played the "Blacksmith" in the Oscar-winning film Cinema Paradiso from 1988. He is known to horror film fans for directing Reflections in Black in 1975. Source: Article "Tano Cimarosa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under …

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Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso · 1988

Cinema Paradiso

MovieDramaRomance

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

The Witches

The Witches · 1967

MovieComedyDrama

Five 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.

May God Forgive You... But I Won't

May God Forgive You... But I Won't · 1968

May God Forgive You... But I Won't

While Cjamango is away from his ranch, bandits attack and kill his family. Disrupted by this tragedy, he sets out to take his revenge, helped by a Mexican who has seen the bandits. The writer of the western Cjamango directed this unofficial sequel to Cjamango.

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte · 1971

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte

Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which happens to have been designed by Manteghin.

The Day of the Owl

The Day of the Owl · 1968

The Day of the Owl

MovieDramaCrime

Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.

The Star Maker

The Star Maker · 1995

MovieDramaRomance

In 1950s Sicily, con artist Joe Moretti does screen tests for the big studios, accepting money or favours for his efforts. A young illiterate novitiate named Beata desperately wants to change her life and falls for him; belatedly, he realizes his feelings for her. However, their love affair is doomed when he's arrested.

The Most Beautiful Wife

The Most Beautiful Wife · 1970

The Most Beautiful Wife

MovieCrimeDrama

A 16-year-old Sicilian becomes the target of a mafia hit man after refusing to go through with her prearranged marriage.

The Tall, The Short, The Cat

The Tall, The Short, The Cat · 1967

The Tall, The Short, The Cat

Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late woman's money, on the condition that they have to care for her rambuncous pet cat, which is not an easy thing to do so.

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Cinema Paradiso

Cinema Paradiso · 1988

Cinema Paradiso

MovieDramaRomance

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Fabbro, blacksmith

The Witches

The Witches · 1967

MovieComedyDrama

Five 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.

Sicilian (segment "La siciliana") (uncredited)

May God Forgive You... But I Won't

May God Forgive You... But I Won't · 1968

May God Forgive You... But I Won't

While Cjamango is away from his ranch, bandits attack and kill his family. Disrupted by this tragedy, he sets out to take his revenge, helped by a Mexican who has seen the bandits. The writer of the western Cjamango directed this unofficial sequel to Cjamango.

Chico

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte · 1971

Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte

Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which happens to have been designed by Manteghin.

commissario di polizia

The Day of the Owl

The Day of the Owl · 1968

The Day of the Owl

MovieDramaCrime

Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.

Zecchinetta

The Star Maker

The Star Maker · 1995

MovieDramaRomance

In 1950s Sicily, con artist Joe Moretti does screen tests for the big studios, accepting money or favours for his efforts. A young illiterate novitiate named Beata desperately wants to change her life and falls for him; belatedly, he realizes his feelings for her. However, their love affair is doomed when he's arrested.

Grandpa Bordonaro

The Most Beautiful Wife

The Most Beautiful Wife · 1970

The Most Beautiful Wife

MovieCrimeDrama

A 16-year-old Sicilian becomes the target of a mafia hit man after refusing to go through with her prearranged marriage.

Gaetano Cimarosa

The Tall, The Short, The Cat

The Tall, The Short, The Cat · 1967

The Tall, The Short, The Cat

Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late woman's money, on the condition that they have to care for her rambuncous pet cat, which is not an easy thing to do so.

Netturbino

A Pure Formality

A Pure Formality · 1994

A Pure Formality

MovieMysteryThriller

Famous writer Onoff is now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.

Servant

All Sons of the Saintest Mother

All Sons of the Saintest Mother · 1973

All Sons of the Saintest Mother

MovieCrimeComedy

Two crime families battle for supremacy in 1929 Chicago in this Italian crime spoof. One group, known as the "Sons of Mammasantissima" thereby professes its (ironic) dedication to the Virgin Mother. The other family works undercover from a Salvation Army soup kitchen. Neither family seems capable of accomplishing anything of note until a wily Sicilian arrives on the scene and sorts things out.

Puddu Campolia

Touch and Go

Touch and Go · 1971

MovieComedyDrama

North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat.

Italian soldier on the beach

Nineties Part II

Nineties Part II · 1993

Nineties Part II

Second scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV...

Don Mimì Cantalamessa, boss mafioso

Bread and Chocolate

Bread and Chocolate · 1974

Bread and Chocolate

MovieComedyDrama

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?

Gigi

Gang War in Milan

Gang War in Milan · 1973

Gang War in Milan

MovieActionCrime

A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.

Nino Balsamo

Death on High Mountain

Death on High Mountain · 1969

Death on High Mountain

Braddock is an influential and highly respected citizen of the town of Two Arrows. He also represents a group of Mexican outlaws led by Valiente. Braddock plans an important robbery with only two young men, Loring and Parker, standing in the way of the bandits.

General Valiente

The Shatterer

The Shatterer · 1987

MovieActionDrama

Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by Sicilian mobsters. This was a co-production between Italy and Japan's Toho Studios.

How to Kill a Judge

How to Kill a Judge · 1975

How to Kill a Judge

MovieThrillerCrime

A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.

Tano Barra - l'assistente di parcheggio

Free Hand for a Tough Cop

Free Hand for a Tough Cop · 1976

Free Hand for a Tough Cop

MovieActionCrime

A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.

Cravatta

The Two Parachutists

The Two Parachutists · 1965

The Two Parachutists

Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from. Afterwards they become big shots in the States but their dream comes to an end : they are sent to fight in Vietnam

Garcia's aide

The Dark Sun

The Dark Sun · 1990

After the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order to get hold of the legacy. Once there he is forced to participate in various crimes commited by the mafia.

A Girl in Australia

A Girl in Australia · 1971

A Girl in Australia

The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.

emigrato italiano da Gela

A Man on His Knees

A Man on His Knees · 1979

A Man on His Knees

MovieThrillerCrime

Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late.

Sebastiano Colicchia

Delirium

Delirium · 1972

MovieMysteryThriller

A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.

John Lacey

The Eye of the Needle

The Eye of the Needle · 1963

The Eye of the Needle

Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.

uno dei mafiosi

Father Matteo

Father Matteo · 2000

SeriesDramaComedy

Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.

Carmelo Frasca

Una storia qualunque

Una storia qualunque · 2000

Una storia qualunque

Venditore ambulante