Adolfo Celi

A portrait of the evolution of theater in the 20th century and a deep reflection on the art of acting through the career of Paulo Autran (1922-2007), one of the greatest actors in Brazil.

A tour of the exotic locations of 'Thunderball'.

italian documentary

Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.

Through vintage film clips of past Bond movie epics, and with the participation of several former "Bond Girls" as interviewees (among them Dr. No's Ursula Andress and Diamonds Are Forever's Jill St. John), the documentary traced the evolution of the typical James Bond heroine from decorative damsel in distress to gutsy (but still decorative) participant in the action.

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.

In this contemporary retelling of the Cinderella story, a feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets, and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpacker Mizio, who eventually turns out to be of Italian nobility. There's a fairy stand-in in the form of a spaced-out astrologer, a dance, and she even loses a shoe at one point. Care to venture a guess how it all turns out?

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.

The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in love with a young French nun.

Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses their small kingdom is experiencing in its casino business. These less-than-noble intentions get derailed when Barnaba, a zany bus driver enters their lives and falls madly in love with the gorgeous Cristina. He is nuts enough to succeed in this romantic chase after royalty, as love seems to fuel his determination to rid Cristina of her elitism and to make her see his own irrepressible attractions.

When designer Robert Meering returns from vacation, he discovers the company he worked for unexpectedly went bankrupt so he decides to visit his old boss. His former employer Banninger liquidated the company and claims that all designs of Robert are his. When Robert's Porsche gets stolen by two thieves, he manages to track them down. When they tell him about 40 Porsche's in a dealer shop garage owned by Banninger things change and suddenly get very interesting.

An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.

The death of a multinational company’s chairman induces the three candidates for the chairmanship to plot against one another for control of the business.

The young Vittorio Pieroni throws himself from a railway overpass when a train is passing by; escaped suicide and rescued by an ambulance, remembers the circumstances that led him to commit that gesture

The story of a German scientist/stage magician eking out a miserly life in Rio de Janeiro's favelas until getting involved in an improbable kidnapping and ransom plot.

The pirate Sandokan, the Bengal tiger and the East India Company's terror, fighting the British Empire and the ondeskefulla James Brooke, rahjan of Sarawak.

An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.

A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.

The city suffers and succumbs unarmed, but an ex secret agent succeeds in winning the struggle against the gangsterism. Intrigue and violence grip a society victim of the crime.

The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.

Khalil is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state as a member of OPEC. This instantly makes him a target for a series of ingeniously conceived assassination attempts, most of which he foils with the aid of his friend Hamid and his girlfriend Nicole. But can he trust even them?

Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping with his best friend because Mandrake is always at the track. Penniless and cuckolded, Mandrake decides to make one last bet.

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the family, but a child who lives a miserable family life kills himself. In the debate that follows it is proposed that they should eat the children, as Swift had said. In the next episode, a general who is in the toilet is called for the NATO parade, but the flasher breaks and in his effort to fix it, he dirts allover and kills himself. In a children's show an inspector finds excuses and delays the arrest of a powerful man...

Giorgia and her sister inherit a villa and decide to turn it into a pension. When the sister orders the advertising, the brochure, together with the name, Pension Paradise, leads people to believe it is a whore house.

A wealthy man suffers from impotence whenever he tries to make love to his wife. Since Viagara hadn't been invented yet, his swinging liberal doctor instead recommends a strong dose of infidelity. Before long he is rolling in the hay with a young lovely and needless to say his impotence problem is cured (it's amazing that he doesn't have a heart attack though). His wife is a little bitter, however, and decides to embark on her own affair. And if you're wondering with whom, well, just look at the title.

Anthony M. Wilson is an English gentleman. He has a string of restaurants in London plus a beautiful house decorated with all the trendy art he can get.

Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and who love to live dangerously.

Four middle-aged friends in Florence organize together idle pranks (called zingarate, "gypsy shenanigans") in a continuous attempt to prolong childhood during their adult life.

A strong-willed woman risks everything to support the cause of anti-fascism in World War II Italy.

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

Ten people are invited to a hotel for a weekend getaway by a Mr. U. N. Owen, who mysteriously isn't in attendance. When the group gets together for their first dinner, a record is played in which Mr. Owen accuses each guest of committing various unpunished crimes, which sets off a series of murders in the hotel.

공산주의라는 유령이 부르주아를 두렵게 만든다고 말했던 칼 마르크스와는 달리 부뉴엘은 20세기 후반 부르주아를 가장 두려움에 떨게 만드는 게 자유라는 환영이라고 말한다. 1808년 프랑스군에 저항하다 학살된 스페인 혁명가들의 주검과 1970년 파리 부르주아들의 부조리한 삶을 연결시키면서 부뉴엘은 에 이어 부르주아 계급의 가치, 질서의 몰락을 또 한번 코믹하게 묘사한다. 10개 남짓한 에피소드로 이루어진 영화는 꼬리에 꼬리를 물고 이어지며 초현실적인 분위기를 자아낸다. (씨네코드 선재 - 시네프랑스)

A young writer is invited to stay in a religious hostel run by a sinister, manipulative nun who plays deadly psychological games with the inhabitants.

When intruders interfere in the robbery of Le Mataf (Michel Constantin) and his gang and a girl is murdered, they are set up for blackmail by an underworld figure who wants them to do a job for him...

Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and without.

In 1931, when the late American Prohibition major bosses have now divided the territory to exploit, the family of one of them - killed in a clash - decides to send half a million dollars in Sicily hidden in the body of the deceased.

Rossini, history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that Mussolini imposed on the professors university. After a period of imprisonment he is so assigned to confinement on an island. Here the young intellectual finds himself in contact with the composite humanity that populated the places of confinement: militiamen, agents, common and political coercion, villagers. The figure of the director of the colony, the commissioner Rizzuto, stands out among all, who was a pupil of his father, and for whom he continues to have feelings of esteem and devotion.

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.

A treacherous low-level mafioso greedily rips off a shipment of arms from his powerful godfather and tries to sell them to an especially dubious group of Arabs

Johan Wallenberger, a rich financier, is killed in the House of Horrors at an amusement park in Madrid. His insurance company assign Chris Buyer, one of their best agents, to investigate because a few days prior to his death, the businessman took out a million dollar life insurance policy. Chris ingratiates himself with Catherine, Wallenberger's beautiful daughter, and it emerges that she is being plagued by a blackmailer. Chris is invited to the Wallenbergers' country house and is soon the centre of attention for several attractive women. Meanwhile, the plot thickens...

Giallo thriller about a child killer roaming the streets of Venice. The family of the latest victim begin their own investigation. Soon finding they are in way over their heads, the killer now begins to target those who have discovered too much.

Carlo, a young photographer, is making love with his girlfriend at the beach when he witnesses a murder being feebly staged to look like a car accident. Carlo takes incriminating shots of the murderers (the victim turns out to be the local public prosecutor) and attempts to sell them to various interested parties, including a gangster and a newspaper owner. One of the murderers' accomplices, a lowlife criminal, is gunned down by a black-gloved assassin, while another is stabbed to death...

Julie (Rosemary Dexter) is disturbed by the disappearance of her psychiatrist boyfriend Luca (Horst Frank) following a bizarre dream where she witnessed him murdered. She travels to a seaside village where he might be and encounters Frank (Adolfo Celi), who tells her Luca has indeed been there. Julie's investigation leads her to the house of Gerta (Alida Valli), where the mystery deepens among the odd characters residing at this artists enclave.

아씨시 갑부의 아들 프란치스코는 전쟁에 출정했다가 그 참혹함에 충격을 받고 목숨만 부지한 채 귀향한다. 인간의 비참과 가난에 눈을 뜬 프란치스코는 자기 옷과 재산을 가난한 이들에게 나누어주고 아버지와 결별하여 폐허가 된 산 다미아노 성전을 재건한다. 그리고 가난과 자유의 복음을 교황에게 전한다.

Cesar Martin, better known as El Duque, is an elegant, charming and intelligent man, who has been obliged to be known by heart the Penal Code, as their profession is the scam. Cesar has another weakness: his beautiful daughter Silvia is always a decent person.

In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.

In this allegory on capitalism, director of a known car corporation invites one of his employees to his country villa to give him the good news. He just got promoted. However, the old man is not what he seems and promotion has a price.

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.

A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds the harried inspector battling his colleagues as much as the criminal element targeted for extermination.

A reformed drug addict travels to Italy to find out who murdered his aunt.

During the civil war in Cyprus, an island nation split between the Greeks and the Turks, a British peacekeeping officer is trying to prevent a Greek guerrilla fighter from escalating the violent situation even further.

When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail ...

Young Catherine Morelli, who lives in Rome, goes to Geneva to find romance at her father's wedding. There she begins a near nymphomaniac pursuit of a mystery man called Gregory.

A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.

Comedy about a lawyer who is suspected of murder

A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted.

Three friends meet for the first time in years.

Three friends meet for the first time in years.

Three friends meet for the first time in years.

An ordinary man is snatched off the streets and turned into a man with incredible powers by an insidious company hell bent on world domination.

A criminal plots a bank robbery hinging on doubles of the employees.

A gang of prison inmates escape and rob the Royal Mint. They then sneak back to prison.

International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing in on them.

Four men killed Django's brother a long time ago. A withdrawn rancher, a notorious card player, a despotic priest and a crazy albino with an obsession for gold. The relentless Django seeks for revenge and hunts them down without mercy.

Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts are brought together to carry out the robbery: a safe cracking expert, a master thief, a mechanical genius, and a playboy.

Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confiscated Allied plans

A millionaire fakes a terminal illness to fleece his former girlfriends.

The evil crime syndicate Thanatos is bent on taking over the world, using a magnetic wave generator that will cause all metal-based machinery to grind to a halt. However, the well-known British secret agent normally assigned to such tasks isn't available, so they engage his civilian brother, Neil, to help. Neil, played by Neil Connery, is a world-class plastic surgeon, hypnotist, and lip-reader, which turn out to be precisely the skills required for thwarting Thanatos.

Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia, a "shrewd merciless beauty" who seems effortlessly to collect apartments and Maserati sports cars while leaving a trail of broken hearts behind her. Juan approaches the challenge by pretending to her he is an emissary for a rich count. Written by Jeremy Perkins

An actor is approached by a group of men offering him a job posing as an executive at a diamond exchange to help them pull off a robbery.

제1차 세계대전에서 영국군에 맞서 싸우던 독일군은 프랑스의 한 작은 마을에 폭발물을 심어둔다. 영국군이 도착하면 그 폭발물이 터져 마을이 쑥대밭이 되는 것이다. 이 소식을 들은 마을 사람들은 모두 도망을 갔다. 그런데 근처에 있는 한 정신병원 환자들은 병원 문이 열려 있는 걸 보고 처음엔 망설였지만, 이내 그들도 병원에서 탈출하여 마을로 향하게 된다. 영국군인 찰스는 폭발물 해체 임무를 맡고 이 마을에 도착한다. 그리고 장군, 헤어드레서, 광대, 매음굴 마담 복장을 한 정신병원 환자들이 마을을 장악한 것을 발견하게 된다. 정신병원에서 뛰쳐나온 그들은 찰스가 꿈꿔오던 삶을 살고 있는 듯 보였다. 그리고 그들은 찰스를 그들의 왕으로 맞이하였다. 찰스는 자신이 마법과도 같은 네버-네버랜드에 와있는 것이라고 생각한다. 그는 그 ‘미친’ 사람들의 친절함과 인간적인 모습에 감동을 받는다. 그리고 무시무시한 전쟁을 일으키고 있는 사람들이 그들보다 더 미친 사람들이라고 생각하기에 이른다. 또한 ‘코쿨리코’라는 아름다운 여성을 만나 사랑에 빠지게 된다.

한 순간이라도 균형을 잃으면 치명적인 사고를 부를 수 있느 레이서들의 하루하루는 늘 마지막 날이나 마찬가지다. 영국 출신의 레이서 스콧(브라이언 베드포드)은 챔피언이었지만 형보다 빠른 질주를 하고 싶다는 강박 관념에 사로잡혀 있다. 신체적으로도 감정적으로도 지친 챔피언 장-피에르 사티(이브 몽탕)는 실패한 결혼 생활에 대한 위안을 미국의 패션 기자 루이즈(에바 메리 세인트)한테서 찾고자 한다. 피트 애런(제임스 가너)은 빅리그에서 자신을 찾으려고 하는 과묵한 미국 레이서이다. 그는 순간순간 죽음을 모면하는 스릴을 즐기며 빅리그에 출전한다. 이탈리아 출신의 니노는 자신은 절대 죽지 않을 거라는 믿음을 갖고 경주에 임한다.

A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.

A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.

A man referred to only as "Yankee" rides into a dying, desolate town in frontier New Mexico which is completely controlled by a man called the "Grand Cougar." Almost immediately, a battle for dominance ensues.

Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain.

스펙터 일당은 지부장 라르고의 지휘로 NATO의 공군 조종사인 더발 소령의 여비서 피오나를 매수, 그를 죽이고 그와 똑같이 성형수술을 시킨 하수인을 MOS 핵폭탄 2개가 실린 NATO 연습기에 더빌 소령으로 위장시켜 태운 뒤, 다른 조종사들을 처치하고 핵폭탄을 탈취한다. 탈취에 성공한 스펙터는 7일 이내에 1억 파운드를 내놓으라는 메시지를 보내고, 영국 정보부에서는 핵폭탄을 찾기 위한 썬더볼 작전의 임무를 007에게 명령한다. 더발 소령의 여동생인 도미노에게 접근하는 007. 그는 도미노에게 모든 사실을 알려고, 라르고가 핵폭탄의 탈취 주범임을 확신하게 된다.

Based on the diary Pope John XXIII kept between the ages of 14 and 18, his lifelong concern for tolerance, the underprivileged, and world peace is told. Rod Steiger, in the central role, acts as "intermediary" between the Pope and the audience, interpreting John's words, thoughts and actions. Steiger visits the actual places in which John lived, recreating the conditions, environment, and forces that affected his development. Through this unusual technique, we are brought close to an extraordinary man - one who's able to win the love of many people of all faiths.

Lucio sees his holiday on the Italian Alps interrupted when he is suddenly and unwillingly involved in an International plot involving fake dollar bills.

교황 율리우스 2세(렉스 해리슨 분)의 명을 받고 바티칸 시스티나 성당의 천정화 제작을 놓고 고민하던 미켈란젤로(찰턴 헤스턴 분)는 교황청 소속 건축가 브라만테의 시기와 참견에 시달린다. 원래 그림보다는 조각을 자신의 천직으로 믿었던 미켈란젤로는 성당의 넓은 천정을 어떤 그림으로 채울지 뾰족한 영감이 떠오르지 않자 막막한 심정에 결국 진척이 없는 작업을 내팽개치고 대리석 산지 카라라로 달아나고 만다. 율리우스 2세는 즉시 미켈란젤로를 잡아들이라는 엄명을 내리고, 미켈란젤로는 도망가는 길에 문득 마주한 신비로운 자연의 풍경 앞에서 종교적인 깨달음처럼 작품의 영감을 얻는다. 다시 성당으로 돌아온 미켈란젤로는 여러 차례 교황과 의견 충돌을 겪지만 둘 사이의 신뢰를 바탕으로 천정화 작업을 계속하는데...

제2차 세계 대전이 끝나가는 1944년 이탈리아 북부에 있는 한 연합군 포로 수용소에 폭격 임무중 격추되어 포로가 된 미공군의 조셉 라이언 대령이 오게 된다. 이 포로 수용소에는 영국군과 미군이 함께 수용되어 있는데 패전을 예상한 이탈리아군이 관리 책임을 맡고 있지만, 독일군의 강압적인 태도에 불만을 품고 연합군 포로들에게 우호적이다. 상급자인 라이언 대령은 자연스럽게 연합군 포로들의 지휘관이 되는데 마침 이탈리아에는 정변이 일어나 무솔리니가 실각하고 이탈리아 정부는 연합군과 협상을 하려한다. 포로 수용소의 연합군 포로들도 이 소식을 듣고 기뻐하지만 독일군은 이탈리아 북부를 재빨리 점령하고 포로수용소도 접수한다. 그리고 연합군 포로들을 독일 본토로 이동시키는 계획을 수립하고 포로들을 열차 편으로 수송하기 시작하는데, 이를 알게 된 연합군 포로들은 라이언 대령의 지휘로 수송열차를 탈취해서 중립국인 스위스로 탈출하려고 한다. 알프스 산중에서 수송열차를 탈취한 포로들은 곧 독일군의 대대적인 공격을 받게 되고 격전 끝에 가까스로 국경을 넘는데 성공하지만 지휘관인 라이언 대령은 독일군에게 사살된다.

제임스 헤들리 체이스의 1963년 소설 One Bright Summer Morning 원작의 프랑스 영화.

The film's theme is four episodes that offer the public a glimpse into the lives of rich and poor families in Italy in the 1960s.

A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.

Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.

프랑스의 한 박물관에서 말타 문명의 조각상이 도난 당하는 사건이 발생한다. 원래 이 조각상은 3개가 한 세트인데, 이 조각상을 발견한 고고학자와 수집가가 각각 소유하고 있던 것이다. 여주인공 아그네스가 고고학자였던 아버지의 유언으로 조각상 하나의 행방을 알고 있었고, 그녀는 박물관에서 조각상을 훔쳤던 집단에 의해 납치를 당한다. 이때 마침 휴가를 나온 아그네스의 약혼자이자 공군 파일롯인 애드리안 (장 폴 벨몽도)가 아그네스를 쫓아 그녀가 납치된 브라질의 리오에서 모험을 펼친다는 내용이다.

Tico-Tico no Fubá is a 1952 Brazilian comedy film directed by Adolfo Celi and starring Anselmo Duarte. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. The film is a fictionalized biography of Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (1880–1935), who penned the song "Tico-Tico no Fubá" that became an international hit in the 1940s.

Tico-Tico no Fubá is a 1952 Brazilian comedy film directed by Adolfo Celi and starring Anselmo Duarte. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival. The film is a fictionalized biography of Brazilian composer Zequinha de Abreu (1880–1935), who penned the song "Tico-Tico no Fubá" that became an international hit in the 1940s.

Caiçara is a 1950 Brazilian drama film directed by and starring Adolfo Celi. It was nominated for the Grand Prize of the Festival at the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While trying to retrieve his baggage he realizes how miserable the city of Naples is. Then he decides that his mission is there in Naples, He creates his 'The Boys' Town' a shelter for poor kids, aka the 'scugnizzi' (street urchins), with a view to putting them back on the right track. Some of the kids, though, do not play by the rules just using that 'home' as a convenient place for hiding the product of their thefts...

Second World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners Still waiting to return home , preparing to celebrate , away from families , another sad Christmas. To dare a little rein to Their longing , they tell Episodes of Their Life . A Roman tells the USA difficult married life . A Neapolitan soldier tells of His lieutenant, a Neapolitan duke penniless . Meanwhile , the camp commander gave : Prisoners and a gramophone , So , Ai stories intertwine songs . Another soldier recalls the parties and the songs of the Sicilian spring , WHILE a Venetian gondolier evokes A HIS love affair . Sometimes , From Radio shabby listening news from abroad and Italy . Finally , one day , comes the ' pending release and All They return home .