Nino Taranto

'A morte 'e Carnevale (1982)

Nu bambiniello e tre San Giuseppe (1981)

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti (1977)

A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre. ...

Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca (1975)

Anthological movie with some of the most famous movie sequences in Italian cinema produced by glorious Titanus Film from 1947 to 1962. ...

It's a Woman's War (1971)

A girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her boy-friend, whom she believes to be a womanizer. ...

Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move (1970)

Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, actress/singer who caused a scandal with her raunchy dancing. ...

Midnight of Love (1970)

Lisa with the Blue Eyes (1969)

A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard ...

You Are Always In My Mind (1969)

Carlo is a successful singer, married to Livia; the two also have a son, Maurizio. Carlo decides to accept a tour in the USA but, shortly before departure, together with his agent Puglisi has a sentimental adventure with two women. Livia, having discovered ...

Il suo nome è Donna Rosa (1969)

Andrea falls in love with the beautiful Rosetta, but the girl's father pushes her into the arms of the rich Giorgio. Al Bano and Romina in a musicarello of extraordinary success. ...

Il ragazzo che sorride (1969)

Giorgio, a young mining engineer, moved to work in Africa. His wife does not want to follow him and he suspects a betrayal. In the cast also Rocky Roberts singing two songs. ...

Chimera (1968)

Franco, Ciccio and the Cheerful Widows (1968)

A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo and Oreste are married to the same woman; when she delivers twins, they fight for paternity. In the second episode, Celestina needs a heir to receive her dead hu ...

All the Gold in the World (1968)

The son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt her parents — until an unlikely hero steps in. ...

The World's Gold (1967)

Aided by a chauffeur and a butler, a student of humble means pretends to be wealthy in order to attract the romantic interest of a rich girl. ...

Tonight I'll Throw Me (1967)

Summer Late sixties, Want to sing, Of Sun. Of golden skin from tanning. Of endless beaches. And relaxing baths. For everyone: young and old. Singles and couples. In the endless consumption of flirtation and new knowledge, the musical background goes crazy ...

Il ragazzo che sapeva amare (1967)

Vittorio is a photographer; Roberto, the waiter; Brigitta, the operator; Pannunzio, the porter; Patty, a gold-eyed waitress. All of them live and work at the Europe Palace Hotel in Capri. ...

Perdono (1966)

Federico, his girlfriend Laura and her cousin, Caterina, are three young people full of hope, united by a great friendship that seems indissoluble. The three work in a department store but, when Caterina decides to attempt a musical career, given her vocal ...

Rita the Mosquito (1966)

Rita, a vivacious co-ed is in love with her music teacher, a man who leads a double life - bespectacled professor by day and composer of rock songs by night. Will Rita win his heart? ...

You'll See Me Returning (1966)

A young Italian sailor enrolled in the Italian Navy meets in Rome the Princess Liu, betrothed to a nobleman in Tokyo. ...

No One Can Judge Me (1966)

Two youths who work together in a department store love each other but also their supervisor has his eyes on the young girl. ...

How Do I Love You? (1966)

Gigliola is a young and humble Neapolitan swimmer who will compete in a competition in Spain and finds herself falling for the fiance of her best friend. But when they come to visit her in Italy, she pretends to be rich, with the complicity of their parent ...

Te lo leggo negli occhi (1966)

A girl from a country village goes to town and falls in love with a songwriter struggling for success. Soon however their life-paths go different ways and they split. Only for a short time naturally : a song he writes will help them to reunite. ...

Don't Ever Leave Me (1965)

A young singer secretly gets married since he does not want to let his fans down. After a while the gutter press make up a love story which seriously worries his young bride. ...

I'm Not Worthy of You (1965)

In the sequel of "In ginocchio da te", the engagement of Gianni and Carla is threatened by Giorgio. ...

So In Love (1964)

During his military service, the young singer Gianni Traimonti falls in love with Carla, the marshal's daughter. ...

Una lacrima sul viso (1964)

The film tells the difficult love-story between Bobby Tonner, an American singer who came to Naples to meet his old music professor, and the charming daughter of the same professor. ...

I 4 moschettieri (1963)

4 con men take the place of the real musketeers and manage to steal the Queen's necklace but then give it back to her, moved by her tears. ...

The Monk of Monza (1963)

Pasquale takes all of his 12 children and runs away from Monza, looking for a house of a wealthy and generous awning. Having met on the way impoverished peasant, Pasquale takes him also, having granted the rank of "Half-Monk" and thus having gained rustic, ...

Totò vs the Four (1963)

The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him. ...

The Strange Type (1963)

Peppino, a slow-witted local villager of the Italian resort town of Amalfi, is bribed to impersonate famed rock and roll star Adriano Celentano for autographs and personal appearances. While Celentano tries to romance Emanuela Mazzolani, the daughter of a ...

The Shortest Day (1963)

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

Two Colonels (1963)

In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test. ...

The Masseuses (1962)

Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During ...

Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962)

A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is her husband and brings him home; then Mrs. Polacich recognizes him as her husband. ...

The Four Monks (1962)

Four petty criminals pretend to be friars escaped from communist Hungary and go and live in a Sicilian convent ...

Accroche-toi, y'a du vent! (1962)

A self-taught amateur detective who learned his trade from a book finds himself caught between two gangs in Milan, trying to recover a wooden leg full of drugs. He is accompanied by an unlikely trio: a deaf secretary, an undertaker and a monkey. ...

Totò versus Maciste (1962)

Totokamen is an entertainer and an illusionist who performs in various Egyptian nightclubs assisted by his manager, Tarantenkamen. Taking advantage of cheesy tricks, Totokamen pretends to be the son of the god Amun. ...

Pesci d'oro e bikini d'argento (1961)

People who take part in a telephone radio quiz get a golden fish as first prize and a silver bikini as second one. ...

Totòtruffa '62 (1961)

Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in lov ...

Che femmina!! E... che dollari! (1960)

An American millionaire has just died. His sole legatee is a youthful indiscretion, a girl who is currently living in Italy. Two private eye detective agencies, in competition with each other, investigate. Combining business with pleasure, they search sunn ...

Ferdinand I King of Naples (1959)

The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises in search of love adventures. With the De Filippo brothers to complete. ...

Caravan Petrol (1959)

A simple barberman from Naples travel to Arabia for search a big fortune that could make him rich. ...

Adventure in Capri (1959)

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. ...

Prepotenti più di prima (1959)

Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan. ...

Dangerous Women (1958)

Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny instead is married to a ugly woman. Ornella is Bruno's wife, she is very jealous and maintains that all men are deceitful, granted the opportunity, while Claudine, Fe ...

Il bacio del sole (1958)

The story of homeless boys on the streets of Naples and of a priest who uses unusual methods to try to help them. ...

I prepotenti (1958)

Cesare, from Rome, and Mimì, from Naples, don't agree with their children marriage, so the young couple runs away from their home. ...

Husbands in the City (1957)

In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time. ...

N come Napoli T come Taranto (1957)

The Dollars Are Coming! (1957)

A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance... ...

Italia piccola (1957)

Moglie e buoi... (1956)

La moglie è uguale per tutti (1955)

Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to ...

Le vacanze del Sor Clemente (1955)

Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa he's left in the company of a friend and a butler. ...

Variety carousel (1955)

A painter gives his daughter a television set for her 18th birthday. ...

I milanesi a Napoli (1954)

Some Neapolitans help a firm from Milan to establish two factories in Naples: one produces TV dinner pizzas the other manufactures lace. The owner of a pizza joint and a woman who makes lace at home are against the project. ...

It Happened at the Police Station (1954)

Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the ...

Aces to the fore (1954)

The director of a detective agency discovers a jewellery thief likes to attends the theatre. So he hires two clumsy and bumbling detectives to guard all the theatres in the area. The two investigators now go from one venue to another attending various Ital ...

Singing Café (1953)

Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show. ...

Easy Years (1953)

A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption. ...

È arrivato l'accordatore (1952)

Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches. ...

Un ladro in paradiso (1952)

After ending up in jail, a thief in Naples with a beautiful fiance and a good friend has to decide which path his life should take. ...

Tizio, Caio, Sempronio (1951)

A satirical story set during the early years of the Roman Empire. ...

The chastity belt (1950)

In a castle, some actors are guests of a duke. It happens that a precious chastity belt, family heritage, disappears by a thief. ...

I'm in the Revue (1950)

Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music hall star to bring her the gown she is to wear on stage. The two m ...

If I Were A Member Of Parliament (1949)

A young dare-devil goes to Rome in search of fortune, with the blessings and money of his loving aunts. While in the city, he is a victim of a series of mishaps. His aunts hear about a man of the same name who is a candidate for Parliament; they think that ...

The Firemen of Viggiù (1949)

In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time. ...

Accidenti alla guerra! (1948)

Il barone Carlo Mazza (1948)

Rosa Pezza, a beautiful young girl, is forced into a thousand maneuvers and subterfuges to gain possession of a rich inheritance. She is ultimately forced to marry the penniless and bizarre baron Carlo Mazza but the baron, tired of his wife's escapades, d ...

Dove sta Zaza? (1947)

The film is set in Naples. Two doubles, an American and a Neapolitan, alternate visiting Zaza, the maid of a magazine company, deceived by their resemblance. ...

Lo sciopero dei milioni (1947)

Tutta la città canta (1945)

A shy and oppressed professor inherits a musical theater show, so he has the opportunity to change is life and find the real love. ...

Eravamo sette vedove (1939)

Il trovatello (1938)

A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind. ...

Nonna Felicita (1938)

Vita Napoletana (1933)

A variety film consisting of 13 solo songs and two musical sketches, one comedic, the other serious, all in the Italian language but made entirely in the USA by members of the Italian-American community in New York. Missed by the American Film Institute an ...