Tano Cimarosa
Know for: Acting
Born: 1922-01-01
Place of birth: Messina, Sicily, Italy
Also know as:
Cinema Paradiso (1988)
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...
Delirium (1972)
A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.
The Exorciccio (1975)
A satire on the American film "The Exorcist," but with an Italian twist.
May God Forgive You... But I Won't (1968)
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...
Boys on the Outside (1990)
Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find...
Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)
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.
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974)
In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were...
Police Chief Pepe (1969)
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his...
The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)
A 16-year-old Sicilian becomes the target of a mafia hit man after refusing to go through with her prearranged marriage.
Acla's Descent into Floristella (1992)
Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by...
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte (1971)
Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of...
L'Anno Mille (2008)
In a story that follows some lives and their respective reincarnations over time, Valerio is a prince in the year one thousand and a doctor of the...
Bootleggers (1969)
A group of gangsters escape from prison and attempt to destroy a rival organisation holed up in a convent in Mexico.
Crazy Sea (1963)
A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a handsome younger man are amongst the lodgers.
The Eye of the Needle (1963)
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...
Death Hunt (1977)
When his baby daughter is was ran over by a car full of violent criminals her father decides to avenge her death by gorily killing them all one by...
The Day of the Owl (1968)
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...
A Man on His Knees (1979)
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...
All Sons of the Saintest Mother (1973)
Two crime families battle for supremacy in 1929 Chicago in this Italian crime spoof. One group, known as the "Sons of Mammasantissima" thereby...
Uomini di parola (1981)
Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1981
A Sword to Brando (1970)
In a mediaeval feudal hamlet, young girls are being abducted by a sect of devil-worshipers, all of whose faces are masked by sinister skulls. Brando,...
Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone (1983)
Marino Stroppaghetti is a breadwinner in a layoff fund who, in order to make some money, arranges himself by doing small tailoring jobs at home....
A Pure Formality (1994)
Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a...
Quattro Delitti: Winchester M2 (1979)
Madness and jealousy push a not very attractive young man to plan to kill a friend who, on the contrary, has a lot of luck with women.
Se sarà luce sarà bellissimo - Moro: Un'altra storia (2008)
The film is the result of a planned trilogy about the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades first announced by director Grimaldi in...
Cafè Express (1980)
An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.
They Still Call Me Amen (1973)
Chaco and his band of downtrodden men meet Così Sia (Amen), who always seems to get the better of them. He takes on the men with a plan to...
The Witches (1967)
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...
How to Kill a Judge (1975)
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...
Suicide Commando (1968)
World War 2 - a British commando squad is tasked with attacking the "secret" German airfield from which German fighters have been attacking bombers...
Be Sick… It's Free (1968)
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Man Called Amen (1972)
A very unlikely trio join forces in order to rob a bank: an ex-bandit called Smith, now a cheerful reverend, a nomadic artist and a pickpocket. Their...
Reflections in Black (1975)
A woman dressed in black is murdering young women. The police question lawyer Anselmi for whom one of the girls worked as a secretary, and it turns...
The Shatterer (1987)
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...
Death on High Mountain (1969)
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....
A Girl in Australia (1971)
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...
Nineties - Part II (1993)
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...
The Star Maker (1995)
The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in...
Why (1971)
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But...
The Saracen Woman (1992)
Montreal, 1904. Giuseppe and Ninetta own a boarding house where they welcome their fellow Sicilians. One day, as he comes to the defence of one of...
Gang War in Milan (1973)
A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.
The Tall, The Short, The Cat (1967)
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...
Touch and Go (1971)
North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods,...
Between Miracles (1971)
Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and...
Bread and Chocolate (1974)
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...
L'ammazzatina (1975)
Sicilian baron, Mimì Galluzzo, will be able to enjoy the legacy of his deceased father-in-law on two conditions: that his wife accepts the...
Two Friends (2002)
Two Sicilian friends, Nunzio and Pino, share the same apartment in Turin. Nunzio works in a factory but is laid off because of his illness. Pino, on...
The Tough and the Mighty (1969)
Based on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina.
Frida Professione Menager (2000)
Frida gets married, but is very busy with her job as an engineer, and doesn't have time for her new husband. He then runs away with the flower girl...
Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata (1974)
Pasqualino Cammarata is an Italian naval officer who has been disliked by his admiral because of his high-level knowledge, given that he is quite...
The Two Parachutists (1965)
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...
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...
Reflections in Black (1975)
A woman dressed in black is murdering young women. The police question lawyer Anselmi for whom one of the girls worked as a secretary, and it turns...
Death Hunt (1977)
When his baby daughter is was ran over by a car full of violent criminals her father decides to avenge her death by gorily killing them all one by...
Death Hunt (1977)
When his baby daughter is was ran over by a car full of violent criminals her father decides to avenge her death by gorily killing them all one by...
Uomini di parola (1981)
Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1981