Andrea Checchi

Andrea Checchi
Total Credits at Criticker: 38 (Actor)
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Black Sunday
A vengeful witch and her fiendish servant return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant (imdb)
Two Women
Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter, Rosetta, flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second world war. They travel to the village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village, the mother does everything to protect Rosetta. However, on one occasion they both get raped by soldiers hiding in a church... (imdb)
The Lady Without Camelias
A new starlet is discovered and has ups and downs in Italian films. (imdb)
The 1000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Reporter Peter Barter gets murdered while driving to his tv station. Commisioner Kras gets a phone call from clairvoyant Cornelius who saw Barters death in a vision. But a dark force prevents Cornelius from seeing the man behind the crime... (IMDB)
A Bullet for the General
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries. They are helped by one of the passengers, Bill Tate, and allow him to join them, unware he is an assassin working for the Mexican government (imdb)
Lo Smemorato di Collegno
The story takes inspiration from a real case (Bruneri/Canella, Italy 1926). A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic. He suffers from amnesia. Mrs Ballerini, after had seen his picture on the newspaper, realizes he is her husband and brings him her home. Also Mrs Polacich recognizes him as her husband... (imdb)
Roma città libera
In post-war Rome, poverty is everywhere. A suicidal man, a small time thief, a desperate typist, and a distinguished amnesiac are some of the characters trying to make it through the night, as they drift through bars and gambling dens.
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Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed. Orazio believes the local gangster is guilty and he rushes to Occhio di Bue's home. When he finds out a different truth, Orazio, Occhio di Bue and his friends will try to get back the loot to put it back before the robbery is disclosed. (imdb)
Le Mura di Malapaga
Gabin is a French criminal, Pierre Arrignon, on the run who finds himself in Genoa, Italy, and falls in love with a local girl, Marta Manfredini (played by Isa Miranda). (Wikipedia)
Erik the Conqueror
In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England. (imdb)
The Assassin
A socialite is murdered and her playboy lover is brought in for questioning. During his stay in custody we get to see the real sneaky playboy in action via flashback.
Beta Som
The captains of two enemy ships find themselves blockaded at Tangiers, and begin to find a genuine desire for peace.
La lunga notte del \
In the midst of World War II, the story of the affair of a young woman, married to a man bound to a wheelchair, with a desertor from the Italian army, intertwines with that of the grab of power of a very fanatical local fascist leader, who gets the hold with a massacre of Pacific opposers, among them, the father of the young desertor. Oppresive fog covers both dramas, as a reminder of how values such as courage, love and truth are fading. (imdb)
Attack and Retreat
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II. (imdb)
Don Camillo monsignore ma non troppo
Don Camillo is now a bishop, Peppone is now a senator, but their rivalry is as fierce as when they were just a village priest, and a village administrator. Don Camillo learns that Peppone is about to promote the building of a communal house on the place of an old, derelict church, and that spurns the old flame. They descend from Rome onto quiet Brescello, and they will agitate their faithful hosts, christians against communists, using all devious ways. (imdb)
I sette fratelli Cervi
The true story of the seven Cervi brothers, Italian farmers who joined the resistance movement against nazi-fascism.
Il nemico di mia moglie
A husband and wife are divided. He likes football, is in fact a referee, and so neglects her. She tries other men; he other women, and finally they discover that they love each other. (bfi)
Il sicario
Story of a man who seeks a hired killer to commit a crime. (bfi)
Altri tempi - Zibaldone n. 1
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories. (imdb)
Un americano in vacanza
Adventures of two G.I.s sightseeing in Rome and their pursuit of an attractive school teacher. (bfi)
Tragic Hunt
After the end of the War in '45, in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, a cooperative has been founded by peasants. War has destroyed the country....The story takes a romantic detour by concentrating on the romance between two young people caught in the middle between the pursuers and the pursued. (KG)
La città dolente
The city of Pola is being evacuated after the peace conference of 1947 decided to assign the sovereignty to Tito's Jugoslavia. However the main character decides to stay, thinking that communism might bring him a better future. Life turns to be hard for him and his family until he changes his mind, but he is killed before he can leave the country. (imdb)
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The Jewish community of Rome are given twenty-four hours to collect fifty kilos of gold and avoid deportation. The community is divided as to whether to attempt to meet this seemingly impossible - and potentially futile - goal.
I grandi magazzini
In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also has his eye on her, and some employees seem to be pilfering goods from the place.
E le stelle stanno a guardare
Italian adaptation of A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel The Stars Look Down. (en.wikipedia.org)
Sad Loves
The story of a love triangle between a devoted lawyer, his neglected wife and his best friend.
Night Train to Milan
A gritty little intrigue thriller with Palance as an ex-nazi doctor in hiding. While riding on a train, he is recognized by passengers who remember him from their prisoner of war camp days. One thing leads to another and when Palance is cornered, he commits murder! He then takes a girl hostage. (imdb)
Casa Ricordi
The Ricordi family's interactions with many of the great composers of the nineteenth century are portrayed. (Wikipedia)
Achtung! Banditi!
This film tell the story (invented but based on the real situation) of a group of partisan near Genova during the nazi occupation of Northern Italy that have to recover some weapons in a factory (with the help of the workers) and the dilemma of a group of italian "Alpini" soldier (mountain special troops) that was in doubt if is better to follow the order of the nazi ally/occupants or to join the partisan Resistance and fight for the freedom of Italy. (imdb)
Avanti c\
A funny bus driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.
Malombra
A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.
Tragica Notte
Released from jail, Nanni punches prison guard Stefano who has denounced him. In order to take revenge, Stefano suggests the suspicion that, during his absence, his wife has had business with the Count Paolo. A few days later, at night, a deadly ambush will be prepared. Based on the novel The Trap (1928) by Toscan Delfino Cinelli.
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A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed the girl to the limit taking advantage of her enters her life again. The crisis which ensues will help the newly weds to overcome their differences and start a new life. (imdb)
Due lettere anonime
After years at the Russion front in WW II, the Italian soldier Bruno returns home. But he receives an anonymous letter warning him that during his absence, his fiancée Gina has begun an love affair with Tullio, his friend and workmate at a printing office. When Gina finds out that Tullio himself has written that letter, she questions the ulterior motives of her lover. And then, another anonymous letter triggers dramatic events. (imdb)
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Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to general Franco.
La notte delle beffe
1859: Capotosta, an Italian thug, is being chased by the cops. When some fellas kidnap a young girl, they pretend to be part of his gang.
The Earth Cries Out
A surgeon, his future daughter-in-law, and their former British comrade land on opposite sides of the Palestine issue following World War II.
Atto di accusa
A luckless young teacher it’s suspected of committing two murders. When his lover begins to have doubt about his innocence, he seems to be doomed.