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Director, Screenwriter, Armando Andreoli
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1998
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Unhappy neighbors hatch a homicidal scheme, then turn on each other in this Italian thriller similar to Strangers on a Train...
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Sig. Bartoloni
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1995
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An elderly Roman cabbie bids adieu to his beloved horse in this tearful drama. Gaetano and Nestor, his horse, have always...
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Director, Screenwriter, Gaetano
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1994
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Emilio Garrone (Alberto Sordi) used to be a government functionary who supervised the leasing of broadcasting rights for the...
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Director, Screenwriter, Emilio Garrone
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1992
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This coarse bedroom farce takes place at the St. Moritz ski resort over a Christmas vacation. Among the couples whose lives...
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Screenwriter, Sabino
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1991
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1990
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Since Moliere's plays are national classics of France, an air of reverence surrounds them. However, they are for the most...
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Screenwriter, Arpagone
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1990
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1988
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Screenwriter, Battistini
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1988
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In this comedy/thriller, starring writer/director Alberto Sordi, Pietro (Sordi) and his wife (Anna Longhi) are Romans...
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Director, Screenwriter, Pietro
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1987
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The Italian comic Carlo Verdone stars in (and directs and co-authors) this conventional, and unevenly humorous look at Oscar...
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Screenwriter, Lawyer
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1986
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1985
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In this take-off on Italian corruption, the indefatigable Alberto Sordi appears as Annibalo Salvemini, a morally upright and...
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Director, Screenwriter, Annibalo Savemini
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1984
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Limited in new routines and without a plot to speak of, this series of vignettes focuses primarily on the fares a cab driver...
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1983
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Director, Screenwriter, Armando
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1982
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Fabio Bonetti (Alberto Sordi) is a normal bank employee, enjoying the security of a peaceful home with a loving wife and...
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Director, Screenwriter, Fabio Bonetti
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1982
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The real Marquis of Grillo lived in the early 18th century, but, for this take-off on the marquis' life, director...
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Screenwriter, Marquis of Grillo
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1981
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Alberto Sordi directs this light comedy, and also stars as its mechanically challenged hero, a wealthy male chauvinist named...
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Director, Screenwriter, Enrico
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1980
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Argante (Alberto Sordi) is an eccentric recluse who suffers from a malady of real and imagined gastrointestinal difficulties...
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Screenwriter, Argante
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1979
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Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is an Italian art-restorer working at a cathedral in France. An old friend of his, Robert...
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Antonio Berti
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1979
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A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in...
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1979
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Director, Screenwriter, Remo
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1978
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This Italian black comedy is comprised of nine short stories all related to the theme that most men are selfish cads. At the...
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1978
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1977
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Giovanni Vivaldi (Alberto Sordi) doesn't have many ambitions in life. As far as he is concerned, things are pretty good just...
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Giovanni Vivaldi
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1977
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Three films are gathered here under one title, and the general theme of sexual encounters unites them. In "Superman and Lady...
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1976
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Director, Giacinto Colonna
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1976
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1975
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This dark comedy about a frantic arms merchant was a daring film for comedian Alberto Sordi to have made. Not only does he...
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Director, Screenwriter, Pietro Ciocca
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1974
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During World War II, American USO tours gave new life to Italy's native music-hall performers, as it gave them a livelier...
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Director, Screenwriter, Mimmo Adami
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1973
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This Italian comedy shows the gradual enlightenment of an innocent and unsuspecting priest (Alberto Sordi) as he discovers...
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Father Salvatore Anastasia
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1973
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This film marks the final performance of the notable French film star Pierre Brasseur, who died not long after the film was...
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Alfredo Rossi
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1972
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In this drama, a wealthy US heiress and her partner embark upon their annual journey to Rome to play scopa, an Italian card...
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1972
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Fellini's Roma is a virtually plotless autobiographical tribute to Rome, Italy, featuring narration by Fellini himself and a...
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1972
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In this Italian comedy, Amedio (Alberto Sordi) is a telephone lineman who works in remote parts of Australia. Unfortunately,...
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Amedeo
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1971
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An Italian engineer who has been working in Sweden returns with his wife to his homeland for a short visit, and he is swiftly...
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Giuseppe Di Noi
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1971
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1970
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This three-part social satire lampoons the church, television, big business and universities plagued by campus unrest....
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Don Giuseppe
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1970
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Revolutionaries in papal-dominated Rome are hunted down by the minions of Cardinale Rivarola (Ugo Tognazzi) for daring to...
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1969
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This romantic situation comedy finds Giovanni (Alberto Sordi) extremely jealous when his wife Raffaella (Monica Vitti) admits...
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Director, Screenwriter, Giovanni Macchiavelli
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1969
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Fausto (Alberto Sordi) heads into the African jungle to find his long-lost cousin in this slapstick comedy. The Italian...
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Fausto Di Salvio
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1968
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This comedic social satire mercilessly lampoons Italy's ineffectual health-care system that allows for corruption and mass...
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Screenwriter, Doctor Guido Tersilli
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1968
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This Dino De Laurentiis production from 1965 is actually an anthology of five different directors' work, each telling their...
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1967
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Albert Sordi is the son who travels to America to visit his father in New York. The two are to be reunited for the first time...
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Director, Screenwriter, Son
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1967
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Director, Screenwriter
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1966
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This melodramatic Italian and French anthology is comprised of four unrelated short films directed by four different...
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1966
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Director, Dante Fontana
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1966
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Made in Italy is a multistoried film, set...in Italy, of course. An all-star cast appears in brief seriocomic vignettes about...
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1965
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1965
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This gang-directed comedy combines the talents of Dino Risi, Franco Rossi, and Luigi Filippo Sonego. In "A Decisive Day,"...
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Screenwriter, ["Guglielmo Il Dentone"]
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1965
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1965
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Courtroom tomfoolery provides the basis for this four-episode Italian anthology comedy. In the first segment "Adultery in...
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1965
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Ken Annakin's large-canvas comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is set in 1910. In order to boost...
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Count Emilio Ponticelli
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1965
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The Flying Saucer is an irreverent satire of the worldwide fascination in space travel in the early 1960s. Alberto Sordi...
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Brigadiere @ Marsicano @ Don Giuseppe @ The Count
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1964
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Husband ["L'Uccellino"]
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1964
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Mombelli (Alberto Sordi) is an elementary school teacher whose wife Ada (Claire Bloom) dreams of becoming wealthy. She talks...
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Mombelli
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1964
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This serio-comic drama finds a man (Alberto Sordi) in debt with no easy way to alleviate the situation. He conspires to sell...
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Giovanni Alberti
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1963
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Alberto Sordi pulls off another great comic role as Amadeo Ferretti, an Italian businessman who is traveling through Sweden...
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Amadeo Ferretti
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1963
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In this crime comedy with heavy neorealist influence, Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is a Sicilian auto plant worker who has almost...
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Antonio Badalamenti
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1962
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Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the...
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Dante Lombardozzi
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1962
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In this slow-starting but effective drama, comedian Alberto Sordi changes hats to play Silvio Magnozzi, a man so dedicated to...
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Silvio Magnazzi
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1962
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Capt. Blasi
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1962
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An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when...
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1961
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And Suddenly It's Murder! is a regulation Dino De Laurentiis concoction: Big stars, lavish production values, muddleheaded...
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The Commendatore
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1960
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In this war drama, a band of Italian soldiers, elated to hear that the war is finally over, promptly desert and head for...
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Alberto Innocenzi
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1960
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Oreste Jacovacci
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1959
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A young group of enterprising con artist attempt to break up some Italian expatriates trying to sell an inferior cloth as...
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Totonno
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1959
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Prolific director Giorgio Bianchi comes off with another good comedy in Il Moralista, due in no small part to the talents of...
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Agostino
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1959
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This clever melodrama from director Renato Castellani stars Anna Magnani as a hardbitten prostitute whose immorality rubs off...
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Adone
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1959
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It Happened in Rome -- as well as in Venice, Florence, and points in between in this frothy excursion into beautiful Italy....
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1959
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In a series of comedic episodes, wildly disparate individuals pass through the French Riviera and live out their dramas and...
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1959
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Five romantic and funny vignettes comprise this Italian anthology that is set amidst the beauty and fun of the famed French...
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1958
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1958
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Domenica e Sempre Domenica (Sunday is Always Sunday) is one of several late-1950s films to be based on a successful TV...
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1958
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The superb cinematography of Aldo Tonti adds immeasureably to the enjoyment of Souvenir D'Italie. The story revolves around...
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1957
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Farewell to Arms is the second film version of Ernest Hemingway's World War One novel--and also the last film produced by...
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Father Galli
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1957
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1956
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Mio Figlio Nero boasts one of the most eccentrically diverse casts in motion picture history. Silent movie queen Gloria...
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Nero
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1956
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1956
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Alberto Sordi plays the title character in the Spanish-Italian Lo Scapolo (The Bachelor). Forever on the verge of marriage,...
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1955
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1955
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1955
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1955
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1955
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1955
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1955
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1955
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This routine drama set in post-war Italy is the first feature by novice director Sergio Capogna and is based on a...
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1955
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Sicilian Sasa Scimoni (Alberto Sordi) learns L'Arte di Arranglarsi, or "The Art of Getting Along", in this perceptive Italian...
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Rosario Scimoni
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1954
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1954
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1954
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This enjoyable parody of classic fairytales about kingdoms and despotic kings is set in the year 1000 and stars Italy's...
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Friar Cipolla
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1954
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Unlike many multistoried films of the 1950s, Gran Varieta is the handiwork of a single solitary director--though five writers...
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Premoli
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1954
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This Italian anthology is comprised of five separate episodes. In the first tale, two impoverished parents must leave their...
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1954
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1954
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In this Italian bedroom farce, the lusty "Queen of the Nile" is determined to be with her lover, Marc Antony, before he...
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1954
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1954
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1954
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1954
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1953
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1953
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The title of this Italian musical extravaganza promises "Half a Century of Songs," and that's just what it delivers. What...
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1953
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Italian maestro Federico Fellini's first international success is a nakedly autobiographical film that bears many of the...
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Alberto
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1953
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The White Sheik (Lo Sceicco Bianco), Fellini's first solo flight as director, is a gentle lampoon of the idolatry heaped upon...
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Fernando Rivoli
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1952
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1952
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This episodic Italian comedy follows the misadventures of housemaid Maria (Elsa Merlini). Her various employers include a...
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1951
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1951
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Filmed in 1947, Alberto Lattuada's Flesh Will Surrender was released in the U.S. three years later. The film was adapted from...
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1950
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1948
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The exclamatory title of this Italian drama translates as What Queer Times! The plotline concerns a miser, and the effect his...
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Mario Aguirre
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1948
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His Young Wife is a genteel Italian comedy about the pitfalls of romance. Middle-aged clerk Travet (Carlo Campanini) is the...
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1945
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1945
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1945
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1944
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1943
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1943
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1942
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1940
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1939
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