When a mysterious killer turns a small town's annual Easter celebration into a blood-soaked nightmare, it's up to Detective...
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2002
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Acclaimed Italian director Giuseppe Bertolucci draws from such classics as "Oedipus" to "Othello" to fashion this beautifully...
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2000
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This romantic comedy is set upon Italy's beautiful Lake Como just before WW II erupted in Europe. British, middle-aged, but...
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Signora Fascioli
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1995
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The seemingly endless chain of assassinations of judges who seek to end (or at least curtail) the pervasiveness of organized...
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Carla's Mother
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1993
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For many years, the Italian Communist party had a significant cachet as one of the few such organizations to survive for...
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Clara
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1991
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Catarina
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1988
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A lesbian love triangle leads to heartache in this erotic emotional drama. Bacha (Alida Valli) is a concentration-camp...
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Bacha
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1987
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This quietly provocative drama makes a realistic exploration of the relationships between three generations of European...
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1987
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Gina
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1985
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Film clips and interviews with actors and colleagues provide the material for this laudatory view of the career of Alfred...
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1985
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On her trip home, Cecilia (Clio Goldsmith), a wealthy and sophisticated woman, pulls over along the highway to vent her...
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Housekeeper
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1981
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A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual attraction leads to a...
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1981
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1981
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A combination of alchemy, architecture, and horror, director Dario Argento's Inferno is a pulsing thriller filled with murder...
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Carol
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1980
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In this scary Spanish thriller, a young girl's husband rents her a lovely home just outside of Madrid so she can spend the...
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1980
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Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial drama explores the troubled life of a young man and his troubling relationship with his...
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1979
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Mother Superior
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1979
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Well into his maturity, Salomon Landolt, who is the Bailiff of Griefensee, invites five women with whom he has had...
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1979
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1978
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1977
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A candy-colored nightmare from Italian terror maestro Dario Argento, Suspiria weaves a menacing tale of witchcraft as a fairy...
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Ballet Mistress
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1977
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Set in a rural area of France in the 19th century, this simple tale tells the story of a servant girl whose life seems marked...
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1977
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This bizarre entry into the disaster film genre concerns a group of hapless passengers aboard a transcontinental luxury train...
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1976
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Bernardo Bertolucci's 255-minute 1900 was a gargantuan undertaking, requiring the resources of three European countries and a...
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1976
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A psychiatrist (Sami Frey) takes complete responsibility when his son is found floating in a swimming pool, stabbed to death....
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Friend
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1976
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This Italian horror outing is made even more horrible by the fact that the first two thirds were originally a complete...
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1975
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The heiress Claire (Charlotte Rampling) in this movie is the daughter of the Miss Blandish of the film...
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1975
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A pair of elderly men, friends for 40 years, find their relationship stressed when they set up housekeeping together in order...
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Anna
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1975
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Irene
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1974
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When Macgregor (Peter Cushing) announces that he is no longer going to appear in horror films, but wants to work in romances,...
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1974
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1974
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This Italian tragedy chronicles the sad love affair between a military inductee and a young woman. The story is set in...
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1973
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A malevolent man terrorizes his mother and a young, poverty-stricken girl when he finds himself excluded from his father's...
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Louise
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1973
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This gloomy Italian melodrama is set in the resort town of Rimini, the same small town as Fellini's picture I Vitelloni. The...
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1972
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Originally produced for Italian television, Bernardo Bertolucci's The Spider's Stratagem (La Strategia del Ragno) can be...
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Draifa
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1972
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1972
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In this chiller from Italian director Mario Bava, Elke Sommer stars as Lisa, a young tourist who keeps running into a strange...
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1972
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A young physician becomes lonely when his workaholic wife ignores him to concentrate on her professional career. He is...
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Linda
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1970
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This updated version of the Greek tragedy from Sophocles bears some slight resemblance to the original mythology. Edipo...
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Merope
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1967
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1966
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1964
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1963
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Also released as Valley of the Swords, this lugubrious US/Spanish co-production features the usual mid-1960s "tax shelter"...
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1963
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Eddie Albert guest stars in this episode, playing--of all things--a middle-aged American farmer with a foreign-accented wife....
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1963
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Tycoon's Wife
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1962
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1962
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In this curious and inventive drama, director and co-writer Claude Chabrol purloins the Hamlet story from a certain...
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Claudia Lesurf
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1962
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This uneven drama by Argentine director Leopoldo Torre-Nilsson, co-scripted with his wife Beatrice Guido, focuses on the...
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Constance
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1962
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Duchess Blanca
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1962
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This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the...
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Mother Therese
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1960
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French director Georges Franju's Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux Sans Visage) is an unsettling, sometimes poetic horror film....
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Louise
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1960
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In this drama of lost love, Therese (Alida Valli) is a woman who runs a café in Paris; she lost her husband when he...
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Therese Langlois
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1960
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1960
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A repeat featuring the same gentleman burglar, Signe Arsene Lupin is the effective, leisurely told sequel to the 1956...
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Aurelia
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1959
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This Brigitte Bardot vehicle is better known by its American title, The Night Heaven Fell. Bardot plays a young, sensuous...
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Florentine
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1958
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1958
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An overbearing woman is determined to force her two kids to turn her struggling rice plantation into a success....
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1957
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The grim, drab life of a man who labors in a Po Valley sugar refinery in northern Italy provides the center of this...
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Irma
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1957
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La Grande Strada Azzura was also released as Squarcio, which happens to be the name of the character played by star Yves...
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His Wife
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1956
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Italian director Luchino Visconti dishes up his usual blend of elegance and decadence in Senso. The international cast...
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Contessa Livia Serpieri
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1954
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This mystery is adapted from a Graham Greene novel and begins as a British spy arranges a meeting with his son, whom he...
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Roberta
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1954
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Les Amants de Toledo was filmed in four different versions: French, Spanish, Italian and English. The cast, however, remained...
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Inez
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1953
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1953
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Alida Valli delivers one of her finest performances in the Italian Ultimo Incontro. Based on La Biondina, a 19th-century...
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Lina
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1952
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Yves Allegret's Les Miracle N'Ont Lieu qu Une Fois was briefly released in the U.S. under the literally translated title...
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Claudia
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1951
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Glenn Ford stars as American pilot Martin Ordway, who joins an expedition to scale a treacherous Swiss mountain peak. Each of...
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Carla Alton
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1950
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Joseph Cotten stars in Walk Softly, Stranger as Chris Hale, a fugitive criminal who decides to hide out in a small Midwestern...
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1950
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In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna,...
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Anna Schmidt
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1949
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Casting Frank Sinatra as a Pennsylvania priest is but one of the many miscalculations made by the producers of Miracle of the...
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1948
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In this operatic film, a traveling clown, convicted of killing his wife and lover, serves his 20-year sentence and then...
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Julia
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1948
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Based on a novel by Robert Hichens, The Paradine Case concerns Anna Paradine (Alida Valli), on trial for the murder of her...
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1947
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Adapted to the stage and screen several times since its inception in the 19th century, Honore de Balzac's romantic tragedy...
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1946
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1943
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1943
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1943
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Given the fact that America was still technically at war with Italy in mid-1943, it is surprisingly that Tu M'Ami-to T'Amo...
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1943
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Based on the book by Ayn Rand, this Italian film follows the struggles of a young Russian woman, Kira Argounova (Alida Valli...
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Kira Argounova
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1942
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The popular 19th-century French theatrical piece The Two Orphans has been filmed several times, most memorably by...
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Henrietta
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1942
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Universal's "Invisible Man" series does its bit for the war effort in this slyly tongue-in-cheek action melodrama. Jon Hall...
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1942
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1941
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In this Italian drama, a wealthy snob of a college girl is the head of her sorority, but turns out to be a wretched student....
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Anna
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1941
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1941
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1941
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1940
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1939
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Several years before she was "discovered" by Hollywood, Alida Valli headed the cast of the minor comedy-fantasy Ballo al...
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Greta Larsen
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1939
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1938
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1937
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