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1962
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1961
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This costume drama with spectacular special effects but a less-than-adequate storyline was one of the last films by director...
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1960
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The Russian Czar's special courier, Jurgens, is entrusted with an important message destined for the Czar's troops and he...
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1956
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1956
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Puccini's famous opera gets a royal treatment, a few million dollars worth of it, in costumes and sets for this 1956...
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1956
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Don Camillo e l'on Peppone was the third in a series of film comedies based on characters created by Giovanni Gareschi....
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1955
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1955
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Previously filmed twice as a straight drama, Madame Butterfly was offered in its operatic form in this Japanese-Italian...
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1954
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Told in pageantlike fashion, Casa Ricordi is the story of the Ricordi family, the most prestigious music publishers in all...
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1954
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In this espionage film, Mata Hari's daughter takes the mantle from her notorious mother and entangles her self in an Asian...
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1954
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The Affairs of Messalina is a French/Italian historical spectacle produced in the wake of the internationally successful...
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1954
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1954
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Cavalleria Rusticana is adapted from the popular one-act play of the same name. Set in rural Sicily, the anecdotal story...
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1953
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The life of composer Giacomo Puccini is dramatized in this attractively produced biopic. Gabriele Ferzetti plays the title...
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1953
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It is Maria Felix's turn to play one of Ancient Rome's most notorious femme fatales in Messaline. Sleeping her way to the...
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1951
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Opera star Beniamino Gigli stars as The Singing Taxi Driver. When not picking up fares and bursting into song, Gigli searches...
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1950
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1950
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At the time of its release, this filmization of Verdi's opera Il Trovatore was praised for its "cinematic" qualities: that...
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1949
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Less than a week after the U.S. release of Rene Clair's Beauty and the Devil came another cinemazation of the Faust legend,...
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1948
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1948
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The Lost One is the English-language title for the 1948 adaptation of Giueseppe Verdi's opera La Traviata. Departing somewhat...
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1948
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Sweet revenge turns horribly sour in Verdi's tragic opera Rigoletto. This Italian film version of the Verdi classic was...
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1947
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The Italian-American Her Wonderful Lie is based on the novel Latin Quarter by Murger. This literary work is better known as...
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1947
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1947
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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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1942
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1941
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1940
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1940
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1940
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Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the...
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1939
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1939
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Giuseppe Verdi was also released as The Life of Verdi for the benefit of filmgoers who had trouble grasping the obvious....
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1938
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This Italian-German co-production was released in English-speaking countries as Mother Song. Italian opera favorites...
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1938
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1937
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1937
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1937
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Solo per Te (Only For You) is an adequate showcase for the rich tenor voice of Beniamino Gigli. The star plays an opera...
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1937
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Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here...
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1935
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In this lightweight drama, two good pals become bitter foes when they fall in love with the same starlet. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1935
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Mein Herz Ruft Dir is a tailor-made vehicle for Polish singing sensation Jan Kiepura. The star is cast as the lead tenor in a...
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1934
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In this musical romance, a Viennese composer is assigned to create an operetta. While composing, he ends up falling in love...
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1934
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In this comedy, a popular head porter at the Paris Ritz finds trouble when he falls in love with a wealthy widow who stays...
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1933
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1933
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The French-language title of this Hungarian-made comedy is a bit misleading, unless one understands its irony. The "palaces"...
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1932
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1932
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Un Fils D'Amerique (A Son from America) was derived from the stage play by Pierre Veber and Marcel Gerbidon. A pair of...
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1932
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Several European countries collaborated to create this drama. The story begins as a young British woman meets and falls in...
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1931
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1931
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Un Soir de Rafle (Dragnet Night) details the rise and fall of headstrong prizefighter Georget (Albert Prejean). Upon winning...
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1931
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This German drama was advertised as "2% Talkie," meaning that all but 2 1/2 minutes of its running time are silent. The story...
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1930
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S.O.S was the last of six films directed in 1927 by Carmine Gallone. The story gets off to a lively start with a spectacular...
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1929
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1929
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1928
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1928
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This German production originally went into theaters under the title Marter der Liebe. The heroine, a British noblewoman,...
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1927
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1917
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1915
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