Father Maurice (Walter Matthau) is called on to perform an exorcism of a demon from a fat lady in this offbeat comedy. What...
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1988
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In this entertaining drama, "Carefree Giovanni" (Sergio Castellitto) is the beleaguered last heir to a dukedom closely...
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Gino
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1986
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Show host
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1986
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1985
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Sophia Loren plays an Italian cab driver whose 12-year-old son (played by her real-life son Edoardo Ponti) is blinded in an...
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1985
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Bruno Martel Luc Merenda is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes...
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1980
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In this complex political thriller, a police inspector operating out of Geneva discovers that the death of a Swiss...
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1978
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The Italian Man with a Flower in His Mouth bears no relation to the Luigi Pirandello one-act play of the same title. Also...
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1975
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An ordinary man is driven to violence in the name of revenge in this drama. Paul Varlin (Jean-Louis Trintignant) is a...
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1975
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1975
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In this black comedy, a struggling actor-playwright goes on tour with a play he wrote for himself and his lover. It is about...
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1974
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Marcello Mastroianni stars in this French farce, an absurd "western" set in Paris, with Mastroianni as the incurably vain...
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1974
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This Italian action film focuses on a crook, framed as a drug kingpin, whose wife is killed by the mob as a result. He must...
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1972
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In this Italian crime drama, Bertone (Enrico Maria Salerno) is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court...
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1972
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1971
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Based on a novel by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice stars Dirk Bogarde as a German composer who is terrified that he has lost...
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1971
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What started out as a one-night stand grows more complicated as television news-reporter Luigi (Gianni Morandi) encounters...
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1970
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Evans (Louis De Funes) stars in this situation comedy about a man in charge of a female ballet troupe. The only other man in...
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Friend
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1970
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This situation comedy finds a chauffeur taking the rap for his wealthy industrialist boss for a traffic accident. To add...
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Domestic
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1968
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This comedy concerns an inventor (Robert Dhery) of a boat who is fired by his violent, irascible boss when the project is...
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1968
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Jason Fister (Dustin Hoffman) is the Internal Revenue Service agent sent to Rome to investigate the hidden money of the late...
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1968
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Yet another entry in a long series of 1960s Italian sex comedies, this one has some clever moments in its study of four...
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1967
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In this stylish crime drama, a smooth-talking insurance investigator looks into a bank robbery and ends up breaking up two...
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1967
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1967
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Pietro Germi's funny anthology combines the standard sex comedy format with some unexpectedly subtle observations about...
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Lino Bebedetti
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1966
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In this offbeat black comedy, Efisio Ugo Tognazzi is smuggled into Sardinia to kill a man for his insulting remarks about...
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Edidio Porcu
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1966
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Adriana (Stefania Sandrelli) is a young woman from the country who gets caught up in the tempestuous temptations of the big...
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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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1965
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1965
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In this French drama, a Parisian postman decides to deliver mail in the army and finds himself fighting involved in the...
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1965
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The "doll"in this Italian seriocomedy is played by Virna Lisi. Craving attention, Virna claims that she has been robbed and...
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1965
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1964
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This South American adventure drama finds Charles (Charles Aznavour), a youthful Frenchman traveling to Paraguay to start a...
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Paul
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1963
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This is a standard, somewhat slow-paced drama about a much-needed transformation in a husband and father. Duncan (Van Heflin)...
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Rudi Veronese
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1963
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1963
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A group of starving Roman artists provides the focus of this episodic drama that tells the often tragic story of each of...
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1963
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Not to be confused with the like-vintage Brazilian film Besame Mucho, the Italian-Spanish Besame is a confusing melange of...
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1963
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A stellar international cast compensates somewhat for the rambling plotlessness of The Girl Game. The film takes place during...
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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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Simonini
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1962
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Set in ancient Rome, this film follows the struggle of Roman triplets as they battle their Alban arch-enemies to prevent...
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1961
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Skimming the surface of characterization, this romance-tragedy by François Villiers is based on a novel by Jean-Jacques...
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1961
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The focal point of this standard drama by director Mario Camerini is life in the Via Margutta, an artists' sector in Rome,...
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Giosue
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1960
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The Nights of Lucretia Borgia and not her days in history are the openly seductive draw in this standard Italian costume...
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Cesare Borgia
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1960
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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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Giovanni
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1959
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1959
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1959
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A puzzling crime case is methodically worked out to a solution in this excellent suspense drama by director (and lead actor)...
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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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Sandro
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1958
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Francois Perier, Peter vanEyck, and Anouk Aimee star in this tense tale of five highly skilled thieves who all pool their...
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1958
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Told in anecdotal fashion, this lightweight comedy examines the amorous activities of husbands who remain in the city while...
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1958
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1957
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Roger Vadim's second directorial project was Sait-On Jamais, which was released in English-speaking countries as...
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1957
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1957
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The Spanish/Italian Rocket From Calabuch is significant only as the last film of beloved character actor Edmund Gwenn. The...
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1956
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1955
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Roman couturier Clelia (Eleonora Rossi-Drago) leaves the big city to work at a boutique in Turin. She moves into a hotel and...
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Cesare Pedoni, the architect
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1955
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Swindle and The Swindlers are both English-language titles for 1955's Il Bidone, a lesser-known effort from Federico Fellini....
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Roberto
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1955
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Despite their questionable behavior during WWII, the Italians were generally cast in a sympathetic light in war films of the...
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1955
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Gino
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1954
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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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Fausto
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1953
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Il Sacco di Roma (The Sack of Rome) delivers what its title promises. The film is set in 1527, the year of the Spanish...
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1953
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1952
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