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Edoardo Recchi, Sr.
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2010
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Actor Oliver Parker made his directorial debut with this adaptation of the tragic play by William Shakespeare that abridges...
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1995
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This made-for-television film Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair chronicles the true story of the 1985 hijacking of...
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1990
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Giulia E Guilia, also released as Julia and Julia, is an unusual, interesting film by director Peter Del Monte, a nightmare...
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Paolo's father
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1987
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This fictional story is about a stewardess and a politician that fall in love. ~ Rovi...
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1987
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Originally made for television and then released theatrically, this 2 1/2-hour engrossing drama handles the subject of a...
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Professor
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1986
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This umpteenth film version of Henryk Sienkewicz's warhorse novel Quo Vadis? was produced for Italian Television....
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1985
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The internationally renowned string quartet had been performing together for most of their adult lives when their lead...
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1984
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The title of this movie raises an issue that is never really met head-on in the story, instead, the focus seems to be on a...
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Cardinal Ixaguirre
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1983
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Marshall McLuhan's statement that the "media is the message" might well be amended by this film to say the "media creates the...
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Alberto
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1982
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This infamous Korean War drama is best known as the movie produced by Rev. Sung Myung Moon's Unification Church, though more...
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1981
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Saverio is a young man with ambitions different from those of his father. Unfortunately, his father is a disciplinarian and...
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Father
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1979
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In the film, Helen (Laure Dechasnel), a married woman, leaves Paris for Zurich after breaking up with her lover. Near the...
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1978
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This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old son who never really...
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Father
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1978
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In this Italian thriller, a woman is tormented by morbid premonitions heralding the deaths of people she knows. As she tries...
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1977
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Singer and actress Liza Minnelli teamed up with her father, legendary director Vincente Minnelli, to make this evocative...
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1976
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In this caper film, two separate individuals become embroiled in a search for a courier's illegal million-dollar haul. They...
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Gaspard
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1976
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The daughter of a renowned Rome surgeon is senselessly murdered, shocking the city's wealthy elite and leading police on a...
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1976
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The premise of this film -- that many magistrates in the Italian system of justice are on the take from corporations,...
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Judge Prando
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1975
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1975
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1974
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Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a discreet, unassuming night porter working in a posh hotel in Vienna in 1957, tending to the guests'...
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Hans
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1974
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Otherworldly beauty Ornella Muti headlines this erotic drama centered on the tale of a woman who struggles with her sexual...
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1974
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Fieldmarshal Keitel
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1973
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This Italian film is a searing indictment of the greed and ambition which warp the medical profession. It focuses especially...
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Prof. Valliotti
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1973
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Double and triple crosses complicate the lives of the amiable villains of this French crime-caper film. The story concerns a...
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1972
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In this French philosophical drama, Agis (Georges Moustaki) is a professor of philosophy who seeks to live the peace and love...
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1972
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Originally made for television, this production features divorce from two perspectives: in the first half, the husband...
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1972
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In this Italian comedy, Bissa's simple, almost luxurious life as an eel-poacher is forced out of existence by development in...
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1971
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1971
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1970
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Serge (Serge Gainsbourg) is sent to France by New York mobsters to secure a shipment of heroin. The supplier in France is...
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Inspector
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1970
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This Costa-Gavras thriller stars Yves Montand as an East European government functionary, inexplicably imprisoned by his...
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1970
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In this drama, an unhappy young computer student attempts to escape her unhappy homelife by getting involved with a...
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1970
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A hardened criminal learns there's little loyalty on either side of the law in this drama from Italian director Giuliano...
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Don Francesco DeMarco
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1969
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It wasn't as well received at the box office as the pictures that preceded it or followed it, but Peter Hunt's On Her...
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Draco
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1969
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In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western...
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Morton
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1968
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1968
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1968
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A British engineer tries to convince the Mafia to allow an oil refinery on some prime waterfront real estate in Sicily. Proby...
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Don Calogero
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1968
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Grazie Zia is better known by its English-language title Thank You, Aunt. As an act of defiance against a world he never fit...
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Stefano
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1968
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The generation gap widens when a prominent industrialist father forces his ruthless corporate mentality on his hippie son....
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Luca's Father
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1968
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An enterprising reporter takes along four willing adventurers to interview and photograph a young Sardinian criminal in...
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1968
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The Italian title for That Splendid November is Un Belissima Novembre, but it might as well have been "Belissima Gina"....
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1968
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Paolo Giana Maria Volonte is a lonely teacher who learns that two of his friends have been murdered in this twisting crime...
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Rosello
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1967
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This mild comedy finds two envoys from Hell sent to Earth to cause trouble. Relfagor (Vittorio Gassman) and his faithful...
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1966
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The Bible was intended by producer Dino De Laurentiis as the first in a series of films which would eventually cover the Old...
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1966
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Larzi
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1965
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1965
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1964
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Giulio
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1963
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In this melodrama a prodigal son returns to his home village after he is acquitted of his stepfather's death to find that...
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1963
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This French/Italian historical spectacle was released in the US as Imperial Venus. Gina Lollobridgida, in her considerable...
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1962
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Gentle Art of Murder is comprised of a trio of short crime tales: "The Spider's Web," "The Fenyrou Case" and "The Mask." An...
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Giraldi
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1962
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1962
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Using newsreels of actual events that would lead to the independence of the Belgian Congo under Lumumba, Kasavubu, Adoula,...
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Roberto Santi
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1962
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Pierre Brasseur stars in this undistinguished drama about a pianist who is traumatized by an accident. He is so much...
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Writer
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1962
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This is a typical costume drama and adventure story with plenty of fencing, and swash and buckle but not much ingenuity....
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1962
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In this WW II drama, a captain attempts to navigate his Italian submarine through enemy waters. He is stalked by a British...
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1962
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Based on Flora Sandstrom's novel The Midwife of Pont Clery, this lightweight sexual farce involves the effect that Jessica...
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Edmondo Raumo
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1962
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In this romantic comedy, a ship load of the rich and horny embark on a cruise aboard a millionaire's yacht. Included in the...
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1960
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This ground-breaking film won a Special Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and established its director,...
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Sandro
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1960
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An attorney and his amorous daughters provide the focus of this drama. The story begins as the lawyer begins searching for...
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Paolo Martini
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1960
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Yet another in a spate of historical costume dramas by Italian filmmakers, Hannibal tells the story of the famous general's...
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Fabius Maximus
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1959
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This light comedy, the first feature-length film directed by Giuseppe Orlandini, stars one of Italy's most popular screen...
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Arturo
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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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Director Jacqueline Audry spent her career swimming against the current in the male-dominated film industry, a female...
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Bernard
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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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This charming fantasy concerns a young orphan named Marietto who believes that he must select his own mother. Escaping from...
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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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In any language, the title of this Italian melodrama (English translation: Honor Among Thieves) is amusingly ironic....
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1957
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1957
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Donatela (Elsa Martinelli) is a poor girl who works as personal secretary to wealthy Guido (Walter Chiari). When Donatela's...
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Maurizio
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1956
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A reporter's search for scandal is the focus of this drama. He is looking for dirt to boost his paper's ratings. He begins...
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1956
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Two directors called the shots on Difendo il Mio Amore; Giulio Macchi helmed the original Italian version, while Hollywood's...
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Pietro
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1956
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Gabriele Ferzetti essays the amorous title character in Le Avventure di Giacomo Casanova. While incarcerated in a Spanish...
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Giacomo Casanova
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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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Lorenzo
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1955
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1955
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1955
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In this drama, a young woman with a checkered past reforms and marries a good man. Unfortunately, her happiness is...
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1955
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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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This romantic Italian anthology film is comprised of six episodes that deal with a century of love. The first vignette,...
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1954
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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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Giacomo Puccini
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1953
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This Italian crime melodrama may remind some viewers of the methodical American TV series Dragnet. In trailing a gang of...
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1953
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1953
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The tragic collapse of a stairwell in Rome, costing the lives of several female job aspirants, had previously served as the...
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Mario
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1952
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