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2000
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This historical drama, set in the '20s examines the strange, brief reign of a Latin American dictator. It was alternately...
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Santos Banderas
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1994
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In his retirement home, the former bartender (Pepe Soriano) at a brothel and bistro in a provincial town in Argentina in the...
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1993
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Set during the Mussolini years, Open Doors stars Gian Maria Volonte as an old-line judge. Volonte tries to remain faithful to...
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Vito Di Francesco
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1991
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This detective drama explores the labyrinthine byways of the Sicilian and Italian mind when confronted with ancient family...
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Prof. Franzò
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1991
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It is difficult these days to imagine that elementary school education was instituted by anyone at all. In fact, Swiss...
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1988
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Andre Delvaux directed this stylish, yet ultimately empty adaptation of a historical novel by Marguerite Yourcenar....
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Zenon
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1988
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This suspenseful Italian crime drama is set in a Colombian river town and chronicles the series of events that led up to...
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Dr. Cristo Bedoya
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1987
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Like many uninsightful fathers, Nicola is very ambitious and hardworking and perceives himself to be a failure. He has...
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Felice
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1987
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A 14-year-old boy working in a secondhand store after school finds a magic lamp in this comical fantasy adventure. The genie...
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1986
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In 1978, Italian politics were thrown into turmoil when the Christian Democratic president Aldo Moro was executed. This...
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Aldo Moro
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1986
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The Death of Mario Ricci is a Swiss/French/West German coproduction, filmed on location in Switzerland. Gian-Maria Volonte...
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Bernard Fontana
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1983
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In the original story of Camille by Alexandre Dumas, Jr. La Dame aux Camelias, a beautiful Parisian courtesan, Marguerite...
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Alphonsine's Father
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1981
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This thriller is based on the still politically sensitive story of the assassination of General Francisco Franco's heir...
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Ezarra
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1979
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Carlo Levi
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1979
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1977
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Set at an indeterminate time in the near future, this routine, well-acted drama by Elio Petri tackles favorite Italian...
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President
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1976
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Political intrigues and infighting within the Italian Communist Party are the overriding themes of this drama. Emile...
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Emile
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1975
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Originally Actas De Marusia, this Mexican film re-creates a dark chapter in the history of Chile. The scene is a small...
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1975
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Giordano Bruno (1548-1600) was one of the pivotal thinkers of the Renaissance. A Dominican friar in Italy, he left the order...
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Giordano Bruno
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1973
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Director Francesco Rosi returns to his recurring theme of the connections between legal and illegal exercises of power in...
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Lucky Luciano
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1973
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A major Milanese newspaper publisher makes moves to frame a student protest leader for the murder of a young college coed....
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1972
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L'Attentat is a political thriller based largely on a true story (the Ben Barka affair), which recounts how the French...
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Sadiel
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1972
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Well-known actor Gian Maria Volonte carries this Italian biographical film almost single-handedly in his role as the...
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Enrico Mattei
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1972
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If this Italian drama were any less well told, it would come off as a pure union propaganda piece. Instead, it is a worthy...
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1971
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One of the most notorious American judicial cases of the 20th century is paced and photographed like a spaghetti Western in...
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1971
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Director
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1971
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Corey (Alain Delon) is the young gun in the French underworld who has just been released from prison. Escaped convict Vogel...
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Vogel
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1970
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Italian army regulars resist the orders of a cruel general whose rigid interpretations of the rules call for a man to be...
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Ottolenghi
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1970
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Better known as Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, this Oscar-winning political drama stars Gian Maria Volonte as...
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Police Inspector
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1970
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This symbolic film underscores the struggles between a group of visionaries versus the Establishment while wondering about...
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Renno
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1969
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A father and son are offered a good price for their land by a wealthy land baron. they agree to the sale, but are tricked...
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Giuseppe Gramigna
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1969
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1969
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Noted French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard makes another foray into Marxist film in this poorly-wrought attempt at a political...
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Soldier
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1969
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This documentary was made by the labor union that has occupied the Appollon Printing Press Company for more than a year....
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1969
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As revolution sweeps across Europe, a newspaper correspondent covers the changing political events by attending summits in...
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Paolo
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1968
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This gripping crime thriller from director Carlo Lizzani was based on a true story. A daring gang of bandits pull off a...
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Cavallero
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1968
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This Italian western contains subtle political undertones as it chronicles the exploits of a tubercular history professor...
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1967
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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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Prof. Paolo Laurana
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1967
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It is early in the 20th century, and an American traveler has come to Mexico at just the wrong time to continue living a...
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Chuncho
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1966
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In this romantic horror movie, a family hires a genealogist to help them assemble the late patriarch's papers. While there,...
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1966
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Dashing Austrian actor Robert Hoffmann stars as Luciano Luthring, a small-time hood who rises quickly to to the ranks of...
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Inspector Moroni
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1966
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Comedian Soupy Sales makes his feature film debut in this silly outing as a janitor cleaning up at Cape Kennedy. He has been...
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1966
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Wessel Franken (Paolo Graziosi) is a writer who leaves his wife and work behind for a vacation in sunny Cote D'Azur. When he...
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Jascha
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1966
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Brancaleone (Vittorio Gassman) leads an inept group of Crusaders to the sea in this offbeat war comedy. The Crusaders hope to...
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Theophila
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1966
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El Indio
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1965
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This uninhibited Italian comedy was originally titled Il Magnifico Cornuto. Ugo Tognazzi plays a philandering businessman,...
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1964
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By the time Sergio Leone made this film, Italians had already produced about 20 films ironically labelled "spaghetti...
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Ramon Rojo
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1964
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Ingegnere
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1963
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This gripping, Oscar-nominated war drama is set in the fall of 1943 during the Nazi occupation of Italy when all the...
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1962
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Three novice directors went in together to write and direct this routine drama about the Mafia in Sicily. Salvatore...
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Salvatore
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1962
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This well-acted though conventional comedy-drama by director Luigi Comencini features comic Nino Manfredi in the title role...
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Papaleo
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1962
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Hercules (Reg Park) and King Androcles (Ettore Manni) are on an ocean expedition when Androcles is washed overboard during a...
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1961
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Three mining engineers are marooned in the Sahara after their helicopter crashes and end up finding a secret doorway to the...
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1961
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The title character, played by Claudia Cardinale, is a young woman who heads out alone to the big city after being dumped by...
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1961
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Under Ten Flags is a fact-based British maritime epic set during World War II. Allied ships are being victimized by a German...
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1960
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Italian director Pietro Francisci directed this 1954 drama about the fifth-century invasion of Rome by Attila the Hun....
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1954
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