Ariel Zeitoun directed this French comedy depicting Ashkenazic-Sephardic rivalries in the Jewish garment district of Paris....
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1997
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This homage to the cinema by venerated movie-maker Agnes Varda, often dubbed the "grandmother" of the French New Wave,...
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1995
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Stefanie Powers does double duty as twin sisters in the two-part TV movie Deceptions. Stefanie #1 is a glamorous...
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1985
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Season Four of Falcon Crest is dominated by a storyline involving "The Cartel", a widespread criminal organization headed by...
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Francesca Gioberti
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1984
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In a revealing documentary about one slice of film history, directors Francesco Bortolini and Claudio Masenza interview eight...
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1983
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Actress Gina Lollabrigida produced, wrote and directed this very personal 50-minute documentary on Fidel Castro....
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1975
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1973
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Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank...
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Martha
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1972
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A Mexican revolutionary offers four marauding outlaws a million bucks to destroy an arsenal owned by the Mexican army. The...
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Alicia
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1972
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Writer/director Luigi Comencini originally created Le Avventure di Pinocchio as a five-and-a-half-hour miniseries for Italian...
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1971
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In this adventure, stunt men use the tricks of their trade to bring a rare Indian statue back to its rightful owners. ~...
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1968
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This is a deliriously strange thriller about a scientist (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who is breeding headless, boneless chickens...
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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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O'Farrell (Bob Hope) is a navy sergeant who tries to boost the moral of the men by bringing in a shipment of beer. When the...
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Maria
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1968
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Carla Campbell
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1968
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This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the...
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1967
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Gina
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1966
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Director Alessandro Blasetti used an all-star Italian cast for this satirical comedy that pokes fun at the selfishness of...
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1966
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While his icy wife is away tending to a sick friend, Benedict Boniface (Alec Guinness) has an affair with Marcelle Cot...
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Marcelle Cotte
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1966
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Four different facets of love Italian-style provide the basis of this episodic film. The vignettes are "The Phone," about a...
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1965
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This romantic comedy stars Rock Hudson as Carter Harrison, an executive rising through the ranks of a major oil company. When...
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Toni Vincente
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1965
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1964
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In this British melodrama based on a French novel by Catherine Arley, Sean Connery plays Anthony Richmond, a money-hungry...
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Maria
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1964
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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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Paolina
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1962
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One of Italy's most beautiful sex symbols, Gina Lollobrigida, stars as the flirtatious Ippolita in this routine comedy about...
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Ippolita
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1962
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Giulietta Cameron
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1961
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Rock Hudson stars in this frothy romantic comedy as filthy-rich American Robert Talbot. Talbot owns an Italian villa, where...
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Lisa Fellini
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1961
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Jules Dassin, blacklisted during the McCarthy era, directs this routine, ostensibly romantic tale that really courts an...
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Marietta
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1959
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Carla Vesari
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1959
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Romance, treachery, intrigue and spiritual awakenings abound in the Biblical film adaptation of Solomon and Sheba. Trouble...
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Magda, Queen of Sheba
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1959
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In this occasionally amusing frolic, Gina Lollobrigida plays a sexy widow who returns to Italy from New York following the...
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Anna
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1958
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Anna may be from Brooklyn, but this medium-budget domestic drama was filmed and financed in Italy. The title character,...
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1958
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Esmeralda
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1957
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Former circus aerialist Burt Lancaster was the logical choice to star in the Technicolor drama Trapeze. Lancaster plays a...
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Lola
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1956
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In the last stages of his career, veteran American director Robert Z. Leonard dabbled in international productions. One of...
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Lina Cavalieri
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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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In this sequel to Bread, Love, and Dreams a fortyish man gets himself in trouble with his wife who suspects him of messing...
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Frisky
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1954
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Adriana
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1954
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Francesca
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1954
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In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert...
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Helena/Sylvia
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1954
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Vittorio De Sica plays the middle-aged marshal of carabiniers in a remote Italian mountain village. He's anxious to marry,...
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The Girl, "Frisky"
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1953
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Lulla Possenti
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1953
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Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart's...
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Maria Dannreuther
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1953
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The ever-growing popularity of Gina Lollobrigida was a decided box-office asset when the Italian La Provinciale was...
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Cemma Foresi
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1953
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Director René Clair insisted that his 1952 production Beauties of the Night (Les Belles du Nuit) was intended as a comic...
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Leila
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1952
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An all-star cast graces this Italian "omnibus" feature. The film consists of eight short stories, each based on nostalgic...
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1952
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Ottavia
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1952
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Adeline La Franchise
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1952
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1951
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Not long before MGM embarked upon its musical biopic The Great Caruso, the Italian Enrico Caruso, Leggenda di Una Voce made...
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Stella
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1951
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Former Hollywood musical director (and erstwhile government spy) Boris Morros was one of the producers of the British Tale of...
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1951
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Tito Gobbi was one of the biggest stars on the international opera scene in the '40s and '50s, and he lent his strong...
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1951
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1950
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The White Line is a modest anti-war statement set in a tiny Italian village near Trieste. As the result of an International...
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Donata Sebastian
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1950
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When an impoverished but devoted Italian wife's husband falls ill and she is forced to take his place in a dangerous...
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1950
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Real-life beauty contest winner Gina Lollobrigida is appropriately cast in Miss Italia. The first half of the film is a...
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Lisetta Minneci
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1950
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1950
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Gina Lollobrigida has top billing in Four Ways Out, but the film's dramatic weight is carried by its male stars. The story...
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Daniela
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1950
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Agostina
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1949
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1949
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Love of a Clown was originally released in Italy as Il Pagliacci--and rightly so, since this is a film adaptation of...
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Nedda
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1948
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The leading lady of the Italian Mad About Opera was billed in the English-language prints as Lollo Brigida. By the time the...
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1948
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Before turning to horror pictures, Italian filmmaker Riccardo Freda directed some of the finest costume epics of the postwar...
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1946
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