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1966
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1966
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Don Camillo (Fernandel) is a priest who travels to Moscow in this comedy culture clash. Don accompanies his archival...
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Peppone
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1965
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Two Sicilian bachelors deflower a virgin and find themselves in hot-water with her shot-gun slinging father in this Italian...
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Lawyer D'Angelo
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1965
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A high-class costume drama with a substantive historical basis, Becket is the true story of the friendship between King Henry...
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1964
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1963
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As young and penniless Rik roams about Rome, he finds lady luck on his side for a spell. Not only does he receive a bounty...
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Botta
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1963
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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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1962
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1962
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When an insurance salesman comes to a small Italian town, he is mistaken for a Fascist official sent from Rome. He is...
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Podesta
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1962
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1962
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1961
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Olinto Fossati
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1961
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In this biblical drama, set during the waning years of the Roman Empire, the trouble begins as the Christians continue to be...
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1960
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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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In this film based on an earlier German silent serial, a Swedish scientist (Gino Cervi) has invented a device which can alter...
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1960
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In this sword and sandal epic set during Rome's attack on ancient Greece, both the Roman and Carthaginian armies are...
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Gerone
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1960
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This is a dramatic, wartime story about the internecine fighting between Italians who opposed Mussolini during the war and...
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Aretusi
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1960
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French comedian Fernandel stars in this entertaining comedy based on a short story by O. Henry, The Ransom of Red Chief....
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Paul
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1959
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The slow pacing of this fanciful tale about the life and one reputed love of the Spanish artist Francisco Goya makes for an...
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King Carlos IV
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1959
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1959
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Juvenile actor Joel Flateau is the center of attention in Sans Familie (Nobody's Boy). Heir to a fortune, the young...
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1958
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In this romantic film, a rich old father plays matchmaker for his bachelor son in hopes that he will settle down and marry....
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1958
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Director Riccardo Freda does not take this uninspired, turgid spy film very far in its story about a federal agent...
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Prof. Bolevasco
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1957
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This minor Italian comedy was released in the U.S. as Wives and Obscurities. Gino Cervi and Walter Chiari star as an American...
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1957
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1956
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Ibrahim
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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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Peppone
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1955
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Released in some markets as The Toy Wife, the French Frou-Frou stars Dany Robin in the title role. The heroine is a WW1-era...
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Vladimir
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1955
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1955
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Don Vincenzo
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1955
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Commissioner
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1954
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1954
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Sacha Guitry's Si Versailles M'Etait Conte (If Versailles Were Told to Me) is best known by its American title Royal Affairs...
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1954
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Armand Duval
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1953
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1953
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Of the dozens of film versions of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this 1953 film version is one of the few to remain faithful to...
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Porthos
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1953
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Retour de Don Camillo (The Return of Don Camillo) is the sequel to the internationally popular French comedy...
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Peppone
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1953
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Indiscretion of an American Wife began its life as a romantic drama entitled Terminal Station, directed with extraordinary...
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Commissioner
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1953
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Ercole "Ercolino"
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1953
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1953
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Märta Torén is the titular heroine of the Italian romantic drama Maddelena. The story takes plays during the annual Good...
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1953
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Leonora Ruffo is the exotically garbed title character in the Italian costume spectacle The Queen of Sheba. In the original...
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1952
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Count D'Origo
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1952
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Orson Welles provides the voice of God in this farce starring Fernandel as Don Camillo, a vicar who causes trouble for the...
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Peppone
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1952
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OK Nerone stars Italian film favorites Walter Chiari and Cario Capanine as a pair of fun-loving American sailors. While on a...
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Nero
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1952
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Cliff of Sin was originally released in Italy as La Scogliera del Peccato. Margaret Genske plays Stella, the wayward wife of...
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Silvano
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1952
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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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1952
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This episodic Italian comedy follows the misadventures of housemaid Maria (Elsa Merlini). Her various employers include a...
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Berto
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1951
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Strange Deception combines a standard revenge tale with a postwar reenactment of the first four books of the New Testament....
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The Sexton
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1951
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Michelangelo Antonioni's first narrative feature is a stark, minimal interpersonal drama that would establish many of the...
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1950
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Filmed in 1945, the Italian My Widow and I made it to the U.S. five years later. Two of Italy's top box-office draws,...
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1950
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After several years of wartime austerity, the Italian film industry returned to spectacle with Fabiola. French actress...
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Quadratus
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1949
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Femmes sans Nom is the second film in a proposed trilogy conceived by Hungarian director Geza Radvanyi (the first was...
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1949
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1949
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For some reason, Italians have always been fascinated with the legend of Swiss patriot William Tell. In the tradition of the...
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William Tell
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1949
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In 1935, American audiences were treated to two simultaneously released versions of Les Miserables, one made in Hollywood,...
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Jean Valjean
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1948
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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1948
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Renzo
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1948
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1948
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1948
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A lesser but fascinating example of earthy postwar neorealism, Furia stars Isa Pola as Clara, the randy wife of horse-breeder...
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Oreste
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1947
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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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Kirila
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1946
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Un Uomo Ritorna (aka Man's Return and Revenge) tells the tale of an Italian power-plant engineer (Gino Cervi) who finds...
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1946
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His Young Wife is a genteel Italian comedy about the pitfalls of romance. Middle-aged clerk Travet (Carlo Campanini) is the...
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The commander
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1945
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Better known as one of Italy's most visionary producers, Giuseppe Amato was also a director of considerable skill. Filmed in...
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Don Alfonso
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1945
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1942
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Originally released in 1942, Four Steps in the Clouds (Quattro Passi fra le Nuvole) was a major stepping stone in the...
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Paolo Bianchi
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1942
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1942
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Set in 13th-century Italy, The Iron Crown is the story of the rise and fall of a corrupt monarch. By defying the crown, a...
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King Sedemondo
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1941
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In this swashbuckling period-piece, Gino Cervi portrays the title character, a masked knight who helps both peasants and...
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Formica
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1940
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Released in English-speaking countries as I Want to Live With Joy, this Italian comedy can truly be labelled "A Camillo...
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1938
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L'Argine (The Dyke) was based on the stage play by Pino Alessi. Gino Cervi plays Zvani, a small-town rake of the "love 'em...
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1938
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Could the Mussolini regime have asked for any more stirring a film title than Patria, Amore e Dovere (Country, Love and...
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Corrado Valeri
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1937
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