Bertille (Giuletta Masina) has a lovely home in the French countryside -- and plenty of grab-happy children and relatives who...
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1991
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Amelia Bonetti aka 'Ginger'
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1986
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This version of an old fairy tale is the second in 20 years (there was a 1954 West German film on the same subject) and is a...
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Mrs. Winter
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1985
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Taken from the popular play by Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman Of Chaillot has an international all-star cast, but the final...
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1969
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1967
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1966
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Juliet
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1965
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This clever melodrama from director Renato Castellani stars Anna Magnani as a hardbitten prostitute whose immorality rubs off...
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Lina
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1959
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1959
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Beginning with the declassé premise of this ostensible, unconvincing slice-of-life comedy -- that the heroine's overriding...
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Doris
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1959
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Nights of Cabiria opens with Cabiria (Giulietta Masina) and her boyfriend playfully embracing by the seaside -- and then he...
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Cabiria
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1957
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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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Iris
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1955
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1955
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Acclaimed Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini drew on his own circus background for the 1954 classic La Strada. Set in a seedy...
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Gelsomina
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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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In this Italian melodrama, three Roman prostitutes suddenly find themselves on the streets when the city informs them that...
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1954
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1953
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1953
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Passerotto
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1952
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The White Sheik (Lo Sceicco Bianco), Fellini's first solo flight as director, is a gentle lampoon of the idolatry heaped upon...
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Cabiria
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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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Ermelinda
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1951
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1950
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Behind Closed Shutters originally went into Italian movie houses under the title Persiane Chiuse. Eleanora Rossi Drago plays...
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Pippo
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1950
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Filmed in 1948 as Senza Pieta, this Alberto Lattuada-directed effort came to America the following year as Without Pity. The...
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Marcella
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1948
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Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (originally Paisa) is one of the best-known and most important of the postwar Italian neorealist...
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1946
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