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2002
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Based on an acclaimed, popular historical novel by Dacia Maraini, this 18th-century set costumer follows the adventures of a...
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Pretore Camaleo
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1997
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This Italian film was released in 1995 and slowly made its way around the world; its English title is The Star Maker. Like...
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1995
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This Italian thriller is based on the true story of a young Sicilian public prosecutor murdered in 1990. The young...
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Father
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1994
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Cinema Paradiso offers a nostalgic look at films and the effect they have on a young boy who grows up in and around the title...
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1988
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Intervista has been termed a semi-documentary: This is in fact the filmed autobiography of Italian director Federico Fellini,...
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1987
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Momo (Radost Bokel) is a ten-year-old orphan girl who tries to save her village from the evil clutches of the Grey Men in...
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Beppo
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1986
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1986
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In an intriguing drama with no winners at the end, Andreev (Filip Trifonov) is a young and aspiring lawyer who takes on the...
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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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This Italian version of Henry IV is based on the Luigi Pirandello play rather than Shakespeare's historical work. Moreover,...
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Psychiatrist
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1984
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In this pseudo-farce, the heroine Mickey (Margot Kidder) takes two weeks off work to go to Malta and write a mystery novel...
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1983
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In this drama, a 12-year-old boy impregnates a young girl and then decides to raise the child all alone. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1981
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1980
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This lavish big-budget epic was the pinnacle of a uniquely Italian subgenre, the historical hardcore gore/porn extravaganza....
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1979
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1978
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Banned in Italy, this movie tells the story of a teenage virgin who has somehow become pregnant. Mary is an epileptic and the...
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1975
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Vittorio De Sisti directs this erotic Italian comedy about a young, gifted pianist who loses interest in his studies upon...
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1975
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Francis Ford Coppola's legendary continuation and sequel to his landmark 1972 film, The Godfather, parallels the young Vito...
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1974
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A married couple is haunted by a series of mysterious occurrences after the death of their young daughter in this enigmatic...
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1973
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Vanessa Redgrave and Franco Nero headline this off-beat medieval drama in which Redgrave plays an allegedly insane woman who...
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1972
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1972
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In this drama, a woman's dancing school is overrun by gangster's who begin using it for a betting parlor. As a result, she...
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1972
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A family's murderous battle over some bayfront property is the subject of director Mario Bava's bloody horror-thriller, which...
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1971
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Before the Allied invasion of North Africa in World War II, there was still plenty of confusion, and wartime national...
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1971
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Sotiris (George Linjeris) is the grandson of Orsetta (Katina Paxinou), the wealthy matriarch of a Greek family. As she...
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1970
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Peter McEnery stars as Col. Etienne Girard, Hussar officer of the Napoleonic era. The story takes place during the Little...
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1970
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This uneven comedy finds Fred (Ian McShane) as a writer living off his royalties in Italy. Married to the long-suffering...
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1970
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Italo Bombolini (Anthony Quinn) is the mayor of the hillside village of Santa Vittorio. The wine-loving town leader erases a...
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1969
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After returning from a spiritual quest in India, a photographer (Giancarlo Giannini) is haunted by thoughts of death. He goes...
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1969
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Roger Santet (Alain Delon) is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio...
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1969
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A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international...
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1968
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This romantic and sometimes ribald historical farce finds nobleman Guerrando (Tony Curtis) knighted in the days before the...
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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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1967
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In this Italian comedy set in the 16th-century, a prince and a princess marry. Trouble ensues when a rumor that they have...
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1967
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Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito (Marcello Mastroianni) sometimes has difficulty...
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Carlo Saporito
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1966
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The Franco-Italian L'Ombrellone stars Enrico Maria Salerno as a vacationing Roman engineer. He'd prefer a little peace and...
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1966
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In this offbeat black comedy, Efisio Ugo Tognazzi is smuggled into Sardinia to kill a man for his insulting remarks about...
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Lawyer
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1966
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The funny side of sex provides the basis for this comical Italian anthology that is comrpised of four vignettes. In "The...
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1966
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Courtroom tomfoolery provides the basis for this four-episode Italian anthology comedy. In the first segment "Adultery in...
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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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1965
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"White Voices" is a vernacular term referring to Italian Castrati of the 18th century Vatican Choir. The Castrati were male...
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1964
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Mistakenly labeled as a neorealist drama in some sources, Seduced and Abandoned is actually a slyly constructed Italian...
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Baron Rizieri
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1964
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To fully appreciate the international box-office bonanza Divorce, Italian Style (Divorzio All'Italiana), one must remember...
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Carmelo Patane
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1961
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Prolific director Giorgio Bianchi comes off with another good comedy in Il Moralista, due in no small part to the talents of...
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1959
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Cittadi Notte (City at Night) is an existentialist-eye-view of Rome. The story concerns a quartet of "lost souls," played by...
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Director
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1958
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Farewell to Arms is the second film version of Ernest Hemingway's World War One novel--and also the last film produced by...
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1957
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First Assistant Director
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1955
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This routine drama set in post-war Italy is the first feature by novice director Sergio Capogna and is based on a...
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1955
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1954
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1954
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Screenwriter
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1953
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Italian maestro Federico Fellini's first international success is a nakedly autobiographical film that bears many of the...
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Leopoldo
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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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Screenwriter
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1953
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Leopoldo Trieste's stage play Cronaca was the basis for the Italian drama Febbre di Vivere (Eager to Live). Though virtually...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1953
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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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Ivan Cavalli
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1952
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The Italian The Sky is Red (Il Cielo e Rosso) details the romantic adventures of two postwar couples. Despite being confined...
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Screenwriter
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1950
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Preludio D'Amore (Love Prelude) is a minor Italian romantic drama with an impressive cast. The story, involving a romance...
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1948
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Screenwriter
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1948
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