A young boy abandoned at a monastery attempts to come to reconcile his faith with the violence and unpredictability of the...
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1991
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In this romantic story, a couple (Michel Serrault and Virna Lisi) who have been married for over forty years are forced to...
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1990
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1989
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Director, Producer
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1988
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1987
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In this Italian drama, based upon the epic novel by Morante, a half-Jewish mother endeavors to conceal her identity during...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1985
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Originally a six-hour mini-series, Cuore lost four hours after being cut down to this sentimental feature-length film on...
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Director
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1984
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Giovanni (Beppe Grillo) is a mysterious hitchhiker of unknown origins, oddly out of place in the modern world since he is...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1982
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The time is the 1930s and Caterina (Anna Melato) is a rather plain woman living in a small village with very little prospects...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1982
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Adept at dissecting marriage as an essentially no-win institution, Luigi Comencini applies his directorial scalpel here...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1980
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A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in...
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1979
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Director
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1977
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Three films are gathered here under one title, and the general theme of sexual encounters unites them. In "Superman and Lady...
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1976
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In this episodic anthology, written and directed by assorted Italian filmmakers, the political and social aspects of Italian...
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1976
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In this Italian mystery, a detective journeys into the rarified world of the idle rich to look into a puzzling murder. ~...
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1975
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In this Italian film, part melodrama and part social/political commentary, two factory workers living in Northern Italy form...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1974
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Frustrated desire motivates the Sicilian newlyweds in this improbable sex comedy when they are discovered to be brother and...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1974
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In this drama, a wealthy US heiress and her partner embark upon their annual journey to Rome to play scopa, an Italian card...
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Director
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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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Director
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1971
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The famous Italian lover Casanova is portrayed by Claudio De Kunert as a child and by Leonardo Whiting as an adolescent on...
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1969
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When Maria Mancuso dies suddenly before the expiration of her life-insurance policy, the insurance company sends lawyer Nanni...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1969
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In this satire, former Italian Resistance hero Natalino (Nino Manfredi) finds himself a total failure as a civilian. He...
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Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1968
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A man learns that his lily-white son isn't quite so blameless when his other son admits that he has taken the blame for both...
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Director
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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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Director
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1965
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In this Italian romance, a young woman with a love for loving begins masquerading as her roommate so she can have more...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1965
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1964
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Three different takes on love are presented in this episodic Italian film. The first story begins as a prostitute is...
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1964
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Director, Screenwriter
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1963
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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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Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1962
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Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the...
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1962
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In this war drama, a band of Italian soldiers, elated to hear that the war is finally over, promptly desert and head for...
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1960
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1959
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Intended as a light farce this comedy by Luigi Commencini is a little plodding in its story about a bank manager (O.W....
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1959
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1958
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Told in anecdotal fashion, this lightweight comedy examines the amorous activities of husbands who remain in the city while...
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1958
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Director, Screenwriter
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1955
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Screenwriter
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1953
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Director, Screenwriter
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1953
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Originally released as Trattedella Blanche, Girls Marked Danger offers a voyeuristic glimpse at the subrosa world of 20th...
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1952
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Unlike previous adaptations of the Johanna Spyri children's classic, this 1952 German-language version of Heidi was lensed on...
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1952
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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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1950
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Italian film comedian Toto was usually better than his material. L'Imperator di Capri is one of a handful of films that is...
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1949
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After serving his creative apprenticeship in short subjects, Italian filmmaker Luigi Comencini made his feature-film debut...
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1948
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1945
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