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Davide
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2004
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Grossly mistaken identity provides the impetus in this Italian farce. Loris is an anti-social fellow with a high sex drive....
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Distinguished resident
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1994
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In the salad days of his youth, Aureliano lived and worked in Africa, and the romance and exotic quality of those days...
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Aureliano
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1992
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1989
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1988
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Werner Von Heiden
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1985
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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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The Colonel
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1981
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In this combination of domestic melodrama and offbeat suspense flick, an astronomer must shoulder the burden of caring for...
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1978
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Alain Delon plays Mr. Klein, a French-Catholic art dealer during the Nazi occupation. Strapped for cash, Klein takes...
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1976
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Count
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1976
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This epic drama profiles the life of the 18th-century scientist Cagliostro (Bekim Fehmiu) who founded the mysterious Masons...
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Casanova
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1975
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Wallach and Testi rob a jewelry store, and when Wallach suspects a double cross, he goes to the Stateline Motel to collect...
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1973
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The temptation to roll one of his wealthier customers is too great for casino croupier Kosta (Helmut Berger) to resist. It's...
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Olmi
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1973
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Marcel
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1972
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Uncle Karl
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1972
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Put in the coldest possible terms, Medea is the story of a woman who gets sore at her husband and kills her children to get...
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Greonte
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1969
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The true story of a tragic 1928 arctic expedition provides the basis for this adventure drama that was a joint Italian and...
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Rescue Coordinator
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1969
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1969
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This film is a social commentary about the mindless violence that is perpetuated on impressionable youth by television....
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1969
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In this drama, a Neapolitan lad travels to Milan to attend his father's funeral. His father was a gigolo, and the young man...
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1968
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Father
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1968
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This Dino De Laurentiis production from 1965 is actually an anthology of five different directors' work, each telling their...
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Sportsman ["The Witch Burned Alive"]
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1967
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Co-directed by French filmmakers Noël Howard and Denys de La Patellière, La Fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo is a...
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1965
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Though a slave, Lacer (Jeffrey Hunter) is well respected as a talented architect. After falling for Pennelope...
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Maximus
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1963
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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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1962
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This unexceptional Duel of the Titans takes place on two different levels at once. The legendary brothers Romulus and Remus...
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1961
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In this fantasy adventure, Jason and Orpheus leave Thessaly to quest for the magical Golden Fleece. Along the way they...
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1960
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In this French drama, a woman preparing to take her vows to become a nun must write a letter describing her past...
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1960
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1960
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Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this routine costume drama and adventure film focuses on the strife between...
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1960
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It Happened in Rome -- as well as in Venice, Florence, and points in between in this frothy excursion into beautiful Italy....
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1959
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The long-forgotten Italian historical epic Herod the Great (AKA Erode il Grande, 1960), dramatizes the dark final years of...
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Octavius
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1959
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British sex symbol Belinda Lee stars in the overheated Italian costume melodrama La Venere di Cheronea (The Venus of...
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Praxiteles
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1958
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In this spectacle, the Assyrians launch a siege against the Asian city of Bethulia to force the city dwellers to stop...
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Holophernes
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1958
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Italian director Giueseppe DeSantis was the creative force behind this Yugoslavian "slice of life" drama. The title...
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1958
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1958
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The superb cinematography of Aldo Tonti adds immeasureably to the enjoyment of Souvenir D'Italie. The story revolves around...
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1957
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Italian director Luchino Visconti dishes up his usual blend of elegance and decadence in Senso. The international cast...
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Marquis Roberto Ussoni
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1954
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Andre
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1954
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1953
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Originally titled Spartaco, Sins of Rome is a highly suspect retelling of the 1st-century B.C. slave revolt which rocked the...
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Spartacus
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1953
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Nando
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1952
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In this drama, a tribunal of Italian judges accuse a member of the powerful Bourbon clan of colluding with the enemy. ~...
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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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Behind Closed Shutters originally went into Italian movie houses under the title Persiane Chiuse. Eleanora Rossi Drago plays...
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Roberto
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1950
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Constance Dowling, the American actress who gained international celebrity through her appearance in the Italian film...
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Carlo
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1950
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Young Italian magistrate Schiavi (Massimo Girotti) finds the going rough when he assumes his new post in a small Sicilian...
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Magistrate Guido Schiavi
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1949
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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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1949
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1949
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Italian director Mario Camerini's most creative years were behind him when he helmed Woman Trouble in 1948. Camerini adheres...
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Paolo
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1949
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The Difficult Years is another uncompromising neorealist exercise by Italian filmmaker Luigi Zampa. The title refers to the...
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Giovanni
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1948
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Marcello
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1948
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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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1948
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Set amongst the Italian peasantry of WW2, Caccia Tragica (Tragic Chase) is set in motino when a truck loaded with money...
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Michele
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1947
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Director Roberto Rossellini started this tragic drama in 1943, but was forced to abandon the project as wartime conditions in...
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1946
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1945
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Often considered one of the first examples of Italian neorealism, Luchino Visconti's first film was this adaptation of...
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Gino
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1943
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1943
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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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Arminio
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1941
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This troubled film version of the Puccini opera was begun by Jean Renoir while lecturing in Italy at the invitation of...
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Angeloti
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1940
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