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Director, Screenwriter
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2011
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Giuseppe Tornatore directed this grand-scale portrait of life and love over several decades in a small town in Sicily. The...
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2009
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A lawman finds himself caught up in the idealism and chaos of the Sixties in this drama from director Michele Placido,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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2009
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2009
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Mold
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2008
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This feature marks a historical first, as the premier co-production between Albania and Czechoslovakia. As a...
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2008
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Italy during the latter days of Benito Mussolini's rule provides the background for this historical drama of divided...
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Francesco
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2007
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Controversial Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berluscoi is just one of the targets of writer and director Nanni Moretti's...
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2006
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A fugitive from justice discovers he has to leave his principles behind to come out of the underground in this drama from...
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2006
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Giancarlo De Cataldo's best-selling tale about three lifelong friends effectively take control of organized crime in...
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Director
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2005
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Carlo
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2004
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Director, Screenwriter
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2004
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Italian filmmaker directs Il Posto Dell'Anima (The Soul's Place), a drama about a group of dedicated union workers. Set in...
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2003
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Italian director Michele Placido explores the legendary -- yet brief -- affair that occurred between writers Dino Campana and...
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Director, Screenwriter
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2002
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2002
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Michele Verrio
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2000
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Based on a true-life court case that rocked Italy during the 1980s, this film recounts the tribulations of Enzo Tortora, a...
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1999
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Panni Sporchi is a satiric comedy from veteran director Mario Monicelli about the public and private squabbles of a...
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Furio Cimin
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1999
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One of the masters of Italian cinema, Marco Bellocchio, who has made his name with political films, has been continuing his...
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1999
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Director Nicolas Boukhrief, who debuted with the 1995 Up Yours, returned with this French-Italian-Luxembourgian-Belgian drama...
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1998
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Actor-turned-director Michele Placido directed this Italian political drama inspired by Liliana Rossi, a crusading woman from...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1998
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The title creature is not a canine but rather a passionate, strong-willed Sicilian woman who turns her home village on its...
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1996
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The ruination of Michel Sindona, a powerful Italian financier with underworld connections, is chronicled in this historical...
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Director
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1995
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Two policemen, one experienced with scores to settle, the other new and vulnerable, provide the impetus for this arresting...
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1995
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An opportunistic Italian swindler heads to Albania and finds himself involved with the life of an impoverished local in this...
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Fiore
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1994
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The relationship between a working class father and son provides the focus of this Italian drama set in Genoa. Corrado works...
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Corrado
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1994
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This political docudrama follows the real-life circumstances that led to the assassination of the anti-Mafia crusading judge...
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Giovanni Falcone
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1993
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1992
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Without any uncomfortably explicit scenes, this film clearly shows the toll that a fifteen-year-old girl's incestuous...
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Director, Father
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1992
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The expensively assembled two-part TV movie Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel is the true story of a successful "bust" engineered...
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1992
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For almost a decade, the U.S.S.R. was involved in a long and apparently pointless war in Afghanistan, which began with an...
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Major Bandura
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1991
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In this drama, Kwaku (Thywill Abraham Kwaku Amenya), a Ghanian medical student in Italy, plumbs the depths of Italian racism...
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Director
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1990
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Forever Mary was based on Aurelio Grimaldi's novel Mery Per Siempre, which was also the original Italian title of this...
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Marco Terzi
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1989
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1989
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Thanks to a mix-up at birth, two sets of twins are separated and grow up in radically different social circles. The four baby...
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Fabio Alberici
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1988
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In this Italian romantic drama the beautiful mistress of an internationally recognized surgeon becomes insanely jealous when...
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1988
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A European humanitarian organization tries to bring relief to the famine-stricken Sahel region of North Africa in this...
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Michel
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1988
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A group of characters come in and out of each other's lives in this Italian sex comedy. Nagra (Giuliana De Sio) is an...
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Lionello
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1987
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1987
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Mariangela Melato plays a female industrialist subjected to a kidnapping. Tired of watching her "class" being persecuted,...
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Giuseppe Catania
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1986
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Perhaps taking a cue from the popular 1970s Brit television comedy "Are You Being Served?," this Italian department store...
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1986
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The real-life tragedies wrought by organized crime are mirrored in this fast-paced, suspense-filled action thriller by...
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Mario
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1985
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Not to be confused with another French film of the same title -- a 1936 adaptation of Noel Coward's Private Lives, this...
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1984
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Commissioner Cattani
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1984
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1984
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A small town has its placid waters rocked when a 120-piece orchestra is slated to visit on a regular basis to offer special...
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Francesco
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1983
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Very loosely based on the plot of Henry James' Wing of the Dove, this film resets the story about two lovers trying to steal...
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Sandro
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1981
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Director Francesco Rosi earned a Best Foreign Film Academy Award nomination for his drama Tre Fratelli (Three Brothers), an...
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Nicola
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1981
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1981
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Fontamara is a tiny Italian village during the Mussolini years. The deprivations of the War are hardly anything new to the...
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1980
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Giovanni
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1980
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This Italian anthology uses the standard sex comedy format but lacks the subtle social commentary present in its...
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1979
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The Italian "directing siblings" Paolo and Vittorio Taviani were responsible for this intriguing slice of working-class life....
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Enzo
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1979
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In this standard but toned-down sex comedy, seven different vignettes starring female leads like Monica Vitti,...
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1979
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Ernesto (Martin Hahn) is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely...
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Stablehand
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1979
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1979
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In this fast-paced action/drama, a downtrodden farmer turns to crime and quickly rises to prominence in the Sicilian mafia....
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Michele Labruzzo
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1978
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Giacinto
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1978
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The patient and non-pugilistic methods used by Inspector Simpson (Ray Milland) finally help him discover who killed the...
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Antonio
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1977
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1977
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A co-production between Italy and Monaco, this steamy study of sexual obsession was directed by Carlo Lizzani (Crazy Joe). It...
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1977
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1976
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The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri (Michele Placido) is a college...
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Paolo Passeri
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1976
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1975
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1975
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Northern Italian Giulio (Ugo Tognazzi) thought himself very broad-minded about things like marital fidelity until he married...
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Giovanni
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1974
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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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1974
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Teresa the Thief is a true story set during World War II. The eponymous Teresa, played by Monica Vitti, is an Italian woman...
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1973
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