This film marks actress Monica Vitti's directing debut. In the story, Magherita (Monica) has been married to her husband...
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Director, Screenwriter, Margherita Morelli
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1990
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1986
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Survey of the history of Italian cinema, featuring clips from such classics as "Open City," "8-1/2," and "Seven Beauties,"...
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1986
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This is an off-beat story about a ménage à trois that is really a marriage between the traditional two, with one a little...
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Screenwriter, Laura
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1983
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Fabio Bonetti (Alberto Sordi) is a normal bank employee, enjoying the security of a peaceful home with a loving wife and...
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Flavia
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1982
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In this light comedy based on a play by Aldo de Benedetti from the 1950s, Princess Lucia (Monica Vitti) is miffed that her...
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Lucia
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1981
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One of director Michelangelo Antonioni's more obscure works from the 1980s, this psychological period piece reunites the...
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The Queen
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1981
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Monica Vitti stars as Tina Candela, a housekeeper on trial for murdering her husband. As she recounts her testimony, the jury...
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1980
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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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Inside jokes about the film industry dominate this slight tale of ambition and romance at the Cannes Film Festival....
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Maria
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1979
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In this political drama, the dirty undercover machinations behind the international arms trade are exposed when Angela...
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Angela
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1978
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1977
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A biker chick and her housewife friend go out & about. ~ Kristie Hassen, Rovi...
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1977
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The English-language title for the Italian L'Anatra All'arancia was Duck in Orange Sauce. Though Ugo (Ugo Tognazzi) is...
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Lisa
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1975
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This satirical comedy recounts a tale of love across class boundaries; the twist is that here a middle-class juror, Gabriella...
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Tina Candela
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1975
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One of Luis Buñuel's most episodic films, The Phantom of Liberty focuses on no one particular narrative. In the beginning, a...
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Mrs. Foucauld
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1974
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During World War II, American USO tours gave new life to Italy's native music-hall performers, as it gave them a livelier...
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Dea Dani
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1973
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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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Teresa
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1973
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This highly symbolic and enigmatic political drama by Hungarian director Miklos Jancso was produced by a consortium from...
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Journalist
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1971
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1970
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Turn-of-the-century Naples is the setting for this show-business comedy about a theatrical nobody who starts a popular dance...
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Nini Tirabuscio
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1970
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The Pizza Triangle is a freewheeling satire of Italian mores, hilarious despite its outwardly morbid plotline. The murder of...
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Adelaide
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1970
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This romantic situation comedy finds Giovanni (Alberto Sordi) extremely jealous when his wife Raffaella (Monica Vitti) admits...
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Raffaella Macchiavelli
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1969
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This dark comedy finds Lucie (Monica Vitti) planning to kill her boyfriend (Maurice Ronet), and then herself, after...
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Lucie
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1969
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Assunta Borello
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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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Boccadoro
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1967
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1967
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This melodramatic Italian and French anthology is comprised of four unrelated short films directed by four different...
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Sabina ["Queen Sabina"]
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1966
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A popular British comic strip series served as inspiration for this light-hearted espionage adventure, which if nothing else...
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Modesty Blaise
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1966
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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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The Flying Saucer is an irreverent satire of the worldwide fascination in space travel in the early 1960s. Alberto Sordi...
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Mercedes
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1964
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Red Desert (Il Deserto Rosso) once more combines the considerable talents of director Michelangelo Antonioni and star Monica...
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Giuliana
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1964
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In this comedy anthology, the sex-capades of several Italian couples are chronicled. In "The Scandal," a dull and...
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Gloria [The Victim]
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1964
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Nutty, Naughty Chateau is summed up in the encyclopedic book The United Artists Story as "Sex comedy drama." No more, no...
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Eleanore Falsen
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1963
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Director Jacques Baratier's Sweet and Sour is an independently produced project with a surprising amount of European...
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1963
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The four "truths" are in this instance, four different romantic or dramatic vignettes in a slightly uneven compilation film....
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1963
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In this challenging drama by Michelangelo Antonioni, his characteristic long, significant periods of silence punctuate the...
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Vittoria
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1962
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Accattone , Pier Paolo Pasolini's first feature, is also his first semidocumentary study of "the little homelands": the...
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1961
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La Notte is another of Michelangelo Antonioni's cinematic interrupted journeys. Just as no one solved the central mystery in...
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Valentina Gherardini
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1961
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This ground-breaking film won a Special Jury Prize at the 1960 Cannes Film Festival and established its director,...
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Claudia
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1960
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