With his 1963 Rabbia (Rage), Pier Paolo Pasolini sought to construct an essay film out of found footage, that would enable...
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2008
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Few American film enthusiasts were even aware that anyone made westerns in Italy before Sergio Leone's breakthrough film,...
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2006
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The complicated travails of several generations of Italian women provide the basis for this drama that is based on a novel...
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1997
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Off-beat is a description scarcely adequate to describe this highly-original Italian comedy-drama that takes place within a...
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1996
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Popular comic actor Diego Abatantuono headlines this lively comedy that follows the adventures of a small-town barber from...
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1996
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A funky, more than slightly askew love affair between a hooker and a homosexual provides the core of this erotic Italian...
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1995
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As a lark, a spoiled Italian teenager coolly murders his parents for their money in this chilling Italian drama that closely...
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1994
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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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1994
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This Italian psychological thriller is based on as novel by Georges Simenon. Delon is an immoral, gynecologist who frequently...
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1994
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This poignant Italian drama tells the tale of a producer who would do just about anything to have actress Kim Novak appear in...
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1994
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The seemingly endless chain of assassinations of judges who seek to end (or at least curtail) the pervasiveness of organized...
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1993
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Fuzzy memories of Anne Frank's diary sometimes cause people to forget that at the height of World War II, Nazi-occupied...
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1993
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Mario (Diego Abatantuono) is a gentle soul living in a big Italian city. He works as a bank teller. When his bank is robbed...
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1993
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Comedian Roberto Benigni wrote and directed this Italian farce, in which he stars as Dante, a bus driver who is the exact...
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1992
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Gabriele Salvatores' antiwar story Mediterraneo is set during World War II on a seemingly deserted island in the middle of...
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1992
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Anna-Ambrogio grew up loving the sea and sailing, and nothing would please her more than being able to become a merchant...
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1992
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Since Moliere's plays are national classics of France, an air of reverence surrounds them. However, they are for the most...
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1990
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Serious, logical Martha (Barbara Sukowa) and dreamy, superstitious Anna (Stefania Sandrelli) have been best friends. That is,...
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1990
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As nearly as anyone can figure, this first-time directorial effort by the American actor Ben Gazzara was never released in...
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1990
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In this picaresque period adventure comedy, the roguish almost-gentleman Paolo (Paolo Hendel) of 1832 Naples accompanies his...
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1989
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1989
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Father Maurice (Walter Matthau) is called on to perform an exorcism of a demon from a fat lady in this offbeat comedy. What...
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1988
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Ferroccio Ferri (Paolo Rossi) is a quiz-show champion who is an expert on camels in this offbeat comedy. He is eligible for...
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1988
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Dario (Diego Abantantuono) is a psychologist who is in no hurry to marry his schoolteacher paramour Maria (Lina Sastri) in...
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1988
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Mitzi (Hanna Schygulla) turns to Sandor (Marcello Mastroianni) for help when her husband is murdered by right-wing extremists...
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1988
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In this uneven feature that wavers between a political comedy and social drama, Camillo (Massimo Troisi) suffers from...
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1987
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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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Liv Ullmann plays real-life Jewish dissident and astronomer Ida Nudel in this historical biography. Ida is denied papers to...
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1987
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During his lifetime, the noted Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio was considered to be a genius, a daring adventurer, and a...
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1987
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After discovering that his terrorist brother has committed suicide, Marco (John Savage) travels to Columbia to investigate,...
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1987
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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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1987
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The Italian comic Carlo Verdone stars in (and directs and co-authors) this conventional, and unevenly humorous look at Oscar...
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1986
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1986
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1985
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This is a slow-paced, weighty story of love and lust shaded with overtones of incest and lesbianism that never materialize....
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1985
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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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1985
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1984
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As Don Quixote would say (an original quote), "the proof of the pudding is in the eating," and this interpretation of...
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1984
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Occhei, Occhei was not "occhei" with the Italian censors, who based their judgment on teen Bianca's sexual liaison with her...
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1984
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Though some viewers might be put off by its length, graphic violence, and absence of likable characters, Sergio Leone's final...
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1984
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Set in a fictional area in Northern Italy during World War I, this story spins around Marcello (Jimmy Briscoe), a man blessed...
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1982
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The stage comedian Carlo Verdone directed and stars as the three main characters -- Furio, Mimmo, and Pasquale -- in this...
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1981
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An off-beat comedy that takes a close look at the homeless and the hungry, Minestrone pulls off its wry and acerbic vision...
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1981
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Following the surprising success of his cheapjack Star Wars knockoff, Star Crash, Italian director Luigi Cozzi was given the...
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1981
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In the original story of Camille by Alexandre Dumas, Jr. La Dame aux Camelias, a beautiful Parisian courtesan, Marguerite...
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1981
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1980
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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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1980
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Argante (Alberto Sordi) is an eccentric recluse who suffers from a malady of real and imagined gastrointestinal difficulties...
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1979
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1979
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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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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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Guido is an international journalist with an unusually difficult relationship with his daughter, Mimi. He hasn't seen her...
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1979
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In this dramatic romance, a piano teacher seduces one of her son's friends, who proceeds to fall in love with one of the...
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1978
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1977
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1977
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A New York policeman (Harvey Keitel) imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer (John Lydon), but finds the tables turned...
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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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1976
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1976
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In this drama, set during the 1930s, the head shrink at an Italian insane asylum believes that insanity is caused by a...
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1975
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After her father (Adolfo Celi) is exiled to an island off the coast of Italy for his anti-Mussolini politics, Libera...
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1975
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An amiable con man sets out to land a big score from a man even less honorable than himself in this comic spaghetti western....
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1975
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A Frenchwoman vacationing with her daughter and a Viennese professor vacationing with his son meet in the Tyrolean Alps of...
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1975
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An older woman and a much younger man explore their attraction and the differences between them in this romance, based on the...
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1974
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Based on a true story, this political thriller/drama explores the ordeal of Linda Murri (Catherine Deneuve), a 19th-century...
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1974
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This lush anthology of erotic tales was filmed in four countries (Iran, Nepal, Yemen, and Eritrea) over a period of more than...
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1974
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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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1974
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Otherworldly beauty Ornella Muti headlines this erotic drama centered on the tale of a woman who struggles with her sexual...
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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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Spaghetti-Western star Terence Hill achieved international fame with 1974's My Name Is Nobody. A soldier of fortune, Nobody...
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1973
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This Italian feature caters to a self-congratulatory stereotype of male virility which many an Italian male might fantasize...
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1973
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Two vagabonds, the "rogues" of the title Roguish Stories, tell each other stories while they squat side-by-side using a cave...
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1973
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This film explores the events surrounding the assassination of Mussolini's chief political opponent, socialist Giacomo...
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1973
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From the Middle Ages onward, certain monasteries and nunneries were basically elegant retirement homes for rich noblemen and...
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1973
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Italian director Pier Pasolini tells four of the Chaucer tales in this graphic and satirical picture that chronicles the...
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1972
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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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1972
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Originally titled Giù la Testa, Duck, You Sucker! is a Mexican-revolution yarn, filmed in Italy by spaghetti Western maven...
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1971
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The Decameron was the first of director Pier Paolo Pasolini's "trilogy of life." The film, based on the sexually supercharged...
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1971
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A Georges Simenon novel was the basis for the French Le Chat. Not much happens in the way of plot, nor are many words of...
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1971
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One of the most notorious American judicial cases of the 20th century is paced and photographed like a spaghetti Western in...
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1971
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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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1971
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This stylish English-language Mexican western was first shown in 1971 at the Venice Film Festival as Arde, and was re-edited...
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1971
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This comedy takes sharp aim at the hypocritical behavior of supposedly celibate Roman Catholic clergy. Keeping to the middle...
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1970
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This Italian crime melodrama was originally released as Citta Violenta. Charles Bronson stars as Jeff, an ex-convict living...
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1970
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This story of youthful rebellion is taken from the ancient Greek classic "Antigone." The setting is modern times and...
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1970
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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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1969
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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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The love-hate relationship between a poet and his mistress provides the basis for this metaphorical drama. The trouble seems...
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1969
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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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1969
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Two German spies and a woman physician (Suzy Kendall) are taken by submarine to Scotland where they enter the country at...
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1969
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In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western...
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1968
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1968
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Somewhat overshadowed by Joseph Losey's 1975 film on the same subject, the 1968 Italian/Bulgarian biopic Galileo is a...
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1968
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Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the...
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1968
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A group of international jewel thieves band together to pull off a huge heist in this suspenseful caper film that was shot in...
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1967
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Yet another entry in a long series of 1960s Italian sex comedies, this one has some clever moments in its study of four...
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1967
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This updated version of the Greek tragedy from Sophocles bears some slight resemblance to the original mythology. Edipo...
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1967
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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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1967
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In this spaghetti Western, Joseph Cotten stars as Jonas, an ex-Confederate soldier who robs a Union freight train in order to...
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1967
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1967
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In the last and the best installment of his so-called "Dollars" trilogy of Sergio Leone-directed "spaghetti westerns,"...
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1966
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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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1966
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In this romantic horror movie, a family hires a genealogist to help them assemble the late patriarch's papers. While there,...
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1966
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Originally Uccellacci e Uccellini, The Hawks and the Sparrows was adapted by director Pier Paolo Pasolini from his own...
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1966
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Sergio Corbucci crafted one of the most popular and widely imitated of the Italian "spaghetti westerns" of the 1960s with...
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1966
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This Latin western comedy chronicles the epic saga of the MacGregors, a Scottish clan of ranchers living on the Mexican...
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1966
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Caught in an unhappy marriage, Piera Fabbri (Giovanna Ralli) leaves her physicist husband Andrea (Paul Guers) and runs off...
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1966
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A husband desperate for an heir, will do anything to produce one in this Italian drama, adapted from the long-banned...
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1965
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1965
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1964
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1963
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The young son of a wealthy industrialist eschews the material pleasures of life and decides to enter the priesthood. His...
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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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Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovannino Guareschi's 1963 La Rabbia (Rage) began life as an essay film sans Guareschi's...
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1963
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1962
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In this crime comedy with heavy neorealist influence, Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is a Sicilian auto plant worker who has almost...
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1962
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A very young Bernardo Bertolucci already shows his talent in this bleak, 94-minute murder mystery, told in an interesting...
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1962
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Anna Magnani stars as Mamma Roma, a rural Italian hooker trying to create a new life for herself. This proves impossible when...
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1962
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Two popular lead actors star in this conventional story of unrequited love, directed by Mauro Bolognini. Emilio...
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1962
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Falling somewhere in-between a documentary and a droll drama (more like an enactment of reality, with a wink), this film by...
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1962
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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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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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The original Italian is La Viaccia (the name of the family farm which motivates the plot). The death of a wealthy patriarch...
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1961
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An uneven mix of right-on situations and two-dimensional characters or worse, La Giornata Balorda is all the more interesting...
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1961
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This uneven Italian wartime drama looks at the conflict in World War II from another perspective, that of a young fascist....
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1961
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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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Top-heavy with wild action scenes and female pulchritude, this routine Italian costume adventure is set in the 7th century...
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1960
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In this sword and sandal epic set during Rome's attack on ancient Greece, both the Roman and Carthaginian armies are...
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1960
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Directed by the comparatively unknown Mauro Bolognini, the Italian Bell' Antonio is distinguished by its screenplay,...
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1960
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The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The young men commit petty...
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1959
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This sword and sandal epic set in 217 AD follows the exploits of a courageous gladiator who is taken prisoner on behalf of...
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1959
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1954
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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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Janis Paige stars as Fugitive Lady Barbara Clementi in this internationally produced melodrama. When Italian millionaire...
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1950
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Paul Lukas plays a nightclub headwaiter who rises to fame as a bridge expert. He marries hat check girl Loretta Young,...
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1933
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