Miguel Hermoso's La Luz Prodigiosa (Marvelous Light) examines what might have happened if famed Spanish writer...
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2003
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Francesco Gammarota
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2002
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Veteran filmmaker Luigi Magni helms this gorgeously-photographed work set during the tumult of mid-19th century Rome. The...
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2000
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This Dutch adventure drama chronicles the birth and preservation of a Flemish legend. The tale begins in mid-16th century...
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Campanelli
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1995
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In this Italian drama an astrophysicist returns to his birthplace and re-discovers his humanity. Lorenzo needs money. He...
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Salvatore
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1995
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Mima (Virginie Ledoyen), like her parents, was born in France. However, her family originated in Italy and is determined to...
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Grandfather
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1991
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Alex (Kari Vaananen) is a Finnish cabbie working in Berlin with plenty of problems in this comedy with film noir touches....
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Grandpa
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1990
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Alberto's family traditions are quite unusual. Living in Paris with his pregnant wife, he is now expected to return to Rome...
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Alberto's father
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1990
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1990
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Nino Manfredi plays Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor who carried out the execution of Jesus. He ignores several signs that...
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Pontius Pilate
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1988
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In one popular Spanish-English dictionary, "picaro" is defined as "roguish; scheming, tricky; low, vile; mischievous," and...
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Beggar
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1987
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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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Salvietti
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1986
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1986
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1983
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In back-to-back stories that are unrelated to each other except through a few shared stabs at sexual and social morés,...
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Screenwriter, The Bedouin
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1982
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In this silly Italian comedy, a trio of robbers burst into an Italian restaurant and place its five employees in a storage...
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Domenico
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1982
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A situation that once (believe it or not) served as the premise for a Dick Van Dyke Show is taken several steps farther in...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1981
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This entertaining, light comedy is carried on the shoulders of Nino Manfredi, who plays a gypsy coffee vendor illegally...
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Screenwriter
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1980
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Nothing in his background has given Saso Iovine (Nino Manfredi) any preparation for the sticky situations he encounters when...
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Sasa Iovine
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1978
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Italian actor/director Nino Manfredi gives an award-calibre performance in In the Name of the Pope-King. He plays a...
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Don Colombo
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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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Antonio
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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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Down & Dirty was originally titled Brutti, sporchi e cativi in Italy. That translates literally to "dirty, nasty and bad", in...
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Giacinto
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1976
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In this intellectual drama, Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who, somewhat like the Biblical King David, covets...
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Marcello
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1975
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Antonio
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1974
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A hard-working Sicilian heads for Switzerland in search of a better life in this gentle, sweet-sour Italian comedy. Despite...
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Screenwriter
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1974
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Paolo
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1972
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This curious film attempts to mix suspense and comedy as it details the efforts of Mussolini's Italy to deal with the public...
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Girolimoni
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1972
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This Italian movie is as much a love song to a place as a story. The place is the bohemian quarter in Rome known as the...
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1971
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1971
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Per Grazia Ricevuta (released in the US by The Cross-Eyed Priest) is a semi-autobiographical work from Italian...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1971
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This ribald comedy is based on a classic 16th-century play, La Betia, by the playwright Ruzante. The story is simple enough:...
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Zilio
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1971
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This three-part social satire lampoons the church, television, big business and universities plagued by campus unrest....
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Franco
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1970
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Don't confuse this 1970 Italian/Yugoslav Operation Snafu with the 1962 British comedy-drama of the same name. While the...
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1970
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Revolutionaries in papal-dominated Rome are hunted down by the minions of Cardinale Rivarola (Ugo Tognazzi) for daring to...
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Cornacchia
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1969
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Fausto (Alberto Sordi) heads into the African jungle to find his long-lost cousin in this slapstick comedy. The Italian...
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Oreste Sabatini
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1968
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A romance between a young woman factory worker and a barber is stopped when her parents raise protests over her relationship...
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Marino
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1968
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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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Natalino
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1968
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1968
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Marco
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1967
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In this comedy, a lovely woman lives and loves freely. Her many lovers do not mind and all are happy until one of the men...
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Screenwriter, The doctor
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1967
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In this comedy, two Yankee con artists pose as tourists visiting scenic Naples. There they intend to rob an old church....
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Screenwriter, Dudu
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1966
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A betrayed wife decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson in this riotous farce. Marta (Catherine Spaak) discovers...
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1966
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Director Alessandro Blasetti used an all-star Italian cast for this satirical comedy that pokes fun at the selfishness of...
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1966
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High-seas battles between a confiscated Italian steamer and British subs during WW II. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi...
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1966
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Made in Italy is a multistoried film, set...in Italy, of course. An all-star cast appears in brief seriocomic vignettes about...
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1965
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Adriana (Stefania Sandrelli) is a young woman from the country who gets caught up in the tempestuous temptations of the big...
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Photographer
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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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Giorgio
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1965
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Just before he became an even greater movie star, Nino Manfredi starred in a number of less well-known films. Among his best...
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1965
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Jealousy between the men in love with one woman cannot be contained by the woman. ~ Rovi...
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1965
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The business of death provides the framework for this black comedy about a mortician's assistant who wants to marry an...
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Jose Luis
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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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Francesco
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1964
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Maruchelli (Amedeo Nazzari) is an Italian expatriate who has made his fortune in Argentina. When he throws a lavish party to...
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Stefano
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1964
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The Italians continue their penchant for gang-directed features in this sexploitation comedy. Part one is entitled "Cocaine...
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Husband ["Cocaina Di Domenica"],Maesreo ["Una Donna D'Affari"]
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1964
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Catherine Spaak was only eighteen, yet already known, when she co-starred in this comedy-drama with Nino Manfredi. She plays...
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Nino
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1963
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Romance, sex, and marriage are the themes of this episodic Italian comedy. The first of the four vignettes, "The Women"...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1962
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When an insurance salesman comes to a small Italian town, he is mistaken for a Fascist official sent from Rome. He is...
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Omero
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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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Giacinto
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1962
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An episodic, funny, though uneven spoof of human manners and foibles, this comedy by Vittorio de Sica begins in Naples when...
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1961
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And Suddenly It's Murder! is a regulation Dino De Laurentiis concoction: Big stars, lavish production values, muddleheaded...
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1960
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In spite of its title, this sex comedy by director Luciano Salce is not another mythic costume drama with Steve Reeves in the...
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Nino
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1960
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In this comedy, a bungling gang leader and his henchmen attempt to swipe a suitcase full of loot from a soccer pool. The...
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1959
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1958
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1958
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1958
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This German-Italian production was also released as Kanonenseranade and The Muzzle. Vittorio De Sica stars as Ernesto...
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1958
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1957
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1956
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1956
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Alberto Sordi plays the title character in the Spanish-Italian Lo Scapolo (The Bachelor). Forever on the verge of marriage,...
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1955
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Despite of (or perhaps because of ) its sparse production values and unpretentiousness, the Italian Gli Innamorati was feted...
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Otello
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1955
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1953
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A straight-laced father and his not-so-straight brother come together under strange circumstances in this comedy from Italy....
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