This French occult thriller marks the directing debut of Juan Buñuel, the son of the famous filmmaker, Luis Buñuel. Sophie is...
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1973
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1958
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1973
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Francesco Rosi utilizes the breathtakingly beautiful Italian landscape in an unspecified Italian city to hatch this mystery...
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1976
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This French-made feature was based on a 1957 Hollywood "B" effort The Burglar. Both films were inspired by the same...
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1971
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In this Italian drama, Wilma, an aging dance hall girl, befriends La Cicada, a feisty, free-spirited woman who refuses to...
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1980
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1953
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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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1979
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This three-part Italian comedy with several pretty females is another in a long series of gang-directed efforts. Director...
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1964
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In this French film, Rose (Simone Signoret) is the pillar on which her family depends, and against which it pulls. These...
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1973
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This satirical comedy illustrates that women are just as likely to succumb to the pleasures of the flesh as their male...
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1967
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This action adventure is based on Jules Verne's The Light at the Edge of the World. It takes place in 1865 on the chilly tip...
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1971
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Popular European leading lady Marisa Allasio stars in Marisa la Civetta. Our heroine's dilemma: four suitors, all equally...
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1957
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Told in anecdotal fashion, this lightweight comedy examines the amorous activities of husbands who remain in the city while...
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1958
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1958
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1957
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Initially released in Italy in 1957 as Poveri Ma Belli, Poor But Beautiful had its first American theatrical go-round under...
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1957
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1959
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This gloomy Italian melodrama is set in the resort town of Rimini, the same small town as Fellini's picture I Vitelloni. The...
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1972
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Ragazze di Piazza di Spagna is better known by its English-language title Three Little Girls from Rome. The girls in...
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1952
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After his son disappears, an Italian cheese manufacturer is threatened by political terrorists who will supposedly kill the...
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1981
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Z is one of the most politically insightful films ever made, exposing government hypocrisy and cover-up in the wake of a...
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1969
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The plotline of Le Gitan concerns a devil-may-care "good badman" with gypsy blood flowing through his veins. Robbing from the...
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Amila
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1975
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This standard action-chase film stars Renato Salvatore as Antonio, a man on the run from the Mafia, and the soon-to-be-famous...
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Antonio
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1960
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In this comedy, a hapless fellow's life changes dramatically after he is accidentally (a computer malfunctioned) "playboy of...
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Boy Schock
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1967
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On his wedding night, of all times, a husband appropriately named "Ace" (Adriano Celentano) gambles away the night at a local...
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Bretella
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1981
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From 16th century Sicily to the streets of contemporary New York, the Mafia has transcended its humble roots to evolve into...
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Captain (Gli antenati)
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1976
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Like most of Costa-Gavras' political thrillers, the French State of Siege is based on a true story. The incident dramatized...
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Captain Lopez
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1973
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Bernardo Bertolucci's controversial drama explores the troubled life of a young man and his troubling relationship with his...
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Communist
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1979
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A surreal and often abstruse tale about a woman and her innermost feelings, Oggetti Smarriti starts out with Marta...
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Davide
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1980
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Political intrigues and infighting within the Italian Communist Party are the overriding themes of this drama. Emile...
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Driver
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1975
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When Carrier (Jean Yanne), a dangerous paranoid schizophrenic, receives an inheritance, it lends fuel to his violent...
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Einstein
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1977
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Ettore Zambrini
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1965
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Normally, an actor or actress in a foreign-language film was not the ideal candidate for an Academy Award, inasmuch as his or...
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Florindo
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1960
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Francis
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1963
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The scene is the French Riviera. Based on eyewitness testimony, three identically dressed men are accused of kidnapping and...
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Francois
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1962
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Mario
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1958
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Mario
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1962
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A young group of enterprising con artist attempt to break up some Italian expatriates trying to sell an inferior cloth as...
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Mario
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1959
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Even though this period drama is leisurely to especially slow in parts, it tells an entertaining story about Policarpo...
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Mario
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1959
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Director Franco Rossi takes a few pot-shots at Italian politics in this drama about an interlude in Los Angeles. The...
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Mario
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1962
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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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Mario Angeletti
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1959
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Borniche (Alain Delon) has three difficult tasks before him: to keep a rein on police violence, to cut through bureaucratic...
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Mario Poncini
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1975
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Three different takes on love are presented in this episodic Italian film. The first story begins as a prostitute is...
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Nicola [La Vedova]
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1964
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In this Italian sci-fi comedy the corpse of a laborer is inhabited and revived by an Omicron -- an alien being. When the...
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Omicron/Angelo
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1964
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This clever melodrama from director Renato Castellani stars Anna Magnani as a hardbitten prostitute whose immorality rubs off...
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Piero
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1959
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The Organizer (I Compagni) takes a gritty, near-documentary approach to its subject matter: the exploitation of Italian...
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Raoul
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1963
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Renato
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1960
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This otherwise straightforward movie that chronicles the conflict between a man's romantic urges and the feminist ideal and a...
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Rene
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1976
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Luchino Visconti's operatic masterpiece tells the story of the Parondis, a poor family from a village in southern Italy who...
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Simone Parondi
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1960
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Sir William Walker (Marlon Brando) is the aristocratic secret agent sent by Britain to secure a profitable Portuguese sugar...
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Teddy Sanchez
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1969
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