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2009
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Oci Ciornie was an international co-production tailored for Marcello Mastroianni. It received good reviews in Italy and...
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1987
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1984
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An introverted American professor (Burt Lancaster) has retired to an Italian house, but finds his life interrupted when a...
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Bianca
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1974
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Luchino Visconti (Count don Luchino Visconti di Modrone) was a film director, true, but he was also a nobleman and a grand...
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Cosima von Buelow
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1973
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This Italian romantic melodrama is distinguished by having in its soundtrack a well-performed aria by Maria Callas. It tells...
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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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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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Based on a novel by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice stars Dirk Bogarde as a German composer who is terrified that he has lost...
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Tadzio's Mother
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1971
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1971
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Mother
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1968
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1968
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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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Jocasta
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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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Gloria ["The Witch Burned Alive"]
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1967
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1967
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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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The Flying Saucer is an irreverent satire of the worldwide fascination in space travel in the early 1960s. Alberto Sordi...
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Vittoria
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1964
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1964
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For anyone not up on Italian history during World War II, this interesting docudrama about the eventual execution by the...
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Edda Ciano
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1963
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Rachel
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1961
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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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Marini
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1960
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Once branded himself by the House Un-American Activities Committee, award-winning director Martin Ritt focuses on the cruel...
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Jovanka
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1960
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Constantina
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1959
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Masha
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1958
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An overbearing woman is determined to force her two kids to turn her struggling rice plantation into a success....
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Suzanne Dufresne
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1957
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Uomini e Lupi was released outside of Italy as Men and Wolves. Pedro Armendariz and Yves Montand star as a pair of courageous...
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1957
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Theresa
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1954
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This very expensive Italian-made adaptation of Homer's "The Odyssey" stars Kirk Douglas as seafaring hero Ulysses. The story...
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Penelope/Circe
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1954
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Unable to find work in Hollywood due to the Blacklist, director Robert Rossen filmed his 1954 production Mambo in Italy....
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Giovanna Masetti
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1954
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Anna
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1951
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Amedeo Nazzari stars as Peppe Musolino, a good-natured woodcutter wrongly accused of murder. Sentenced to 20 years in prison,...
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Mara
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1951
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Originally released as Riso Amaro, Bitter Rice was one of the landmark films of the postwar Italian neorealist movement....
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Silvana
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1949
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1949
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Barely seen in the US at the time of its release, the Italian Lure of the Sila (IL Lupo Della Sila) became a television...
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1949
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