It is the 19th century in Italy, and Maria (Angela Bettis) has joined a convent in order to explore her strong feeling that...
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1993
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At one time, even the great Buster Keaton was a regular visitor of the mental health, alcoholic rehabilitation-center system....
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Serafina
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1990
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Director Terry Gilliam adroitly applies his Monty Python sensibilities upon the "career" of famed German prevaricator Baron...
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Queen Ariadne/Violet
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1989
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1987
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Margherita (Carol Alt) is a wife and mother who decides to take a job as a fashion-show coordinator in this romantic drama....
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1987
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A Medeci villa is home to a crackpot doctor who does experiments on peacock eggs, a nurse who greets people by doing a...
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1982
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1980
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1978
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Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a...
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1977
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In this film, the arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores...
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Dolores
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1977
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When he is not working as a stage performer, Emile (Yves Montand) works as a small-time con-man. He has a brand-new plan for...
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Neighbor
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1976
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After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist (James Mason) seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that...
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1975
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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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Known to English-speaking audiences as Day for Night, La nuit américaine was director François Truffaut's loving and humorous...
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Séverine
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1973
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This film is Joseph Losey's mood piece that delves into the psychological makeup of Frank Jackson (Alain Delon), the assassin...
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Natasha Trotsky
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1972
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St. Francis of Assisi was an extraordinarily complex and difficult figure whose effect on his contemporary society was...
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1972
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This uneven sex comedy finds the antique dealer Julian (Alain Delon) living with his lover Agatha (Mireille Darc). The two...
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Woman
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1970
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Marie (Marthe Keller) is the most beautiful girl in her small village. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby town and wins...
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Madeleine de Lepine
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1970
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In this gentle, tragic drama, Olivier (John McEnery) is a wealthy young man with a lively and attractive mother...
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Christine
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1970
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Mother
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1970
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Italo Bombolini (Anthony Quinn) is the mayor of the hillside village of Santa Vittorio. The wine-loving town leader erases a...
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1969
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In this drama, a Neapolitan lad travels to Milan to attend his father's funeral. His father was a gigolo, and the young man...
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1968
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Film star Lylah Clare is dead, but her legend lives on. Movie-producer Barney Sheean (Ernest Borgnine) hires Elsa Brinkmann...
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1968
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Maria
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1966
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Valentina
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1965
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A young writer goes to a summer resort in wintertime to be alone and contemplate his moral dilemma in this thrilling and...
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Irma
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1965
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Friedrich Durrenmatt's misanthropic theatrical piece The Visit has never been totally successful in any production, not even...
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1964
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Generally considered the first real giallo film, Mario Bava's stylish thriller stars Leticia Roman as Nora, who travels to...
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1963
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This routine, slow-paced biographical drama is based on the 1929 autobiography of Swedish doctor Axel Martin Fredrik, The...
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Eleanora Duse
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1962
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1961
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This engaging World War II drama is a joint American-Yugoslav effort and although set in a Yugoslav town, the actual incident...
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1961
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Even into the 1960s, Yugoslavian films played up the contributions of their partisan underground during World War II. Square...
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Erica Bernardi
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1961
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The Spanish/Italian Rocket From Calabuch is significant only as the last film of beloved character actor Edmund Gwenn. The...
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1956
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Filmed in Germany (where it was released in 1954), Republic's Magic Fire is the life story of controversial 19th century...
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Mathilde Wesendonk
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1956
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Roman couturier Clelia (Eleonora Rossi-Drago) leaves the big city to work at a boutique in Turin. She moves into a hotel and...
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Nene
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1955
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1955
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1955
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The Barefoot Contessa begins at the funeral of Ava Gardner, a former Spanish peasant, cabaret dancer and movie star, who at...
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1954
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In this Italian melodrama, three Roman prostitutes suddenly find themselves on the streets when the city informs them that...
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1954
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1954
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1954
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Maria Brentano
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1952
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After surviving the hell of a Nazi death camp, a refugee faces even greater dangers in America in this tale of murder,...
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Victoria Kowelska
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1951
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The sheer star power of Viviane Romance makes the more absurd passages of Crossroads of Passion tolerable. Set during WW II,...
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Maria Pilar
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1951
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Shadow of the Eagle is set during the reign of Russia's Catherine the Great. Dashing Count Orlof (Richard Greene) is...
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Princess Tarakanova
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1950
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Barbara
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1950
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Thieves' Highway is set in San Francisco and the surrounding countryside. Richard Conte plays Nick Garcos, an American GI who...
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Rica
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1949
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Luana
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1949
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A composer discovers that the inspiration for his greatest work may come at the expense of his marriage in this romantic...
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Alida
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1949
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1949
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Femmes sans Nom is the second film in a proposed trilogy conceived by Hungarian director Geza Radvanyi (the first was...
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Yugoslavian
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1949
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This Italian drama is a wartime version of the old story. Set during WW II, it follows the journeys of a cursed French Jew...
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Esther
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1948
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In 1935, American audiences were treated to two simultaneously released versions of Les Miserables, one made in Hollywood,...
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Fantine/Cosette
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1948
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1947
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A cat burglar, a suicidal veteran, and a starving typist-turned-prostitute are brought together by fate and propelled through...
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1946
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maria
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1946
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1945
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This film is the first western ever made in Italy. It tells the tale of a young saloon dancer who inadvertently gets...
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1942
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