Inspired by director Vittorio De Sica's 1952 neorealist classic Umberto D., Francis Huster's sentimental drama stars...
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From Screenplay by
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2009
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Survey of the history of Italian cinema, featuring clips from such classics as "Open City," "8-1/2," and "Seven Beauties,"...
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1986
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1974
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Director
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1974
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This film explores the events surrounding the assassination of Mussolini's chief political opponent, socialist Giacomo...
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Judge Mauro del Giudice
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1973
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The second of two horror films shot in a single production term and bearing the name of pop-art icon Andy Warhol (whose...
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Lord Difiore
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1973
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Director
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1973
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Made for television, The Small Miracle is based on a story by Paul Gallico. Little Pepino (Marco Della Cava) hopes to cure...
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1973
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Director
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1972
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A tabloid newspaper reporter becomes confused with guilt after one of his stories causes the death of an innocent man, and...
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1972
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In this offbeat crime adventure, a downhill ski instructor at an Alpine resort involves himself in a conspiracy to rob the...
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Dolphi
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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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Director
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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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Director
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1970
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Vittorio De Sica directs the lyrical war drama Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis), based on a...
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Director
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1970
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Director
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1970
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The tragic Sharon Tate plays a crucial role (her last-ever appearance before the cameras) in 12 Plus 1 (aka The Thirteen...
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Di Seta
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1970
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A mid-1960s TV documentary special (and a New Yorker cartoon before that) was the inspiration for If It's Tuesday, This Must...
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1969
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Vittorio De Sica directed this sudsy romantic drama, which received punishing reviews on its initial release....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1968
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Caroline (France Anglade) is the heroine who is pushed by her father into a loveless marriage with a lawyer. Unknown to her...
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1968
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Vittorio De Sica delivers a full-blown comic performance as Cesare Celli, an American gangster exiled to Italy and kidnapped...
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1968
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A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international...
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Cardinal Rinaldi
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1968
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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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Director
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1967
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In this Italian melodrama, a soccer referee has more passion for the game than he does for his wife. The man's father...
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1967
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Vittorio De Sica directs the 1967 episodic sex comedy Sette Volte Donna (Woman Times Seven), consisting of seven short...
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Director
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1967
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Albert Sordi is the son who travels to America to visit his father in New York. The two are to be reunited for the first time...
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Father
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1967
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Director
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1966
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A beautiful free-lance photographer meets and falls in love with a French medical student at a fancy ball and becomes...
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Director
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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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Kim Novak's decolletage, rather than the lady herself, is the true star of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. This...
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Count
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1965
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Director
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1964
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Each of the episodes in the three-part Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (Ieri, Oggi E Domani) stars Sophia Loren and...
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Director
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1963
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This serio-comic drama finds a man (Alberto Sordi) in debt with no easy way to alleviate the situation. He conspires to sell...
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Director
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1963
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Director
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1962
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1962
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Released in the US by 20th Century-Fox, Boccaccio '70 is a compendium of short subjects directed by three of Italy's top...
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Director
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1962
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The story of a Frenchman who fought to liberate the American colonies from British rule is colorfully brought to the screen....
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1962
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Aladdin (Donald O'Connor) is a poor young man living in ancient Bagdad, who is given to flights of imagination, and taken...
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Genie
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1961
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A beautiful and wealthy woman in the market for a husband believes she has found the right man -- only to discover he isn't...
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Joe
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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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Director
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1961
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In this drama, a woman marries a lawyer who is endeavoring to do all he can to stay on the good side of his wealthy aunts so...
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1961
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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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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Col. Cuocolo
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1960
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In what must be the longest lapse of time between a film and its sequel, 70-year-old Abel Gance continues his nearly...
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Pope
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1960
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This is an indecisive, ultimately unconvincing wartime drama set in the 1930s when Spain was caught in a bloody civil war, a...
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Gen. Clave
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1960
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With top stars Clark Gable as the American Michael Hamilton and Sophia Loren as the very Italian Lucia Curcio, this comedy by...
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Mario Vitale
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1960
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Vittorio De Sica plays the bumbling captain of a fruit and vegetable boat, operating in World War II Italy. The manpower...
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1960
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With a deft guiding hand, director Roberto Rossellini brings out the depths in this study of a man's transformation during...
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Victorio Emanuele Bardone
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1959
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Prolific director Giorgio Bianchi comes off with another good comedy in Il Moralista, due in no small part to the talents of...
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Il Presidente
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1959
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1959
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1959
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It Happened in Rome -- as well as in Venice, Florence, and points in between in this frothy excursion into beautiful Italy....
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1959
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This charming fantasy concerns a young orphan named Marietto who believes that he must select his own mother. Escaping from...
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1958
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In this occasionally amusing frolic, Gina Lollobrigida plays a sexy widow who returns to Italy from New York following the...
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Composer (Music Score), Director, Priest
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1958
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Anna may be from Brooklyn, but this medium-budget domestic drama was filmed and financed in Italy. The title character,...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1958
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A womanizing bachelor with a cynical outlook on marriage urges a young salesclerk to avoid tying the knot with his landlady's...
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Luigi
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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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Ernesto DeRossi
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1958
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Domenica e Sempre Domenica (Sunday is Always Sunday) is one of several late-1950s films to be based on a successful TV...
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1958
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This engaging slice of neorealism stars Marcello Mastroianni as "Il Medico" (The Doctor) and Vittorio de Sica as "Lo...
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1958
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1958
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If Hollywood could put the names of Abbott and Costello in the titles of the team's pictures, why couldn't Italy honor its...
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Marchese De Vitti
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1957
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1957
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This French-Italian musical starts out in the eponymous French gambling establishment. Vittorio de Sica plays Gordy, an...
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Gordy
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1957
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Father
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1957
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The superb cinematography of Aldo Tonti adds immeasureably to the enjoyment of Souvenir D'Italie. The story revolves around...
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1957
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1957
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Marlene Dietrich and Vittorio De Sica grace this comical yet dramatic Italian tale of a tumultuous love affair between two...
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Count Dino della Fiaba
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1957
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In this Italian romantic comedy set in the town of Sorrento, on the beautiful Bay of Naples, a woman rents a home from a...
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1957
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Farewell to Arms is the second film version of Ernest Hemingway's World War One novel--and also the last film produced by...
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Maj. Alessandro Rinaldi
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1957
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1957
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Mio Figlio Nero boasts one of the most eccentrically diverse casts in motion picture history. Silent movie queen Gloria...
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Seneca
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1956
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Directly after his successful The Gold of Naples (1954), Italian filmmaker Vittorio DeSica served up something of a throwback...
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Director, Producer
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1956
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1956
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More a slice-of-life film than anything else, Vittorio De Sica simply examines the patrons of the Villa Borghese parks for a...
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Director
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1956
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The third entry in the Italian "Bread, Love and. . ." series, Pane, Amore e. . . was directed by Dino Risi, taking over from...
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1955
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1955
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A rich man's attempts to steal away a poor man's wife set the stage for this comic farce, set in Naples in 1860. Luca is a...
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The Governor
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1955
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Gli Ultimi Cinque Minuti (The Last Five Minutes) was adapted from the popular Italian stage play by Aldo De Benedetti....
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Carlo Reani
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1955
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Alessio Spano
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1955
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Susan Hayward pulls out all the stops, and then some, in this cinemadaptation of singer Lillian Roth's autobiography I'll Cry...
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1955
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1955
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Can a good man tame a woman on the wrong side of the law? Paolo (Marcello Mastroianni) is a slightly clumsy cab driver who,...
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Stroppiani
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1954
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In this sequel to Bread, Love, and Dreams a fortyish man gets himself in trouble with his wife who suspects him of messing...
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Marshal Antonio Carotenuto
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1954
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Director, Screenwriter, Count Prospero B
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1954
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1954
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Franciolin) FI An all-star lineup of actors and directors was responsible for the omnibus feature Secrets D'Alcove. The film...
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Bob
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1954
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Unlike many multistoried films of the 1950s, Gran Varieta is the handiwork of a single solitary director--though five writers...
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1954
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This Italian anthology is comprised of five separate episodes. In the first tale, two impoverished parents must leave their...
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1954
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This romantic Italian anthology film is comprised of six episodes that deal with a century of love. The first vignette,...
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1954
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Director, Producer
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1954
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Villa Borghese is Grand Hotel with trees and shrubbery. Set in the famed Roman city park of Villa Borghese, the film offers...
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1954
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Vittorio De Sica plays the middle-aged marshal of carabiniers in a remote Italian mountain village. He's anxious to marry,...
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The Marshal
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1953
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Baron Fabrizio Donati
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1953
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Indiscretion of an American Wife began its life as a romantic drama entitled Terminal Station, directed with extraordinary...
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Director, Producer
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1953
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An all-star cast graces this Italian "omnibus" feature. The film consists of eight short stories, each based on nostalgic...
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1952
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Frequently mentioned on lists of masterpieces of modern cinema, Vittorio De Sica's Umberto D. transforms a simple character...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1952
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It hardly takes a linguist to figure out that the title of this whimsical Italian comedy translates to Bonjour, Elephant!...
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Producer, Mr. Garetti
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1952
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Maestro Perboni
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1951
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This episodic Italian comedy follows the misadventures of housemaid Maria (Elsa Merlini). Her various employers include a...
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Actor
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1951
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Screenwriter
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1951
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1951
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Domani e Troppo Tardi is the first of two Leonide Moguy films dealing with the travails of postwar Italian life; the second...
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Prof. Landi
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1950
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Filmed in 1945, the Italian My Widow and I made it to the U.S. five years later. Two of Italy's top box-office draws,...
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Adriano Lari
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1950
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Sperduti nel Buio was released in the U.S. as Lost in the Dark. The film traces the ups and downs of three Neapolitan street...
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Nunzio
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1949
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This landmark Italian neorealist drama became one of the best-known and most widely acclaimed European movies, including a...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1948
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The Italian Peddlin' in Society was originally released as Da Bancarella a Bancarotta. Anna Magnani stars as Gioconda, a...
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Count Gherani
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1947
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Director
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1947
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1946
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Vittorio DeSica's Shoeshine (Sciuscia) is a must-see example of Italian neorealist cinema, ranking with such other neorealist...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1946
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Director, Screenwriter
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1945
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A very early Vittorio De Sica effort, The Children Are Watching Us was originally released in Italy as I Bambini Ci Guardano....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1944
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1943
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Doctor Beware was the U.S.-released title of Vittorio DeSica's 1941 effort Teresa Venerdi. DeSica not only directed, but...
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Director, Screenwriter, Dr. Pietro Vignali
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1941
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1941
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Director, Screenwriter
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1941
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Director
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1940
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Director
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1940
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1940
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Altoleto Palermi is both writer and director of the Italian domestic drama Le Due Madri (The Two Mothers). Vittorio De Sica...
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Salvantore
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1940
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The Italian historical melodrama The Cuckoo Clock was acquired for US distribution by MGM-who promptly shelved the film for...
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Capt. Ducc
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1939
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1939
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Loud, prolonged laughter is the order of the day in the Italian Il Trionfo Dell'Amore (Triumph of Love). Vittorio de Sica and...
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Vincenzo
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1938
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Partire (Departure) was adapted by director Amleto Palermi from the stage play by Gherardo Gherardi. Vittorio de Sica stars...
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1938
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Its title translating as Naples of Former Days, this Italian musical romance takes an bittersweet backward glance at the 19th...
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maestro Perla
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1938
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Max
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1937
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This Italian romantic drama was originally released as L'Uomo Che Sorride. It's a Taming of the Shrew yarn in mufti; the...
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Pio
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1937
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Questi Ragazzi (Those Children) is the story of a December-December romance. An elderly man and woman, both long widowed,...
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1937
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Daro un Milione (I'll Give A Million) was another felicitous collaboration between director Mario Camerini and his favorite...
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Gold
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1937
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Composer Pietro Mascagni was responsible for this direct-to-screen Italian operetta. The story is traditional...
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Avvocato Paladino
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1936
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Ma Non e Una Cosa Seria (But It Isn't Serious) is based on a play by Luigi Pirandello. Terrified of the notion of matrimony,...
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1936
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Vittorio de Sica stars as Professor Giovanni Agano, a lighthearted (and somewhat light-headed) Italian composer. Falling head...
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Professor Giovanni Agano
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1936
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