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Don Vito
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1999
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This complexly plotted comedy interweaves snippets from the lives of nearly 40 diverse patrons sitting at 14 tables in a...
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Maestro Pezzullo
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1998
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King Benny
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1996
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This entry into TNT's lavish and acclaimed Bible Series follows the tale of humble shepherd Abraham (Richard Harris) as he...
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1994
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In this Italian comedy, eight lifelong friends attending their annual dinner party/reunion must re-evaluate their lives...
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1994
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In 1939, Ramon (Jacques Penot) was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the...
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Claudio
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1992
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Sinbad
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1990
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1990
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This wickedly funny Italian comedy centers upon a lascivious, fun-loving old uncle who hands out blood-test certificates to...
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Uncle Lucca
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1989
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This political drama chronicles the corruption of a mayoral candidate for New York City. His ordeal begins when he launches...
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1989
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Director
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1988
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A family history is recalled by the venerable patriarch Carlo (Vittorio Gassman) as he prepares to celebrate his 80th...
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Carlo as a man/Carlo's grandfather
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1987
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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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Baron
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1987
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The vast differences 27 years makes between Italian comedy, the city of Rome, the stars in this film, and filmmaking itself...
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Peppe the Panther
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1985
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In a befuddling look at the nature of evil (apparently linked with how much money one has), a young idealist finds himself in...
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Gotfried
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1985
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This complex French tale eschews a single linear narrative in favor of two parallel storylines that move freely between past...
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Livio
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1984
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With Life is a Bed of Roses, filmmaker Alain Resnais wanted to create a lighthearted tribute to three important French...
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Walter Guarini
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1983
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Loosely based on an historical character and his ennoblement by a Pope, Conte Tacchia relates the adventures of Checco...
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Prince
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1982
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This comedy is set upon a remote Greek island and is very loosely based on Shakespeare's classic play. The tale centers on a...
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Alonzo
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1982
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Director
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1982
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Victor
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1981
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Perhaps a little over-ambitious for the casual audience unfamiliar with the Italian world of entertainment and politics, La...
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Mario
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1980
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Monica Vitti stars as Tina Candela, a housekeeper on trial for murdering her husband. As she recounts her testimony, the jury...
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1980
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Maxwell Smart, the infamous Agent 86 from the '60s television sitcom Get Smart makes his feature-film debut in this goofy...
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1980
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Dear Father and Dear Papa are the English-language titles for the Italian domestic drama Caro Papa. Vittorio Gassman plays a...
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Albino
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1979
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Pippo
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1979
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Perhaps the least seen but most talked about film of Robert Altman's career, Quintet is a somber science fiction tale that...
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St. Christopher
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1979
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Robert Altman's over-frenetic satire on American marriage rituals and hypocrisy concerns the upper-crust marriage between...
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1978
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This Italian black comedy is comprised of nine short stories all related to the theme that most men are selfish cads. At the...
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1978
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1977
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When the young would-be artist Tino arrives in Venice to live at the house of his uncle while he studies art, he soon...
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Fabio Stolz
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1977
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With fear and trepidation, the military division encamped in a desert fort await the return of a Tartar army--which attacked...
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Filimore
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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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1976
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This satirical comedy recounts a tale of love across class boundaries; the twist is that here a middle-class juror, Gabriella...
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Andrea Sansoni
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1975
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Gianni
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1974
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Blind Captain
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1974
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1972
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This Italian social satire/farce is directed by Vittorio Gassman, who also co-stars in it. Country-boy Agostino...
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Director, Screenwriter, Armando
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1972
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This tiresome comedy features pop singer Enzo Jannacci as Amedeo, a country rube who comes to Vatican City seeking a personal...
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Nobleman
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1972
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In Nome Del Popolo Italiano (In the Name of the Italian Pope) represents the darker edge of Italian filmmaker Dino Risi's...
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Lorenzo Santenocito
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1971
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1971
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This is an episodic Italian comedy, which follows the Quixotic adventures of the gentle and extremely naive character,...
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1970
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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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Riccardo
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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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Mike
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1970
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Director
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1969
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This comedy concerns identical twin brothers who have a very different way of looking at life. Filippo makes a living selling...
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Filippo-Mario
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1968
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In this comedy, a guru's groupie plans to seduce him so she can number him among her many conquests. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1968
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A couple with marital problems hopes to find new spirit living in a haunted house in this arcical comedy. Pasquale (Vittorio...
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Pasquale
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1967
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Vittorio Gassman stars in this uneven blend of sex and comedy where animals attempt to take over the world. Satirical jabs...
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Bob Chiaramonte
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1967
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Dino Risi directed this bittersweet comedy about a 45-year-old man, Francesco Vincenzini (Vittorio Gassman), who becomes a...
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Francesco Vincenzini
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1967
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In this Italian comedy set in the 16th-century, a prince and a princess marry. Trouble ensues when a rumor that they have...
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1967
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Fifteen "monsters of modern Rome" are presented in this Italian episodic drama. Each of these "monsters" is highly...
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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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1967
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This mild comedy finds two envoys from Hell sent to Earth to cause trouble. Relfagor (Vittorio Gassman) and his faithful...
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Belfagor
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1966
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Brancaleone (Vittorio Gassman) leads an inept group of Crusaders to the sea in this offbeat war comedy. The Crusaders hope to...
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Brancaleone
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1966
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Lucio Ridolfi
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1965
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La Guerre Secrete is divided into four separate vignettes, each scene representing a day in the life of international...
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Perego
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1965
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An ambitious Italian financier (Vittorio Gassman) will stop at nothing to further his economic expansion. He forsakes old...
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Giulio Ceriani
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1965
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1965
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Two Sicilian bachelors deflower a virgin and find themselves in hot-water with her shot-gun slinging father in this Italian...
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Lawyer Mazzaro
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1965
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Don Guiliano
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1964
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Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing...
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1964
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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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Marco Ravicchio
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1964
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Composed by five different screenwriters, this Italian/French comedy stars the talented and ubiquitous Vittorio Gassman as an...
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1964
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This two hour film contains no less than twenty different vignettes. Traffic jams, a father passing on to his son the...
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1963
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Comedian Ugo Tognazzi as Umberto and Vittorio Gassmann as Domenico are featured in this comedy-drama about the 1920 march to...
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Domenico
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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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Tullio ["L'Avaro"/The Miser]
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1962
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Bruno Cortona
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1962
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Sahak
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1961
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This uneven but interesting drama by director and writer Renato Castellani tells the tale of a brigand and the people who...
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1961
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An impressive cast graces the 105 minutes of Ghosts of Rome. Don't let the title mislead you: the "ghosts" are not genuine...
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Caparra
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1961
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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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Remo
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1960
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Vittorio Gassman showcases his comic talents in this farce by director Dino Risi about the growing success of a con artist....
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Gerardo
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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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Peppe
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1959
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Giovanni Busacca
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1959
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Whatever the "miracle" is in this story, set back in the 19th century, it tends to be buried underneath the multiple romances...
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Guido
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1959
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In this frothy romantic outing, a brainy gal from Texas heads for Italy after winning a television quiz show. There she...
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1959
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1958
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Peppe
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1958
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Prince
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1957
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A reporter's search for scandal is the focus of this drama. He is looking for dirt to boost his paper's ratings. He begins...
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1956
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Two directors called the shots on Difendo il Mio Amore; Giulio Macchi helmed the original Italian version, while Hollywood's...
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Giovanni
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1956
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War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In...
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Anatole
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1956
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In the last stages of his career, veteran American director Robert Z. Leonard dabbled in international productions. One of...
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Prince Sergei
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1955
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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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Mario Rossi
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1954
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Rhapsody is high-gloss soap opera in the grand MGM manner. Elizabeth Taylor stars as Louise Durant, the beautiful but spoiled...
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Paul Bronte
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1954
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This tuneful romantic melodrama is set in a tiny Mexican village and is comprised of three storylines. One tale concerns a...
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Alejandro Castillo
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1953
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On the whole, the MGM B product of the 1950s contained some of the studio's best-ever "small" pictures. Filmed on location in...
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Jory
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1953
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This drama chronicles the exploits of Peter, a European desperate to enter the United States. Because he can't be granted...
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Peter
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1953
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Originally released as Trattedella Blanche, Girls Marked Danger offers a voyeuristic glimpse at the subrosa world of 20th...
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Michele
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1952
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Voice in Your Heart (Une Voce nel tuo Cuore) is purely and simply a showcase for the splendid
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Paul
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1952
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In this suspenseful crime drama, two conniving crooks continually double-cross each other. Eventually their victim comes...
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1951
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Vittorio
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1951
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1950
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Exiled Marco of Amalfi heads a revolution to free his people from the conquering Normans. ~ Rovi...
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1950
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Ho Sognato il Paradiso is adapted from a play by Guido Cantini. Geraldine Brooks, an American actress who was living and...
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1950
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I Fuorilegge was based on the career of the late and unlamented Sicilian bandit chieftain Giuliamo. Ermanno Randi plays the...
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Turri
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1950
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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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Walter
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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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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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Matthew Blumenthal
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1948
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Preludio D'Amore (Love Prelude) is a minor Italian romantic drama with an impressive cast. The story, involving a romance...
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1948
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Veteran Hollywood writer/director Russell Rouse delves into the documentary field in King of Sports. The sport so anointed is...
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