Up at the Villa (2000)
Genre : Drama, Romance
Runtime : 1H 55M
Director : Philip Haas
Writer : Belinda Haas
Synopsis
Superficial people are revealed and drastically changed by circumstance or luck in this a tale of death, seduction, blackmail and theft among British and Americans in Florence in the turbulent days just before World War II.
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