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Father Pacifico is a genuine friar with a brisk manner, for this reason he is nicknamed Father Manisco. The religious finds himself grappling with a thorny case, as Don Liborio, a Neapolitan lord, dominates all local events, including the love choices of his young daughter. Father Pacifico manages to restore harmony and order despite a thousand difficulties.
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Año 1943. Italia durante los nueve meses de ocupación alemana. Cesira es una mujer que vive en Roma con su hija Rosetta, una adolescente de 13 años. Ante el avance de la guerra, decide huir de la capital y refugiarse en casa de unos parientes, en los montes de Ciociaria, donde es muy bien recibida. La vida discurre serena lejos del frente. La bella Cesira conoce a Michele, un joven intelectual que quiere ser partisano y que, enamorado de ella, intenta atraerla a la causa de la libertad.
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OSS agent, working with the French underground, ambushes Nazi convoy with high-ranking general, who escapes. Later they take him from a Nazi prison and smuggle him to England.
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Ana, una mujer joven y guapa, abandona Nueva York y regresa a su pueblo natal, en el Abruzzo, con la intención de contraer matrimonio con un amigo de la infancia.
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Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). Antes de que los EE.UU. entraran en la contienda (1917), un periodista americano se alistó como voluntario en el Cuerpo de Ambulancias italiano para poder seguir de cerca el desarrollo del conflicto. Segunda adaptación cinematográfica de la novela homónima de Hemingway. La primera la dirigió Frank Borzage en 1932. (FILMAFFINITY)
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Única película como director de Samuel Taylor, autor de la obra teatral en la que se basó Sabrina, de Billy Wilder, y coguionista de Vértigo. Describe a la aristocracia europea de Montecarlo.
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Luisa y Natale, dos jóvenes sin recursos económicos, contraen matrimonio pero no tienen casa propia. Deciden, entonces, acogerse a una ley italiana de la época, en virtud de la cual, una vez construido el techo de una casa, los ocupantes no podían ser desahuciados. (FILMAFFINITY)
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El brigada Carotenuto, después de dejar el cuerpo de los carabineros, regresa a Sorrento, su ciudad natal. A su llegada, es recibido por su hermano, don Matteo, párroco de la ciudadela, y por el cuerpo de guardias urbanos, cuyo mando asumirá. El problema surge cuando se entera de que no podrá vivir en su casa natal, porque está ocupada por una joven viuda, doña Sofía, una hermosa pescadera, llamada "La brava".
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Cesira vive en casa de su prima Agnese. Agnese es hermosa, mientras que Cesira, soñadora y sentimental, es poco agraciada. Agnese atrae hacia sí todas las miradas, cesira, en cambio pasa siempre inadvertida. A pesar de ello, Cesira sueña con hallar un día al hombre de su vida, pues una adivina le ha dicho que está en el "signo de Venus". Un día, conoce a Romolo, un muchacho que vive de expedientes, y a Alessio, un hombre maduro que se considera poeta, y la conquista con su modo de ser indiferente y superior. Un accidente fortuito le permite conocer a Ignazio, un apuesto bombero, pero éste, cuando conoce a Agnese, le dedida toda su atención. Una noche todos sus amigos se encuentran casualmente reunidos... (FILMAFFINITY)
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Don Antonio Carotenuto, comandante del puesto de carabineros de la pequeña localidad de Sagliena, en los Abruzzos, ha decidido jubilarse antes de la edad reglamentaria con el propósito de contraer matrimonio con Anarella, la comadrona del lugar. El motivo de este precipitado retiro es que la novia es madre soltera, asunto muy mal visto en el intachable cuerpo de carabineros.
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Comedia que narra seis episodios ambientados en Nápoles: la historia de una cocinera (Sophia Loren) que extravía su anillo de casada, la de un jugador que pierde una partida con un niño, la de un payaso que es explotado por un gánster...
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Antonio Carotenuto, un subteniente de los carabineros se enamora de una guapa y salvaje muchacha de un pequeño pueblo del Abruzzo, Maria Pizzicarella "la Bersagliera". Entre los admiradores de María está el cabo Pietro Stellati, pero es demasiado tímido para declararse a la muchacha. Maria le corresponde y está decidida a conquistar al joven a pesar de sus escarceos con el maduro subteniente. Además, la comadrona del pueblo, Anna, está enamorada de Antonio, aunque tiene razones para ocultarle sus sentimientos.
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Giacomo Puccini, el hijo de un organista de la Toscana, logra el reconocimiento mundial como compositor de óperas y muere de cáncer de garganta en medio de una crisis artística, a la edad de sólo sesenta y seis.
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Un pobre cura rural recibe una herencia de Estados Unidos. Todo el pueblo se apresta a sacar beneficios del hecho...
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A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
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A luckless young teacher it's suspected of committing two murders. When his lover begins to have doubt about his innocence, he seems to be doomed.
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Film version of the Verdi opera about lovers on the run after the accidental death of the girl's father.
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Carlo Rutelli falls in love with the beautiful variety singer Yvonne la Nuit, but his father opposes the wedding. World War I breaks out and Carlo is killed while Yvonne has a son, but on orders from Carlo's father, she is told he is dead. Her career descends and only Nino, an art partner, remains close to her and helps her earn her living by singing in taverns.
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Azucena, daughter of a Gypsy burnt at the stake, to take her revenge kidnaps one of the children of Count de Luna and raises him in secret as her own.
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A former war captain buys a wrecked ship, fixes it and starts a freight business with some fellow navy members.
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Second World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners Still waiting to return home , preparing to celebrate , away from families , another sad Christmas. To dare a little rein to Their longing , they tell Episodes of Their Life . A Roman tells the USA difficult married life . A Neapolitan soldier tells of His lieutenant, a Neapolitan duke penniless . Meanwhile , the camp commander gave : Prisoners and a gramophone , So , Ai stories intertwine songs . Another soldier recalls the parties and the songs of the Sicilian spring , WHILE a Venetian gondolier evokes A HIS love affair . Sometimes , From Radio shabby listening news from abroad and Italy . Finally , one day , comes the ' pending release and All They return home .
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En París, en 1865, en un orfanato todo el mundo es huérfano. Las chicas, por supuesto, la Directora, el perro y los dos vigilantes, Gasparre y Battista: cada uno de ellos es un huérfano. Gasparre y Battista deciden buscar padre de un niño huérfano por lo que se puede casar. Van a un chiromancer a buscar asesoramiento y Gasparre entera es el hijo de un conde. Encontraron a sus familiares y a involucrarse en una serie de aventuras bajo su propio reisgo.
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In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.
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During Fascism and after WWII, a school porter sacrifices himself so his son, who is slightly ashamed of a lowly background, can become a respected professor.The film also takes a few jabs at Italy's rapid governmental reshuffles.
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An opera singer hides an American soldier in his house in Nazi-occupied Rome.
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Eugenia is a daughter of a wealthy but miserly man living a simple life in the provincial town of Saumur. Eugenia's inexperience leads her to fall in love with an unworthy man.
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The story is taken from the drama "I Pescatori" (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly identifiable with Ischia). Here lives Concetta, a widow with two children, who now lives with another man who however secretly lusts after his stepdaughter until when, on a stormy night...
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When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tullio. She comes to regret her decision when Tullio proves to be a Nazi collaborationist. Casting her lot with the Resistance movement, Gina is forced into a difficult decision when the safety of ex-lover Bruno is endangered by the treachery of Tullio.
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Started in the summer of 1943 by Lattuada and , the because of the war that raged in Italy at the time, the shooting was interrupted several times only to stop for good in September of the same year. It only resumed after the war, in the spring of 1945, but with Mario Costa as the director instead of Lattuada. It was eventually released in September 1945 with only Lattuada billed as the director. Similarly, the film was started with Vittorio Gassman in the role of Brunello, but when the shooting resumed in 1945 he was replaced by Leonardo Cortese
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El protagonista es Prico, un niño de cuatro años, que vive angustiado al ver cómo su madre abandona a su padre para irse con su amante. Su padre lo envía a vivir con su tía y después con su abuela, pero el niño cae enfermo; su madre vuelve entonces con él y le promete que todo volverá a ser como antes. (FILMAFFINITY)
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An engineer, devastated by the death of his fiance during a mountain expedition in north Italy, hopes he might forget about her by marrying a young nurse who adores him. But one day he returns to the mountain retreat where he’d had such happy days with his fiance, leaving his young bride distraught.
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Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her daughter.
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Ukraine, 1942. Italian troops are fighting against the Soviet Union. A military chaplain volunteers to stay behind with a badly wounded Italian soldier, even though this means certain capture.
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A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, comes to believe she's possessed by a long ago mistress of the manor.
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The well off daughter of a tenor breaks up a romance with a helpful youth from a misunderstanding. But she continues to cover him with his gambling debts despite her delicate health.
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An Italian drama from 1942.
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Renzo and Lucia's love story is jeopardized by Don Rodrigo, a wicked nobleman, who is interested in Lucia. When she refuses his attentions he has her kidnapped and brought to a convent whose prioress is a nun as wicked as he is. The two youths will have to go through a lot of misfortunes before being reunited and being able to marry.
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An Italian comedy released in 1941.
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Franco, un hombre joven de ascendencia noble, decide casarse con Luisa, hija de un humilde oficinista, contra la voluntad de su abuela. Pero una terrible tragedia trastorna la vida de la pareja de recién casados: su pequeña hija Ombretta se ahoga en el lago de Como y Luisa va al borde de la locura.
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The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons.
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Una joven que estudia en una academia de secretarias hace prácticas redactando cartas que dirige a un destinatario imaginario que supuestamente vive en Roma. Un día, por puro entretenimiento, se pone a escribir una carta de amor y, por pura casualidad, esa carta es enviada por correo y llega a manos de alguien que, movido por la curiosidad, decide conocer a la remitente.
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Alberto está felizmente casado con Maria. Un día recibe una llamada errónea que provocará una serie de malentendidos con su esposa.
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Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves his family and becomes a pilot in America. In the 30s, his son in Italy wants also to become a pilot, and Luciano accepts an offer of a double dealing agent for a flight from Rio to Rome, but his plane crashes in the Atlantic. For the world Luciano Serra is missing, but he has entered the Italian army under a new name to fight in Ethiopia. The train in which his unit travels is attacked by Ethiopian soldiers, his son flying a reconasaince mission is shot down and wounded by the same attacking enemies. Will Luciano be able to fly the plane back, to get close air support for the outnumbered Italian troups?
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Vittorio De Sica, heir to a large sum of money and owner of a newspaper vending stall, makes enough money out of his business to take a vacation at a fashionable resort. He is given a cruise ticket by an aristocrat who is an old school friend, and is mistaken for the aristocrat when he uses a camera that has his friends name on it. Assia Noris plays a maid who falls in love with him because of who he is and not who others think he is. Happy ending comes when De Sica marries Noris, who is more real than the pampered society belles he has been partying with.
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Based on a Pirandello play, Vittori De Sica plays a wealthy young social lion who has to constantly fight off a horde of women who are eager to marry him because of his position and money. He weds Elisa Cegani, a servant girl, who turns out to be a more appealing wife than any of the others could have been. Assis Noris decorates the screen well as one of the chasers and pursuers. In 1937, De Sica and Noris made a film, "II Signor Max," which, other than the setting and character role names, basically has the same plot as this film.
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Bebe, a handsome and rich young man, is getting engaged with Letizia, a young heir to a noble family.
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A precious painting suddenly disappears from the house of a noble Italian family. A relative from America investigates the mystery.
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Umberto Solaro loses the love of his life Speranza, a noble but poor girl who has been forced to marry a rich Austrian army officer. Heartbroken Umberto becomes a riding instructor but during a competition his horse dies and he decides to give up equitation and become an aviator.
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Venice Film Festival 1936
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Ginevra degli Almieri's family has arranged a marriage of interest but the young Ginevra strenuously refuses until she falls into catalepsy and is buried alive. Once she wakes up she goes home but her family believes they are dealing with a ghost and they try to chase her away. She will only be welcomed by the penniless young painter who has always been in love with her.
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Florence in 1848. There is a strong political tension in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany. Giovanni, a young Neapolitan composer who has just arrived in the city, accidentally comes into contact with some liberals and is convinced to compose the hymn of the Volunteers.
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A meek professor is swept over his feet by a very vivacious girl.
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A school teacher falls in love with one of his female colleague, who teaches gymnastics. She returns his love, but this discovered by his students who try and sabotage their relationship.
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The homonymy of her husband with a criminal who has several murders on his conscience, committed in Canada, scaring the young wife who is a passionate reader of mystery novels and has a guilty conscience
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The film follows Giovanni, a working-class orphan living in Rome, who realizes that his criminal lifestyle is wrong and becomes a devout fascist.
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In the huge steel factories in Terni (Umbria, Italy), two friends: Mario and Pietro, fight for the love of the same girl, Gina. Pietro dies because of a work accident at the factory. The other workers think Mario is responsible for the death of his friend. Mario, who is innocent, is forced to quit, but his love for Gina and his dedication to his job help him out of his crisis.
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Count Agostino di Montecorvo's nephew and niece pretend they get married for his hundredth birthday since the old man has had this wish for a long time. But when the count wants them to beget a child as well they are forced to present him with a fake one. But then the child's mother wants it back...
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Bruno, a chauffeur having some problem in keeping a job, meets one morning Mariuccia, a taxi driver’s daughter working as a perfumery’s shop assistant, and trying to impress her, pretending to be rich, uses his employer’s car to took her on a trip to the lakes, but things don’t work as planned and to conquer Mariuccia’s hearth won’t be so easy…
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When his wife storms out of a dinner planned in honor of his American boss (because their dog is not allowed to be at the table) an engineer pretends that his secretary is the missus.
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A famous composer, distraught after his lover leaves him, contemplates suicide. He meets a young woman who restores his will to live.
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A young woman takes care of the just-born child of her late mother. Sacrificing her engagement and studies along the way.
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