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New year's eve at "The Islands" condos. An aging countess's party is crashed by the soccer team from her gigolo's town. While dressing for a dinner party, the wealthy Guilia discovers her husband's affair with her best friend and vows revenge. Next door, a family prepares their vintage Dodge for a drive through the streets. A call girl ties up a lawyer while, unbeknownst to him, three men await the right moment to break into his office. Across the hall, a woman downs pills in a lonely suicide attempt. Two young men hide out in a bedroom smoking dope; one of them has some dynamite. As midnight approaches, each group draws closer to grotesque tragedy.
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Although liberated from Auschwitz on January 27, 1945, Levi did not reach Turin until October 19 of that year. After spending some time in a Soviet camp for former concentration camp inmates, he embarked on an arduous journey home in the company of Italian former prisoners of war from the Italian Army in Russia. His long railway journey home to Turin took him on a circuitous route from Poland, through Russia, Romania, Hungary, Austria and Germany.
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Two neighbors, young Vincenzo and old Mr. Bartoloni, are utterly unhappy. On the one hand Vincenzo must lead a miserable and frustrating life as he cannot find any regular job, despite his Arts degree. On the other hand, Mr. Bartoloni is fed up with his despotic wife: the woman who used to be a beautiful artist is now a fat and shabby drunkard. The two men meet on a particularly sad night and, during an outburst Mr. Bartoloni asks Vincenzo to help him to get rid of his wife by simulating an accident with the promise of a considerable amount of money. At night Vincenzo can't sleep: Mr. Bartoloni wasn't joking and he is in a desperate need for money...
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An funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed in a wonderful way by famed actor and later director Sergio Castellitto.
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Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.
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After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses.
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Splendor is the name of an old movie theater managed by Jordan (Mastroianni), who inherited it from his father. The theater is in decay and only generates debts and trouble, but Jordan gets aid in his almost quixotian quest from projectionist Luigi (Troisi) and ushurette Chantale (Vlady). However, Jordan is finally forced to sell the Splendor to businessman Lo Fazio (Piperno), which plans to transform it in some kind of furniture store. When Jordan leaves the theater for the last time (the very first scene), he recalls the glorious days of Splendor and movies in general.
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Um homem de negócios dos Estados Unidos volta a Itália pela primeira vez em quatro décadas apenas para descobrir que uma antiga namorada dele, junto com seu irmão, o envolveram em uma imensa fraude.
Assistant Production Design
A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people living their life. They get in touch with old and money-tight producer Mengaroni to edit their movie, but while they contact the accidental actors for gathering authorization, he starts to manipulate their work.
Assistant Production Design
Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to further their own careers.
Assistant Production Design
Um jantar num terraço romano é uma oportunidade para conhecer um grupo de intelectuais da classe média que falam, discutem, e brigam também. A partir deste quadro se desenvolve a história com um roteirista curto de ideias, um jornalista incapaz de se renovar, um assessor da RAI propensos à depressão, um produtor de cinema vulgar e um deputado comunista um pouco duvidoso e adúltero. Um ano mais tarde, quando o tempo terá mudado o equilíbrio das coisas, eles se reencontram no mesmo lugar, talvez mais conscientes. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
2 versões de montagem:
150 min - Lançamento
154 min - na Finlândia
Assistant Production Design
In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to perfection by Risi's favorite leading man, Vittorio Gassman). Risi paints his portrait against a backdrop of an Italy where the new permissiveness has run rampant, traditional socio-cultural values have been usurped by consumerism, and the streets have become an open battleground for politically extremist groups (the '70s were dubbed "The Years of Lead" due to the great number of terrorist acts, and politically motivated assassinations).
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Two minstrels singing for their supper in Rome discover they've both been lovers to the same woman, and one of them is the father of her infant son; a privilege neither is willing to concede.
Assistant Production Design
A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend Renato, and then with his young colleague, Elena.
Assistant Production Design
O filme é ambientado durante a década de 1930: a ocasião é o primeiro encontro entre Mussolini e Hitler. Deixado sozinho em sua casa quando o marido cortiço fascista foge para participar do evento histórico, Sophia Loren inicia uma amizade com seu vizinho misterioso Mastroianni. Como o dia segues em noite, Loren e Mastroianni desenvolver uma relação muito especial que vai alterar radicalmente tanto de suas perspectivas sobre a vida.
Assistant Production Design
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
Assistant Production Design
This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.
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Two racy women decide to chuck their mundane lives and go on a wild adventure.
Other
Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points out some of the more brutal aspects of the intelligence community from around the world. Wars are started, all facets of everyday life are controlled, innocent people are tortured needlessly and subjected to extreme violence.
Assistant Production Design
Três italianos, Gianni (Vittorio Gassman), Nicola (Stefano Satta Flores) e Antonio (Nino Manfredi) se tornam muito amigos durante o ano de 1944 enquanto combatem os nazistas. Cheio de ilusões, eles se estabelecem depois da guerra. Os três amigos idealistas precisam lidar com a inevitável desilusões da vida no pós-guerra da Itália.
Assistant Production Design
Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.
Assistant Production Design
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
Assistant Art Director
No início da Revolução Mexicana em 1913, o bandido mexicano Juan Miranda e o idealista irlandês John H. Mallory, especialista em explosivos, se encontram com um grupo de revolucionários que estão planejando roubar um banco nacional. Quando se descobre que o governo vem usando o banco como esconderijo para presos políticos ilegalmente detidos, que são liberados pela explosão. Miranda se torna um herói revolucionário contra a sua vontade.
Assistant Production Design
Niccolò Vivaldi is a cello player and he plays in Arena di Verona Orchestra. But he is not the first and neither the second cello. He is frustrated. Nobody can remember his face, nor his name. Niccolò is married to Costanza, who is really beautiful and he takes some pictures of her naked. Later he shows the pictures to a friend and so he feels better. He starts to write a comic opera called "Il merlo maschio" only to discover later he had written Rossini's "La gazza ladra". To maintain his self-esteem he can only show his wife...
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Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.
