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Fontamara is a village in the Marsica, forgotten by all but God and its inhabitants are called 'cafoni' (boors). Berardo Viola wants to marry Elvira but only after gaining enough money to buy some land and in order to reach his aim he has the idea of going to a great city. When Maria Grazia is raped by the fascists, Berardo and Antonio decide to leave Fontamara and go to Rome. Here they are swindled by a lawyer and afterwards they are invited by an antifascist to a restaurant where they are arrested by the police because of some subversive papers they had.
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During the year 1673, Rome was besieged by poverty and violence. The rich Mr. Argante has two servants to look after him, while his wife is only waiting to see him dead to inherit.
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A meek book-keeper is introduced to gun shooting by a friend, and appears to be very gifted. But things go wrong when he gets involved with gangsters.
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Roué Giulio Marengo (Mastroianni), um arquiteto romano infeliz no casamento, conhece Francesca (Nastassja Kinski), uma jovem e bonita florentina por quem fica atraído. Logo, no entanto, ele descobre que a moça pode ser sua filha. Roué decide manter as mãos bem longe da moça, mas não consegue se afastar completamente dela.
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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.
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Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat, and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde. Mario confesses his love for Matilde and so ensues a love triangle.
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Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat, and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde. Mario confesses his love for Matilde and so ensues a love triangle.
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Rome, 1880. Gregorio Ferramonti (Anthony Quinn) has decided to close his bakery, the family business. Then he tells his sons Pippo (Gigi Proietti), Mario (Fabio Testi) and Teta that they will have to fend for themselves. But Irene (Dominique Sanda), the wife of Pippo, a beautiful, calculating and ambitious young woman, wants to take over the inheritance. Acting on intelligence, weighing every step and its consequences, she manages to convince the brothers that they must prevent at all costs that his father falls in love again to avoid the risk of losing their inheritance.
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A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the town is hiding some very sinister secrets.
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Aristide receives a big inheritance from his mother, but when he meets a beautiful redhead at the cemetery, his life changes unexpectedly.
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A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
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An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?
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The charming Adriana gets sick after her husband's death. Her brother-in-law takes her on a journey to meet a doctor, while love overwhelms them.
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Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
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The magistrate, Scauri, inquires into the mysterious poisoning death of Gaspare Pisciotta, the imprisoned assassin of Salvatore Giuliano. He very soon finds himself struggling against a conspiracy of silence, which Scauri must therefore overcome in order to indict two powerful mafia bosses. His only hope comes for a brief moment from the testimony of the young prosecutor Lojacono. But The Organization is the most strong: the young prosecutor withdraws his deposition and the magistrate disappears in mysterious circumstances.
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An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
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Boccaccio (also known as The Nights of Boccaccio) is a 1972 Italian comedy film written and directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Giovanni Boccaccio's novel Decameron, and it is part of a series of derivative comedies based on the success of Pier Paolo Pasolini's The Decameron.
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An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?
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Two teenagers looking for love find each other in this tragic and cruel story of romance, co-dependence and psychological torment. Pierre (Frank Grimes) is the French boy who saves the British girl Sarah (Carole Andre) from suicide. Despondent over a broken affair, Sarah soon becomes fond of Pierre and agrees to stay with him. The twisted girl puts him through a series of humiliations before she intentionally blinds him so he will never leave her.
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A estória narra as aventuras e desventuras de Encolpio e Ascilto, pelo afeto de Gitão (Gitone), que após ser vendido a um ator de teatro, é resgatado por Encolpio mas escolhe ficar com Ascilto. Rejeitado, Encolpio é salvo do próprio suicídio por um terremoto, e a partir daí começa uma jornada que tem por pano de fundo uma galeria de artes onde conhece o poeta Eumolpo, e o acompanha até um bacanal promovido por um aristocrata com pretenções artísticas, mas que despreza a própria esposa pela companhia de um menino. Pedofilia, homossexualidade, antropofagia, rituais diversos, numa Babel de culturas, que nos desafiam a ver uma Roma Clássica que, sob os valores de hoje, seria amoral e decadente.
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A criminal (Giuliano Gemma) seeks vengeance when his double-dealing brother (Klaus Kinski) steals his jewels and mutilates his shooting hand.
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Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate. Proby talks to the mob bosses about the project, but disagreements between different bosses complicate his efforts.
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When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life. But once love is found, it is a matter of spreading it and here the difficulties begin: first the father who opposes it; then, after the death of his father, the gossips who make Marino believe that Marisa was a little good, so much so that Marisa runs away. Repentant, Marino searches in vain and then, almost by accident, finds her again, Mrs. Ciceri. But love admits no obstacles, not even that of a deaf and dumb husband.
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When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life. But once love is found, it is a matter of spreading it and here the difficulties begin: first the father who opposes it; then, after the death of his father, the gossips who make Marino believe that Marisa was a little good, so much so that Marisa runs away. Repentant, Marino searches in vain and then, almost by accident, finds her again, Mrs. Ciceri. But love admits no obstacles, not even that of a deaf and dumb husband.
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When Marino goes to Rome for an event, he certainly does not imagine meeting Marisa, who will become the love of his life. But once love is found, it is a matter of spreading it and here the difficulties begin: first the father who opposes it; then, after the death of his father, the gossips who make Marino believe that Marisa was a little good, so much so that Marisa runs away. Repentant, Marino searches in vain and then, almost by accident, finds her again, Mrs. Ciceri. But love admits no obstacles, not even that of a deaf and dumb husband.
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Um das batalhas mais sangrentas da WW2 com os Aliados rompendo as linhas alemãs que tinham se fechado na cabeça de peaia de Anzio. Quatro meses e 30.000 mortes depois os Aliados finalmente marcham para Roma.
As Forças Aliadas desembarcam em Anzio sem oposição, mas em vez de avançar em linha reta para o interior seu comandante decide cavar, se entrincheirar. Um correspondente de guerra aguerrido pega emprestado um jipe, vai até Roma e volta sem encontrar quaisquer forças alemãs, mas o seu relatório sobre esta ausência do inimigo é desconsiderado. No momento em que os generais finalmente resolvem fazer algum movimento de avanço os alemães já tinham conseguido montar a sua defesa e uma luta prolongada e sangrenta se inicia.
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Édipo Rei começa em 1920 na Itália, relatando um nascimento, fruto de um caso entre uma burguesa e um oficial militar. O filme se desenvolve retratando o mito de Édipo sobre parricídio e incesto. O epílogo mostra Édipo tocando sua flauta na agitação urbana da Bolonha dos anos 60.
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Caterina, a young teacher, has a hobby of singing and occasionally delights her students.
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A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.
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Sem trabalho, Sergio responde a um anúncio no jornal que solicitava os serviços de um tradutor. A ofertante do emprego, Consuelo, é a viúva do autor dos escritos eróticos que serão traduzidos.
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Innocenti Totò e seu filho Innocenti Ninetto estão à deriva em uma estrada na Itália. No meio do caminho, eles encontram um corvo que pode falar. O trio segue então uma longa viagem, cheios de discussões que debatem a ideologia do socialismo.
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Italian comedy film in three segments
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Priest Don Camillo blackmails his friendly rival Peppone into letting him join a Communist delegation visiting the Soviet Union.
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While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.
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A young woman tries to deceive both her husband and her prospective lover, but is hoist with her own petard.
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Partindo da Imaculada Conceição, a vida de Cristo é reconstituída segundo o Evangelho de São Mateus. Quando Jesus viaja pela Palestina com os seus discípulos para espalhar a palavra de Deus, os romanos conspiram para que ele seja silenciado, resultando na sua prisão, crucificação, e ressurreição.
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A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
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Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village where she lives, Pina (Sandra Milo) places an ad in the newspaper. She gets a response from Adolfo (Francois Perier), who agrees to travel from his residence in Rome to visit her. As flashbacks shed light on both their pasts, suspense builds about how they will relate to one another. Sharp, dark Italian comedy co-stars Mario Adorf, Gastone Moschin.
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Dora, driven away from her town by malicious gossip following her first love affair, has a series of short-lived adventures until she falls in love with Nino, a small time crook. In Parma, a police officer courts her but she keeps thinking of Nino.
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O escritor Tyvian Jones parece ter tudo (um best-seller internacional, um apartamento em Roma, uma bela noiva), mas é amargo mesmo assim. Ele encontra sua cara-metade na sedutora Eve. Uma tirana emocional, sua manipulação casual força Tyvian a confrontar seu passado e suas fraquezas.
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Tommaso Puzzilli is a boy who grew up in the suburb of Pietralata outside Rome. Not having a job, Tommaso and his friends are committing crimes to make money.
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Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Carboneria.
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Um clássico do cinema italiano dirigido pelo talentoso Antonio Pietrangeli (O Magnífico Traído) e estrelado pelos astros Marcello Mastroianni (A Doce Vida), Simone Signoret (As Diabólicas) e Emmanuelle Riva (Hiroshima, mon Amour). Roma, 1958. Uma nova lei determina o fechamento dos bordéis da cidade e as prostitutas Adua, Lolita, Milly e Marilina precisam tomar um novo rumo na vida. Juntas, elas decidem abrir uma trattoria na periferia. Será que elas conseguirão deixar o passado para trás? Com roteiro co-escrito por Ettore Scola e sob a influência do Neo-Realismo, Pietrangeli realizou uma pequena obra-prima repleta de ternura e humanismo.
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Dubrowsky (Italian: Il vendicatore) is a 1959 Italian- Yugoslav historical period drama film directed by William Dieterle. It is based on the novel Dubrovsky by Alexander Pushkin.
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The "casanova" gondolier Bepi struggles to accept his future monogamous life, being Venice a hub of attracting tourists.
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A destroyer departs from the port of Taranto with orders to take a load of petrol to Tobruk at all costs.
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Jupiter decides to spend his 3,000th birthday on earth amongst the humans. Mercury suggests he take the place of a newly married politician so he can have some fun with the man's new wife - but nothing goes to plan!
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A tragédia envolvendo fúria, ciúme e assassinato em torno de Othello, Iago e Desdemona. Esta estranha e magnífica visão de Welles para o clássico de Shakespeare, já era a 12ª versão levada para as telas. Filmada na Itália e Marrocos, teve sérios problemas de produção, levando mais de dois anos para finalizar. Mesmo assim, Welles teve controle absoluto sob a obra, dos diálogos à montagem final. Com todas estas dificuldades para a realização de Othello e vendo o impressionante resultado final, o filme ganhou status de CultMovie. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
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