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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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Италия. 1943 год. Молодая вдова Чезира бросает лавку в Сан-Лоренцо на попечение прежнего любовника и бежит от американских бомбардировок вместе с дочерью-подростком, Розеттой, в свою родную деревню. После изнурительного путешествия, она встречает Микеле, сына местного фермера, в которого влюбляется юная Розетта, а он влюбляется в ее прекрасную маму. Проходят дни, постепенно городок наполняется беженцами, бомбардировки усиливаются, а продуктов становится все меньше и меньше, и Микеле вынужден вывести из городка нескольких немцев безопасным путем, а Чезира и Розетта возвращаются в уже безопасный Рим. По дороге мать и дочь переживают трагедию, которая меняет их жизнь навсегда.
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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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A beautiful, wealthy widow leaves New York to find herself a husband in the Italian village in which she was born. After many tries she...chooses the village blacksmith.
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Экранизация романа Э. Хемингуэя о любви солдата и медсестры во время Первой мировой войны.
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Монте-Карло — столица Монако — крохотного государства на берегу Средиземного моря, котороеможно пересечь пешком всего за несколько часов. Это место престижного отдыха, знаменитоесвоими фешенебельными отелями, дорогими ресторанами, шикарными магазинами и казино. Именно казино привлекает больше всего на свете разорившегося графа Фиаба. Наш герой уже давно заложил, а потом и проиграл свое наследство, единственное, что у негоосталось из жилья — это небольшая яхта. Но он не унывает и каждый вечер, заняв пару сотенфранков, тайком попадет в казино, где пробует отыграться. Однажды друзья дают ему дельныйсовет, — хватит проигрывать в рулетку, пора просто жениться на богатой вдове и «дело в шляпе».Богатое приданое — вот его новая цель, и она быстро найдена. Эта цель — вновь прибывшая накурорт мадам Мария де Кревекуэр.
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Луиза и Натале, молодые, бедные и влюбленные, вступают в брак. Но у них нет собственного жилья. Приходится влюблённым молодожёнам ютиться поначалу с родными Натале, в маленьком доме где живут 8 человек со своими характерами. На окраине Рима, они придумывают как им лучше построить дом, чтобы жить без родных и прописки. Под постоянным надзором полиции, которая может снести строящийся дом, если у него нет крыши...
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После долгого отсутствия командир карабинеров Антонио Каротенуто возвращается в родной Сорренто. Узнав, что его дом оккупировала бойкая продавщица рыбы София, командир временно селится у чопорной прихожанки его брата-священника — донны Виоланте.
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Молодая провинциалка Чезира живет у родственников, работает в бюро машинисткой, а свободное время проводит в компании с двоюродной сестрой. Обе девушки мечтают выйти замуж. По прогнозам знакомой гадалки, в жизни Чезиры наступает период Венеры — время выбора жениха. Вот только все потенциальные женихи, с которыми Чезире удается познакомиться, увидев красавицу-сестру, мгновенно переключаются на нее.
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Командир карабинеров сержант Антонио решается уйти в отставку, чтобы жениться на Аннареле. Неугомонная Берсальера устраивается работать прислугой в доме у Антонио, тем самым давая повод для очередных сплетен...
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Новеллы, объединенные общим названием «Золото Неаполя», рассказывают о людях разных слоев общества. Их интересы и жизненный уклад различен и они даже не знают о существовании друг друга, но их объединяет именно небо Италии. Мы видим их жизнь и понимаем, что благодаря разворачивающимся историям на экране узнаем настоящий итальянский характер.
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В маленькой итальянской деревушке - событие: прибыл новый командир карабинеров Антонио Каротенуто, любитель любовных приключений. Он сразу же обращает внимание на молоденькую Мариеллу. Она так хороша, что все местные мужчины буквально не дают ей прохода...
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Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.
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Распутная и жестокая супруга императора Клавдия Мессалина строит планы по свержению мужа и возведению на трон своего любовника Гая Силия. Но планы императрицы нарушает ее неистовая похоть. Мессалина обращает свой жадный взор на гладиатора Тавра. Однако непокорный раб отказывает всемогущей императрице ради своей возлюбленной христианки Цинции. За это Мессалина приказывает отдать Тавра на растерзание львам. Но отважная Цинция отправляется на арену вместе со своим возлюбленным и, тем самым, смягчает сердца безжалостных римлян. Мессалина вынуждена подчиниться публике и помиловать влюбленных, но она даже не подозревает, что этот жест станет первым предвестником ее падения…
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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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In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
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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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Четырёхлетний мальчик подвергается эмоциональному безрассудству со стороны его неустойчивых родителей и невнимательных родственников.
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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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В Ломбардии, под властью Австрии, в конце XIX века молодой Франко Майрони, внук тиранической маркизы, женился, вопреки её желанию, на дочери скромного государственного служащего Луизе. Затем старая маркиза преследует пару и пытается лишить Франко наследства. Благодаря поддержке почтенного дядюшки супруги приживутся и родят девочку Омбретту. Но Франко участвует в антиавстрийском революционном движении и должен бежать.
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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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Преподавательница в итальянской школе делопроизводства Элиза Малгари постоянно терпит срывы уроков и дерзкие выходки со стороны своих учениц под предводительством Маддалены Ленчи. Однажды дело оборачивается даже тем, что Элизу хотят уволить. Маддалена уговаривает подружек сбавить обороты. А еще оказывается, что одинокая учительница пишет любовные письма несуществующему господину из Австрии. Девочки случайно находят одно из них и отправляют в Вену, где письмо находит адресата... «Маддалена, ноль за поведение» — первая роль в кино Карлы Дел Поджо.
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Однажды Альберто Верани снимает трубку и принимает заказ на две дюжины алых роз. Звонивший ошибся номером, а Альберто приятно удивлён и уже в предвкушении от приключения с незнакомкой. Цветы доставляют и их получает Мария, жена Альберто. Среди цветов она находит карточку с подписью «Загадка». Ею обуревает желание встретиться с этим таинственным мужчиной. Альберто понимает, что произошло, и желает продолжить розыгрыш, чтобы проверить, насколько Мария верна ему и как далеко она может зайти. Он каждый день посылает ей розы и ревнует к несуществующему сопернику.
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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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Во время рыбной ловли на профессора Джакомо Бантти падает, спрыгнувшая с парашютом, Дора Сандри. Эта внезапная встреча полностью поменяла спокойную и размеренную жизнь профессора…
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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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