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Italy, the early 19th century. A villa is the home of a small English community, all rich and superficial people lounging about in its beautiful surroundings. Claire, George's wife, and Robert, her son, are murdered by a mysterious killer. Thinking the murderer is one of the family, distraught George devises a plan to unmask the culprit. Having met a woman, Ann, who is a dead ringer for Claire, he takes her back to the villa and announces their imminent marriage. Ann is considered an outsider and treated with contempt and hostility, while George fails to find any significant clue to the solution: everybody is to be blamed, at least morally, but the final revelation is more bitter than expected...
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Mondo style documentary about European nightlife.
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Massimo returns to Venice after years of fighting against the Turks. He finds his beloved Elena, who in the meantime has married the doge who is tyrannizing the city.
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Purificata, a young peasant living in a small village in Southern Italy, is considered a witch by the locals; incurring this way into their wrath — up to a point where she is condemned to a terrible sentence as a punishment to her supposedly evil deeds.
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During WWII, a fierce struggle for survival in the mountains between partisans and Fascists, in this pessimistic portrait of combat.
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In order to persuade the Emperor to spare his village, the mighty Ursus is forced to fight the greatest gladiator in Rome in the Roman Arena.
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Notti Calde d'Oriente (released in English-speaking countries "Orient by Night"), the 1962 Roberto Bianchi Montero Italian mondo strip tease sexploitation documentary featuring Takeucmi Keigo and His Imperial Japanese Dancers, Bommie the International Dancer of New Orleans, Chiquita and her Jamaican Strip-Tease, The Two Jolly Sisters, and Dodo D'Amburgo the Queen of the Strip-Tease. Note that this was one of the approximately 100 "sexy nocturne" mondo style documentaries that were produced between 1959 and 1970, mainly in Italy. They are documentaries that include segments of strippers, which allowed them to include nudity that had formerly only been seen in nudist movies. The strippers are shown performing their acts, and there was an attempt to film them artistically.
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XVIII-й век. Франция накануне революции. На одном из Карибских островов создана каторга для государственных преступниц, куда отправляются женщины из семей, попавших в опалу к Людовику XVI-му и Марии-Антуанетте. Одной из таких несчастных становится Мартина Фуше. На острове она встречает свою сестру, осужденную двумя годами раньше. Вместе с другими заключенными девушки готовят побег, но терпят неудачу. Сестра Мартины погибает, а ей самой грозит мучительная смерть под пытками. Но неожиданно на остров прибывает новый комендант – капитан Анри Вальер. Он приказывает отменить казнь и резко ослабляет режим. Кажется, узницы могут, наконец, перевести дух...
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In the late 1500s, forces of the Duke of Malaga topple the Sacred Obelisk in the North African city of Melida before they're defeated by the local Sheik. The Shiek's men then sail to Spain and kidnap the Duke's daughter, Isabella.
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Австралия, конец XVIII века. Капитан Редуэй со своим фрегатом прибывает в поселение бывших каторжников, чтобы забрать улов жемчужных раковин. Пытаясь добиться от поселенцев дополнительной дани, капитан заставляет их работать круглые сутки, используя самые жестокие методы. Среди несчастных, попавших под горячую руку Редуэя, оказываются отец и брат его лучшего офицера – лейтенанта Дэвида Робинсона. Когда молодой человек попытался защитить своих родственников, то сам оказался под арестом. Не терпящий неповиновения капитан приказал подвергнуть его жестокой казни, но в этот момент на посёлок напали пираты старого ван Артца...
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Gordon, The Black Pirate, battles the slavery trade.
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A secret document has fallen into the hands of pirates. Spain and England are both interested. The English commissioned a notorious pirate and the Spaniards procure their best officer, Carlos de Herrera, to retrieve the document for them.
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In the 17th century, a village was the refuge of several French buccaneers. One day, the Spanish under the command of Guzmán, attacked the village and killed everybody, adults and children ...
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Sword in the Shadows (Italian: Una spada nell'ombra) is a 1961 Italian swashbuckler film directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Tamara Lees and Livio Lorenzon.
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Two knights, the honorful Riccardo and the sinister Fosco, are rivalling for damsel Zuela.
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Two middle-aged men work as caretakers on an isolated dam construction site high in the snow-capped Italian Alps. When one of them leaves for the valley to spend Christmas vacation with his family he is temporarily replaced with an adolescent boy. The other man is both annoyed and intrigued by the boy and his habits: he listens to loud music, sleeps too long in the mornings and doesn't drink any alcohol. They barely speak to one another in the first couple of days. But when an avalanche cuts their small hut from electricity they slowly start growing more fond of each other.
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Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a triumphant championship, is about to be promoted to Serie C.
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"Documentary, showing workmen erecting one of the pylons and stringing up three cables which will eventually reach to Milan." - BFI
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Italian naval secret agents acquire a British codebook and the Italian counter-espionage agents start tracking enemy agents working undercover in Italy and providing false information.
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In 1941 an Italian regiment known as the Savoy Cavalry is sent by Mussolini to Russia to assist the German invasion. After crossing an extensive area of Soviet territory the men arrive at a village that seems deserted. A patrol sent on reconnaissance comes under machine-gun fire from the top of a bell-tower.
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The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.
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Evocation of a dramatic episode of the Second World War told by an old guard. Boarded as a non-commissioned officer on the battleship sailed from Pola and headed south. In time of danger, the man is forced to sacrifice the lives of seven sailors and the son of the Captain, his good friend, in order to save the rest of the crew.
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Four war pilots that have been fighting together go seperate ways and meet up again years later. Shot in 1943, but only released in 1947.
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Although released anonymously, as was the custom with all films produced by the Italian Navy, La Nave Bianca is the first feature-length effort directed by Roberto Rossellini; it is also very much the work of its co-writer and supervisor Francesco De Robertis. The film combines a documentary look at the Italian Navy during World War II with newsreel combat footage and a scripted love story performed by non-professional actors.