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81/2 aka 8 (1963)
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Director Federico Fellini
Writer Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimee, Claudia Cardinale
Plot A harried movie director retreats into his memories and fantasies.
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La dolce vita (1960)
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Director Federico Fellini
Writer Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimee
Plot A series of stories following a week in the life of a philandering tabloid journalist living in Rome.
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Una giornata particolare aka A Special Day (1977)
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Director Ettore Scola
Writer Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola, Maurizio Costanzo
Cast Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, John Vernon
Plot Two neighbors, a persecuted journalist and a resigned housewife, meet during Hitler's visit to Italy in May 1938.
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Divorzio all'italiana aka Divorce Italian Style (1961)
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Director Pietro Germi
Writer Alfredo Giannetti, Ennio De Concini, Pietro Germi
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Daniela Rocca, Stefania Sandrelli
Plot A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
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La notte (1961)
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Director Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer Michelangelo Antonioni, Ennio Flaiano, Tonino Guerra
Cast Jeanne Moreau, Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti
Plot A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship.
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I soliti ignoti aka Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
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Director Mario Monicelli
Writer Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Cast Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori
Plot A motley quintet of inept small-time thieves attempt the burglary of a local pawnshop in this Italian farce.
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Le notti bianche aka White Nights (1957)
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Director Luchino Visconti
Writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Luchino Visconti
Cast Maria Schell, Marcello Mastroianni, Jean Marais
Plot A humble clerk courts a woman who awaits her lover's return night after night.
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Matrimonio all'italiana aka Marriage Italian Style (1964)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Eduardo De Filippo, Renato Castellani, Tonino Guerra
Cast Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Puglisi
Plot Wealthy businessman Domenico and penniless prostitute Filumena share a large part of their lives in post-WWII Italy.
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Ieri, oggi, domani aka Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow (1963)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Eduardo De Filippo, Isabella Quarantotti, Alberto Moravia
Cast Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Aldo Giuffre
Plot Stories about three very different women and the men they attract.
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I compagni aka The Organizer (1963)
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Director Mario Monicelli
Writer Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Renato Salvatori, Gabriella Giorgelli
Plot A former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a late 19th Century textile factory.
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La grande bouffe aka The Big Feast (1973)
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Director Marco Ferreri
Writer Marco Ferreri, Rafael Azcona, Francis Blanche
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Michel Piccoli, Philippe Noiret
Plot A group of men go to a villa in the French countryside where they resolve to eat themselves to death.
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La decima vittima aka The 10th Victim (1965)
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Director Elio Petri
Writer Robert Sheckley, Tonino Guerra, Giorgio Salvioni
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Ursula Andress, Elsa Martinelli
Plot In a future where a human vs. human "Big Hunt" is used as an alternative to war, a veteran huntress' plan to kill a "victim" for a major TV sponsorship deal is compounded by romance.
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Lo straniero aka The Stranger (1967)
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Director Luchino Visconti
Writer Albert Camus, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Georges Conchon
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Karina, Bernard Blier
Plot A man faces a trial for murder. The court is biased because of his personal qualities.
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La citta delle donne aka City of Women (1980)
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Director Federico Fellini
Writer Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi, Brunello Rondi
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Anna Prucnal, Bernice Stegers
Plot A businessman finds himself trapped at a hotel and threatened by women en masse.
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Ginger e Fred aka Ginger & Fred (1986)
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Director Federico Fellini
Writer Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra, Tullio Pinelli
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Giulietta Masina, Franco Fabrizi
Plot Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act on a TV variety show.
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I girasoli aka Sunflower (1970)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Tonino Guerra, Cesare Zavattini, Giorgi Mdivani
Cast Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni, Lyudmila Saveleva
Plot An Italian woman conducts a desperate search for her husband, a soldier considered missing in action in Russia during WWII.
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Oci ciornie (1987)
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Director Nikita Mikhalkov
Writer Aleksandr Adabashyan, Nikita Mikhalkov, Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Marthe Keller
Plot An Italian tells his story of love to a Russian. In a series of flashbacks, Romano Patroni leaves his wife to visit a spa where he falls in love with a Russian woman. He returns to Italy resolved to leave his wife and marry his love.
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Il bell'Antonio aka Bell' Antonio (1960)
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Director Mauro Bolognini
Writer Pier Paolo Pasolini, Gino Visentini, Vitaliano Brancati
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Claudia Cardinale, Pierre Brasseur
Plot A newly wedded and extremely handsome young bourgeois Antonio faces a scandal in a city of Sicily in 1950's when the public and her family hears that his beautiful wife is still "untouched" after their 12-month long marriage.
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Stanno tutti bene aka Everybody's Fine (1990)
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Director Giuseppe Tornatore
Writer Massimo De Rita, Tonino Guerra, Giuseppe Tornatore
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Michele Morgan, Valeria Cavalli
Plot Matteo decides to take a trip across Italy to go visiting his five children.
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Adua e le compagne (1960)
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Director Antonio Pietrangeli
Writer Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola, Antonio Pietrangeli
Cast Simone Signoret, Marcello Mastroianni, Sandra Milo
Plot When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
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O melissokomos aka The Beekeeper (1986)
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Director Theodoros Angelopoulos
Writer Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Dimitris Nollas
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Nadia Mourouzi, Serge Reggiani
Plot A bee keeper, Spiros, travels from the north to the south of Greece with his bees to meet the spring.
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La nuit de Varennes aka That Night in Varennes (1982)
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Director Ettore Scola
Writer Sergio Amidei, Ettore Scola, Catherine Rihoit
Cast Jean-Louis Barrault, Marcello Mastroianni, Hanna Schygulla
Plot During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
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L'assassino aka The Assassin (1961)
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Director Elio Petri
Writer Tonino Guerra, Elio Petri, Pasquale Festa Campanile
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Micheline Presle, Cristina Gaioni
Plot Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police at his apartment without justification. In the precinct, he slowly discovers what the investigation is about as we discover details about his life.
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Cronaca familiare aka Family Diary (1962)
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Director Valerio Zurlini
Writer Vasco Pratolini, Valerio Zurlini, Mario Missiroli
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Jacques Perrin, Sylvie
Plot A man recollects the life of his late younger brother.
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Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca) aka The Pizza Triangle (1970)
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Director Ettore Scola
Writer Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Ettore Scola
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Monica Vitti, Giancarlo Giannini
Plot A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies.
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Peccato che sia una canaglia aka Too Bad She's Bad (1954)
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Director Alessandro Blasetti
Writer Alberto Moravia, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Sandro Continenza
Cast Vittorio De Sica, Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni
Plot A kind-hearted taxi driver runs into a glamorous girl and falls in love with her, but she turns out to be a cheap thief.
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Todo modo (1976)
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Director Elio Petri
Writer Leonardo Sciascia, Elio Petri, Berto Pelosso
Cast Gian Maria Volonte, Marcello Mastroianni, Mariangela Melato
Plot Party leader and power broker M. is holed up with his cronies and rivals at a monastic retreat where they plot their political fortunes while being led by a Jesuit cleric in spiritual cleansing.
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Casanova '70 aka Casanova 70 (1965)
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Director Mario Monicelli
Writer Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Virna Lisi, Marisa Mell
Plot The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.
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To meteoro vima tou pelargou aka The Suspended Step of the Stork (1991)
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Director Theodoros Angelopoulos
Writer Theodoros Angelopoulos, Tonino Guerra, Petros Markaris
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau, Gregory Patrick Karr
Plot A reporter stuck in a border town with an overcrowding of refugees sees a man he believes to be a long lost politician.
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La legge aka The Law (1959)
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Director Jules Dassin
Writer Roger Vailland, Jules Dassin, Frana§oise Giroud
Cast Gina Lollobrigida, Pierre Brasseur, Marcello Mastroianni
Plot Illicit passions pervade an Italian town, where men gather nightly for the cynical "game of the law."
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Che ora e aka Che ora (1989)
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Director Ettore Scola
Writer Beatrice Ravaglioli, Ettore Scola, Silvia Scola
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Massimo Troisi, Anne Parillaud
Plot The visit of a lawer to his military son is an opportunity to recall the past, discuss the future and find a meeting point between two diametrically opposite personalities.
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Allonsanfan (1974)
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Director Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Writer Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Lea Massari, Mimsy Farmer
Plot A anarchist leader (Fulvio) wishes to retire, as he is old and tired. He tries to hide himself, but his friends find him and insist he carries on helping them.
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Fantasmi a Roma aka Ghosts of Rome (1961)
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Director Antonio Pietrangeli
Writer Sergio Amidei, Ennio Flaiano, Antonio Pietrangeli
Cast Marcello Mastroianni, Belinda Lee, Sandra Milo
Plot Several ghosts in an ancient palazzo in Rome join together to save their home from destruction. Mastrianni plays several parts and is hilarious. The other actors are great too.
