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Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo aka The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
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Director Sergio Leone
Writer Luciano Vincenzoni, Sergio Leone, Agenore Incrocci
Cast Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
Plot A bounty-hunting scam joins two men in an uneasy alliance against a third in a race to find a fortune in gold buried in a remote cemetery.
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Nuovo Cinema Paradiso aka Cinema Paradiso (1988)
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Director Giuseppe Tornatore
Writer Giuseppe Tornatore, Vanna Paoli
Cast Philippe Noiret, Enzo Cannavale, Antonella Attili
Plot Salvatore, a famous film director, returns to his hometown for the funeral of the local theater's film projectionist, Alfredo. He reminisces about his life as a young boy falling in love with cinema.
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Ladri di biciclette aka Bicycle Thieves (1948)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Cesare Zavattini, Luigi Bartolini, Oreste Biancoli
Cast Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell
Plot In post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son set out to find it.
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La vita e bella aka Life Is Beautiful (1997)
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Director Roberto Benigni
Writer Vincenzo Cerami, Roberto Benigni
Cast Roberto Benigni, Nicoletta Braschi, Giorgio Cantarini
Plot When an open-minded Jewish waiter and his son become victims of the Holocaust, he uses a perfect mixture of will, humor and imagination to protect his son from the dangers around their camp.
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C'era una volta il West aka Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
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Director Sergio Leone
Writer Sergio Donati, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento
Cast Henry Fonda, Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale
Plot A mysterious stranger with a harmonica joins forces with a notorious desperado to protect a beautiful widow from a ruthless assassin working for the railroad.
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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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Roma citta aperta aka Rome, Open City (1945)
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Director Roberto Rossellini
Writer Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Roberto Rossellini
Cast Anna Magnani, Aldo Fabrizi, Marcello Pagliero
Plot During the Nazi occupation of Rome in 1944, the Resistance leader, Giorgio Manfredi, is chased by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a way to escape.
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La strada (1954)
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Director Federico Fellini
Writer Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano
Cast Anthony Quinn, Giulietta Masina, Richard Basehart
Plot A care-free girl is sold to a traveling entertainer, consequently enduring physical and emotional pain along the way.
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Per un pugno di dollari aka A Fistful of Dollars (1964)
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Director Sergio Leone
Writer Adriano Bolzoni, Mark Lowell, Vactor Andres Catena
Cast Clint Eastwood, Gian Maria Volonte, Marianne Koch
Plot A wandering gunfighter plays two rival families against each other in a town torn apart by greed, pride, and revenge.
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Le notti di Cabiria aka Nights of Cabiria (1957)
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Director Federico Fellini
Writer Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli
Cast Giulietta Masina, Frana§ois Perier, Franca Marzi
Plot A waifish prostitute wanders the streets of Rome looking for true love but finds only heartbreak.
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Il conformista aka The Conformist (1970)
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Director Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer Alberto Moravia, Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant, Stefania Sandrelli, Gastone Moschin
Plot A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
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Amarcord (1973)
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Director Federico Fellini
Writer Federico Fellini, Tonino Guerra
Cast Magali Noel, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio
Plot A series of comedic and nostalgic vignettes set in a 1930s Italian coastal town.
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Umberto D. (1952)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Cesare Zavattini
Cast Carlo Battisti, Maria Pia Casilio, Lina Gennari
Plot An elderly man and his dog struggle to survive on his government pension in Rome.
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Il gattopardo aka The Leopard (1963)
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Director Luchino Visconti
Writer Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Pasquale Festa Campanile
Cast Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon, Claudia Cardinale
Plot The Prince of Salina, a noble aristocrat of impeccable integrity, tries to preserve his family and class amid the tumultuous social upheavals of 1860s Sicily.
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Sciuscia aka Shoeshine (1946)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Sergio Amidei, Adolfo Franci, Cesare Giulio Viola
Cast Rinaldo Smordoni, Franco Interlenghi, Annielo Mele
Plot Two shoeshine boys in postwar Rome, Italy save up to buy a horse, but their involvement as dupes in a burglary lands them in juvenile prison; the experience take a devastating toll on their friendship.
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Paisa aka Paisan (1946)
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Director Roberto Rossellini
Writer Sergio Amidei, Federico Fellini, Klaus Mann
Cast Carmela Sazio, Gar Moore, William Tubbs
Plot American military personnel interact warily with a variety of Italian locals over a year and a half in the push north during the Italian Campaign of WWII as German forces make their retreat.
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La grande bellezza aka The Great Beauty (2013)
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Director Paolo Sorrentino
Writer Paolo Sorrentino, Umberto Contarello
Cast Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli
Plot Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisi...
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La meglio gioventu aka The Best of Youth (2003)
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Director Marco Tullio Giordana
Writer Sandro Petraglia, Stefano Rulli
Cast Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca
Plot An Italian epic that follows the lives of two brothers from the 1960s to the 2000s.
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Rocco e i suoi fratelli aka Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
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Director Luchino Visconti
Writer Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Vasco Pratolini
Cast Alain Delon, Renato Salvatori, Annie Girardot
Plot Having recently been uprooted to Milan, Rocco and his four brothers each look for a new way in life when a prostitute comes between Rocco and his brother Simone.
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Il postino aka The Postman (1994)
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Director Michael Radford
Writer Antonio Ska¡rmeta, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli
Cast Massimo Troisi, Philippe Noiret, Maria Grazia Cucinotta
Plot A simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet, and then uses this to woo local beauty Beatrice.
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I vitelloni (1953)
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Director Federico Fellini
Writer Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli
Cast Alberto Sordi, Franco Fabrizi, Franco Interlenghi
Plot A character study of five young men at crucial turning points in their lives in a small town in Italy.
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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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Nostalghia (1983)
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Director Andrei Tarkovsky
Writer Andrei Tarkovsky, Tonino Guerra
Cast Oleg Yankovskiy, Erland Josephson, Domiziana Giordano
Plot A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy researching the life of an 18th-century composer, and instead meet a ruminative madman who tells the poet how the world may be saved.
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Ossessione aka Obsession (1943)
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Director Luchino Visconti
Writer Luchino Visconti, Mario Alicata, Giuseppe De Santis
Cast Clara Calamai, Massimo Girotti, Dhia Cristiani
Plot Gino, a drifter, begins an affair with inn-owner Giovanna, and they plan to get rid of her older husband.
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Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto aka Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
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Director Elio Petri
Writer Elio Petri, Ugo Pirro
Cast Gian Maria Volonte, Florinda Bolkan, Gianni Santuccio
Plot A high-ranking police inspector murders his mistress and - in a sardonic test to prove that he is above suspicion - deliberately plants clues that indicate his responsibility for the crime.
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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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Il sorpasso (1962)
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Director Dino Risi
Writer Dino Risi, Ettore Scola, Ruggero Maccari
Cast Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Jean-Louis Trintignant
Plot An impulsive braggart takes a shy law student with him for a two-day road trip from Rome to Tuscany.
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L'avventura (1960)
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Director Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini, Tonino Guerra
Cast Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari
Plot A woman disappears during a Mediterranean boating trip. During the search, her lover and her best friend become attracted to each other.
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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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Profondo rosso aka Deep Red (1975)
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Director Dario Argento
Writer Dario Argento, Bernardino Zapponi
Cast David Hemmings, Daria Nicolodi, Gabriele Lavia
Plot A jazz pianist and a wisecracking journalist are pulled into a complex web of mystery after the former witnesses the brutal murder of a psychic.
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Suspiria (1977)
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Director Dario Argento
Writer Dario Argento, Daria Nicolodi, Thomas De Quincey
Cast Jessica Harper, Stefania Casini, Flavio Bucci
Plot An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
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Il grande silenzio aka The Great Silence (1968)
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Director Sergio Corbucci
Writer Sergio Corbucci, Vittoriano Petrilli, Mario Amendola
Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant, Klaus Kinski, Frank Wolff
Plot A mute gunfighter defends a young widow and a group of outlaws against a gang of bounty killers in the winter of 1898, and a grim, tense struggle unfolds.
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Riso amaro aka Bitter Rice (1949)
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Director Giuseppe De Santis
Writer Giuseppe De Santis, Carlo Lizzani, Gianni Puccini
Cast Vittorio Gassman, Doris Dowling, Silvana Mangano
Plot Two criminals on the run end up working in a rice field and decide to recruit other workers for their next robbery.
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L'eclisse (1962)
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Director Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Elio Bartolini
Cast Monica Vitti, Alain Delon, Francisco Rabal
Plot A young woman meets a vital young man, but their love affair is doomed because of the man's materialistic nature.
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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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Perfetti sconosciuti aka Perfect Strangers (2016)
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Director Paolo Genovese
Writer Filippo Bologna, Paolo Costella, Paolo Genovese
Cast Giuseppe Battiston, Anna Foglietta, Marco Giallini
Plot Seven long-time friends meet for dinner. They decide to share their text messages, emails and phone calls. Secrets are unveiled. Harmony trembles.
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Tengen toppa gurren lagann aka Gurren Lagann (2007)
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Writer Kazuki Nakashima
Cast Tetsuya Kakihara, Shizuka Ita, Yuri Lowenthal
Plot Two friends, Simon and Kamina, become the symbols of rebellion against the powerful Spiral King, who forced mankind into subterranean villages.
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Il mio nome e Nessuno aka My Name Is Nobody (1973)
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Director Tonino Valerii
Writer Sergio Leone, Fulvio Morsella, Ernesto Gastaldi
Cast Terence Hill, Henry Fonda, Jean Martin
Plot A young, easy-going gunman worships and competes with a famed gunfighter, insisting that he must face down a gang of 150 outlaws before he can retire.
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I bambini ci guardano aka The Children Are Watching Us (1943)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Cesare Giulio Viola, Margherita Maglione, Cesare Zavattini
Cast Emilio Cigoli, Luciano De Ambrosis, Isa Pola
Plot Four-year-old Pricò becomes the subject of emotional folly by his capricious parents and negligent relatives.
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La Linea aka Lineman (1969)
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Cast Carlo Bonomi, Osvaldo Cavandoli, Bruno Bozzetto
Plot When artist draws a magic line, it takes on a life of its own, becoming a silhouette of a living hot-tempered person. This "Mr. Linea" wants more things drawn so he can enjoy himself, but the artist loves having fun on Mr. Linea's...
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La ciociara aka Two Women (1960)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Alberto Moravia, Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica
Cast Sophia Loren, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone
Plot In WWII Italy, a widow and her lonely daughter seek distance between themselves and the horrors of war.
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Miracolo a Milano aka Miracle in Milan (1951)
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Director Vittorio De Sica
Writer Cesare Zavattini, Vittorio De Sica, Suso Cecchi D'Amico
Cast Emma Gramatica, Francesco Golisano, Paolo Stoppa
Plot An open-hearted, unrelentingly energetic orphan struggles to make the best of his life on the streets of Milan.
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Mamma Roma (1962)
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Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast Anna Magnani, Ettore Garofolo, Franco Citti
Plot An ex-prostitute reunites with her son, but an extortion scheme threatens her aspirations for a decent life.
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Il vangelo secondo Matteo aka The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964)
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Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast Enrique Irazoqui, Margherita Caruso, Susanna Pasolini
Plot The life of Jesus Christ according to the Gospel of Matthew. Film shows Christ as a Marxist avant-la-lettre and therefore uses half of the text of Matthew.
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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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Cabiria (1914)
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Director Giovanni Pastrone
Writer Gabriele D'Annunzio, Titus Livius, Giovanni Pastrone
Cast Italia Almirante-Manzini, Lidia Quaranta, Bartolomeo Pagano
Plot Cabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, she is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war.
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L'albero degli zoccoli aka The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)
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Director Ermanno Olmi
Writer Ermanno Olmi
Cast Luigi Ornaghi, Francesca Moriggi, Omar Brignoli
Plot Peasant life in a feudal farm in rural Italy at the end of the 19th century.
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Novecento aka 1900 (1976)
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Director Bernardo Bertolucci
Writer Franco Arcalli, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Bernardo Bertolucci
Cast Robert De Niro, Gerard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda
Plot The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth-century Italy as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
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El Cid (1961)
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Director Anthony Mann
Writer Fredric M. Frank, Philip Yordan, Ben Barzman
Cast Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone
Plot The fabled Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar (a.k.a. El Cid) overcomes a family vendetta and court intrigue to defend Christian Spain against the Moors.
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Accattone (1961)
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Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer Pier Paolo Pasolini, Sergio Citti
Cast Franco Citti, Franca Pasut, Silvana Corsini
Plot A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiraling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
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L'inferno aka Dante's Inferno (1911)
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Director Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro
Writer Dante Alighieri
Cast Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe de Liguoro
Plot 1911 silent film and Italy's first full-length feature film, loosely adapted from "Inferno", the first canticle of Dante Alighieri's "Divine Comedy". It chronicles Dante's travel through the Circles of Hell, guided by the poet Vir...
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Il deserto rosso aka Red Desert (1964)
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Director Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer Michelangelo Antonioni, Tonino Guerra, Bruno Guillaume
Cast Monica Vitti, Richard Harris, Carlo Chionetti
Plot In an industrial area, unstable Giuliana attempts to cope with life by starting an affair with a co-worker at the plant her husband manages.
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Django (1966)
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Director Sergio Corbucci
Writer Sergio Corbucci, Bruno Corbucci, Franco Rossetti
Cast Franco Nero, Jose Canalejas, Jose Badalo
Plot A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.
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Giulietta degli spiriti aka Juliet of the Spirits (1965)
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Director Federico Fellini
Writer Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano
Cast Giulietta Masina, Sandra Milo, Mario Pisu
Plot Visions, memories, and mysticism all help a 40-something woman to find the strength to leave her cheating husband.
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Lo chiamavano Trinita... aka They Call Me Trinity (1970)
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Director Enzo Barboni
Writer Enzo Barboni, Gene Luotto
Cast Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Steffen Zacharias
Plot A lazy, unorthodox gunfighter and his portly, horse-thieving brother defend a Mormon settlement from a land-grabbing Major, a Mexican bandit, and their henchmen.
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C'eravamo tanto amati aka We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
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Director Ettore Scola
Writer Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Ettore Scola
Cast Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli
Plot Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
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L'amica geniale aka My Brilliant Friend (2018)
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Writer Saverio Costanzo
Cast Alba Rohrwacher, Annarita Vitolo, Margherita Mazzucco
Plot A woman recounts the lifelong friendship and conflicts with a girl she met at primary school in Naples during the early 1950s.
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Amici miei (1975)
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Director Mario Monicelli
Writer Pietro Germi, Piero De Bernardi, Leonardo Benvenuti
Cast Ugo Tognazzi, Gastone Moschin, Philippe Noiret
Plot Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.
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Il bidone aka The Swindle (1955)
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Director Federico Fellini
Writer Federico Fellini, Ennio Flaiano, Tullio Pinelli
Cast Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart, Giulietta Masina
Plot A trio of con-men led by a lonesome swindler must deal with their job and family pressures.
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Il posto (1961)
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Director Ermanno Olmi
Writer Ettore Lombardo, Ermanno Olmi
Cast Sandro Panseri, Loredana Detto, Corrado Aprile
Plot Bursting with big dreams and plans, an Italian teen goes to Milan to work in a big impersonal corporate office, where he becomes disillusioned and drained of all his individualism.
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La piovra (1984)
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Writer Lucio Battistrada, Massimo De Rita
Cast Remo Girone, Patricia Millardet, Michele Placido
Plot An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. the mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
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E stata la mano di Dio aka The Hand of God (2021)
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Director Paolo Sorrentino
Writer Paolo Sorrentino
Cast Filippo Scotti, Toni Servillo, Teresa Saponangelo
Plot In 1980s Naples, young Fabietto pursues his love for football as family tragedy strikes, shaping his uncertain but promising future as a filmmaker.
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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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Senso (1954)
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Director Luchino Visconti
Writer Luchino Visconti, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Camillo Boito
Cast Farley Granger, Alida Valli, Massimo Girotti
Plot An Italian Countess is allied with Nationalists during the Italian-Austrian war of unification. However, she risks betraying their cause when she falls in love with an Austrian lieutenant.
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La caduta degli dei (Gotterdammerung) aka The Damned (1969)
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Director Luchino Visconti
Writer Nicola Badalucco, Enrico Medioli, Luchino Visconti
Cast Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem
Plot The dramatic collapse of a wealthy, industrialist/Junker family during the reign of the Third Reich.
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Lazzaro felice aka Happy as Lazzaro (2018)
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Director Alice Rohrwacher
Writer Alice Rohrwacher, Carmela Covino
Cast Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani, Alba Rohrwacher
Plot An unceasingly kind Italian peasant and his family are blatantly exploited by a tobacco baroness.
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Brutti, sporchi e cattivi aka Ugly, Dirty and Bad (1976)
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Director Ettore Scola
Writer Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola
Cast Francesco Anniballi, Maria Bosco, Giselda Castrini
Plot Four generations of a family live in a shantytown in the outskirts of Rome. The household engages in various forms of sexual idiosyncrasies, land swindles, incest, drugs and adultery.
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L'uccello dalle piume di cristallo aka The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
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Director Dario Argento
Writer Dario Argento, Fredric Brown
Cast Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno
Plot An American writer vacationing in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder, and who is now hunting him and his girlfriend.
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Fantozzi (1975)
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Director Luciano Salce
Writer Leonardo Benvenuti, Piero De Bernardi, Luciano Salce
Cast Paolo Villaggio, Anna Mazzamauro, Gigi Reder
Plot A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly getting into difficult situations, but never loses his positive mood.
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Il bisbetico domato aka The Taming of the Scoundrel (1980)
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Director Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia
Writer Franco Castellano, Giuseppe Moccia, William Shakespeare
Cast Adriano Celentano, Ornella Muti, Edith Peters
Plot A grumpy farmer in small Italy is surprised when a beautiful city girl breaks down in the rain, surprising everyone else in his town.
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La grande guerra aka The Great War (1959)
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Director Mario Monicelli
Writer Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Luciano Vincenzoni
Cast Alberto Sordi, Vittorio Gassman, Bernard Blier
Plot The Italian Army fought against the Austrians during World War I.
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Bellissima (1951)
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Director Luchino Visconti
Writer Cesare Zavattini, Suso Cecchi D'Amico, Francesco Rosi
Cast Anna Magnani, Walter Chiari, Tina Apicella
Plot A woman from the lower class desperately tries to get her daughter into the movies.
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La maschera del demonio aka Black Sunday (1960)
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Director Mario Bava
Writer Ennio De Concini, Mario Serandrei, Nikolay Gogol
Cast Barbara Steele, John Richardson, Andrea Checchi
Plot Decades after being executed for witchcraft, vengeful Princess Asa Vajda and her fiendish servant are resurrected and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of Asa Vajda's beautiful look-alike descendant Princess Katia.
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Le otto montagne aka The Eight Mountains (2022)
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Director Felix van Groeningen, Charlotte Vandermeersch
Writer Paolo Cognetti, Charlotte Vandermeersch, Felix van Groeningen
Cast Lupo Barbiero, Cristiano Sassella, Elena Lietti
Plot An epic journey of friendship and self-discovery set in the breathtaking Italian Alps, The Eight Mountains follows over four decades the profound, complex relationship between Pietro and Bruno.
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Romanzo criminale - La serie (2008)
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Cast Vinicio Marchioni, Alessandro Roja, Marco Bocci
Plot This crime drama, set in Rome in the 1970s, tells the story of the Banda della Magia, a prolific Italian crime family responsible for some of the country's most violent crimes.
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...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo! aka Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
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Director Marcello Fondato
Writer Marcello Fondato, Francesco Scardamaglia, Vicente Coello
Cast Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, John Sharp
Plot After a tied first place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide which of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.
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I tre volti della paura aka Black Sabbath (1963)
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Director Mario Bava
Writer Anton Chekhov, Aleksei Tolstoy, Guy de Maupassant
Cast Michele Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Boris Karloff
Plot Boris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories about a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring's rightful owner.
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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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Le clan des Siciliens aka The Sicilian Clan (1969)
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Director Henri Verneuil
Writer Auguste Le Breton, Henri Verneuil, Jose Giovanni
Cast Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Lino Ventura
Plot An ambitious young mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
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Malena (2000)
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Director Giuseppe Tornatore
Writer Giuseppe Tornatore, Luciano Vincenzoni
Cast Monica Bellucci, Giuseppe Sulfaro, Luciano Federico
Plot As Italy enters WWII, a teenage boy in a small, narrow-minded Sicilian town becomes obsessed with a young woman.
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Tre uomini e una gamba aka Three Men and a Leg (1997)
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Director Aldo Baglio, Giacomo Poretti, Giovanni Storti
Writer Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti
Cast Aldo Baglio, Giovanni Storti, Giacomo Poretti
Plot Three friends cross Italy by car in order to deliver their boss his dog and a wooden leg.
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Roma (1972)
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Director Federico Fellini
Writer Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi
Cast Britta Barnes, Peter Gonzales Falcon, Fiona Florence
Plot A fluid, unconnected and sometimes chaotic procession of scenes detailing the various people and events of life in Italy's capital, most of it based on director Federico Fellini's life.
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Pasqualino Settebellezze aka Seven Beauties (1975)
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Director Lina Wertmaller
Writer Lina Wertmaller
Cast Giancarlo Giannini, Fernando Rey, Shirley Stoler
Plot The defense of honor, a strong value in Neapolitan society, and its effects on the life of everyman Pasquale Frafuso.
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... continuavano a chiamarlo Trinita aka Trinity Is Still My Name (1971)
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Director Enzo Barboni
Writer Enzo Barboni, Gene Luotto
Cast Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Yanti Somer
Plot Bambino tries to teach his brother Trinity how to become an outlaw, but the two wind up saving a pioneer family and breaking up an arms ring instead.
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Lo sceicco bianco aka The White Sheik (1952)
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Director Federico Fellini
Writer Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli
Cast Alberto Sordi, Giulietta Masina, Brunella Bovo
Plot During a day of their honeymoon, newlyweds are separated by the city's lust and the desires it produces.
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Don Camillo aka The Little World of Don Camillo (1952)
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Director Julien Duvivier
Writer Giovanni Guareschi, Julien Duvivier, Rene Barjavel
Cast Fernandel, Gino Cervi, Vera Talchi
Plot A determined priest and a Communist mayor develop a grudging friendship in spite of their official rivalry.
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La collectionneuse aka The Collector (1967)
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Director Eric Rohmer
Writer Patrick Bauchau, Haydee Politoff, Daniel Pommereulle
Cast Patrick Bauchau, Haydee Politoff, Daniel Pommereulle
Plot A womanizing art dealer and a painter find the serenity of their Riviera vacation disturbed by a third guest, a vivacious bohemian woman known for her long list of male conquests.
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Teorema (1968)
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Director Pier Paolo Pasolini
Writer Pier Paolo Pasolini
Cast Silvana Mangano, Terence Stamp, Massimo Girotti
Plot A mysterious young man seduces each member of a bourgeois family. When he suddenly leaves, how will their lives change?
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L'armata Brancaleone (1966)
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Director Mario Monicelli
Writer Agenore Incrocci, Furio Scarpelli, Mario Monicelli
Cast Vittorio Gassman, Catherine Spaak, Folco Lulli
Plot A group of misfits, headed by an incompetent knight named Brancaleone, set out to reach the small town of Aurocastro so that their leader can take possession of the fief.
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Il grido (1957)
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Director Michelangelo Antonioni
Writer Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini, Ennio De Concini
Cast Gabriella Pallotta, Steve Cochran, Alida Valli
Plot A man wanders aimlessly away from his town, away from the woman he loves, emotionally and socially inactive.
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6 donne per l'assassino aka Blood and Black Lace (1964)
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Director Mario Bava
Writer Marcello Fondato, Giuseppe Barilla, Mario Bava
Cast Cameron Mitchell, Eva Bartok, Thomas Reiner
Plot A masked, shadowy killer brutally murders the models of a scandalous fashion house in Rome.
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C'e ancora domani aka There's Still Tomorrow (2023)
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Director Paola Cortellesi
Writer Furio Andreotti, Giulia Calenda, Paola Cortellesi
Cast Paola Cortellesi, Valerio Mastandrea, Romana Maggiora Vergano
Plot In this moving comedic drama set in postwar Rome, a working-class wife and mother dreams of a better future. Winner of 6 Italian Academy Awards.
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Opera (1987)
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Director Dario Argento
Writer Dario Argento, Franco Ferrini
Cast Cristina Marsillach, Ian Charleson, Urbano Barberini
Plot A young opera singer on the cusp of stardom is hounded by a psychopath with a connection to her past, who forces her to watch as he brutally murders her friends and colleagues.
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Non ci resta che piangere aka Nothing Left to Do but Cry (1984)
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Director Roberto Benigni, Massimo Troisi
Writer Roberto Benigni, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Massimo Troisi
Cast Massimo Troisi, Roberto Benigni, Iris Peynado
Plot In the 80s, two friends misteriously wake up in the XV century and clumsly try to intermingle with the society of the time.
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Il generale Della Rovere aka General Della Rovere (1959)
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Director Roberto Rossellini
Writer Sergio Amidei, Diego Fabbri, Indro Montanelli
Cast Vittorio De Sica, Hannes Messemer, Sandra Milo
Plot Bardone, a petty con man, is arrested by the Gestapo and coerced into impersonating a partisan leader in order to expose another resistance organizer.
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I pugni in tasca aka Fists in the Pocket (1965)
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Director Marco Bellocchio
Writer Marco Bellocchio
Cast Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Mase
Plot A young man takes drastic measures to rid his dysfunctional family of its various afflictions.
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La resa dei conti aka The Big Gundown (1967)
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Director Sergio Sollima
Writer Franco Solinas, Fernando Morandi, Sergio Donati
Cast Lee Van Cleef, Tomas Milian, Walter Barnes
Plot An unofficial lawman and would-be senator is tasked by a railroad baron with hunting down a knife-wielding Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a young girl.
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Fellini - Satyricon aka Satyricon (1969)
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Director Federico Fellini
Writer Petronius, Federico Fellini, Bernardino Zapponi
Cast Martin Potter, Hiram Keller, Max Born
Plot A series of disjointed mythical tales set in first-century Rome.
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Mediterraneo (1991)
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Director Gabriele Salvatores
Writer Enzo Monteleone
Cast Diego Abatantuono, Claudio Bigagli, Giuseppe Cederna
Plot In WW2, an Italian Army unit of misfits occupies an isolated non-strategic Greek island for the duration of the war.
