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Dirty Linen (1999)
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Mario Monicelli actor: Paolo Bonacelli / Marina Confalone …
other title: Trapos sucios / 家醜 …
The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market brings to a string of fatal mistakes that will ultimately doom their wealth.
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Looking for Paradise (1995)
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Mario Monicelli actor: Margherita Buy / Lello Arena …
other title: Facciamo paradiso / Buscando el paraíso
The life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated in England, rebel and single mother, then feminist and married woman and again doctor in the developing countries and mystical nun who dies peacefully in 2011.
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Guaglio (1948)
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Luigi Comencini actor: Adolfo Celi / Tina Pica …
other title: Proibito rubare / Hey Boy …
On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While trying to retrieve his baggage he realizes how miserable the city of Naples is. Then he decides that his mission is there in Naples, He creates his 'The Boys' Town' a shelter for poor kids, aka the 'scugnizzi' (street urchins), with a view to putting them back on the right track. Some of the kids, though, do not play by the rules just using that 'home' as a convenient place for hiding the product of their thefts...
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Devil in the Brain (1972)
Il diavolo nel cervello WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sergio Sollima actor: Stefania Sandrelli / Keir Dullea …
other title: El cerebro del mal / 心魔 …
Oscar is trying to re-establish an affair with Sandra, a disturbed young woman. Having found her husband Fabrizio shot dead and her young son Ricky standing beside him with a gun, Sandra suffered a complete breakdown and now lives in isolation with her protective mother. The latter saved the young boy from recrimination by placing the gun in his father's hand, making it seem like he committed suicide. However, things are not what they seem...
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Man, Pride and Vengeance (1967)
L'uomo, l'orgoglio, la vendetta WikiData IMDb TMDB
Luigi Bazzoni actor: 弗兰科·尼罗 / Tina Aumont …
other title: 황야는 통곡한다 / 裏切りの荒野 …
A Spanish army officer, Don Jose, stationed in Seville, meets and begins a relationship with a mysterious gypsy, Carmen. After he discovers she has cheated on him with his Lieutenant, he kills the officer and flees the city with Carmen. He recovers from his wounds and is forced to begin the life of a bandit.
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Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno (1984)
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马里奥·莫尼切利 actor: Ugo Tognazzi / 毛里齐奥·尼凯蒂 …
other title: Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno / 贝托尔多，贝托尔迪诺和卡斯卡森诺 …
During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdness and acumen save him from any unfortunate situation...
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All for love (1950)
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杜里奥·科莱蒂 actor: 更多...
other title: Romanzo d'amore / Toselli-Serenade
Louise of Habsburg-Lorraine, young and beautiful wife of the Crown Prince of Saxony, manifests democratic sentiments that make her pleasing to the people, but not to the court. In 1902 old King George would like to have her committed to an asylum, but she escapes to Florence where she meets and loves the musician Enrico Toselli. Theirs will be a dramatic affair, with the man's death and her madness.
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Unknown Woman (1969)
Senza sapere niente di lei IMDb Douban
路易吉·科门奇尼 actor: 菲利普·勒鲁瓦 / 宝拉·皮塔格拉 …
other title: 道德隐私 / Senza sapere niente di lei …
When an old lady dies two hours before her life insurance expires, the insurance lawyer suspects something dubious. He begins to investigate and he becomes the lover of the old lady's daughter...
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The Sky is Falling (USA, DVD title) (2000)
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Andrea Frazzi / Antonio Frazzi actor: Isabella Rossellini / Jeroen Krabbé …
other title: 坠落的天空 / Il cielo cade …
1943, an estate north of Firenze. The weight of the world is on the shoulders of Penny, who's about 10. An orphan, she must watch over her little sister when they go to live with her aunt and uncle. Penny's a Catholic, and worries about her uncle's soul. He's Jewish, progressive and a free thinker, a fair boss, and devoted to his family. He can be stern, so Penny also worries that she'll never please him and that he won't love her. Then, after the Allied forces land in Sicily and the Germans begin their retreat, Penny must worry about her uncle's life. She tries logic and appeals to human decency. Can a child keep the sky from falling?
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Flesh Will Surrender (1947)
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Alberto Lattuada actor: Roldano Lupi / Aldo Fabrizi …
other title: Le Crime de Giovanni Episcopo / El delito de Giovanni Episcopo …
Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Giovanni did what he should never have done: he associated himself with the crook. Giulio soon laid hands on Giovanni's money, ruined his career and manhandled him into marrying his own mistress, the beautiful Ginevra. It was of course an unhappy marriage but Giovanni found a little solace when his son Ciro was born. Seven years later though, Wanzer resurfaced...