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The Magnificent Cuckold (1964)
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other title: 위대한 바람둥이 / Cocü …
Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he starts to become obsessed with his wife's fidelity. Since she is one of the most desired women in town, he worries that it would be very easy for her to cheat on him. Now every time a man looks at his wife, Andrea goes crazy. Meanwhile, Maria finds out about her husband's affair and decides to plan her revenge.

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Stardust (1973)
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other title: Esa rubia es mia / 星塵 …
The lives of two local professional dancers change suddenly as American soldiers stop in their town hoping to be entertained in accordance with the Broadway style. Effectively, they perform up to their expectations. However, as the army men have to march northward, their moment of glory finishes heartlessly.

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Neapolitan Turk (1953)
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other title: Un turco napoletano / Un turco napolitano …
Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.

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Complexes (1965)
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other title: Einmal zu wenig, einmal zu viel / Les Complexés …
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.

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Let's Talk About Women (1964)
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埃托尔·斯科拉 actor: 更多...
other title: Se permettete parliamo di donne / 让我们来谈女人
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general, as referred to by the title. Prior to this feature, Gassman had worked with both screenwriter Ruggero Maccari and Ettore Scola (who also co-wrote rather than directed) in the 1962 feature Il Sorpasso from director Dino Risi. It was Risi and Maccari's teamwork which helped Gassman win a "Best Actor" award at Cannes Film Festival in 1974 for Profumo di Donna/Scent of a Woman. Gassman would later work with Maccari and Ettore again in episodic fashion with Signore e Signori Buonanotte/Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976) and yet again in the drama Famiglia (1987).

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Let's Talk About Women (1964)
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other title: Se permettete parliamo di donne / 让我们来谈女人 …
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general, as referred to by the title. Prior to this feature, Gassman had worked with both screenwriter Ruggero Maccari and Ettore Scola (who also co-wrote rather than directed) in the 1962 feature Il Sorpasso from director Dino Risi. It was Risi and Maccari's teamwork which helped Gassman win a "Best Actor" award at Cannes Film Festival in 1974 for Profumo di Donna/Scent of a Woman. Gassman would later work with Maccari and Ettore again in episodic fashion with Signore e Signori Buonanotte/Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976) and yet again in the drama Famiglia (1987).

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Baby Doll (1968)
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佛朗哥·吉拉尔迪 actor: 乌戈·托尼亚齐 / Isabella Rei …
other title: La bambolona / 玩偶记 …
Synopsis: A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a 17-year-old student for his next amorous conquest. He meets with her parents, an economically troubled couple who soon give their consent for the couple to date. Using an engagement ring as an enticing lure to initiate sex, the lawyer gets more than he bargained for with the wily female who is wise far beyond her years. The tables are turned on the lawyer as she withholds her affections, feigns a pregnancy and ends up holding all the cards in the relationship with the older, "more experienced" attorney.

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The Career of a Chambermaid (1976)
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迪诺·里西 actor: 艾格斯蒂娜·贝利 / 维托里奥·加斯曼 …
other title: Telefoni bianchi / 白色电话 …
This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.

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High Infidelity (1964)
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other title: La sospirosa / 高度失真 …
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love. Segment 1: Scandaloso / The Scandal (Franco Rossi) Segment 2: Peccato nel poeriggio / Sin in the Afternoon (Elio Petri) Segment 3: La sospirosa / The Victim (Luciano Salce) Segment 4: Gente moderna / Modern People (Mario Monicelli)

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Head of the Family (1969)
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纳尼·洛伊 actor: 尼诺·曼弗雷迪 / 莱斯莉·卡伦 …
other title: 一家之主 / Il padre di famiglia

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I See Naked (1969)
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Dino Risi actor: 尼诺·曼弗雷迪 / 西娃·科丝西娜 …
other title: 我看到了裸体 / Vedo nudo …
Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.

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The Priest's Wife (1971)
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迪诺·里西 actor: 索菲娅·罗兰 / 马塞洛·马斯楚安尼 …
other title: 教士之妻 / La moglie del prete …
Discovering her boyfriend is married, a young lady attempts to take her life, pausing only to phone a Help Line. Finding herself very much alive in hospital she meets the priest who took the call and, much taken with him, she starts trying to date him. He in turn succumbs to her charms and they soon realise their major problem is his Holy vow of celibacy.

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Police Chief Pepe (1969)
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Ettore Scola actor: 乌戈·托尼亚齐 / 西尔维娅·迪奥尼西奥 …
other title: 专员 / Il commissario Pepe …
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a lesbian and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.

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Passion of Love (1981)
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埃托尔·斯科拉 actor: 贝纳·纪欧多 / 瓦莱莉娅·铎比奇 …
other title: 激情的爱 / Passione d'amore …
In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant). Among the inhabitants of the house, there is a strange young woman - Fosca (d'Obici) who is both unattractive and mad. However, she has a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with.

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The New Monsters (1977)
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other title: 新怪物 / I Nuovi mostri …
In many ways, 'I Nuovi Mostri' is an extension of Dino Risi's film „I Mostri”. However, its episodes were shot in color whereas the original "Monsters" film was shot in black and white. Most episodes of this film are about human nature especially shortcomings of people which reveal a negative facet of their lives. There are also episodes where the spotlight is on revealing the hypocrisy present in modern society due to strange rules and regulations. For example: an episode features an injured man who cannot be admitted to any hospital as there is no more room in a general hospital, no medical service after 23:00 in an hospital run by nuns and only military personnel with proper identification papers can be given treatment in a military hospital. Italian film 'Viva Italia'! is also known as "I Nuovi Mostri". It is the tale of new Italian monsters who represent weaknesses present in an average Italian. These people have been called "monsters" as their personal interests are always on top of their minds. These are the people who do not hesitate a bit in order to ensure their happiness at the cost of their beloved ones. An excellent film for all those cinema admirers who wish to learn more about Italian way of living.

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Poverty and Nobility (1954)
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马里奥·马托利 actor: 索菲娅·罗兰 / 卡洛·克罗科洛 …
other title: 贫穷和尊贵 / Miseria e nobiltà
剧情介绍:以卖字为生的费里斯和摄像师帕斯奎尔和各自的家人住在同一个屋檐下,过着穷困潦倒的生活。他们经常争执不休。某天,他们的朋友欧吉尼奥说服他们假扮成贵族,帮助他去追求意中人格玛(索菲娅·罗兰饰)。影片根据著名剧作家爱德阿铎·斯卡佩塔的剧本改编而来。 《贫穷和尊贵》是意大利那不勒斯的喜剧中最经典并且也是最出名的一部。 影片根据著名剧作家爱德阿铎·斯卡佩塔的剧本改编而来。影片男主角的扮演者托妥是意大利著名电影演员,曾经于1952年和1967年两次获得意大利国家电影记者联盟最佳男演员的称号,并且因表演上的突出成就于1966年戛纳电影节获得特别致意奖。本片获得1987年威尼斯国际电影节国际影评人联盟奖FIPRESCI Prize 奖以及1987年威尼斯国际电影节最佳导演银狮奖。