Silvio Orlando
Biography: Silvio Orlando (born 30 June 1957) is an Italian actor. Orlando was born in Naples. He worked with numerous Italian directors such as Nanni Moretti, Daniele Luchetti, Carlo Mazzacurati, Gabriele Salvatores and others. He also took part to several TV series. Orlando in 1988 directed two theatre works written by Peppino De Filippo: Don Rafelo 'o trumbone and Cupido scherza e spazza. In 2008 he was protagonist of Roberto Paci Dalò's play L'assedio delle ceneri. Description above from the Wikipedia article Silvio Orlando, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 30, 1957
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Ezio Bosso - Le cose che restano
2021-10-04
Ezio Bosso - Le cose che restano
Overview: Ezio Bosso reveals his real self and takes us into his world and his imagination, as if were a diary.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-10-04
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Quiet Chaos
2008-02-08
Quiet Chaos
Overview: Pietro is a successful businessman with a wife and a daughter. One day he helps his brother save two women from drowning at the beach. When he returns home he finds that his wife has died. Now Pietro has to take care of his daughter, Claudia. When he drives her to school soon after, he decides to wait for her all day in front of the school, and soon that's what he does every day.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-02-08
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The Caiman
2006-03-24
The Caiman
Overview: Bruno Bonomo was a famous producer of B-movies in the ‘70s. After a long hiatus, Bonomo offers a screenplay to RAI centered on the figure of Italy’s prime minister and media tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, a subject so controversial that even the public television broadcaster refuses to produce it
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-03-24
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Aprile
1998-03-27
Aprile
Overview: Nanni Moretti takes another look at the ebbs and flows of life in April 1996, as he becomes a father for the first time and seems unable to focus on his documentary about the upcoming national elections.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-03-27
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Giovanna's Father
2008-09-12
Giovanna's Father
Overview: Michele Casali is a middle-class professor in Fascist Italy who teaches at the same high school attended by his only daughter, Giovanna. A shy and sensitive girl, her insecurities are only magnified by Michele's overprotectiveness—reaching a point of no return.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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El Alamein
2002-11-08
El Alamein
Overview: War seen through the eyes of Serra, a university student from Palermo who volunteers in 1942 to fight in Africa. He is assigned to the Pavia Division on the southern line in Egypt. Rommel and the Axis forces are bogged down; it's October, the British prepare an offensive. At first, boredom, heat, hunger, and thirst bedevil the Italians; then the Brits attack, and there's no luck or heroism in death. Finally, it's retreat in confusion. Serra, his sergeant Rizzo, and his lieutenant Fiori take a last walk toward home. It's said that each soldier gets three miracles; when Serra's are used up, what then?
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-11-08
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Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
2010-02-26
Genitori & figli:) - Agitare bene prima dell'uso
Overview: Parent-teenage children clashes in 21st century Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-02-26
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Another Summer Holiday
2024-03-07
Another Summer Holiday
Overview: Altiero Molino is a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur who’s returning to Ventotene with his model husband in order to gather his old friends together around his ailing father so as to treat him to one last holiday in this place which is so special to him. He didn’t expect to find the island all abuzz with Sabry Mazzalupi’s marriage to her partner Cesare. This young woman, who’s the awkward daughter of Roman shopkeeper Ruggero, has become an online celebrity and her wedding is a global event attracting the media as well as mysterious emissaries from the new political regime. These two tribes of vacationers, two seemingly irreconcilable sides of Italy, are destined to come together during the Ferragosto holiday for an ultimate showdown.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-03-07
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After Midnight
2004-04-23
After Midnight
Overview: A beautiful fugitive draws a shy film buff out of his shell while she hides in the museum — the cavernous interiors of the Mole Antonelliana in Turin, Italy — where he works as night watchman.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2004-04-23
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Bear's Kiss
2002-11-28
Bear's Kiss
Overview: A fairy tale-like love story between young circus artist Lola and the bear Misha, who one day transforms into a human being.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2002-11-28
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Sud
1993-10-17
Sud
Overview: During a hot Sunday afternoon in a small Southern Italian town, a school serving as a polling place is occupied by a group of three locals and an Eritrean immigrant, all unemployed, desperate and armed.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-10-17
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Not of this World
1999-03-26
Not of this World
Overview: The rumpled owner of a dry-cleaning firm joins forces with a nun to care for an abandoned baby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-03-26
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La passione
2010-09-24
La passione
Overview: To avoid being sued, a film director reluctantly agrees to set up and direct the Good Friday celebrations in a small Tuscan town.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-09-24
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Light of My Eyes
2001-09-07
Light of My Eyes
Overview: Antonio is a fallen angel, a rootless chauffeur in Rome, who relates only to the lonely heroes in the science fiction novels he grew up with. Only through a chance meeting with Maria, a woman struggling to hold onto her daughter and her business, does he discover a hope that's been in his detached existence.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-09-07
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Kamikazen (Ultima notte a Milano)
1988-03-04
Kamikazen (Ultima notte a Milano)
Overview: A group of comedians are trying to be successful on stage. One night an important television network organises a public variety show to sort out some performers for their programs. Every one of them will try their hardest, but just a few will be chosen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-03-04
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I Prefer the Sound of the Sea
2000-03-24
I Prefer the Sound of the Sea
Overview: This is the story of Rosario and Matteo, two man from Southern Italy. Rosario is helped by Luigi to settle in the north. Luigi wants to give Rosario a chance to redeem himself and offer him, at the same time, an opportunity to confront his beliefs with the ones of his son Matteo. Rosario lives in a "commune" and Matteo in a beautiful, comfortable house. They're both introverted and shy and find a common ground: they meet, go out together, become friends and show each other a completely different way of living their lives as teenagers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-03-24
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Intolerance
1996-11-11
Intolerance
Overview: A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-11-11
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The Big Dream
2009-11-11
The Big Dream
Overview: Italy, 1968. Aspiring actor Nicola enrolls in the police to pay for his studies, ending up undercover among college students protesting the government, the Vietnam War and the values of their parents' generation. However, he complicates his mission by falling for Laura, a bourgeois girl dreaming of a better world.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-11-11
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The Germans' Factory
2008-09-12
The Germans' Factory
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-09-12
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Parthenope
2024-10-19
Parthenope
Overview: Parthenope, born in the sea near Naples in 1950, is beautiful, enigmatic, and intelligent. She is shamelessly courted by many. However, beauty comes at a cost.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-10-19
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August Vacation
1996-04-05
August Vacation
Overview: Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house next door has been rented to a lower middle class family, whose crass nature and values soon clash with their own intellectual and progressive background.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-04-05
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A Brighter Tomorrow
2023-04-20
A Brighter Tomorrow
Overview: An old film director, unhappy with the movie he's shooting about a Hungarian circus stranded in Rome during the 1956 anti-Soviet uprising, faces divorce from his producer wife and other problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2023-04-20
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Palombella Rossa
1989-09-15
Palombella Rossa
Overview: Michele is a Communist MP who loses his memory in a car crash—although nobody seems to notice. Over the course of a water polo match ahead of election day, he begins to remember his past life, revealing the picture of a man whose personal and political identity crisis mirrors the one of Italian communism.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-09-15
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Il posto dell'anima
2003-05-30
Il posto dell'anima
Overview: Three workers of a tire factory, in southern Italy, lead the struggle against the American company owner of the factory who wants to close the Italian branch in which they work.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-05-30
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The Yes Man
1991-04-05
The Yes Man
Overview: Cesare Botero, an ambitious and corrupt young minister, hires a new spokesman, honest and polite high school professor Luciano Sandulli.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-04-05
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Il consiglio d'Egitto
2002-01-01
Il consiglio d'Egitto
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Missione di pace
2011-10-28
Missione di pace
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-10-28
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La scuola
1995-04-06
La scuola
Overview: In a high school in the outskirts of Rome, it's the last day before the summer holidays. A literature teacher reminisces the past year and wonders what will become of the students he cared for as if they were his children.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1995-04-06
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Auguri professore
1997-12-19
Auguri professore
Overview: Professor Lipari teaches in a public school and is in a full-on existential crisis. He has no faith in himself and in the possibility of changing the world for the better. At school, a former student of his who is also a teacher will change his attitude.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-12-19
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La mia generazione
1996-09-27
La mia generazione
Overview: Italy, early 80's. A political terrorist is being transferred northward from Sicily for a conjugal visit; during the journey, a police captain tries to make him cooperate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-09-27
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Vesna Goes Fast
1996-09-04
Vesna Goes Fast
Overview: Czech immigrant Vesna arrives in Italy and is forced into casual prostitution by poverty. The encounter with a kind construction worker could help change her situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-09-04
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Un Natale con i fiocchi
2012-12-25
Un Natale con i fiocchi
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-12-25
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The Dust of Naples
1998-06-01
The Dust of Naples
Overview: The title deliberatly recalls the famous L'oro di Napoli (Napoli's Gold) by Vittorio De Sica (1954). Alike De Sica's film here Naples is the real protagonist: Naples and its dust, not its gold. Through five episodes expressing different aspects of Naples, we have a picture of the town that doesn't belong to the postcard stereotypes...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-06-01
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Arriva la bufera
1993-03-25
Arriva la bufera
Overview: Depressed magistrate Damiano Fortezza relocates from Milan to a small town in Campania, where the three Fontana sisters, owners of a chain of incinerators, dominate. The youngest, Eugenia, is about to marry a well-known crook Fortezza has to prosecute. However, he ends up falling in love with Eugenia and questioning the priorities of his job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1993-03-25
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La settimana della sfinge
1990-10-12
La settimana della sfinge
Overview: Crossword-solving waitress Gloria falls for a womanizing TV repairman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-10-12
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The Human Factor
2013-08-28
The Human Factor
Overview: A world-weary, widowed police inspector has to break his vow of self-isolation and get back on the field after his teen daughter is arrested for the possession of a gun tied to a much-publicized murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2013-08-28
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Children of Hannibal
1998-03-13
Children of Hannibal
Overview: Unemployed Domenico robs a bank, but is forced to take a hostage when things go wrong. The hostage, Tommaso, is a man who hates his wife and job, and who was already planning to run away with his gay cop lover anyway, so this seems to him like a good opportunity to disappear and start over again: the kidnapped becomes the kidnapper, and things get even more complicated when the two are joined by Rita, Tommaso's beautiful daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-03-13
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La sedia della felicità
2014-04-24
La sedia della felicità
Overview: Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2014-04-24
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Un'altra vita
1992-09-08
Un'altra vita
Overview: Saverio, a dentist, comes out as naive as usual while he falls in love with Alia, a Russian immigrant he met in Rome. He must now deal with issues a guy like him would never have thought to come across.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1992-09-08
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Il delitto di Via Poma
2011-12-06
Il delitto di Via Poma
Overview: Rome, August 7, 1990. 20-year-old Simonetta Cesaroni is killed with 29 stab wounds in her workplace in broad daylight.
Genres: TV Movie Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2011-12-06
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Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
2021-10-15
Pupi Avati, la tavola racconta
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Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-10-15
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Matilda
1990-10-19
Matilda
Overview: Matilda is an unlucky girl: her boyfriends keep dying in strange accidents. The last of them, Torquato, a shy filing clerk, is a little afraid of this situation and doesn't know how to continue the relationship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-10-19
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Zinì e Amì
2012-11-10
Zinì e Amì
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-11-10
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Sarò con te
2024-05-04
Sarò con te
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2024-05-04
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An Almost Perfect Country
2016-03-24
An Almost Perfect Country
Overview: Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to disappear. Its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic do not give up and, believing that the opening of a factory may be the solution to all their troubles, they want to make sure that the project is successful ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-03-24
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Scream for Help
1994-03-13
Scream for Help
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-03-13
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We Free Kings
1996-12-20
We Free Kings
Overview: Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there are no children. That night a comet runs across the sky, so the three decide to follow it to search for the new Messiah.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-12-20
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Ex
2009-02-06
Ex
Overview: Six people struggling with their relationship, or lack thereof, cross paths with their respective exes — and discover they might still harbor feelings for each other.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2009-02-06
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Anguish Cry of Predator Bird
2003-04-16
Anguish Cry of Predator Bird
Overview: A selection of deleted scenes from Nanni Moretti's 1998 film "Aprile".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-04-16
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The Caiman's Diary
2006-10-31
The Caiman's Diary
Overview: The filmmaker's diary of the making of "Il caimano" and the political events that led up to it.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2006-10-31
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Nirvana
1997-01-24
Nirvana
Overview: Jimi, a computer game designer, finds that his latest product has been infected by a virus which has given consciousness to the main character of the game, Solo. Tormented by the memory of his fled girlfriend Lisa and begged by Solo to end its useless "life", Jimi begins a search for people who can help him both to discover what happened to Lisa and to delete his game before it is released.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-01-24
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The Son's Room
2001-03-09
The Son's Room
Overview: A psychoanalyst and his family go through profound emotional trauma when their son dies in a scuba diving accident.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2001-03-09
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Bits & Pieces
1996-02-02
Bits & Pieces
Overview: Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-02-02
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The Ties
2020-10-01
The Ties
Overview: Naples, early 1980s. The strained marriage between Aldo and Vanda is fractured one evening when Aldo admits, unprompted, his infidelity. Equally hurt and bewildered, Vanda attempts to hide her pain from the couple's two school-age kids, lest they discover that their cramped apartment is not a home of trust and love. 30 years later, Aldo and Vanda are still tied together, but their relationship with each other and their children continues to be defined by what happened all those years ago.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-10-01
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Opopomoz
2003-12-05
Opopomoz
Overview: It's Christmas Eve in Naples. Little Rocco feels increasingly jealous due to the imminent birth of a baby brother. Three bungling devils sent by Satan promise him that if he'll stop Jesus from being born—entering the Nativity scene his father built by the magic word "opopomoz" and altering the past—his brother won't be born either.
Genres: Animation Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2003-12-05
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The Hidden Child
2021-11-04
The Hidden Child
Overview: Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to tell him he has a package. Gabriele opens the door and, before greeting him, runs to rinse his face. In that short space of time, a ten-year-old child slips into his apartment and hides away. “The maestro” – as he’s called in his neighbourhood – only notices the stowaway late at night. And when he sees him, he recognises the intruder as Ciro, a child who lives with his parents and siblings on the top floor of his building. When asked why he has fled his home, Ciro refuses to speak. Nevertheless, the maestro instinctively decides to hide him in his home, setting Ciro’s enemies a uniquely difficult challenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-11-04
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The Inner Cage
2021-10-14
The Inner Cage
Overview: A prison drama where an old mobster and a prison guard must find a way to coexist so that imprisonment can become less so, and perhaps reveal the paradox that is behind the very concept of captivity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2021-10-14
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Dry
2022-09-29
Dry
Overview: In Rome it hasn’t rained for three years and the lack of water is overturning rules and habits. Through the city dying of thirst and prohibitions moves a chorus of people, young and old, marginalised and successful, victims and profiteers. Their lives are linked in a single design, while each seeks his or her deliverance.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2022-09-29
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The Only Country In The World
1994-12-31
The Only Country In The World
Overview: Anthology short film with segments by nine directors against Silvio Berlusconi and its Forza Italia party — released ahead of the 1994 Italian general elections, which Berlusconi nevertheless won in a landslide. In Nanni Moretti's segment, he and Silvio Orlando reprise their roles from The Yes Man (1991).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-12-31
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A Castle in Italy
2013-10-30
A Castle in Italy
Overview: Louise meets Nathan, her dreams resurface. It's also the story of her ailing brother, their mother, and the destiny of a leading family of wealthy Italian industrialists. The story of a family falling apart, a world coming to an end and love beginning.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-30
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Homo Cinematographicus
1998-06-01
Homo Cinematographicus
Overview: Homo Cinematographicus is a human species whose unit of measurement and point of reference is the cinema and its derivative, television. Filmed at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, the film offers an unspecified number of statements, talking about memories and a thousand fragments of stories, titles and film scenes, the warp of a gigantic collective Chanson de geste.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-01
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